Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

Chapter 317 Education (2)

Liang Ladi was a little embarrassed and very melancholy. She could only sit at the table and feed the child.

"Sister Liang, if you want your children to become better, you have to listen to me. You can't continue to let them pick up trash."

"I told them to stop picking them up, but they didn't listen!"

"I think I'm a kid! If you didn't see them picking up trash to exchange for food, and didn't beat them, but praised them, would they dare to pick up trash? I don't believe it."

When Liang Ladi heard He Lai say this, it seemed that he was indeed praising them, at least she was laughing at that time.

"Xi'er, tell Uncle Lai, is your mother happy when she sees what your brother and his friends got in exchange for the garbage?"

"Mom was so happy and praised us for being good children." Xier said with a smile after swallowing the rabbit meat.

"Did you hear that? Sister Liang!"

"You kid! Which eye of yours sees your mother happy?" Liang Ladi hit Xiu'er.

"Sister Liang, listen to me. Reading more is always good. Just look at me and you will know." He Lai said with a smile. Although Liang Ladi's children were of the age to go to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, they had their own lives, so they just had to get a job.

Damao stole a pig's tail and was sent to a juvenile detention center. Later, he joined the army and injured his eyes. It is better to avoid these two things and not put too much pressure on him. Why would he steal a pig's tail just for four dishes!

"How can they compare to you? I'd be thankful if they were half as good as you."

Liang Ladi knew how outstanding He Lai was, so she didn't dare to mention anything about men and women in front of him, for fear of saying something wrong and causing He Lai to stop coming.

"Ermao! Sanmao, what do you think? Do you want to learn from your uncle? Back then, your uncle was always the top student in terms of academic performance. That was really impressive.

My mother is praised every day for having a good son. Do you want others to praise your mother in the same way? "

He Lai said with a smile.

"I want to!" Ermao and Sanmao shouted loudly, and Xiu'er also shouted in Helai's arms.

"Good children, good children." Liang Ladi hugged Ermao and Sanmao and stroked their heads with tears in her eyes.

"As long as you study hard, you will be able to be as successful as Uncle Lai in the future." Liang Ladi said, wiping away her tears.

"If we study hard, can we have meat to eat every day?" Ermao asked naively.

"Yes, as long as you study hard, you can not only eat meat every day, but also let your mother live a good life." He Lai said.

"Then I must study hard!" Ermao said firmly.

"Me too!" Sanmao also said.

"And me!" Xiu'er said, raising her little hand.

Seeing the children being so sensible, Liang Ladi smiled with satisfaction.

After a while, the rabbit meat was almost eaten, and the three little ones took the remaining meat in for Da Mao to eat.

Suddenly, He Lai and Liang Ladi were the only ones left in the living room, and the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

He Lai was the first to speak: "Sister Liang, do you really want to know why I help you so much?"

When Liang Ladi heard what He Lai said, she nodded immediately: "Yes, I really want to know why? Why are you, a great engineer, helping me so much? It's impossible that you really like me!"

"Haha, Sister Liang, actually I already have a fiancée, and I'm only seventeen years old, so I'm not old enough to have the idea."

"Oh, I see." Liang Ladi now understood He Lai's thoughts.

"There are two main reasons for helping you: First, you and my mother are both single parents raising children. I know how difficult it is to work and raise children at the same time. Of course, my mother actually only has me, and my fiancée is also raised by my mother, so they only have two children, while you have four, which is much more difficult than my mother. Moreover, there are too few people who really help you. Seeing you sacrifice your looks every day in exchange for something, I feel a little bit sorry.

Second, eye contact. Do you remember what you were doing when I first saw you? You were holding a flame-spraying welding torch to scare your workshop director, and I thought, this woman is pretty, why is she so fierce?

At that time, I was thinking, I must learn more about it to find out what caused this beautiful woman to become like this! "

He Lai talked things out, so Liang Ladi didn't have to worry about it every day.

When Liang Ladi heard this, she looked at He Lai in surprise. How did he know that she exchanged things for her body? But she was relieved immediately. After all, her reputation was not very good, and she could find out the truth by asking around.

"So, Sister Liang, I will be your brother from now on. I will help you no matter whether you accept it or not! You can also write down the things I have done for you and let your children repay me in the future!"

"Okay, I'll take it, and I'll have the kids return it to you."

"Sister Liang, wash your face, otherwise if the children see you, they will think I made you cry."

He Lai smiled bitterly. Liang Ladi knew she had lost her composure today, but for some reason her tears just kept flowing.

It felt so good to have someone helping me sincerely. Liang Ladi wiped her face and went into the kitchen to wash her face.

In the room, Damao was still doing his homework, while Ermao, Sanmao and Xiu'er were peeking at what was going on in the living room in a pyramid-like manner.

"Second brother, do you think uncle will always be kind to us like this?"

Sanmao asked.

"I think so!" Ermao answered firmly. He had already made up his mind to study hard and become a person like He Lai in the future.

"Come on, uncle, that's great." Xiu'er lay on Sanmao's head and also expressed her thoughts.

"Why is Uncle Lai so powerful? I also want to catch a hare."

Ermao said.

"What do you say we ask Uncle Lai to help us catch hares?"

Sanmao suggested.

"Forget it. Didn't Uncle Lai tell us to study hard?"

"My second brother is right, study hard"

"Xiu'er, you are so heavy. I can't handle it."

"I'm not heavy. Uncle Lai can hold me with one hand."

"When I grow up, I can do that, too."

The three children were chattering away, while Da Mao was laughing and looking for the answers to the wrong questions in his book.

……

Soon, Liang Ladi and her family were chatting with He Lai at the dinner table.

"Uncle Lai, what did you do when you were a child?" asked Damao.

"When I was a child, I lived in the countryside until I was six years old. I followed my mother wherever she went. Later, when my father came back, we moved to the city. My family lived in a large courtyard, which was similar to your tube-shaped building, but without floors.

As for me, I had not yet gone to school, was very naughty and caused trouble everywhere, and was often beaten by my mother. "

"My mother often spanks me, but it never hurts." Ermao interjected.

"Haha... I think so too. I went on to say that two years later, my father went to the war again, and my mother and I lived together in the city, just like you.

After my father passed away, my mother went to work every day, and I went to school every day. Later, except for eating and sleeping, I spent all my time on studying. I would read books when I had time. I skipped three grades during school. Because I studied hard, when I graduated from junior college, every place wanted me, including the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and the Ministry of Machinery Industry. I was overwhelmed by the choices, but in the end, I chose to work in my mother's Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.

Look, I have only been working for a year and my salary is over 100 yuan. I can’t spend it all. I buy things for my mother every day, making her very happy.

Besides, I'll tell you secretly, my uncle is at work now, he just reads the newspaper every day, he rarely has the chance to do anything, other people always rush to help him do the work, hey, my uncle is almost sick from being idle."

He Lai spoke a lot in a very eloquent manner, not caring whether the children could understand what he meant or not. He just wanted to instill in them the benefits of reading.

Little stars appeared in the eyes of the four little ones.

"Uncle Lai is awesome! My mother works overtime every day, but her salary is still not as high as yours."

Sanmao said immediately.

"Right, your mother suffered because of her lack of education. If your mother had been half as educated as your uncle, she would probably be an eighth-level worker now!

But your mother is much better than my mother. She is a model worker and a fourth-level welder. My mother used to work for only 27 yuan, which was barely enough to support me. "

He Lai still praised Liang Ladi. After all, it was too difficult to support four children by herself.

The four little ones looked at Liang Ladi in admiration, it turned out that their mother was even more powerful than Uncle Lai's mother.