Chapter 121 Invisible Preference for Sons over Girls
"How many girls in our village go to high school? Not to mention our village, there are only a few in the town."
"In our village, there are very few families like ours that send both boys and girls to junior high school. Everyone thinks that it's enough for girls to go to elementary school and learn a few words."
Zhao Changying defended herself and felt that for a family like hers, sending their daughter to graduate from junior high school was already a good thing, and the boys in the family also graduated from junior high school.
How can it be almost the same? It is obviously very different!
"If the boys in your family get into high school, will you send them to study there?" Yu Hui asked seriously.
"Of course we have to." Zhao Changying blurted out, not thinking there was anything right in what he said.
Gu Qiuye looked up at her mother-in-law, a hint of sadness flashing in her eyes.
She always thought that her mother-in-law treated them and her brothers equally well and did not favor boys over girls at all, but today she realized that she was wrong.
"Why?"
Why? Zhao Changying blinked. "The more a boy reads, the more promising he will be. As long as he's willing and able to read, then of course he should be allowed to read."
Yu Hui smiled, feeling a little sad, sad for the girls of this generation.
However, this sadness belongs not only to girls of this generation, but also to girls in the next few decades.
Even decades later, many parents will still pay more attention to their sons' education and pave the way for their future.
"But you know that the more you read, the more promising you are. But why is it that reading so much is useless for girls?"
“…” Zhao Changying was stunned.
"Mother-in-law, you favor boys over girls." Gu Qiuyan said it all in one sentence.
Zhao Changying retorted with a stern face, "Nonsense, I treat you and your brothers the same. Your brothers have been beaten and scolded by me more than you have."
"Also, when your mother was a child, she favored boys over girls and always scolded and beat you, but she only stopped after I dealt with her."
Zhao Changying felt a little sad when she saw Gu Qiuyan. She was closer to her granddaughters at home, but in the end, her granddaughter accused her of favoring boys over girls.
Seeing that her mother-in-law was unhappy, Gu Qiuyan immediately shut up.
"Mom, you definitely love your granddaughter. These Qiuyan and Qiuye must be able to feel it."
"But you do favor boys over girls. It's not just you, Dad, my third brother, and his wife are the same."
"You know very well that the more boys study, the more successful they will be, but for girls, reading so much is useless. Of course, this has to do with the social environment we live in, because most people think this way, and you absorb this information and subconsciously think the same way."
"But why do people think it's useless for girls to read so many books?"
"It's simply because daughters are meant to be married off. No matter how much they study and become successful, they will eventually belong to someone else's family. Only sons belong to your own family."
"A daughter married off is like spilled water. Isn't this also a form of favoring sons over daughters?"
Many parents say that they do not favor boys over girls and that they treat their sons and daughters equally. However, in fact, many of them are implicitly biased towards boys, which will be reflected when they encounter some major events in life.
Zhao Changying originally wanted to refute, but fell silent after hearing the end.
After a long while, she raised her head and looked at her two granddaughters.
She always thinks that grandchildren are the same, and she is very happy whether it is a grandson or a granddaughter.
Unlike other people in the village, he spoils his grandson but beats and scolds his granddaughter.
She has always been very proud that she is different from the old ladies in the village and does not favor boys over girls like them.
But after listening to Xiaohui's words today, she realized that although she was not as son-in-law as other old ladies in the village, she was still son-in-law at her core.
They think that girls don't need to read so many books and that reading so many books is useless. It is indeed as Xiaohui said, they subconsciously think that girls will marry into other people's families and there is no need to spend money to let them read so many books.
After Zhao Changying analyzed herself, she felt even more uncomfortable and a little guilty.
"Ye'er, tell Po-in-law, do you want to study?"
"I want to." Gu Qiuye raised her head and answered with a sob. Her face was already covered with tear marks. She didn't know when she started crying.
She wanted to study, go to college, and fly to the wider world that her teacher had talked about.
When she got the transcript, the teacher told her that she was admitted to the county high school.
She was the only girl in her school who was admitted to the county high school, so she was told that she must go.
But when she returned home happily with her report card and told her parents the news, she was told, "It's useless for a girl to read so many books." It would be better for her to go to the city and ask her father to help her find a good job there.
When the two brothers Gu Bin and the three brothers Gu Dong saw their sister crying, they were so scared that they were stunned.
Then Gu Bin and Gu Yangyang's eyes turned red and they started crying too.
"Sister." Gu Yangyang walked over crying and hugged her sister's legs.
Gu Qiuye bent down and hugged her brother and cried together.
"Wow, wow, wow..." Gu Xixi, who had well-developed tear glands, also started crying, crying even harder than Gu Yang and Gu Qiuye.
"Why are you crying?" Gu Dong frowned and pulled Gu Xixi's sleeve.
"Wuwuwu... Seeing my older sister, older brother, and younger brother crying, Xixi feels so sad. I just want to cry..."
Zhao Changying's nose felt sore and her eyes turned red.
It was not until today that she realized Ye'er's grievances and knew that she wanted to continue her studies.
She also said that she loved her granddaughter, but she didn't even know what her granddaughter was thinking.
As a mother-in-law, she absolutely could not cry in front of her grandchildren. She sniffed, blinked hard a few times, and held back her tears.
"Why are you crying? If you want to study, then go ahead. I'll take you to register when school starts."
real?
Gu Qiuye raised her head in shock, tears still hanging on her wet eyelashes.
"That's great." Gu Qiuyan was happy for her cousin. She had always known that her cousin wanted to go to high school.
Gu Qiuye raised her hand to wipe away her tears, "But my dad..."
"I am the boss in our family. If I say so, he will go to school." Zhao Changying said in a domineering manner.
Gu Qiuye burst into laughter.
"Thank you, mother-in-law. You are so kind." She pushed her younger brother away and walked over to hug her mother-in-law.
Zhao Changying controlled the corners of her mouth that were about to turn upwards and said in a feigned anger, "I'm not good. I favor boys over girls."
"Grandma, why are you still holding a grudge?" Gu Qiuyan also walked over and hugged her grandma, "I now declare that you no longer favor boys over girls. You are the best grandma in the world."
Gu Qiuyan held her mother-in-law and rocked her.
"Pa pa pa..." Zhao Changying yanked her arm hard, "Stop shaking, it makes me dizzy."
"belch……"
Gu Xixi hiccuped and looked at her grandmother and cousins with tearful eyes.
Are you not crying anymore?
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