"Alright, that's enough for today, class dismissed." As soon as the words were spoken, a group of children rushed out of the playground. The scene was quite spectacular.
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan had been waiting here for a long time. When An'an and Nuannuan saw them, they immediately beamed with joy.
"Daddy, Mommy!" The two little ones rushed over on their short legs, making the surrounding children extremely envious.
But their parents are all busy with work, and not everyone has time to come and pick up their children.
"How was your day? Did you cry?"
"No, my sister and I are very brave."
"Really? What did the teacher teach? Did you learn it?"
"Yes, Mom taught us all the things the teacher taught, and my brother and I listened carefully. Dad, does that mean we don't have to go to school anymore if we learn them?"
"No, the sea of learning is boundless. You're in first grade now. After the exams, there's second grade, third grade, and fourth grade. My dears, the road to learning can be long or short. You two are still young, so you should seize the time to improve yourselves. Only then can you live a better life when you grow up."
Did you and your mother go to school before?
"Yes, everyone has to go to school, and they can start working after graduating from university."
The two kids tilted their little heads and asked a profound question: "Can't you work if you don't go to school? Besides, we've never seen you or Mommy work!"
Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan: "..." They felt that their darling might have some misunderstanding about them.
The two of them didn't say much. After taking An'an and Nuannuan home for dinner, they took them to school.
After school in the afternoon, the couple took their two children to the construction site. Seeing the men drenched in sweat, An'an and Nuan'nuan felt a little lost.
Before the sun set, the two men took them to the farmland. This was a professional land reclamation team, and the intensity of their work was incomparable to their childish games.
The two children were quite shocked and remained silent after returning home.
"Now do you know why we study?"
The two children nodded.
The couple continued, "No matter when, educated people always live better lives. Your parents may seem like they don't have jobs, but they're actually busy every day. Sometimes they help out in the agricultural areas, and sometimes they make medicinal pills at home—don't you know that?"
Our jobs don't require much physical exertion, and the hours are quite flexible. If you two study hard, you can find easy jobs in the future. If you waste your time, you'll end up like those other people, relying on manual labor for a living.
"Don't expect your parents to help you. We'll get old one day, and when your mother and I are gone, you'll have to rely on yourselves. It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality!"
The two children nodded, understanding some of it, but there were still many things they didn't understand.
Shen Yanming continued, "You two originally had a master, but after the tsunami, we lost contact with him. We don't even know if he's still alive."
"Dad, how come we have a master?"
“When you two were little, your father and mother took you to the hospital and met Grandpa Lin. He was a great master of traditional Chinese medicine and liked you two very much, so he took you as his apprentices. Unfortunately, a tsunami destroyed human civilization, and your father and mother never saw him again.”
"Then shall we study medicine with Dad in the future?"
Shen Yanming chuckled: "Actually, I don't know anything. I just got some prescriptions from our ancestors and I'm just following them. If you two want to go down this path, you'll have to study hard. In the future, you'll go to the capital and learn systematically from a teacher."
An'an and Nuannuan nodded: "Dad, we understand."
The couple smiled, having confidence in them.
From that day on, the two children studied even more diligently. They not only focused in class but also frequently received extra help after class.
With the nourishment of the spiritual spring water and various ingredients, An'an and Nuannuan are both intelligent and healthy. Their childishness has faded, and their bodies are growing rapidly.
Of course, that's a story for another time.
After picking up and dropping off An'an and Nuannuan for a while, Shen Yanming and Bi Qiaoan were no longer nervous and returned to their normal lives.
That day, the couple went out to pick wild vegetables and ran into Ji Kangyong on their way back. It happened to be his shift change, so Old Ji invited the couple back.
"Speak, what is it?" Shen Yanming knew the other party quite well. If there wasn't something really wrong, he probably wouldn't have suddenly invited him back.
Ji Kangyong hesitated for a moment. Bi Qiaoan glanced at him, smiled, and prepared to leave.
Old Ji stopped him: "It's alright, let's get straight to the point. Yiren and I have been married for almost two years, but she still isn't pregnant. I was just thinking of asking you if you have any ideas?"
Shen Yanming: "...I'm not a doctor, why don't you go find Zhang Heping?"
"Yes, we've looked for it. Of course we've looked. But Heping isn't an OB-GYN, so there's nothing he can do."
"Have you had it checked out?" Shen Yanming asked. "What did the doctor say?"
"She probably caught a cold during the year she was homeless, which weakened her body and made it difficult for her to conceive."
Shen Yanming thought for a moment: "In that case, should I give her some medicine to regulate her body? Let me make it clear, it's for warming the uterus and replenishing qi and blood. As for whether it will work, I don't know."
"Sure, thank you," Ji Kangyong said with a smile.
"No need for that, it's not a big deal."
"By the way, I ran into Li Yueya a couple of days ago," Shen Yanming said after a moment's hesitation.
"Oh, so what if we bumped into each other? Why are you telling me this?" Ji Kangyong stiffened for a moment, but still smiled nonchalantly.
"Never mind, I won't say anymore." Shen Yanming waved his hand and prepared to leave.
“I know about her situation,” Ji Kangyong said to his retreating figure. “However, we have nothing to do with each other anymore. Although I am heartbroken, she chose her own path, and I also have a family now, so it’s not convenient for me to pay any more attention to her.”
"Yeah, you know that's good. I didn't mean anything by it, I just discovered a secret that day and couldn't help but tell you."
No sooner had he finished speaking than he noticed Qin Yiren had returned. Unsure if he had overheard the conversation inside, Shen Yanming looked somewhat embarrassed.
"Cough, don't be nervous! I heard everything." Qin Yiren said without any concealment, "It's not that I'm deliberately smearing her; she was like this back at the base. You can ask around if you don't believe me. So I'm not surprised at all by her choice. It's just..."
Qin Yiren looked at Ji Kangyong with sympathy: "Your judgment wasn't very good before."
Ji Kangyong felt a lump in his throat, a lump he couldn't quite put his finger on whether it was because of Li Yueya or Qin Yiren. But regardless, he was quite content with his current life. The girl in front of him wasn't so delicate; she was more suited to a rough, rugged man like him.
"Alright, we'll be going now." After saying that, Shen Yanming prepared to take Bi Qiaoan out the door.
Qin Yiren replied, "I know what Lao Ji wanted to talk to you about. Don't feel pressured about it. If it comes, it comes; if it doesn't, it doesn't. It's all up to fate. If it really doesn't work out, then Lao Ji can break up with me and find someone else."
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