Do Not Speak Ill of My Mother!
Chapter 587 - 571 Ji Li’s Inner Darkness

Chapter 587: 571 Ji Li’s Inner Darkness

For example, the village chief.

There are quite a few children in Canglong Village, he can’t help every family.

The reason why he doesn’t send himself to school is that many clever kids, after finishing elementary school, don’t have the money to continue their education. They often drop out due to family reasons after receiving some basic education.

They either start managing their family’s small plot of land or go to the city to work and help with household expenses.

Ji Li hears the village chief’s grandson reciting the slogan "Knowledge changes destiny" every day and can only sigh inwardly—how could he be so lucky?

But the village chief isn’t completely heartless either!

Ever since he helped the village chief’s young grandson Erhu with his homework, the little guy often comes to him for help.

The content in books is very complicated for Erhu but is easy for Ji Li to understand at a glance.

He knows he is very talented in studying. Characters that Erhu mentions once, he can write on the ground with a stick; math problems that Erhu recites once, he can immediately understand and infer more.

Without a teacher, relying solely on Erhu talking, Ji Li was forced to understand and then help Erhu solve his textbook questions.

The village chief found him useful and tacitly allowed him to help during the harvest on his land.

Nominally helping, but actually giving him some food in return.

Considered as compensation for helping Erhu with his studies.

You see, that’s how people are.

Where you need to spend money and effort, even if the other party is a genius, it won’t work!

But since he is somewhat useful to the village chief’s family, he can exchange this for some grain...

You get what you pay for!

This principle, Ji Li understood since he was very young!

So, when "a noble benefactor from the sky, Yan Yueqing," suddenly appeared when his grandmother was critically ill and offered to take him away from Canglong Village for a better education, he felt not excitement and joy, but endless disgust and aversion.

There are many geniuses, why isn’t she sponsoring those geniuses, but chose little him from Canglong Village.

Could it be that he has a big reputation?

No, the fact that he can study probably hasn’t even spread throughout the village!

Why did Yan Yueqing come from afar to find him?

Offering his grandmother’s treatment, offering his future...

The promises are too good to be true!

As if by following her, even if he does nothing in the future, he will have a secure life?

Ji Li understands the meaning of an equivalent exchange too well!

And knows well that when a piglet raised with great care is sold, only then does the owner show a genuine smile.

How is he any different from piglets, chickens, and ducks?

He doesn’t know when Yan Yueqing will reveal her true intentions and exhaust his value to the last drop?

But when that day comes, his fate will surely be very miserable, very miserable!

A person with no expectations for the future stands calmly on a flower-covered hillside.

Compared to the vibrant Moon Dust Grass, Ji Li is clearly only eight years old, but his eyes always carry a sense of inexplicable desolation.

Simply put: a faint sense of death.

Jun Yan feels Ji Li is quite strange, considering that he just arrived and isn’t familiar with the family, doesn’t say much.

Tang Tang is the youngest here, naive by nature, only feels that Ji Li is unhappy, never thinking too deeply about it. Simply assumes it’s because he didn’t go to school before?

So he pats his shoulder reassuringly: "It’s okay, Brother Li can study with me! I’ll be in first grade next year!"

Jun Yan chuckles: "Tang Tang, mom said that Brother Ji Li is very smart and he will surely achieve great things in the future~ You may not be able to keep up with Brother Ji Li’s speed in learning~"

That sincere remark weighed even more heavily on Ji Li’s heart.

Sure enough, she has a reason for picking him...