GBP Chapter 570 Surely our ancestral graves can't just keep emitting auspicious smoke?
Chapter 570 Surely our ancestral graves can't just keep emitting auspicious smoke?
My dad: He got into East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai from Taizhou, Zhejiang.
My mom: She got into East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai from Taizhou, Zhejiang.
Me: Struggling desperately, hanging on the edge of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, neither here nor there.
My dad became a dentist, my mom became a head nurse, my sister became a pediatrician, and I'm currently a student at a mediocre university majoring in tourism, living off my parents and not working.
My dad: Village cook + expert plumber
My mom: Top salesperson in her department
Me: I'm good at cooking, but I offend people with my words.
My grandfather: Leader of an oil company
My grandmother: Director of the laboratory at a pharmaceutical factory
My father: Master's degree from Jilin University, Director of the Property Rights Bureau
My mom: After retiring from the Education Bureau, she became a store manager in a shopping mall (she can inventory more than a thousand items herself).
Me: I got 12 points in math, and I absolutely refuse to continue studying after finishing vocational school.
My dad: Postgraduate, Senior Engineer, General Agent for China Region of a Trading Company
My mom: Graduate student, Senior Engineer
Me: I'm a freeloader.
My mom knows how to farm and grow vegetables; she shares what she can't finish with the neighbors. Everything I plant dies—potatoes, water spinach, garlic—and every company I work for goes bankrupt.
My mother comes from a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners and Taoist priests.
My dad is a shrewd businessman.
The eldest brother is a shrewd businessman and a Harvard graduate.
Second brother: Psychology degree from Tsinghua University + Psychological Counselor
I'm a web novelist who's utterly useless except for my Chinese writing skills + I have bipolar disorder + I've had poor health since childhood + a Taoist priest who knows tarot [smile]
My dad visits our ancestral graves eight times a year.
"My dad's a factory worker, my mom's a farmer, and I'm a freeloader (don't ask why I don't go find a job; I'd like to, but unfortunately, I don't have good health, so I'm destined to be bedridden [smile])"
"My grandfather graduated from Tianjin University and became a senior engineer. My grandmother came from Northeast China to study in Beijing and eventually went to work in a power plant. My great-grandfather attended Beijing Agricultural University. My father could have gone to university but didn't want to, so he went to a junior college. I scored 8 in physics and 17 in math in high school."
"My maternal grandparents graduated from a top-tier university (985 university) and worked as department heads in a hospital. My paternal grandfather was an engineer and my paternal grandmother was a teacher. My parents both have vocational school diplomas [smile]"
My maternal grandmother used to press the elevator button at the hospital before she retired.
Mom: She failed the entrance exam for nursing school and went to a vocational school instead.
Me: I filled all my college application forms with medicine.
He publicly claimed to be from a family of doctors, with three generations working in the pharmaceutical industry. [doge]
"My dad owns a factory, my mom owns a factory, and I'm livestreaming to ask for donations."
My mom: English teacher.
My dad: A math, physics, and chemistry teacher.
I've never passed English, math, physics, or chemistry... but I'm first or second in Chinese in the whole class [laughing and crying emojis]
My grandparents, parents, and teachers
When I was a child: I will never want to be a teacher!
Currently working as a teacher [Golden Potato]
"My dad goes to the Party School. I got 36 points on my political exam in my first year of high school, which made my dad so angry that he asked me if I was a spy [hehe]."
"My parents went from a small county and rural area in Hebei to big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, but I got into a university back home [hug]."
"I know someone whose parents are both over seventy years old. They were both graduates of top universities back then, but their son only graduated from a vocational college and is now a doctor at a community hospital in his forties because he hasn't passed the medical licensing exam yet. [smile][smile][smile]"
"Grandpa: Special-grade math teacher and principal (during his tenure, he transformed a rural high school that was about to be merged into the second-best in the city)."
Father: Director of Moral Education Office
Mom: Subject Group Leader
Me: All I thought about at school was playing. I relied on what I learned in elementary school in middle school, and I relied on what I learned in middle school in high school.
"My maternal grandfather: a soldier who was transferred to the government; my maternal grandmother: ran a restaurant. My mother: a doctor; my father: a soldier who was transferred to the government. Me: took the civil service exam twice and finally got a job in a state-owned enterprise [laughing and crying]. My father even tried to make up for it by saying the questions must have been too difficult."
"My grandpa has an A1 license, my dad has a B2 license, I failed my driving test twice (part 2), and even ran a traffic accident and failed my driving test (part 3) once [crying emoji]"
Under the celestial canopy, the ancestors vied to complain about their disappointing children: You know what? If my kid didn't look exactly like me, I'd really doubt if he was my biological son.
While not everyone in my family is exceptionally intelligent, they are all shrewd and intelligent, and none of them are dull-witted. In fact, one of our ancestors even passed the imperial examination and was a scholar, enjoying great prestige.
And what about him? Just like that landlord's foolish son, he was cheated out of fifty taels by a woman on the street who had lost her father and was selling herself. We all said she was a swindler. How could a woman who had no money and had lost her father afford clothes made of that kind of material?
But he insisted that wasn't true, that she was just a pitiful, weak woman, and so on and so forth—I couldn't be bothered to listen to any of it.
During the Qin Dynasty.
Who said no?
Even Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, looked worried. "I unified the world, destroyed the six states, built the Great Wall, standardized weights and measures, and created an indelible legacy. I accept being called a tyrant. But what worries me is that none of my sons are like me."
My only son, whom I valued, repeatedly opposed me in court, arguing that the laws I promulgated were too cruel and inhumane.
This is not only a provocation to the monarch, but also a provocation to Li Si, a trusted minister on whom I rely. The words I speak are opposed by him, and my dignity is trampled on like a shoe insole.
After my death, I entrusted Meng Tian with my trust, the army to him, and the Qin Dynasty to him. Yet he believed a mere forged edict and committed suicide?! This is utterly unacceptable; I cannot rest in peace in the afterlife! Has he been thoroughly corrupted by Confucianism?
I knew there wasn't a single good Confucian scholar among them. Back then, killing a few of my sorcerers who spread rumors about me was framed as "burning books and burying scholars alive." Now I'm even instructing my son to always remember that a ruler should be benevolent and lenient. What does that make me then? A bloodthirsty killer, a harsh enforcer of laws, harming the people, right? ^_^
It's all their fault for corrupting my son.
As for Huhai, let's not even mention him. This time, I won't die such an embarrassing death on abalone, nor will I give him any chance to ascend the throne and wreak havoc on my Great Qin and my empire.