That night, Zhang Jintian lay in his soft bed, unable to sleep. Though he had been well-fed and well-clothed for the past two years, he knew his time was running out.
The next morning, Li Baoying rose early to cook breakfast. Once the children left for school and Zhang Jinhe and Zhang Jiandan had gone off to work, she began sewing mattresses.
Zhang Hua washed the pots and fed the chickens before sitting down to read. She would be starting school in the second half of the year, and her mother had promised to sew her a schoolbag by then. As long as she studied hard, her mother would see her through her education.
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