Under the dim light, Honghong cleaned Yueyue's face and hands. Turning around, she saw Su Chen carving a small wooden figure with a hatchet. She stirred with her hands and said hesitantly, "Dad..."
Su Chen raised his head: "What's wrong, Honghong?"
Honghong laughed dryly and her voice became even quieter.
"Dad, I want to go to school."
Su Chen paused, and finally remembered that the original owner had been living in a muddle all these years, his family was a mess, and he was struggling to make ends meet, let alone sending his children to school.
However, it is not just their family, the entire Niuwei Village is not rich, and the registration fee for school each semester is more than 100 yuan. Even if the villagers have the conditions, they usually only send boys to school. Girls like Honghong stay at home to help with housework.
This is caused by the serious preference for boys over girls.
Of course, there is also a very realistic reason - there is no primary school in the village.
If children from Niuwei Village want to go to school, they have to go to Liangshan Town. Therefore, the children who want to go to school have to live with relatives in the town. Otherwise, they will be exhausted from crossing the two mountains every day.
Su Chen sighed inwardly as he thought about it.
After hesitating for a moment, he nodded: "Dad will send you to school after the New Year. Not only you, but your younger brother Apeng is also old enough to go to school."
Honghong was surprised: "Really?"
"Why would I lie to you?"
"Yeah!" Honghong jumped up and happily went to look through the cupboard. "I want to sew a schoolbag and one for my brother too."
Su Chen was stunned, his eyes full of pity.
Even in the world where ghost energy was revived, going to school was a very common thing. The only difference was that there were a few more heavenly masters guarding the school. Who would have thought that in this beautiful world, going to school would be so difficult?
If he hadn't been able to make some money, I'm afraid that Apeng and Acai would not be able to go to school and would have been illiterate.
Liu Chunhua heard the noise and came over to take a look. She held the awakened little Ayun and touched the diaper. Seeing that it was not wet, she looked at Honghong: "Honghong, what are you doing?"
"Grandma, Dad said he would send my brother and me to school."
"I want to sew a schoolbag, a beautiful schoolbag."
Liu Chunhua looked at Su Chen in surprise: "Achen, you are crazy, Honghong is a little girl..."
She couldn't continue speaking halfway through.
Thinking of her youngest son constantly telling her not to be partial, Liu Chunhua still felt a little unwilling: "Achen, it's not easy for you to make money..."
So just send Apeng to school. Honghong is a money-loser, why should she go to school?
Although Liu Chunhua didn't say these words out loud, Su Chen could see it.
"Mom, no matter how hard it is to make money, the children still need to go to school. Besides, one or two hundred dollars is not a big deal."
Liu Chunhua snorted softly, "Girls are stupid. They can't learn it even if they try. Don't waste your money later."
"Really? But I heard from my third sister that Xuan's grades are pretty good."
Liu Chunhua was blocked every time she spoke, so she simply kept silent and stood there with a stern face.
Su Chen ignored her and continued carving the figurine.
Seeing that he remained silent for a long time, Liu Chunhua softened her tone and said, "Then let Honghong and Apeng live at your third sister's house?"
Su Chen continued, "Mom, let's talk about it after the New Year. My third sister advised me to rent a house in the city before. I thought that if I made more money before the New Year, I could bring you all to the city after the New Year. Then you can go to school in the city and avoid having to live with my third sister at her house to bother her."
Liu Chunhua waved her hands: "I won't go. If I go, who will farm the land at home?"
"Besides, it costs too much to go to the city, and Honghong and Apeng can't go either."
Su Chen fell silent again.
Liu Chunhua was very nervous when she saw this.
After a long while, he asked, "Ah Chen, how much does it cost to rent a house in the city?"
Su Chen remained silent.
Liu Chunhua sighed, put Xiao Ayun down, stood up, and said, "Anyway, I don't like going to the city."
Soon, the sound of conversation came from the next room. Su Chen raised his eyebrows and continued to carve the little figure.
However, when he thought of what Lin Jingchun said about the ghost wall in Longshan, his heart sank.
With my current level of skill, it would be difficult for me to go up there. No, I have to find some magical tools tomorrow. If I really don't have any, lightning-struck wood or something will do.
He slept well all night, while Lin Jingyu and A Biao ran around on Chunming Street almost all night and finally set up a platform for the ritual at Ye Ji Noodle House.
As soon as the white banner was hung, someone came over and asked, "Ayu, what's going on?"
"Oh, today, A Biao and I were worried that Uncle Ye hadn't waited for A Wang to come back for so long, so we brought my buddies here to do some calculations for Uncle Ye. Then, we went out and found A Wang's body. Uncle Ye was so sad that he followed him. Before he left, he asked me to buy the store and buy him a cemetery and move his grave. If there's any money left, I'll donate it to the orphanage. It's great that you saw this, Uncle Qiao. Uncle Ye has already signed the deed to buy the store. I'll calculate the money spent on the funeral and write it down for you to see. You can also help me supervise it."
Old Qiao immediately waved his hands. "Hey, I can't trust anyone, but I can't trust you, Ah Yu. Everyone knows that most of Cuicheng used to belong to your Lin family. Now many of the houses on this street are yours. Are you short of this little money?"
Lin Jingyu laughed dryly: "It's true that there is no shortage, but Uncle Ye has a nephew who came to cause trouble today. Isn't this what he is worried about?"
"What are you afraid of? If he dares to make trouble again, I'll have your aunt throw a bucket of urine on him!"
"Hey, then I'd like to thank Uncle Qiao first."
The old neighbors in Chunming Street spread the news one after another and sighed over the death of Old Ye.
Old Liao was among them. He sighed at the end, "Well, it's good that he's gone. Old Ye has been waiting for his son all his life. He opened the noodle shop for Awang, thinking of making money to build a family business for Awang. Now Awang is gone, there's no point in him living anymore."
"Huh? Why did I hear Ah Biao say that Ah Wang was killed by that stinky woman?"
"Really? That's why Old Ye said that he would move Old Ye's ex-wife here so that the family can be reunited."
"But we can't let that bitch go either."
Several young people in the group immediately looked at each other and quietly slipped away.
The next morning, when Su Chen arrived at Lao Zhang's stall, he heard that there was a disturbance in the cemetery west of Cuicheng last night and a tomb was smashed.
Old Zhang shook his head. "Young people these days, they either dye their hair yellow, ride motorcycles, or just shake their heads. They never do anything serious."
A middle-aged man sitting opposite Su Chen said angrily: "Even if you don't do your job, you can't go and smash up the cemetery. If you disturb their sleep, who knows if they will come to settle the score with you at night?"
Lao Zhang said happily, "Young people are hot-tempered, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find one."
As soon as these words came out, the middle-aged man's face changed and he sighed: "Yes, when I was young, I was also fearless, but when I got older, hey..."
Old Zhang saw that he was quite talkative, so he took a closer look at him and asked, "You look unfamiliar. Are you from Chunming Street?"
The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly: "I'm from the lower reaches of the city. I heard there's a fortune teller on Chunming Street who's very good at it. Come over and take a look."
When Old Zhang heard this, he was immediately delighted and said to Su Chen, "Young man, what a coincidence! Business is coming to your door!"