Where I Ca From (5)
If it weren’t for this, she wouldn’t have been such good friends with Yu Qingshi.
Of course, those first-year children would not admit that it was because Teacher Tang always praised Jiang Xiaoman for being smart, and it made them feel defeated.
Having been alone for a long ti, Jiang Xiaoman was a bit lonely. It would be great to go to kindergarten, where many children like her love to learn and communicate.
Jiang Xiaoman hesitated for a long ti, torn between her hotown and the kindergarten. She asked Jiang Xing in a small voice, “Then after we go to the city, can we co back again?”
“Of course, we will co back during the holidays.”
Jiang Xiaoman imdiately said. “Okay, then let’s move! When will we go?”
“Well, it’s not ti yet. Soon.”
“…” That’s the sa as what he said last ti!
Jiang Xiaoman felt cheated again and was so angry that she ignored him all night.
Jiang Xing assured her that this ti it was true. He was already looking for a location for his company and asked soone to look for a house.
They would indeed move; it was just a matter of ti.
Fine then, she would trust him just this once.
Jiang Xiaoman was resurrected, full of life again.
She felt that such a big matter should be told to Teacher Tang, so she begged Jiang Xing to take her to Teacher Tang’s house the next day.
Teacher Tang’s ho was also in a village near this one, and it was relatively remote.
Twenty days after the New Year was the winter vacation. He was not in school right now, and she hadn’t seen Teacher Tang for almost a month. She missed him a little bit.
They had not sent this year’s new year gift to Teacher Tang yet. Jiang Xing and Jiang Xiui talked, and they decided to have Jiang Xing take Xiaoman and deliver it.
Jiang Xiui prepared five strips of bacon for Teacher Tang, various eggs, dried noodles, and many other things, and had Jiang Xing carry them on his back.
They were not expensive things, but they conveyed their intent.
Jiang Xiaoman had no mory of last year’s new year gift. This was the first ti she was going to Teacher Tang’s house.
She asked confusedly, “Uncle, why did grandma say that she would give Teacher Tang a gift every new year?”
“Because…” Jiang Xing paused for a long ti, seemingly lost in mory. “Because Teacher Tang is our family’s benefactor. People have to repay the favors they were given.”
“Why is Teacher Tang our family’s benefactor?”
It was so complicated. Jiang Xiaoman’s little brain almost could not turn anymore.
“Because… Teacher Tang is my sister’s -that is, your mother’s- ntor.”
“What is a ntor? Is it not a teacher? Is there any difference between a teacher and a ntor5?”
“…” Jiang Xing sighed heavily. “A ntor is a very, very important teacher. Teacher Tang was like that; he enlightened your mother and helped her studies.”
So it was like that.
Jiang Xiaoman scratched her head and started inferring. “Why didn’t my mother go to school? Was it because she was as young as ?”
Back then, even eating was difficult. The school was a luxury. How could their family had the spare money to send their children to school?
But his elder sister would not resign herself to that. Their family said they could not afford to send her to school and asked her to help her family and earn money obediently.
But Jiang Yue wouldn’t. Every day after she finished her work, she would take the ti to go to school and hide under the window to listen in secretly.
She picked up the pencil stumps that others didn’t want any more from the ground and wrote on a brick. This lasted for a year.
If it were not for Teacher Tang, maybe Jiang Yue wouldn’t have been able to go to school.
This matter was so complicated, Jiang Xing always sighed whenever he thought of it.
He glanced at Jiang Xiaoman and sighed. “If you want to know, ask Teacher Tang later when you go to his house.”
5. teacher and ntor are one word different; the teacher is laoshi, ntor here is enshi
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