Chapter 681: Five-Zero Motherhood System (38)

After sending off Li Jianming, who dared not oppose the "immortal," Town Mayor Cai took the opportunity to gather the town Cadres to show everyone the "immortal's reward."

The group of town Cadres: "..."

No, what did the Town Mayor do? To actually receive so many gifts from the immortal himself—tell them about it, they wanted to try it too!

The Town Mayor tried his best to suppress his inner pride: "I didn't do anything. It was just Bureau Chief Li coming to find me, saying he wanted his daughter to go help at Nuan Shu Zhi Jia. I didn't agree. After all, we signed a black-and-white agreement with Xiao Xie back then. At the time, we thought this matter was a hot potato and were just glad someone took it off our hands, so we can't just kick her aside and insert people in now just because she has the immortal's favor. That wouldn't be moral! I just said that, and then this huge pile of things suddenly appeared, along with this note."

"..."

A few town Cadres who had previously approached the Town Mayor, hoping to get their relatives' children into Nuan Shu Zhi Jia, suddenly felt they were being alluded to.

From then on, everyone finally behaved, and no one dared to scheme against Nuan Shu Zhi Jia again.

On the contrary, people from all walks of life vied to extend a helping hand to Nuan Shu Zhi Jia, donating all sorts of money and goods, hoping the immortal might favor them too.

Xie Yang: "..."

She never expected things to develop in this direction.

She just wanted to shut the mouths of people like Li Jianming and stop them from always trying to stuff people into Nuan Shu Zhi Jia. She never intended to solicit wealth in the name of "deities."

However, the supplies donated by various sectors were actually quite useful—

There were semi-new clothes suitable for the children to wear; old toys suitable for three-to-five-year-olds; and lower-grade textbooks and comic books suitable for the older children.

It saved Xie Yang from having to use the cotton grown in the Smart Vegetable Garden to trade for cloth and buttons, and then making them into ready-to-wear clothes for the children.

And the books served as an indirect reminder: it was time to send the four older children to the town primary school.

"What? Sending all four children to school? Then you'll be taking care of the two little ones alone, and you're busy with the farm work—how will you manage?"

Upon hearing her plan, Zhishu Xifu couldn't help but worry for her: "In my opinion, Chunni and Qiuni don't need to go to school, right? Xiaojun and Xingguo are boys; reading some books is definitely good. At worst, let them learn and come back to teach Chunni and Qiuni. Girls are going to get married later anyway; it's good enough if they can recognize a few words. There are plenty of people who don't know a single big character!"

Xie Yang shook her head: "Reading brings understanding; boys and girls are the same. Since I have the means now, I will provide for them to study. As for whether they can get into middle school or high school later, that depends on their own talent and effort. As long as they can get in, I will find a way to support their education."

As she spoke, she took a remittance slip she had just picked up from the Post Office out of her pocket: "After the spring plowing was finished, I sent two manuscripts to the Newspaper Office, and both were accepted."

"How much money can that be?" Zhishu Xifu asked curiously.

She had heard before that Xie Yang was writing manuscripts for the Newspaper Office like those reporters who run around to earn fees, but she didn't know the specifics. Mainly, she was too embarrassed to ask, but since the conversation had led here, she just asked casually.

"Fifteen yuan."

Zhishu Xifu clicked her tongue upon hearing this: "That's really not bad!"

From finishing the spring plowing until now, it had been a month at most, right? And she had already earned fifteen yuan? No wonder she had the confidence to send all four children to school!

After Zhishu Xifu went home, she didn't stop marveling to her husband about Xie Yang's capability. Meanwhile, after Xie Yang finished the summer harvest, she carried the two little ones on her back and in her arms, and took the four older children to register at the town primary school.

The registration went very smoothly; she paid the money, received the receipt, and just had to wait to report on September 1st.

During this period, she took advantage of the slack farming season to help the four children preview the knowledge for the first grade of primary school at home.

【Congratulations, Host! Smart Fish Pond has reached level 15; seafood varieties have been unlocked.】

On a midsummer morning, Xie Yang took advantage of the morning cool to go to the fields for an hour or so, picking a few tender Corn on the way back. The children had already divided the work to cook porridge, fry eggs, and finish washing up with the two little ones, just waiting for her to return for breakfast. After eating, she would lead the children to start the day's preview lesson, and Ace's electronic voice sounded in her ears.

Finally, seafood was unlocked!

Xie Yang wished she could sigh to the heavens.

In the previous plane, there was almost no opportunity to come into contact with seafood, causing the seafood in her stockpile to only go out and never come in.

It was the same in this plane; the wild sea Shrimp and sea Crab she liked had long been eaten, and she had been looking forward to the Smart Fish Pond unlocking seafood.

Although the first batch of unlocked seafood was the most common and ordinary Clam, she still felt very satisfied.

This stuff wasn't worth much in either the Modern Plane or the coastal towns of ancient times, so she hadn't stockpiled it back then. As a result, she hadn't eaten it for two consecutive planes, and she was truly a bit greedy for it.

While washing her hands, she farmed the Clams with one click.

After 24 hours, she would be able to harvest the first batch of Clams.

Drinking corn grit porridge and eating golden fried eggs that were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, her mind was full of spicy stir-fried Clams, scallion oil Clams, foil-wrapped vermicelli Clams...

The next morning, Xie Yang still got up early, went to the fields to weed and water as usual, and upon returning, harvested the first batch of Clams from the Smart Fish Pond with one click.

The Nongchang Warehouse lit up the Clam icon. Unlike Fish, Shellfish yielded ten portions per harvest, with two jin per portion.

Xie Yang took out two jin.

The children were already used to it, and only felt happy: "Is this a reward from the immortal for us?"

Xie Yang smiled and nodded.

"Who is free to help me pick some scallions and Chili?"

"Me, me! I'm free!"

Cao Xiaojun was small in stature but ran the fastest.

The other children didn't compete with him, so they stayed behind to help Xie Yang peel garlic and soak vermicelli.

Even Zhuangzhuang and Lanlan squatted beside Xie Yang, watching her scrub the Clams with curiosity on their faces while competing to fan her with a cattail fan.

"Godmother, are you hot?"

"Godmother, Lanlan will fan you, then Godmother won't be hot!"

"Godmother, Zhuangzhuang will fan you too!"

"Xiao Xie! Xiao Xie, look who's here!"

Just as Xie Yang was enjoying the thoughtful service of the children with a wide smile, Town Mayor Cai, Cao Zhuren, and the village secretary walked into Nuan Shu Zhi Jia, smiling warmly as they accompanied a middle-aged man with a strange face wearing a military uniform.

"Xiao Xie, what are you busy with? Yo! Are these sea oysters?"

"Not sea oysters, they're Clams."

Xie Yang hurriedly stood up to welcome them into the house to sit.

"Clams from the sea?" The middle-aged man in the military uniform stepped forward. Seeing the Clams raised in the basin, he let out a surprised sound in his heart. Such large Clams—even on the island where he was stationed, he hadn't seen many like them.

"Xiao Xie, this is Regiment Commander Fang from the military district. Hearing that you adopted the children of six martyrs, he came specifically to visit and, by the way, learn about the children's situation here."

As soon as Cao Zhuren finished speaking, Xie Yang heard the real-time news from the Main System on the front lines of gossip:

【Host, he is likely here to entrust his children to your care.】

Hmm, hmm, hmm? Entrusting an orphan?

?? My eyes have been uncomfortable lately, so I went to the hospital and checked; it's dry eye syndrome, and my corneas are somewhat damaged. I need to reduce my screen time and cannot stay up late at night, so I will be posting only one chapter a day for a while (＞人＜；)

? PS: If you feel your eyes are dry and have a foreign body sensation, you must go to the hospital for a check-up. It might be blocked meibomian glands. Don't just use eye drops blindly; that's what I did for a period of time, and my corneas got damaged ┭┮﹏┭┮