"Yes,"
Old Li also sighed leisurely, "Everything else is fine, I can play cards and sleep, but there's just no money."
"And who says eating doesn't cost money? Don't you have to buy rice and flour? There's only so many vegetables in the garden, and if you want to change it up, you have to go buy some, right?"
"You even have to wait for someone's fruit truck to buy fruit. If they don't come, we have to go to the town—besides, raising kids is so expensive now! If I don't help out, my son and daughter-in-law will have to work outside their whole lives."
"By running the clinic in town, I can help out with the kids, saving them from not having a school in the village."
Speaking of this, a deep pain stung in Secretary Xiaozu's heart.
With the aging of the rural population, the elementary school closed years ago, and now even fewer young people want to take root in the countryside—
After all, adults might enjoy the mountains and fields, but children can't.
