Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 43 Study Hard
Hu Qiongfang originally thought that transferring schools would take some effort.
She even prepared the money for the treat and gifts.
Unexpectedly, in the evening, the principal Liu Ping came to their home and told her that he had already made arrangements for Jiang Cheng's transfer to another school and asked her to take the transfer consent form and go to the township central primary school to complete the formalities tomorrow.
Hu Qiongfang was startled.
Seeing Liu Ping pedaling his bicycle with sweat all over his forehead, Hu Qiongfang felt embarrassed.
Did she blame Principal Liu wrongly?
Look at Principal Liu, how enthusiastic she is. She was afraid that other schools would not accept Jiang Cheng, so in such a hot day, she even went to the township to help Jiang Cheng transfer schools.
Thinking of this, Hu Qiongfang felt even more embarrassed, and her face turned red with shame.
He hurriedly invited Principal Liu to come in and sit down.
"Principal Liu, you see, this whole thing is my fault. I was too impatient."
"Please come in and sit down. I'll kill a chicken and we can have dinner at my house tonight, okay?"
Liu Ping shook his hand and smiled bitterly, "I have something else to do at school, so I'll go back first. Jiang Cheng's mother, how about we just leave it at that? Let Jiang Cheng study hard at the Central Primary School. This child is smart, and if he studies hard, he will definitely have a bright future."
As a teacher, who doesn’t like children with good grades?
But as the principal of a village primary school, he has too many personal relationships to consider.
To put it bluntly, the reason why those kids who beat people up were so arrogant in school was closely related to the arrogance and domineering behavior of their family members in the village.
If the principal wants to continue working in the village primary school, the people he must not offend are these village tyrants.
We can only let Jiang Cheng suffer.
Hu Qiongfang wanted to persuade him to stay, but Liu Ping was afraid that he would have any evidence against her, so he got on his bicycle and ran away.
It seems that principals of all eras are afraid of being reported by parents.
Hu Qiongfang was extremely embarrassed.
A good person like her would rarely do bad things in her life, and once she did, she would regret it in her heart for at least ten years.
I tossed and turned and didn't sleep well that night.
But it was not easy to tell her children about such things. Hu Qiongfang regretted it all night and could only accept the fact that "she seemed to have wronged a good man."
When I got up the next day, it was bright outside. My daughter had already prepared breakfast and fed the pigs, and my son was sitting in the yard picking eels for fishing.
Hu Qiongfang quickly washed her face, lifted the lid of the pot and started eating.
After eating, Jiang Tian also came back from the fields, barefoot, carrying a shoulder pole with two large buckets hanging on both sides of the pole.
Seeing Hu Qiongfang get up, Jiang Tian smiled.
"Mom, why don't you get some more sleep?"
Hu Qiongfang glared at her daughter and said, "I was half asleep, why didn't you wake me up?"
Jiang Tian chuckled: "Children can sleep in, so why can't mothers sleep in occasionally?"
"Mom, think about it. Since you married into this family over ten years ago, how many times have you slept in?"
"Chengcheng and I have grown up and can help the family now. Mom, you have to learn to be lazy and relax a little."
"Don't even think about sleeping in. When Chengcheng gets admitted to university, our family can travel to the city where Chengcheng goes to school."
She shouldn't have said that.
Sure enough, when Hu Qiongfang heard her daughter say that the whole family would go traveling together after her younger brother was admitted to university, she started nagging her again.
"You also know that your brother can get into college? What about you? As a sister, can't you fight for your dignity and set an example for your brother?"
"If both of you siblings can get into college, I won't have to worry about sleeping in for the rest of my life."
Jiang Cheng was holding back his laughter.
Jiang Tian glared at her brother and reluctantly agreed to her mother that starting tomorrow, she would set aside at least three hours every day to read and do homework with her brother.
After sending her daughter to read and do homework with her son, Hu Qiongfang rolled up her sleeves and took the eel fishing fishing rod out of the bucket.
Looking at the fishing hooks that were almost half empty, Hu Qiongfang sighed secretly.
I felt a little regretful before, thinking that I had lost this no-cost business and was at a loss.
But now thinking back, it’s not like we can catch all the eels in the fields. We can only catch them for a few months each year, and the income is not stable.
After thinking about it, I think it is better to open a noodle shop in a provincial road, which is a long-term business.
Although they will certainly encounter many difficulties in the beginning, as long as their noodles taste good and are affordable, the money they earn every year should be enough to support their family of three over time.
The most important thing is that last time Wang Chunjuan asked her to become sworn brothers with her, she told her that she had a sworn sister who ran a tailor shop in the town. After her husband died, she was bullied by relatives in her hometown in the countryside and could not make a living, so she brought her children to the town to open a tailor shop.
At the beginning, she set up a sewing machine on the street. She was lucky enough to catch up with the town's unified school uniform change. Well, she didn't know which leader took the profit from it, and the quality of the replacement uniforms was very poor.
How bad is it? Many naughty and active boys wore their new school uniforms for less than three days, and some of them had their armpits unraveled, some had their zippers broken, and some were even more unlucky, when they were in physical education class, their crotch ripped open with a "sizzling" sound.
The student was so angry that he cried.
In short, after school during that period, parents would curse and resignedly take their children to the streets to find someone to mend and replace their zippers.
Later, the sister opened a tailor shop in the town using her skills.
The domestic ready-made clothing market had already developed in the 1980s, but in small places like theirs, people still preferred to cut their own cloth and make their own clothes.
The main reason is that in this era, even people living in towns often have to work in the fields. Those kind of stiff ready-made clothes are not only not resistant to dirt but also uncomfortable to wear when working in the fields. Most importantly, they are expensive, so most people are reluctant to wear such clothes when working in the fields.
At that time, Hu Qiongfang thought that since the tailor shop could support the sister and her two children, then she could open a noodle shop or something. If nothing else, at least the family of three would never have to worry about food and drink.
While thinking about this, Hu Qiongfang sorted out the eel fishing hooks in the two buckets.
The last eel we picked was weighed on the scale and found to be less than ten kilograms.
Fortunately, she went to the river bank and dug for half a day yesterday, and brought back more than 20 kilograms of loaches. At 50 cents per kilogram, she could sell them for more than ten yuan.
Thinking that this was money he had picked up for free, Hu Qiongfang became very motivated. He washed the eel fishing hook and placed it under the eaves, then went out with a small bucket to dig for earthworms.
Before leaving, he did not forget to remind his son:
"Look at your sister and tell her to study hard. I think she's going to go wild if she drops out of school."
Jiang Tian: “…”
It seems that Ms. Hu is still determined to let her go to college.
