In the evening, when she returned home, Tang Jingjing had not yet felt the surprise that Jiang Yue and the other two had earned nearly twenty yuan from selling crayfish, but she was already furious at Gong Yasheng's decision to skip school and go sell crayfish.
"No!" Tang Jingjing firmly objected.
"Why not? I can't understand what I'm studying anyway. Do you know how torturous it is to sit in class every day? And I'm laughed at wherever I go. I know that!" He retorted angrily with a duck voice and stiffened his neck.
"It's Jiaojiao!" Tang Xiaomei corrected the duck-voiced way of calling. As soon as she went to school today, she told the teacher that she had changed her name, and she also told all the classmates in the class.
Now she is called Tang Jiaojiao, and she has adapted to it. However, some people in her family cannot change their way of calling her and keep calling her little sister.
"Well, Jiaojiao can testify!" The duck-voiced man puffed up his mouth.
"But if you drop out of school without finishing elementary school, what can you do in the future? Your brother-in-law said--" Tang Jingjing was also confused. She just heard the teacher say that he must study, and her husband also said that only by studying can one become successful, so she forced her third brother to keep studying.
However, it is obvious that the third brother is really not good at studying!
"Sister, stop talking about brother-in-law all the time. Didn't brother-in-law himself not graduate from elementary school? Moreover, he is not as good as me. He only went to the second grade of elementary school, but now he is also a soldier of the people!" The duck-voiced man wanted to say that Tang Jingjing did finish elementary school, but what was the use? He swallowed the words when they came to his lips, for he was afraid that he would be beaten if he said it out loud.
"What do you think, third brother?" Tang Jingjing looked at Tang Ziyang.
Tang Ziyang turned the topic to Jiang Yue who was standing aside, "Jiang Yue, what do you think?"
Although Gong Yachang had often skipped school before, he didn't dare to say that he wanted to drop out. It was because Jiang Yue took him to sell crayfish today that he made up his mind to drop out of school and sell crayfish, so she had the responsibility to speak.
"I think, at least finish primary school!" Although Jiang Yue knew that with her hoarse voice, it didn't really matter whether she finished primary school or not. And in her opinion, primary school diplomas were useless both in the future and now, but she couldn't say that directly.
"But I really can't study anymore!" The duck-voiced man scratched his head. "I don't understand anything in class. Teachers and classmates laugh at me every day. You just force me to study every day. Do you understand how hard my life is?"
"Sister, you always scold me for skipping school, but sitting in class is torture, and those kids follow me every day and call me an idiot, ah..." The hoarse voice suddenly burst into tears.
This really scared Tang Jingjing.
"Hey, third brother, don't cry!"
Tang Ziyang turned around and asked Tang Jiaojiao, "Xiao-Jiaojiao, is that so?"
Tang Jiaojiao nodded seriously, "Yes! Not only our class, but students from other grades also call Third Brother an idiot! I've had arguments with them many times!"
"Jiang Yue, what do you think we should do?" Tang Jingjing hurried to see Jiang Yue.
Jiang Yue looked at the duck voice and asked, "How are you at math? Can you do math?"
"Ah?" The duck-voiced man paused, hesitated, and said, "Isn't settling accounts just adding them up? What's so hard about that?"
"Then Jiaojiao, give your third brother a question!" Jiang Yue gestured to Tang Jiaojiao, "Give me a mixed operation question!"
Tang Jiaojiao also hesitated for a moment and said, "Three plus five times four."
The duck-voiced man counted on his fingers, "Three plus five is eight, eight times four, one eight times eight, two times eight is sixteen, three times eight three times eight is twenty-four?"
He looked up and saw Jiang Yue and the others staring at him. He suddenly became nervous, "Three eights are twenty-three, four eights are thirty—"
"Sister Jingjing, in my opinion, the third child is really not good at studying!" Jiang Yue had an indescribable expression on his face. He looked quite smart with a hoarse voice, but he couldn't even do mixed operations, and he could even recite the multiplication formula incorrectly!
"But you are so bad at math that even if you want to do business, you can't even do the math. That won't do!" Jiang Yue gave a solution, "How about this, you should continue to study. Don't worry about other things, just focus on math. Since you want to do business, it doesn't matter how good you are at math, at least you have to learn mixed operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!"
"Ah! I still have to go to school? Oh, I won't go!" The duck-voiced man was about to cry again.
"Come with me to set up the stall after school these days. We'll talk about it when you can get the accounts right!" Jiang Yue gave another solution.
The duck voice thought about it, accepted it this time, and immediately went out excitedly carrying the iron bucket.
Seeing Tang Jingjing's helpless expression, Jiang Yue turned to Tang Ziyang and asked, "What do you want to say?"
Tang Ziyang glanced at Jiang Yue, looked away, and said, "I think it's no different for the third child not to study now than to finish elementary school! Don't force him! It's a waste of money for him to study!"
Tang Jingjing was almost in a dilemma, "Second brother, do you also support him not to study?"
In fact, Jiang Yue had the same idea as Tang Ziyang. With his hoarse voice, going to school was indeed a torture. Nine-year compulsory education has not yet been implemented, and students have to pay tuition fees, which cost several yuan a semester.
But Jiang Yue is an outsider, so it is not easy to persuade her not to go to school. It is okay for Tang Ziyang to say this.
"But if I don't go to school anymore, what can I do?" Tang Jingjing asked.
"What are your hobbies, third brother?" Jiang Yue didn't think there was any point in forcing someone who had no talent for learning to study. Not everyone can become a scientist. Society needs people from all walks of life, and it is more important to teach students in accordance with their aptitude.
"The third brother's hobby, cooking?"
"Hey, Third Brother's cooking is so awful!" Tang Jiaojiao looked disgusted.
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