After breakfast, once Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue had finished their work, Wen Xi made three cups of malted milk powder, called Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue over, and took out a first-grade textbook from the room, saying, "Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, I'm not sure when I'll be away from home. In the future, when I'm not home, I'll trouble you to teach Zhao Yuanyuan and Zhao Huihui. Just follow the marks I made and continue teaching them from there."
"Okay, I'll give it a try." Shen Jiaojiao was a little hesitant, but she still nodded because she didn't want Wen Xi to be too busy.
Although she only has a junior high school education, the knowledge of first grade is not a problem for her.
“Jiaojiao, Xiaoyue, if you’re bored at home, you can go out and find someone to play with…” Before Wenxi could finish speaking, she heard a knock on the door. She got up and went to open it. It was Tian Shengnan and two others who came. The rice paddy fish they had caught needed to be dried every day before they could be sent back home.
Song Lan, Zhou Bai, and Tian Shengnan were not abandoned by their families, but were forced to go to the countryside, so the three of them were quite attached to their homes. Shen Jiaojiao, on the other hand, ran away on her own and didn't want her grandmother to know, otherwise she would definitely have someone write a letter asking her to pay resettlement fees and send food and local specialties home, because that's the kind of person her grandmother was.
Jiang Yue was not favored at home and was considered abandoned by her family. Since she went to the countryside, she had not received a single letter from home, nor had anyone asked her if she was tired, cold, or had enough to eat. Naturally, she would not make a fool of herself. If she sent her family some salted fish, they probably wouldn't be happy and would even complain that it wasn't enough. So she didn't do such a thing.
As for Wenxi, it's because she can't contact her family yet, and she doesn't know how to dry salted fish to send back home. Even if she wanted to send it home, she would wait until she could contact her family before sending it, otherwise it would just benefit her older sister and brother-in-law.
She can't go back to the city now, so she can't take revenge remotely. But when she goes back in two years, she won't let her older sister or brother-in-law get away with it.
And then there's that old man and his family. In her past life, she suffered for over ten years in that old man's family. She thought that with his death, her good days had finally arrived, but instead...
In her past life, the old man's mother was the high and mighty Empress Dowager, the old man was the emperor, his two sons were princes, and his daughter was a princess.
They all acted superior and did nothing but wait for Wenxi to serve them. She wasn't even considered a nanny in a wealthy family; at least a nanny gets paid, but she was just a free nanny.
Not only did she receive no salary, but she was also beaten by her husband, bullied by her mother-in-law, and framed and tormented by her three children.
Once she returns to the city, none of them will have an easy time.
The three of them brought out the jars of pickled fish, took out all the fish and hung them up. Song Lan said, "We don't have anything to do now, and it's boring to just rest. Why don't we go catch some more fish in the rice paddies?"
"You guys go ahead, I need to arrange lunch so I can cook when I get back," Wen Xi said.
After that, the five of them carried their baskets and went out. Wenxi watched them until they were out of sight, then locked the door and went to the foot of the mountain.
She found a burlap sack hidden behind a tree at the foot of the mountain. She took the sack, opened it, and checked it. It was indeed a yellow eel, a large yellow eel weighing several ounces, bright orange in color, which looked very appealing.
Wenxi directly stored the eels in the system warehouse, then put the sack back behind the tree before going home.
The sack was labeled "ten jin," so she didn't need to weigh it anymore. When Zhao Yuanyuan came to class in the evening, she could just give her one yuan.
So many big eels for only one yuan! She's made a fortune! She remembers that before she died in her previous life, eels were already selling for one or two yuan per kilogram!
If she can't make money from eels right now, she can sell them ten or more years later; they won't spoil in the system's warehouse anyway.
The thought of having another way to make money made Wenxi very happy. She wasn't worried at all about not having a good life after returning to the city. Not only would she have a good life, but she could also help her girlfriends have a good life!
Wenxi came out of the alley, intending to go home to get a basket to buy some radishes and cabbages from Chang Qingqing's house to eat, but she saw that her neighbor's house on the other side was moving.
Chen Dahua, holding her eldest grandson's hand, stood by the door supervising everyone as they moved things, reminding them from time to time to be gentle and not to damage anything.
Seeing Wen Xi arrive, Chen Dahua asked curiously, "Xiao Xi, what brings you here? Things were a bit busy at home today, so..."
Wenxi had also bought vegetables from Chen Dahua once, so they had some acquaintance, but not as deep as her relationship with Chang Qingqing's family. After all, Chen Dahua's family all had sons, and one of them was getting married in the first month of the lunar calendar. If female educated youths sent to the countryside had too close contact with families with sons, rumors would spread about them.
Wen Xi took a piece of fruit candy out of her pocket and handed it to Chen Dahua's eldest grandson, asking in confusion, "Aunt Dahua, isn't your family having a happy occasion? What are you doing here?"
Just as Chen Dahua was about to refuse, her eldest grandson had already put a fruit candy in his mouth, smiled sheepishly, and said, "It's Jin Changfeng who swapped houses with us, so we're moving today."
"Exchange houses?" Wen Xi was even more surprised. Jin Changfeng's house was obviously built only a few years ago, while Chen Dahua's house was an old house. Why would Jin Changfeng exchange his good house for Chen Dahua's family?
Chen Dahua looked at Wen Xi with a slightly evasive gaze. In fact, it wasn't just about exchanging houses; Jin Changfeng also gave her an extra hundred yuan, which was equivalent to buying her small house for a hundred yuan and giving her his big house as a gift.
Although I don't understand why Jin Changfeng did this, only a fool would refuse such a good thing.
"Isn't it because Jin Changfeng heard that our Qiusheng is getting married in the first month of the lunar calendar? He knows that our place is small and there isn't enough room for everyone, so he offered to swap houses with us so that Qiusheng would have a place to get married. He said that since he's not home all year round, the house would just be wasted sitting there empty, so it would be better for us to move in. A house won't break down easily if there are people around," Chen Dahua explained softly.
While explaining, Chen Dahua glanced at her two daughters-in-law, because the house was registered in her own name. As for who would get it in the future, that would depend on their behavior. If they didn't behave well and were not filial to her son and daughter-in-law, they shouldn't even think about getting the house.
Wen Xi nodded knowingly, not expecting Jin Changfeng to be so kind.
Chen Dahua's family got a huge advantage by changing houses, but it wasn't an easy deal to come by.
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