As soon as Jiang Qiulin said this, the atmosphere was a little embarrassed immediately.
It's nothing in itself. It's normal for a family to ask each other if they have any difficulties. If they can help, they can help. But the problem is the speaker.
Jiang Qiulin has always been a person who has nothing to do with herself. Since she married Xia's family and her husband didn't do business, the couple's most common thing is to go back to their hometown, cry with the old man and ask for some pension money. Now I have some savings at home, but I've never heard of her asking my mother-in-law what she needs. Today, I suddenly asked Li Juan, which had to be stunned.
Li Juan smiled and glanced at Xia Shao. "Xiao Shao in our family has never spent money indiscriminately, and the school has exempted tuition fees and scholarships. The school is a boarding system, and I don't think it will cost much money."
Jiang Qiulin gave Li Juan a funny look and fiddled with the jade bracelet she had just bought on her wrist, "Sister-in-law, you really think too simply. How much money can the scholarship have? How much living expenses can it cover? Qingshi is the provincial capital city. The city is developed, the people are fashionable, and there are many new and interesting things. Students can't avoid going out to play. When people spend money, our Xiaoshao can watch it? When people do, our Xiaoshao doesn't have it, so it's not funny?"
Li Juan was stunned. She felt a little reasonable. She couldn't help looking at her daughter, full of worry and some guilt. The child was sensible since childhood. They all blamed her and her husband for being too ordinary and incompetent to create better conditions for her. She was also loved at home since childhood, and her academic performance was good. If she was despised because she couldn't eat and wear better than others, how painful it would be for the child ?
Xia Shao dropped her eyes as soon as she heard her aunt's words. Now she saw the apology in her mother's eyes. She gently frowned and pursed her lips. This was her customary expression when she was unhappy, but before she spoke, her father Xia Zhiyuan opened his mouth.
"I'm confident that our children won't. Xiaoshao has been sensible since childhood, and we never have to worry about learning. The child has a good mind. She can often visit the old man in the back mountain of the village for so many years. It shows that the child is kind-hearted and filial, and is a good child. I don't believe such a child will dislike the poverty of the family. Juan'er and I have no skills, but we are one I don't hurt her at all. My daughter, I have confidence. "
Xia Zhiyuan's tone was heavy. This celebration banquet should have been a festive atmosphere, but the dishes changed before they came up.
The whole family heard Xia Zhiyuan's tone was a little sad and angry. He was always sincere and honest. Everyone he met was generous and gentle. Today, the whole family suddenly said such sad and angry words. The atmosphere was even more embarrassing.
Xia Shao looked at her father and was moved by his lips.
Grandma Jiang Shuhui couldn't listen anymore. She frowned and said, "Qiulin, your mother didn't say you. Today, your eldest brother invited a family to dinner, just to celebrate xiaoshaozi. OK, what do you say?"
Jiang Qiulin smiled awkwardly. When she saw her husband staring at her, she smiled and said, "Mom, look what you said. You don't know me? I've always been Frank. I'm kind enough to ask. I don't know that big brother and sister-in-law don't like to listen..."
"Who likes to listen? What table is invited today? If you want to talk, you can talk at home." Jiang Shuhui is soft. Xia Guoxi is the master at home. She rarely puts on the posture of elders to scold her son and daughter-in-law. She really can't see it today, so she said two words.
"Mom, I think Qiu Lin is right. It's right for my eldest brother and sister-in-law to invite me to dinner today, but they are all a family, and it's nothing to talk about. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. My eldest brother and sister-in-law really think it's so easy to go outside to study?" At this time, Xia Zhimei, Xia Shao's eldest sister-in-law, opened her mouth. She was a teacher in Dongshi No. 1 middle school and was already the director of the teaching office. Originally, she spoke like a lecture, very serious, but now she has some dignity, "Don't be too fond of listening, elder brother. How many years have I taught students in school? I know what these students think best! Who doesn't compare with today's children? This age is adolescence. They love to play, have poor self-control and are curious about everything. Do you think it's good for children to study outside? Qingdao is the provincial capital city. There are many new things. When parents are not around, nobody cares, and children can easily go to school It's broken. "
Then, Xia Zhimei cited several examples, saying that some township students who were admitted to the school felt inferior after seeing the life and expenses of urban children. They changed their ways to ask for money from their families, focused on comparison, and their academic performance also plummeted.
What she said was justified. Li Juan's face had long lost her joy. She looked at her daughter more and more worried. Her daughter had been clever since childhood. If she went outside to learn bad, she might as well study in Dongshi No. 1 middle school - I thought it was good to go to Qingshi. Why are there so many worrying things?
"My daughter was admitted to Qingshi. According to what you said, it's still a mistake?" Xia Zhiyuan frowned. What the eldest sister said is also reasonable. He understood in his heart, but no matter what happens in the future, at least it's a happy event for the child to be admitted to Qingshi No. 1 middle school. He entertained the guests today to celebrate this happy event.
Can't you make your children happy today? If you want to say these things, you can't pass today's banquet and go home and say something else?
Have to say it today?
Seeing that the eldest brother was angry, Xia Zhimei's tone slowed down. "It's certainly a good thing that Xiaoshao was admitted by Qingshi No. 1 middle school. We just help the eldest brother analyze and analyze. You also weigh the situation at home to see if the child is suitable to leave home and study outside."
"What the second sister said is reasonable." Uncle Xia Zhitao nodded, "Eldest brother, in today's society, there's no place to talk about being bullied. School is also a small society. If Xiaoshao is bullied in school, if other parents have more skills than us, we don't even have a place to reason with children! Just like you were beaten at the gate of the factory last year, if you hit the wrong person, you'll end up paying some medical expenses? If you have a head and a face Man, people recognize you at a glance. Can you hit the wrong person? Even if you hit us, we have the ability to make it difficult for each other! Look at the eldest sister. "
Xia Zhitao said and looked at Xia Zhimei's husband Liu Chunhui, "How big is brother-in-law's business? There is an oil processing plant at home, and now he has set up a factory. He has signed a contract with a domestic first-line brand automobile company to produce accessories. In our east city, he is a man of great reputation. Think about it, if brother-in-law is beaten, he will be better off? Don't say it's me. Now no one knows me in the building materials market Whoever dares to bully me has to weigh it! "
Liu Chunhui quickly smiled and waved his hand, making a modest appearance, but his face was red.
Xia Zhitao continued: "I heard that brother's factory has been in recession in the past two years? Many people have left and found another way out. How can brother still guard such a factory that can't even pay wages? Now the society is changing, people have to work hard! Only by being outstanding can people look up to it, and their wives and children won't be bullied."
Xia Zhitao's words were fierce, and the atmosphere was silent.
Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan were said to blush. At first, Xia Zhiyuan was still angry, but now he was silent.
Xia Shao frowned faintly and sighed in her heart. My uncle's words can't be unreasonable. The social reality is really like this. They don't know the details of her father's beating. Naturally, they don't know that she has found the field for her father. If she didn't have these skills in her previous life, how can she fight for hundreds of millions of days? Where can she stand in the underworld of Dongshi?
If my father was beaten at home in a previous life, it would really be a loss. How can others personally go to the hospital with supplements to apologize and pay medical expenses?
Uncle Xia Zhitao is the youngest in the old Xia family. His parents, brothers and sisters have spoiled him since childhood, and he is the least successful. When Xia Zhiyuan was the director of the factory workshop and Xia Zhimei was a teacher in high school, he was still a "idle little son of the old Xia family" in the eyes of the villagers , he has been asking for money from the old man all day and has been criticized by the villagers. Now he has made some achievements in his career, and people around him are beginning to look at him with admiration, flattery, praise and compliment... This change, the gap between the past and the present, may have made him have this understanding of life.
Xia Zhitao's words sound utilitarian, but in terms of his own experience, it's not too much.
But Xia Shao always believed that it was unpleasant to say these words on today's occasion. Even if relatives felt it necessary to remind their parents of these words, couldn't they say it in private? Do they have to pour cold water on their parents when they are happy? They can't be told to enjoy the joy of the day? They have to pay for a treat and have to swallow their grievances ?
The same words, if two brothers or brothers and sisters say so privately, it makes people feel confident. But at the banquet, when they say so in front of a large family, the younger generation is still there. If they don't say it in a bad atmosphere, it always makes people feel a little high-profile.
The world has a long history of stepping on the high and stepping on the low. Whether willing or not to admit it, there are indeed many such situations in interpersonal communication in society. But it's an outsider. After all, it's an outsider. Xia Shao really doesn't like taking this habit home and stepping on his family.
Seeing that his parents were taught a lesson and couldn't say a word, Xia Shao raised his eyes and looked at his uncle Xia Zhitao.
"Uncle's words can't be mistaken. People have to work hard, but you must know that there are people outside. No matter how successful you are and how high you stand, there will always be people who are more successful than you. Not everyone welcomes high and tramples on low, contempt or friendship, which has nothing to do with status, but everyone's cultivation."
She looked indifferent, her words were neither sharp nor sarcastic, slow, elegant and peaceful.
This kind of bearing made the silent family stunned and couldn't help looking at her.
"Aunt's words are not wrong, but it's still a truth. Not everyone will lose themselves. It's about everyone's nature."
Facing the sight of the elders, Xia Shao sat steadily and leaned back leisurely on the chair, which was somewhat flattering.
She is a junior in the family. In the eyes of her elders, she is still a child with good grades and sensible. She is a good girl who doesn't worry about her parents. She is not as glib as her cousin Liu Yuguang. She is the best to coax the elders to be happy. She is also not as wild as her cousin Zhang Ruman. She often fights and makes trouble with boys. She is quiet, has a quiet smile and doesn't talk much. She can be said to be the best among the children of her peers It meets the requirements of good children in the eyes of parents, but it is most like a set board and has no sense of existence.
Just like today, although the banquet was to celebrate her entrance to school, no one actually took her to heart, and even forgot her existence long ago.
Old Xia's family didn't expect that Xia Shao would speak on this occasion, and refuted the elders' words.
Although it was a rebuttal, it didn't make people feel uncomfortable. Her words were not sharp opposition, but it made her look a bit like an expert in the world in this room. A group of relatives who run off Xia Zhiyuan and Li Juan appear to be full of Philistines.
Li Juan secretly pulled the corners of her daughter's clothes, winked at her and told her not to talk. She and her husband were even if they were told, but she didn't want her daughter to become the target of public criticism and be besieged and lectured by the whole family.
Xia Shao smiled and patted her mother on the back of her hand to comfort her.
At this time, there was a cheering sound nearby!
Zhang Ruman clapped his hands. "My sister is right! Not everyone thinks the same as you, and not everyone will become the kind of person in your mouth. You are such a self-cultivation and mentality. Don't think others are too!"
She had been listening to the fire for a long time, but her aunt and uncle were talking so much that she couldn't get in. At this time, my cousin said that if you want to vote for my sisters, please keep the tickets for me ~ thank you very much!