Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 221 People Eliminated by Society

Xia Chan nodded and carried the kettle back to the room. When she and Xiao Tiantian finished washing up and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, she saw that the sheets had been washed, wrung dry and placed in a wooden basin. Xia Chan was very embarrassed for a moment. She looked carefully at Xiao Yunfan and Jin Pengyuan's hands, but could not tell who was kind enough to help her wash them.

Xia Chan blushed and quickly took the bed sheet back to the house and hung it on a bamboo pole. The kang was heated in the house and the temperature was high. The bed sheet would dry out in a few days. If it was hung in the yard, it would not be possible for it to dry out and would be frozen instead.

After Xia Bin and Jin Pengfei came back, everyone had breakfast together.

Breakfast is hot corn grits porridge, cornmeal cakes, and pickled cucumbers in the summer.

"Xia Chan, do you have a brother?" Xiao Yunfan asked curiously when he saw that he still couldn't see the brother who was in the cave with Xia Chan.

"My second brother went into the mountains to hunt and will be back for a while." Xia Chan scooped a spoonful of corn porridge into his mouth. It was steaming hot and his mouth was full of rich fragrance.

After breakfast, Xia Chan took out three packages of cut pig's trotters from the ice tank. When they were packaged before, one package contained one pig's trotter, so three packages meant three pig's trotters, which should be enough for the six of them.

Afterwards, she soaked a few pounds of soybeans and told Jin Pengyuan that if they didn't come back at noon, she should just stew pig's trotters with soybeans. Then Xia Chan went out with Xia Bin to hand in the task pigs. Xia Chan first went to the team leader's house to drive the tractor. After the people who needed to hand in the task pigs lifted the pigs onto the tractor, Xia Chan drove the tractor off. She drove the tractor to the foot of the mountain and waited for Xia Bin and Jin Pengfei to drive the pigs over and lift them onto the tractor. Then she let Jin Pengfei go home, and she and Xia Bin went to hand in the task pigs.

After everyone handed in the task pigs, they all received some compensation, such as cloth coupons, sugar coupons, grain coupons... Everyone's coupons were different, and those in need could exchange them with each other. Anyway, there was no money for handing in the task pigs.

However, after raising mission pigs, you can eat meat openly, which is still quite cost-effective.

Anyway, I am willing to continue raising the summer cicada.

By the time everyone finished their tasks and the pigs returned to the village, it was already past two in the afternoon. By the time they got home, it was already past three in the afternoon. It gets dark early in winter, and it is completely dark at four or five o'clock, so it was almost evening at this time.

Xiao Yunfan immediately served them both a bowl of hot soybean stewed pig's trotter soup. The pig's trotter in Xia Chan's bowl only had the tip of the hoof, without any fat at all.

Xia Chan didn't expect Xiao Yunfan to be so considerate. She smiled and quickly sat down to eat. She was busy all day and was really hungry. She didn't have time to go to the state-owned restaurant for dinner, so she could only come back hungry.

Moreover, many people had to hand in their task pigs, and she couldn't just eat quietly and have everyone stare at her, so the end result was that she was hungry along with everyone else. However, after handing in the task pigs, there was nothing else to do and she could stay at home peacefully.

"Where is Tiantian?" There was no sound of Xiao Tiantian in the house, Xia Chan asked curiously. Wherever Xiao Tiantian was, it would be lively, but the house was very quiet.

"She went back to the dormitory." Xiao Yunfan said.

No wonder the brothers seemed to be in a particularly good mood today. It turned out that Xiao Tiantian had returned to the dormitory. So they could go back to live tonight and no longer had to stay at Xia Qi's house.

Although there was no home leave for the educated youth in the first year of their rural life, Yuan Bingbing's home was close, so she could go back every now and then. Others could not say anything to her. After all, everyone went to the town or the county town every now and then, so why couldn't she go to the county town every now and then? It was just that her home happened to be in the county town, so it was not impossible for her to go home to improve her food, take a good bath and clean herself up. After all, she could only take a bath in a basin in the dormitory, and she had to do it quickly, otherwise she would really freeze herself when the water got cold.

Xia Chan and Xia Bin had lunch late, so they could have eaten it as dinner, so they didn’t need to eat dinner. However, there was pig’s trotters stewed with soybeans in the pot, so they didn’t need to bother cooking in the evening and could just make some staple food.

While they were preparing dinner, Xia Chan brought hot water into the house to wash and soak her feet, then went to rest on the kang. She sat at the kang table, drinking hot tea and reading a book.

After cleaning up, the brothers went back to their rooms.

Xia Chan raised her head and asked, "Has Comrade Xiao Yunfan gone to rest?"

Jin Pengyuan nodded.

"Then let's go to class! Other things can be delayed, but classes cannot. After all, we will have to go to school for exams in a few months. I hope that all my brothers can pass them so that we can move on to the next stage of study." Xia Chan turned around and took the textbook, turned to the content to be taught today, and said to everyone.

Xia Bin exclaimed, "Do we still have to continue the class later?"

"What else?" Xia Chan rolled her eyes. "I graduated from high school, and you all graduated from junior high school. Do you think that makes sense? You all have to follow my example and work hard to finish high school knowledge. That way, when we go to the city in the future, we will be able to stand firm. Do you understand?"

There are still more than three years left before she can take the college entrance examination. She has used these three years to review on her own and help her brothers complete all the high school courses. It should be in time.

If her brothers don't study, she will be the only one going to college in the future.

"The educational requirement for recruitment in the city now is junior high school graduation. In the future, as more and more junior high school graduates appear, the educational requirements will be raised to high school graduation, and then college graduation. Do you brothers want to be someone who is eliminated by society forever?" Xia Chan looked at his brothers and raised his eyebrows.

The three brothers quickly shook their heads. Of course they knew that there were educational requirements to find a job in the city.

"And studying isn't tiring. Just study for one to two hours every night, and study during the winter. Otherwise, it's boring to sit at home all day." Xia Chan said with a smile, "Stop talking nonsense, and start the class. If you don't want to be separated from me in the future, you should be more serious. You study not for me, but for your future family. If you want your wife and children to live a happy life, you have to have real skills."

Xia Chan often cheers up her brothers, helping them to increase their enthusiasm for learning and study more seriously.

Although they cannot see the benefits of learning now, when the benefits of learning become apparent in the future, they will understand Xia Chan’s good intentions for them.

The next morning after breakfast, the brothers went up the mountain to chop firewood and look for mountain products. Since Xiao Yunfan rented a house from them, they did not go hunting, for fear that Xiao Yunfan would notice something. After all, he was a soldier and had keen insight.