binnovel Chapter 175 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 18
Chapter 175 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 18
She delivered snacks to families in the village with whom she had a good relationship, and left her grandmother to chat and show off with a group of grandmothers in the village.
Liu Yuxi went home to tidy up the house and the vegetable garden in the backyard. Fortunately, this time she was only gone for a week and it didn't take much time.
After picking the vegetables that had ripened in the backyard that week and keeping some for the family to eat, Liu Yuxi carried two baskets of vegetables to town. Now that she is 1.5 meters tall, she can carry the load.
I spoke to her grandmother as I passed by the village entrance, and greeted a few other grandmothers as well. Even after she had walked quite a distance, I could still hear the other people praising her grandmother.
Hehe, that's how capable I am! I went to town to get some vegetables at a low price, and also bought some meat to take home. I'll be staying at home for two more days, so I can't just eat vegetables all the time.
They packed all the bedding, daily necessities, water bottles, basins, and other items they needed to bring from home to school. Two days later, the grandmother and granddaughter arrived at the county's No. 2 Middle School with their bags and bundles, where teachers were arranged to receive them.
After taking them to the dormitory to put their luggage away, Grandma stayed in the dormitory to clean and organize the luggage. She went with the teacher to register, pick up the school uniform, meal card, books, and the 20,000 yuan reward, which would be distributed after the start of the school year.
The teacher who hosted her told her that the school had arranged for her to speak as a student representative at the opening ceremony, and asked her to prepare her speech in advance, which was no problem for Liu Yuxi.
After completing the procedures, she returned to her dormitory and worked with her grandmother. She then took her grandmother on a tour of the school, focusing on helping her recognize the route from the dormitory to the cafeteria. Her grandmother told her that she would go to get lunch and dinner in the afternoon so that Liu Yuxi could go back to the dormitory for lunch and dinner after school and not have to go to the crowded cafeteria.
Liu Yuxi agreed. She got up early in the morning, got breakfast, and left her meal card at home. She knew how to use the meal card just by looking at it.
To keep her grandmother from getting bored, we bought her yarn at her request so she could knit sweaters in her spare time. Her grandmother is actually not even 55 years old yet; in the city, some people haven't even retired yet.
I used to be bent over by life, but over the past few years, I seem to have returned to normal. Although I still look older than my peers in the city, I look much better than my peers in the village. I estimate that living at the school for three years will change me a lot more.
After Liu Yuxi finished his week-long course, the grandfather and grandson first bought an induction cooker, a wok, and a rice cooker in the city. They would cook vegetarian dishes themselves and buy meat dishes from the cafeteria. They also replenished the things that were missing in the house.
After returning home, she picked the vegetables from the backyard. She dried the older ones and ate the younger ones in the next couple of days. Her grandmother went fishing for half a day, and Liu Yuxi also set up eel traps and shrimp traps in the fishpond.
When Liu Yuxi returned to school on the weekend afternoon, she carried baskets. One basket contained a bag of rice, and the other contained a kitchen knife, cutting board, and tableware that she had brought from home. Both baskets were filled with vegetables.
Her grandmother was carrying a bucket containing several pounds of eels and a few fish. She ate the lobsters directly; it was too much trouble to prepare them, so she would just eat them once when they got home.
People kept asking me questions as I walked, which was really annoying. When I got to school, I gave some vegetables to a few neighbors. I didn't mean anything by it; I just didn't want to seem too selfish.
After that, her studies and life settled into a routine. Liu Yuxi continued to write articles to earn some money, and in her spare time she would "learn" skills from her school teachers, "learn" singing and piano from her music teacher, "learn" calligraphy and painting from her art teacher, "learn" languages other than English from her foreign language teacher, and "learn" martial arts moves from her physical education teacher.
It is essential to ensure that teachers are "made the best use of their talents," which will pave the way for the future. The "reward" is that every Sunday evening, Liu Yuxi brings his own ingredients and borrows the kitchen in the physical education teacher's dormitory to cook a big meal, so that everyone can enjoy a treat together.
Of course, this is just a joke. No matter what, teachers always hope that their students are eager to learn. Liu Yuxi has experienced so many lifetimes and has basically encountered such dedicated and good teachers. Thinking of those "beastly" teachers he has encountered in the real world, Liu Yuxi feels that those people are not only unworthy of being teachers, but also unworthy of being human.
Perhaps it's because Liu Yuxi's mother was a teacher, and she had encountered many good teachers throughout her life. She naturally had the same trust in the teaching profession as she did in the police force. Even as she grew older and witnessed more and more unpleasant things, she still maintained the utmost respect for both professions!
During the summer vacation after Liu Yuxi finished her first year of high school, the movie she starred in with Lin Ziye was released, and Liu Yuxi even took her grandmother to the cinema to watch it.
After watching the film, the old lady said, "How come it's so different from when you filmed it? It's completely different from what I imagined back then."
"Haha, of course it's different. When we were filming, we didn't film in chronological order. The editors would re-edit the footage according to the storyline after we finished filming."
Liu Yuxi often chats with her grandmother. When her grandmother encounters something she doesn't understand, Liu Yuxi explains it to her in a way that her grandmother can understand. Over time, her grandmother has learned more and more. At least now, her grandmother can use her laptop to find TV series to watch.
So what if she can't read? It doesn't mean she can't memorize things by rote. Her grandma used to chat with several retired teachers every day in the teachers' dormitory. Now that she's back in the village, everyone thinks she's a completely different person.
Her grandmother often lamented to her, "People should read more books and go out into the world, otherwise, you won't know how ignorant you are!"
When Liu Yuxi first heard her grandmother say this, she was shocked. She wondered if her grandmother had been "transformed." Later, she learned that her grandmother had borrowed the words of those retired teachers.
The movie became a huge hit halfway through its run. Liu Yuxi hadn't planned to appear so early; she wanted to quietly film first and then gain widespread popularity when she took the college entrance exam.
After all, there are no secrets on the internet these days. Exposing it so early will disrupt her future schooling and her grandmother's life. However, the box office was so good and the audience's demand was so high that Liu Yuxi still participated in two promotional events.
Just as Liu Yuxi had predicted, after her information was exposed by netizens, people gathered at the school gate every day, wanting to see her in person. With no other option, Liu Yuxi asked the school for leave and took her grandmother to participate in a period drama introduced by Director Li.
The school knew her grades because Liu Yuxi had taken a set of high school level exams for all subjects while on leave. The teachers were practically telling her, "You can arrange your time however you like, just remember to come back and take the exams."
The popularity of any event comes and goes in waves. Once Liu Yuxi finishes filming this TV series, the school will probably be back to normal. If it weren't for the fear of affecting her grandmother, she only planned to film one TV series every summer before university.