Rebirth: She is Ready for a Counterattack!-Chapter 121: Going to the County

Gu Xiaoqing also felt a lot of pressure; she definitely put in the effort in her studies.

But this is the county’s preliminary round of the math competition, and this math competition is national in scope. This time, it’s the county’s preliminary round. If selected and placed in the county’s top three, the top three from each county will continue to participate in the city competition, and finally, each city’s top three will compete for the national final results.

Gu Xiaoqing knows herself well; when it comes to being smart, actually she doesn’t fit the criteria. It’s just the life experience from her past life there, coupled with her age, which makes understanding many math problems easier than for other kids.

Put in a little more effort, and good grades would follow naturally.

But despite the good grades, she didn’t think she could compete for a position in such a national contest.

That’s the difference.

Across the country’s middle school students, there are plenty with high IQ and educational backgrounds.

She estimated she’d only make it to the county competition.

So Gu Xiaoqing wasn’t making a big deal out of it.

Study as usual, except for the exercises Fang Nan set up, everything went the same as before.

Gu Xiaoqing felt that she had better spend more time on other aspects, especially since she wanted to take the high school entrance exam early and enter high school sooner.

If it weren’t for Fang Nan insistently not letting Gu Xiaoqing skip it, she wouldn’t want to participate in such a competitive county competition.

Jiang Weidong was different; he practically asked Fang Nan for advice every day after class, constantly bringing out problems for Fang Nan’s guidance.

Compared to Gu Xiaoqing, who only moved when pushed, Fang Nan found the difference quite amusing and helpless.

The difference between heaven and earth!

Li Xuemei had resumed accompanying Gu Ruhai to their stall days.

The family got a tricycle, and their overall travel time was significantly shortened.

For Gu Ruhai, it felt like replacing a shotgun with a cannon!

However, the storefront Gu Xiaoqing talked about was something Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai still didn’t agree on.

The couple was still quite satisfied with their current life.

They didn’t want to make more changes.

Ever since the incident with Gu Xiaoqing and Gu Xiaojie being kidnapped, Gu Ruhai was absolutely attentive to the children.

Gu Xiaojie was starting school in September, already registered at the village primary school.

Now at home, he was entrusted to Grandma Zhang and her family. Li Xuemei gives Aunt Zhang five yuan a month as Gu Xiaojie’s meal money, which is also thoughtful.

Getting others to help care for a child, especially a mischievous six or seven-year-old, is something neighbors won’t mind for a day or two. Everyone’s like that and won’t fuss; whoever has problems can lend a helping hand.

But when it’s a matter of months, if there’s no expression of gratitude, people will form opinions over time, even if they don’t say it aloud.

Li Xuemei thought more about this aspect.

With Aunt Zhang’s care, they felt at ease running their business, mainly because of the trafficking incident before. Every family was afraid of it happening again.

The couple earned their money, feeling genuinely pleased inside.

Li Xuemei was delighted to hear her daughter, Gu Xiaoqing, was chosen for the county competition.

That was going to the county!

No one’s ancestors in the family had visited there.

Li Xuemei and Gu Ruhai hadn’t gone either.

It was only heard of when Gu Ruhe bragged at home about the county town’s bustling streets and the unexplored novelties like buses and commercial districts.

They had never seen those things.

Her young daughter’s chance to witness such things made her naturally happy.

Gu Xiaoqing actually knew what the county town was like long ago.

Back then, she worked hard there and suffered a lot.

Fu Guoqiang used to gamble all over the county town, forcing her to earn money everywhere she could, demanding it immediately after earning a little.

So every place in the county town was far too familiar to Gu Xiaoqing.

It was a place where she lived for ten years.

If it hadn’t been for Fu Guoqiang wanting more money, hearing villagers say Beijing and Shanghai would have better earning prospects with more pay, forcing her out, she might have spent her life working in this county town.

Li Xuemei prepared early.

She got Gu Xiaoqing a red floral patterned fabric and planned to make a new outfit, also getting gray fabric for pants.

It was an entire set.

At that time, this fabric was the envy of many village girls.

It was a trendy fabric.

Very pricey; nobody would spare much money to make clothes for their daughter.

Only for weddings or engagements, sometimes the groom’s family would prepare.

Rarely would the bride’s family prepare it.

Li Xuemei spent generously on dressing up Gu Xiaoqing, just for appearances.

Had no money before and couldn’t dress the child properly, now she wouldn’t let the child lose out.

Moreover, the family money was from Gu Xiaoqing’s ideas.

Gu Xiaoqing actually wasn’t fond of it.

With the patterns common back then, she knew how garish and ostentatious they were, which she found quite off-putting through her modern eyes. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

But she couldn’t argue with her mother.

After finding out about the upcoming competition, Li Xuemei prepared pork stew and bone broth every day, worried about Gu Xiaoqing overusing her brain.

Gu Xiaoqing was developing an aversion to bone broth.

Fortunately, the competition was the day after tomorrow.

She could finally be free.

The day before, Teacher Fang Nan gave Gu Xiaoqing and Jiang Weidong a day off to relax at home and prepare their things.

Principal Gu would accompany the two to the event.

Reportedly, they might ride a bus, but only from the town.

Gu Xiaoqing got home and prepared her stationery, two fountain pens, all filled with ink, without bringing an ink bottle as it was hard to carry.

Also, two pencils, an eraser, and a stack of draft paper.

Brought nothing else.

Going to the competition, what else would she need?

On the evening before leaving, Li Xuemei took out fifty yuan and gave it to Gu Xiaoqing, telling her to use it for needed items or meals, to ease any concerns during travel.

Now they no longer lacked money.

Gu Xiaoqing kept the money in the vest pocket Li Xuemei sewed, worried about encountering pickpockets.

No choice but to comply.

Back then, people always carried pockets tucked away for such instances when traveling.