Rebirth of the Rich Second Generation's Growth Diary

Chapter 80 Invitation

Improving my spoken English is the key task of this semester. My current goal is to be in the top five in the class at the end of the semester, pass the oral test, and successfully enter Class 4 or 5.

To achieve this goal, keep practicing English speaking for more than three hours every day.

It is indeed very useful.

After practicing with Xia Xiaohe and Xia Xiaomiao for a long time, they can recite the practiced scene dialogues like a jingle.

These sentences have reached the point where my brain directly skips the process of translating them from Chinese to English. This is probably what the legendary English thinking is like, right?
Those sentences have almost become like muscle memory, and I can react instantly whether I hear or speak them.

When you want to express something, combine it with the scenario and replace some of the words, and you will get what you want to express.

Being able to feel progress will give you more motivation.

Learning English actually feels like it's becoming an addiction.

The English book and accompanying tapes that An Duoduo gave him also started from simple to difficult, gradually moving from common scenarios to niche professional scenarios.

So after a period of time, the scope of practice has almost covered most of the daily communication scenarios.

So, the three of them began to try to communicate in English at home.

When Li Yuqian came back, Aunt Zhang was cooking upstairs. He could faintly hear the sound of English conversation coming from the study. He looked up curiously.

Aunt Zhang explained, "I don't know what's wrong with the kids these past few days. They keep talking in English, babble and I can't understand a word...haha."

Li Yuqian had just returned from a business trip and was not very clear about what had happened at home during this period. After learning about it in detail, he showed a thoughtful expression.

In fact, in the previous period of time, although I agreed to Li Xu's request to let Xia Xiaohe and his sister live in my house, I still felt a little uncomfortable.

There are many forms of funding, and this is probably the rarest one... Generally speaking, it's just giving money.

However, Xia Xiaomiao is still relatively young, and Xia Xiaohe is at the age of transitioning from junior high school to high school, so let them stay for a while and when they are almost adapted to life in the city, they can be arranged to live in the school dormitory.

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My last life was a mess, and I experienced all kinds of things that I should and shouldn’t have experienced. In this life, at least I have to do things that I should do at this age.

But there are still some people who will come to me.

The young men from the modification shop called several times.

Li Xu had turned it down before for various reasons.

But in their understanding, this matter was caused by their father's strict discipline.

I can't help but complain, your dad is too strict...

Li Xu smiled and didn't argue, following their words: "Yes, yes, it is true that I can't come."

"Then let's at least have a meal together. It's been so long since you came back, and we haven't seen each other..."

The person who called was Lu Zhuofeng, a senior technician in the modification shop who also often did sales work.

If he had developed the skills seven or eight years later and started creating short videos, he would have had a promising future.

In the current environment, the main way to earn income is to deal with people who play with cars.

Li Xu had a close relationship with them before, but it was not enough to make much money for himself...

After all, in this time and space, he doesn't even have a driver's license, so it's naturally impossible for him to buy an expensive car or do any other messy things like modifying it.

But it is precisely because of this that Li Xu admires Lu Zhuofeng a little. He is investing in advance and cultivating customers.

In his previous life, when he was this age, he thought Lu Zhuofeng was very cool. He was involved in mechanics and racing. He often drove the car in the shop, took him for a ride, and told him a lot about mechanics.

In the previous life, Lu Zhuofeng made an "indispensable contribution" to my dropping out of school to pursue car enthusiasts.

Li Xu no longer wanted to find out whether Lu Zhuofeng simply wanted to make friends with him or valued his status as a rich second-generation and was intentionally making friends with him for utilitarian purposes.

In his previous life, when he was down and out, Li Xu no longer had the financial resources to play with Lu Zhuofeng and the others.

Lu Zhuofeng had contacted him several times, but the huge disparity made Li Xu even more embarrassed to deal with them again. Now that the other party invited him out for dinner, Li Xu thought about it and couldn't refuse...

Then let’s go once, which can be regarded as a perfect end to my ridiculous youth in the previous life.

The time is about a weekend.

In the following days, I continued to live a repetitive life.

After dinner every day, Li Xu would take a walk in the community.

Sometimes, Xia Xiaohe would follow, but more often she would help Aunt Zhang clean up the mess after dinner.

Xia Xiaomiao would follow him around the community every day.

There is a basketball hoop in the community, but not many people play basketball there. Li Xu wanted to train Xia Xiaomiao to play basketball, but after playing once, the little guy was obviously not interested in it.

Apart from that, children as old as Xia Xiaomiao are rarely seen in the community.

In the villa community, children of this age have a very full extracurricular schedule and have almost no time for themselves.

When passing by the small pavilion, two old men were playing chess inside.

Li Xu went over to take a look as usual, but unexpectedly the old man saw Xia Xiaomiao next to him, and immediately yelled at Xia Xiaomiao to play another game with him.

Xia Xiaomiao had said before that playing chess with that old man was boring. The last time she played with him, it was purely to help Li Xu get revenge. This time, she didn't have enough motivation and shook her head: "No."

The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "Are you scared?"

Xia Xiaomiao said, "You're not good at playing, and you're too long-winded. I don't want to play with you."

The old man's friends were gloating on the side, but it was just a joke. Li Xu knew that the people living here were either rich or noble, so he couldn't be too rude. He smiled and introduced them to the two old men.

The atmosphere became much more cheerful thanks to Li Xu's mediation. The relationship between the two old men was probably that of good friends who could joke with each other. The old man who lost the chess game to Xia Xiaomiao last time was a little surprised at Xia Xiaomiao's chess skills, and then sincerely invited Xia Xiaomiao to play a game with his friend.

This time, Li Xu patted Xia Xiaomiao on the shoulder and said, "Just let grandpa give you some pointers."

"Haha, it's not really advice, just an exchange of ideas." The old man said modestly.

Seeing what Li Xu had said, Xia Xiaomiao sat down opposite him.

He just added a condition: he had to make a move within twenty seconds before he would come. The old man laughed and agreed to Xia Xiaomiao's request.

Xia Xiaomiao won again, and even won more easily than last time. Because there was a requirement of making a move within twenty seconds, the number of moves that could be calculated was even more limited, and many times he had to play based on his feelings. At this time, the level of both sides depended on their memory of the chess records.

Now both old men were a little shocked. After all, Xia Xiaomiao looked so young. Although he was already in the fourth grade, he was thinner than his peers, probably because the nutrition in the countryside was not very good, which made him look even smaller.

The old man originally wanted to invite Xia Xiaomiao for another game, but it was already late and he had to go back to study, so he said goodbye hastily.

On the way back, Li Xu curiously asked Xia Xiaomiao, "How good was the chess player today?"

Xia Xiaomiao thought about it seriously and shook her head: "I can't tell, but it shouldn't be that good either."

"Would you like to play chess with them?"

Xia Xiaomiao hesitated for a moment, thought about it, and then nodded.

"I kind of like seeing them frown." Xia Xiaomiao hesitated for a moment before speaking in a low voice.

Li Xu burst into laughter.

This is good. If Xia Xiaomiao just stays at home studying all day, it would be too boring. After all, this kid is a genius and a child prodigy. Having two idle old men who seem to have good character and can accompany him to relieve his boredom should be good for Xia Xiaomiao's growth.

Li Xu thought with interest.

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