"Go to school?" Qin Xiangyang inexplicably disliked this term. "I’m not going," he refused to go to school, he wanted to run a shop, make money, and take care of his little sister. If he went to school, what would become of his sister?
"Brother," Qin Xiangnuan crinkled her little nose, she didn’t want to raise a brother who only knew the obsession with money.
The future belongs to the era of culture.
Without culture, it could be terrifying.
What they are earning now is just petty business; without culture, do they have to sell pancakes here for a lifetime?
"Now that our family has money, you should go to school," Qin Xiangnuan insisted that her brother must go to school. After the New Year, he would be ten years old. It’s normal for rural children to start school late, at eight or nine. If he had to repeat a year, it was not uncommon to be ten and in the first grade, so he could still keep up.
"Didn’t brother say he would teach me how to write?" Qin Xiangnuan shook Qin Xiangyang’s arm.
"Brother, I want to learn to write, I want to learn to write."
"Then is it okay for you to go to school?" Qin Xiangyang’s head was starting to hurt. He really had no interest in going to school at all. Why bother with school when everything was fine? He preferred farming—oh right, not farming anymore, they were selling pancakes now.
"I’m too young, the school won’t take me," Qin Xiangnuan turned around, ready to go to sleep and practice writing.
Qin Xiangyang scratched his head and realized that was true, the village school had its regulations and only took older children, starting from eight years old. Qin Xiangnuan would only be old enough to go to school the year after next.
What about the shop? Qin Xiangyang was now worried about their shop.
"With me and Wendi’s sister here, we have enough," Qin Xiangnuan opened her eyes, "When Wendi’s sister comes back, I have other plans for the shop, so you should go to school first, big brother."
Qin Xiangyang originally wanted to resist a bit longer, but then, to his surprise, Qin Xiangnuan actually fell asleep, ignoring everyone. Ever since they moved out of the Qin Family, he, as the big brother, had to listen to his little sister, and in fact, it had been proven that every decision she made was the right one.
She said to sell pancakes, so they sold them, and they made money.
She said to buy a tricycle, so they bought one, and they earned even more.
She said to save the money, so they saved it, otherwise, they wouldn’t have known where to stash so much cash.
Then, when she says to go to school, he really should go. There’s no other reason, just that his sister also wants to learn to read, and he doesn’t know how, so he’ll have to go to school himself and then come back to teach his sister.
Meanwhile, Qin Xiangnuan herself was completely unaware of her brother’s overthinking at this moment. Right now, she was sitting in front of the system, already practicing calligraphy. The system, like the outside world, provided her with a table, allowing both her spirit and body to undergo training.
Her system was different from those in other novels, which grant rewards upon completion of certain tasks.
Hers did not offer any rewards.
It relied entirely on self-discipline. Only after completing a task by hand could you proceed to the next lesson. Whether you study or not is up to you; the system won’t force you to learn. You can study, or you can give up; the system won’t punish you, it will only give you enough time.
What others learn in a year, you are given ten years. Even if you are slow, you would eventually understand it in the end.
Although Qin Xiangnuan wasn’t very smart, she understood the principle that the early bird gets the worm. The experiences from her past life had taught her that without any skills, she would only be used, plotted against, and looked down upon. In this life, she wants to live like a person, to let her brother live well, to live happily.
She wanted him to go to primary school, to junior high and to high school, to university, and then marry a wife. Their family would live in a big house and earn lots of money.