atypical rebirth

Chapter 73

Shen Duqing was in a very depressed mood.He wanted to make himself happy, but no matter how hard he tried, it was useless.In order not to worry his family, he locked himself in the room and only said that he wanted to preview his homework for the new semester.Because of his consistent performance, none of the family members doubted the excuse he made.

Shen Feizhuo didn't make noise about Shen Duqing either.He played a teacher-student game with his triplet cousins. He was the teacher, and the cousins ​​were the students. He pretended to hold the tickle as a pointer, and taught the cousins ​​1234abcd.

As a glorious primary school student, Shen Feizhuo felt that he had already taken on the important task of teaching and educating people.

Shen Duqing couldn't help but feel sad.

At this time last year, my younger brother still stuck to him very tightly, like his little tail, wishing it could grow on him.This year, my younger brother won't miss him for a whole day, and even if I can't see my elder brother, I can still have a good time.It seems that the younger brother has grown up little by little without knowing it.

At the age when he was supposed to be young and frivolous, Shen Duqing forcibly experienced a bit of the loneliness of an empty-nest old man.

However, Shen Feizhuo still cares about his brother very much!They both slept together at night.Shen Duqing turned off the light, and Shen Feizhuo asked in a soft voice next to his ear, "Is brother unhappy?"

"You know again?" Shen Duqing asked.

Shen Feizhuo nodded: "Are you missing Brother Meng?"

Shen Duqing didn't speak.

Shen Feizhuo took his brother's hand under the blanket, shook it twice, and said solemnly: "Brother, can you not save the red envelopes I received during the Chinese New Year this year? I want to keep it for myself to buy things .”

"what are you looking for?"

"May I buy a PHS for Brother Meng?" Shen Feizhuo felt that he was so smart, "PHS can be carried with us. As long as we miss Brother Meng, we can call him at any time." They are now Meng Zheng could only be contacted sooner or later, because Meng Zheng only had one landline at home, and he was not at home during the day.

"It's up to you. You can buy him whatever you want." Shen Duqing said.

"Then let's make a deal like that." Shen Feizhuo yawned, "Brother, if you miss Brother Meng, you should tell him. Otherwise, he won't know. I miss him too, it's okay Embarrassed to admit it."

Even though Shen Duqing was still hurting in his heart, he was still amused by such childish words.He stretched out his hand and pinched Shen Feizhuo's nose, and said, "Go to sleep, little housekeeper, you don't need to worry about brother's affairs."

Shen Duqing still had a phone call with Meng Zheng every day, but he didn't talk much about his life on the phone. He only talked about what questions he did today, how many papers he wrote, and so on.Meng Zheng didn't think anything was wrong either.Doing questions and writing papers is the daily life of high school students, so it is normal to talk about this topic.

As the end of the year approaches, the business at Meng's stall gets better.

Although the weather is cold, seeing the booming business, everyone's hearts are very warm.

Their stall remained open until the afternoon of New Year's Eve.In the last half of the day, all the few clothes left on the two stalls were sold at a reduced price. In the end, there was basically nothing left, so I rushed home to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

After dinner, the whole family sat around the stove, listening to the Spring Festival Gala with the TV on, and began to make accounts.

Meng Zheng originally planned to earn 2 to [-] yuan this time, at least to let the elders in the family know that he can indeed make money.But because of Ms. Yuan's help, after Meng Duo sold all the hundreds of clothes that Ms. Yuan sent him, the profit would be enough to pay back Shen Duqing's money.In this way, Meng Zheng really made a lot of money this time!

Father Meng gasped and said, "Why is it so easy to make money now?"

Hearing this, before Meng Zheng said anything, Meng Duo became unhappy. Pointing to the frostbite on his ear, he said, "Where is it easy? Don't talk about how much it takes to bargain. Dad, you don't know that there are people outside. It’s so cold. Look how cold I am!” Yeji is in the open air, even if he is wearing very thick clothes, the wind can get into the bones.

Meng Zheng quickly took out a red envelope from his pocket, handed it to Meng Duo, and said, "Sister, you have worked hard! You are our model worker. Come, take the big red envelope!" The commission will be given after the salary is settled, and this red envelope is an extra reward .

"It's more or less the same." Meng Duo took the red envelope happily, and raised the corners of his mouth.

There were still a few red envelopes in Meng Zheng's pocket, which had been prepared a long time ago, and he just took them out at this moment.He made a lot of money this time, and he was not stingy at all with his family, and gave everyone red envelopes.Grandma's red envelope is the largest, with 100 in it, and [-] for everyone else.When the locals give red envelopes, they always give five yuan and ten yuan. Occasionally, whoever can wrap [-] yuan for a child will be a big red envelope.Therefore, the red envelope of [-] is really not small.

After Meng's mother got the red envelope, she couldn't close her mouth with joy, and said with a smile: "Hey, I have never seen a child give a red envelope to an adult. This is the first in our family. Don't you think so?"

Father Meng was also very happy at first, but when his wife kept praising his son, he became jealous and said sourly, "Kemei, I bought you a set of rings, earrings, and necklaces years ago, and I have never seen you so happy." .”

It was a set of gold jewelry.Mother Meng didn't have gold ornaments before, and she wore silver ornaments when she got married.When Meng Zheng was a child, he often heard his father tell his mother that he would definitely get you a gold set to wear in the future.He finally fulfilled his promise.

Meng Zhengchao gave his father a thumbs up: "Good job, brother, you are willing to spend money for your wife!"

Meng's father laughed angrily: "Who is your brother! Who are you calling brother! How do you talk about seniority with your father? Don't think that your wings will become hard now that you can make money. I am the one who can make the most money in the family. I took a big order in a month." He slapped Meng Zheng on the back of the head with a slap, not too hard, just for show.

Grandma Meng shook her head, and said to her daughter-in-law in a low voice: "Look, he was the one who proposed to hide it from the children before. Now it's him who can't help showing off. Hey, it's just so heavy. Hold on!"

"What did you hide from me?" Meng Zheng asked.

The TV was buzzing, and the stove was bustling too. The elders rushed to tell him that his uncle Ye Gang had hooked up with a boss half a year ago and wanted to sell the handicrafts made by Meng's father overseas.Whether this overseas refers to Southeast Asian countries or European and American countries, the Meng family does not know, and Ye Gang did not explain it in such detail.The Meng family only knew that as long as they fulfilled every order from the big boss, they would definitely earn a lot.

This is a great thing!

The big boss seems to want to create a concept of pure handmade boutique manufacturing.A piece of work that Meng’s father just completed a while ago is a wooden house as big as the Eight Immortals’ Table. It has a bedroom, main room, dining room, kitchen, etc., and there are beds, wardrobes, etc. in the bedroom. There are small pillows and quilts, etc. in the main room, there are tables, eight immortals tables, etc., there are dining tables, cupboards, etc. in the dining room, and the drawers of the cupboards can be opened. Sophisticated and refined.

"You say, how much can I sell abroad for the things I make?" Meng's father asked curiously.

Meng Zheng smiled and said, "It's hard to say. Handicrafts and other things have collection value, so they should be classified as collectibles. The price of collectibles depends on the hype level of the merchant."

Meng's father seemed to understand.

Meng Zheng also said: "Papa's works, the lower limit of the price is definitely not low, because it is truly handmade. As for the upper limit of the price, one depends on the cultural background inside, and the seller's marketing strategy."

It's really not easy to set a unified price for handicrafts.Look at the domestic market, such as Austrian woodcuts, New Zealand wool products, Vancouver Indian handicrafts... These imported handmade products are sold at any price. The cheap ones are very cheap, and the expensive ones are comparable to expensive collections. See how the business works.

Meng Zheng felt that Ye Gang should be bragging about such a huge boss with a huge net worth.But Ye Gang must have found a way to take the Meng family's handmade products abroad and sell them at high prices.How to put it this way, as long as Ye Gang really got the deposit and the Meng family really made money, it doesn't matter.

Years later, Meng Zheng stopped setting up a stall, stayed at home and did his homework, and also watched Meng Duo do his homework.

In the first month, everyone is visiting relatives.

As long as guests come to Meng's house, they can see the two children of Meng's family doing their homework around the stove.The guest couldn't help boasting to the elders of Meng's parents: "Your children are really sensible, and they will definitely be promising in the future." They couldn't guess how much Meng Zheng earned—but they noticed that Meng Zheng did his homework seriously.Writing homework is a promising performance.

On the sixth day of the lunar new year, Yu Juhua brought her husband and children to Meng's house to pay New Year's greetings, carrying a pair of wine, a pack of cigarettes, as well as various candies, candied dates and so on.This is considered a very high-standard New Year's greeting in their area.

Yu Juhua also took out two red envelopes and gave one to Meng Zheng and Meng Duo.Meng's mother secretly opened it and saw that there was twenty stuffed in a red envelope, so she added a wallet and gave a fifty red envelope to Yu Juhua's son Haohao.

zh Meng's father drank some wine with Yu Juhua's husband, Jiang Youhai.

Jiang Youhai talked about things in the city, and said that their construction site was short of people all the year round, and after the first lunar month, he would bring a group of fellow villagers to the construction site.It happened that a neighbor came to visit Meng's house with a job. Hearing this, he hurriedly asked the construction site if he wanted something like this.Jiang Youhai said with a smile, "As long as you work diligently and put in the effort, we will do it all."

I don't know how they discussed it later, four or five people in Houshan Village planned to follow Jiang Youhai.

When school was about to start, Meng Zheng arrived in Ruiyang City two days early.

Because the weather was too cold and Meng Zheng had a lot of luggage, Meng Zheng didn't ask Shen Duqing to pick him up by bike, but took a taxi downstairs by himself.Shen Duqing helped him move the big and small bags upstairs.Shen Feizhuo was not at home. I heard that it was a female classmate of his's birthday, so he went to her classmate's house to celebrate her birthday.Grandma Shen was looking for food in the kitchen.

Meng Zheng squatted in his bedroom packing his luggage, while Shen Duqing sat on the chair next to him and watched.

"Sit on the bed. Sitting here gets in the way." Meng Zheng said.

Shen Duqing always had a feeling of self-loathing in his heart.

He thought, although he didn't intend to confess his love to Meng Zheng, if he didn't hide his intentions thoroughly, Meng Zheng would find out the clues in the future... If he sat on Meng Zheng's bed right now, when Meng Zheng found out After his heart, would Meng Zheng think, I thought we were good brothers back then, so I let you sit on my bed, who knew you were secretly in love with me at that time...Will Meng Zheng doubt? Did he do it on purpose, so he felt sick?

A bed is a very personal thing.

Shen Duqing glanced at Meng Zheng's bed, shook his head and said, "Don't sit down."

Not only do you not want to sit on Meng Zheng's bed, you can't have any too intimate behaviors with Meng Zheng in the future, you can't stop Meng Zheng from chatting with girls, you can't jump on Meng Zheng from behind while playing basketball... , Meng Zheng accidentally knew his intentions, and would suspect that he took a lot of advantage in the name of his brother.

If you don't sit, don't sit.Meng Zheng didn't think too much about it.

Grandma Shen brought a fruit plate into the room and asked Meng Zheng to eat the fruit.

There were kiwi fruit cut into chunks in the fruit plate, smelling the sweet and sour taste, Meng Zheng suddenly felt a little craving for it.But because he was arranging things, although there was no dust on his hands, he still felt that they were not clean, but he was too lazy to go to the bathroom to wash his hands, so he pointed to the fruit plate and said, "Shen Duqing, feed me a piece of kiwi!"

Shen Duqing: "!!!"

Meng Zheng opened his mouth towards Shen Duqing.

Shen Duqing flatly refused: "No."

"What happened to you today? I didn't provoke you, did I?" Meng Zheng asked with a smile.

Shen Duqing faltered and hawed to say clearly, anyway, he didn't want to feed Meng Zheng.

Meng Zheng was suspicious, and asked: "What did I do wrong, did I really offend you?"

Grandma Shen who was in the kitchen suddenly heard Shen Duqing shout: "You forced me!"

What happened?Grandma Shen suspected that Meng Zheng and Shen Duqing had quarreled.Although these two children are very precocious, boys of this age can't be sure about their emotional changes. If they look at each other today, they may quarrel over trivial matters tomorrow.Grandma Shen was a little worried, so she hurried to the bedroom to have a look.

The bedroom door was left open.

Shen Duqing angrily picked up a piece of kiwi fruit, handed it to Meng Zheng's mouth, and said fiercely: "Eat it quickly! Let me tell you first, I didn't take the initiative to feed you, you forced me to do so!"

Meng Zheng opened his mouth and ate the kiwi.

Shen Duqing picked up another apple and asked, "Do you want an apple? This apple was issued by my aunt's work unit. It's an imported apple. It's very sweet. I think it's better than the ones I bought at home... Would you like another piece of kiwi?"

Grandma Shen: "..."

You really don't agree with the statement of generation gap, who knows what boys are thinking now?