Countdown to Awakening

Wang Ning muttered quietly, "How could it be illegal? Is it illegal for such a small thing? It's unnecessary, right? And it's illegal... It's just to scare people."

She thought the village chief must have made up an excuse because he didn't want her son to go to college... How could she be breaking the law if she had already found a good person? She couldn't understand why the village chief wouldn't allow her son to go to college. Wouldn't it be a great honor for the village if her son went to college? It would be much more cost-effective for her son to go to college than for that girl... Why wouldn't the village chief allow her son to go? And wouldn't it be a great honor for the Qi family if her son went to college? Why wouldn't she let her son go?

She just didn't believe that changing a quota was illegal. But she didn't dare say anything, for fear that the village chief and everyone else would say...

And that widow Zhang, didn't she just rely on her education to get into university? If she's educated, why doesn't she become a teacher? What's she pretending to be? She's even talking for that girl, thinking she's so noble, right? If you didn't know, you'd think she had some connection to the second son's daughter.

Besides, having a son is more cost-effective than having a daughter. A son always has his surname and can provide for his parents in old age. What about a daughter? She will get married in the future and become an outsider.

"Also, if anyone wants to do such a wicked thing again, I, as the village chief, will never let them off easily! Don't think that you can treat me as dead just because I don't care about things!" The village chief almost shouted this.

Chen Juan also muttered quietly, "You will never let me off easily. I wonder how many years you can live? Can you live longer than my son goes to college? Humph! I don't think you have many years left."

The onlookers didn't dare to say anything. The village chief rarely got angry, but recently he was always angry because of Sun Panddi's matter.

I just don't understand. It's just a university spot. What's wrong with giving it up? Is it more important for a girl to go to university than for a boy to go to university? If she fails the exam, what will happen to the boys in the village? They won't be able to get married in the future...

"Hey, what I say is, you should give this place to those two brothers. If so many girls pass the exam, what will happen to the boys in the village? Who will they marry? Since ancient times, there has been no reason for women to go out to study. You are going against our ancestors by doing this!"

Zhang Mei felt uncomfortable when she heard this. What did he mean?

"What era is this? Are you still going against our ancestors? Girls can't go out to study? Who made this rule? I'm telling you, you're old-fashioned if you say that! You say that if a girl passes the exam, the boy can marry whomever he wants, so can't boys pass the exam too? You're not forbidding girls from studying, not boys..."

Everyone was speechless when they heard this.

"Humph, if boys can't pass the exam, girls who do are promising, right? Boys who can't pass the exam still won't have wives? So, tell me, if those girls pass the exam, will they still come back and be attracted to the boys in the village? Then won't the boys in the village still be wifeless?"

The man continued.

Zhang Mei felt that it was impossible to reason with him, so she just sat down and stopped talking.

These men simply cannot understand the plight of girls.

Qi Yuanyuan opened her mouth but said nothing. She simply didn't know what to say. Zhang Mei was speechless too. Well, she... well, she wouldn't say anything.

The man continued, "Was I wrong? That's right, Zhang Mei. If you think what I said is wrong, then go open a girls' school and see who agrees. And see who will send girls there. Don't think you can open a school with your limited education."

Zhang Mei became even angrier after hearing this, but she didn't stand up to say anything else. After all, it was someone else's banquet, so she couldn't continue arguing with that person...

She had thought about setting up a girls' school a long time ago, but she had no money and the village did not allow it.

She had seen the girls in the village working without education, and she had also heard that people would rather tutor their youngest sons than let their eldest daughters go to school...

Regarding these things, she had no way to change them. It could be said that she had the will but not the strength...

Qi Yuanyuan also returned to her seat, but after sitting down she did not start eating immediately. Instead, she continued to look at Zhang Mei.

When she heard the words "establish a girls' school", a movie from their era came to her mind.

The film tells the story of a woman in her fifties living in the mountains. Her husband died, and in order to fulfill her husband's last wish, she opened a girls' school.

She had also read the interview, and it was revealed that the motivation behind the woman opening the girls' school was her late husband, and that she missed him so much that she fulfilled his last wish...

There are also rumors that the female principal in the film is actually a man in real life.

In other words, the reality is: a male principal opened a girls' school for the girls' future... and the film actually tampered with reality? But no matter how she thought about it, it didn't seem right.

This was completely unrealistic. How could a man empathize with a girl? But whether she was at school, in college, or elsewhere, all the literature she found was about male principals, or the gender was not mentioned... In short, there was no such thing as a female principal...

But she felt that something was wrong with this idea - could a male teacher in the mountains really sympathize with female students?

Does it really happen?

She looked at Zhang Mei. What a coincidence! Zhang Mei's name was only one letter different from the name of the headmistress in the movie she had seen...

Qi Yuanyuan looked a little lost.

Sun Pandi also noticed this and asked, "Yuanyuan, are you still concerned about what they say? I'm telling you, don't take them seriously. They're just talking. The village chief will never sell our spots to them."

After hearing this, Qi Yuanyuan turned to look at Sun Pandi, and then picked up the chopsticks again.

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Ma Hui's table is basically made up of his lackeys.

"Brother Ma, Sun Pandi was supposed to be our new sister-in-law, why didn't you get her? If you had gotten her, wouldn't you be so happy every night? She looks like a virgin..." said one of his brothers.

Another person continued, "Stop talking. Our new sister-in-law's figure is enough to make everyone greedy. But that girl doesn't know what's good for her. She even said that she doesn't like our big brother Ma..."

"I think she doesn't deserve it. Our Brother Ma deserves better." The man continued after drinking some wine.

Ma Hui listened to their flattery and gradually became intoxicated. He pointed at the woman in the other direction and asked, "What do you think of me and that female teacher over there? Are we a good match?"

The others looked at Teacher Qin and nodded. "If you ask me, that teacher from the city is a perfect match for you. It seems like you and I are a perfect match... But she seems to have a good relationship with Jiang Wen and another teacher. Maybe she's not that good yet..."

Ma Hui snorted coldly. He? He deserves it?

"Jiang Wen? Don't be so ridiculous. He couldn't even keep his own woman away back then, which is why Chen Jiade had the opportunity. I'm different."

Ma Hui thought about it. Teacher Qin from the city... The dreams he had when he slept with her tonight were all sweet...

The teacher came from the city, and his family was in need of an educated person. If he could marry that teacher home, would he still be worried that his son would have no one to teach him?

"Brother Ma, I think you should propose marriage as soon as possible, otherwise no one will compete with you for her... I heard that teacher is very gentle and all the students like her. If it happens at night... hehehe..." The man said with a sly smile.

"Wait, brothers, I'll go there sometime. That teacher is the only female teacher in the village, and the village chief will probably be keeping a close eye on her. We can't force her. Once that Liao family kid gets married and this hype is over, won't it be Ma Hui's turn?"