"Alright then. I'll inform the school that you won't have to attend evening self-study starting today. However, if there are any quizzes scheduled, you'll have to stay and take them."
The students presented facts and reasoned, and facts spoke louder than words. Teacher Wang readily agreed. He would just go and give a heads up at the school, and it wouldn't be a big problem.
After finishing her lunch, Qiu Yuling did not carry her schoolbag to school as usual. Her grandmother poured the slop into the chicken trough to remind Qiu Yuling not to be late.
"Grandma, I don't have to go to school for evening self-study in the future. The teacher asked me to stay at home and study on my own." Qiu Yuling showed the test paper to the old lady and told her about the negotiations with the school.
In addition to praising Qiu Yuling for her ability, the old lady went to stoke the fire a little more.
"Grandma, it's okay. Let's just lock the outer door from now on. I'll study inside and then go to sleep. The brain can only be used more effectively if it gets enough rest. Just take care of yourself and ignore me."
"Sure, I'll warm the milk on the stove. Remember to drink it when the time comes." Since the granddaughter repeatedly emphasized that she should ignore it, her meddling would only disturb the child's studies.
The old lady was very sensible and did whatever the child said.
Qiu Yuling's shadow, flipping through a book, was dimly visible through the window lattice. Not long after, she came out, drank milk, washed the dishes, blew out the lamp, and went to bed.
The old lady also fell asleep peacefully.
Only then did Qiu Yuling truly begin to study. She only had better academic conditions than others, not really any smarter than others, so she couldn't rest easy while others were entering school.
You should know that at that time, a technical secondary school degree was synonymous with "excellence" and "outstanding". According to later documents, the admission rate was only a pitiful 1%, which was truly one in a hundred.
Moreover, upon graduation, you will be guaranteed a job and be given the status of a state cadre. You can imagine how difficult the exam is!
Qiu Yuling just felt that she was not truly outstanding, so she looked for information and solved the questions in the plug-in.
The nine-member team in the school all regarded her as their nearest target, and they were all working hard to wait for the next exam, striving to surpass her!
Originally, the time from Saturday evening self-study to Sunday evening self-study was everyone’s rest time.
Ever since these ten people stood out, even this little bit of pitiful breathing time was cancelled with the students' "consent".
Others may have done it willingly, but Qiu Yuling was completely forced to follow the crowd.
So much so that she had completely lost track of what day it was.
Qiu Jianshe and Qiu Dashan set up the kang, burned a handful of hay, and seeing that the smoke didn't return, he clapped his hands and stood up. "It's done. Let it air out for a few days, then burn it again. After seven or eight days, we can sleep on it."
Under the old lady's instructions, she set up the cupboard, the piano cabinet, and the chopping board. "Auntie, do you think this is suitable?"
"That's perfect. Now when your two wives come over, they'll have a warm kang to sleep on." The kang was big enough. It was next to the south and adjacent to the wall on three sides, so there was barely enough space for people to turn around on the floor.
"It would be fine to connect it with Yuling's room, or the room on the south side, but the kang is on the south side, so this side can't be moved." Qiu Jianshe looked around and felt that this room was divided into two rooms, and neither room was spacious.
"It's okay, as long as it's enough to live in. The place in the city is small. Didn't you see that they only have beds but no kangs? There are many houses, and everyone has their own room. It's convenient. We didn't make any big moves before, and it's too late to make any moves now." Grandma Yuling advised.
Qiu Jianshe thought about it and agreed. If so many people in his family lived in the city, each of his children would have a room, which would barely be enough. His family had few children, so if someone had six or seven, it would be even more crowded.
When we were young, we could sleep on a big kang. But when our sons grew up and got married, but our daughters were still unmarried, how would we survive?
Everyone was chatting and laughing, and they all felt content.
The old lady deliberately did not put a cabinet at the secret door, but hung the tiger skin she brought from home.
Qiu Dashan smiled and said that it was quite interesting to have her grandmother's tiger skin hanging there.
The two men followed the old lady's instructions, cut plastic sheets, and nailed the windows again.
"Why is there no glass in this room? It's covered with paper?" After nailing the inside, Qiu Dashan thought about nailing a layer on the outside as well.
"This room was originally full of junk, so maybe no one thought about spending money." The old lady saw that it was almost time, so she went in to boil water and cook.
That's right. Qiu Dashan smiled. He didn't even have a piece of glass in his own house, but he laughed at others for having a whole house without glass. It was quite funny.
"Dad, put away the rest. Grandma told us to take it back and cover the windows in the house with plastic wrap."
In previous years, when it was cold, we would insert wooden boards on the windows at night, making the whole room pitch black. Plastic sheets could still let in a little light so that we wouldn't get sleepy and fall down and get bruised when we got up at night.
Qiu Yuling came back hopping, carrying a piece of lean meat. "Grandma, we have no fat ones left, so I found some lean ones. What do you think we should do with them?"
"It's okay. Just add some oil residue and make some cabbage and radish dumplings."
"Dad, big brother, is everything ready?" Qiu Yuling put the meat in the kitchen and went to check the kang in the east wing first. Even the furniture had been put in place.
"Yuling is back. Do you have enough money?" Qiu Jianshe went to the school gate to pick up Qiu Yuling yesterday. He happened to meet their class teacher, took his hand, and praised him a lot.
Praise him for his awareness, praise him for the good family atmosphere, praise his daughter for being great, Wenquxing... He grinned with his buck teeth, and apart from laughing, he only said that the child was hardworking and it was the child's own good.
That's right. Yuling never gave them a single worry. She was good at everything she did. What did the older women in the team say? They said she was Wenquxing, the god of literature, had descended to earth. The teacher hadn't finished talking just now because they only talked about science and not that, but it was obvious that they were thinking the same thing.
"It's enough. I have money, you know that." The piece of meat ticket she was holding was almost like an old actor. It followed her around for a walk every day and came back, and she could never spend it.
"Brother, how is my sister-in-law these past two days?"
"She's fine. She's knitting in the room. Mom chased Dad out and asked him to sleep with me. Duo'er moved to sleep in the main room with Mom. It's warm in that room because we cook and use the kang. And when she kicks her legs at night, Mom gets up from time to time to stroke her..."
"Why don't you do it yourself? She's your wife, not mother's." Qiu Yuling knew it immediately. Her mother must have said that her eldest brother was too tired from hauling soil to earn work points during the day, and asked him to have a good sleep at night.
"I've already said it, mother, don't you agree?" Qiu Dashan really said it, but his mother insisted that he didn't understand, saying that she was an experienced person and could serve more attentively.
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