Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 27 Going Home
It is more difficult to get up early during this time.

The weather is getting cold.

He struggled to get out of the quilt, with white air coming out of his mouth. The cold air outside the quilt almost drove him back in.

Today is Saturday.

Thick fog permeated the entire Xieyang Township. The mountains were hazy in the mist and only their general undulating shapes could be seen. Thick white frost condensed on the leaves of winter wheat, and each frost grain flickered in the faint light. The weeds on the edge of the field were dry and yellow, with the tips of the grass drooping and stiffened by the frost.

Li Xu was wearing a thick down jacket and a pair of gloves, running along the path beside the wheat field. Soon he felt hot and slowed down... He just wanted to warm up his body and didn't intend to sweat.

As the days passed, Li Xu was very satisfied with his life during this period.

Using the Feynman learning method, he has transferred the knowledge content from textbooks to math competition questions.

I didn’t plan to learn a lot.

I have to say that this is really a good era. Most knowledge can be obtained at a very low cost.

Knowledge is not a luxury, and learning is even less so.

The knowledge points of the junior high school mathematics knowledge competition are explained in that newspaper.

What Li Xu is doing now is just to chew up the above knowledge points bit by bit, absorb them into his own things, and then explain them to Xia Xiaomiao.

I don't plan to go the competition route in the future.

He did this simply because he found that the knowledge points of the mathematics competition, although not complicated, were very beneficial for training thinking.

When I understood those ingenious mathematical competition concepts and theorems, my way of thinking about math problems changed unconsciously.

The most direct manifestation of this change is that when doing questions in normal textbooks, you will have a feeling...how can it be so simple?

Simply put, the math problems in books are just simple applications of formulas and theorems. Slightly more difficult ones are nothing more than changing the form of formulas and theorems. But math competitions are different. You definitely can't solve them just by memorizing the formulas.

Once you have this experience, it's like being addicted.

So Li Xu devoted himself more to mastering the knowledge points of the mathematics competition.

A few days ago, the class organized a regular math test covering the knowledge points learned in the third year of junior high school. Li Xu didn't prepare much, but he accidentally got the first place in the class.

It can be said that in less than three months, he has mastered the junior high school mathematics knowledge very well.

Li Xu stopped and unzipped his down jacket a little, letting out a burst of hot air.

After a round of activities, Li Xu prepared to go back and bought a bag of steamed dumplings on the way.

When I returned to the apartment, my cousin had already gotten up. She was wearing a nightgown and the electric heater under the table was turned to the highest setting, shining on her trouser legs, making them red.

Ye Ling had just hung up the phone. Seeing Li Xu coming back, she put down the phone and said, "Your father asked you to go back."

Li Xu was stunned for a moment: "Has it been three months?"

Ye Ling smiled dumbly and shook her head: "It's my fault for not explaining it clearly. It's New Year's Day that's coming soon, and your dad asked you to go back and celebrate the holiday."

But in reality, there is only half a month left of the three-month agreement.

If we exclude New Year's Day, there will be even less time.

Seeing that there was no emotion on Li Xu's face, Ye Ling was a little surprised. After all, when he first came here, Li Xu kept clamoring to go back. Although he didn't make trouble later, Ye Ling didn't believe that this kid didn't want to go back.

According to her guess, Li Xu would cheer, and then take advantage of this opportunity to go back home on New Year's Day and never come back.

Li Xu touched his chin calmly, then slowly sat down next to Ye Ling, squeezed her and said, "Cousin, please move over there a little. I want to warm myself by the fire, too..."

Ye Ling had no choice but to make some room for Li Xu.

Li Xu opened his hands, warmed himself by the fire while thinking, his eyes slightly absent-minded.

The reason he was a little surprised was because he remembered clearly that in his previous life, even on New Year's Day, his father hadn't mentioned a single thing about him going home for the holiday. In his previous life, he had spent New Year's Day in Xieyang Township. If he remembered correctly, his cousin Ye Ling, out of consideration for him, had even bought some ingredients to cook hot pot with him in their apartment.

It was precisely because of that experience that Li Xu felt even more resentful, and his playfulness became even more extreme after returning to the big city.

Li Xu raised his head and asked, "When did my dad call you?"

Ye Ling picked up her phone and pulled up the call log. She pointed at the screen and said, "Just now..."

The call log shows that it was only two minutes ago.

Li Xu took out his cell phone and called his father.

The phone rang three or four times before it was connected. Then the man's deep voice came out: "Hello."

"My cousin asked me to come back for New Year's Day?"

"Ah."

Li Yuqian's answer was brief and unquestionable.

Li Xu was silent for a moment, then he touched his nose with a complicated expression. After a moment, he finally laughed and said helplessly, "It's not even three months yet..."

"Ok?"

Li Yuqian on the other end of the phone sounded a little surprised.

During this period, he left Li Xu in the countryside, but he was not completely unaware of the boy's situation. He did not call him directly to ask, but he still got a lot of information from Ye Ling and the monitoring of his account.

After being placed in the countryside, except for the first week when he was a little restless, his performance has been getting better and better since then...

I'm not too sure about his grades... I heard from Ye Ling that he scored very high in English and ranked first in math in the recent exam. Putting aside the value of these scores, given his personality, it probably wouldn't be difficult for him to find a way to cheat.

But judging from his performance, he really didn't spend much money. In more than two months, he only spent more than 1000 yuan in total. He even wondered if he got the money from other places.

Afterwards, he didn’t threaten to run away anymore, so his performance could be described as… pretty good!

It is precisely because of this that I thought of having him come back for New Year's Day as a reward.

Going to the countryside to hone one's skills is a matter of form over substance. It doesn't really matter whether it's three months or not. What matters is that he clearly understands how happy his life is. Once this goal is achieved, it makes no difference whether it takes three months or two months... We can see now that initial results seem to have been achieved.

So there is another meaning behind asking him to come back on New Year's Day... to see if he has really changed. If the changes are big, we can end this journey early.

Li Xu's answer at this time really surprised him.

Li Yuqian was silent for a moment, then added: "It doesn't count as breaking your promise..."

"That's not what I meant..."

"I'll ask Lao Liu to pick you up tomorrow. I'm a little busy, so I'll hang up now."

Lao Liu is Li Yuqian's driver.

My father has hung up the phone. It seems that this is not a discussion, but a request.

After the two of them finished their call, Ye Ling asked curiously, "Why do you still look unhappy?"

Li Xu smiled perfunctorily, and after a moment he said, "I just thought that my cousin would have to spend New Year's Day here alone..."

Ye Ling was slightly stunned. After a moment, she slowly lowered her head, snorted, and said unhappily, "What's the big deal..."

"Cousin, let's go back together to celebrate New Year's Day."

"That won't work, I still have work to do..."

(End of this chapter)