Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

It is not easy for the brigade cadres to raise this money.

When the brigade accountant handed the money to Zhang Xiuhua, his hands were shaking and he repeatedly confirmed, "Did you really make money?"

Zhang Xiuhua didn't dare to guarantee that, "I've invested anyway, so if there's a loss, we'll all suffer together."

With her words, everyone felt at ease.

The next step is to order breeding eggs and wait until next spring to raise chickens.

The members were worried, but there was nothing they could do. The weather was too hot to hatch chicks, so they couldn't rush.

After Zhang Xiuhua saw off the brigade cadres, she began to look forward to Youcai's return.

Baolin and Yaoyao lay on the mat under the shade of the tree, lifted up the hem of their shirts, revealing their bellies, "It's so hot!"

The two children's faces were tanned and red, and their foreheads were covered with sweat. The other children were in a similar situation.

It was such a hot day, but Jidong was actually reading. Zhang Xiuhua thought that the child was too hardworking. "Your grades are so good, there's no need to be so anxious. You can take a break."

She casually picked up the book and unexpectedly found it was a high school book, which was sent to her by Zhou Pandyi.

"Why are you reading this book? Aren't you a junior high school student?" Zhang Xiuhua couldn't believe it.

"I'm just sitting around doing nothing. When I read, my mind is calm and I don't feel that hot." Jidong doesn't like to move when it's hot. People in the countryside have no other way to avoid the heat, so they just stay in the shade under the trees.

Zhang Xiuhua thought: Maybe there is a gap between geniuses and ordinary people.

After Jidong finished reading a paragraph, he saw that his aunt seemed to be busy, so he asked, "Aunt, do you want to talk to me about something?"

"Yes! The weather is so hot, let's make jelly!" Zhang Xiuhua said with a smile.

"Okay!" Jidong put down the book, Zhang Xiuhua called Jilin over to help light the fire, and the two worked together to make jelly. The family has ready-made sweet potato starch. Although sweet potato vermicelli is not sold now, but the children at home love to eat vermicelli, Zhang Xiuhua still makes some sweet potato starch.

The two children worked together to put the sweet potato jelly into a basin and put it in a jar to set. It would take about four or five hours to take shape.

After finishing, the two children were sweating profusely, and Zhang Xiuhua fanned them.

"Aunt, do you think I can skip grades in junior high and high school?" Jidong asked curiously.

Zhang Xiuhua really didn't know. "It's too late for junior high school. Youcai's high school entrance exam just ended. If you want to skip a grade, you have to wait until high school. I'll go to school and ask for you then."

Seeing that his aunt didn't even ask, Jidong narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Aunt, I think high school knowledge is too simple. I want to learn something difficult."

Zhang Xiuhua nodded, "Okay! Then you study hard. When you go back to junior high school, if you want to skip a grade, the teacher will definitely give you an exam. Only if you meet the requirements, they will agree to let you skip a grade!"

Jidong nodded.

As we were talking, someone was selling popsicles outside!

When the children heard that there were popsicles, they immediately gathered around. Baolin looked at Zhang Xiuhua eagerly, and the other children also had longing looks in their eyes.

Zhang Xiuhua waved her fan, "Ten points will be deducted for each person!"

The children immediately ran back to the house to get their scorebooks. Zhang Xiuhua deducted points from them one by one and then let them choose.

When Zhang Xiuhua got closer and took a look, she was surprised to find that these popsicles were the ones she sold to Tiesuo.

Every two days, she would go to the town to find Tiesuo and give him thousands of popsicles each time.

Unexpectedly, Tiesuo developed his younger brother to help him sell the products and he made a profit from the difference. This kid really has a business mind.

Each of the children bought one, and Zhang Xiuhua also bought one for herself and Zhuzhu.

While I was eating the popsicle, Youcai finally came back on his bicycle.

He was sweating all over while riding. When he saw everyone eating popsicles, he was so jealous that he yelled, "Aunt Zhang, I want to eat one too!"

Zhang Xiuhua immediately stopped the vendor and bought another one.

After taking a bite of the popsicle, he felt like he was alive again.

"How many points did you get in the exam?" Zhang Xiuhua waited until he had eaten half of his popsicle before asking.

Youcai nodded, "562, my homeroom teacher said that I can't get into No. High School with this score, so I can apply to Yucai High School."

Just hearing the name, I think this is a good school. Zhang Xiuhua nodded with satisfaction, "Okay! As long as I can get into a key high school, that's fine."

"Where's Hongxia?"

"She scored 650 points, so she should be able to get into the No. 640 High School." Youcai pouted, "Last year, the passing score for the No. 10 High School was , and she got points more."

Zhang Xiuhua was a little envious. She hired a class teacher to tutor Youcai, but he only scored 562. Hongxia didn't spend a penny on tutoring, but she still did so well.

Youcai is still unaware of this and he plans to have a feast with Grandpa Xu again this year.

Zhang Xiuhua interrupted his fantasy, "There will be plenty of opportunities to cook in the future. You should catch up now."

Youcai looked at her in horror, "Another make-up class? I just entered high school."

"Your grades are too poor. Let Jidong help you. He has already finished junior high school." Zhang Xiuhua looked at Jidong.

Jidong was sucking on a popsicle. Hearing this, he nodded nonchalantly, "Okay!"

Youcai blushed, "He's giving me extra lessons, shouldn't I give him some face?"

He is the eldest brother and Jidong is the second.

"It's not embarrassing to others. No one else knows about it except us." Zhang Xiuhua patted his shoulder and said, "When you get into college, you can cook every day. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Youcai had a bitter face.

"By the way, did Ergou pass the exam?" Zhang Xiuhua was curious.

Youcai was just about to answer when he heard a child crying outside.

Youcai pricked up his ears to listen for a while, then slapped his thigh and said, "Oh my God! It's Ergou!"

After saying that, he ran away. The children followed him, not caring about the hot weather. Only Jilin swung his short legs and sucked on the popsicle, as if he was not eating a popsicle but a delicious food.

Zhang Xiuhua asked Jilin to stay at home and she went over to see what was going on.

From a distance, I saw many members running towards Ergou's house.

It turned out that Ergou's grades were good enough for him to go to high school, but Ergou's father was poor and did not want to send his son to school, so he wanted him to drop out and earn work points.

Before, Ergou had been secretly using his own money to pay for his tuition, and then came back to tell his father that the school had given him free tuition. However, high school was not free, and his grades were not that outstanding.

Ergou insisted on studying, and when his father saw that he was disobedient, he beat him with a stick to force him to submit.

Beating children is very common in rural areas. However, it is still rare for a child to want to study but his father won't let him.

Zhang Xiuhua looked around at the members. Some of them sympathized with Ergou and came forward to persuade him. Some of them showed pride. Zhang Xiuhua thought about it and understood that she felt superior to Ergou's father: If my children want to study, I will not force them to drop out of school. I am better than him!

Zhang Xiuhua wanted to go forward to persuade them, but there were too many people watching the fun and she couldn't squeeze in at all. Fortunately, the brigade cadres had already arrived and pulled Ergou's father away, asking him not to force the child.

Zhang Xiuhua and her group returned home.

When it was getting dark, Ergou came over and asked Zhang Xiuhua to return the money he had deposited with her.

Zhang Xiuhua asked him how much he wanted.

"all!"

Zhang Xiuhua went back to the house to get the money from him.

Ergou's face was covered with wounds. Zhang Xiuhua couldn't bear it, "What are you going to do?"

"I don't want to stay in that house anymore. I plan to go to the county town to make a living." Ergou looked depressed.

"It's not safe outside. Be careful of bandits and don't fight with them. And don't become one of them. In the future... they will get into trouble sooner or later." Zhang Xiuhua couldn't bear to see Ergou become a thief like in his previous life, so she advised him to be a good person. You know, there will be a crackdown in a few years.

Ergou nodded and ran away with the money.