Chapter 150 Need to Learn
As the sun sets, the streets become lively.
People who had just got off work were walking on the streets, some buying food, some buying vegetables, and all rushing home.
Today, Zhao Mu's work place is close to Qingshui School, and after work he went to pick up his two daughters who were in kindergarten. Liang Laidi, Li Daya, Wei Qiniang, Wei Daya, Li Juhua, Lin's Lu, Lin's Yang, and more than a dozen other women went to work together and rushed home together after work.
In order to save 1 yuan on the bus fare, everyone walked from the north of the city to Qingshui No. 3 Community in the east of the city. Unless someone was in a hurry or pressed for time, everyone would walk.
Li Juhua looked at the afterglow in the sky and said, "Now that those two old men are gone, everyone feels much more at peace!"
Wei Qiniang: "Yes! It's really a lot quieter now! Life is so much better now! You have to make trouble!"
Li Daya didn't say anything, but she was relieved. But she calculated the time, and there were only 8 days left. Old Man Li and Mrs. Zhang were going to be released, and she frowned.
On Saturday, March 3, Li and Zhang were angry about their son being taken to work as a coal miner. They found out that Li Daya was hospitalized at Qingshui Hospital. They went to Qingshui Hospital and told the doctor that their granddaughter, Li Daya, was sent there for treatment. They were Li Daya's grandparents and they came to take care of their granddaughter, but they didn't know where the ward was.
The doctor was kind-hearted. He found out which ward Li Daya was in, and seeing that they were old, he took them to find her. As a result, the other two patients in Li Daya's ward were so scared that they ran out of the ward to find the doctor. The doctor in the department called the hospital guards and arrested the old man Li and the old woman Zhang who had beaten and scolded Li Daya in the ward.
The police came and saw the two people who had been making a scene outside the police station for two days. Now they were causing trouble in the hospital again and even injuring someone.
No matter how the two men argued, they were not allowed to injure their own family members, so they were directly thrown into the detention center and detained for 20 days.
The detention center in Japan is not so easy to stay in. There is food and accommodation in the detention center. For food, there are two meals of vegetable porridge every day; for accommodation, there is straw on the floor of the cell. Get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to attend the law class, eat breakfast at 8 o'clock, and start working at 9 o'clock. Work until 19 o'clock, then you can rest and eat dinner.
After dinner, you cannot sleep yet. You still have to copy the law. You can only sleep after you have copied 10 pages. You are not required to write well, but if it is a scribbled mess, you have to copy it again. If you cannot finish copying, you cannot rest. If you cannot finish copying, you can continue copying tomorrow. The number of pages to copy every day is fixed. If you have not copied the required number of pages of the law when the detention time is up, you are not allowed to leave until you have finished copying.
Are you being lazy? Are you pretending to be sick? Are you unwilling to copy? Are you unwilling to leave? The detention center staff are eager to give you all the work to do. They don't even pay you, just two bowls of vegetable porridge a day. The detention center staff are not allowed to beat, scold, or torture people, but they have many ways to torture people.
Old man Li and Mrs. Zhang were living a life worse than death in there. They couldn't live well, but they didn't want to die. They were tormented physically and mentally every day.
It was past 3pm when everyone arrived at Qingshui No. 19 Community in the east of the city. Li Daya opened the gate of the courtyard, and Li Daya, Wei Qiniang, and Wei Daya walked in. Liang Laidi went to the courtyard where Zhao Mu lived to pick up his two daughters.
Li Daya went to the kitchen to light the fire and put the steamed buns for the four people in the pot to reheat them and eat them with vegetables later. The steamed buns and vegetables were bought by the four people in the canteen of the bath center and saved for dinner. The bath center would provide a lunch.
They calculated that it would be very late when they got home from work, so they could cook for themselves, which would earn them more money, but would also take up more time, coal and charcoal. Most importantly, they had to go to school and work every day, so time was tight, and they had to seize the time to study at night.
When Li Juhua returned home, her husband and sons were driving the ox cart back home quickly, and dinner was almost ready.
Everyone quickly finished their meal and walked towards Lin Lizheng's yard, taking their stools, notebooks and pens.
After the four members of Lin Zisu's family finished their meal, Shen Xianglan and Lin Youcai went to Lin Lizheng's yard to help everyone with the lesson. The two siblings were at home, busy with their own writing projects.
Originally, the Lin, Shen, and Shi families were planning to have a dinner together tonight to congratulate Lin Youcai and his family of four for graduating and being promoted to a higher grade, and also receiving a scholarship.
Everyone has their own things to do, so why not wait until Saturday when everyone has a day off, no school or work, and get together. After half a month in Heguo, the families haven't gotten together and had a good meal together.
After finishing his meal, Tao Mingyuan walked towards Lin Lizheng’s yard with his wife and children.
Shen Xianglan: "Tao Mingyuan is amazing! He is worthy of being the one who passed the examination among thousands of soldiers. There is nothing much to say about our family. We know what is going on in our hearts!"
"Everyone only sees the success of others, but not the efforts behind them. To pass the exam for a scholar, one needs to learn, memorize, and write more and it is more difficult. Ten years of hard study is no joke. He and I passed the exam for a scholar at a young age, and we both had some learning talent and luck.
You all don't know him, but I do. He has been studying hard since the first day of school on the 17th, and he doesn't go to work unless he has something to do. He studies from morning to night, and often comes to discuss and study with me. You haven't seen his notebooks, but he has roughly copied down the contents of the Chinese and math textbooks. He also practices calligraphy every day! He used to write with a brush, but now he uses an ink pen. He practices every day because he is not used to it. "Lin Youcai said with a thumbs up.
Shen Xianglan: "This kind of perseverance and hard work is not something that ordinary people can do."
The couple talked as they walked for more than ten minutes and finally arrived at Lin Lizheng's yard.
The yard was full of people, adults and children were sitting on small stools chatting.
Lin Youcai took out two portable solar lights and hung them high to make the yard brighter.
Lin Lizheng held a gong in one hand and a hammer in the other, "Ding ding ding ding!!! Everyone, be quiet, stop talking! Study hard! Finish your studies early and go back to bed early!"