Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 810 - 440: School Has Started

Chapter 810: Chapter 440: School Has Started

"Auntie, is all this mine?" Inside the cattle farm, Lin Haihu grinned, rubbed his hands on his shorts a few more times, then unceremoniously grabbed the wad of cash Xiang Rui had handed him and happily began counting it.

He resembled that bald-headed comedian with the last name Chen, acting in a skit called "Making a Film" alongside an actor with the last name Zhu. He was just short of saying, "I, Wang Laowu, have lived for more than half my life and have never seen so much money. Don’t say anything else, let’s all go drink at my house!"

Looking at Lin Haihu’s behavior, the kid was happy for sure, but it seemed like he would be reluctant to say the latter half of that line. With a miserly display like that, he’d rather die than spend his hard-earned money from over a month’s work on drinks for everyone.

The whole room wanted to laugh watching him, but Xiang Rui spoke up, "Alright, finish counting and take it home! School starts tomorrow, you have to pay your sister’s tuition fee."

Lin Haihu had already counted once, "No rush, no rush. I’ll count it again. Why is there one more bill?"

Everyone watching him shiver as he counted the money held back their laughter: "Right, right, count it again..."

In the blink of an eye, the kid counted again, "Huh, why is there one less now?"

Not caring about being laughed at, he counted over and over until he finally confirmed: "It’s correct, it’s correct. They paid me for two extra days, sixteen hundred yuan. Thank you, Xiao Fei, hehehehe..."

Seeing him happily holding the money and walking out the door, those inside could no longer hold back, and burst into loud laughter.

No matter what, the guy’s performance over this summer break was quite good. Although half the time he felt like slacking off, he stuck it out to the end without talking about quitting halfway. Especially during the last stretch, his performance was really impressive compared to when he first arrived.

That was to be expected, as his parents were honest and upright. This kid was just spoiled at home a bit. But these days, even pampering has its limits. After earnestly working for over a month, he’d shed most of his bad habits.

In no time at all, the guy had packed up his bag, brought it over to say goodbye to everyone, and then said to Yan Fei, "Xiao Fei, can I discuss something with you, cousin?"

Watching his eyes blinking insistently, signaling to talk outside, Yan Fei knew what was on the guy’s mind: "No way, Uncle knows exactly how much you’ve earned. You can’t hide it."

"Sigh..." Lin Haihu looked around at everyone in the room, started to speak but hesitated, and then a lengthy sigh encapsulated all his unspoken words, leaving an expression of bitter disappointment. "Fine, I’m off then. Tomorrow I’m coming back to repeat the third year of junior high. I’ll come to hang out with you!"

"Make sure you don’t lose the money!" Xiang Rui shouted after him.

"Don’t worry, Auntie, I’ve hidden it well!" Lin Haihu waved his hand and ran off to the bus station.

The guy wasn’t foolish; having worked at the farm for over a month, he knew that his salary was purely out of consideration. He hadn’t bragged about being able to make money instead of repeating a school year, and had agreed to continue with the third year of junior high starting tomorrow.

Of course, credit was also due to Boss Yan’s policy of everyone studying. The whole summer was buzzing with activity; not only did everyone work, but they also didn’t forget to study, even the kids from Guan village started taking notes with pen and paper.

Now, Pang Fa was guiding five people and teaching several families in the western village who were preparing to grow mushrooms. These days they were inseparable from their paper and pen.

Doing the work yourself is one thing, but teaching others is another. They began to understand the frustration of lacking education. In the beginning, two of the lads misspelled ’mushrooms’ and even resorted to spelling ’fungus seedlings’ phonetically, almost causing a laugh riot when they showed their notes. They were teased by everyone at the farm for a while, but later they took the initiative to study and work late into the night to catch up.

With these role models, the bunch of cattle farm boys felt embarrassed to claim they couldn’t learn anything, and they all began studying overtime in secret. Initially shy about learning—their attitudes toward education during their school days were contemptuous, priding themselves on poor exam results, even occasionally wanting to study, they never showed any respect for it.

But with Boss Yan leading by example in studying, and the others following suit, they slowly stopped being secretive about it. After finishing work, they would look at their books for a while. Whether they read a little or a lot, whether they learned anything or not, their attitudes towards education had changed.

After all, Boss Yan had made it clear that if the space at the cattle farm wasn’t enough, they would need to expand to new sites. Whoever could handle things on their own would be put in charge. If they still misspelled words by then, that would be truly embarrassing.

Having such an atmosphere of learning was already quite an achievement, especially considering that it was a cattle farm where the work was dirty and exhausting every day.

In the afternoon, after sending Lin Haihu off, Miss Xu Xiaoyan began her lesson for Boss Yan, "School starts tomorrow, how ready are you? You’re in high school now, and it’s way more intense than junior high. If you miss too many classes, you won’t even be able to read a math problem. What will you do on the college entrance exam?"

Yan Fei lay back on the wicker chair, looking up at the moon, and replied confidently, "You’ve said that thirty times already. Haven’t I been studying with you for several days?"