Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 15 Making money is the happiest thing
Just when his mother and sister were at a stalemate, the god-assisted classmate Jiang Cheng spoke up -
"Mom, why don't we let my eldest sister take a year off from school? Otherwise, she won't be able to catch up in the second year of junior high school, and it will be even more troublesome in the third year."
"I'm already studying algebra for the first grade. Once I understand it, I'll give my elder sister extra lessons and try to get her to score above 80 in algebra."
"This way, when she returns to school next year, she won't have to spend too much time on algebra. Once she gets the new books, I'll study physics and geometry with my elder sister."
"Big sister is not stupid, but there are many traps in the junior high school science questions. Big sister is honest and can't understand it. It's better for her to take a year off. When I learn it, I will tutor her and try to get her into a regular high school."
Jiang Cheng, like a little adult, carefully planned the education path for his elder sister.
I don’t know where on earth a little kid in the fourth grade got these “secrets to getting into college” from.
Is this what they call a top student’s innate skill?
Hu Qiongfang listened carefully to her son's analysis and nodded in agreement.
What she didn't tell her children was that she wasn't a good student when she was young.
After three years of schooling, I still often mispronounce the twenty-six pinyin letters.
commit a sin!
My daughter must have inherited her poor academic genes!
Thinking of this, Hu Qiongfang hugged her daughter with a guilty conscience, patted her head, and comforted Jiang Tian:
"It's better to take a year off from school and study the books that you didn't understand in the first grade at home."
"Tell your brother to study algebra and other things! He will teach you after he has mastered it."
Jiang Tian: “…”
Your daughter is not such a bad student.
Forget it, as long as her mother agrees to let her take a year off from school.
In this way, Hu Qiongfang accompanied Jiang Tian to the school to go through the procedures for taking a leave of absence.
The head teacher wanted to give some more advice, but then he thought of the rumors he had heard recently, saying that two people in the Jiang family died at once, and then the family split up. Now there are only three people left in Jiang Tian's family, mother and son.
It was probably because Hu Qiongfang was alone, having to farm and take care of the family's food, drink, and toilet, she was too busy to handle it all, so she had to let her eldest daughter drop out of school and go home to help.
This kind of thing is quite common in this era.
Not to mention taking a leave of absence to go home to help, some got engaged when they were just in junior high school, and their in-laws urged them to get married as soon as possible, and some even dropped out of school to get married.
Thinking of this, the head teacher sighed heavily and helped to stamp the documents and complete the formalities.
Before leaving, he also reminded Jiang Tian that if the family was not busy, it would be best for her to overcome the difficulties and get her junior high school diploma, so that even if she went out to work in the future, she would at least have a junior high school diploma.
I have to say that teachers of this era really care about their students.
Jiang Tian nodded obediently and agreed.
Unexpectedly, when she walked out of the principal's office and reached the door of their class, several classmates suddenly rushed out and surrounded her.
"Jiang Tian, you really can't come to school?"
"If it's about harvesting rice during the busy farming season, don't worry. We can organize our classmates to harvest rice for your family when the time comes."
"That's right. Your family doesn't have many acres of land. If everyone helps, we can finish mowing it soon. Why don't you tell your aunt and come back to class?"
The classmates were chattering.
Hu Qiongfang couldn't help but waver.
Jiang Tian was very touched, and then resolutely rejected her classmates' kindness.
"My dad just passed away, and my mom and brother are the only ones at home. I'm worried..."
A group of female classmates couldn't help crying.
It is not easy for rural girls to finish junior high school. They all think that since Jiang Tian is leaving and taking a leave of absence, she will most likely not come back to continue her studies.
Why is it that when something happens at home, it is always the girls who are sacrificed?
Jiang Tian felt her scalp tingling from hearing their crying, so she quickly pulled her mother and ran away.
If she stays any longer, her mother will definitely not want her to drop out of school.
Although the house felt a little empty with two fewer people, the three of them, mother and children, depended on each other, and the family atmosphere was actually much warmer than when Wang Chunmei was alive.
Because they had to "observe mourning", they didn't even need to attend the usual dinner parties among relatives, and their daily lives were very regular.
In the morning, Hu Qiongfang gets up before dawn to make breakfast, cook pig food and feed chickens.
The "pig that crushed Wang Chunmei to death" had already killed the guests during the preparations for Wang Chunmei's funeral, so it could be said that his death was not unjust.
There are two pigs left in the family now.
In this day and age, rural people are reluctant to spend money on pig feed. They go to pick pig grass every day, cook it, mix it evenly with rice bran and wheat bran, and feed it to the pigs after it cools down .
Sometimes we add some chopped sweet potatoes or potatoes to improve the pigs' diet.
When the big pig at home started to grunt and eat, Jiang Tian and Jiang Cheng also got up.
After a quick wash, Jiang Tian began to sweep the yard, wipe the table, and fill the kettle with boiled water for her brother.
Jiang Cheng went to the kitchen to take out the red bean porridge cooked in the big pot. When he saw two cooked eggs beside it, he immediately smiled.
When Wang Chunmei was alive, she was reluctant to boil eggs for her and her brother.
Jiang Cheng ate a big bowl of sticky red bean porridge with pickled vegetables and fermented soybeans After he was full, he put on his schoolbag and water bottle and ran to school.
Before leaving, he did not forget to remind his sister to review the first unit of algebra, and he would give Jiang Tian some questions to do in the evening.
What a sin! She has already dropped out of school, why does she still need to read and review?
Making money is still the happiest thingヽ(✿ﾟ▽ﾟ)ノ
After breakfast, Jiang Tian carried the family's backpack for collecting pig grass, and Hu Qiongfang took the shoulder pole and sickle, carried the bucket, and the mother and daughter went to the fields together to collect eels for fishing.
After the funeral at home, Jiang Tian started fishing for eels again.
There is no way. There are too few ways to make money in rural areas now. Other businesses require capital, and only fishing for eels is a "zero-cost" business.
After a summer, the eels and loaches in the fields were fat and strong.
Today, the mother and daughter were lucky. They used dozens of eel fishing hooks and caught more than 20 eels, and they were quite big.
There was a fish cage placed in the ditch, and a lot of loaches and small river shrimps were also put into it.
Jiang Tian weighed the bucket of eels and couldn't help but curl up the corners of her mouth.
If only I could gain so much every day.
She asked someone and learned that the vendors who collected eels from the countryside and took them to the provincial capital could sell them for a maximum of three yuan per pound.
The provincial road is close to the countryside, so the price is not as high as in the provincial capital, but it should be no problem to sell it at one yuan and fifty cents per catty.
This time, Jiang Tian decided to save up for two more days and take a bus to the provincial road to try her luck.
If she could find a fixed sales channel, she wouldn't have to do anything else. She could earn dozens of dollars a day just by fishing for eels.
With the current prices in rural areas, a few dozen yuan is enough for the living expenses of the mother and her two children for a week.
And it doesn't cost anything, it's so delicious.
