Chapter 607 Ask Directly

Lin Gang's wife had been having stomach problems for the past few days, so she went to Old Cao's house for a short while to watch the commotion and then went home immediately.

After drinking a tub of hot water, my stomach felt much better.

I originally wanted to go to Old Cao's house to continue watching the excitement, but then I remembered that the old principal had brought all the commune leaders here because of the children's schooling, so I decided not to go.

Just as she was feeling irritable, she heard Lin Gang, who had just returned, say such things. She was so angry that she sat up on the kang with a loud bang: "Going to school, going to school, if the two of them go to school, who will do the housework? What am I supposed to do with the ducks and geese we raise? What about these two little ones? Besides, don't we need to buy pencils, notebooks, and pay tuition for school? Where will the money come from?"

Then, slapping his thigh, he said nonchalantly, "The Cao family is the Cao family, and our family is our family. Look at this village, whose child goes to school at eight years old and is a girl? I haven't even learned many words yet, but I'm still alive, aren't I?"

He paused for a moment, then said with a cold laugh, "If I'm still the same as before, I'll take anyone I can't stand home with me."

Lin Gang stood inside the house, scratched his head, and then silently went to the yard to smoke.

Lin Gang's wife called from inside the house, "What's wrong? Aren't you going to work in the fields this afternoon?"

"...The team leader said there would be no work this afternoon, mainly to solve the schooling problem for the children in our village."

Lin Gang's wife curled her lip: "The old principal and Teacher Yin are just nosy meddlesome. I think they also have their own selfish motives. They're afraid that if no children go to school, the school will go out of business and they'll have nowhere to go. Humph, neither of them is any good."

Some of the commune members who loved watching the excitement and walked quickly knew that the next stop was Lin Gang's house, so they hurried over there.

Then, standing at the gate, he said to Lin Gang, "Lin Gang, the old principal is coming to your house with President Yu and Factory Director Lu. Where are your eldest son and your eldest daughter?"

Lin Gang put down his pipe.

Because of their poor family conditions, they certainly couldn't afford to smoke filtered cigarettes. Many farmers who liked to smoke smoked this kind of dry tobacco rolled in straw paper.

Lin Gang glanced at his wife sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), and said with a forced smile, "Well... the two children are sensible. They went to the meadow to herd ducks early this morning. Besides, they didn't want to go to school on their own. It has nothing to do with me and my wife. Don't talk nonsense."

Xiao Cangcang has already told Lu Qiaoge about Lin Gang's family situation.

They also said that the two children hadn't eaten breakfast and were still hungry, but the older brother had found some wild duck eggs for his sister and was roasting them with some dry grass.

The Lin Gang family's situation is difficult to resolve.

Not every child has Cao Zhaozhao's talent, especially when the father is inactive and indulges the stepmother...

But actually, it's easy to solve.

At this moment, a group of people had arrived at Lin Gang's house and entered his courtyard. Lin Gang's wife, who was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed), had no choice but to come out and stand beside Lin Gang with a gloomy expression.

Before the people arrived, it was one thing, but after they arrived, especially since the leader was President Yu, Lin Gang and his wife didn't say anything sarcastic or sarcastic.

When President Yu asked the two people if they could let their children go to school, Lin Gang said with a forced smile, "It's not that I don't want them to go to school, it's that the two children themselves don't want to go to school. They really refuse to go no matter what. There's nothing I can do. They just like to run around in the mountains and fields, saying that's how they feel free."

Lu Qiaoge sneered inwardly.

Sometimes what the elderly say really makes sense.

It's true what they say, having a stepmother means having a stepfather.

Lu Qiaoge said, "Where are your two children? We haven't seen them."

Lin Gang hesitated for a moment, then said, "Well... they're playful, so they went to the meadow to let the ducks roam around early this morning. They wouldn't listen to me calling them."

Lu Qiaoge frowned.

Xiao Cangcang helped her collect a lot of information.

The original intention of establishing the down jacket factory was not to revive the clothing factory.

Even if the garment factory doesn't become a down jacket factory, the workers there can still make a living for the time being, after all, it's only the 1970s.

To be precise, Lu Qiaoge really wanted to help farmers within a hundred miles, or even further, as long as they were within the Jiangcheng area, to start this side business.

Whether now or in the long term, this aquaculture industry will be a thriving sector.

The current situation is that the country has not yet implemented compulsory education, and each family has quite a few children, usually four or five, or even eight or nine.

The college entrance examination has not yet been reinstated, and a combination of factors has led to a lack of emphasis on children's education.

Then they started aquaculture, especially ducks and geese.

Many people may not know that in rural areas, especially in the 1960s and 70s, raising ducks and geese was basically done by children.

The so-called children are all around ten years old.

Some families even have children who can cook as young as five or six.

Back then, many children would come home from school, put down their schoolbags, and before they could even finish their homework, they would rush to herd their family's geese to graze in the meadow.

It is said that you have to eat the goose's crop until it's bulging before you can herd it home and then go do your homework.

So, the down jacket factory was established with the aim of improving the lives of farmers and encouraging them to raise ducks and geese, and then sell the duck and goose down to the down jacket factory to increase their income. However, this inadvertently increased the workload for these children.

But Lu Qiaoge didn't think that setting up a down jacket factory was a mistake.

Having money in hand makes many things easier.

Then change your mindset, and everything will fall into place.

In particular, the college entrance examination will be reinstated soon.

Several people have already given Lu Qiaoge hints.

For example, Director Lü of the State Administration of Foreign Trade, the factory manager of the instant noodle branch, and Qin Hengzhi's parents all called Lu Qiaoge.

Tell her not to throw away her textbooks and to remember to review them often in her spare time.

Although no one said it explicitly, Lu Qiaoge still understood.

Qin Hengzhi had told her about it, but more importantly, she knew this was an inevitable outcome.

Under such a trend, reading is becoming increasingly useful.

At this moment, President Yu was not in a good mood. What he thought were simple matters turned out to be troublesome.

Come to think of it, if someone like the old headmaster wasn't so difficult, he would have been dealt with on the spot. Why would he have gone to the commune?

"Alright, enough nonsense. I've heard too much nonsense today, and I don't want to hear any more now. I just want to ask you, Lin Gang, are your eldest son and eldest daughter going back to school?"

President Yu realized that there was no need to be polite with these people, especially when things happened like this. What was the point of discussing anything with them?

The more you discuss things, the more problems arise, just like the Cao family.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, they should have ordered them to send the children to school, and let them do whatever they wanted with the rest.

As a result, they've separated and then broken up again, it's a mess, and just thinking about it gives me a headache.

So when I got to Lin Gang's house, I asked him directly.

(End of this chapter)