Chapter 646 Admission
The war came so suddenly.
The long-term peace and pleasure numb people's minds, so that when the Bauhinia Federation suddenly fought undeclaredly, the border defense line was almost collapsed at once, and the powerful air defense net firepower was easily captured without a single shot, causing the armored airship to drive straight into the kingdom, bringing a deep shock to the kingdom.
Of course, it also includes the city where Wu Ming is located.
His first feeling for the arrival of war was hatred. After all, in the troubled times, the survival rate of a three-year-old baby was too difficult to guarantee, but the second feeling was helplessness.
For people like Wu Ming, war may be an opportunity, but this war came too early! He couldn't do anything at all, and he had to place his safety on the Stirlings. This was really an unbearable thing for him who was used to controlling everything.
Although the armored airship did not drop a cruise bomb in the end, it proved to be a false alarm, the war did break out and had a huge impact on the Sterlings.
The first point is that James is unemployed.
He is a very successful salesman. He can support a family when he starts a business commission every year and buys cars and apartments. Unfortunately, the products they produce tend to be more luxurious. In the war, when the material controls and everything serves the war, the business suddenly plummeted and the company went bankrupt. He, a salesman, naturally, had to be laid off.
To make matters worse, although James made a lot of money before, most of it was thrown into the stock exchanges and futures markets to make high profits.
There was no problem at all, but now, when the war came, the stocks collapsed completely and almost all hit the limit. Not only did the original dividends not only have no hope, but even the proof of equity has become waste paper. Many companies that James bought have died, so the stocks are naturally worthless.
The economic injustice caused James to sell his car first, and then the family moved out of the villa and rented it into a duplex apartment.
Mrs. Stirling had to sell a cupboard of precious clothes, put on coarse cloth clothes, and began to make careful calculations for the family's livelihood.
Wu Ming looked at all this silently, but now he is not much different from an ordinary baby, and he has no power to change his destiny at all.
The only thing I can do is to make my appetite a little "normal", and take care of my two younger brothers and sisters to reduce the burden on my family.
Given their current financial situation, they naturally couldn't afford to hire a nanny, so Jenna was fired.
Fortunately, James is an optimistic person and has not been decadent. A family and three hungry children have not had any time to be decadent.
He worked hard every day to submit his resume. Perhaps because of his professional experience, he successfully promoted himself and got the job of a picker in the post office. He was responsible for sorting emails and packages from all over the country. Although his salary was meager, it was a great victory against many unemployed troops.
On the day of his job, James held his head and chest out, like a general who won the battle. Mrs. Stirling even added a piece of ham and a bottle of wine to dinner.
After a hard time, when Wu Ming was five years old, good news kept coming.
First, the two major powers had a ceasefire. The Bauhinia Federation took the initiative to retreat, and it seemed that it had signed a twenty-year non-aggression agreement with the kingdom. The long-lost peace came, and the whole country was cheering.
With the economic recovery, the things in the shops have become more and more abundant, and there are many more options on the dining table.
night.
The gas lights were radiating incandescent light, and on the dining table, the Stirling family of five formed a circle.
Wu Ming held a spoon and could eat independently and take care of himself. He did not worry much about the Stirlings.
However, the two four-year-old younger brothers and sisters next to them were crying while sitting in the stroller, spilling out vegetable soup from time to time or pulling off the table cloth, which forced Mrs. Stirling to step forward several times to correct it.
"There is a truce, and the stock market has also begun to recover. Although several of those companies have gone bankrupt, there are still some that have survived..."
James was holding a big glass of beer, obviously talking very well: "I have a premonition that it will definitely rise sharply, my dear, everything will get better... After saving a sum of money, I will go to business and let our lives return to the track we used to."
Mrs. Stirling was feeding Brandon a milkshake, and the guy always spilled a little maliciously, making his whole body full of it.
Hearing this, she turned around and said in a firm tone: "Dear, you forgot one thing, Steven is five years old, we need to prepare for his studies!"
"Yeah, not bad!"
James nodded solemnly: "Knowledge can change destiny. Our three children will have to go to school in the future. We can't go to factories like the next door Ward family. When you grow up, you and I know that it's a monster that eats people and doesn't spit bones. It's thankful for ordinary men and women to live beyond thirty years old..."
He looked at Wu Ming: "Steven, you have to remember that you will definitely become a decent person in the upper class in the future!"
"I see!"
Wu Ming replied obediently that he was like those ants, who got up early and worked late every day, and finally gave birth to a lot of children, most of whom died, and the rest depended on luck and had no interest in repeating the life of adults' path.
"Steven, you have always been very smart. Unfortunately, I could have sent you to the best aristocratic school..."
James sighed helplessly: "Only by winning at the starting line from the beginning can you stand higher, see further than others, and get more opportunities!"
"Dear...our little Steven is the best. Even ordinary schools can succeed, right?"
Mrs. Stirling touched Wu Ming's head.
"Well, I'm the best!"
Wu Ming drank the last sip of soup and felt expectant in his heart: "Now, I should be able to contact more things, right? But in this world, why haven't I ever been exposed to extraordinary existences so far? Is they hiding too deeply?"
In a blink of an eye, it was late at night.
In the quiet, Brandon and Angelina quarreled a few times and fell asleep.
Now there are no previous conditions and no foundation for sleeping in separate rooms, and Anjielina is asleep next to Wu Ming.
He opened his eyes, looked at the little baby-fat face next to him, and sighed silently.
He slowly got up and took a slump position. Wu Ming immediately found out the situation in the spiritual sea. The original chaos was lined up and a bright light bloomed.
After slowly stimulating a trace of mental power to nourish all parts of the body, Wu Ming checked the development of all parts of his body and nodded with satisfaction: "After several years of warming up, my muscles, bones, and internal organs are almost comparable to those of a teenager, and the same is true in terms of strength!"
When you reach this point, you can start practicing the skills of physical fighting and martial arts.
"It's just... this world cannot generate internal breath, and it's even more impossible to cultivate internal energy. Do you still have to explore the skills of your own like the Seer Continent?"
Wu Ming opened his eyes helplessly, and then he saw a terrifying scene.
Angelina had woken up at some point, and was staring at her brother curiously.
"Go to bed quickly!"
Anyway, the spiritual cultivation is in the sea of consciousness. At most, Angelina saw his elder brother not sleeping in the middle of the night and got up and did a very strange position. Even if it was said, it was no big deal, and it might even be regarded as a dream.
Wu Ming rolled his eyes and directly pinched her face.
“Wow…”
Who knew that Angelina didn't appreciate it at all and burst into tears.
As soon as she cried, Brandon was woken up by the noise. The sharper crying was extremely penetrating and spread far outside.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Mrs. Stirling opened the door and saw Wu Ming rubbing her eyes: "My sister cried just now and woke her up!"
Mrs. Stirling came forward helplessly and comforted Angerina and Brandon. Outside the house, there were also a few curses that the old apartment was not very soundproof. Wu Ming had heard some unpleasant sounds several times. Now he was woken up again at night, and the neighbors who had to work morning shift tomorrow couldn't help but exclaimed together.
...
In front of a huge school.
Wu Ming, carrying a cloth bag and a baseball cap, looked like a little adult, followed James to the communication room.
"Hello, sir, who do you want?"
A fat man with rosacea inside stuck out his head and asked loudly.
"I'm looking for Mr. Kyle Wilfer, and I have an appointment to go through the admission procedures for my children."
"Okay, please wait!"
When Wu Ming saw the fat man pick up a telephone next to him, the old-fashioned product with a shaking handle and a must-connect, he shook it suddenly, then picked up the microphone and said a few words.
"Are you Mr. Sterling?"
“That’s right!”
"Please come in, Mr. Kyle is waiting for you in the office building on the middle, Room 401 on the fourth floor!"
The fat man pulled open the railing and put James and Wu Ming into the campus.
The purpose is to be a large playground. Many students in uniforms look at them with curious eyes, but no students dare to follow them to the office building.
"Mr. Sterling, lucky!"
In a room on the fourth floor, Kyle immediately greeted James enthusiastically: "And you, little sir!"
He smiled at Wu Ming, and then said to James: "Our school tuition fee is paid once a year, 50 yuan a day. If you agree, you can go through the procedures now and your boy can enter school today."
"Can!"
The moment he agreed, Wu Ming obviously saw a hint of flesh pain on James' face. After all, this is an ordinary person's income that is nearly half a year.
Chapter completed!