Chapter 601 Just Feel It
This night is destined to be a sleepless night.
Liu Ji returned to the study and pinched his thigh hard, grimacing in pain. Only then did he believe that everything that had just happened in the main room was real.
He couldn't help it and jumped up and down in the room for a long time, and his excitement was finally suppressed a little.
Lying on the bed, Liu Ji couldn't help but think about the prosperity of the capital, his teacher's situation, his junior brother's sultry nature, and the reason why the evil woman at home made such a decision.
I haven’t figured out the reason yet, but - she looked so beautiful when she announced the decision for the whole family to move to Beijing today!
Liu Ji pulled up the quilt to cover his head, laughed out loud, and twisted himself into a maggot in joy on the bed.
If this isn't love, then what is?
Over in the children's room, Dalang, who was gathering his treasures for screening, twitched his ears slightly. What was that strange 'hehehe' sound?
Raising his hand and tugging at the corner of Erlang's clothes, Dalang asked suspiciously: "Did you hear any strange noises?"
Erlang was startled by his elder brother's sudden question at this late hour. He held his breath and listened carefully, feeling even more panicked. "Brother, there's no strange sound."
Dalang frowned and listened again himself. It seemed that there was really no sound, only the rustling of leaves in the wind.
"Nothing, let's continue packing." Dalang waved his hand, and Erlang breathed a sigh of relief and continued to pack his things.
For him, nothing is more important than books.
He selected out those that he had memorized thoroughly, and put the remaining ones that he had not yet digested into his book box. This was all he planned to take with him to the capital.
As for clothes, shoes and socks, since my mother said there was only one carriage, I could just take one set with me when the time came. If I needed anything, I could just buy it when the time came.
Under the expectant eyes of his younger brothers and sisters, Erlang pulled out the piggy bank of his four siblings from under the bed. It was a small wooden box, but it felt heavy to lift.
Sanlang held his chin in expectation and urged: "Second brother, how much money do I have left?"
Dalang and Si Niang were also staring at the small wooden box expectantly. Inside were the pocket money and talisman money they had saved over the past two years, as well as valuable silver and jade ornaments given by A Niang.
There were limited rooms at home, and the four brothers and sisters lived in one room. The extra storage space in the room was not enough for the four brothers and sisters to keep their important belongings, so they put them all in one room and handed them over to Erlang to take care of.
He kept a clear account of who took out how much, how much was returned, and how much was left. He remembered every detail clearly, so Dalang, Sanlang, and Si Niang had no objection to his management of the money.
Erlang doesn't work for free, he does charge a storage fee, five cents per person per month, a very fair price for family members.
Erlang took out a bunch of keys hanging around his neck and used one of them to open the piggy bank, which was filled with copper coins and small silver coins, as well as a small account book.
Erlang opened the account book and pointed at his eldest brother: "Except for those utensils, you have two taels and three cents."
Then he pointed at the expectant Sanlang and said disdainfully: "You still have fifty cents to spare!"
Sanlang, who was full of expectation, was greatly disappointed and asked distrustfully: "Why do I only have fifty coins? Big brother has more than two taels?"
Si Niang rolled her eyes at him and said, "You have to withdraw ten cents every day after school to buy food in town. You didn't remember that at all."
San Lang snorted, "You guys ate it too!"
Dalang, Erlang and Si Niang looked at each other in silence. On this point, they had to admit that Sanlang was indeed generous and shared his blessings with them.
"Okay, okay, I'll give you fifty cents." Dalang felt that as the eldest brother, he took out fifty cents on his own initiative as a token of consolation.
Sanlang immediately smiled, forgot about his unhappiness, and waited to see how much money his sister had.
Erlang looked at the account and was surprised, "Si Niang still has three taels and five cents of silver."
Si Niang counted on her fingers and found the amount was exactly the same as what she remembered. She smiled proudly at her elder and younger brothers and said, "I have the most."
"That's not necessarily true." Dalang pointed at Erlang, who was the richest.
Erlang smiled modestly and told the balance of his bank account: "11 taels, 8 qian and 25 wen."
Sanlang and Si Niang were shocked, "How come you have so many?!"
It was obvious that the pocket money given by A-niang every month was the same, and they also saw Erlang often giving money to his classmates to borrow books. How could he have so much extra money?
Dalang, who was in the same school as Erlang, told the truth with mixed feelings, "He set up a stall in the school to help people copy books."
Of course, plagiarizing a book is a clever way to avoid getting beaten.
In fact, Erlang would bring back his classmates' homework and help them copy it directly, charging 20 cents each time. If the amount of homework was large, he would charge dozens more cents.
but!
This is not the big deal.
The main source of income came from selling his own class notes, which cost him 500 wen each for just a few pages of paper, and he took the money without hesitation.
In school, any student who does not want to be praised by the teacher is not a qualified playboy!
Erlang had always been the best student in his studies. Every time the teacher taught the other students, he would always praise him. Unknowingly, he became a model role model.
Then, before I knew it, I had turned the first model class notes into a profitable business.
Erlang collected all the money, locked the money box and put it in the last bit of free space in the bookcase. He stood up and said seriously: "I am a gentleman who loves money and earns it in a proper way. You mortals will not understand."
Dalang: "Do you believe I can beat you up?"
Sanlang and Si Niang all made faces, turned around and packed their things tacitly, ignoring their second brother.
They will never admit that they are envious.
Sanlang filled half of the bookcase with toys, and said he would fill the remaining half with delicious food from Kaiyang County so that he would have nothing to eat when he arrived in the capital.
Si Niang complained that the little brother was a fool, "The capital is so big, there must be a lot more delicious food than here, you can have whatever you want to eat."
When it was her turn, she had to pack her books, her beautiful clothes, her toys, and the piano she had just gotten which was not even warm yet. One bookcase simply could not hold all of them!
In the end, Si Niang gave away her beautiful clothes and toys and only packed her books and her piano which took up a lot of space.
The small village outside the yard was silent. The villagers had already fallen asleep. The four brothers and sisters blew out the candles, lay down on their beds, closed their eyes but could not fall asleep.
The belated excitement and joy surged in their hearts. An unknown world was waiting for them to explore. With their open-minded mother and unreliable father, the four siblings were looking forward to this new journey.
As for when to come back, how long it will take to be in the capital, and where the next school is, they don't need to worry about it with A Niang around.
Because A Niang said that at their age, it is enough for them to just experience this world.
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