Back to the 1990s: Holding the spiritual spring and striving for a well-off life

Chapter 445 I don't know about this matter

Hua Xiali lay on the chair, feeling a little drowsy. When she opened her eyes again, her hair had been dried by the wind and Jian Nan's relatives had already left. Only Jian Nan was left sitting in the main room drinking tea.

Hua Xiali returned to her room, combed her hair, and tied it into a gentle low ponytail with a big red bow hairpin. Then she came out of the room holding a book.

She will be a sophomore in high school at the end of August, and she is now using Hua Chunli's book to start previewing the knowledge for the sophomore year.

Jian Nan reached out and took a book that Hua Xiali had placed on the table. He flipped open a page and saw the delicate handwriting on it. He praised, "Your handwriting is really beautiful."

"This is my eldest sister's book." Hua Xiali reminded.

Jian Nan was a little embarrassed, "Your elder sister's handwriting is pretty good."

Hua Xiali sat down, picked up his high school math book, and began to read it carefully.

Jian Nan turned his head to look at Hua Xiali. She was so beautiful when she looked down quietly. Even the few strands of hair hanging by her ears seemed to be endowed with vitality. She looked particularly elegant.

"Xia Li, do you want to study liberal arts or science?" Jian Nan asked with concern.

"Science." Hua Xiali said without raising his head.

"Science is good. There are many science majors, and there will be many jobs available in the future." Jian Nan nodded thoughtfully.

"So what university do you want to apply to? Are you interested in Rose University? If you are interested, I can share with you some things to pay attention to when applying to Rose University."

Hua Xiali then looked up at Jian Nan and nodded, "Okay!"

Rose University is the number one university in their Rose Province. Who wouldn’t want to apply to Rose University if they want to go to university?

Hua Xiali naturally wanted to apply to Rose University, but she didn't know if she could get in. Although her grades in the class were always among the best, it was not good enough in the whole city and the whole province.

But there are still two years left, so she can still work hard and give it a good try!
Jian Nan didn't go back until the afternoon. Hua Xiali felt dizzy from studying so much that she quickly took the books back to her room and drank a teacup of spiritual spring water, which restored her condition to normal.

In the evening, when Hua Qingmei's family of four were sitting at the dinner table, Hua Qingmei told her parents about Wang Liang's affair with the widow Chen Xiaojuan, and asked them if they knew about it.

Hua Qingmei's mother was a little surprised, "Is this true?"

Hua Qingmei was speechless. "You guys stay at home every day, but you don't even know about this. This matter has spread to the town, and even Hua Xiali knows about it."

After learning that the news had spread to the town, Hua Qingmei's parents finally believed it. Hua Qingmei's mother said thankfully, "Thank you Hua Xiali for spreading the news. Otherwise, we would have agreed to the matchmaker's suggestion and arranged for you to marry that Wang Liang. I never thought that since Wang Liang was already with the widow, why didn't he marry her? You have to pay a gift to marry a wife, but you can just marry Chen Xiaojuan and not spend a penny."

Hua Qingmei is seventeen years old this year. It would be perfect for her to find a partner, date him for a year or two, and then get married when she is nineteen. That's what her parents think.

Hua Qingmei looked at her mother helplessly, "Mom, what's with that look in your eyes? Why do you want to find such a bad person for me?"

Hua Qingmei's mother was a little embarrassed. "We didn't know about this, did we? The matchmaker said that he was tall, fair, and close to our home. We could see his house from the door, and they wouldn't dare to bully you. We just liked that his house was close to us. We never thought that he would do such dirty things!"

"Mom and Dad, please don't blindly find a husband for me in the future. Even if you want to find one for me, you should secretly find out about the other party. Just like this Wang Liang, if you don't help me find out, and just let me get married, he will go to Chen Xiaojuan's house every day and have a child with Chen Xiaojuan. What should I do?"

"I understand. We won't listen to the matchmaker's nonsense anymore. We won't believe anything the matchmaker says." Hua Qingmei's mother hastily assured.

She really didn't know that Wang Liang was such a picky person. He actually followed... But fortunately, she had not agreed to anything to the matchmaker. When the matchmaker came next time and urged her to arrange for Hua Qingmei to meet Wang Liang, she would ask for a sky-high betrothal gift. Since the Wang family couldn't afford it, they would naturally give up.

After dinner, Hua Qingmei took her brother with a flashlight and a wooden barrel to the front row of the village to look for Hua Xiali. Hua Xiali lived in the first row, and hers lived in the fourth row, which was the last row. It took several minutes to walk from her home to Hua Xiali's home.

There are families in the village who keep dogs, but there are dog thieves in the countryside who steal people's dogs to eat, so everyone keeps dogs in the yard and does not let them roam outside.

Hua Qingmei and her brother were walking on the road with flashlights, making noises. When the dogs heard it, they started barking in the yard, but since they couldn't come out, they were not afraid.

When we arrived at Hua Xiali's house, we saw Hua Si Nian had already come with her younger brother. Hua Xiali also took a flashlight and a wooden barrel and set off with them.

Arriving at the rice field in front of the door, Hua Xiali shone his flashlight into the shallow water and spotted a large snail. He then said to Hua Si Nian's younger brother and Hua Qing Mei's younger brother, "Two brothers, come pick up snails together. One cent per pound."

There are so many snails. If you can pick 100 kilograms in one night, that’s ten yuan. You can earn hundreds of dollars in one summer vacation!

"We want both big and small ones, but you have to keep the big ones separate and don't mix them together," Hua Xiali reminded.

Afterwards, Hua Xiali brought Hua Qingmei and Hua Si Nian to the canal. When they shone the flashlight, they could see crayfish crawling on the water plants or mud. When the flashlight was shone over, they slowly retreated backwards. "Hua Qingmei, you two will be responsible for catching these. It's also one cent per pound. No matter how big or small, they are fine."

Anyway, eat the big ones and keep the small ones for later use.

The letter from decades later wrote that when she was 47 years old, her hometown was demolished, which meant that she still had nearly 30 years to develop the fishery industry. After all, she had already tried it decades later and found that it was indeed possible to make money.

Since it is something that can make money, why doesn't she do it?

Hua Xiali came out wearing boots and went straight down the canal. He picked up a crayfish with the tongs in his hand and threw it into the wooden barrel. Then he walked forward step by step and collected the crayfish when he saw them.

Upon seeing this, Hua Qingmei and her brother hurriedly walked in the opposite direction. There were really a lot of these things in the rural waters, but no one caught them, probably because they didn't know they were edible.