binnovel Chapter 172 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 15
Chapter 172 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 15
Sixth grade might be a crucial year for others, but for Liu Yuxi, it was a piece of cake. As soon as the textbooks were handed out, Liu Yuxi went through them once.
Liu Yuxi plans to continue her junior high school education in the town, since it's closer to home. Her family doesn't have much money yet, and if she suggests taking her grandmother to the county town, her grandmother might not feel confident.
She would still get her textbook and tuition fees waived if she attended junior high school in town. This way, she could do better on the high school entrance exam. The county's high schools also have various preferential policies for attracting outstanding students.
Since education is free, her family has some financial resources, and she is young, her grandmother should agree to go to the city with her to accompany her to study.
These things were still a long way off, and Liu Yuxi only thought about them when she was bored. Halfway through the semester, she went to her current homeroom teacher to borrow the first-year junior high school textbooks.
In the first year of junior high, there is English, and in the second year, there is physics and chemistry. Fortunately, Lin Ziye bought her a mobile phone so that she can go online to check the course teaching for these subjects. Otherwise, how could you learn an unfamiliar subject on your own without anyone teaching you? Are you born with knowledge?
The main daily routine at home now involves raising pigs and chickens, as well as a vegetable garden in the backyard. Pigs are animals that seem to be perpetually hungry.
Liu Yuxi only goes to the fishpond to catch some eels and fish when he wants to eat them at home. By the time the Chinese New Year was approaching, the two pigs had already weighed more than 160 jin (83 kg).
Liu Yuxi had the village butcher slaughter one pig, and continued to raise the other. He didn't give the pig's head to the butcher, but gave him five catties of meat, a pig's tail, and two packs of cigarettes.
Lin Ziye asked her family about the day of the pig slaughter in advance and rushed over because he wanted to eat "pig slaughter feast". Liu Yuxi told him that "pig slaughter feast" is from Northeast China. Lin Ziye said that he was fine as long as he could eat meat.
Liu Yuxi braised the pig's head, offal, and trotters directly, fearing that her grandmother might want to preserve them as cured meats, as it's better for older people to eat less cured meat.
The pig wasn't big. After giving two jin to each of the neighbors who came to help, Liu Yuxi planned to use the rest to make ten jin of sausages, ten jin of cured pork, and also cure two ribs.
We need to make a little extra cured pork and sausage for Lin Ziye to take back, and we can eat the rest fresh. It's cold, so we don't have to worry about the meat spoiling even without a refrigerator.
Lin Ziye participated in the entire pig slaughtering process. However, "participated" was more like watching from the sidelines. At first, he was eager to try, but when the pig's screams became too shrill, the boy quietly retreated to the outer edge.
At noon, because I was busy processing pork, I simply stewed some bone broth and cooked some noodles.
After dinner, they started braising pig's head, offal, and trotters. The aroma was so strong that Lin Ziye was chopping meat for making sausages in the kitchen. Even when his arms were sore, he didn't want to do anything else.
When it was almost done, Liu Yuxi added twenty peeled hard-boiled eggs. The braised food was supposed to be left overnight to taste better, but Lin Ziye was really craving it, so Grandma asked Liu Yuxi to cut a plate of it for dinner.
Lin Ziye chopped too much meat in the afternoon, but the extra portion could be used to make dumplings and buns. After wrapping them, they were left outside overnight and frozen, so Lin Ziye could take some with him when he left.
He told Liu Yuxi that he was currently taking extra classes until the second semester of the second year of junior high school, and that he should be able to catch up with his classmates by the end of next summer vacation.
Their school is a combined junior and senior high school, so he is in his first year of senior high school this year. Liu Yuxi is not worried about Lin Ziye's grades at all, since he is the male lead after all.
It has to be said that rich kids are generous. This time, he brought Liu Yuxi a laptop and even installed internet for her family. Liu Yuxi herself didn't mind, but since she has money, she couldn't afford to buy these things herself. He buying them saved her a lot of trouble.
After Lin Ziye left, and with the Lunar New Year approaching, Liu Yuxi finally discussed with her grandmother about buying a television. She could use a computer herself, but her grandmother didn't know how to use it. Considering this year's income, her grandmother agreed.
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye. Before the Spring Festival of 2018, Liu Yuxi was already in the third year of junior high school. When she enrolled in junior high school, she took the entrance exam and was admitted to the second year of junior high school. Next summer, she will take the high school entrance exam.
She discussed it with her grandmother and decided that she would go to high school in the county town and have her grandmother go with her. She would return to the village every weekend and during holidays. She was too young, only 12 years old when she was in her first year of high school, and her grandmother was really worried about her, so she agreed.
Over the years, the family has accumulated over 100,000 yuan in savings. Her grandmother has always placed great importance on her studies, and since they are not short of money, they must prioritize her education.
Next year, Lin Ziye will be an adult. For the past two years, he has come over every year before the Lunar New Year when Liu Yuxi's family slaughters a pig. This year, he discussed it with Liu Yuxi.
Once he comes of age, he will register a company and use Liu Yuxi's braising spice recipe to open a food factory that makes braised snacks. He will then give Liu Yuxi shares. Of course, Liu Yuxi will agree. Before she came of age, her ways of making money were too limited. Now that the male lead is taking her to new heights, she is naturally willing.
As for losing money, that's definitely not going to happen. With the male lead and her overpowered abilities, it would be a joke if they opened a small food factory and still lost money!
Since getting a laptop, Liu Yuxi has been browsing Weibo every night to catch up on entertainment news.
She remembered that in the original owner's memories, the reason why the original owner was bullied by other classmates when she was in the first year of junior high school was because Lin Ziye starred in a movie that became a huge hit. When the audience was digging up old movies, they dug up the original owner's past, so the classmates in the town could bully the original owner as much as possible.
Judging by the timeline, since it's scheduled for release the summer after next, filming should have started next year. Liu Yuxi remembered that the original owner had heard from classmates that Lin Ziye's character in the film has a younger sister. Hmm, this role is worth considering, let's see if we can pull some strings.
In the normal middle school entrance examination, Liu Yuxi was admitted to the No. 2 Middle School in the county with the highest score in the county. Why not the No. 1 Middle School? Because the No. 2 Middle School offered better conditions than the No. 1 Middle School!
Not only is her three years of high school completely free, but she also receives a monthly meal card worth 500 yuan and an entrance bonus of 20,000 yuan. If she can consistently rank in the top three of her grade in every exam, she will receive an annual scholarship of 8,000 yuan. As for university entrance exams, there are also rewards available.
Knowing that her grandmother would accompany her to school, they specially arranged a staff dormitory for her and her grandmother to live in. The house was on the first floor and was more than 20 square meters, which was more than enough for the two of them.
After discussing it before the New Year, the grandmother and granddaughter stopped raising pigs, only chickens. After the summer vacation, she will go to school. Her grandmother and granddaughter discussed that they would eat a few chickens themselves and sell the rest. At that time, the only thing the family would have to take care of was the vegetable garden in the backyard. However, the two of them would come back every weekend, and they could sell the chickens in town during those two days, so it wouldn't have much of an impact.
But all plans changed with Lin Ziye's arrival. Liu Yuxi looked at the middle-aged man who came with Lin Ziye and knew that he was the director of that movie. This was the result of her daily subtle influence!