Chapter 402 Interest


    After dinner, the whole family boarded a tractor and went home.


    Zhou Ying and Zhou Zhou talked about the school’s New Year’s Day art performance.


    Zhou Ying: "I will dance when I go on stage and practice dancing every day after school. Is there any performance in your school?"


    Zhou Zhou: "We have, too, and I want to dance too. Some people in our class dance, some sing, and some perform programs."


    "Your class has so many programs? Our class only has dancing!"


    Li Xiuxian: "Zhou Zhou''s school is a primary school in the village. There are only one or two classes in each grade, and the whole school has only about ten classes. If they don''t prepare a few more programs in each class, the art performance will end in a while. What''s the point?"


    Zhou Zhou didn''t say anything after hearing this, and she didn''t know that it was the reason.


    Jiang Xia turned around and asked the two children: "Then do you like dancing, singing, or acting?"


    The winter vacation is coming soon, so you can arrange an interest class for Zhou Zhou. Zhou Zhou seems to like music very much.


    Zhou Ying immediately shouted, "I like dancing."


    Zhou Zhou: "I like singing, not dancing."


    She was envious of seeing others dancing on June 1st, but now she can go on stage to dance, and finds that it’s just that, not fun.


    Jiang Xia asked again: "Do you have anything you like? Where are you painting? Where are the piano? Do you like it?"


    Zhou Zhou: "I like painting and piano, and piano music is good!"


    Jiang''s mother gave Jiang Xia some recordings of piano music. Jiang Xia placed it next to the recorder and played it several times. Zhou Zhou felt it was very good after listening to it.


    Zhou Ying: "What is a piano?"


    Zhou Zhou: "A musical instrument, black, big in size, and the songs played are very good! Thumb, Thumb, Thumb..."


    Zhou Zhou hummed the melody of "Autumn Whispers".


    Jiang Xia was not surprised. Zhou Zhou had a good memory. She could sing it once after listening to the song.


    But there is probably no interest class in the town to learn singing now.


    I can only buy more audio recordings and play them for Zhou Zhou.


    Zhou Ying: “…”


    "Dong thong thong thong thong...What''s the good thing about it? There''s no lyrics."


    Zhou Zhou: "I can''t sing it out. When I get home, I will play it for you. You will feel good when you listen."


    "OK!"


    Jiang Xia asked Zhou Chenglei: "Do you know if there are any piano-teaching teachers in the town?"


    Before Zhou Chenglei could speak, Li Xiuxian immediately said, "Yes, some people can teach you! An old lady in the town heard that she came back from studying abroad and knew how to play the piano. She only accepted students this year, but she didn''t dare to accept them before. I saw that people in the city brought their children to our town to learn. They heard that one class is very expensive. However, some of her students collected one yuan and one class, and some of her students collected two yuan per class, which was cheaper for her to collect students in the town. The two students who came from the city heard that it costs five yuan per class! One class is one hour."


    Tian Caihua was shocked when she heard this: "Five dollars? This is too expensive!"


    Li Xiuxian: "No! I don''t know if it''s time to eat, but when I saw the parents of the two students in the city drive a small car to take their children over, I would collect more."


    Jiang Xia: "It shouldn''t be the case. It probably costs the price according to the difficulty level."


    Piano lessons are not cheap in modern times.


    Jiangxia heard an old university professor say that she used to learn piano when she was a child and was a full professor-level educator, which cost ten yuan an hour. At the associate professor level, it costs eight yuan per hour.


    Even in modern piano classes, the price is not cheap. Different levels and prices depend on whether the teacher is good or not. Different teachers also have different prices, and the difference is huge.


    The old lady in the town is probably quite powerful, otherwise she wouldn''t have been charged five yuan per class.


    Jiang Xia plans to go home and ask Zhou Zhou privately if he wants to learn.


    Li Xiuxian asked Jiang Xia: "Xiaoxia, do you want to send Zhou Zhou to learn piano?"


    Jiang Xia: "Well, it depends on whether Zhou Zhou wants to learn."


    Li Xiuxian asked Zhou Zhou: "Does Zhou Zhou want to learn piano during the holiday?"


    Zhou Zhou shook his head.


    She doesn''t want to be so expensive.


    Li Xiuxian smiled and said, "If Zhou Zhou wants to learn, he can go to study with his sister! The holiday will be on time..."


    Zhou Chengsen: "When the holiday is during Zhou Zhou, you can live in the town with his sister. Can the second uncle send you to learn the piano together?"


    Li Xiuxian: “…”


    She originally planned to send Yingying back to her old house during the winter vacation and learn English from Jiangxia. When Zhou Ying heard this, she immediately said, "Okay! Zhou Zhou, please live with me in the town! Let''s learn piano together and learn English together!"


    Zhou Zhou shook his head: "I only like to listen, but I don''t want to learn."


    When Zhou Ying heard this, she said, "Then I won''t learn it anymore."


    Li Xiuxian: “…”


    I really want to be angry to death by my daughter’s inability to get angry!


    Jiang Xia didn''t say anything else, and asked again after the holiday.


    Now Zhou Zhou probably heard that a lesson is expensive and dared not learn it.


    If Zhou Zhou is interested, Jiang Xia will naturally have a way to let her learn.


    *


    After the winter solstice, the sun is sunny every day, with no wind and warm.


    Zhou Chengsen and Li Xiuxian came back in the evening of the past two days to take the Li family and their father and son to sea.


    The couple returned to the village after dinner, went to sea at half past five, and did not return to the sea until late at 4 a.m. the next day, and returned to the town to sleep after selling the fish.


    They have taken one morning leave these two days, took a break in the morning, and went to work in the afternoon.


    I went to sea at night and caught a lot of fish. After deducting oil expenses and labor, I made thirty or forty yuan on the first day and seventy or eighty yuan on the second day.


    But after just two days and two nights, Li Xiuxian couldn''t stand it anymore, and the two fathers and sons of the Li family couldn''t stand it anymore.


    These days are so uncomfortable when you are reversing day and night!


    Li Qingmin took the lead and said, "We are already familiar with each other. Asen doesn''t need to take us to sea at night. Let''s go out to sea during the day! We will get up at 4:30 in the morning and follow A Lei and the others to sea. I can''t stand it when going out to sea at night, it''s too sleepy!"


    Li’s father also said, “It’s not okay to go to sea at night, it’s too sleepy. The house is noisy during the day and I can’t sleep at all.”


    Zhou Chengsen: "Okay. You can go out at night and during the day. Just set a time."


    So the third day started, and the father and son finally appeared at the dock at 4:30 and went out to sea with Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin.


    Every day after the winter solstice, Zhou Chenglei goes out early and returns late every day.


    Jiang Xia is also very busy at home.


    The dried fish with more than 5,000 kilograms need to be fried, and Jiang Xia also helps pack it every day.


    She used to help burn the fire, but from morning to night, the oil smoke smelled too much, and she lost her appetite for eating.


    She no longer burned the fire, but was responsible for weighing and packaging with Zhou''s mother.


    Others are busy from morning to night, while Jiangxia works for an hour and rests for an hour every time.


    After an hour of rest, Jiang Xia was lying in the yard to bask in the sun, replenish calcium, and listen to Korean audio tapes.


    Or do translation under the grape trellis, brush up the college entrance examination questions of each subject, draw patterns of cloth, and give them to the textile factory.


    Received countless hand-written homework assignments in my previous life and the contribution of painting homework, Jiang Xia’s paintings were good.


    Aunt Fen and He Xinghuan carried a large pot of dried fish here to pack it for Zhou''s mother.


    When the two returned to the next door, Aunt Fen couldn''t help but say, "Xiao Xia is so diligent and motivated, I have never seen her go out to play."


    There are also many newly married daughters-in-law in the village, some are diligent and some are lazy.


    The village defines the diligence of a new wife as: doing housework well: washing clothes, cooking, cleaning, raising chickens, and growing vegetables. Doing these well is considered diligent.


    It’s not easy to do these things well, but no matter how many housework there are, I have a lot of free time to chat with everyone and play cards every day.


    Be more diligent, just make money while weaving fish nets and chatting.


    There is really never seen anyone like Jiang Xia except Zhou Guohua’s wife.


    He Xinghuan: "How can you make so much money without diligence? The God of Wealth doesn''t take care of lazy people."


    “That’s right.”


    The day is busy and comes the day before New Year''s Day.


    Happy winter solstice!


    There is another chapter that it is going to be late at night. Friends who are not sleeping yet, don’t wait.


    I''m a little busy today, I haven''t finished coding yet.