Chapter 87: Chapter 87: After Raising a Child and Getting Rich in That Era, the Delicate Beauty Was Spoiled Rotten 7
“It’s all for you, eat up before it gets cold!” Su Zhiruan took a big bite. The juicy pork bun was both hot and fragrant, she almost bit off her tongue with that bite—it was worth more than gold!
Pandi’s gaunt face was full of disbelief. Her big, bright eyes were fixed on the pork bun, her small, dark hands tightly holding it, as if it might sprout legs and run away any second.
Su Erzhu tentatively licked it.
The big pork bun was snowy white, emitting a tempting fragrance—it was made with white flour!
Food coupons were limited, and their family was too poor. Even if they had coupons, they didn’t have money to pay for the other half, so often they exchanged food coupons for money and bought unwanted husk or other food that few people would eat, all to save money.
Tasting of wheat and at, along with an oiliness they hadn’t experienced in a long ti, once you took a bite, the fragrance lingered long in your mouth.
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Su Zhiruan watched the two children carefully nibbling away, in no rush herself.
From the shop owner, she had received about eighty-nine cents. Spending forty-five cents on buns, she had forty-four cents left.
Su Zhiruan securely put away the remaining money, watching Pandi and Erzhu eat their buns.
“Big sis, when did you learn foreign languages?” Erzhu asked while eating slowly, savoring every bite, and looking up curiously at Su Zhiruan.
Hearing this, Pandi too looked up curiously at her.
Deceiving two eight-year-old kids was quite simple, and Su Zhiruan also wanted to find a reason to send them to school, she asked smilingly, “I heard so at school, before you two were even born.”
Upon hearing it was sothing from before they were born, the two children believed it.
Seizing the mont, Su Zhiruan asked, “Do you want to study, go to university, then go out there and contribute to the country? Live a good life for yourselves?”
“Yes!”
The two children, holding their pork buns, shouted in unison.
With Su Zhiruan serving as a role model, their desire for learning had reached its peak now.
Erzhu raised his head, his eyes bright and determined, “Big sis, I want to study, beco amazing like you, and then go out there.”
Pandi nodded, cheeks full, but also showing her eagerness for education.
Su Zhiruan’s goal was achieved. After the children finished eating, she took Pandi and Erzhu to the cooperative store. Pencils were three cents, notebooks seven cents; she bought five pencils and five notebooks, and also bought each child a small cloth bag. Seeing sugar, one hundred pieces for a dollar, Su Zhiruan bought ten cents’ worth for Pandi and Erzhu to share.
The original host, now sixteen, had not attended school in her past life. She had not taken the university entrance exams, which was a lifelong regret. A good education was essential to progress.
Since arriving, Su Zhiruan had learned that the university entrance exams had just been reinstated. She needed to be a current student, which was no problem for her.
Most rural children had to return ho during each season to help out, even if they missed a sester, as long as they were present for the final exams.
For her, who had been a university student in a key university before coming to this fast-paced world, and had even pursued a master’s at Jinghua University, the university entrance exams really weren’t much of an issue.
Thus, she just needed to sit for the university entrance exams in two years’ ti.
Afterwards, Su Zhiruan used the money to buy so necessities for the family and also bought new clothes for each family mber.
After all the shopping, they had spent almost all their money, their hands filled with items big and small.
When Su Zhiruan returned ho, she told her mother about the plan.
Li ihua had no opinion of her own, rely stunned by the sheer number of items before her. She was surprised to see she too had new clothes. “These are for ?” she asked.
“Put on your new clothes, and we’ll have a good al today,” Su Zhiruan effortlessly set out the new bowls and chopsticks. “Mother, I plan to send Pandi and Erzhu to school.”
“Send them to school? What’s the use in learning all that?” Li ihua responded instinctively, but since she now relied on Su Zhiruan as her pillar, she dared not say much more.
“Though studying might not be the only way out, it’s the best in the world. Tomorrow morning, I’ll send Pandi and Erzhu to school and get their nas changed as well,” Su Zhiruan declared, ignoring any further words that Li ihua might have wanted to say.
Pandi quickly glanced at Su Zhiruan. Despite her young age, she was perceptive. Having been scolded and beaten at ho from an early age, being the second child and a daughter, she was never the focal point, could only work silently, even her na wasn’t truly her own.
She hadn’t expected her older sister to think of her.
Pandi silently vowed that she would always be good to Su Zhiruan in this lifeti.
And she would study hard to repay her.
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Early the next morning, Su Zhiruan busied herself taking Pandi and Erzhu to a school in the town.
“Today, I’ll introduce you to your teachers,” Su Zhiruan said, carrying a basket on her arm filled with so eggs.
These were rare commodities. Most people would rather sell them than eat them themselves to save money. The original family did not raise chickens or ducks; these were bought from the townspeople yesterday at 20 for a yuan.
The town’s primary school was so distance from here, but fortunately, they had arrived very early, before the students had started school.
After exchanging a few words and paying so money to the teacher in charge of student affairs, Su Zhiruan received two sets of textbooks, which she handed to Pandi and Erzhu, instructing them to hold onto them well. “Hold onto these, I’ll take you up to see the classroom.”
“Right, Erzhu, co here, let straighten your collar,” Su Zhiruan said as she fixed Erzhu’s sowhat crooked collar, “I just heard that Teacher Qin who will be teaching you is already in the classroom. It’s important to make a good first impression when eting soone for the first ti.”
Both children nodded in unison.
At that mont, the sky was just beginning to brighten with the first light of dawn, the rising sun bathing the earth in golden light that fell brilliantly on the national flag at the primary school’s entrance, and even the grass and trees on the ground seed softer.
The three of them turned the corner and quickly arrived at Year 1, Class 1.
Su Zhiruan felt her heartbeat quicken inexplicably.
The mont she looked up, she accidentally caught a glimpse of a young man — also looking up from behind the glass.
Their gazes t briefly and then drifted apart as effortlessly as clouds being swept by a gentle breeze.
The young man’s handso features were peerless, his appearance was as striking as snow, and he carried a dense scent of scholarship. With his high nose bridge and a sowhat languid deanor, he exuded a relaxed yet precise aura.
Su Zhiruan held her breath.
Seeing them, the young man t Su Zhiruan’s gaze through the glass and then stood up, pulling his chair back.
Such an aristocratic temperant was not typical of a common rural teacher!
Su Zhiruan watched as he walked out; he was very tall, requiring her and the two children to look up.
“Hello, I am your teacher, Qin Lianqi.”
At the sa mont, Su Zhiruan received a notification from the system—
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