Countdown to Awakening

Ma Hui looked at Teacher Qin and felt happy.

To be honest, he felt that Teacher Qin was too thin and slender, and her figure was not suitable for giving birth. Moreover, she was not worthy of him at all.

Ma Hui was the richest man in the village, and he wasn't bad looking, except for being shorter than Teacher Qin. But what did that matter? Height couldn't be relied upon to make a living... As long as Teacher Qin liked him, that was all that mattered. Even if Teacher Qin didn't like him, it didn't matter. It was fine as long as he liked Teacher Qin.

If he couldn't marry Sun Pandi, then marrying Teacher Qin wouldn't be a bad idea. It would be a bargain for Teacher Qin to just make do with her...

Neither of them was worthy of him. One had only just made it to university, and the other wasn't even in good shape to have children... He was thankful someone was willing to marry her! How dare they look down on him, Ma Hui?

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When the banquet was over, there were still a lot of dishes on Chen Juan's table. Seeing this, Chen Juan took a plastic bag from her pocket and prepared to put the dishes in.

Jiang Shuilian's wife, who was sitting at the same table, reminded her, "Juan'er, you want to take advantage of everything, don't you?"

Chen Juan is also shameless.

"Hey, look at what you said, how can you call it taking advantage? This is my daughter's table, why can't I take some food back? Besides, it would be a waste if so much food is not eaten. I packed it up to take it back because I didn't want it to go to waste."

Chen Juan continued to shamelessly scoop up the vegetables with a spoon.

"Son, take that big spoon and let's go to the other tables to scoop some more. Everyone at this table has almost finished eating and there's nothing left to serve. There must be a lot of unfinished dishes at the other tables. Oh, and let's take some of the rice in the bucket back too..."

Everyone pointed at her, as if she hadn't eaten yet...

"What are you doing? You are allowed to pack up the food, but I am not allowed to? Why are you treating us differently? Putting aside other things, I am still Pandi's mother..." Chen Juan said, pointing to the situation at several other tables. Some people also took bags to pack up the leftover food.

Why can't she take away food? We are all eating at the banquet. Why can't she take away food?

? ?

Everyone was puzzled. How could it be the same? How dare they shamelessly pack it up?

At this point, Old Li stepped forward and said, "Why, how can that be the same? Look at your family. They refused to pay for the banquet beforehand, as if it had nothing to do with you. They even had to be urged by the village chief to come. How shameless of you to do that? Well, now that the banquet is over and you're getting some benefits, you're taking advantage of her. Before the banquet, you didn't acknowledge Pan Di as your daughter, but now that you can take advantage of her, you're coming around again? You're still saying you're afraid of waste, but don't you just want to take all the food home? You didn't pay a cent, yet you insist on taking it all away... So you're the only one who wants to take all the benefits?!"

The others also agreed with this.

It's not that they weren't allowed to take away the food, but Chen Juan and Sun Degui didn't even contribute, pretending to be so noble. Before the banquet, they kept making excuses, saying they couldn't come, and only came after the village chief invited them. What are they pretending to be? Don't you know what kind of people they are?

Now she's saying it's her daughter's table, and she's saying she's afraid of wasting it... all excuses. She's so shameless, not only does she say it, she's also trying to take advantage of everything...

"What are you looking at? What? You don't pack yourselves and you expect us not to pack too? We won't do that if you think it's wasteful." Chen Juan said righteously.

Old Li looked at her and sighed. They all knew what kind of person Chen Juan was. No one wanted to say anything more.

"How shameless! She would never come no matter what, but now she's trying to take advantage of us. From my perspective, this is all she can do." said a woman at another table.

"Isn't it? Pan Di is the only promising one in their family. I don't think her precious son has much hope of going to college. She always brags about her precious son..." said another woman.

The two shook their heads, both disliking Chen Juan's behavior. But they knew that Chen Juan was just that kind of person.

When he needs his daughter, he calls her "my daughter, my daughter". When he doesn't need her, he doesn't even mention Pan Di and calls her a waste of money... He is so shameless.

Chen Juan was still happily harvesting vegetables.

"Son, don't you like those prawns very much? Take some more. Take them home and eat them. Mom will bake them into dry pieces for you as snacks." Chen Juan said to her son.

Everyone looked at her smiling face and sighed in unison: I've never seen her treat her daughter like this...

Although everyone thought she was shameless, no one pointed it out to her. After all, no one wanted to have too much communication with Chen Juan...

Although Chen Juan was harvesting vegetables on the surface, she was always blaming Zhang Mei and Qi Yuanyuan in her heart.

She's just a widow, and she has the right to say that? She even says that men and women are the same. She just wants to make fun of her family! Just because a girl in their family got into college, Widow Zhang said that men and women are the same in a sarcastic way.

She just can't stand seeing other boys get into college and wants to see them laugh at her. This widow Zhang is really scheming...

At this moment, Zhang Mei didn't care about what people said about her. Instead, she made a decision that she believed was very important.

She thought about it for a long time while eating, and decided that a girls' school should be established. It wasn't because of what that person said, nor was it out of stubbornness. She just didn't want to see this situation, didn't want to see girls without education.

If all the girls in the village give birth to children in the village like these people, there will be very few female pillars in the future.

To put it mildly, she also doesn't want to see girls just working as nannies in the village, doing housework and having to depend on men for their consent.

Other girls in the village should, like Qi Yuanyuan and Sun Pandyi, take exams and leave the mountains to seek a better future.

But there are many things stopping her right now, for example, she has no money, and she doesn't know whether the village chief will give her some money to run a girls' school.

She also thought about having a child of her own, but she felt that she would not feel comfortable doing the same thing all the time. Her child would grow up and would not need much supervision.

She was lucky. Her family sent her to school, and she was admitted to university. However, her village didn't recognize her, and no one gave her a wedding banquet. She even saved money to go to university, but she didn't finish...

She also felt it was a pity, so she didn't want to see the girls in the village without education... She didn't want her regret at that time to become the norm.

Zhang Mei entered the village chief's yard.

Zhao Fu looked her over. "Are you looking for my dad?" he asked doubtfully.

Zhang Mei nodded.

Zhao Fu took her into the house.

The village chief stopped writing when he saw someone coming in. "What do you want to talk to me about?" the village chief asked.

"Village chief, I..." Zhang Mei hesitated to speak.

The village chief thought she had some family problems, so he asked again: "What's wrong? Did something happen to your son?"

Zhang Mei is one of the few widows in the village and has a child. As the village chief, it is his responsibility to take care of her.

Zhang Mei quickly explained, "No, no, I have something very important to tell you."

Outside.

Two women passed by, and one of them said mysteriously, "Look at that widow. Is she too lonely to go looking for a man?"

Another one continued, "It looks like it to me, but Zhao Fu... doesn't he have a wife? How could his wife not keep a close eye on her man? How dare Zhang Mei?" As she spoke, she glanced towards the village chief's house from time to time.

"Well, who says we have to find Zhao Fu? Isn't the village chief a man too? Besides, isn't his wife gone? This is a common thing. We should just see through it and not say anything. It's normal for that widow Zhang to feel empty without a man."

"Looking for the village chief? Impossible? The village chief doesn't look like that kind of person."

The man continued, "You don't understand. Even if the village chief isn't that kind of person, Widow Zhang... can you say she doesn't have that kind of thought? The village chief wouldn't do that, but Widow Zhang would. Think about it, she's still young, and her husband is dead, so it's inevitable that she would think about that."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhang Mei came out.

She glared at them.