Chapter 19 - Baofeng Went To Private School (1/2)

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“Baofeng? What’s the matter with him?” Li Hongmei asked while drinking her soup.

The three siblings didn’t know what Ye Xiaoxian tried to talk about but looked at her in a daze.

“Baofeng is now eight years old and it’s the time for other boys to go to private school, so I’m thinking to send Baofeng to school. Boys can only know better by being educated in school so they’ll achieve much more in the future.”

Everyone one began to look at her surprisingly.

Li Hongmei was the first getting back to her senses and she said to Ye Xiaoxian immediately, “But I heard that it costs two taels of silver for a year to go to school. How can we get the money?”

Xiao Baozhu also said, “Yea, if Baofeng goes to private school, am I the only one who will do the firewood-cutting work? I’d rather not to go up to the mountain by myself.”

Xiao Baofeng was young though, he was considerate. “Sister-in-law, I’m okay not to go to private school. We are very poor now…I, I don’t want to add more burden to our family.”

Xiao Baoshan was surprised as well but it was for the matter of Baofeng going to the private school. What surprised him was that Ye Xiaoxian actually could bear such a thought!

Although Ye Xiaoxian was the daughter-in-law of the Xiao family and grew up in the Xiao family since her childhood, she bore a different family name Ye after all. Other married women either only cared about their parent’s family or live their own life selfishly, and few of them would like to pay for their brother-in-law to go to private school.

Ye Xiaoxian already knew that everyone would react like this, so she put down her bowl and said calmly to everyone, “I know it costs money to go to private school, but money can be made by our hard work. Now we are selling cold jelly, aren’t we? One or two hundred copper coins a day make three or four thousand copper coins a month, enough for Baofeng’s tuition for one year. Think about it, if Baofeng misses the right age of attending to a private school, he will miss it all his life. The private schools don’t recruit girls. If they do, I’ll send Baozhu in as well. ”

Ye Xiaoxian didn’t think that boys are more important than girls at all, but the reality was that private schools around here didn’t recruit girls, but only boys.