After returning home, Shen Qingqing did not make a decision on her own. Although primary school is compulsory education and there is no tuition fee, it does not mean that there are no miscellaneous fees, such as the cost of school uniforms, and the cost of printing test papers and workbooks.
This is also a considerable expense for Chen Manyu's family.
In addition, Chen Manyu is currently helping out at Li Xunli's porcelain kiln. If Chen Manyu goes to school, Li Xunli will lose one helper.
The matters discussed always inevitably involve Li Xunli.
So after Li Xunli returned exhausted from a day of trying to get along with her fifth great-uncle's son, Shen Qingqing chuckled and snuggled up behind her mother, giving her a shoulder massage.
No one knows a daughter better than her mother. The moment Shen Qingqing stuck out her little bottom, Li Xunli knew she was about to fart.
While enjoying her daughter's shoulder massage, she asked, "What do you want to do?"
Shen Qingqing noticed that her mother sounded quite relaxed, so she didn't beat around the bush and immediately told her about Chen Manyu: "Mom, Brother Manyu still has a student record at our school. I asked our homeroom teacher, and he said that if Brother Manyu wants to go back to school, he can go back to study."
Li Xunli turned around and looked at Shen Qingqing standing behind her with great surprise: "Why are you meddling in this?"
Shen Qingqing scratched under her nose: "I was teaching Manyu to read, and I found that he could learn, and he seemed to really want to go back to school, so I asked the teacher if he could go back in this situation."
After hearing this, Li Xunli's focus shifted: "You're teaching him to read? To read first-grade characters?"
Shen Qingqing puffed out her cheeks: "Fifth grade characters!"
Li Xunli was even more surprised: "You can?!"
Shen Qingqing straightened her back: "Of course I can! I understand so many famous works, which is why I was able to participate in the competition. Don't underestimate me!"
Li Xunli was amused by Shen Qingqing's expression and quickly said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Mom underestimated you."
Shen Qingqing hummed twice to indicate her acceptance, and then asked, "What about Brother Manyu's matter?"
"Wait a minute, wait until Mom and Uncle's job is settled before telling your brother Manyu and Aunt Huifen about this." Li Xunli's heart raced as she thought of the big deal Li Xunjin had told her about.
If we can land that big order, even if we lose money, it would be an excellent advertisement!
Big orders require manpower, so Chen Manyu can help out and save up his tuition fees himself.
Shen Qingqing understood what her mother meant and nodded.
After she returned to school, she told Chen Zesong about Chen Manyu's difficult family situation and asked him if they could wait until their family could catch their breath before coming.
Chen Zesong has no objection.
This wait lasted for more than half a month, because the firing of several new pieces was a collaboration between two people, and it took a long time for the two to work together to figure out how to complete their own parts without affecting each other.
Fortunately, their hard work paid off. After more than half a month of perseverance, in late May and early June, Li Xunli and her team finally succeeded in firing three pieces of porcelain that could be described as perfect.
Simple tea trays are elegant, ordinary tea trays are exquisite, and complex tea trays are gorgeous. A great deal of effort has been put into the color scheme and the patterns on the tea tray surface.
Li Xunjin gave his fifth great-uncle's son a red envelope containing 8,888 yuan. Because of their kinship, the son refused to accept payment for his work, so Li Xunjin had no choice but to give the money away in the form of a red envelope.
Before leaving, Wu Zubo's son held the obviously thick red envelope, feeling quite satisfied.
After seeing the people off, Li Xunjin said to Li Xunli, "Sister, hurry up and make all the porcelain you know how to make, the more exquisite the better."
Li Xunli asked, puzzled, "What's this for?"
“If we want this order, we have to show them that we have the ability to handle it well, right?” Li Xunjin explained.
Li Xunli understood, and without asking Chen Manyu for help, she devoted herself entirely to the production of this batch of exquisite samples.
Because of the large quantity, the firing time for each piece was different, and by June 18th, Li Xunli had only made half of the porcelain.
June 19th is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a statutory holiday.
The company in Shenrongzhou gave them a day off. After the two families had lunch at the Li family's house, Li Yuxing cooked a small pot of zongzi (sticky rice dumplings) and packed them up. Then the two families drove to the river embankment to watch the dragon boat races.
Every year, each village and town in Chaozhou has its own dragon boat team for the dragon boat races. They prepare the dragon boats one to one and a half months in advance, and the team members spontaneously organize themselves to train every day, all in order to show their style on the Dragon Boat Festival.
The bright, golden sun hung high in the sky. Shen Qingqing and her family all wore hats. As soon as they arrived at the river embankment, they grabbed the adults' hands and desperately pushed their way forward.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see what the dragon boats in the water look like.
The river embankment was crowded with people, some wearing hats, some holding umbrellas, some basking in the sun, and some holding watermelons, popsicles, and ice cream.
Shen Qingqing glanced at it, licked her lips, but didn't insist on eating it.
Below the long embankment, next to the steps leading up to the riverbank, there are several vendors selling these things.
However, Shen Qingqing was terrified of her stomach problems in her past life, so even though she doesn't have stomach problems now, she doesn't dare to do anything reckless.
"They're here! All nineteen dragon boat teams have arrived!"
Upon hearing someone say this, Shen Qingqing quickly turned her gaze away from what the other person was holding and craned her neck to look at the river.
From afar, you can see a red banner stretched across both banks of the river, and behind that banner are nineteen dragon boat teams.
Their village also had one, but it was eliminated because it didn't win the preliminary round.
But there is another team in their town.
Shen Qingqing listened attentively to the adults around her discussing which team belonged to which family, and identified them one by one until she found the dragon boat that represented their town.
The red and green color scheme is very eye-catching.
"Bang—"
With a ringing of a bell, the red banner was quickly pulled down, and the drums of the nineteen dragon boats sounded almost simultaneously.
The deafening drumbeats rippled across the river, and the shouts of workers rose and fell in unison: "Three, two, one! Three, two, one!"
White waves, splashing everywhere, rose up on the river surface.
The grand and spectacular scene awakened long-forgotten memories in Shen Qingqing's mind.
She had watched dragon boat races in her past life, but that was after her uncle moved to a new house, and she watched them from a bridge near the neighborhood.
That location was far from the river, and everything you could see was small.
But what remained the same was the deafening sound of drums and shouts.
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