Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Not long after, the two brothers of the Shen family came back.

The old lady hurried over to ask, "What's going on? What happened to the crops being stolen?"

Boss Shen's face was not looking good. "What else can we do? We took those people to the Red Flag Brigade and threw them directly in front of the captain of the Red Flag Brigade. They admitted their mistakes very quickly."

"But the Red Flag Brigade is also extremely poor and can't afford to pay anything in compensation. Their warehouse is also empty, with nothing in it."

"We had no choice but to give those people a good beating in front of everyone from the Red Flag Brigade, and then make them work for free on our brigade's land for half a year."

"It's a real bargain for them."

The old lady breathed a sigh of relief. "It's not bad to be able to achieve this result."

"Those are all young and strong. When the crops are ripe, it will be difficult for the old people in our team to harvest the crops alone. Having them here will help to reduce some of the burden on everyone."

What's more, there wasn't much damage to the crops, so all in all, it wasn't a big loss.

"You two should sit down and eat first. The food is saved for you. It won't taste good if it gets cold."

……

Xu Manyue just returned to her room.

Suddenly, someone knocked on her door. She opened it and saw it was Shen Qingqing.

"Qingqing, is there something wrong?" It seemed that this child rarely looked for her in private. Xu Manyue was a little surprised that she suddenly came here today.

After entering the house, close the door.

Shen Qingqing unconsciously clenched her sleeves and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Aunt San, tell me, tell me...can I still go to school?"

Xu Manyue was stunned for a moment, "You... want to go to school?"

She remembered that except for Shen Jingming, almost no one in the Shen family had finished junior high school.

Shen Qingqing was silent for a moment, then nodded heavily, "Aunt San, I used to have very good grades, always ranking first in the class, but... but after fifth grade, my family didn't let me continue studying. They asked me to come back and do housework or go to work."

"But now I want to go back to school."

Although she is fifteen years old and is a bit old to be in junior high school, she still wants to continue her studies.

Xu Manyue thought for a moment and asked, "Have you mentioned this to your grandma and your mother?"

The old lady is the boss of the family. Whoever she wants to study can continue to study.

As for her elder sister-in-law, she is her biological mother, so Shen Qingqing still has to tell her something.

"I mentioned it to my mother yesterday, but...but she said she couldn't do anything about it. If I could get grandma to agree, she wouldn't have any objections."

"I wanted to find a chance to talk to grandma about this, but I never found a chance to ask her privately, so I thought I'd ask you, Third Aunt, first." Shen Qingqing said, biting her lip.

Xu Manyue thought for a moment and felt that this age was indeed the right age to study.

"Qingqing, are you sure you want to go to school?"

It is now the second half of 1961. In less than five years, the ten-year special period will arrive. By then, the college entrance examination will be suspended, a large number of educated youth will go to the countryside, and all kinds of things will emerge.

If she went to junior high school now, it would be two years for junior high school and two years for high school, which would be four years in total, which would coincide with the cancellation of the college entrance examination.

However, if you go directly to a technical secondary school after graduating from junior high school, you can still catch up with the job placement guaranteed after graduating from the technical secondary school. However, most people seem to prefer to go to university.

Shen Qingqing nodded, "Yes, I'm sure."

She is just a rural girl and it is very difficult for her to change her fate.

For her, the only way out was to get into university, get a job as a city cadre, and then get a city hukou, directly becoming a respectable city person from a rural girl.

Xu Manyue was silent for a moment, and then she spoke after a while, "I'll tell your grandma about this for you, but you have to promise me that if you can continue to go back to school, you must study hard."

She didn't help her for free.

According to the basic information provided by the system, in her previous life, Shen Qingqing became extremely withdrawn because her mother was beaten to death by her father.

She even did many things that were detrimental to the Shen family in order to take revenge on Boss Shen.

As long as Shen Qingqing can study hard and change her destiny by attending technical secondary school, it will be the greatest reward for her.

In addition to Shen Qingqing, there is also Shen Xiaoshan. He is only fifteen years old this year. I don’t know if he is willing to continue studying.

Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up and she became excited instantly, "Don't worry, Third Aunt, I will definitely study hard."

If you can learn, who is willing to work?

After everyone left, Xu Manyue sat at the desk and did some calculations.

The tuition for junior high school is five yuan per semester. Including various miscellaneous fees, the total cost is probably around eight or nine yuan. If Shen Xiaoshan is included, the total cost for one semester is almost twenty yuan.

That’s forty dollars a year for two children.

This amount of money is indeed a huge sum for an average rural family, not to mention that Shen Baozhu is also in school.

However, Shen Jingming would send back 15 yuan every month, which amounted to 180 yuan a year.

Adding to that the Shen family's wealth over the years, even after deducting expenses, the remaining amount would probably be enough for the two siblings to go to school.

However, whether the old lady and others are willing is another question.

Xu Manyue put away the accounting notebook and sighed. It seemed that she had to find an opportunity tomorrow to test the old lady's attitude.

If she hadn't been married, older, and pregnant, she would have wanted to get a technical secondary school diploma.

Under today's difficult living conditions, those who can get into technical secondary schools are all outstanding. As long as they graduate, they can be assigned to work as city cadres. This is a life that many people can only dream of.

……

At night, when everyone had gone to bed, Lin Luoxia took out a boiled egg from her arms, peeled it secretly and fed it to the sleeping Shen Baozhu.

She gently woke the child up, "Baozhu, Baozhu, wake up and eat something delicious. Look what this is?"

In her daze, Shen Baozhu seemed to smell the fragrance of eggs. She couldn't help but open her mouth and take a bite. It was fragrant and soft, and she swallowed it down.

She finally realized something was wrong, opened her eyes sharply, and looked at the thing in her mouth.

"Eggs, they are actually eggs." Shen Baozhu was extremely excited.

"Mom, where did you get the eggs?" All the eggs in the house were given to my aunt by my grandma, so it was difficult for other people to eat eggs.

She hasn't eaten eggs for almost a month.

Lin Luoxia fed the remaining eggs into Shen Baozhu's mouth and said with a smile, "As long as you want to eat, mother will get it for you."

Ever since Wang Xiancao came to the door, Shen Laoer has been sleeping in the kitchen. She didn't ask him to come back to sleep, and he didn't mention it. Therefore, now there are only the mother and daughter in the room.

In another room, Mrs. Shen woke up hungry in the middle of the night and sniffed drowsily.

Hey, why does it smell like eggs, or boiled eggs?

She got up from the bed, followed the smell of eggs, and unknowingly walked to Lin Luoxia's door.

Mrs. Shen's eyes widened suddenly, and she carefully leaned close to the door to listen, and then she discovered that the mother and daughter were secretly eating eggs without telling the whole family.