Transmigrated & Triumphant: Defying Destiny's Chosen One-Chapter 457 - 27: Give Me a Fulcrum
Honestly, when there’s plenty of food, life in the military is quite good.
There’s just one thing—no entertainment, day after day, just eating and sleeping, pretty boring.
As for doing laundry, cooking, tidying the house to kill time... that’s just not Chu River’s style, she’d rather just lie down.
But she always felt it shouldn’t be like this.
Isn’t staying home for a few months supposed to be great? Why is it so dull here? There’s nothing, even to read a newspaper you have to run far to borrow one. And the newspapers hardly have anything, aside from policy interpretation and adoration, all that’s left are things like "heroic actions," "grain production increase," "model workers"...
She thought angrily—might as well give me a book on "Postpartum Care for Sows"!
Then she quickly realized—what kind of book is that?
Could it be something she learned before losing her memory? Hmm, it seems there was indeed a need to include pig farming in her life’s experiences.
How did she end up in such a ridiculous situation?
But Shi Suifeng was somewhat anxious seeing her idle—this anxiety wasn’t about her doing nothing, it was that Little He would start thinking about what to eat whenever she was idle.
This child might have gone hungry before, always thinking about new ways to eat every day. He had converted all his years of allowances into food stored in the cellar, but if Little He ate from morning till night, well...
They’d need to open a food station to keep her full!
Sigh!
Shi Suifeng helplessly suggested, "Little He, since there’s nothing much to do now, why not go to school? Or study at home?"
After all, poor Little He doesn’t even have an elementary school diploma!
School?
Chu River shook her head, shook it crazily: "I know all that stuff, I’m not going to learn."
What’s fun about studying? She just wasn’t made for studying!
Shi Suifeng, however, was like a silly dad—of course his own child was smart, and Little He really was that kind of person.
But nowadays, what else can you do if you don’t study?
Just as he was pondering, Sister-in-law Li came over again, shouting:
"Little He, Little He, are you home?"
Shi Suifeng looked at the two cucumbers Chu River was holding, and then at the basin of dirty clothes in front of him, immediately took the basin into the kitchen—people today believe that if men do housework, it means the woman at home is not virtuous.
If the visitor found the husband doing laundry...
Shi Suifeng believed Sister-in-law Li was relatively open-minded, but some ingrained ideas really weren’t appropriate to voice.
Chu River understood too.
She took a couple of bites to crunch down the cucumber, put the other one directly inside the room. As Sister-in-law Li stepped in, she also appeared:
"Sister-in-law Li!"
She looked expectantly at the visitor.
This small courtyard was deep inside, who would come here in this blazing heat without a reason? Surely it was work-related!
Chu River had already thought it through, although teaching kids only paid eighteen a month, well... eighteen is eighteen!
She knew that Shi Suifeng had long run out of money; if she wanted to go to a state-run restaurant, she’d have to be self-reliant.
Sister-in-law Li indeed had something in mind—this year suddenly a bunch of army wives came along, and in this era without family planning, not having three or four kids seemed like not working hard enough.
So there were lots of kids!
The wives without jobs could still manage a few kids, the husbands might have to work harder to support the family.
Wives with jobs had more financial comfort, but no one to take care of the kids! Even if the older ones could help with the younger ones, at least they had to be six or seven years old... those children with one or two years apart, there were many!
Nowadays, you can’t indulge in capitalistic practices to have someone mind the kids without having nightmares, so the military district specifically set up a nursery.
No age restriction, 3-6 years old can stay here.
Too young is too difficult to take care of, and parents wouldn’t be at ease.
The older ones would just go straight to elementary school or even help take care of the younger ones... that’s the times, can’t expect much more.
Just yesterday, the caregiver who had been teaching in there, Zhou Hongfang, got engaged and was going to get married in the neighboring city, so they urgently needed someone to replace her.
Logically, there were more wives with child-rearing experience among the army wives who were more suitable, but most of them...
Let’s just say, they couldn’t even recognize a basketful of writing.
Though Chu River didn’t have a diploma, both Shi Suifeng and Professor Zheng said she was self-taught and very smart, had learned a lot.
Professor Zheng picked up on this in their chat over the train trip.
