Chapter 93 An unexpected event

When it was getting dark, the Yu family members who had gone out to help clean up the landslide came back.

It seemed like Huai Ge'er stepped on something, he stumbled as he walked, and even cried.

Li Chunhua's pupils trembled!

My son has always been strong, why is he crying? !

Did he get bullied outside?

Li Chunhua was very anxious.

Mrs. Wei was also anxious, and both the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at Yu Daniu.

Yu Daniu shook his head and said in a low voice: "A man was dug out from the collapsed road. He was the teacher of Huai'er's school..."

Li Chunhua and Mrs. Wei were both dumbfounded!

What happened?!

Several young men from the Yu family who were detained by Mrs. Wei because of their young age and were not allowed to go to the landslide site to dig soil and rescue people were all stunned!

"I heard that it was a teacher from the school, visiting friends on a rainy day..." Yu Daniu sighed, "But that place is prone to landslides, so I guess the teacher just happened to pass by..."

The Yu family fell into silence.

At first, only Huai Ge'er was crying, but gradually, the other brothers also started crying.

That's their husband.

Once a teacher, always a father!

Several young men from the Yu family burst into tears.

This made Xingxing very anxious. Seeing her brothers crying, she felt so sad in her heart, but she didn't know how to comfort them. She could only hang around her brothers, comforting one with her childish voice, hugging another, and was very busy.

This was also the first time that Xingxing actually encountered the issue of "someone dying".

She just felt that this was a very sad thing.

Mr. Xuetang was not from Nantuo Village, but on the day of his funeral, many villagers from several nearby villages came.

Especially the students studying in the school and their families all came.

Several young men from the Yu family wore white cloth on their heads, in mourning for their teacher.

The funeral was grand.

After the funeral, an urgent issue was raised.

The only teacher in the school has passed away, so where will these students go to study in the future?

The brothers of the Yu family suddenly became uneducated again.

Zhou Wu's mother was so worried that her hair turned white. She ran to Yu's house and talked to Mrs. Wei about her son, who was going to be the top scholar in the future, but now he had no school to go to. What would he do in the future?

Bai Xiaofeng curled her lips subtly.

She still remembered what Gui Ge'er had told her, that Wang Qian'an could never outsmart her Liu Ge'er.

He can't even compare to her own brother Liu, so what's the point of talking about whether he is the top scholar or not!

But now is not the time to say these things. Wang Qianan has no place to study, and the four brothers of the Yu family also have no place to study. They face the same dilemma.

"There are only two options now..." Zhou Wu's mother was very worried. "One is to go to a village thirty miles away. There is a school there, but I heard that the teacher likes to drink and often teaches the children drunk. The other option is to go to the county to find a school... But it takes at least an hour to walk to the county. The children can't bear walking like this every day. If we live in the school, the cost will be even higher!"

Mrs. Wei was also worried about this.

However, the brothers of the Yu family were very determined and made their choice quickly.

Huai Ge'er was the eldest brother. He said to Mrs. Wei, "Grandma, let's go to the county to study! We just need to get up an hour earlier every day. We are not afraid of hardship in studying. There is a saying that goes, 'When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, and his body hungry. All these are just training."

The other three young men from the Yu family also responded.

Bai Xiaofeng, however, was reluctant to leave.

Gui Ge'er is not even eight years old, and Liu Ge'er is weaker. They have to walk such a long distance every day...

But Mrs. Wei was moved by her grandsons and made the decision: "Okay! If you are willing to go to the county to study, then we will go to the county to study! There is only one thing, since this is the path you chose, you should stick to it!"

The four young men from the Yu family had firm looks in their eyes and answered in unison.

They have all kinds of things they want to do, but if they don't know how to read and understand things, that won't do.

When Zhou Wu's mother saw that the brothers of the Yu family had chosen to study in the county, she was somewhat shocked, yet somewhat hesitant.

When they got home, Zhou Wu's mother asked her son Wang Qian'an: "...Son, what do you choose?"

Wang Qianan did not answer Zhou Wu Niang's question first. He asked Zhou Wu Niang: "Mom, how did Yu Yongliu and the others choose?"

Zhou Wu's mother said worriedly, "They all chose to go to the county to study. They said that they just need to get up an hour earlier every day. But you don't sleep much to begin with, and if you get up an hour earlier..."

Wang Qianan interrupted Zhou Wu's mother and said, "Mom, I will go to the county to study with Yu Yongliu and the others."

Zhou Wu's mother was very reluctant to let her son go, but her son had to go to school. After much hesitation, she went to Yu's house again and discussed with the Yu family to go to the county together to find a school for him to study. Then, the children could walk to the county together, so that they could be taken care of.

That's how it's settled.

However, Mrs. Wei and the others didn’t know which school in the county was better.

The best is naturally the public school run by the county, but the tuition is expensive and it is difficult to get into the county school. I heard that those who go there to study are almost all sons of wealthy families in the county.

Neither Zhou Wu Niang nor Mrs. Wei had ever thought about going to the county school.

There were some ordinary schools in the county. Mrs. Wei and Zhou Wu's mother went to the county to inquire for a day before they decided on a school run by an old student.

It was just that because this old student had the honor of being a student, his tuition was more expensive, two taels of silver per person per year, and pens, ink, paper and inkstone were charged separately.

Zhou Wu's mother took a deep breath and said, "Two taels of silver? Auntie, my family only has one child. He has talent, so we will have to support him even if we have to sell everything we have. But you have four brothers!"

Mrs. Wei frowned.

With four brothers, plus pens, ink, paper and inkstone, no matter how frugal they are, I'm afraid they won't be able to spend more than ten taels of silver a year.

She had previously set aside a sum of more than ten taels of silver for her brothers to go to school - she had intended that they would not have to worry about money for several years, but she had not expected that it would be spent in just one year.

After learning about this, Huai'er and his friends came to look for Mrs. Wei quietly one by one.

They all had only one goal, which was to tell Mrs. Wei that they would not study anymore and let their brothers and sisters do it instead.

Huai Ge'er said calmly: "I am the eldest, so naturally I have to focus on supporting my younger brothers' education first."

Bo Ge'er pretended to be relaxed: "Grandma, let my eldest brother and the others go to school. I have loved using an abacus since I was a child. I will find a job as an apprentice in the county and earn some money for the family."

The youngest, Gui Ge'er, was even more confident: "Grandma, I'm only seven years old, there's no rush to study. Let my brothers study, I can just hide away and be lazy."

Even Liu Ge'er came to see Grandma Wei and said, "Grandma, you know I'm smart. I've already learned all the characters. As for the book, you can read it by yourself."

Mrs. Wei felt both touched and sad.