Chapter 5, The Schoolhouse

“Raise it for fun? Not eating?” Ren Xiaosu was puzzled, “How wasteful that would be, this is all good meat!”

“You don’t understand the world of the rich,” Lao Wang laughed: “It is said that in the past few hundred years, the rich people all boil the eagle to play, now it is not the eagle is too big, too dangerous, so it is the second best thing to boil the sparrow, you see how fierce the sparrow looks, the rich people are good at this.”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a long time, the original in the majority of people are still not enough to eat, have begun to boil sparrow play ……

“But the live ones will cost more,” Ren Xiaosu said, “When this thing is alive, it can tickle people to death if they are not careful! It’s too dangerous!”

At this time, Ren Xiaosu suddenly wondered, the stragglers outside were contaminated, could it be that this sparrow hadn’t been contaminated? Or did the refuge barriers only need these stragglers to work for them, and this wall, naturally, divided the levels.

“Wealth and riches,” said the old king with a smile, “you can stay up all night long means you’re not an ordinary person, as long as you put in a little more effort to catch a live one, it’s not possible to say half a year of nothing to do, and you haven’t thought of saving up a little bit of money, marrying a wife and so on?”

“Marry my ass!” Ren Xiaosu said in a bad mood.

Old Wang pretended to be mysterious: “The girl from the old Li family next door and your brother Liu Yuan are in the school, that is a serious girl ……”

“According to you, I have to sell this sparrow directly to Old Li, do you need to introduce?” Ren Xiaosu turned his head and asked Yan Liuyuan: “Old Li’s girl and you were classmates?”

“Yes,” Yan Liuyuan nodded, “She’s very strong.”

“Go go go, play aside,” Old Wang said in a bad mood, “You just pretend I didn’t say that, treating your good intentions as a donkey’s liver and lungs!”

Seeing that Ren Xiaosu and Yan Liuyuan were about to start a comic dialog, Old Wang stopped decisively and changed the topic, “Remember, if you can catch a live one next time, you must come to me.”

“OK,” Ren Xiaosu nodded, in fact, although it is dangerous to catch a live one, it is not impossible to do it, he looked to the grocery store, “How do you sell the cotton jacket?”

“The cotton coats are new arrivals, 500 a piece! You all know this price well, what I received is 490, I don’t make money on cotton coats,” said Old Wang, “One less freezing to death counts as one.”

“You are quite kind,” Ren Xiaosu carelessly complimented, “Come to a bar, you see six yuan to wear how big.”

“Brother, you buy one too,” Yan Liu Yuan said hurriedly.

“Children don’t interrupt when adults talk,” Ren Xiaosu frowned, “I’m not cold.”

Money was a good thing, the consortiums controlling the various refuge barriers issued currency to ensure the flow of goods, convenient as it was, but it was hard to get around without money.

The winter here was very cold, but the money should be saved for emergencies, there was still more than a month to go before winter, if they could catch sparrows again, Ren Xiaosu felt that it wasn’t too late to buy cotton coats at that time.

The key is, Yan Liuyuan should pay the tuition fee, once a month.

Ren Xiaosu once again glanced over towards the grocery store, her eyes suddenly stopping on top of the counter behind Old Wang: “How do you sell antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs?”

“You want to buy medicine?” Only then did Old Wang notice that the cloth wrapped around Ren Xiaosu’s hand still had blood stains on it, “You’re injured? Then you have to buy some medicine, otherwise the infection will kill you!”

“I asked you how much!” Ren Xiaosu said impatiently.

“One 210,” said the old king, “antibiotics such things must be taken for three days, sell you three 620 dollars, and then send you to wipe the iodine pov once, I have ten left here.”

Ren Xiaosu thought about it and said, “Wipe a fraction of it ……”

“If you want to erase the zero behind 620, shut up before it’s too late,” said the old king in a bad mood.

Ren Xiaosu smashed his mouth fondly and retracted his gaze, “Forget about not buying, winter is usually not inflamed.”

He turned around and took Yan Liuyuan to school, when he passed by the grain store, Ren Xiaosu went in and bought a long black bread, which was mixed with something unknown, and when he swallowed it, it caused his throat to ache.

Yan Liu Yuan chewed on the black bread and said, “Brother, why don’t you also pay tuition to attend classes, you want to attend classes so badly.”

“I still have to go out hunting,” Ren Xiaosu said, “I heard Old Wang say that meaning just now, there are still quite a few female students from good families in your academy, right, you don’t want to fall in love early.”

“I heard that people used to get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen,” Yan Liuyuan retorted, although he hadn’t thought about these things between men and women, but it was actually very pleasurable to bicker with Ren Xiaosu.

Bitterness for pleasure was probably one of the most powerful skills of mankind.

Ren Xiaosu vainly patted the back of Yan Liuyuan’s head: “Now can be the same as before, you’re still small, what you’re talking about now is someone else’s wife in the future…….” Said here Ren Xiaosu smashed his own mouth: “Someone else’s Wife, how to sound also strange exciting ……”

“Brother what are you saying, why can’t I understand it ……” Yan Liu Yuan blinked his eyes and said.

“Roll roll roll, less to me pretend garlic,” Ren Xiaosu said without good humor.

……

The schoolhouse was the cleanest and tidiest place in the entire market town, and was also the only residence with an independent courtyard.

Walking towards the inside from the outside, one could see that the courtyard was planted with a patchwork of …… onions, garlic cloves, potatoes, and cabbages ……

Originally, Ren Xiaosu thought that a place like the academy should plant some bamboo gods and goddesses, but after all, food is not easy to find these days ah, to have a place to grow vegetables that is really happy.

So Ren Xiaosu’s previous wish was to let Yan Liuyuan grow up to be a teaching teacher ……

It wasn’t that he respected the teaching staff so much, but he felt that the teaching staff was safe and could have their own yard to grow some vegetables, and no one would steal them.

It was such a wonderful thing.

On the whole, Ren Xiaosu’s wishes were generally very “simple”.

Yan Liuyuan went into the classroom with his tuition money, and Ren Xiaosu crouched on the wall to listen to the sound of reading inside; he couldn’t afford the tuition money, so he could only eavesdrop.

Mr. Yan would sometimes tell his students how glorious human civilization had once been, but to be honest, Mr. Yan himself had never seen that era, and what he told them now were only things that had been passed down by word of mouth, which might have been passed down incorrectly as they were passed down.

Although it is not very reliable, Ren Xiaosu was very fascinated by it.

Sometimes Ren Xiaosu would take the knowledge and questions that he didn’t understand and didn’t hear clearly and ask Yan Liuyuan about them, which made Yan Liuyuan very distressed, because if he couldn’t answer, it would mean that he didn’t listen properly, so when there was Ren Xiaosu listening to him, Yan Liuyuan listened to the lessons extraordinarily carefully …….

I don’t know why, Yan Liu Yuan will admit that this brother of theirs is really quite handsome when he studies seriously, no wonder Sister Xiaoyu will fall back.

In the classroom, the teaching teacher took the book, he took the book despondently looked at some sleeping students below, and then looked out the window wall Ren Xiaosu, then said to Yan Liuyuan: “You go back and tell your brother, he can come to the courtyard to listen later.”

“Okay!” Yan Liuyuan smiled with a big smile on his face.