The history of raising children from the Republic of China to the 70s

Xiaoxi and Xiaobei smiled cutely at Mother Li, and continued to eat seriously. Li Chengye also took the bowl and began to eat.

Mother Li had been eating for quite a while, and she was almost full by now. While serving food for Li Chengye, she asked, "What were you talking about just now? Why are you asking these two old men a question?"

Li Chengye slowly swallowed the food in his mouth before saying to her: "Mother, your attitude towards those two will be better in the future."

Mother Li was surprised, "How to say?"

Li Chengye looked at her amusedly and said, "Do you know what the two of them used to do?"

Mother Li asked hesitantly: "How should I say, aren't they just some old men who like to play chess? What other identities are there?"

"They used to be professors at the Polytechnic University in the provincial capital, but they have retired now."

Mother Li was still a little unconvinced, and asked suspiciously: "It's just them? Or the professor of the Provincial University of Science and Technology? The university you wanted to go to before." Mother Li didn't read any books, and the only university she knew was this university of science and technology. Yes, it was because Li Chengye wanted to take this university before.In her opinion, the university that her son wants to go to must be a good university. It is unbelievable that these two old men who seem to be unreliable are actually teachers there.

Li Chengye nodded very positively. Under his affirmative gaze, Mother Li believed it, and immediately remembered that she had yelled and yelled at them before, and was not polite at all, and she immediately regretted it. Why are junior high and high school teachers so much better? I was really...

She was a little flustered, and immediately asked Li Chengye: "Son, then my attitude towards them before was really not very good, they wouldn't take that to heart, would they?"

Li Chengye comforted her with a smile, "Don't worry, why would they care about this? They also said that they would teach me about machinery in the future and be my free teacher."

Mother Li felt at ease now. Because her son was also a scholar, she respected teachers as a group very much. Hearing Li Chengye say that those two would still be Li Chengye's teachers, she knew that they didn't care about her attitude.She couldn't help sighing and said: "That's good, that's good." She stroked her chest with her hand, and the anxiety in her heart lessened.

Li Chengye didn't say much, and continued to eat.

"Father, do you want to go to school too?" Xiao Bei moved faster, since the meal had already been eaten.He also heard what his father and grandma said, and he was very curious, so he walked up to Li Chengye, put his hand on his lap and asked.

Li Chengye smiled and nodded at him, and then said: "Yes, Dad also needs to go to school, so that he can understand more things."

Xiaobei frowned, "Xiaobei doesn't like going to school, can I not go to school?"

Li Chengye didn't know whether he would like to go to school, so he didn't speak for a while, but Li's mother was a little excited when he heard his words, "What are you talking about! How can you not go to school."

Mother Li's expression was a bit fierce, Xiaobei immediately became timid, and looked at Mother Li with small eyes, which really made people's hearts soften.

Seeing that Mother Li was even more aggressive, Li Chengye quickly held her hand and shook his head lightly.Mother Li temporarily gave up talking when she saw this, but she was ready to see how Li Chengye planned to deal with it.

Li Chengye didn't lose his temper right away, he still smiled, put his hand on Xiao Bei's head to comfort him, and asked softly, "School is very fun, there are many friends like Xiao Bei, why doesn't Xiao Bei want to go to school?"

Seeing his father's gentle attitude, Xiao Bei was not so afraid at last, but he still didn't give a reason why he couldn't go to school, he just said: "Xiao Bei just doesn't want to go to school, I don't like it, can I just stay at home and let My brother goes to school, and he will teach me when he comes back."

Li Chengye only thought it was funny, it was really rare that such a little guy could think so much and give his opinion.

At this moment, Xiaoxi also finished his meal, wiped his mouth and walked to his brother, patted his back with his little hand, "Don't be afraid, brother, no one will bully you at school, brother will protect you. "

Now Li Chengye was really curious, how could he get bullied when he went to school.He hurriedly pulled Xiaoxi over and asked, "Xiaoxi, tell me why my brother doesn't want to go to school?" The two children were inseparable, and Xiaoxi must know why Xiaobei didn't want to go to school.

Xiaoxi hesitated for a while, and finally said: "In the past, many children in the village said that school is not fun at all, and studying is very tiring. There are also children who say that children like us without mothers are not welcome to study in school."

"These killers..." Li's mother immediately became angry when she heard this, and felt very distressed towards her two grandchildren.Naturally, there is an elementary school in their village, and there are many children studying in it. They don't know what the gossip women in the village said to the children at home, so that those children ran over and talked nonsense to their children.

Li Chengye is naturally distressed, but some things still have to be faced. He estimated that he would never find a mother for them in this lifetime, so he touched the heads of the two children distressedly, and said soothingly: "Xiaoxi, Xiaobei , although you have no mother, but you still have father and grandma, we will love you twice, and you will have no less than other children."

"So you are happy children, happier than other children." There is nothing wrong with this. Except for having no mother, the lives of these two children are much happier than other children. Li Chengye and Li's mother did not let the two It means that a child will grow up soon.You must know that many children now start to go to the field at a certain age, and parents don't care much about their children, they just raise them and grow up.

And Li Chengye felt a little guilty because he took over the original owner's body, so he was very willing to part with the two children, and would try his best to spare time to tell them stories.Mother Li is even more distressed that the two children have no mother. Knowing that her son can earn money, she prepares a good meal every day and often buys food for the children.

Xiaoxi nodded, and said anxiously: "Father and grandma are very kind to us, and we have toys that other children don't have."

Xiaobei also nodded, "Father is good, grandma is also good."

These two children are quite sensible, Li Chengye nodded with satisfaction in his heart, and continued: "Study is to learn knowledge and become smarter in the future, so we must go to study. If there are children who bully you, you can tell the teacher, or You can come back and tell me, it won’t make you feel bad.”

Xiaobei nodded, "Got it, Xiaobei is going to study, Xiaobei has a brother, a father, and a grandmother, so Xiaobei is not afraid anymore."

"Brother, elder brother will protect you." Xiaoxi assured his younger brother again.

Li Chengye didn't expect his youngest son to be persuaded so easily, so he thought it was funny, and then continued: "That's good, Dad will send you to school next year. I've been optimistic about it, our steel factory has a primary school for children, and the environment over there Not bad, the teacher is also very responsible.”

He said the latter paragraph to Li's mother. He hadn't talked to Li's mother about going to school. When it came to this topic today, he talked about his arrangements for the two children.

Mother Li naturally didn't have any objections. Li Chengye was the father of two children, so he would naturally think about them, so nodding his head meant he knew.

Under the dim light, the family of four sat in a group and continued to talk. The light was very gentle, rendering the curvature of the face gentle, which just made people feel warm.

Li Chengye got up early the next morning. Last night he read the borrowed books for a while. Just like Uncle Zhou and the others said, these books are not suitable for people who have no foundation. Yes, he couldn't understand many places, so he had to give up in the end, so he went to bed early last night.Naturally, he went to the factory very early.

It was only ten minutes past seven, and there was no one in the office building of the factory committee. Li Chengye still put his things in the office as usual, and then took a rag to clean up Secretary Chu's office next door.He walked to the next door and was about to unscrew them when he found that the door was slightly open and there was a gap there.

Did Secretary Chu come so early today?Li Chengye pushed open the door, and he saw Secretary Chu sitting at the desk reading the newspaper.

"Secretary Chu, did you come so early today?" Li Chengye walked in with a smile, and cleaned up step by step.

Secretary Chu also smiled when he saw him, and jokingly said: "I am old, I can't sleep at night, wake up early in the morning, what else can I do except come to work earlier. But you young man, why don't you Sleep for a while, come so early?"

It was rare for Li Chengye to see him joking like this, and he didn't say anything out of the ordinary, he just said: "I went to bed early yesterday, and woke up early today."

Secretary Chu envied, "It's better for you young people to sleep better, I am so envious."

It was difficult for Li Chengye to answer these words, so he could only continue to work with a smile, and soon Li Chengye finished the hygiene.Seeing that Secretary Chu was just reading the newspaper and didn't seem to have any intention of working immediately, he said to him, "Secretary Chu, didn't you rest yesterday?"

Secretary Chu obviously didn't mind chatting with Li Chengye for a while, and immediately replied: "Well, there was no rest, but you, what did you do yesterday?"

His last sentence was just a casual question, without any intention of asking Li Chengye to answer.

However, Li Chengye rolled his eyes and immediately said: "Yesterday, I played chess with two professors who are said to be from the Provincial University of Science and Technology."

Secretary Chu's casual expression immediately changed, and he put down all the newspapers he was holding, and hurriedly asked, "What? A professor at the Provincial University of Science and Technology, what's his name?"

He was a little skeptical. He had never heard of any professors in the county.

Li Chengye: "I heard from them that he is a professor of mechanical engineering, and his main research is smelting equipment."

"What you said is true?" Secretary Chu immediately stood up excitedly. He believed Li Chengye's words quite a bit, but he didn't know if what others told him was true.

"It should be true, but they have retired for several years, and I heard that they retired early."

After thinking about it, Secretary Chu knew why he retired early, and immediately asked, "What's their last name?"

Naturally, Li Chengye wouldn't hide it, "One's surname is Zhang, and the other's surname is Zhou. They should have retired around six or seven years ago."

Secretary Chu clapped his hands and immediately said, "Wait a minute, I'll call and ask."

Naturally, Li Chengye wouldn't object, and of course he didn't just stand here, he took Secretary Chu's thermos and went to fetch water from the water room.

When Li Chengye came back, he found that Secretary Chu was walking around in the office. When he saw Li Chengye came back, he immediately held his hand excitedly, "Where do the two people you mentioned live?"

Li Chengye quickly put down the thermos bottle, "It's near our steel factory."

"Let's go, let's go to them now and invite them to work in our steel plant." Secretary Chu had already found someone to confirm it just now. He didn't expect that there were really two professors in their county, and they were very helpful to their steel plant. .

Li Chengye was a little dumbfounded, and quickly stopped him, "Secretary Chu, it's still early, and it's not good to come to the door. Besides, since they chose to retire early and don't let people know that they are professors, they must not want people to pay too much attention to them. It’s not very good to run over there.”

Secretary Chu calmed down as soon as Li Chengye said about this meeting. It was indeed not good for this meeting to pass. These two are important talents. He still had to be more cautious, so he gave up the idea of ​​visiting someone.

But he was still a little unwilling, "Then we can't do nothing, can we?"

Li Chengye hurriedly said: "Secretary Chu, don't worry, I have already told them to spare time to come and help us check all the machines and equipment in the workshop, and if they can be repaired, they can help us to repair them."

Secretary Chu was really pleasantly surprised this time. He just felt that Comrade Li Chengye really did everything in his heart, "Really, then you have made a great contribution this time. I will leave this matter to you, you Invite people over, our factory will definitely not treat these two badly."

Li Chengye quickly waved his hands and said: "The two professors mean to help for free. Although they said they have retired, they still want to do something and insist on not getting paid." Secretary Chu is also a relatively important person in their county. He said this, If the two professors are really in danger in the future, Secretary Chu may take care of them because of this.

Secretary Chu also sighed very much when he heard the words, and he admired it very much in his heart, "Well, things are impermanent, but they don't want to be paid, and we can't be stingy. You don't care about this matter. I will tell them myself when the time comes."

Naturally, Li Chengye would not object, so he agreed.

Secretary Chu asked again: "Let's see when they are free. We still need to arrange this matter as soon as possible."

Li Chengye nodded and agreed, "I'll go to them tonight, if possible, let them come over this week to check. But we'd better check after get off work, right?"