The man stared blankly at the woman's frenzied expression.

It seems they don't understand how their wife, who used to make do and never dared to complain at home, has suddenly become like this.

The old woman rolled her eyes, then opened her mouth wide and wailed.

The man's gaze grew colder and colder.

"Mom, take Nier back home. She's just gone crazy from being too tired during the busy farming season. She'll be fine in a couple of days!"

One month is all it takes for her to take the college entrance exam? Then he'll lock her up until the exam is over!

The woman was dragged away by her family while shouting and cursing...

This calmed down many excited young people who wanted to do something.

Especially for women and young wives, learning from past mistakes, if they want to take the college entrance examination, they cannot act rashly and need to plan carefully.

That day, Gong Ye was summoned by his father to the provincial capital to quell a rebellion. It was said that more than 20 people were killed or injured in a fierce battle between two villages in the countryside over the college entrance examination.

The incident stemmed from the fact that the daughter of the brigade leader of Village A married into Village B. She wanted to take the college entrance examination and, if she passed, move to the city with her husband and children. However, her in-laws disagreed.

When the wife's family came to her door with people, the verbal conflict between the two villages escalated into a physical conflict, and when things got heated, it developed into a brawl.

Feng Guang demanded that all villages hand over their homemade firearms to prevent the conflict from escalating, and ordered Gong Ye to conduct another round of inspections.

Xiao Yunxi happily went to see her grandfather with her father.

Ruan Xianxian, who rarely had a moment of leisure, put down her books and prepared to cook herself a good meal. Since Gong Ye was not home, she decided to relax with a few drinks.

As soon as the food was placed on the table, several elderly women from the village arrived one after another, as if they had arranged to.

"Hey! Girl, you're already eating?"

Ruan Xianxian smiled and said, "It's rare for the child and her father to be away from home, so we should relax a bit."

"Are you really comfortable letting such a young child go out with her father?" one of the aunties disagreed.

"Can a grown man take good care of a child? Aren't you going with me? What a lazy woman."

"What could I possibly be worried about?" Ruan Xianxian asked, puzzled. "Gong Ye is the child's father. He would risk his life to prevent his daughter from getting even a finger hurt."

If I don't even trust him, who else can I trust?

You've taken care of everything yourself, and you've become this miserable at such a young age?

The auntie looked embarrassed, and the others looked embarrassed too.

Don't say life is already hard enough; forcing yourself to endure hardship is typical of this era.

She took a sip of her drink. "Just say what's on your mind. I was planning to take a nap after dinner while the weather's nice!"

When directly asked, the aunties stopped hiding their complaints and started chattering away.

Either the daughter-in-law wants to go to university, or the daughter refuses to get married or work and insists on going to school.

"It all comes down to wives and daughters. With so many of you, isn't there a single man in your family who's ambitious and willing to make a living?"

Don't be surprised, there aren't many here!

Ruan Xianxian understands that men are nowadays important productive forces in the family. There are many who cut pig feed at the age of four or five and start working in the fields at the age of eight or nine.

How can you go to university if you haven't even finished elementary school?

Even if I have the will, I lack the confidence.

"Don't talk about those irrelevant things. The aunties came to you today because they wanted your clever little brain to come up with some ideas on how to dispel these people's ideas."

It's not that I'm being cynical, but if that daughter-in-law really went to university, would she really come back to the village to take care of her husband and children?

"No!" Ruan Xianxian said with certainty.

"Right!" Before the aunt could show any joy, Ruan Xianxian said again.

"It is only natural for a man to marry a woman he does not love when he is in a low point and has no means of support, and then abandon his wife when he becomes an official and successful."

What's wrong with that woman abandoning her husband and children when she was down on her luck, married to someone she didn't love, and then made a comeback?

The aunties exclaimed in surprise, "How can women be compared to men?"

Ruan Xianxian picked up a piece of food with her chopsticks, took a sip of wine, and smiled, "Why can't we compare? The boss says that women hold up half the sky. Do you still think it's the old society?"

She sighed, looking at the aunts whose faces had turned pale and then red.

"After living together for several years, don't I know you guys well? This isn't about finding a wife for your son; it's more like you're hiring a maid for yourselves."

If things don't go your way, you'll torment your daughter-in-law; if she eats too much, you'll torment her; if she can't give birth to a grandson, you'll torment her even more.

"Becoming a wife in your family is nothing compared to the happiness of a capitalist's servant. Who wouldn't run away if given the chance?"

One of the aunties was unhappy and shouted, "Who didn't go through the same thing back then? Just endure it for ten or twenty years, and you'll be a mother-in-law yourself."

"I'm having them have grandsons, isn't it all for their own good!"

Ruan Xianxian squinted and scoffed, "Was that voluntary? You had no choice."

"I don't believe it. If it were you back then, with a stable job in the city that you could easily earn with a little effort, would you have willingly endured being tormented by your mother-in-law?"

The aunt's arrogance subsided, and she realized it made sense.

Who wouldn't seize an opportunity with all their might?

“Right!” Ruan Xianxian knew that she couldn’t deal with these people by force.

"If it's going to rain, it's going to rain; if a mother wants to remarry, it's going to rain. If a woman's heart has already flown away and she wants to take the college entrance exam, you can stop her this year, but you can't stop her next year."

Those with harsher methods, like that daughter-in-law of the Gao family, believe it or not, in the end, it won't end without someone dying.

Perhaps the one who died was the daughter-in-law, or perhaps it was the mother-in-law who was hacked to death by her daughter-in-law in a rage?

The aunties were startled. "Is it that serious?"

"What else do you think? Cutting off someone's path is like killing their parents."

Ruan Xianxian spoke the truth.

"If I were her, since there's no hope for the future anyway, I'd drag those who are blocking my way down to hell with me. When people are driven to desperation, what won't they do?"

If it were someone else, without the backbone of the Gao family's daughter-in-law, they would become increasingly angry with themselves, blaming all their misfortunes on those who blocked their college entrance exams back then.

Making your whole family miserable is the least of my worries; in retaliation, I'll cheat on your son and make you raise someone else's grandson.

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