She Only Cares About Cultivation

Being able to live like this now is hard to imagine. I even have my own room now, and a bicycle to ride?

This... isn’t it too unreal?

"You don’t have to worry about me, I found another one, slightly better than yours, so it’s convenient for everyone. This month I’ll stay here first, next month when the village school opens, I’ll eat lunch and dinner in the city, and we’ll go home and sleep directly."

With An Yi there, their lives rapidly improved, and the sisters are both very happy.

Afterwards, every noon, they practiced cycling in the yard, and learned quite quickly. After a week, they were already quite proficient.

Since they learned using fragmented time, taking a week wasn’t too exaggerated.

After they could ride a bike, the sisters brought all the school stuff back.

"Usually it’s fine, but in the evenings, on your way home from night study, you must be careful, if not, just stay at school overnight."

"It’s fine, there’re two of us, and we don’t have much money, what could happen?"

Even saying this, An Yi still took advantage of the evening to teach them some practical self-defense skills, because even if there’re two, they might still encounter some riffraff on the street.

Bad people wouldn’t give up their vile thoughts just because they’re two women, especially since their identities are sensitive. What if someone uses this excuse to bully them?

In April, An Yi began her busy routine of commuting to the county again every day. The nuts had already been taken to the county, she could protect herself, but the sisters living in such a big house would be better off having nuts around for safety.

Without the nuts, she doesn’t have to worry about every household matter.

Coming back from the county in the afternoon, the sky was slightly dark, so there wasn’t time to work on the self-cultivated land of both families.

After the ground thawed, first scatter the fertilizer accumulated in the space, then use bits of time to turn over the lands around the houses of the two families.

When they’re all home on weekends, they flatten the land together, tidy it bed by bed, and then plan what to plant in each plot.

By the second week of April, the work in the fields was finished, next is just watering, weeding, and fertilizing, waiting for them to grow.

Now she teaches three classes a day in the city, each class pays her five yuan per month, which totals fifteen yuan, this is the payment method just confirmed for this semester, perhaps seeing last semester’s results, so the director is very polite to her, they even want to assign her more classes, but the village school has already given her the greatest allowance (she doesn’t have to sit in the office), she shouldn’t push her luck and forget her roots.

Thus, she ultimately refused.

Her current salary is already the salary of a full-time worker, even if she only teaches two classes a day, not sitting in the office, she still receives 32.5 a month, plus 15 from substitute teaching, the monthly salary is 47.5. Since she has a rural household registration, she doesn’t get the 30-jin grain quota from the city, but the family receives a basic grain subsidy, plus her martyr’s honor subsidy, and with self-cultivated land, they can barely stave off hunger.

Due to her delays, the heavy burden was placed on Song Gang, Zhang Li, and Cao Jilin, An Yi didn’t feel good about taking all this over 30 yuan, so she secretly discussed with them that whoever helped her with classes, she would pay them, this way, she could accept the salary with peace of mind.

An Yi’s substitute teaching refers to subjects other than her Chinese class, such as art, music, these secondary courses usually happen in the afternoon, in the morning it’s her and Song Gang with Chinese and math, two classes each, in the afternoon usually Teacher Song teaches physical education, she teaches art or music, or tells stories to the children. Other teachers do the same.

For first, second, and third grades, they practice at school, there are no written assignments, and during practice, the teachers need to supervise, this is the task with the extra time after finishing two classes in the afternoon, because it’s scheduled for when the adults finished working, then the children are dismissed to go home, equivalent to the after-school delay in later generations.

Currently, none of the three have taken the compilation exam, their monthly salary is the temporary worker’s salary, 14.5 a month.

An Yi also doesn’t go by class hours now, but by the day, a day gives 50 cents, this 50 cents is for helping her teach a secondary course, and then helping her oversee the children writing today’s classwork, there is no paper money, only sand trays, so these must be completed at school, the teacher’s supervision becomes particularly important.