Chapter 104: Chapter 106: Darkened
However, how to build a house when there were no neighbors around was a concern. He hadn’t thought about it before. He originally planned to build a couple of houses next to his own, so they could all be connected, and offer some mutual support to one another.
“I think that place is fine,” Tang Zhijun didn’t feel too fussy about the location of the house. “I even feel that place is better. There are fewer people, more space, and it’s close to our farmland. It’s also close to the school Xinxin is going to attend.”
Tang Zhinian didn’t have strong feelings about other matters, but when it came to his daughter’s schooling, he had to consider it more carefully. The village did indeed have a primary school, but the junior high school was a combination of several villages, and quite some distance from their village. In fact, their village was the furthest away. If they lived here, it might be closer. Although it was only a ten-minute journey, those ten minutes that could be saved offered more time for sleep.
After hesitating for a while, Yuxin persistently wanted to build the house there.
Once the father agreed, the uncle also obliged his niece. Eventually, Tang Zhinian hardened his resolve and told the village head that he wanted two courtyards on that vacant land.
Only after the area had been marked off with white lines did Yuxin finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the place seemed to be the most unpopular in the village, a few years later, a main road leading directly to the county town would be built. There would be a fair amount of vehicle traffic every day. More importantly, the future vegetable market would be relocated to the opposite side. If they built a house here, since her uncle knew how to fix cars, even having an air pump and inflating tires would make them a few cents. Not to mention the possibility of doing other things.
Yuxin didn’t know what kind of advantage her rebirth bestowed upon her, and she never thought about it. She felt her rebirth itself was a golden opportunity. In this life, she didn’t follow her mother back, she didn’t become Xiaobai of the Wei family, her uncle was still very much alive, and the fate of her family had actually changed significantly. As for the rest, she wasn’t in a rush, she was only five years old after all.
She didn’t understand why some books would write that a few-year-old child could lead the whole family to become rich. She felt that her five years were spent just being an ordinary child.
She once again picked up the wooden board and started practicing her suturing skills. Time always seemed to pass quickly in childhood. It felt like she had just returned not long ago, but she had already grown from three to five, and then from five to seven years old.
Children in the village started school late, around the age of eight. This was something that couldn’t be helped. In the city, children start school at six or seven years old, but here it was eight. Not a half-year younger would do.
Yuxin put down the wooden board in her hand. Over two years, her suturing skills, though modest and unassuming, had become an integral part of her. It was in sync with her thoughts and came naturally to her.
Looking at her own small hands, she pulled up her sleeves. Her hands were tanned, but her arms were still fair. She sighed, it was inevitable—she couldn’t stay pretty forever.
As a child, she was a chubby, cute child. As her features developed, she remained cute. Although she wasn’t as chubby and round as before, her eyes were still big, and her face small—still a cute little girl. However, since last year, she started learning how to gather medicinal herbs with Chen Zhong on the back mountain.
As a result, she got herself all tanned.