Chapter 113: The Four Little Ones Go to School

Chen Xun hugged An Yinan tightly, "I'm leaving. Protect yourself well, you must write to me, and you cannot forget me."

An Yinan nodded and touched his face, "Be careful."

Four words, during the New Year, with his status as it was, she didn't worry about his food or drink, only that when he went on missions, he had that disregard for his own life.

Chen Xun promised solemnly, "I will remember."

He turned and left.

He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would forget the heavy burden on his shoulders.

An Yinan didn't even go out, just thinking like this about the back he had just seen leave.

After Chen Xun left, she returned to her normal life; every day was either translating or studying. She had already finished all the high school textbooks and had recently started practicing with exercise sets, even having Uncle Chen find various high school exercises for her.

Busy every day, the snow gradually melted, the days slowly grew longer, and birds began to fly to the north, chirping away.

"Spring planting starts tomorrow." The brigade Scorekeeper knocked on his gong, walking from the head of the village to the end.

An Yinan had long since asked about the approximate time for spring planting, finished translating all the books she had on hand, sealed them up, mailed them off, and wrote a letter to the Compilation Bureau saying she could only take on translation materials after a month.

This month, she planned to exercise her body?

Before spring planting, Beibei, Yun Shen, Huzi, and Shitou, the four children, had already started primary school. Yun Shen and Beibei had a deeper level of learning, and after taking an exam, they went straight to the fifth grade.

Actually, the two of them had already reviewed the fifth-grade curriculum, but the primary school only went up to the fifth grade; without having taken the middle school entrance exam, they couldn't go to middle school yet, so they could only continue studying in the fifth grade for another year, which also gave them time to study middle school knowledge.

And Beibei's progress was actually on par with Li Xiu'e and the other two. Whenever An Yinan gave a lesson, Beibei and Yun Shen would both bring their little stools, sit in the back, and listen to the lecture attentively. Even if there were things they didn't understand, they would actively ask after class, learning the knowledge very solidly.

Huzi and Shitou, the two children, had slower learning progress, but they also passed the second-grade final exam, and both entered the third grade upon enrollment.

This made Auntie Li laugh happily for a long time.

"Nan Nan is here?" At the edge of the field, Auntie Li saw An Yinan and hurriedly called out.

An Yinan held her thermos and trotted over, "What are we doing today?"

Auntie Li pointed to the stubble in the field, "During the rush harvest, the stalks were all bundled away, so this stubble was left in the field. These two days we have to dig up this stubble and clean the field thoroughly so it's ready for planting and fertilizing."

An Yinan nodded upon hearing this; digging up stubble, she had done that before.

After Auntie Li assigned the tasks, everyone collected their tools, and An Yinan claimed five ridges, swung her pickaxe, and started digging the ground.

She had a habit: when doing one thing, she rarely thought about other things.

The degree of her focus could be seen roughly from when she translated materials.

She only worked in the fields for two stages each year: one was spring planting, and the other was the rush harvest.

The time for spring planting wasn't long, only about a month. An Yinan swung her pickaxe, following the leverage method Zhang Qian had taught her recently; every joint and every muscle in her body was coordinating with her movements.

"It really saves effort." The more An Yinan practiced, the brighter her eyes became.

Just as she was practicing intently, a pair of eyes in the distance looked at her and narrowed slightly.

"This bitch, how is she here?" Er Gouzi leaned over to the person beside him and asked.

"Who is that person?"

The person next to him looked up and saw only a thin, weak back, "Educated Youth An."

"Educated Youth?" Er Gouzi questioned.

He often hung around the streets and didn't go out during the winter, so only now did he discover that An Yinan was actually an Educated Youth in their Quanshui Village.

"That's right, an Educated Youth who came to the countryside early last autumn," the person added.

"An Educated Youth, huh?" Er Gouzi said in a low voice, his eyes narrowing slightly. If it weren't for the fact that everyone had to work the spring planting fields, he wouldn't have known. This stunning beauty was actually someone from their Quanshui Village.

Educated Youths are great; if they get bullied, they have nowhere to complain to heaven and no door to complain to earth.

Wasn't she arrogant? Didn't she and that wild man deal with him?

Let's see how you run this time.

At this moment, how could An Yinan know that she was being targeted by someone in the dark?

Even if she knew, she wouldn't care much.

To be honest, she really didn't think much of Er Gouzi's combat power.

The first day ended with thirty Work Points.

There wasn't any back-breaking labor, just repeating the same movement, which left everyone with sore waists and aching backs, but it also gave An Yinan a great opportunity to practice.

An Yinan, Zhang Qian, and Xie Yuanyuan discussed it and decided that each person would give up three Work Points a day so that Li Xiu'e and Zhao Shuhua could finish work early to cook.

The two of them were relying on working in the fields to earn grain; the three of them couldn't cut off their livelihood.

Li Xiu'e and Zhao Qiuhua refused for a long time, but in the end, it was decided that way.

"Nan Nan, my hands have no feeling anymore." Xie Yuanyuan took off her gloves, and one could still see her chafed, red palms.

The pickaxe was very heavy; using clever force and the power of the waist could save a lot of effort, but the hands that kept gripping the wood were also constantly rubbing against it.

An Yinan took off her gloves; her hands were also slightly red, but not seriously.

Just then, someone walked over from the direction of the Educated Youth Courtyard and handed the medicine bottle in his hand to Xie Yuanyuan, "Soak your hands in hot water tonight, then apply the ointment."

Xie Shuyang put the ointment in Xie Yuanyuan's hand and then turned and left in a hurry.

Mainly, he really didn't want to hear any words of refusal.

"You..." Xie Yuanyuan hadn't even finished speaking when she saw the person leaving in a rush.

Holding the medicine bottle, it was awkward to put it down, and uncomfortable not to.

"He..."

An Yinan smiled, "Isn't it good to have someone show concern? Since it was given, just use it, otherwise your hands will hurt."

No need, someone's heart aches!

Xie Yuanyuan pursed her lips, "That's true."

We don't have any other merits, but we are good at taking advice!

After the few of them finished dinner, An Yinan wasn't too tired, so she went for a stroll on the mountain. She didn't specifically hunt, just collected the prey from her traps into her space, and then picked up some branches broken by the winter snow. Whether they were dry or not didn't matter; she wasn't in a hurry to use them for firewood anyway.

She would not let any firewood she saw go to waste; after all, she had the space as a cheat code.

Er Gouzi was scouting behind the Educated Youth Station, and seeing the figure heading up to the Back Mountain, he already had a plan in his heart.

During this month of spring planting, An Yinan's main priority was simply to relax!

No difference, it was just relaxing!

She usually spent her time translating and studying, so her brain was truly too exhausted; for this month of manual labor, she did not want to use her brain at all, let alone pausing the translation of documents, even the work of making clothes was put on hold.

Aside from going to work every day, she would head up the mountain after finishing, racing against the wild hares in the mountains, comparing speeds with the little deer, and testing her wits against the silly roe deer? Bah!

Anyway, five days of such comfortable life passed just like that.