Chapter 402 Interest

After dinner, the family rode on the tractor back home.

Zhou Ying and Zhou Zhou talked about the program of the school's New Year's Day cultural performance.

Zhou Ying: "I have to dance on stage. I have to practice dancing every day after school. Does your school have performances?"

Zhou Zhou: "We have it too. I want to dance too. Some people in my class dance, some sing, and some perform."

"Your class has so many programs? Our class only has dancing!"

Li Xiuxian: "Zhou Zhou's school is a primary school in the village. There are only one or two classes in each grade, and there are only about ten classes in the whole school. If they don't prepare a few more programs for each class, the art performance will be over in a short time. What's the point of watching it?"

Zhou Zhou didn't say anything after hearing this. She didn't know this was the reason.

Jiang Xia turned around and asked the two children: "So do you like dancing, singing, or acting?"

Winter vacation is coming soon, so I can arrange some interest classes for Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou seems to like music very much.

When Zhou Ying heard this, she immediately said loudly: "I like dancing."

Zhou Zhou: "I like singing, not dancing."

She was very envious when she saw others dancing on Children's Day, but now that she can dance on the stage, she finds it's just so-so and not fun.

Jiang Xia asked again: "Is there anything else you like? How about painting? How about piano? Do you like it?"

Zhou Zhou: "I like painting and I also like piano. Piano music is beautiful!"

Jiang's mother gave Jiang Xia some piano music tapes, which Jiang Xia placed next to the tape recorder and played several times. Zhou Zhou thought they were very nice.

Zhou Ying: “What is a piano?”

Zhou Zhou: "It's a musical instrument, black and big, and the music it plays is very nice! Thump thump thump, thump thump thump..."

Zhou Zhou hummed the melody of "Autumn Whispers".

Jiang Xia was not surprised either. Zhou Zhou had a good memory and could sing a song after hearing it once.

But I guess there aren’t any singing classes in town right now.

I could only buy some more tapes and play them for Zhou Zhou.

Zhou Ying: “…”

"Thump, thump, thump... What's so good about it? There aren't even any lyrics."

Zhou Zhou: "I can't sing it. I'll play it for you when I get home. You'll think it sounds good once you hear it."

"OK!"

Jiang Xia asked Zhou Chenglei: "Do you know if there is a piano teacher in town?"

Before Zhou Chenglei could say anything, Li Xiuxian said immediately, "Yes, there are people who can teach! There is an old lady in the town who is said to have returned from studying abroad and can play the piano. She only started accepting students this year and didn't dare to accept them before. I saw people from the city bring their children to our town to learn from her. I heard that a lesson is very expensive. But she charges one dollar per lesson for some students and two dollars per lesson for some students. She charges the students from the town at a lower price. I heard that the two students from the city charge five dollars per lesson! One lesson lasts one hour."

Tian Caihua was shocked when she heard this: "Five dollars? This is too expensive!"

Li Xiuxian: "That's right! I don't know if it's because they saw the parents of the two students from the city drove their cars to send their children here, so they charged a little more."

Jiang Xia: "Probably not. I guess the price is based on the difficulty."

Piano lessons aren’t cheap even in modern times.

Jiang Xia once heard an old university professor say that when she was a child, she learned piano from a full professor-level educator who charged her 10 yuan per hour. An associate professor-level educator charged her 8 yuan per hour.

Even the price of modern piano lessons is not cheap. Different levels have different prices. It also depends on how good the teacher is. Different teachers have different prices, and the gap is huge.

The old lady in town must be quite capable, otherwise she wouldn't charge five dollars for a lesson.

Jiang Xia planned to go home and ask Zhou Zhou privately whether he wanted to learn.

Li Xiuxian asked Jiang Xia: "Xiao Xia, do you want to send Zhou Zhou to learn piano?"

Jiang Xia: "Yes, but it depends on whether Zhou Zhou wants to learn."

Li Xiuxian asked Zhou Zhou: "Zhou Zhou, do you want to learn piano during the holidays?"

Zhou Zhou shook his head.

It's so expensive, she doesn't want it.

Li Xiuxian smiled and said, "If Zhou Zhou wants to learn, he can go with his sister! When we have the holidays..."

Zhou Chengsen: "When you are on holiday, Zhou Zhou can live in town with his sister. Can your uncle send you to learn piano together?"

Li Xiuxian: “…”

She had originally planned to send Yingying back to the old house during the winter vacation so that she could learn English with Jiang Xia at the same time.

When Zhou Ying heard this, she immediately said, "Okay! Zhou Zhou, come live with me in town! Let's learn piano and English together!"

Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I just like to listen, I don't want to learn."

When Zhou Ying heard this, she said, "Then I won't learn it either."

Li Xiuxian: “…”

I'm really frustrated by my daughter's lack of ambition!

Jiang Xia didn't say anything else and decided to ask again after the holiday.

Now Zhou Zhou probably heard that a class is expensive and doesn’t dare to take it.

If Zhou Zhou was interested, Jiang Xia would naturally find a way to get her to learn.

*After the winter solstice, the sun is bright every day, there is little wind and it is warm.

Zhou Chengsen and Li Xiuxian came back in the evening these two days to take the Li father and son out to sea.

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The couple returned to the village after dinner. They went out to sea at 5:30 and did not return until around 4:00 in the morning of the next day. They went back to town to sleep after selling the fish.

They took a morning off these two days, made up for their sleep in the morning, and went to work in the afternoon.

We went out to sea at night and caught quite a few fish. After deducting the cost of fuel and labor, we made thirty or forty yuan on the first day and seventy or eighty yuan on the second day.

But after just two days, and two nights, Li Xiuxian couldn't take it anymore, and neither could the father and son of the Li family.

It’s so uncomfortable to live this life with day and night reversed!

Li Qingmin took the lead and said, "We are already familiar with it. Asen doesn't need to take us out to sea at night anymore. Let's go out to sea during the day! We will get up at 4:30 in the morning and go out to sea with Alei and the others. We really can't stand going out to sea at night. It's too sleepy!"

Father Li also said: "It's not okay to go out to sea at night. It's too tiring. There's a lot of noise at home during the day, and I can't sleep at all."

Zhou Chengsen: "Okay. You can go out at night or during the day, just set a time."

So on the third day, the father and son finally showed up at the dock on time at 4:30 and went out to sea with Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin.

Every day after the winter solstice, Zhou Chenglei goes out to sea early and returns late.

Jiang Xia is also very busy at home.

More than 5,000 kilograms of dried fish need to be fried, and Jiang Xia helps with the packaging every day.

She used to help with the fire, but after doing it from morning till night and smelling the fumes so much, she lost her appetite.

She stopped making fire and worked with Zhou's mother to weigh and pack the food.

Others are busy from morning to night, but Jiangxia works for one hour and then rests for one hour.

During the one-hour break, Jiang Xia lay in the yard to bask in the sun, replenish calcium, and listen to Korean tapes.

Or do some translation under the grape trellis, practice college entrance examination questions in various subjects, or draw fabric patterns for the textile factory.

Thanks to the countless hand-written newspaper and painting assignments in his previous life, Jiang Xia is a good painter.

Aunt Fen and He Xinghuan carried a large basin of dried fish over here to pack for Zhou's mother.

When the two returned to the next door, Aunt Fen couldn't help but say, "Xiao Xia is really hardworking and motivated. I've never seen her go out to play."

There are also many newly married brides in the village, some are diligent and some are lazy.

The village's definition of diligence for a new daughter-in-law is: doing housework well: washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, raising chickens, and growing vegetables. Doing these things well is considered diligent.

It is not easy to do all these things, but no matter how much housework there is, there is plenty of free time every day to chat with everyone and play cards.

If you are more diligent, you can make fish nets while chatting.

Apart from Zhou Guohua's wife, I have never seen anyone like Jiang Xia.

He Xinghuan: "How can you make so much money without being diligent? The God of Wealth doesn't take care of lazy people."

“That’s right.”

The days passed in a busy manner and arrived at the day before New Year's Day.

Happy winter solstice!

There is still one chapter to be posted at night, so for those of you who haven’t slept yet, don’t wait any longer.

I'm a bit busy today, I haven't finished coding yet.