Sérenin took out seven silver rings to make up for Satine's tuition. But she said she didn't want to live under the same roof with her stepdaughter and stepson every day.

"I can't watch a violent scene like that day again! That has left a lingering shadow in my heart! She said to her father in disgust, "Wotta, why do we have to get together like hedgehogs when we can make everyone live comfortably as we wish?" ”

Her suggestion was that Sha Ting would go to Granny Lady Ting to be apprenticed to Granny Shui when school was not in school, and Ah Xun would leave the cable shop to work in the gem mine behind the port. The money they earned each month was given to Serenin, part of whom she saved to pay for Satine's tuition, and the rest was at Serenin's disposal.

Seven-year-old Sha Ting has just reached the age of being an apprentice, and thirteen-year-old Ya Xun is barely able to do the high-intensity work in the pit. The two of them must get permission from their biological father, Wotta, to leave the house. Wota didn't want the two children to be out of his grip and gain the ability to live independently. But Sørenin persuaded him with both hard and soft measures, and after calculating how much he could save on food and how much silver rings he could get, he finally signed the contract for the apprentices and miners.

Drowning in the past made Sha Ting absent-minded, until a hint of burnt smell came. She hurriedly brought the frying pan off the fire, and it was too late. In the frying pan, the edges of both eggs are already blackened and warped. She tried to cover the burnt part with a few spoonfuls of the puff, and although it looked like she could fool it, she would definitely find it in her mouth. She pondered for a moment, picked up her knife, and carefully cut off the edges of the omelette.

Everything has to be done with care. You can't give Wota or Serenin a chance to find fault and make excuses. After giving so much, I finally survived this last moment, and I was able to leave immediately, and I must not make any mistakes that lead to failure!

She admonished herself secretly.

Sha Ting served two porcelain plates full of food — Shinwa noodles, filled with minced meat and herbs, fried until golden brown, served with fried eggs and spicy meat sauce — and it was breakfast for the day.

She pulled back the two chairs at the table and adjusted the angles.

Threnin walked from the window to the table and sat down, she had been standing there not knowing what she was thinking, her silent calculations were what Sha Ting feared most.

The bedroom door opened with a "clang~", and Wota walked out.

In his fifties, his hair was thick but messy, and his two thick eyebrows wrinkled together showed that he was not resting well or was in a bad mood, which always alternated between the two conditions anyway.

Wota dragged her heavy legs to the table and sat heavily on her chair.

Seeing her father, who was sitting at the table, opened her sleepy eyes attracted by the slightly hot aroma of food, Sha Ting breathed a sigh of relief. In the past, she was hit on the head with a wine bottle by her father because the chair was not pulled out in advance, and she was threatened by her father not to sign the admission letter of the school because the food was cold when it was served.

But as things stand, things are going well today.

"Ding~~" Serenin knocked on the porcelain plate with a smile on her face, "Wota, you're finally up." Today is your big day! Your precious daughter is going to Kinwuin! How many years has it been since there been a student in this town who went to the Golden Crow? Twenty-five years? Thirty-five years? ”

"Forty-four years." Wota muttered.

"The gods are above!" Serenin exaggeratedly covered her mouth with her hands, "Forty-four years! Sha Ting, it's so proud that our family can produce such a high-achieving student as you! ”

That's not a good topic.

Sha Ting thought to herself. Serenin must have done it on purpose, knowing that her father hated to hear such arguments as "Your daughter can make your family glorious." She also deliberately asked her father to calculate the year, and the student who was admitted to the Golden Crow Academy in Smoke Town forty-four years ago was Granny Dai.

Sure enough, Wota put down the spoon in her hand and leaned back in her chair to look at Satin.

He used to have a pair of charming blue eyes, and his years of alcoholism and irregular life caused him to grow two thick layers of bags under his eyes, and those eyes were dull and no longer colorful.

"Top students, are you in such a hurry to leave? Can you sit down and have breakfast with your old father? Wota's voice was nasal, and it was clear that he had been drinking a lot of alcohol last night.

"Good father!" Sha Ting immediately replied, "My meal is in the kitchen, and I will bring it out immediately." ”