"Big Brother Cheng Fang, didn't you go to school?" Little Yuanchun suddenly asked.
Cheng Fang scratched his head, looking somewhat bitter as he said, "I... if I went to studying, there'd be no one to work the fields. I can't keep asking Village Chief Grandfather and the others to help out all the time. I'm grown up now and have to support myself. I just don't have time to go to school. Besides, a lot of kids in the village don't go either; I'm not the only one."
Cheng Fang wanted to go to school too—very, very much. He didn't want to remain illiterate, unable to even write his own name in the future. But he had to support himself, and he had no money for school.
Chapter 54