Chapter 82: Teach the Kids to Read

Jiang Hai looked at Yan Haotian and asked, "Brother Hao, what are you going to do? Are you going to Xia Village directly to recognize your relatives?"

Yan Haotian pondered for a moment and said, "We have to go to Xia Village, but this time we'll come here during the mission and wait until the mission is completed. As for whether to recognize the relatives or not... I'll wait and see before deciding. You continue to investigate the kidnapper..."

He vaguely remembered that he was abducted. Although his memory was fuzzy, he still remembered that his mother took him out and said she wanted to take him to play in the town...

He was a little afraid that his parents actually agreed to sell him to a trafficker.

After all, the trafficker who kidnapped him had brought in several other children who had been sold by their parents.

The family couldn't afford to eat, so they could sell the produce for a few cents or some food. As for the child's fate, it depended on God's will.

If his parents had tacitly consented to his abduction, then there was no need for him to acknowledge such parents.

However, my sister is innocent and must admit it.

Yan Haotian collected the information and left the police station.

*

After Xia Juanjuan came out of the dark alley, she immediately turned into another road, fearing that Yan Haotian would catch up with her. Fortunately, she escaped unharmed.

She quickly met up with Zhou Qiuhe and Director Zheng and rode back to town on a ox cart.

What Xia Juanjuan and Yan Haotian didn't know was that someone had seen them all coming out of the dark alley one after the other.

Xu Jiayuan looked a little gloomy.

Xia Juanjuan, this bitch, pretended to be a chaste and virtuous woman in front of him, swearing to never obey him, but in the end, she still went out with some other wild man?

In his heart, Xia Juanjuan had eloped with him (although he was deceived by her, he was willing to believe it), and she was his woman.

Although she later married Li Zhan, Li Zhan was injured and couldn't do that kind of thing, so she was just a title. Xia Juanjuan was still a virgin, and he would get her sooner or later.

But now she was taken by another man? How could he not be jealous and furious, feeling like he was being cuckolded?

However, Xu Jiayuan quickly suppressed his anger.

Perfect! He was just worried about how to get Xia Juanjuan because of her special identity. Now, he has this leverage over Xia Juanjuan in his hand. Is he still afraid that she will not let him do what he wants?

*

When the ox cart returned to the town, Xia Juanjuan bought some wool at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Lizhan will be back in more than a month, and she wanted to knit him a sweater that would fit him closely.

The wool yarn bought from the supply and marketing cooperative was not very good. She had high-quality wool yarn in her space, so she replaced it with yarn of the same color when she got home.

Zhou Qiuhe also knew how to knit, so she asked her to teach her. There were no fancy needle techniques, but she was able to learn it quickly.

Xia Juanjuan took out the set of preschool textbooks that Director Zheng had lent her, called Li Wen, Li Wu and Bei Bei over, and said solemnly, "This is the literacy book I borrowed from the town. Starting tomorrow, you can go out to collect firewood or play with other friends in the afternoon, but you have to learn literacy and arithmetic at home with the textbook in the morning. Do you understand?"

"Next spring, Xiaowen will go to the town's primary school. As for Xiaowu and Beibei, they will have to wait until next year and the year after. However, they can still start learning with their brother..."

When Li Beibei heard this, he raised his fingers and said excitedly, "Mom! Beibei can count! Big brother taught me! Beibei can count from one to ten!"

Upon hearing this, Li Wu said, "Mom, my elder brother also taught me! I can count to twenty!"

Li Beibei was very dissatisfied when he saw that his brother had taken the limelight. He pointed at Li Wu and said, "Second brother, you are lying! Second brother can't even count to twenty! If you can count, how many numbers are after ten?"

Li Wu immediately said unconvincedly: "Of course I know, it's... um... it's... 1, 2, 3..."

Because he couldn't remember, Li Wu counted from 1 on his fingers.

Xia Juanjuan burst out laughing at the side.

This little guy is really cute and fun.

Li Beibei put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "Humph! Beibei said that second brother couldn't count! Second brother, shame on you!"

Li Wuzhang blushed: "I...then do you know what number is after ten? Tell me!"

Li Beibei twisted her face and said righteously: "Beibei doesn't know either! But Beibei can only count to ten, so of course she doesn't know!"

Li Wu: “…”

Xiao Wu, who was bullied by his sister, felt very aggrieved. He looked to his older brother Li Wen for help, pouted his lips and wanted to cry.

Li Wen at the side sighed and patted his head comfortingly: "It's 11..."

Li Wen turned to look at Xia Juanjuan, then suddenly lowered his head and stammered in a low voice: "Well... is going to school very expensive? I heard from Zhao Dabao in the village that the tuition fee is one yuan per semester! Moreover, if I go to school, I won't be able to earn work points..."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about money. As for work points, it's useless to earn one or two work points a day. You might as well go to school!"

Li Wen bit his lip and said nothing.

Suddenly, he ran to the inner room and came out holding a small box.

He took out the four yuan that Xia Juanjuan had given him from the box and handed it to Xia Juanjuan.

"This... is for you! From now on, we don't have to pay any money every month. Thank you, Mom... Mom..."

After shouting, her little face turned so red that it seemed like blood was about to drip out.

In fact, Li Wen had already identified with Xia Juanjuan a long time ago, but he felt awkward at first. He secretly practiced the word "Mom" for a long time but was too embarrassed to say it out loud. Today, he finally said it out loud.

Xia Juanjuan was actually confused by Li Wen's calling her like that. This awkward little guy, after being in trouble for so long, finally decided to call her that?

But she didn't care what she was called, so she just agreed.

That night, I started teaching the three kids one or two Chinese characters or simple arithmetic every day, which was also a form of evening entertainment.

In addition to teaching them to read and knit sweaters, she also practiced the space teleportation skill seriously. After a week, she was able to go directly to the town and control it more freely.

However, she found that she could only teleport to places she had been to before, which were the supply and marketing cooperatives and the black market in town. Fortunately, she tried it at night and didn't meet anyone.

A week later, she followed Director Zheng to purchase goods again, and delivered the materials agreed upon with Liu Caipuri last time, earning nearly 400 yuan.

Procurement manager Liu was very satisfied with the products and decided on the spot to have a long-term partnership, delivering supplies every half a month.

Considering that she could use the space to go directly to the county town in the future, Xia Juanjuan was thinking about buying a house in the county town.