Chapter 1682 - 1085: Heroine of the Republic 59

Chapter 1682: Chapter 1085: Heroine of the Republic 59

Saying they didn’t want money, when Qin Zheng left, he still secretly left one hundred yuan under the pillow, along with cloth tickets and Special Supply Wine Tickets.

When An Yi tidied up the bed, she saw them. She didn’t decline them because, after all, it’s impolite not to reciprocate. If he has it, there’s no harm in her taking it.

After leaving An Yi’s home, Qin Zheng stayed at Gu Cheng’s place for half a month before leaving. As for where he went, Gu Cheng didn’t ask, Qin Zheng didn’t say, and An Yi naturally wouldn’t pay too much attention. Anyway, everyone knew that this person’s future wouldn’t be bad.

In mid-June, An Hu had already successfully finished learning the elementary knowledge points. To not waste time, An Yi used her connections to get him a place as an auditing student at the First Middle School, letting him study there first, and after the entrance examination in November, depending on his level, he would enter the first or second grade of junior high school.

An Hu cherished this opportunity very much. Although the classes seemed a bit hard to follow, his only advantage was being steadfast enough. He recorded the things he didn’t understand with a pen and asked the aunts back home. This cycle repeated for two months, and by September, An Hu could already keep up with the first-year junior high school pace.

An Hu’s decision to return to the city at this time was a wise choice.

Thankfully, An Hu finished the elementary content. Otherwise, there would still be worries about food.

...This environment made people inexplicably irritable. When An Yi didn’t want to go, she let Anna take An Hu and others back while she stayed at home doing some odd jobs.

From September to November were the critical periods of the autumn harvest, also the final stage of school learning tasks. After all, the eight months of learning from the end of March to early November were continuous, causing relative fatigue, but who let winter here have such a long cycle?

The vegetables at An Yi’s home were growing well this year. Every week they were irrigated with Spiritual Spring water, and they grew densely. Vegetables kept coming one after another, seemingly never-ending. An Hu delivered them every three days, and every weekend they went back. Under An Yi’s leadership, the accumulated amount was sun-dried into vegetable dry goods, pickled into pickles, all good methods for preservation.

The better the vegetables were taken care of, the more they yielded, naturally bringing enjoyment in the winter.

Regularly, tomatoes were made into sauce, wet chilies into Chili Sauce, dry ones into chili powder, and beans, cucumbers, eggplants, potatoes, etc., were sun-dried into vegetable dry goods, which could also be directly pickled with salt.

In the past, this was all done directly at the countryside house. Since shifting the focus to the county, these were all brought back to the home in the county. Besides what they brought back, An Yi also transferred a lot out from the space.

After all, fresh vegetables appearing in the cold winter months was not normal. She dared not take risks, so she simply made more while sun-drying.

Besides vegetables, they also sun-dried salted fish, smoked fish, cured meat, smoked meat, sausages, and other reserved activities.

Their family lived prosperously, but as for others, who knows how many were happy or sad.

Just like a female teacher in the same office, who, because of not getting enough to eat every day, her child, born, didn’t survive the month. She wasn’t aware of this matter. If she knew, she wouldn’t have watched the child leave like that.

Later, she found out that although the couple were both employed, earning seventy to eighty yuan a month, the family burden was extraordinarily heavy. Elders and siblings from the countryside became their burden. Despite earning high wages, they simply lived worse than others. No wonder her colleague suffered from postpartum depression. Her mental state was always unstable, pushed by life.

Even after returning to work post-full-moon, the quality of her teaching continuously dropped. Several times she was corrected by students. Gradually, she lost confidence. The school, seeing this, did not dismiss her considering her many years of dedication but called her husband, explained the situation, and asked him to take her home. After all, a mental illness needs a mental cure. If this continued, something would happen eventually, so it was better to plan early.

Unexpectedly, after her husband took her home, he beat her. The kids, knowing about this, ran to their home to stand up for the teacher, each bringing food to her. The teacher, already weakened by depression, and mistreated by the in-law’s house, lost so much weight that it seemed a gust of wind could blow her away. The child was still so small, ultimately couldn’t hold up, and both mother and child were hospitalized.

When hospitalized, the examination results were that both woman and child suffered from severe malnutrition. If they didn’t stop the loss in time, it might affect the child’s future height and IQ. Only then did the man realize his mistake...