Clearwater Lane.
Main room.
Sanli walked to the workbench gently holding a box, for fear of disturbing her elder brother who was working.
However, the sound of her footsteps was particularly clear to Li Jie's ears.
Li Jie turned around and saw Sanli holding a box in her hand, with a look of understanding in her eyes.
No wonder the three little ones have been so mysterious in recent days. It turns out their roots are here.
"Brother."
Seeing that her elder brother had discovered her, Sanli couldn't help but stick out her tongue, and then gently pushed forward with her little hand.
"This is a gift from me, the second best, and the fourth beauty. Congratulations to the eldest brother for ranking first in the city!"
"Thanks."
Li Jie took the box and nodded with a smile.
Sanli smiled sheepishly when she heard this. In fact, the money they spent to buy gifts was the pocket money they usually saved.
Speaking of pocket money, a large part of it was given by my eldest brother, and only a small part was transferred from raising chickens.
Therefore, she felt a little embarrassed. After all, not all of the money was earned by their own abilities.
"Brother, there's me too!"
Simei on the side rushed over with short legs and shook her hand excitedly.
Li Jie laughed and pinched her little cheek.
"Yes, yes, yes, and thank you Simei."
"hey-hey."
Simei kept giggling as if she had received some great compliment.
Seeing Simei's silly look, Sanli couldn't help but roll her eyes at her.
This girl, when she said she wanted to sell eggs, she refused life and death, so she just rolled on the embankment. But now she wants to take credit, but she can run faster than anyone else.
What a ghostly place!
In the distance, Erqiang saw the smile on his elder brother's face after taking the gift, and the corners of his mouth slowly raised a bit.
Among several brothers and sisters, he is the second oldest, although the eldest brother never says how much the family earns or spends every month.
But he was vaguely aware of the situation inside.
In previous years, they could only eat delicious candies and snacks during holidays, and they could only eat meat once or twice a month.
In the past year, their every day has been the same as the Chinese New Year.
The eldest brother has never missed their food and drink. Every time the season changes, they can wear new clothes. Everyone has the white shoes that were out of reach before.
Being able to live such a life was something that the second strongest person could not even dream of in the past.
In the past, the top two could only dream about one day eating meat to their heart's content, but that was limited to a specific time period, not every day.
It was precisely because he had lived a life that he could not even imagine, that the second strong man could vaguely understand how difficult it was for his eldest brother who had created all this.
Although the eldest brother looks like an adult, there is one fact that is irrefutable.
In terms of age, the eldest brother is only four years older than me.
The eldest brother is just a kid a few years older than me.
Seeing that the eldest brother has to take care of Qiqi and them day by day, he is also busy repairing home appliances.
Finally, there is another thing, which takes up the least time of the eldest brother's time, 'study'.
However, even so, in the past several joint entrance examinations, the eldest brother still firmly sat on the top spot in the city.
The top two sometimes think about how powerful the eldest brother would be with his intelligence if there weren't these "sluggers" like them.
The eldest brother will definitely become a nationally famous prodigy, right?
Unlike now, the eldest brother's reputation can only be limited to the surrounding areas of Jinling.
In fact, the second strong man wanted to do his part and help his eldest brother share some of the burden, but apart from doing housework and studying hard, he found that there seemed to be nothing he could do to help his eldest brother.
He is stupid and not as smart as his elder brother. He has to learn two or three times to learn what ordinary people learn once.
In order not to disappoint their eldest brother, the top two made great efforts to maintain their ranking among the top three in the class.
Although the eldest brother has never asked him to get a certain rank in the exam, the top two secretly thought that the eldest brother would definitely want him to do as well as possible.
Because adults always like children with better grades.
The eldest brother is like this, and so is the cousin. Needless to say, the eldest brother, just by looking at the cousin, you can tell how many children with good grades the adults have.
In the second strong impression, his cousin seemed to lack everything. Children from other families basically didn't have pocket money, and even if they did, it was very little.
But my cousin would always have a few cents in his pocket, sometimes a little more, like three cents, sometimes a little less, like only one cent.
"Second brother?"
"Second brother?"
Just when Erqiang fell into his own inner world, he suddenly felt someone pushing him.
When he came back to his senses, he saw Sanli waving her arms gently and looking at herself curiously.
"What's wrong?"
Sanli pursed her lips: "Big brother asked you to come over."
"Brother called me?"
"Um!"
Erqiang walked up to Li Jie with doubts.
"Brother, you called me?"
Li Jie pointed to the stool opposite: "Sit."
After the two strong men sat down as instructed, Li Jie continued.
"Second Qiang, do you feel tired from studying?"
"No no……"
When the second strongman heard this, he immediately shook his head like a rattle.
"I'm not tired, not at all."
"to be honest."
Although Li Jie's tone was calm, it was no different than thunder in the heart of the second strongman, because he didn't know if his elder brother had seen something.
He also didn't know if his eldest brother was too disappointed in him, so he asked him like he did today.
After hesitating for a while, Er Qiang lowered his head and spoke in a cautious tone.
"Yes...a little bit."
After saying that, the second strongman asked again in a low voice.
"Brother, are you disappointed in me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the second strongman didn't wait for his eldest brother's answer first, but instead waited for a big warm hand.
The hand rubbed his head, and the elder brother's voice followed closely.
"how could be?"
"Top two, my eldest brother has never said that a hero is judged only by his performance. The quality of his performance is not as serious as you think."
"A person's life is as long as several decades, and the real days in school only occupy a very small part of your life."
"Learning is an attitude. As long as you are diligent and willing to learn all the time and throughout your life, the results are not that important."
"You are still young now, so if you don't understand something, just write it down first. When you grow up, you will gradually understand it."
Li Jie had long noticed the mentality problem of the second best, but he never mentioned it.
Problem discovery, problem solving, and the process of solving the problem are all equally important.
In Li Jie's view, it is very important for the top two to experience this special experience.
The longer he experiences it, the deeper his impression will be and the clearer he will remember it in the future.
Regarding the future of the top two, Li Jie did not limit him to what he must do or what achievements he must achieve.
As long as the top two live a happy life, he can accept it.
The same is true for the three beauties, and the same is true for the four beauties.
Li Jie's arrival was not to help them choose, but to give them more choices.
