Chapter 4 The Importance of Reading
"Young Master Qin, thank you for your help."
Ruier's crying brought back Ye Lan's thoughts, and Ruier's mother knelt in front of the elegant man and kept kowtowing.
The man quickly helped him up and said politely: "My mother Rui'er is up quickly. I'm just doing my best to save my life."
"You gave the child his father a good job so that Rui'er can continue to stay with me. You not only saved Rui'er, but also saved my life."
The man squatted down and looked straight with Ruier, and asked, "Does Ruier want to study?"
"I want." Ruier replied subconsciously, and quickly shook her head: "I don't want to."
Ruier's father said embarrassedly: "Young Master Qin, although you introduced me a good job so that our family will not be hungry, but Ruier's schooling... We can't afford the academy, and private schools are more expensive..."
"If you can trust me, I can teach Ruier to study."
"Really, really?"
The man said, "The Zhou family fell in love with Rui'er, and he was smart and smart. This child has talent and cannot be buried. Maybe he is harder and tired now, but as long as Rui'er succeeds in his studies, why worry about not changing his destiny? If you don't dislike him, let Rui'er go to my place for half a day every day and I will teach him to study and read."
The crowd of onlookers had almost dispersed after Manager Zhou took them away. At this moment, people came and went in front of Tianshi Restaurant, but only Ye Lan was standing there all the time.
"Young Master, do you still lack students?"
This sudden sound made the man stunned. He turned around and saw a woman dressed in a woman looking at him with great sincerity.
The man glanced at him and bowed and replied, "This lady misunderstood. I am not a teacher, I am just a student waiting to be tested."
The man's intention of rejection was obvious, and Ye Lan was slightly embarrassed: "Sorry, I was abrupt."
The man smiled and signaled to leave Ye Lan.
In the evening, Liu Zixi got home from work and Ye Lan had already prepared the meal and was waiting.
I smelled the aroma of the food in the kitchen, although my mother said it in the morning, Liu Zixi was still not used to someone who would prepare the food and wait for him to eat.
When Liu Zixi saw the yellow tortillas in the pot and the slices of meat in the soup, he felt even more complicated.
"Our family has no money anymore, and there is only so much food left. Can't you save some?"
Ye Lan was not annoyed and said happily: "I found a job today. Besides, look at you, how can you grow up if you don't eat something oily or water?"
Early in the morning, Ye Lan noticed that Liu Zixi was too thin, and she was the kind of thin that had long-term malnutrition.
Liu Zixi looked disbelief, "Have you found a job? Are you saying you went out to work, instead of making money by fiddling with some weird things yourself?"
"It's a tea shop. I'll try it when I'm short of people. Unexpectedly, they are very satisfied and asked me to go to work tomorrow." Ye Lan's family has been tea farmers for generations. She has been influenced by her since childhood and has a lot of experience in the way of tea.
The shopkeeper of the tea shop was very happy to see that she was a tea-know-who was also very good at making tea.
"You're serious?"
The predecessor gave the child a lot of psychological shadow. Look, this child has no trust in her.
Ye Lan had to make repeated promises: "Don't worry, I will work well in the tea shop and will never do those messy things anymore."
Even without Liu Zixi's suspicion, Ye Lan would not feel that she has the halo of the protagonist and would definitely make a stunning achievement.
She really couldn't agree with the idea of her predecessor. Why would a person who was ordinary in modern times think that he could look down on the world in ancient times?
People who truly shine in ancient times will never be unknown in modern times.
She is just an ordinary college graduate. Because she was young on her birthday, she fell seriously ill when she was enrolling in elementary school. She went to school two years later than her age, and her grades were mediocre in school. Although she could recite many ancient poems, in front of people who truly understand the rhythm of poetry, it would be absolutely unsuccessful to just take a few sentences for her.
Her current idea is to solve her food and clothing first, and then work harder, so that her family's life will always get better and better.
"By the way, you won't go to work from tomorrow. My monthly money in Tianshifang is more than twice yours. I will make money to support you in the future."
"No need, you make your money, I make my money, and I don't need you to support me."
Ye Lan doesn't expect Liu Zixi to be grateful, but at least this attitude shouldn't be.
"There is no overnight revenge between mother and son? You really don't plan to give me a chance?"
Ye Lan deliberately said aggrievedly, and Liu Zixi was stunned for a moment and had to explain: "I didn't mean that, I mean, wouldn't it be better for us to make money together?"
"Okay, not good either."
Seeing that Liu Zixi didn't understand, Ye Lanyu said earnestly: "Making money together will indeed make our lives better, but you are only twelve years old and plan to work in a grain and oil shop for the rest of your life? What kind of future can you have? For a child as old as you, reading and literacy is what you should do."
The words of the elegant man in front of the Tianshi Restaurant today gave Ye Lan a great inspiration. No matter what era, people at the bottom of society want to change their destiny and study hard and follow the path of imperial examinations must be the most fair and easiest to stand out.
Of course, there are many people who have not read for a few days but still change their destiny, but that is too few after all.
Since Ye Lan has become Liu Zixi's mother, she must take responsibility for him, including his future plans.
Liu Zixi was silent for a long time, and she was very conflicted and struggling. She was willing to let him study and was willing to make money to support him...
But he still refused: "I don't like reading, so don't bother."
"How is that possible? I clearly remember that you like studying very much, but you were enlightened at a very young age. You were still in the best private school in Qinghefang. It was your father who had a lot of connections to send you in. You said you liked it, and later..."
Later... Ye Lan couldn't continue to say anything.
Liu Zixi looked cold and answered her words: "Later, you said that the family had no money and could not afford to go to a private school, and asked me to study at home. Later, you said that you could not afford to provide for the two of us food and drink alone, and asked me to go out to work to support the family. You said that studying was useless, and if you studied hard, you would be a poor scholar. Even if you became an official, the officialdom was complicated, and it was not that you could do well if you studied well, you said..."
"Okay, don't say anything more." Ye Lan really couldn't stand it anymore. She felt Liu Zixi's grievances and resentment clearly.
She really doesn't want to take the blame for the weird guy in her predecessor.
But she had to apologize again: "I was wrong before, and I would not defend myself. If I was wrong, I was wrong. So I have wanted to make up for you from now on. Although you have been wasting your past few years, you are diligent and eager to learn and enlighten me early, so it should not be difficult to pick it up again. From now on, you will only have one thing, that is, to study and make money to support your family."
Chapter completed!