Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 116 Got the diploma
So the study time was changed to one hour, and I started studying after dinner. An hour later, Xia Chan and Xia Qi set off, to the fields, ditches, ponds... Xia Qi took Xia Chan everywhere, I visited almost every place with water in the entire commune.

The elementary school was originally supposed to have a holiday in mid-July, but due to the heavy rain, the time was delayed. After the situation stabilized, the school started normal classes, and the final and graduation exams were all postponed.

Today is the day of the fifth grade primary school graduation exam.

When Xia Chan came to school in the morning, her four brothers also came with her, because Xia Chan had already signed them up for the final exam.

The test papers were brought over by the teacher from the commune primary school, and the invigilator was also a teacher from the commune primary school. There was one desk per person, and the teacher walked back and forth, inspecting, and was very strict, comparable to the college entrance examination.

In fact, it is because of distrust and contempt for rural primary schools that I want to find something wrong.

But I'm sorry, I can only disappoint them.

Although this is just a rural primary school, and the teachers’ salaries are not as good as those in commune primary schools, several teachers teach the students very well, and no one does any evil things, especially the fifth grade students, some of whom are already in their teens. Naturally, he understands the truth and knows right from wrong, and it is impossible for him to do anything that would bring shame to the school.

In this era, primary schools only had two main subjects, and only two subjects were tested in the exam. It ended in half a morning. After that, the teachers from the commune primary school marked the test papers and left. Principal Song took care of the rest. .

Xia Chan's four older brothers all achieved good results in the exams and successfully obtained their primary school graduation certificates. Although they were not yet considered educated people, they had taken a big step towards becoming educated people.

After getting the primary school diploma, it was natural to start junior high school courses. It happened that all the textbooks that Xia Chan used before were still there, not a single one was lost. In addition, Xia Chan picked up some books at the scrap yard and bought some books at the bookstore, so there was no shortage of books at home.

However, before attending junior high school, Xia Chan decided to make a delicious meal to reward her brothers.

So the next morning, after her brothers left for work, Xia Chan began to prepare. She cleaned the crayfish first. The crayfish heads could not be eaten anyway, and keeping them would take up space. She simply did not take the crayfish heads. She only took off the crayfish tails and removed the shrimp threads. She cleaned up almost a whole wooden basin of crayfish tails, probably about twenty or thirty pounds, which was enough for her to eat to her heart's content.

Then he processed the eels and loaches. After washing them, he put them in a plate for lunch. The rest were placed on a winnowing basket to dry. When they were dried, they could be sent to Su Yu and Xiao Yunfan.

Dried loach and dried eel taste pretty good when stir-fried, and can be eaten in the same way as salted fish.

Twenty or thirty pounds of crayfish cannot be cooked in one pot, so Xia Chan cooked them separately, one pot for spicy crayfish and the other for garlic crayfish. After the garlic crayfish were ready, she packed several portions in large oil paper bags and planned to send some to the cowshed, the team leader and Qin Hongmei's family when she went down the mountain, so that they could taste it and know that crayfish is edible. In the summer, they could add another dish to their dinner table.

There are a lot of these things in the wild, so summer cicadas are not afraid of others snatching them away.

Everyone else can only eat this thing in the summer, but she can put it in a space and preserve it so that she can eat it all year round.

There are many kinds of vegetables in this season. Although the vegetables planted in the yard were covered by silt before and disappeared, the taro has tenaciously grown new leaves, and the vegetables planted by Xia Chan on the mountain are now growing well after the heavy rain.

So Xia Chan's family had all kinds of vegetables to eat every day. The brothers had long discovered that Xia Chan had a secret that she hadn't told them, but they all tacitly pretended not to know about it and didn't ask about it. Anyway, as long as Xia Chan was fine, that was all that mattered.

When the brothers came back from work, they washed their hands and faces, walked to the dining table, and were surprised to see so many dishes on the table.

"Come and try the crayfish I made." Xia Chan reached out and picked up a spicy lobster tail, peeled the shell in front of them, took out the meat from the tail, put it in his mouth, and ate it with satisfaction. "The meat is so firm, spicy and fresh, so delicious!"

Seeing Xia Chan eating so happily, the brothers couldn't help drooling, so they sat down, picked up their chopsticks and started eating.

The five people finished eating both flavors of lobster tails. Excluding the few pounds that Xia Chan packed for others, they each ate several pounds and still felt unsatisfied!

Jin Pengyuan said excitedly, "I didn't expect this thing to be so delicious. I'll go out with you guys tonight to catch it."

"Okay, you can all go, but one person has to stay at home to look after the house." Strength lies in numbers. The more people go, the more they can gain. Xia Chan naturally wouldn't refuse. "The four of you should discuss it. Anyway, one person has to stay at home to look after the house every night."

"Okay." The brothers agreed readily.

After eating the lobster tails, they moved on to eat the braised eel. The good brothers cheered again and said they would go catch eels tonight.

Seeing her brothers so happy, Xia Chan knew that today's meal touched their hearts. No one was raising crops now, and they could only eat them for a while in summer. But she had space, so it was okay. She could take advantage of the hot weather now to wash more and store them in the space, and then take them out and cook them directly when it got cold in winter, without having to touch water.

When going to class in the afternoon, Xia Chan went around the cowshed and gave the old man a bag of garlic lobster tails, telling him to just peel the shell and eat the meat inside. Then she gave a bag each to the team leader's home and Qin Hongmei's home.

The captain's family has more people, so his family gets more. Qin Hongmei's family has only four people, so the portion is less.

From then on, whenever the weather was good at night, Xia Chan would go out with his brothers to catch eels and crayfish. After two days, his brothers couldn't bear to let Xia Chan run around outside every night, so they let Xia Chan stay at home.

Xia Chan processed the crayfish at home. She cleaned the crayfish, took out their tails, removed the shrimp threads, and then packed the crayfish one by one and neatly stacked them in a bamboo basket.

There were also eels, loaches, snails and small snails. She cleaned and processed them all, then transferred them into the space and stored them. There was no need to put them in the refrigerator, because they could just be placed in the room.

Xia Chan doesn't plan to sell these things at this season. He will wait until winter when supplies are scarce, or he can directly sell cooked food, which will earn more.

After the elementary school graduation exam, summer vacation began, and the summer cicadas naturally also had their summer vacation. However, since the crops were destroyed and the newly planted crops had not yet been harvested, the village was not very busy. The team leader organized the strong laborers in the village to repair the road.

(End of this chapter)