Chapter 432: Smoke Rising from the Ancestral Grave
The three people hurried to the village cemetery. From a distance, they saw thick smoke billowing from the cemetery.
My goodness, it's not just her family, but the entire village's ancestral graves are all smoking? How great is this?
Did their village produce a true dragon emperor? Or did a Taoist priest ascend to heaven?
Just when Su Xiaoxiao was doubting her life, she saw two naughty kids digging something by the fire with a branch in their hands.
She came over curiously: "What are you two doing?"
The little boy was startled by the sudden sound, but when he turned around and saw that it was not an adult in the family, he relaxed.
She even offered an invitation enthusiastically: "Sister, would you like some roasted sweet potatoes?"
Su Xiaoxiao glanced at the tomb of someone that was crackling with fire, silently looked away, clasped her hands together in her heart, and prayed desperately: Uncle, it’s really not me who is roasting sweet potatoes on your grave, please don’t disturb me at night, thank you.
The culprit was quickly apprehended. It turned out to be a few half-grown children from the village. Seeing that there were a lot of weeds in the cemetery, they lit a fire and roasted sweet potatoes and chestnuts to eat.
As a result, when the wind blew, the fire grew stronger and stronger, and it was impossible to stop it.
The little boy in the lead was very aggrieved: "Wow, my sweet potato is still in there! I need to go find my sweet potato."
After saying that, Xiti was beaten up by his parents and was carried away crying.
At this time, the weeds on the grave had almost been burned out and were successfully extinguished with little effort.
After the fire was out, everyone went back home to look for their mothers.
As soon as Su Xiaoxiao got home, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have agreed to go to the literacy class today. The time was set at 7:30 in the evening, and she was about to miss it.
It's really not her fault. The main reason is that the green smoke rising from the ancestral grave was too spectacular, and she was just busy watching the fun.
She took a steamed bun and hurried out, eating it as she walked towards the team.
The literacy class was set up in the brigade yard, and many people were already sitting there obediently with their small stools.
At the front of the crowd stood a half-new table with a small blackboard hanging on the wall, serving as a makeshift podium.
The teacher hadn't arrived yet, and a group of older students gathered together to gossip, chatting animatedly about the Zhang and Li families' affairs.
Su Xiaoxiao cleared her throat and walked to the front of the crowd: "Hello, fellow villagers. From today on, I will be your literacy class teacher. Please take good care of me."
"Isn't this the girl from the Su family? I heard that she was always at the bottom of the class in school. How can she be a teacher?"
"That's right. I heard that she was almost expelled because of her poor grades. Her family paid someone to help her through the back door so she could barely get her diploma."
"You're not even that good yourself, how can you teach us? Are teachers so casual?"
The people below were talking about it, and it was obvious that they looked down on her as a cheap teacher.
"I know you think I'm not qualified to teach you, and I don't want to teach you anyway."
Su Xiaoxiao raised her voice and said
The crowd below immediately exploded.
"If you don't teach us, why waste our time? You might as well go home and sleep."
"That's right. I'm exhausted after a day's work, and now I have to listen to the heavenly book. I don't want to go anymore."
Su Xiaoxiao smiled politely. "Since no one wants to go, then that's it. Oh, Director Zhao has already agreed with me that I can work part-time as a literacy teacher. My salary is 15 yuan a month, which will be deducted from everyone's work points. I can even get paid for not working. It's a great job."
Su Xiaoxiao said this, happily picking up the books on the table and preparing to leave.
"What? Deducting from our work points? Why?"
"Why don't we just stop attending? This literacy class is about to fail, why should we still pay her a salary?"
"Yes, that's right. Let's go talk to the village chief."
A group of people were ready to go find the village chief to talk to him in a rage.
"Hey, I heard that this is what the higher-ups mean. Whether our village can be rated as advanced will be directly linked to whether this literacy class is held or not."
Su Xiaoxiao held the book and made a gesture to leave, and said casually as she passed by the crowd.
The whole group was stunned. If the village's advanced status was ruined, wouldn't the village chief go crazy? No one would be happy then.
Everyone knows that their village chief has been looking forward to this for several years, hoping to be recognized as an advanced worker and to be proud of himself among the surrounding brother villages.
"Okay, go find the village chief. I'm going home to sleep."
Su Xiaoxiao stretched her shoulders and prepared to leave with her book in her arms.
"Wait, who told you to leave?"
Suddenly someone shouted at her.
Su Xiaoxiao turned back in confusion: "Don't you want to go? Why do you want me to stay?"
"Who said that? Let's get started now, hurry up! You're not afraid of feeling guilty for taking so much money and not doing any work."
The middle-aged woman in the lead spoke aggressively.
The people around immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, we have to go to class, you teach us well, and you are not allowed to be lazy."
You see, when it comes to their own vital interests, no one thinks it is nonsense.
"Okay, this is what you asked for. If you don't want to listen, you can leave at any time."
Su Xiaoxiao said this and returned the same way with the book in her arms.
Don't want to listen? Are you kidding! They've already paid for it, so wouldn't it be a loss if they didn't listen? Even if it's a tortoise chanting, they have to understand every detail.
The group of people who were originally lazy suddenly changed their attitude 180 degrees and listened very attentively.
When Zhao Ruimei came over to see what was going on, she was stunned.
No, maybe she had come to the wrong place? Everyone was listening attentively. Was this really their village's literacy class?
It was a mess before, and listening to a class was like a life-threatening situation for them. What happened?
She glanced at Su Xiaoxiao behind the desk in confusion. Could it be that this girl had some leverage over these people?
Others may not know, but she knows it very well. There are several famous shrews in the village in this literacy class.
I didn't expect that everyone was so well governed by this little girl.
Su Xiaoxiao saw her coming, smiled at her, then took out a handful of White Rabbit candies from her pocket and put them on the desk.
"Everyone, after I finish speaking these words, I will ask random questions. If you answer correctly, you can come to me and get a piece of candy. The more correct answers you get, the more candy you will get."
The enthusiasm of the crowd was immediately aroused. You know, most of these illiterate people are middle-aged women.
They are all good at making a living. How can they not take advantage of the opportunity? Even if it is just to get a few more pieces of candy, they have to learn it well.
The students in this literacy class were so passionate that they wanted to stand on stools and raise their hands just to get a few more candies.
Well, the problem that had been bothering her for several days was solved by just a few pieces of candy. Zhao Ruimei slapped her thigh and said that she would not have offered such a high salary earlier. You know, this salary was saved by several village cadres from their teeth.
In the evening of the next day, Su Xiaoxiao took an hour off and left work early just to see who her future sister-in-law was.
I excitedly packed up my food from the state-owned restaurant and went home. As soon as I reached the door, I saw a fashionable woman standing in the yard. Her back looked a little familiar.
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