Chapter 1641 - 1073: Heroine of the Republic 47

Chapter 1641: Chapter 1073: Heroine of the Republic 47

No wonder An Yi has a keen eye, from the first time she saw them, she heard these few sentences—

’It’s good when Yishui comes, we’ll have someone to rely on.’

’Let Yishui buy us some good food, calculate her age, she must have been married, maybe her child is already grown! She can’t ignore us.’

...

If she hadn’t happened to hear these words, she might really have impulsively accepted this marriage. Luckily, luckily!

The adopted children at least know to be grateful and know how to work, but this family of relatives, they don’t do anything, just waiting for a pie to fall from the sky, why should it be so easy to serve?

Even if they are real relatives, so what? It’s right to resolutely not recognize them.

*

One noon in mid-July, she returned to her county home to prepare for lunch. The doghouse was emitting uneven barking, she frowned and walked over to take a look.

"Oh my gosh, Nut, you’ve given birth? One, two, three... four, my heavens, you’ve actually given birth to four puppies, and their colors are varied: white fur with yellow spots, yellow fur with white spots, brown fur with yellow spots, pure white. Isn’t this a bit too mixed?"

"Three males, one female, how could there be a female? I don’t want to serve a maternity woman again, Nut oh Nut, you’re really troublesome,"

She quickly cleaned Nut’s nest, laid fresh straw, tossed the dirty mat into the fire to burn, and found an old quilt to use as a mat. Then she prepared milk and eggs for Nut, paired with broken multigrain steamed buns.

"These days, eat more good food to produce more milk and feed them well."

Now that four more babies have appeared, it’s quite an adjustment, even when Anna and Angel come back, they’re a bit worried.

"Sis, people can’t even sustain themselves nowadays, I’m afraid no one will want them,"

They’re speaking the truth. "When we go back to our rural home, we’ll leave one there, and I’ll slowly give away the rest. We can’t let Nut go out anymore,"

If it doesn’t work out, we’ll put them in the space, let them breed freely, the place is big anyway, don’t mention being cruel or anything, eating chicken, duck, and pork, what’s the difference with eating dog meat? At worst, they’ll be raised as meat dogs.

Since no one wants them when sent out, sending them out once they’ve grown isn’t any different from raising them to be slaughtered.

In her view, the only emotional connection is with Nut itself, its offspring have no relation to her, naturally, the affection isn’t as deep.

Rather than keeping them to become someone else’s target, it’s better to plan early; of course, if they have a better place to go, she’d be willing to have them adopted.

After An Hu’s household registration was transferred from town to rural, the food subsidies became one jin per day, roughly three hundred fifty jin a year. Of course, this food is with skin, unlike the 21 jin of pure grains given in town, but when converted, it’s not much different.

An Hu originally wanted to join the production team, but was stopped by An Yi.

"Study well, don’t worry about anything else, when you get your elementary school graduation certificate, you can join the army or continue studying, depending on your ability. Either way, it’s better than digging for food on the ground."

Even joining the army with an elementary school education is considered cultured, but given his age, waiting until junior high won’t be possible to join the army. So An Yi’s meaning is to join the army after elementary school if desired, and if there are opportunities in the army to upgrade one’s education, enroll actively and continue to pursue higher education. What if the army offers a future? Isn’t it better than facing the Yellow Soil day in and day out?

Since having this plan in mind, this child seems to be working harder than usual, getting up in the morning and recognizing Tang poems word by word given by An Yi, reading them word by word. At first, he stammered, but later, with An Yi’s guidance, he became increasingly fluent, recognizing more characters and memorizing Tang poems in a step-by-step manner.

An Yi not only corrects his pronunciation but also explains the meaning of each word, the meaning of the poem, letting him understand the meaning behind the verses, thus allowing quicker comprehension and memory. This is a very good memory technique.

Of course, the dictionary bought earlier plays a key role too, but Chinese pinyin was revised between 1955 to 1957, and the 1957 version is more comprehensive than those from 1953 and 1955, she teaches based on Mandarin.

Because pinyin hasn’t been released, based on the previous system for pronunciation, it causes some misconceptions for her, often resulting in mistakes, making it fundamentally impossible to teach, sometimes just acknowledging that he recognizes the word, but doesn’t know it’s a polyphonic word and how to use it in various situations. So when An Yi teaches them pronunciation, there’s no need to mention how frustrated she feels.