CH 14.1

“What choices will I have in the future? I didn’t get to graduate from junior high school and, I don’t even have the qualifications to participate in factory recruitments. I can’t even take the college entrance examination. I don’t think we will be able to get recommended places for the village’s Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.”

T/N: All translations outside of Marztranslation are stolen and reposted without permission.

Ye Mi’s words were too frustrating, but it was undeniably the reality of the current times.

There was no forseeable way out no matter how hard they studied.

“Because you can’t see the future, you decide to give up on yourself and give up on learning?” Jing Ziheng thought he had found the truth.

“No.” Ye Mi weakly let out the inner cry of a scumbag: “I just don’t like studying, and I get sleepy when I read a book.”

She answered plainly and without pretenses.

Teacher Jing rubbed the headache forming between his brows: “I shouldn’t have held out hope for you.”

It’s not without reason why a scumbag becomes scum.

Seeing Jing Ziheng’s helpless expression, thinking that he had given up on her training her, Ye Mi’s eyes sparkled, expectantly: “That… my daily big characters…”

“Continue writing.”

Wanting to avoid studying teacher Jing said that there were no doors to escape, and the windows were welded shut by him.

“…Oh.”

Lowering her head in disappointment, she buried her little head in the man’s chest and rubbed it hard as if taking revenge.

She hadn’t washed her hair for three days, so her hair was oily, hum!

It may be that Ye Mi accidentally exerted too much strength, causing Jing Ziheng to stifle a groan, and the hand holding her wrist suddenly tightened, almost hurting Ye Mi.

“Be good, don’t be naughty.”

The head was patted by another big hand, but Ye Mi only noticed that the man’s voice became hoarse.

“You have a cold?” She reached out to touch Jing Ziheng’s forehead, “There’s something wrong with your voice, does your throat hurt?” His forehead was warm, but it was still within the normal range, so it wasn’t considered a fever.

“Ah!” Ye Mi suddenly exclaimed, and suddenly withdrew her hand, her face was hot: “You bit me!”

“Who told you to bully my brother.”

“What brother… um.” Ye Mi’s question was blocked In the throat, she couldn’t ask it out until the end. After making a fuss, she was finally sleepy, holding Jing Ziheng with both hands and feet, like hugging a pillow, drawing heat from him, and falling asleep.

Before meeting Zhou gong, she vaguely heard Jing Ziheng’s voice. Extremely serious, like the earnest persuasion of her former school teacher.

T/N: Meeting Zhou Gong is a Chinese euphemism to say some is sleeping.

“I can’t predict the future, but I know that if the country wants to develop, it will not continue like this. Knowledge is our heritage and our hope for the future. I hope you can also own this valuable treasure.” “This is the way I can be good to you.”

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Ye Mi has been rushing to work on Bing Shuyuan’s clothes these days.

She makes clothes very fast. She practiced it long ago in order to make more money. In just a few days, the clothes are almost ready.

She could go faster with a sewing machine.

It can be done in a day. It’s a pity that she couldn’t bring out the money she saved from helping her mother in the past. It was actually saved by her to buy herself a sewing machine of her own. Only short of a sewing ticket.

Before going to the countryside, or before falling out with her parents, Yemi had planned for her future.

She herself knew that she was weak and fell ill no less than ten times a year. Life in the countryside was too difficult and it was too difficult to survive. So she saved up money in advance, thinking that her father is an old technician in a machinery factory, and although it is not easy to get a sewing ticket, it is not impossible.

She planned that after she begged her father to get a sewing ticket, she would immediately buy the sewing machine, and then help the neighbors in the neighborhood with some private work at home, or help her mother do some work in the factory, and slowly start to make money.

Her academic performance was not good, but everyone in the school didn’t study much, most of them were scumbags like her, and what’s more, some didn’t go to school at all, and went out every day with a red armband to become red soldiers.

Teachers are distracted with trying to protect themselves, to even be able to manage student grades and overall performance. And the school set no demands on this either.

So as long as the family is willing to pay, it wasn’t a challenge for Ye Mi to study all the way until she graduated from high school.

She was in the second year of junior high school, and there were at least several years before she graduated from high school. These few years were enough for her to save a sum of money. When she graduated from high school, she could use the money to ask her parents to help her set up a contact to find a factory become a regular worker and settle down.

In this way, with a job Ye Mi won’t have to go to the countryside and can stay in the city.

But she never expected that her plans for the future would be strangled in the cradle by her parents’ partiality.