In the book, the female supporting role dreams of being an idle fish

Chapter 573: Selfish Thoughts

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Zhao Sixiang also had selfish motives in cultivating Lu Hongmei.

Zhao Sixiang once dreamed of studying, but she dropped out of school early due to her family’s poverty, and this regret was deeply buried in her heart.

When I saw my niece's eyes full of desire for knowledge, the dusty dream seemed to be ignited again.

Zhao Sixiang wants to use her own strength to provide a good learning environment for her niece.

Moreover, during the time I spent with my niece, I didn't feel that this was an act of adultery.

Hard work pays off.

After Lu Hongmei came, she was the one who took care of the fourth child.

What's more, by doing this, the couple will appear to be extremely kind in the eyes of their respective units and neighbors.

When fame comes, it benefits both the couple.

Lu Hongmei just wanted to go to college.

In the first 15 years of Lu Hongmei's life, she worked in the fields, got married, gave birth to children, raised children, married off wives, and married off daughters. It was a life that she could see the end of.

Now that someone is willing to help her, Lu Hongmei naturally wants to continue studying.

Before Lu Hongmei came to Jiangcheng, she would collect grass for pigs, feed pigs, and work in the fields every day when she opened her eyes.

After arriving in Jiangcheng, I was also cautious.

However, with this opportunity to study, Lu Hongmei began to be grateful to the couple Lu Changzheng and Zhao Sixiang. To them, they were uncle and aunt, and to them, strangers.

When Lu Hongmei came, she had already thought about it. If she stayed in the city, her in-laws would arrange a job for her, which would be a small gift for the holidays in the future.

Since she was a child, Lu Hongmei has seen her grandmother and aunt only visit her mother's family during the holidays.

Therefore, Lu Hongmei never thought about listening to her mother and helping her younger brother. Lu Hongmei wanted to study and asked every adult in the family for help, but everyone said that it was useless for a girl to study. That's all.

The reason is very simple. The girl is raised by another family and will eventually get married.

So, Lu Hongmei could only go to school by herself and stand outside the window to listen to the teacher's lectures. During the final exam, Lu Hongmei begged the principal to give her a test paper. The principal said, "Child, this doesn't make sense. It's right to kneel down and kowtow, but you asked the wrong person. Go home and beg your elders to take you to school to register. At the end of the semester, you will naturally be able to take the exam."

Lu Hongmei resented the principal, the mayor's brother-in-law, but the principal never stopped Lu Hongmei from going to school.

As time went by, Lu Hongmei no longer blamed him. After all, her grandparents at home were even more ruthless. She only mentioned it to him when she got home, but was beaten in return. Lu Hongmei looked at her parents who were standing there watching her being beaten, and she gave up hope of going to school.

There was only one primary school in the town. After Lu Hongmei had learned most of the knowledge in primary school, she had no other options. The middle school was only in the county town.

However, just two years later, in June, six educated youths suddenly came to the village to work in the fields. As soon as they arrived, they started a literacy class. Lu Hongmei went there every day and caught the eye of one of the female educated youths, Cao Li. Lu Hongmei volunteered to teach this sister from the city everything about the countryside in exchange for a chance to study.

From then on, Lu Hongmei seized the time to study when the weather was bad and when she had free time. She first learned the primary school knowledge. It took her three months just to learn how to write essays. In half a year, she finished learning all the primary school knowledge.

Then came the junior high school knowledge. However, with the arrival of another batch of educated youth, the educated youth site was no longer spacious, and Lu Hongmei was looked down upon by both male and female educated youth when she spoke normally.

Lu Hongmei could only squat outside the educated youth site to read books, because Cao Li had kindly lent her a book. Lu Hongmei took it home and put it under her pillow. After cooking and eating, she washed the pot and went back to her room to find that the book was gone.

There were six sisters in the room, but no one acknowledged her, not even her own sister.

Lu Hongmei cried and asked everyone in her family, but they all said they hadn't seen it. After she went to find Cao Li, Cao Li said, "Hongmei, you knew you couldn't keep it if you took it home, but you still took it back. So, the book is gone. When I write, I can ask my family to send me a new one. But sending things isn't free. You know, I'm willing to teach you not so you can teach me about the village, but because you're so studious..."

Lu Hongmei was grateful to Cao Li. Her biological parents were unwilling to help, but Cao Li was just an educated youth who went to the countryside, yet she was willing to help an outsider with no relatives...