Chapter 79: Chapter 79: The First Step to Changing Destiny
Da Ya and Er Ya both studied during their daily rest breaks and noted questions they couldn’t answer to ask Jiang Mianmian when she returned from school.
They brought out the math problems they couldn’t understand during the day, and after a brief glance, Jiang Mianmian began to explain them to the two.
After Jiang Mianmian had explained all the problems they didn’t understand, Er Ya looked at her with a face full of longing and asked, “San Ya, can you tell us what school is like?”
Although the commune primary school was not too far from here, Da Ya and Er Ya had started helping at home at a very young age and never had any leisure time of their own.
So, having grown up so much, they had never left Stone Bridge Village, let alone seen that ‘legendary’ school.
“The school is just a few mud houses and a large open space, not much different from our village. Each classroom has a big blackboard, and the teacher writes on it with white chalk,” Jiang Mianmian described indifferently, unimpressed by even the rarest red brick houses, having seen skyscrapers in the twenty-first century.
Jiang Mianmian knew they longed for school and hoped to imagine themselves there through her description.
Thinking about this, she suddenly felt a pang of sorrow, but mostly, she felt fortunate.
If she didn’t have a father who valued daughters as much as sons, perhaps her fate would have been the same as theirs, although she wouldn’t have accepted it, she surely wouldn’t have been as happy as she was now.
After reflection, she said to them, “Big sister, second sister, even if you can’t go to school, you can still study at home. If you have questions, ask me, and if I don’t know, I’ll ask the teacher. It’s good to learn more. Later, if the county town recruits workers, they will surely need people who can read.”
Although they couldn’t go to school right now, they knew the importance of taking the initiative to learn; this was a significant step forward and the first step in changing their own destinies.
Upon hearing this, Er Ya’s eyes immediately lit up, “San Ya, are you serious? Will we have a chance to work in the county town in the future?”
Facing Er Ya’s hopeful eyes, Jiang Mianmian nodded firmly, “Absolutely, as long as you study hard, there will always be a chance.”
Especially Er Ya, who was relatively intelligent and diligent in her studies, often quietly reciting poetry and verses from the language textbook while working.
But right now, her voice carried little weight, and she couldn’t help them; her own chance to attend school had been the result of her father making a huge fuss.
The two girls stayed in the big room for a long time before leaving reluctantly.
And Jiang Mianmian excitedly entered the system space, “System, it’s time for the reward!”
The system feigned ignorance, “What reward?”
“I scored a double hundred this time, and I should receive ten intelligence points,” Jiang Mianmian said loudly, it was the first time in her two lifetimes that she had achieved full marks!
First in her year, how could she not be excited as someone who had struggled academically!
The system replied calmly, “Host, rewards are given only after completing an entire book, and you’ve only studied half of the fourth-grade textbook.”
Jiang Mianmian… she had indeed forgotten.
So she said, “Never mind then, let’s wait for the final exams.”
She no longer needed to rush through the textbook now, how exhausting!
Yet, the system kindly reminded her, “Host, you have only three minutes left on your detector.”
The Host was like a salted fish, who wouldn’t move unless pushed.