Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 559 - 558: There Will Be Bread

Chapter 559: Chapter 558: There Will Be Bread

Wong Xiao might or might not get into a fight with Feng Yuanshan, Lin Nianhe didn’t know and didn’t want to find out.

She watched Wong Xiao walk away, then decisively returned to her small room, closed the door, drew the curtains, and watched SpongeBob while gnawing on duck neck.

Even Hardworking Guy needs to rest. Come hell or high water, don’t expect her to think any further or say another word.

Lin Nianhe comfortably rested for another day. At eight o’clock in the evening, she gathered her teaching plans and stationery for the next day’s lessons, and by nine o’clock, she had already gone to bed early.

That night, she had sweet dreams. The mental fatigue from Sui City was soothed by the light breeze and sunlight of the Ten Miles Team. When she woke up, it was dawn, and the sky was streaked with rosy clouds.

Probably knowing that the teachers were coming back to teach today, the children arrived extra early, each with bright, lively smiles, more healing than the scenery.

"Teacher Lin, is there really a building in Sui City that’s over twenty stories high?"

"Teacher Lin, is there really a ladder that can reach several floors at once?"

"Teacher Lin, do kids in the city get to eat ice cream every day?"

"Teacher Lin..."

The children, eyes filled with curiosity, chattered and surrounded Lin Nianhe with questions.

Niuwa had already told them these things once, but they still didn’t believe it.

The furthest they’d been to was the town. The town had no skyscrapers, no elevators, only one-cent popsicles and three-cent red bean ice pops, delicacies the children could enjoy only a few times a year. They had seen movies; occasionally, the production teams would invite the projection team to show open-air films, mostly screening "Tunnel Warfare" or "Battle on Shangganling."

They hadn’t seen the outside world.

Looking at those eyes filled with doubt and anticipation, Lin Nianhe casually took Wang Xiaomei, who was closest to her, by the hand and said, "Come, let’s go to the classroom. I’ll tell you all about it slowly."

During her time in Sui City, Lin Nianhe took many photos. Sie Yufei had developed all the photos during the last week of the holiday, and in the process, had been kicked twice for picking on Lin Nianhe for wasting film.

Lin Nianhe made the children sit in a circle while she showed them the photos and described various aspects of Sui City.

The children stared eagerly, listening, their clear, distinct eyes filled with longing.

Lin Nianhe spent two class periods opening a window to the outside world for the children.

"Teacher Hehe, will we also have such tall buildings here in the future?"

The little guy, with hands on his cheeks, stared hopefully at Lin Nianhe.

Suddenly, Lin Nianhe remembered a classic line from "Lenin in 1918" and smiled as she nodded: "There will be bread, and there will be milk, everything will be available."

Then... the children’s attention was caught by the bread and milk.

In this era, where even milk powder was a luxury, they had never tasted milk. Some had tried bread, the Russian rye bread, which Lin Nianhe found hard to swallow, but just the thought made the children salivate.

Seeing their eager little faces, Lin Nianhe smiled and ruffled their hair, glancing at the timetable and saying: "Alright, after the composition and music classes, it will be time for lunch. Study well, and in the future, you’ll have unlimited bread and milk."

"Really? I hope I can eat bread every day in the future!"

"Me too, me too!"

"Study hard! Eat bread every day!"

Lin Nianhe looked at those clear eyes, wishing she could preserve these innocent smiles forever.

At the team headquarters, Lin Nianhe rested her chin on her hands, staring expectantly at Li Dahe.

"Uncle Team Leader, would you be interested in setting up a bread oven in the village?"

Li Dahe: "No."

"Uncle Team Leader, please give it a thought; this idea really has potential."

"Absolutely not."

Uncle Team Leader is really impenetrable.

Lin Nianhe simply lay down on the table and didn’t move, just staring at him.

Li Dahe felt a chill on the top of his head from her gaze, and after a moment of silence, he gritted his teeth and asked, "How much money do we need?"

"Huh? Not much money at all, just dig up some yellow clay and get some empty glass bottles, the total cost might just be about one yuan."

Li Dahe rolled his eyes at her: "You should have said it didn’t cost anything earlier, rambling all this time without getting to the point."

Lin Nianhe: "..."

She thought Uncle Team Leader was worried about it taking up space!

Li Dahe called Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaoshan to dig up yellow clay, and in one afternoon, they built the bread oven outside the Educated Youth Corps.

During their work in the afternoon, He Aimin happened to bring people to deliver goods and saw them bustling about and casually asked, "What are you doing?"

Without raising his head, Li Dahe replied, "Entertaining the kids."

He never even asked Lin Nianhe what the bread oven was for, just assuming she was craving it, and since they were idle and had the materials anyway, might as well use it to entertain the kids.

Li Dahe didn’t expect that this casual work of his would actually accelerate the attainment of bread freedom for the Ten Miles Team.

After classes, everyone at the Educated Youth Corps was immensely busy.

Kneading dough, kneading dough, kneading dough... until their arms were as soft as noodles.

The sweet aroma of the bread wafted gently, lingering over the skies of the Educated Youth Corps for a long time.

The next morning, as the children arrived at school and just entered the gates, they were handed a piece of bread.

Each was a palm-sized round bread made from white flour, filled with red bean paste, and sprinkled with a layer of fine sugar frosting.

Li Dahe also received a big basket of bread, delivered by Lin Nianhe.

"Uncle Team Leader, it was too late yesterday, didn’t make much, most was given to the kids, please share these with the villagers to taste."

Lin Nianhe was in a hurry to get to class, she put down the basket and ran off.

Li Dahe was stunned for a while, then pinched off a small piece of bread, chewed it thoroughly, and quietly cursed with a smile, "Little bastard."

"Teacher, teacher, the bread is really delicious, thank you, teacher."

"Teacher, you are the best teacher in the world!"

"Teacher, have a bite..."

"Teacher, have mine..."

As the children enjoyed the delicious bread, they were happily looking forward to when the next "bread day" would come.

Principal Wu took this opportunity to introduce a new "school rule" for the village school:

During mid-term and final exams, if over 85% of the students score double hundreds, the entire school can have bread.

This dramatically boosted the enthusiasm for studying in the village school, with children seen reading everywhere.

Principal Wu watched the children studying seriously, full of vitality without needing medicine.

And the villagers from both Ten Miles Team and Nine Miles Team were also happy — their little ones finally stopped running wild around the village and began focusing on their studies.

It’s unclear when it started, but the villagers shifted from saying, "Look at that person, the same age as you can earn four points a day," to "You should study well, being literate will lead to a better future."

During a peaceful time in Ten Miles Team, Sun Jun, the dreadfully feared Vice Director Sun of Lan County, arrived.

"Captain Li, I’m looking for Comrade Lin Nianhe."