In years of famine and drought, their village even rejected fatty meat.

Chapter 151 The whole village mobilized!

Looking at the vain Chen Fei, Li Ping just smiled.

As Chen Dao entered the room, he exclaimed with a smile, "It looks great! Xiao Fei's new schoolbag is absolutely gorgeous!"

"elder brother!"

Chen Fei laughed and pounced on Chen Dao, hugging his leg and saying, "Brother, I heard that if you go to school, you can understand the books in the bag. Is that true?"

Yesterday, when Chen Dao moved the books to school, he specially left a copy to take home and put in Chen Fei's schoolbag. Chen Fei is at the age where her curiosity is at its peak, so naturally she couldn't help but flip through the books to look at them, but...

After reading it, Chen Fei's face was blank. The words on it seemed like gibberish to her, and she couldn't understand a single one.

"of course it's true!"

Chen Dao stroked Chen Fei's hair and said with a smile, "Little Fei, you must study hard to learn to read when you go to school, okay?"

"Okay, brother!"

"Okay, let's go!"

After washing up, Chen Fei took her little hand and led her towards the school.

By this time, the area outside Li Zheng's house was already crowded with people, mostly adults with children. Clearly, the villagers still valued education quite a bit.

"Brother Dao is here? Is this your little sister Xiao Fei? She's so cute!"

"Xiao Fei is so plump and healthy, she looks much healthier than my child!"

"Xiao Fei has grown quite a bit taller recently."

"Dao Ge'er has grown quite a bit and looks like an adult."

"..."

When they saw Chen Dao leading Chen Fei over, the adults greeted them warmly.

Chen Dao nodded to the crowd, glanced at them, and nodded inwardly.

Chenjia Village has a total of 103 households. After excluding Chen Jin's family, which he killed, there are still 102 households. At this moment, there are more than a hundred children gathered outside Li Zheng's house. This shows that the vast majority of villagers with children have sent their children over. Some families have even sent all their children over at once.

These children are of varying ages; some are over ten years old, some are around ten years old like Chen Fei, and some... are probably only six or seven years old.

Looking at this large group of children of different ages, Chen Dao couldn't help but feel amused and helpless. In principle, these children of different ages should be divided into different schools, but unfortunately...

Nowadays, Chenjia Village doesn't have the necessary conditions, so all the children have to squeeze together to study.

"Squeak."

At this moment, the door opened and Li Zheng came out. He was taken aback when he saw the crowd outside, but quickly recovered and said, "Everyone's here? Let the children in and start the class!"

Upon hearing this, the villagers gave their children some advice and then put them into the school.

"Xiao Fei, when you go there, listen to Mr. Li's words and study hard."

Chen Dao also told Chen Fei, and then let Chen Fei go into the school on her own.

With hundreds of children flooding in, Li Zheng's home inevitably became a bit crowded. Fortunately, when the school was built, the village chief Chen He's purpose was to provide education for all the children in the village, so the school was built with a very large space, enough to accommodate these hundreds of children.

After guiding the children to sit down in the classroom, Li Zheng began distributing books to everyone.

"Chen Gou, come help me distribute the books."

Li Zheng beckoned over the older Chen Gou and asked him to help distribute the books in the school. Then he began his teaching.

"Everyone, turn to the first page of your book and read along with me."

"Heaven and earth were dark and yellow, the universe was vast and boundless!"

"Heaven and earth were dark and yellow, the universe was vast and boundless!"

"The sun and moon wax and wane, the stars and constellations are arrayed in the sky!"

"The sun and moon wax and wane, the stars and constellations are arrayed in the sky!"

Inside the school, the children's reading voices, some not in unison and some with unclear pronunciation, rang out, and many of the adults who were still waiting in front of Li Zheng's house immediately smiled.

Even Chen Dao's lips curled up slightly. No matter the era, children are always a symbol of hope. Now, the children of Chenjia Village have started to study, and everything is moving in a positive direction.

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Time flies by, and before we know it, October has arrived.

On this day in mid-October, Chen Lian, who woke up early, helped her grandmother He Xuehua out of the house.

He Xuehua rarely goes out, but today is an exception!

Because today is the day Chen Dao will distribute money to everyone in Chenjia Village!

Everyone had been eagerly anticipating the money Chen Dao had mentioned, and everyone was looking forward to this day!

"Xiaolian, Grandma He, let's go together!"

Chen Lian, walking along a village path, happened to run into Wu Yun, who was heading out. The three of them huddled together, wrapped their clothes tightly around themselves, and walked towards Chen Dao's house.

Despite the poor insulation of their clothes, the slight chill did not extinguish the passion in their hearts.

Not only them, but every villager from Chenjia Village who stepped out of their home wore a warm smile on their face.

"Today is the day that Brother Dao promised to give out money. Xiao Lian, have you thought about how you want to use this money?" Wu Yun asked with a smile.

"Not ready yet!"

Chen Lian shook her head and said, "I plan to save this money for now!"

Chen Lian worked at Chen Dao's house for a month, earning one tael of silver. With the rent money, he could get a total of three taels of silver. Such a large sum of money left Chen Lian unsure how to spend it.

"Aunt Wu, how do you plan to use this money?" Chen Lian asked Wu Yun.

"I plan to buy myself and my child a new set of clothes."

Wu Yun seemed to have a plan in mind, and said without hesitation, "Also, I'll buy some meat for my children, and save the rest of the money for now."

"pretty good."

Chen Lian nodded with a smile. By then, they had arrived at Chen Dao's house. They realized they were quite late. The area outside Chen Dao's house was packed with people, as if the entire village had turned out.

Indeed, the entire village turned out. Apart from the elderly and children who were unable to move, almost everyone in the village gathered in front of Chen Dao's house.

The villagers waiting outside Chen Dao's house all had joyful smiles on their faces.

"We're getting paid today. Have you all decided how you want to spend it?"

"I plan to buy some cloth and have my wife make some new clothes for the children."

"I'm thinking the same thing. It's so cold today, I really can't do without new clothes."

"I plan to buy more food and store it at home. In this kind of year, we really can't survive without food!"

"With rice as our source of income, why worry about food? If you ask me, we should buy more meat to eat!"

"Yes! I'm also planning to buy some meat! I haven't tasted meat in a year!"

"..."

The villagers discussed how they would use the money they received, and each of them had a hopeful look on their face.