Besides, apart from living next door to the Lu family, the Gu family is some distance away from other families, so even if they cook every day, they won’t travel that far.

Wang Hong naturally knew that Jiang Mengxue was just being polite.

Just by looking at the complexions of Jiang Mengxue and Gu Qingbei, you can tell that they are living a good life.

But everyone likes to hear nice words.

Their family's conditions cannot be compared with Gu's. She also took great pains to prepare today's meal and even went to the vegetable market to buy a chicken for three dollars and fifty cents.

Three dollars and fifty cents is their family's weekly expenses.

The dishes on the table today have been served at her house for half a month, so she was happy that Jiang Mengxue was so supportive.

The two children of the Li family, Li Hongjun and Li Hongqi, look quite old now.

Li Hongjun looks to be about sixteen or seventeen years old.

Jiang Mengxue still remembered that when she saw them a few years ago, they were still naughty boys. She didn't expect that time had passed so quickly and they had grown up.

"Hongjun is not young anymore, is he still in school?"

Li Hongjun's cheeks turned red after being told that. He buried his head in eating and was too embarrassed to look up.

Wang Hong looked at him with a look of disappointment on her face.

"Why would I go to school? I never passed the exams. I repeated last year and it's still the same this year.

The teacher came to our house and told us not to waste the money and to find something to do when we get home."

Seeing that Li Hongjun, a grown man, was so embarrassed by what he said, Jiang Mengxue quickly came to the rescue.

"Don't say that, sister-in-law. Everyone has different strengths. Some people are suited to studying, but some people are not necessarily born with good martial arts skills.

Everyone has strengths, and they don’t necessarily have to be about studying.”

Gu Qingbei also said on the side: "Sister-in-law, didn't Brother Qiang say that he would be sent to the Red Army to serve as a soldier? Maybe he will be a promising person in the future, and he doesn't necessarily have to focus on studying.

However, if you want to keep developing, you must persist in learning. I joined the army before I finished junior high school. After joining the army, I was still required to learn various knowledge.

If you can't read and have no knowledge, you can only be a soldier all your life. It's impossible for your superiors to write the tasks assigned to you on paper and you can't even understand them.

What's more, some of the new weapons now have manuals that you don't even know the words in, so you won't even have a chance to use them."

Li Qiang looked at his son's starry eyes and knew that he was very interested in joining the army.

It has always been a regret for him that he retired due to injury. If his son can inherit his mission, joining the army would be a good choice.

"Did you hear that? Just because you join the army doesn't mean you don't have to study anymore.

When you are in the army you have to write reports all the time.

Have you ever seen an illiterate general? A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.

You don't want to be a soldier for a few years and then be discharged, right? Then you'd be worse off than your father was back then. I at least managed to become a company commander."