Cleaning fishing nets will cost five yuan each, repairs will be charged separately. Do you two think this price is reasonable? If so, we'll use this price from now on!

Uncle Erhu nodded: "Okay, we'll take Chen Hong's job. The price is reasonable. Let's settle it like this. Chen Hong can call me in advance when she returns to Hong Kong, and we'll wait for her at the pier."

Also, you don't need to cook for us anymore. We've been doing this for a long time, so don't be shy, just eat your own food!

"From now on, I won't take care of your dinners, and I can't always ask Aunt Guo to help with cooking. But I'll charge you 30 yuan per person for sorting and preparing the fish, since my family has a lot of fish and it's a bit tiring."

Uncle Village Chief clapped his hands: "That's best, it's convenient for everyone. From now on, after Erhu finishes his work on the boat, he can just push the fishing nets to your house to clean and prepare them."

If any are broken, just fix them and report it to Chen Hong so she can charge extra. "How do you settle accounts?" the village chief asked Chen Hong.

"Let's settle on a per-job basis. Our job depends on the weather, and we can't go out to sea every day, so it's not appropriate to settle on a monthly basis."

After discussing it, Uncle Erhu simply pushed the fishing net home in a small cart, and the village elder and his wife followed along.

Grandpa Yu Yang was also going home, so Chen Hong and Yu Yang took him back to his old house.

And so, Chen Hong's life of fishing with nets got on track. As long as the weather was good, Chen Hong would go out to sea to fish.

She is highly skilled at operating the fishing boat and casting nets by herself, and with the help of the water, her bait has a fatal attraction for fish and shrimp.

Even if you can't find a school of fish, you can still gather a new school of fish. Every time you go out to sea, you have a full harvest, and you can also store a lot of precious fish in your space.

She planned to sell during the National Day holiday, when fish prices would rise again, allowing her to make another profit.

After a busy two weeks, on the evening of September 20th, Mom called Chen Hong to tell her that her sister-in-law had given birth to a baby girl. They were planning to hold a celebration for the baby's one-month birthday and would let her know the date in advance so she could make arrangements at home and rush back to Jinan for the celebration.

Knowing that her sweet-talking niece from her past life had returned, Chen Hong gave a wry smile. The children were all good, but what kind of people could they possibly become, spoiled by their parents and grandmother? Heh…

With a month left before returning to Jinan, after discussing it with Yu Yang, the mother and son decided to enroll in the town's central kindergarten, planning to spend the year there to adapt. Next year, they can directly enroll in the central primary school, where they will be familiar with the surrounding classmates and will be able to better adapt to and transition to primary school life.

Yu Yang didn't want to be separated from Xiao Hao and Wang Xin, so Chen Hong called Xiao Hao and Wang Xin's mothers and asked them to come and discuss the children's kindergarten enrollment this year.

Not only the mothers came, but Xiao Hao's father also came, showing that parents still value their children's schooling.

The children had been attending the village kindergarten for two years. Although the classrooms were in poor condition, using a warehouse next to the village committee, the buildings were at least brick and tile, spacious and sturdy, and kept dry and leak-proof.

The monthly after-school care fee is only thirty yuan, but the teacher is the daughter of the village accountant, who only has a junior high school education. The villagers didn't expect her to teach anything; they just wanted her to take good care of the children, recognize thirty to fifty simple characters, and be able to count up to fifty.

When farmers go out to sea for the harvest, the children have somewhere to go. But unexpectedly, since the first half of this year, this teacher has become increasingly outrageous. Previously, she would only lock the children in the classroom for a short while when she had something to do at home, and then go home afterward.

The parents saw it, but didn't say anything on the few occasions. Unexpectedly, this year she went even further, often locking the children up for half a day at a time, causing several children in the village to wet their pants, which led the parents to discover her dereliction of duty.

The villagers are so angry that they've gone to the village committee to protest several times. Because the person in question is a family member of a village official, the matter has been dragged on and there's still no resolution. Most of the children are currently playing at home, waiting for the village to come up with a solution to this problem.

The children of Chen Hong's family are less than a year apart in age and will all be starting primary school next year. After discussing it, the families decided that the village kindergarten would reopen, and the children would have to go to primary school outside the village next year, since there is no primary school in Yujia Village.

There's a central primary school in the neighboring village, which enrolls students from three surrounding villages, but the teaching quality isn't great. Everyone's planning to send their children to the town's central primary school. So, it would be best to send your child to the town's central kindergarten for a year, and then they can directly transfer to the central primary school next year, avoiding the extra registration process.

With the plans finalized, everyone prepared to take action the next day. The mothers from the three families, carrying their household registration books and their children's birth certificates, went together to the town's central kindergarten the following day to register their children.