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Qin Yuxin brought some snacks over to her: "My classmates said that teaching is not in vain, so have some snacks. We just pooled our money together and bought them at the canteen."

"Yeah." Jiang Yan accepted it and regarded it as a reward.

Her style is really direct. Qin Yuxin smiled and returned to her seat.

If it was someone else, wouldn't he have refused?

He said a few more useless words, then said with an embarrassed look on his face, "Don't do this next time," and accepted the things.

Jiang Yan took it for granted, with an expression that said, "I taught you, so it's only natural to get some compensation."

It’s quite refreshing, Qin Yuxin likes it very much.

"I've collected it!"

Xia Fei, Li Ming and Xu Weiran were watching from the other side. When they saw Jiang Yan put away the snacks, Xia Fei immediately whispered.

Li Ming smiled, and then the three of them high-fived. Okay, now they know how to get along with Jiang Yan.

Bribe her with snacks!

At worst, they could just eat less or no snacks. If they saved some money, they would still have enough to bribe Jiang Yan.

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The sun at two or three in the afternoon is not the most scorching, but it is the hottest at this time.

There were still people in the fields harvesting late rice, bent over with sickles, their backs soaked with sweat and their clothes sticking to their bodies.

On the hillside, some people were using hoes to turn the soil in preparation for planting autumn crops, while others were harvesting corn stalks. They bundled the dried corn stalks in the fields and took them home to use as firewood for cooking and boiling water.

Xiaoyu City was one of the first to distribute land. Now after the household contract responsibility system, everyone works their own land every year. After the autumn harvest, there is always a circle of corn stalks under the eaves or on the back wall of each house.

Today is Saturday. Primary schools are out of school and middle schools are also on holiday. Children are helping in the fields and on the hillsides. The adults are working and occasionally chatting across a few fields, or the children are calling out to each other from a distance. In this sultry weather, the fields are not so dull.

It's a busy scene.

It is too hot at two or three o'clock, and some people can't stand it, so they don't go out to work at this time. They wait until the sun is a little smaller and then go out at three-thirty or four or five o'clock.

It gets dark late, so it won’t delay much if you go out to work later.

It’s not like the old days when you earned work points and could work on your own land whenever you wanted.

An old lady carrying corn stalks home was sweating profusely. She also wanted to rest at home for a while after this trip and was not in a hurry to go to the fields.

Passing by a house, I heard the sound of quarreling and cursing inside:

"You money-loser, you were out of school at 12 o'clock in the morning, and you're always lazy and come home late. You think you're the boss in front of me just because you read your mother's books? Why don't you let me go to the city and carry you back? Kneel down and don't get up. If I don't beat you up for a day, you won't even know your last name."

"I'm blind and I told you to go to school. What kind of books are you reading? Your mother's books on looking at the sky. Other girls can have kids at the age of 18 or 19 and even support their families, but you just go to school. I don't think you're studying anything serious. You might be doing some rubbish in school. You're wasting money every day, every year. You and your mother's family owe money to the Liang family. It's all—"

Before he could finish his next words, he was interrupted by an old lady passing by.

The old lady, her face flushed with heat, shouted at the open door with full energy:

"Grandma Liang, are you scolding your granddaughter again? Every day, Haoxue is much more obedient than my monkey child! Just scold her a few times, otherwise she will be like the one in the next village, scolding her away and never coming back."

Mrs. Liang is a famous woman in the village with a loud voice and is very fierce. She has never lost an argument with anyone in the village. She can stand on the hillside and curse so that everyone in the village can hear her clearly. Her voice is always very loud.

Even with her wrinkles, this old woman should not be underestimated.

The eldest son in his family is an honest man. He is not very good-looking and a little cowardly. He got married late. As a result, his wife is stubborn. She gave birth to a daughter without a boy and refused to have another child no matter what she said.

So Mrs. Liang had only one daughter, who had to get married sooner or later.

The Liang family's roots still have to be continued by the second, third and fourth sons.

All people thought would be settled once the daughter got married, but Liang Dapo's eldest daughter-in-law Shi Haoyan was making a fuss again, watching some people in the village send their children to school.

Shi Haoyan was about to send her daughter to school.

When I read it, I realized that it takes so many years. Education is so expensive. Who would be willing to spend money on a daughter? Wouldn’t they give priority to boys?

If you have extra money, you can also consider the education of the girls in the family, or let them work as apprentices so that they can earn money to support the family in the future.

The college entrance examination has been resumed in recent years, and I heard that Shi Haoyan still wants Liang Haoxue to take the college entrance examination.

The quarrels have become more serious in recent years. Every few days, the Liang family can hear the old wife and the eldest daughter-in-law quarreling.

"Hmph." Mrs. Liang held a bamboo pole of medium thickness in her hand, the other end of which was broken into small bamboo strips. She whipped it towards the girl who was kneeling in the room.

With every twitch, the kneeling figure shrank and trembled.

The bamboo sticks collided with each other, making crackling sounds that overlapped with the sounds of hitting people. A few bamboo sticks were even broken and fell on Liang Haoxue's kneeling calves.

Liang Haoxue didn't have many good clothes. She wore thin clothes in the hot weather, and the clothes had a few patches on them. Now the thin blue cloth clothes were cut by the bamboo sticks, leaving bruises and bloodstains on her skin.

She straightened her back and did not refute a single word of what Mrs. Liang had said before. Only at the last sentence did Liang Haoxue refute loudly with tears in her eyes and a choked voice:

"My mom and I don't owe any money!! I didn't spend any of our family's money on school!!"

Mrs. Liang was already angry, and when she heard her rebuttal, she became even more furious. She turned around and swung the bamboo stick in her hand, hitting Liang Haoxue in the face.

Although Liang Haoxue turned her head to avoid it, she was still hit on the left cheek, and her face instantly became covered with red marks and several tiny bloodstains.

As she dodged, Mrs. Liang became even angrier. Her old hands, which were extremely strong from years of farm work, pinched the corner of Liang Haoxue's mouth, pulling the 19-year-old girl's face, forcing Liang Haoxue to turn away.

Mrs. Liang threw away the bamboo stick in her hand and slapped Liang Haoxue's face and mouth with her hands. The force in her hands seemed to tear Liang Haoxue's face apart.

The nails were black and could not be washed off, and they dug into the flesh.

Mrs. Liang cursed angrily in a sharp voice:

"Hide! You rotten-mouthed bastard, I told you to hide!"

"Speak! Speak! Speak! I told you to speak! Your mother is a bitch who can't give birth to a son, and you are also a rotten bitch. I told you to speak! Speak!"

"Don't you dare scold my mother—!"

Liang Haoxue's voice was trembling, her whole body was shaking, and her voice was filled with fear for Mrs. Liang.

Mrs. Liang picked up the bamboo stick on the ground and hit someone again. A panting woman rushed in from the door, picked up the broom next to the door and went towards Mrs. Liang:

"You old hag, you heartless old fool, what are you doing? The school in the city is so far away, and it's so hot out here. If you walk slowly, it won't take you an hour or two!?"

"mom--"

Liang Haoxue burst into tears when she saw her mother, but she still didn't dare to get up and just knelt there.

Mrs. Liang and Shi Haoyan started fighting, but within a minute, another tall, strong and dark man ran back. Seeing the situation, he hurried forward and snatched the broom from Shi Haoyan's hand.

Although Mrs. Liang was old, she was still strong. She hit Shi Haoyan hard several times. Shi Haoyan wanted to fight back but was stopped by the man.

"Why did you hit my mother? Wasn't it your daughter who made trouble? Why did she come home so late for no reason? If she came back earlier, she could help you with the work in the fields. Look at how much more useful she is compared to other people's children!"

This man was Shi Haoyan's husband, Liang Haoxue's father, Liang Dazhu.