Chapter 109: Chapter 111: Starting Elementary School
“Do you think that’s a divine medicine?” Chen Zhong stretched out his hand and patted her head, “Haste makes waste. Your foundation is too poor. You’ll have to take it for at least two years before seeing any effect.”
Is this a blow?
Tang Yuxin touched her face. Actually, she really didn’t want to eat it anymore, because she didn’t believe too much in it.
What pill in this world could magically make people fairer, prettier, and even smell better after eating it?
She had decided not to believe Chen Zhong anymore. She was perfectly fine, why should she take any medicine? But, when the night drew in and it was time to sleep, she found her hand reaching into the jar out of habit, lifting a pill out, and popping it into her mouth as if it were a jellybean.
It was not until she swallowed the pill that she realized she had decided not to take the medicine any more. But she took it anyway.
Well, let it be. There has been no harm in taking it for a year. Actually, she felt her sleep had improved and that she could sleep through the night now. So she decided to treat it as a sleep aid, after all, Chen Zhong wouldn’t harm her. He wouldn’t have gone to such lengths just to poison her.
“Xinxin, tomorrow Dad will take you to register,” Tang Zhinian patted his daughter’s head. Seeing her little dark face made him want to cry, but thinking about the other children in the village, they were all similar to Yuxin. Maybe the children brought up in this village were all the same, born fair-skinned but they all turned dark-skinned when they grew up.
“Register?” Tang Yuxin looked up from her bowl, “Hmm, register for what? Where are we going to register?”
“For school,” Tang Zhinian chuckled, “Our Xinxin has grown up and will become a pupil.”
School. Tang Yuxin almost choked on the food she had just put in her mouth.
School. Primary school.
But could she not go to primary school, and sit in the classroom with those snotty-nosed kids in the village, reciting 1, 2, 3? She almost wanted to cry at the prospect.
She lowered her head and continued to eat in silence.
“Our Xinxin is so clever. I’m sure she’ll get into university in the future.”
Tang Yuxin let out a small sigh.
Alright then, she’ll attend school and aim for university. By the time she’s of age, university graduates will be a dime a dozen. The continue education wouldn’t be so impressive, but if she could just keep studying at her current rate till graduation, she should be able to get a job in a good hospital. In her era, job placement was guaranteed for graduates. However, this was only reserved for her generation. Future graduates would have to find work on their own.
Earning a university degree during this time was hard, getting into university was difficult, but once you graduated, you had guaranteed job security.
The next day, Tang Yuxin, with a new backpack on her back, was taken to the village primary school by Tang Zhinian.
At the time, schools were village-based. Each village had a primary school, each group of about ten villages had a middle school, and only three high schools were available in the city.
All students rotated between these few schools.
There was no exception to this rule unless you stopped studying or moved out of the village.
Otherwise, all students would attend these schools.
If not this one, then that one.
If not this school, then that school.
Registration fees at the time were very cheap, the total cost for textbooks and various school fees was only about ten yuan.