Chapter 381
"I won't go back with you—I won't go back with you—" a female voice shouted in panic and madness.
Ye Fuyue, who was eating, was stunned. She looked at Wu Qiaoer and asked, "Is this... Tang Lanhua's voice?"
Wu Qiaoer nodded: "It sounds like her voice."
The two of them didn't even eat, put away their lunch boxes, and went outside together to see what was going on.
At this time, there were already quite a few people watching outside.
Tang Lanhua held her lunch box in one hand, the other being pulled by a burly man about her age. An aunt and a middle-aged man also pulled her. A lesbian and a gay man stood nearby, watching the whole thing with indifference. They were all dressed simply and looked like farmers.
"I knew you, you little bitch, had sneaked out to go to college! If someone from the next village hadn't seen you at school, we wouldn't have been kept in the dark by you and wouldn't have known you were here!" The aunt pulled Tang Lanhua and said, "You have to go back with us!"
"Sister-in-law, how long do you think you can sneak out to go to school like this? Do you think you can get rid of my brother like this?" said the female comrade with an indifferent expression.
"I shouldn't have agreed to let you take the college entrance examination. You passed and your heart flew away. I didn't allow you to come to school, but you still ran here secretly. If we didn't come to catch you back, did you plan to leave me and the kids after you finished school?" The burly man said angrily.
Tang Lanhua felt hopeless and helpless. She could only repeat over and over again: "I won't go back with you—I won't go back with you—"
If she went back, her life would be as dark as before, without any light.
She now regrets that she should have stayed in the countryside for a few more years instead of marrying a local just because she couldn't stand the hardships there.
If she hadn't gotten married, at least she would still be in control of her own destiny.
But now...
"I don't want to go back with you, I don't want to go back with you, I want to go to school, I want to study..." Tang Lanhua repeated almost collapsed.
"Hmph, you are the daughter-in-law that our Li family married with a dowry. If we ask you to go back, you must go back. Do you still want to get rid of our Li family?" said the aunt viciously.
"You are my wife, we have got the marriage certificate. As long as I don't agree, you will always be my wife and you must go back with me!" Tang Lanhua's man also emphasized sinisterly.
Several teachers from the department came over at this time.
They came here only because some students went to tell them.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
"Tang Lanhua, what's going on?"
When Tang Lanhua saw the teacher coming, she struggled to throw herself at the teacher as if she had found a life-saving straw.
However, her husband and her parents-in-law held her too tightly, and she couldn't get through. She could only look at the teachers with pity and hope, and said anxiously: "They want to take me back and not let me go to school! I won't go back, I want to go to school!"
Tang Lanhua's father-in-law asked, "Who are you?"
"We are teachers in her department." said one of the teachers.
"You've come just in time," said Tang Lanhua's father-in-law. "You're teachers, so you should be sensible. Tang Lanhua is the wife my son married with a gift and a formal marriage. Everyone in the village knows it. When the college entrance examination was reinstated, she wanted to take it, but we didn't agree. Later, my son couldn't persuade her, and knowing that she probably wouldn't pass, he agreed to let her take it. But she passed, but we didn't agree to her coming to school."
"We know very well about educated youth like her who went to the countryside. Although she looks down on us rural people, she can't stand the hardship of doing farm work all day, so she married a local like us. If we really let her go to college, she would definitely abandon her husband and children."
"But she stole the admission letter we had hidden while we weren't paying attention and sneaked in to attend school. If there weren't kids from the neighboring village who also attended this school, we wouldn't be sure she had actually sneaked in."
"Our village is far from here. It's not only troublesome but also expensive to travel here. This time, in order to bring her back, almost all of our family came, except for her three children."
"It's reasonable for us to bring our own daughter-in-law back. Your teacher shouldn't interfere!"
After Tang Lanhua's father-in-law finished speaking, the Li family members nodded and looked at the teachers warily.
Tang Lanhua murmured helplessly: "I won't go back, I won't go back, I want to go to school, I want to go to school..."
Several teachers looked at each other.
This is a tricky matter!
Although Tang Lanhua's father-in-law's words made sense, it was not easy to get into university, especially since Tang Lanhua's grades were not bad. If Tang Lanhua were to return like this, she would definitely not be able to continue her studies, and her life would be completely changed from then on. It was a pity to think about it.
"Everyone, we understand what you are talking about, and we understand how you feel. How about this, it's not a good idea for us to just stand here, why don't we go to our office and discuss this matter?" said one of the teachers.
Seeing that these teachers were well-mannered, cultured and reasonable, the Li family agreed.
But they were unwilling to let Tang Lanhua go, and pulled Tang Lanhua all the way to the office with these teachers.
Tang Lanhua and the others left, and the crowd dispersed.
Ye Fuyue and Wu Qiaoer also returned to the cafeteria and sat down to continue eating.
Both of them were in a heavy mood and did not speak for a long time.
"No wonder Tang Lanhua was so concerned about whether others could enter the school." Ye Fuyue said after a long time.
"Yeah," Wu Qiaoer sighed, "I wonder what will happen to Tang Lanhua? It would be a pity if she can't continue her studies."
"Judging from the attitude of her husband's family, they will most likely not let her continue her studies. If she really lets her finish her studies, her husband's family will not be able to control her, and the wife they spent money to marry will fly away." Ye Fuyue said.
Wu Qiaoer sighed and said nothing more.
Not only the two of them were concerned about Tang Lanhua, but everyone else in their dormitory was also very concerned.
Before evening, there was the latest news. Zhang Huiyun told them the latest news.
"Tang Lanhua was taken away by her in-laws. I saw her being taken away with my own eyes," said Zhang Huiyun.
"The teacher couldn't convince her in-laws either?" Wu Qiaoer asked.
Yang Lu sneered disdainfully, "What can the teacher say? Tang Lanhua was wrong in this matter to begin with. She wanted to get married, and she ran away with the marriage certificate. She didn't divorce her husband. It's only natural for her husband to take her back."
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