"You don't understand, in our village, families like Second Uncle's..."
The eldest son was responsible for handling the funeral arrangements after his second uncle passed away, which meant his task was complete.
Zhiming's task was to take care of his second aunt. So, he just treated Zhiqiang as a relative and visited him.
However, Zhiqiang was indeed a bit cold-hearted.
Li Chenyang didn't want to criticize others, mainly because every family is like that, and not every family is like theirs.
The children have all earned money, and it's easy for them to be filial if they want to; they can just give them money to buy things.
But what can families with average means do? Everyone has to make a living.
That's what they said, but even up until 2000, Zhiqiang and his wife had been married for five or six years.
The couple couldn't have a child. They went to the hospital many times, but no problems were found.
The hospital also advised them to relax, saying that having a baby is something that can't be rushed.
Five years have passed, and Ye Xiaoxiao is now forty-two, but she doesn't have a single wrinkle on her face, which amazes everyone every time she goes back.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Li family is like she hasn't even grown up.
"Sister-in-law, you're living a good life, and you don't look old at all. No wonder everyone in the village wants to move to the city."
Ye Xiaoxiao brought her son and daughter back for summer vacation. She sat at the door chatting with Aying.
"Maybe, I don't know."
Ye Xiaoxiao remembered the sacred fruit the system had given her when she first arrived in this world. It was spicy.
"By the way, sister-in-law, your Yanni isn't young anymore, is she? I think she should be 24 by now. Aren't you allowed to criticize her?"
Ah Ying and her husband have been selling clothes in the county for years and have accumulated some wealth.
A new house has been built. Life is getting better and better now, much better than that of my brothers back home.
"Ah, Yanni, she went to work for her sixth brother in the south. I wonder what kind of job she does."
These days, young women date on their own; we don't need to worry about them.
Li Yanni graduated more than a year ago. After graduation, she went to work for Lao Liu.
I heard he's a human resources manager at Lao Liu's factory. He earns seven or eight thousand a month.
"That's great! When our child graduates, can we go there too?"
Ah Ying thought about how her daughter would be graduating from junior high school this year, and felt a little envious of the Li family's children.
They all succeeded and went to university, but my own daughter couldn't do it. She only got into high school.
"Ah Ying, after your child graduates from junior high, won't they go to high school?"
Ye Xiaoxiao looked at the Sun family's daughter, who was playing with her own daughter.
"What's the point of going to school? Her score is so low, the cutoff is only 400. She doesn't even have 300. Her dad said to let her stay home and play for another two years, then she'll go out to work, or she'll get married."
Ah Ying looked somewhat dejected, and she blamed them for being too busy with their business to pay much attention to their daughter.
“Ah Ying, I see there are quite a few vocational schools now. Why don’t you send your child to a vocational school?”
Learn a trade. You're only sixteen, the perfect time to learn. If you don't let you go to school, even if you go out into the world, you'll only be able to become an ordinary laborer. Going to a vocational school is a way out.
Ye Xiaoxiao thought that the Sun family was not short of money now, unlike Sun Hongjun in the original book who was in debt and whose son and daughter could not go to school.
"Can you even get into a vocational school with that score?"
Ah Ying was worried about this. The high school entrance exam was over, and the scores were all out. Her son, Sun Xiaohong, didn't pass the exam, and the couple didn't know what to do.
Sun Xiaohong is Aying's second daughter, two years younger than her husband Li Zhonghao. Li Zhonghao is a high school sophomore this year.
He went to a key high school in the city, and with his seventh brother keeping an eye on him, he never caused any trouble.
Aying's family has two daughters and one son. The eldest daughter is five years older than Li Zhonghao.
She's already married. She married someone from the county, and her family also sells clothes. Her youngest son is two years older than her.
I'm in sixth grade now, the same grade as Li Xinyue. I've already repeated a grade twice because I didn't do well in school.
"Go to a vocational school? Is it even useful?"
Ah Ying didn't understand this. They always thought that studying meant either going to high school or going out to work.
However, vocational school graduates are still quite useful these days. At least for the next 10 years, vocational school graduates will be in high demand.
“It’s useful, of course it’s useful. My sixth son runs a factory outside, and the foremen in his workshop are usually either vocational school graduates or high school graduates.”
How is it useless? Let's not talk about that. Your Xiaohong is only sixteen. You let her go out to work at sixteen. Aren't you afraid she'll be scammed again?
I've heard of many young girls who went out to work, came back heavily pregnant, and ran off with someone without even a dowry.
The girls married into either remote mountain villages or rural areas.
"Have you thought this through? To be honest, your family isn't short of money. Even if you really don't want your child to go to school, you can't let her go out to work."
Ye Xiaoxiao was thinking of the original owner of this body's daughter in the book, who went out to work after graduating from high school.
She's only been away for two years and already in a relationship and living with someone. The young girl is so immature.
She ran back home pregnant and insisted on marrying that man.
She married into a remote mountain village and suffered her whole life.
Hearing these words, Ah Ying felt scared. Although their place was also a rural area, the transportation was convenient. The town was not far to the east, and the county seat was to the west. Their place was the heart of Qin.
It's not much different from the city. I heard that they're going to build a ring road around their village in the next couple of years.
Life will definitely get better and better from now on.
I don't even want to think about it. What if my daughter really ran off with some poor guy from who-knows-where?
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