Traveling through the 1940s, the whole village was massacred at the beginning

Chapter 520 Going to School

Jiang Jiyun turned around and looked at Qi Erlong after hearing his words, "Why don't you like going to school?"

"That Secretary Wen has no time to exercise because he has to learn to read. If those uncles went to the battlefield to fight the Japanese, they would definitely not have fallen into the toilet." The image of Secretary Wen with maggots crawling on his body is now on Qi Erlong's mind.

Jiang Jiyun saw him shivering and thought he was frightened last night, so he said, "Not all of them are useless. Look, my brothers are all literate. If you can't read, how can you read the telegram and give orders?"

Qi Dalong also said, "You didn't even know you were being sold, and you foolishly helped them count the money!"

"Oh, that's not that serious. What you said is really scary." Jiang Jiyun thought that people of this era were still a bit simple and naive.

Qi Dalong glanced at Jiang Jiyun and then at Jiang Wenming and said, "Uncle Jiang, you should teach your sister a lesson. You really can't trust people too much. There was an aunt in our village who was deceived by someone in this way."

Jiang Wenming also looked at Qi Dalong in shock and asked, "Is there really someone who sold himself out like this?"

"Yes, it was Grandma Lai Di who took the initiative to sign the mortgage. At that time, she thought it was a promissory note, but it was actually a contract to sell her body. Her little girl was taken away by human traffickers. Several elders in our village tried to find someone to redeem her, but they were unable to do so." Qi Dalong eavesdropped on his mother when she was chatting with someone.

Because there was a written receipt and fingerprints, they had to either pay back ten times the money or give it to the person. At that time, the total money in the whole village was less than three hundred dollars!

When he found out about it, he felt really scared outside and for a long time he hid at home and didn't dare to go out.

"Has the person been redeemed now?" Jiang Jiyun asked sympathetically.

Qi Dalong shook his head and said, "Then the Japanese invaded, and the rich family that my aunt was sold to took their families and servants and left. When the villagers went to look for them, there was no one there except an old man who was guarding the door."

After Qi Dalong finished speaking, he took a bite of the big white flour meat bun that Jiang Wenming stuffed into his hand. Qi Erlong's full attention was on the bun.

Jiang Jiyun watched his uncle take out his small shoulder bag, and could only helplessly carry the buns and walk to school with the two brothers of the Qi family.

Jiang Wenming stood at the gate of the yard and watched his niece with two pigtails walking away slowly. He felt like a worried old father.

But he didn't expect that this worried old father would be asked by the school teachers to look for his child in a while.

Jiang Jiyun followed a group of children into the dilapidated room and sat down. At first glance, the tables and benches in the room looked very old. She couldn't help but worry about the sturdiness of these tables and benches, fearing that they would collapse as soon as she sat on them.

Next to her sat a boy who was slightly younger than her. His eyes were filled with tears and he stared at Jiang Jiyun without blinking. His pitiful look almost melted Jiang Jiyun's heart.

"Okay, don't cry!" Jiang Jiyun comforted him gently, and at the same time took out a piece of rock candy from his pocket and put it in the boy's palm and said, "I'm older than you, you can call me sister."

The boy took the rock candy and sat beside her obediently, eating the candy quietly. Just as Qiao Erlong was about to speak, Jiang Jiyun quickly stuffed a piece into his mouth and he also sat there quietly eating the candy.

"Wow, wow, wow...I miss my mom, I want to go home..."

Suddenly, the crying sound spread rapidly like an infectious disease. Soon, several children were crying together.

Upon seeing this, the female teachers rushed over to comfort the children who were out of control. They tried to coax and persuade them in a panic, and the scene was very chaotic for a while.

Jiang Jiyun was a little overwhelmed by this sudden scene. She stared blankly at the chaotic scene in front of her, feeling as if she had traveled back to the first day of kindergarten.

The crying made her head hurt, and she looked at a few more children joining the crying group in annoyance.

Jiang Jiyun looked at Erlong who was equally helpless. They were not in the same classroom with Dalong. They were several years younger than Dalong and had to stay here.

"Erlong, I also think that it is not necessary to go to this school. We can come here when we are older." Jiang Jiyun looked around and whispered to Qi Erlong on the other side.

"Then shall we go out and play secretly?" Qi Erlong nodded vigorously.

Jiang Jiyun stood up and raised his hand and said, "Teacher, I want to go to the toilet!"

"I want to go too!" Qi Erlong also stood up.

"I...I...I want it too!" A small voice sounded beside Jiang Jiyun.

Teacher Qin looked at the three children and saw that they were not crying or making any noise, so she came over and said, "Erlong, is this little girl new?"

"Yes, my father said that her brother and uncle were the comrades who delivered the supplies this time. Her brother was not at home today because he was on a mission, so my brother and I brought her here." Qi Erlong explained.

Originally, Jiang Wenming wanted to send the child over personally, but Jiang Jiyun refused. She said that she would come and try it out first, and would let the parents go after the child was sure to go to school.

In order not to put too much pressure on the child, Jiang Wenming agreed to let her try it for two days. He stood at the gate of the yard and watched the children enter the yard before turning around and going home.

"Then let the teacher take you there." Teacher Qin came over to take them out.

"No, we are big kids now and don't need the teacher's help." Jiang Jiyun refused directly.

Teacher Qin looked at the three children, who looked like grown-up kids, lined up and walked out of the classroom hand in hand with satisfaction.

“It would be great if all children were so worry-free.” Teacher Qin sighed and went to comfort the crying children.

When Jiang Jiyuan and his friends returned to their residence, they saw his uncle preparing food, so he and Zhao Huashan helped pick the vegetables.

Zhang An looked around but didn't see Jiang Jiyun, so he asked, "Uncle, is Xiaoyun out playing again?"

"No, there is a school at the east end of the village. She went to school with the two brothers Dalong from the village. I saw them enter the yard." Jiang Wenming washed the vegetables and brought them into the house.

Jiang Jiyuan nodded with relief. "It's good to go to school. Now people from all walks of life are watching us. It's safer to stay in the village and not go out."

"Brother Yuan, will your sister stay in the village quietly and not go out? Why don't I believe it? Can she really sit still?" Zhang An didn't quite believe that Xiaoyun could go to school obediently.

Liu Zhimin thought for a moment and said, "I don't think so. There are many children like her in school. If she has someone to play with, she won't want to run outside, right?"

"In fact, she is always forced to get involved, just like what happened yesterday. If she hadn't been smart, Xiao Yuan's news would have been leaked." Ma Chao sat on the stool to rest for a while. He had been watching near the elm tree all night last night.