The war came so suddenly.
The long-term peace and enjoyment have paralyzed people's hearts, so that when the Bauhinia Federation suddenly went to war without declaration, the border defense line was almost collapsed, and the powerful air defense network was easily captured without firing a single shot. The airship drove straight in, bringing a profound shock to the kingdom.
Of course, it also includes the city where Wu Ming is located.
For the coming of the war, his first feeling was hatred. After all, in troubled times, the survival rate of a three-year-old baby was too difficult to guarantee, and his second feeling was helplessness.
For people like Wu Ming, war may be an opportunity, but this time the war came too early! He couldn't do anything, and he had to pin his safety on the Sterlings. This was really unbearable for him who was used to controlling everything.
Although the armored airship did not drop cruise bombs in the end, which proved to be a false alarm, the outbreak of war had a huge impact on the Sterling family.
First of all, the first point is that James is unemployed.
He is a very successful salesman, and the commission points from his business every year can support a large family and buy cars and apartments, but unfortunately, his company's products are all oriented towards luxury goods. During the war, Material control, plus everything serving the war, the business plummeted suddenly, the company went bankrupt, and he, the salesman, naturally had to be laid off.
To make matters worse, although James made a lot of money before, most of it was thrown in the stock exchange and futures market to earn high profits.
There was no problem at first, but now, after the war, the stock market has completely collapsed, and almost all of them have fallen to the limit. Worthless.
The worsening economy caused James to sell his car first, and then the family moved out of the villa and rented into a duplex apartment.
Mrs. Sterling also had to reluctantly sell a cupboard of expensive clothes, put on coarse clothes, and began to plan carefully for the family's livelihood.
Wu Ming watched all this silently, but the current him 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 food intake 'normal' a bit, and take care of my two younger siblings by the way, so as to reduce the burden on the family.
Given the current financial situation of their family, they couldn't afford a nanny, so Jenna was fired.
Fortunately, James was an optimist, so he didn't get depressed. A family and three children who were waiting to be fed didn't give him any time to be decadent.
He worked hard every day to deliver his resume. Perhaps because of his professional experience, he successfully sold himself out and got a job as a sorter in the post office, responsible for sorting mail and parcels from various places. Although the salary was meager, but Against the backdrop of many unemployed troops, it is simply a remarkable victory.
On the day he got the job, James held his head high, like a general who had won a battle, and Mrs. Sterling 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 of all, the two great powers ceased fighting, and the Bauhinia Federation retreated voluntarily, and it seemed that it signed a 20-year non-aggression agreement with the kingdom. The long-lost peace came, and the whole country cheered.
With the recovery of the economy, the things in the store have become more and more abundant, and the choices on the table have increased a lot.
night.
The gas lamps glowed with incandescent light, and on the dining table, the five members of the Sterling family formed a circle.
With a spoon in hand, Wu Ming was already able to eat independently, and basically took care of himself, without worrying the Sterlings too much.
On the contrary, the two four-year-old younger siblings sitting next to them were also crying in the stroller, spilling vegetable soup from time to time, or tearing off the tablecloth, which made Mrs. Sterling have to come forward several times to correct them.
"The truce has ended, and the stock market has begun to recover. Although some of those companies have gone bankrupt, there is still one that survived..."
Holding a large glass of beer, James obviously talked a lot about sex: "I have a hunch that it will definitely rise, my dear, everything will be fine... After saving a sum of money, I will go to business, Let's get our lives back on track."
Mrs. Sterling was gulping down a milkshake for Brandon, who always spilled a little viciously all over his body.
Hearing this, she turned around and said in a firm tone: "Honey, you forgot one thing, little Steven is already five years old, and we need to prepare for his studies!"
"Yes, Not Bad!"
James nodded solemnly: "Knowledge can change destiny. Our three children will all go to school in the future. We can't be like the Huade family next door. They all go to the factory when they grow up. You and I both know that it is a cannibal. Bone-spitting monsters, ordinary men and women workers, if they can live past the age of thirty, they will be thankful..."
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 obediently replied that he was not interested in the life of those ants who worked from dawn to dusk every day, and finally gave birth to a large number of children, most of whom died, and the rest depended on luck, repeating the life of adults.
"Steven, you have always been very smart, but unfortunately, I could have sent you to the best noble school..."
James sighed helplessly: "Only by winning on the starting line from the very beginning can you stand higher, see farther than others, and get more opportunities!"
"Honey... our little Steven is the best, even a normal school can succeed, right?"
Mrs. Sterling touched Wu Ming's head.
"Well, I'm the best!"
Wu Ming drank the last sip of soup, and he also had anticipation in his heart: "Now, should I be able to touch more things? It's just this world. Why haven't I come into contact with the existence of extraordinary until now? It's because they hide too much. Is it deep?"
In a blink of an eye, it was late at night.
In the silence, Brandon and Angelina fell asleep after a few quarrels.
Now there is no previous condition, and there is no basis for sleeping in separate rooms. Angelina is sleeping next to Wu Ming.
He opened his eyes, looked at the sleeping face of the other person next to him, and sighed silently.
Slowly getting up and posing in a sitting posture, Wu Ming immediately found out the situation in the spiritual sea, the original chaos was pushed away, and a piece of light bloomed.
After slowly mobilizing a bit of mental energy to nourish all parts of the body, Wu Ming found out the development of all parts of the body, and couldn't help nodding with satisfaction: "After several years of nurturing, my current muscles, bones and internal organs are almost comparable to those of a teenager. , the same is true in terms of strength!"
At this point, you can start to practice physical combat and martial arts skills.
"It's just... this world can't generate internal energy, let alone train internal force. Do we still have to explore the training skills by ourselves like the Sear Continent?"
Wu Ming opened his eyes helplessly, and immediately saw a horrifying scene.
Angelina didn't know when she woke up, she was staring at his brother curiously with her eyes wide open.
"Go to sleep!"
Anyway, the cultivation of spiritual power is in the sea of consciousness. At most, Angelina saw her elder brother stay up in the middle of the night and get up in a very strange posture. .
Wu Ming rolled his eyes and pinched her cheek directly.
"Wow..."
Who knew that Angelina didn't appreciate it at all, and burst into tears at the top of her voice.
As soon as she cried, Brandon was awakened, and the more piercing crying was very penetrating, and it spread far outside.
"What happened?"
Mrs. Sterling opened the door and saw Wu Ming rubbing his eyes and got up: "My sister was crying just now, and woke up my brother too!"
Mrs. Sterling reluctantly stepped forward to appease Angelina and Brandon, and a few curses came from outside the house—the sound insulation of the old apartment is not very good, and Wu Ming heard some unpleasant sounds several times. This time, he was woken up again at night, and the neighbors who had to go to work early tomorrow couldn't help but burst into anger.
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In front of a huge school.
Wu Ming was carrying a cloth bag and wearing a peaked cap. He looked like a little adult, and followed James to the reception room.
"Hello, sir, who are you looking for?"
A fat man with a rosaceous nose stuck out his head and asked loudly.
"I'm looking for Mr. Kyle Wilfer. I have an appointment to go through the enrollment procedures for the child."
"OK, just a second!"
Wu Ming saw that the fat man picked up a nearby telephone, an old-fashioned one with a crank handle that had to be connected. He shook it violently, then picked up the receiver and said a few words.
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Sterling?"
"Exactly!"
"Please come in, Mr. Kyle is waiting for you in the office building in the middle, room 401 on the fourth floor!"
The fat man opened the railing and let James and Wu Ming enter the campus.
As soon as they entered the goal was a big playground. Many students in uniform looked at the two of them curiously, but none of them dared to follow to the office building.
"Mr. Sterling, nice to meet you!"
In a room on the fourth floor, when Kyle saw James, he immediately greeted James warmly: "And you, Mr. Little!"
He smiled at Wu Ming, and immediately said to James, "Our school pays tuition fees once a year, 50 yuan a time. If you agree, you can go through the formalities now, and your boy can enter school today."
"Can!"
The moment he agreed, Wu Ming clearly saw a trace of flesh pain on James' face. After all, this is nearly half a year's income for ordinary people.
Knowledge and education in this world are never free.