Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

"Building a country?"

Zhang Xiuhua turned around and looked at him in confusion.

Li Xingjia hesitated for a while, then suddenly asked, "Do you know where Xinghua can find the notice?"

Zhang Xiuhua told Aunt Wang about her family's plan.

Li Xingjia was slightly startled, "Does the school have a list of admission letters?"

Zhang Xiuhua was confused by his question. Isn't this nonsense? The school doesn't have an admission list, how can they call the roll? This question is too low level. She knows this common sense even though she hasn't graduated from elementary school. Li Xingjia is still a high school student. Is he worse than her?

Li Xingjia didn't seem to realize that his question was stupid. He continued to ask irrelevant questions, "Is there any this year? Are there any in the past?"

Zhang Xiuhua thought about it carefully and it was not certain. "It is definitely on this year's list, but it may not be on the list in the previous ten years. You also know how chaotic the previous ten years were."

In the previous ten years, countless teachers were accused of wrongdoings and demoted. This happened in every university.

Li Xingjia was silent for a while and nodded.

Zhang Xiuhua thought it was just a minor incident, but she never expected that after work, the village would be in turmoil.

A few talented people rushed out immediately when they heard that there was gossip to be heard.

After Zhang Xiuhua finished preparing the sweet potato noodles, she ran over to join in the fun.

From a distance she saw many members crowding towards the door of a house. When she got closer, she found that it was the door of Li Xing's house.

The crowd was so dense that Zhang Xiuhua couldn't squeeze in, so she asked Xu Chunying, who was standing in front of her, "What's going on? What's the quarrel?"

Seeing that she knew nothing, Xu Chunying felt that she had found a topic to talk about and explained it with a smile on her face.

It turned out that Li Xingjia wanted to go to the capital to see if his grades had been replaced by someone else.

Li Xingjia was a student in the last college entrance examination. He had very good grades, but he failed to get into university. He always thought that he was unlucky, but after Wang Xinghua's incident, he felt that his grades might have been replaced by someone else.

Going to college was one of the few opportunities for him to change his fate. Even after ten years, he still had a knot in his heart.

But his parents wouldn't let him leave. It was the busy farming season, and he didn't want to go to the capital instead of earning work points at home. The round-trip fare, food and lodging all cost money. He would have worked for nothing for a year.

Rural people are used to being frugal and feel that there is no need to spend so much money just to resolve this knot.

But Li Xingjia was determined to go and even argued with his parents, insisting that they give him money.

It was also at this time that everyone knew that the Li family had always been headed by Li Xingjia's parents. Every year, the surplus money of the team was given to his parents.

This is nothing, rural people don't have many places to spend money. The main problem is that they don't have tickets.

But if Li Xingjia wants to go to the capital, he must have money.

Li Xingjia's parents were very tough and refused to give in no matter what. They scolded their son for making trouble.

The captain was invited over and everyone automatically made way for him.

"Xingjia, it's the busy farming season now. It's not impossible for you to fulfill your wish. But I think you should wait until the busy farming season is over?!" The team leader was speaking the truth.

Every household is busy with farming, and even children have to work in the fields to earn work points. If Li Xing's family, a strong laborer, asks for leave at this time, what will he do if he does not have enough work points at the end of the year? !

Zhang Xiuhua saw through the gap that Li Xingjia's face was flushed. He clenched and unclenched his hands. Finally, he accepted his fate and said, "Okay. Then I will ask for leave after the busy farming season is over."

The captain nodded, turned around and started to chase people away, "I see you're still not tired?! You still have the leisure to watch the fun! Hurry home and cook!"

The members standing on the periphery left one after another. Zhang Xiuhua looked for her children. Youcai and Jidong were both there. "Where are Baolin and Yaoyao?"

Youcai pointed to the yard and said, "Xiangxiang and I are in there."

The people at the door were still talking, so Zhang Xiuhua couldn't go over, so she shouted inside, "Baolin? Yaoyao? Come home for dinner!"

No one answered. The first person to come out was Li Xing's son, Tiedan, who was in the same grade as Baolin and Xiangxiang, but not in the same class.

Tiedan held an old card in his hand and went to his father, "Dad! How do you pronounce this word?!"

Tiedan still had a smile on his face. "Xiangxiang insisted it was 'Hua'. She's talking nonsense! The character 'Hua' obviously doesn't have that many strokes."

He raised his head and gave a provocative smile to the yard, feeling that he would definitely win this time.

But he didn't notice that the others' expressions had cracked.

Li Xingjia's father almost lost his balance. Li Xingjia's mother Zhou Cuilan reacted quickly and rushed over to snatch the card from her grandson's hand, but she was a beat too slow and was snatched away by Li Xingjia first, after all, he was the closest. After he snatched it, he only saw a few words "Tsinghua University Admission Notice", and before he could take a closer look, the card had been taken away.

Zhou Cuilan tore the cardboard into pieces, but the admission letter was made of hard cardboard. She could tear it apart the first time, but it was not so easy the second time.

While tearing it, she explained to her son, "Xingjia, this is not a notice, this is..."

She racked her brains to think of something to say, but before she could think, Li Xingjia had already snatched the things from her mother's hands, and he knelt on the ground and pieced the things together.

The members who had not walked far just now turned back when they heard the noise here.

Zhang Xiuhua saw the whole process, but she was still a little confused. "What's going on?"

She still remembered how proud and arrogant Li Xingye's parents were when he came back from Chinese New Year. They were proud of their eldest son, so why would they suppress their youngest son?

Zhang Xiuhua was standing behind Li Xingjia, and others also gathered around. The team leader was a beat slow to react. Li Xingjia's parents tried to snatch their son's things again, but were pushed away by Li Xingjia. He was like an angry lion, hitting anyone who approached him, attacking indiscriminately.

Zhang Xiuhua was startled and immediately hid backwards, looking at Baolin and Yaoyao who came out of the yard. When she saw Xiangxiang, a glimmer of understanding flashed in her eyes.

Xiangxiang curled her lips. In her previous life, she didn't find this admission letter until Li Mancang died. At that time, Li Xing's family was in debt to pay for his parents' medical treatment. When she saw the letter, her hair turned white overnight. She only found out about this later and felt sorry for him.

"Oh! This is the admission letter from Tsinghua University!" Finally, someone brave enough came closer and read out the letter that Li Xingjia had pieced together.

Li Xingjia was kneeling on the ground, his forehead was covered with sweat, and his hands were so dirty that they got on his face, making him look a little miserable.

He was indeed in a poor state, his clothes were washed white and had several patches on the elbows.

He is obviously two years younger than his brother, but he looks ten years older.

The members looked at the panicked Mr. and Mrs. Li and talked in low voices.

The members are just inexperienced, but that doesn't mean they are stupid. Their actions just now have proved that they have received the notice from their son a long time ago. But they have been hiding it from their son.

"Why do you think they are doing this?"

"Who knows! Maybe he's afraid of spending money?!" someone asked uncertainly.

"Why spend the money? University doesn't charge tuition!"

At that time, universities were free of charge and also assigned jobs.

"Xingjia?! We only received the notice later. But things were already in chaos by then... You know, we were scared." Li Xingjia's father Li Mancang finally found his voice. He was eager to defend himself. Compared with his just tough attitude, this time he sounded a little humble and flattering.

The members looked at each other with disdain in their eyes!

Li Xingjia suddenly fell to the ground with his forehead against the ground. He clearly had no tears and didn't even yell, but they just knew he was sad.