Chapter Nine: Wanting to Go to School

  At night, Chen Meng'er slept in the same room as her two brothers. However, she had her own small bed, which was made by a carpenter at her parents' request when she asked to sleep on her own.

  This is enough to show how spoiled Chen Meng'er was by her parents.

  The Chen family's living standard is considered average in the whole village, but even so, they only have a two-room bungalow. The room where Chen Mengran and his siblings sleep now was added by Chen and his wife as their children grew older and it became increasingly unsuitable for them to squeeze into one room with the adults.

  In the three years since she arrived here, Chen Meng'er really didn't understand this collective ownership of the 70s. This was clearly a waste of labor and resources. Fortunately, however, today's collective ownership has been abolished. This also made Chen Meng'er let out a sigh of relief.

  Otherwise, their family life would still be unchanged even after ten or eight years.

  Because of the collective ownership, generally every household has a certain number of things, and the villagers have a count in their hearts. So Chen Meng'er had an invincible cheating device, but it was useless here. In this space, Chen Meng'er didn't dare to take out any good things.

  She only did it during the Chinese New Year, when every household prepared some pastries. At that time, Chen Meng'er went to the supermarket on the first floor of the Qiu's department store in the space, found the bulk candies, tore off the packaging paper, put them in a fresh-keeping bag, and took them out.

  Then, taking advantage of her family's inattention, she mixed these candies with the ones at home to cover up.

  In this era, electricity was a rare thing. Although every household in the village had access to electricity, it was still scarce and people generally didn't use it much. When night fell and it got dark, everyone went home to sleep.

  Chen Meng'er did as she always did, washing up and lying down on her small bed. After chatting with her two brothers for a while, she fell asleep.

  It's said to be entering the dreamland, but in fact Chen Meng'er's divine consciousness has entered the space. In these three years, this space hasn't changed much, however, from only being able to enter with her divine consciousness, now Chen Meng'er's body can also enter the space.

  However, now that she's still young, she basically has no freedom in life. In order to avoid being discovered as abnormal, Chen Meng'er usually enters the space with her divine consciousness.

  Chen Meng'er entered the space and looked at the medicinal herbs that had been planted since she discovered the space. She said, "It seems like these medicinal herbs can be harvested soon. At that time, we can plant some vegetables, fruits, and so on."

  The Chen family's current standard of living, these fruits and whatnot, are all rare treats. However, every time there is fruit at home, everyone will first give it to the youngest, Chen Meng'er. This makes Chen Meng'er feel very moved each time.

  Of course, afterwards, Chen Meng would divide the fruit given to her and give it to everyone to eat. This made her father, mother, and two older brothers love her even more.

  In this portable space, the supermarket inside did have a stock of fruits. However, no matter how many fruits there were, without a source of supply, there would come a day when they would be eaten up. So, Chen Meng'er made a decision: she would deal with these herbs and then plant some fruit and vegetables.

  And as for the processing method of this herb, Chen Meng'er had already understood it very well over the past three years. This was all thanks to the books in that study room.

  Chen Meng'er thought to herself as she went to the kitchen to find something to eat. She was still a kid, after all, and needed nutrition. Of course, her dad and mom had never abused her; in fact, she was the one who ate the best in their household.

  But this era is not the 90s or 00s, nowadays families can only take out that little bit of stuff, which in Chen Meng's view, cannot provide her body with the nutrition it needs.

  Chen Meng'er actually wanted to take the things in her space out and give them to her father, mother, and two older brothers to supplement their bodies. But if she took them out, it would be too conspicuous.

  Chen Meng'er supplemented her nutrition and then went to the study as usual to find a book to read.

  Because most of the books in this study are medical books, Chen Meng'er has nothing to do here, so she uses studying medicine as her daily pastime. As it turns out, she really developed a strong interest in medicine, especially traditional Chinese medicine.

  No, she now enters the space and dives into the study, diving into this ocean of traditional Chinese medicine knowledge.

  As the days went by, summer vacation was about to end. That night at dinner, Chen Ping reminded Chen Haoran that he would soon be in first grade of elementary school and told him to calm down and not be so naughty.

  Chen Ping also said that if Chen Haoran behaves badly in school and is called by the teacher, he will see how he beats him. Chen Haoran was so scared that he ran out of the room and went back to his own room. He was afraid that after running for a while, he would be caught by his father and beaten on the buttocks.

  "Xiao Ping, you said that after Xiao Xuan starts school, what about Meng Er? We can't take Meng Er to the fields with us. I couldn't bear to let my precious daughter be exposed to wind and rain in the fields." Liu Juan said to her husband Chen Ping while cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks after dinner.

  "What else can we do? You also saw that, our family has contracted land from the big brother's house and is very busy. There are no hands left at home to take care of Meng'er. I don't want Meng'er to go to the fields with us either, but my parents passed away early, and there's no one to help us share the burden." Chen Pingyi's heart ached when he mentioned his parents passing away early, and he couldn't help but sigh.

  "Oh dear, why bring this up again? Otherwise, I'll send Meng to my parents' place and let them take care of him for a while?" Liu Juan said after thinking for a moment.

  "Never mind. It's better not to get your parents involved in this mess. If you really send Dream over, your sister-in-law will probably start arguing again." Chen Ping couldn't help but think that Liu Juan's sister-in-law was unbearable. He had never figured out why Liu Juan's older brother had married a woman who always calculated everything.

  Liu Juan thought of her sister-in-law and suddenly felt a chill. She could imagine that as soon as she sent the child to her parents' house, her sister-in-law would start quarreling with her.

  "What can we do then?" Liu Juan looked at Chen Ping with a bitter face.

  "Dad, Mom. Can't you just let me go to school with Xiao Xuan?" Chen Meng'er, who had been completely ignored by the couple, couldn't help but speak up, looking at them with wide eyes that didn't blink.

  "Go to school with Xiaoxuan?" Chen Ping and his wife were both stunned by Chen Meng'er's words for a moment.

  "Well. I'll go to school with Xiao Xuan, so you don't have to worry about who will take care of me." Chen Meng'er said with a tilted head.

  "Meng'er, this won't do. You're still young. Even if we agree to let you follow your little brother Xuan to school, the teachers there won't accept you." Chen Ping looked at his daughter's small stature and couldn't help but imagine her sitting in a classroom with a group of 7-year-olds - it just didn't seem right.

  "So, Dad, you mean that as long as the school teacher accepts me as a student, you'll agree to let me go to school with Xiao Xuan?" Chen Meng'er asked, poking holes in Chen Ping's words.

  "Eh, theoretically it's like that." Chen Ping said with a pleading look at his wife Liu Yun.

  "That's it. Dad and Mom, when are you going to take me to see our elementary school principal? I'll go tell him. Let him take me in." Chen Meng continued to drop bombs on Chen Ping and his wife.

  Chen Meng'er threw the bomb and then stood up from the small stool, slowly walking towards her room. Leaving Chen Ping and Liu Juan, a married couple, looking at each other in silence for half a day without saying a word.

  "Xiao Ping, this matter," Liu Juan finally squeezed out a few words after a long time.

  "Don't ask me what to do, you also know that Meng'er is a stubborn girl. She looks obedient, but once she makes up her mind, it's hard to change. If we directly refuse her, I'm afraid her young heart will be hurt. I think the only way is to follow Meng'er's words and find some time to take her to Principal Chen's house. Then, let Principal Chen talk to her." Chen Ping didn't know how to persuade his precious daughter to give up on going to school with Xiao Xuan, so he had no choice but to entrust this difficult task to Principal Chen.

  He thought that this Principal Chen was also an intellectual, and when it came to talking and persuading people, he must have more experience than the couple.

  "Alright, then when are you going to take Dreamy to see Principal Chen?" Liu Juan thought Chen Ping's idea wasn't bad. However, the couple didn't know that they had already fallen into the trap set by Chen Meng for them.

  Chen Meng'er said these things in the hope that, by doing so, she could get her parents to take her to see the teacher at school. She would only have the opportunity to enter primary school early if she saw the teacher at school.