Where I Came From (5)
If it werenât for this, she wouldnât have been such good friends with Yu Qingshi.
Of course, those first-year children would not admit that it was because Teacher Tang always praised Jiang Xiaoman for being smart, and it made them feel defeated.
Having been alone for a long time, Jiang Xiaoman was a bit lonely. It would be great to go to kindergarten, where many children like her love to learn and communicate.
Jiang Xiaoman hesitated for a long time, torn between her hometown and the kindergarten. She asked Jiang Xing in a small voice, âThen after we go to the city, can we come back again?â
âOf course, we will come back during the holidays.â
Jiang Xiaoman immediately said. âOkay, then letâs move! When will we go?â
âWell, itâs not time yet. Soon.â
â...â Thatâs the same as what he said last time!
Jiang Xiaoman felt cheated again and was so angry that she ignored him all night.
Jiang Xing assured her that this time it was true. He was already looking for a location for his company and asked someone to look for a house.
âBecause... Teacher Tang is my sisterâs -that is, your motherâs- mentor.â
âWhat is a mentor? Is it not a teacher? Is there any difference between a teacher and a mentor5?â
â...â Jiang Xing sighed heavily. âA mentor is a very, very important teacher. Teacher Tang was like that; he enlightened your mother and helped her studies.â
So it was like that.
Jiang Xiaoman scratched her head and started inferring. âWhy didnât my mother go to school? Was it because she was as young as me?â
Back then, even eating was difficult. The school was a luxury. How could their family had the spare money to send their children to school?
But his elder sister would not resign herself to that. Their family said they could not afford to send her to school and asked her to help her family and earn money obediently.
But Jiang Yue wouldnât. Every day after she finished her work, she would take the time to go to school and hide under the window to listen in secretly.
She picked up the pencil stumps that others didnât want any more from the ground and wrote on a brick. This lasted for a year.
If it were not for Teacher Tang, maybe Jiang Yue wouldnât have been able to go to school.
This matter was so complicated, Jiang Xing always sighed whenever he thought of it.
He glanced at Jiang Xiaoman and sighed. âIf you want to know, ask Teacher Tang later when you go to his house.â
5. teacher and mentor are one word different; the teacher is laoshi, mentor here is enshi
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