Chapter 4: Reasoning is amazing
The kindergarten's schedule is very relaxed, with five minutes of class and two hours of play.
Xu Cheng remembered the lollipop in his pocket and stuffed it into Lin Wanzhou's hand. "This is for you. I promised you this yesterday."
"Yeah~", Lin Wanzhou happily turned around after getting the lollipop. Two cute dimples appeared on her face, revealing a smile as bright as the rising sun.
"You actually still remember it. I had totally forgotten about it! Thank you, Xu Cheng!"
She tore open the candy wrapper, put the lollipop in her mouth, and with a look of happiness on her face, she started spinning around again.
Xu Cheng was watching from the side, looking helpless, and you didn't feel dizzy.
"Is it tasty?"
"Yeah, good!" Lin Wanzhou nodded vigorously, then thought of something and jumped in front of Xu Cheng like a little rabbit. He handed the lollipop he had eaten to Xu Cheng's mouth. Xu Cheng could even smell the mango aroma on the lollipop.
"Mom said that good things should be shared. Xu Cheng, let's eat together!"
"Ahem, eat it yourself. I'll read the book for a while and return it to you after school."
Xu Cheng pushed her arm away, climbed onto a chair beside him, and started reading the Sherlock Holmes collection by spreading it flat on his lap.
Lin Wanzhou moved closer to Xu Cheng again, staring at Xu Cheng with wide eyes, then looking at the book, with disbelief written all over his face.
"Wow! Xu Cheng, you are so amazing! You can read books! I can't understand this at all!"
Xu Cheng was helpless. Those who knew knew that this was a kindergarten, while those who didn’t thought he had joined a praise group.
"Xu Cheng, what is this book about? Can you read it to me?" Lin Wanzhou squatted in front of Xu Cheng again, holding his head and looking at Xu Cheng with watery eyes, which made him feel embarrassed.
"It's about reasoning."
"What is reasoning?"
"Reasoning is to skip all the reasoning processes and only explain the starting point and conclusion to the other party. Although this method seems simple and crude, it is enough to achieve amazing results."
Seeing the confusion in Lin Wanzhou's eyes, Xu Cheng explained again, "It's just...if you lose something, I can help you find it through reasoning."
Lin Wanzhou didn't know if he understood or not, his eyes were full of excitement, "Wow! That's amazing!"
Don't mention it, seeing that the future female academic master actually admired him so much, Xu Cheng actually felt a little proud in his heart...
"Xu Cheng, my socks are lost. Please use reasoning to help me find them!" Lin Wanzhou said in a baby voice.
Xu Cheng looked at her feet and saw a pair of small white socks on Lin Wanzhou's feet.
"It's not lost. Isn't it on your foot?"
Lin Wanzhou didn't answer. She sat down on the ground and took a long time to take off her socks. Then she rolled them into a ball and threw them aside, pouting and pulling at Xu Cheng's arm pitifully.
"Lost..."
Xu Cheng: …
The abacus beads are falling on my face!
He walked over reluctantly, bent down and picked it up from the ground, "Here, here you go."
"Wow, the reasoning is amazing!"
Lin Wanzhou's face flushed red, and she looked at Xu Cheng with admiration in her eyes, which made Xu Cheng feel embarrassed.
No, I am going to be lost in the feeling of being worshipped by a young academic master...
He suddenly remembered that Kudo Washing Machine's first reasoning was to attract the attention of Xiaolan in the Sakura class. Xiaolan's admiring eyes at that time were exactly the same as Lin Wanzhou's eyes at this moment.
No wonder this guy is obsessed with reasoning...
Lin Wanzhou clumsily put on her socks, but her short arms couldn't reach her feet, and when she managed to put them on, they were crooked. Xu Cheng had no choice but to squat in front of her and carefully help her put her shiny white socks back on.
"That's good..."
"Eh? You're still taking it off!"
…
In the blink of an eye, school was over and He Ying came to pick up Xu Cheng again.
My mother was obviously in a good mood today. When she came, she was holding a string of candied haws in her hand. She said she bought one when she saw it on the road. It was sweet and sour and delicious. It was crisp and cool when you took a bite in the sunny weather. The children in the next class were so greedy that they cried.
"Chencheng, what do you want to eat tonight?"
Xu Cheng's mind moved, and he asked, "Mom, is there anything happy today?"
He Ying looked very happy, "Mom will be promoted soon, and I will be able to make more money and buy you more toys."
Xu Cheng is a sober person. He knows that even if Baby makes more money as an adult, she will never buy more toys for herself. But she is still happy.
Opportunity at home has arrived!
The so-called mission passed down from generation to generation, the public institution that Xu Cheng had tried his best to get into, was easily assigned to by his mother He Ying as soon as she graduated. The job was at Jinghai Haixing Publishing House.
As a child, Xu Cheng felt that his mother He Ying's job was too hard and he felt sorry for her. It was not until he became a social animal for many years that he came to his senses. Four words were enough to summarize his mother's job:
Paid shit.
As the new century approached, publishing houses throughout the country began to reform their organizational systems. This change brought opportunities to He Ying. Perhaps because she got along well with her colleagues, she was appreciated by her superiors and had a good chance of being promoted to the distribution department as a regional manager.
The distribution department is the sales department in the popular sense, but it sounds better to call it the distribution department in a market economy.
As the saying goes, if you want to make it in life you need power and background, and this is even more true within the system. For an ordinary family like Xu Cheng's, it is a great blessing for He Ying to have such an opportunity!
What’s more important is that after my mom gets promoted and her salary increases, my dad will definitely have more confidence to give it a try.
Save dad in a roundabout way and kill two birds with one stone!
For the sake of his own bright future, Xu Cheng had to help his mother take this step smoothly no matter what.
Lu Xun once said: "Never open champagne at halftime."
He Ying obviously didn't understand this principle. She thought she had secured victory after hearing some news from her superiors, and planned to hold a celebration party at home that evening. Little did she know that victory was like a dandelion on a hillside...
If the original timeline had been followed, the final result of this incident would have been that my mother would have been quietly squeezed out by the airborne connections because of her "lack of ability"...
The bicycle stopped at Caishikou. He Ying lifted Xu Cheng off the back seat like a chicken, and then took out a huge sum of twenty yuan from her bag and handed it to him.
"Chengcheng, Mommy's going to buy some food. Go to the delicatessen and buy what you want to eat tonight."
Xu Cheng nodded, walked past the fish stall that smelled strongly of fish, then turned around the meat stall that displayed large pieces of white meat, and casually glanced at the small blackboard in front of the meat stall - raw pork was 4 yuan per pound.
Xu Cheng was shocked. The prices were too shocking!
Using pork as an example, if pork costs 19 yuan per pound in 25 years, then 40,000 yuan in 2023 is equivalent to a millionaire in 1998.
Of course… measuring it with a house is a different story.
While daydreaming, I arrived at the door of the delicatessen.
The meat stall and the cooked food stall are very close to each other, just around the corner. There are several large thermos barrels on the stall, and the salty aroma of braised meat wafts out of the barrels. There is also a sign in front, with the dishes written crookedly on the top - pig head, pig ears, pig feet... and the prices are marked at the back.
"Boss, boss, I want two pig's feet!" Xu Cheng said with a childish face.
He stood in front of the stall, with his head just showing. The middle-aged stall owner in a white apron saw him, stood up, took out two pig's feet from the thermos bucket, put them on a very traditional beam scale, measured them one by one, and put them in front of Xu Cheng as a gesture.
"Little friend, these two pieces of pig's feet weigh a total of one catty and six ounces. Braised pig's feet are nine yuan a catty, and six ounces...sixty-nine seventy-three...six ounces is seven dollars and thirty-three. Nine dollars plus seven dollars and thirty-three, the total is sixteen dollars and thirty-three."
Xu Cheng reached into his trouser pocket and was about to take out money when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He counted with his fingers...
Sixty-nine seventy-three...
"My mother gave birth to me."
