Zhu Yanyi walked out of the principal’s practice chamber. She went to find the deputy head of the school’s student union and the organization committee member. She told them to notify the class monitors of all fifth-grade classes. They needed to set a departure time and then report back to her.
Organizing class activities was not difficult. Zhu Yanyi did not need to do everything herself.
When Zhu Yanyi returned home, she told Xie Xinlian and Xie Xinyan the news from Principal Chen.
Xie Xinlian said, “That means when others start school in the second half of the year, I will be going to school too.” She felt a bit nervous already.
Zhu Yanyi smiled and said, “Exactly. It is May now. There are a little over three months left. Mom, learn more characters. It will be easier to follow the lessons later.”
“Definitely.” Xie Xinlian was confident now. Even if she learned ten characters a day, she could learn three hundred in a month. In three months, she could learn nine hundred. If she worked hard, she would recognize a thousand characters by the time she attended classes. She could take notes and understand the lessons. She would not be illiterate or called a blind person. They were not attending for a diploma. They could not take exams. They just wanted to learn knowledge.
After settling matters for Xie Xinlian and Xie Xinyan, Zhu Yanyi left them be. She remembered she had not visited her herb field for a while. She decided to go check on it.
Zhu Shunyao had contracted over one hundred mu of land. Thirty mu were planted with herbs. These were not rare herbs. They were mostly common ones like licorice, Gastrodia elata, and honeysuckle. Growing herbs required more care than vegetables, flowers, or fruits. But the returns were huge. Except for the specific herbs Zhu Yanyi needed in her three-fen plot, the rest had sales contracts with several Chinese medicine pharmacies. The last batch sold for nearly fifty thousand yuan. Zhu Shunyao’s herbs grew well. No one knew that she soaked the seeds in Spirit Spring water every time. This made the medicinal properties much better than those of ordinary farmers.
Zhu Yanyi went to see her own three-fen herb field.
She usually tended this field herself. Only when she was away or busy would Zhu Shunyao help. No one else was allowed to enter or look at her field.
Zhu Shunyao hired people to tend other fields. But for these three fen, she tended them personally if Zhu Yanyi was absent. Her daughter had told her these herbs were grown with special methods. If discovered, it would attract greed. So this field was her private territory. Because of this, Zhu Shunyao planted thirty mu of herbs. This was mainly to cover for the three-fen plot. It turned out to be a lucky bonus.
Although it was only three fen, there was much inside. Zhu Shunyao built a high wall around the hundred-mu greenhouse area. The wall was two meters high. He built the wall around the hundred mu to hide the three-fen plot. The three-fen plot was separated by the wall. With the large wall, it did not look too prominent.