Chapter 1668 - 1081: Heroine of the Republic 55

Chapter 1668: Chapter 1081: Heroine of the Republic 55

When the new semester begins, children need to be accompanied by their parents to familiarize themselves with the environment. Afterward, whether they’re in elementary, middle, or high school, they commute to school on their own, without parents needing to oversee them. This is largely due to the fact that there are no motor vehicles and fewer bad people.

Since this is a county, apart from elementary students, middle and high school students often stay on campus, and schooling conditions are very tough. Even for day students, they must wake up by nearly five in the morning, travel half an hour to school to start running exercises. After that, they enter the classroom to begin morning self-study. At around 7:20, they finish class and go home for breakfast. By eight, they go back to the classroom to start morning lessons. At six in the evening, they finish classes and go home for dinner and to clean up. From seven to nine, they do evening self-study. Day students get home around half-past nine, and are already exhausted by then. It’s very tough.

An Yi doesn’t need to run exercises with the students in the morning. As long as it’s not her morning self-study session, she makes meals at home, cooking a big pot, enough for them to eat for the whole day.

Then she takes a lunchbox to her office. When mealtime arrives, she calls her two little sisters to her office for lunch. After they eat, they clean up, then fill up for the afternoon meal again. There’s a small stove outside her office door with a steaming basket on top; heating the lunchbox a bit is just for appearance.

Since the teacher’s office is a public space, the good dishes are hidden under common ones like salted vegetables, cabbage, and radish. They eat steamed cornbread, sweet potatoes, potatoes, cornbread. White rice and flour, eggs, meat, are only eaten at home.

Sometimes, she improves the meals by making some dark food, such as eel meat, Dou Chi Fish, and meat sauce, which are easy to disguise. As long as you eat quickly, no one can clearly see what you are eating.

In times of material scarcity, unless people of particularly low character like to watch what others are eating up close, generally during lunchtime, no one bothers you.

Because she has two children in the nursery class and two sisters in high school, she pays the school US$ 8 a semester to get a four-person dormitory.

If she has classes at night, she stays with her sisters.

She never cooked here before, only has a steaming pot to warm things up. Meals are made when they are in class or when she goes to First Middle School for part-time work and cooks fresh at home.

Of course, daily meals can’t be the same, alternating between meals. Today they eat salted vegetable cornbread; tomorrow they eat boiled potato and sweet potato, or combine various dried vegetables to make cornbread, eating between a few different things outdoors. Occasionally, when no one notices, she’ll slip them a few pieces of Dou Chi Fish or cut sausage pieces. Sometimes even a Salted Duck Egg can bring them immense joy.

The high school curriculum is heavy; since the two sisters joined, they realized that, due to their age, they don’t fit in and sit at the last row of the classroom.

Classmates treat them more like elder relatives or outsiders, with no common topics.

Fortunately, because of An Yi, teachers take great care of them. Nearly every teacher asks if they understand the material after class.

Although the sisters value An Yi, considering that An Yi worked hard all day and the teachers’ goodwill, they will ask questions whenever they have any.

They entered school late but skipping grades is a fact. The basic skills they learned during middle school were reviewed again during the wintering period and are now solid. In high school, An Yi organizes key points: memorizing the humanities, focusing on scientific subjects purely through practice problems. During practice, An Yi discovered that their science performance might enter a dead-end loop in the future.

A stumbling block they can’t overcome, the more they learn, the less they understand, leading to irritation and increased dislike for learning. In humanities, peace stems from diligence; the more they memorize and read, the easier some issues become. However, not understanding science is a dead loop, increasingly falling behind.

Talent problems can’t be forced by An Yi, even with the help of Spiritual Spring water. Their age is a factor in their memory and response capability, unlike younger children’s. It’s not something a miracle cure can solve, and she hasn’t planned to interfere excessively since it’s already an achievement for them to enter high school.

It might be their confidence from middle school. Once they enter high school and face difficult problem types, it seems to dampen their spirit.