So what if all the fish in the pond were given to him?
"I can't eat any more." He Zhou was determined not to fish anymore. He retracted the fishing rod and put it in the house.
Pan Guangcai pushed the brewed tea in front of him and smiled. "Come, it's cold outside."
Then, he removed the samovar from the stove and brought it to the table.
"You don't have to be so polite." He Zhou could not stand the enthusiasm.
Pan Guangcai said, "You're graduating soon, right?"
He Zhou said, "Two more years."
"Okay." Pan Guangcai nodded. "When you graduate, you can work at your mother's company. She can handle some things. It's too tiring to rely on her all the time."
"Let's see how it goes." He Zhou did not want to work for his mother. He was very sure that if he really went to work at his family's company, his mother would not dare to pay him!
Why would he need money to work for his family?
Moreover, his mother could plausibly say that it would all be his in the future!
However, he was more concerned about the present!
Pan Guangcai said, "You're not trying to learn from Li Pei, are you? They despised this and that. Don't look down on your family's small land. Let's not talk about the cotton mill, oil factory, and electronics factory. Your family's most inconspicuous transportation company is amazing. It has a storage center and warehouses. There are not many companies like this in the whole province. The express delivery and logistics companies in the province are basically using your family's cars and space. "
"I know all this." During the summer vacation when he graduated from high school, his mother arranged for him to work at the freight terminal in the provincial capital. She said it was training. Thanks to his identity as the Crown Prince, he could eat and drink well every day. The station master was kind and friendly, but he could not be discounted!
The most important thing was that he had worked hard for more than a month and did not receive a single cent of his salary!
What was he after?
Even his own mother could not abuse him like this!
Pan Guangcai said, "It's not your mother's fault for being strict with you. You're the only one in your family and she has high hopes for you. You can't fall. In the future, the family business will depend on you. If you can't hold the fort, your mother won't cry even if she cries."
He Zhou braced himself and said, "I'll definitely work hard."
"You guys, the conditions you have now are unimaginable when we were young. To put it bluntly, when I was in my twenties, I didn't even have a single piece of new clothes, they were all patched up. I could only eat wheat flour during the New Year and see some greasy meat. I lived in a mud house, and when it rained, the house would leak. There wasn't a single place that was clean," Pan Guangcai sighed. "So, we still have to cherish what we have now."
"Our present conditions are good." Actually, he didn't think much of it. If this generation wasn't as good as the previous generation, then it would be history regressing!
Of course, his family's conditions are good. He goes to the best school, lives in the best house, eats, drinks, and wears clothes. I'm also willing to invest in him, but the only problem is that he has no liquid funds!
When I was in high school, I sold the new shoes I bought for my classmates at a discount. Shoes that cost five or six hundred RMB were only sold for 199 RMB!
He had only done it once!
Just to scrape together enough money to buy his favorite game console.
It was impossible for his mother to spend money to buy these things for him that would cause him to lose his will!
As the two of them were talking, a tall girl came in from outside. She had a delicate face, short hair, and a red down jacket that didn't hide her beautiful figure.
"He Zhou, you're here too?" She greeted him first.
"Hey," He Zhou didn't know how to address her. She was Pan Guangcai's youngest daughter. According to their age, he should call her sister, but he was embarrassed. "Pan Ying, sit here."
He offered the stool to her.
"There are plenty of stools." Pan Guangcai pulled out another stool, then asked Pan Ying, "Why did you come out when it's so cold?"
Pan Ying said, "You haven't been home for so long. My mother was afraid that you would get drunk and fall into the river, so she asked me to come out and take a look."
Pan Guangcai said impatiently, "It'd be better if I drowned. That way, she wouldn't have to nag and annoy me to death."
"It's for your own good not to let you drink." Pan Ying smiled as he sat down, then asked He Zhou, "You're starting school soon, right?"
"Today doesn't count. I can stay at home for another ten days." He Zhou didn't dare to look at her.
Pan Ying said, "That's earlier than me. I can stay at home comfortably for at least half a month."
"You're in your second year, right?" He Zhou asked.
"I'm in my second year, but compared to you, she only got in after repeating high school for a year." Although that was what Pan Guangcai said, he was actually indescribably proud. It wasn't easy for the Pan family to have a university student!
Having a university student was even better than him earning tens of millions!
He didn't know when it started, but there was a craze for studying in Li Zhuang. If there wasn't a university student in the family, it would be embarrassing to go out and greet people!
His eldest son was a block of wood. He was completely stubborn when it came to studying, so in the end, he put all his attention on his daughter. He even bought a house in the provincial capital for his wife to study with.
His daughter failed her first college entrance examination. Although he was disappointed, he didn't give up. He didn't believe that if Sang Yongbo's Sang Chunling could get into university, why couldn't his daughter?
He let his daughter continue to repeat her studies. Fortunately, she didn't let him down!
The Pan family finally had a university student!
She ended the unbearable history of the Pan family's five generations of illiterates!
He Zhou said humbly, "I was lucky."
"I wasn't lucky in my first year. Math was very difficult. I'm not good at math to begin with." Pan Ying was very unhappy that her father exposed his shortcomings.
He Zhou said, "I'm not good at math either."
Pan Ying said, "Who are you trying to fool? You got full marks in math in the college entrance examination."
That year, when He Zhou's score was released, Zhao Di spread the news all over the country and held a big banquet, as if she was afraid that people didn't know how good her son was.
"Hehe …" He Zhou scratched his head. "I think in the math exam, 147 points is ability. The remaining 3 points depends on luck."
Pan Ying said indignantly, "We entered the exam at the same time. Why is there such a big difference? I remember I only got 103 points."
Then, a dog barked outside.
Pan Guangcai saw that Zhao Di had come and shouted at the dog to leave.
"Why are you here? I looked around and they said you were here." Zhao Di was also worried about her drunk son.
He Zhou said, "I'm learning fishing from Uncle Pan."
"Auntie, have a seat." Pan Ying moved a stool for her.
"No, let him go home and sleep." Zhao Di looked at her red faced son and said with concern, "He can't drink, but he's still trying to show off."
Pan Guangcai said, "He's a good drinker. He didn't slow down even after drinking half a liter."
"How can a child drink so much?" Zhao Di looked at the bucket full of fish on the ground and said with a smile, "Carry it. When you wake up, bring the bucket over."
He Zhou carried the bucket.
The two of them went home together.
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