They are truly uncle and grandson; their ways of thinking are surprisingly similar.
But before she had the chance, her uncle came in with a happy face. He locked the door without saying anything. Then he took out a few books from his arms and handed them to Xu Sinian.
Jiang Dahai said to her excitedly, "Si Nian, we have come to the right place. Look, these are all given to us by the old lady. You can go to the mountains to raise pigs with your uncle in the future. The old lady said that if I do well, you can go to the school in the town when it is built."
Xu Sinian looked at him incredulously and asked, "Reading?"
"Well, the old lady saw through your disguise, but she didn't make things difficult for us. She originally asked me if I wanted to be a companion to her granddaughter, but I refused. Later, the old lady said that she would build a school in Laohu Town in the future, and both boys and girls could go there to learn to read and write. As long as I work hard, she can give you a place."
Xu Sinian suddenly became alert, "Uncle, what do you think the old lady is trying to achieve by paying so much? Does she know our origins, like those people?"
"No way, the old lady didn't mention anything else!"
"Have you forgotten the forms we filled out when we first arrived? Except for the names of our ancestors, we reported almost everything else that needed to be reported. Even the inconsistencies in the lies should have been spotted by others a long time ago."
Jiang Dahai suddenly panicked: "What should we do? Why don't we just leave? Didn't the Qiao family say that we can come and go freely for the first month?"
Xu Sinian said in a daze: "Where can we go? Where else can we go? Is there any place that can tolerate us like this? As long as Madam Qiao doesn't have any intentions on our prescriptions, this is the best place for us to stay."
Qiao Xin had no idea that her generous behavior was suspected by others to have ulterior motives. After sending Jiang Dahai away, she summoned Cao Laosan's family.
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