Therefore, even if he had never seen his father, his father was like a shadow, constantly exerting his influence through his mother.
Walking out of the manor, the snow was still falling. It was a vast expanse of white snow that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.
He did not dare to continue forward. After all, he was still worried about his mother walking alone. Under the thick snow were either hidden pits or tree stumps.
He stayed where he was and waited for his mother. The flashlight was getting closer and closer.
Zhao Di complained, "It's so late at night. Why didn't you bring a flashlight? Don't fall into a pit. No one will pull you up."
"The snow is bright. I'm not blind," He Zhou said confidently. "Plus, I'm familiar with this road. I can walk with my eyes closed."
Zhao Di pretended to be angry. "That's still not okay! Your father said … "
"My father said that people make mistakes and horses lose their footing …" He Zhou continued. He had heard so much that his ears had calluses.
"Kid, you've learned to talk back now." Zhao Di did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Don't think that you don't have to learn anything after you go to university. You still have to learn. If you have the time to play cards, you should read more. Your father said …"
"Young people don't work hard, but old people are sad!" He Zhou looked at his mother proudly.
"No, your dad said that in this age where we should be suffering, we must not choose comfort," Zhao Di said snappily. "Do you think that's all your dad said? He said a lot. It's just that I'm getting old, so I can't remember. "
"Then did my father say that the stupidest way to work hard is the least efficient way to work hard??" He had never heard what his mother said. Oh, no, it was his father who said it. He could not help but retort, "The efficiency of staying up late and waking up early for revision is not higher than the efficiency of going to bed early and waking up early for revision. The efficiency of running 20 laps to lose weight is not higher than the efficiency of doing it step by step."
Zhao Di snorted coldly. "Your father also said that no matter what I tell you, you won't understand it if your mind hasn't reached this level."
"I …" He Zhou suddenly fell silent. After walking for a while, he suddenly turned around and said, "Mom, is there anything you want to say?"
"What?" Zhao Di did not understand what her son meant.
"Don't keep talking about your father all the time. Your father said that I never knew what he looked like! I haven't even seen him before! "His father had always been his mother's reverse scale, but today, he decided to touch it.
"I've never been educated, and I'm not cultured. Your father is a college student. There's nothing he doesn't know," Zhao Di said matter-of-factly. "Besides, what he said makes sense. Of course, we should listen to him!"
"Mom …" He Zhou suddenly felt pity for his mother. He really wanted to shout at the sky, "Mom!" You're one of the top billionaires in the province, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a well-known strong woman in the country. Why are you so lacking in confidence?
He really didn't understand what kind of magic potion his father had fed his mother.
Zhao Di reprimanded him, "Can you act like a man? Who did you learn it from? It's so gentle and slow. If you have something to say, say it quickly. "
He Zhou bit the bullet and said, "I'm also a university student."
Since you said he's a university student, but I'm also a university student.
Why do I have to listen to him!
Why is it that what he says is right and what I say is wrong?
He didn't understand!
"Can you compare yourself to your father?" Zhao Di snickered. "Let's go. Don't think about useless things all day."
She continued to walk forward.
"Why can't I compare myself?" He was indignant and jogged to catch up with her.
Zhao Di said as she walked, "When your father went to university, it was really a crowded time. There weren't many university students in the whole county.
He didn't have enough to eat, and he didn't have warm clothes. He had to endure all the hardships.
You, on the other hand, had everything you needed. There aren't many people in the whole county who have such conditions. Yet, you got into a lousy military school? "
"You're my biological mother! There are only two people in the whole county who got into a military school! It's fine if you don't praise me, but how can you be so mean? " He Zhou really understood his biological mother's logic. Ever since he was young, no matter how well he did, he would never get any praise from his mother. It was as if he deserved it!
Every time he got first place in an exam, he sincerely hoped that he could be like other children and get his mother's praise! Get his mother's encouragement!
However, he finally understood that it was an extravagant wish! He would never be able to meet his mother's expectations!
As long as his father, whom he had never met, was still in his mother's head!
"Praise you? How should I praise you? Your father earned his first pot of gold when he was 18. What about you? " She continued to walk forward and looked at her son lightly. "You're still eating and drinking from me, and now you're asking me for something?"
"What did I ask you for? I … "He Zhou wanted to cry. Seeing that he was about to reach his grandpa's house, he stopped talking and waved his hand helplessly." Think whatever you want. "
Although it was his grandpa's house, it was actually built with his mother's money. It was a two-story building with five floors and five floors. It was considered extravagant in the village.
However, there weren't many people living there. His aunts were married, so they naturally stayed with their in-laws. After his youngest uncle got married, his mother bought him a house and he didn't want to come back to the village. He even spent the Spring Festival in the county. Only he, his mother, and his grandpa were left at home.
"Did you make your mother angry again?" He Laoxi watched as Zhao Di entered the bathroom and asked He Zhou in a low voice.
He Zhou shrugged. "I can't do anything about it …"
He Laoxi said, "It's not easy for your mother. Think of her and feel sorry for her. You're old enough to know better."
"I'm not being rebellious …" He Zhou weakly entered his bedroom upstairs, locked the door, turned on the TV, and threw himself onto the bed. However, he happened to fall on the neatly folded tofu quilt. Feeling that it was inappropriate, he got up, moved the quilt aside, tidied it up, and lay back on the bed. He did not want to move at all.
However, his eyes would occasionally wander to the TV.
When he saw Zhao Benshan and Little Shenyang's "Not Lacking Money", he suddenly burst out laughing.
However, he suddenly felt helpless. His family did not lack money, but he did!
With the price of goods rising so fast, what could he do with his allowance of 500 yuan?
In school, he had allowances and subsidies. He had nowhere to spend money!
However, he had a girlfriend. He didn't even dare to go to his high school reunion!
He couldn't afford to fall!
Who would have thought that the only son of a billionaire would want to work part-time during the winter and summer?
No, it was more appropriate to call it struggling.
Handing out flyers, setting up a stall, scrubbing people's backs in the bathhouse, he did everything that was suitable for him …
If it wasn't for the school's strict discipline, he would have carried bricks every day!
He treated it as training!
"It's f * cking easy to be born, but it's not easy to live …" Now that people asked him about his family background, he directly said that his family was a farmer.
If he said too much, people would think that he was bragging!
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He rolled up to open the door and said to his mother who was standing at the door, "Empress Dowager, do you have any other orders?"
"Take a shower before going to bed. It's been a crazy day." Zhao Di laughed. "Don't be so cheeky all day long. You're going to enter society soon. Be more mature."
"Yes, Your Majesty!" He Zhou said with a smile. "If there's nothing else, I'll close the door."
"Hurry up and go to bed. Wake up early tomorrow." Zhao Di went downstairs with a smile.
He went into the bathroom and took a simple shower before lying on the bed. The Spring Festival Gala was playing a song and dance program, so he was not in the mood to watch it.
He got up and shook the door. After making sure that it was locked, he went to open his suitcase. He found a thick stack of yellowed mimeographed paper. On the front was a mess of junior high math and English test questions. The ink had been stained, and many of the questions could not be seen clearly.
His mother said that this was his father's. This was also the reason why he was sure that his mother did not pick him up …
When he was in junior high, his mother felt that she could not teach him, so she gave him this thick stack of mimeographed paper. She said that she wanted him to see how his father studied back then.
At that time, he pretended to deal with his mother, but after she left, he threw it directly on his desk.
It was not until he cleaned up his bookshelf after the college entrance examination that this dusty mimeographed paper could see the light of day again. Only then did he discover the secret on the back of the mimeographed paper.
"Life is heroic, start all over again!"
There was no page number, but from the eight strong words written in a fountain pen, he was sure that this was the first page.
Then, below it were densely packed words that looked like insights, essays, or what could be called quotations.
"One can't live a life in vain. What do you do to earn money?"
This was the second line of the first page.
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