With money comes confidence. And who wouldn't want to be a good, sensible mother and grandmother?
That was exactly the role the old matriarch was playing now.
Li Yuanshan tried to stuff the twenty yuan back into her mother's hand. "Mom, I can't take this. Where I live, everyone's poor. There are plenty of kids who don't even start school until they're fifteen or sixteen. The idea is just to keep them from being totally illiterate. They go for a year or two, learn a few words, and that's it. Then they're old enough to get married..."
