Chapter 43 Want to learn a craft
"Wow! This feels so good on my face!"
Ye Wanwan applied moisturizing cream and immediately looked at Ye Wangshu with starry eyes. "How come you know everything?"
Ye Wanwan smiled faintly. "Traditional Chinese Medicine talks about the benefits of herbs. I've tried to develop this. Besides moisturizing, it also beautifies and nourishes the skin."
"Great! Are you planning on buying skincare products?"
Ye Wangshu nodded slightly, "Not only skin care products, but also cosmetics in the future."
Ye Wanwan immediately scrambled up to Ye Wangshu and put her arm around him. "Please be sure to let me know first when new products are released!"
Ye Wangshu nodded. "Although I'm just starting out now and I don't even have a store, I believe that sooner or later I will succeed."
"Yeah, I believe that too."
The two of them gathered together to imagine the future. After a long time, Ye Wangshu left Mayor Ye's house.
As soon as he returned home, Ye Wangshu saw Zhou's mother with a sad face.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?"
"Wangshu! You're well-educated, so please help me persuade your little sister. She doesn't want to go to high school and only wants to learn a trade!"
Mother Zhou had a melancholy look on her face. Seeing Ye Wangshu approach her as if he had found a lifeline, she said, "You have to study! Only by studying can you have a good future!"
Ye Wangshu just felt a headache. Zhou Xiaohong was in her rebellious period. The more you went against her, the more persistent she would become.
Ye Wangshu knocked on the door and waited for a long time without hearing any response. She thought for a moment and pushed the door open before walking in.
"What are you doing here? Are you trying to persuade me to go to school too?"
Zhou Xiaohong looked up at Ye Wangshu, then immediately turned her head away.
"I'm not here to persuade you to go to school."
"Really?" Zhou Xiaohong looked incredulous. "You really won't force me to go to school."
Ye Wangshu nodded in response to Zhou Xiaohong's gaze.
"But I have a question for you."
"Then...you ask." Zhou Xiaohong pursed her lips and looked at Ye Wangshu uncomfortably.
"Have you thought about your future? Learning a craft is not something you can do overnight. You need to think carefully about what you want to learn, where to learn it, and how to learn it."
"I...I don't know either."
Zhou Xiaohong frowned slightly, a look of confusion flashing across her face.
"But I know I don't want to go to high school. I couldn't even keep up in junior high, and I'm not sure I'll be able to learn even if I go to high school."
Ye Wangshu nodded. "You can think carefully about what craft you want to learn these days, but you have to understand one thing: once you make a decision, you can't give up easily, okay?"
Zhou Xiaohong nodded. She didn't expect that the only person in the family who supported her would be her second sister-in-law.
"You're a teenager now, a grown-up kid. You have to be responsible for your own choices. I'll help you persuade Mom."
"Really?" After hearing this, Zhou Xiaohong's eyes lit up and she felt that Ye Wangshu was much more pleasing to the eye.
Ye Wangshu nodded and said, "Think about it carefully first, I'll leave first."
In this era, having a skill is very popular. As long as you learn well and do well, you will have no worries about your future.
So Ye Wangshu did not organize Zhou Xiaohong, but she was also worried that Zhou Xiaohong was just interested for a while.
After leaving the room, Ye Wangshu went to find Zhou's mother.
"Well? What does my little sister say? Is she willing to go to school now?"
Faced with Zhou's mother's impatient expression, Ye Wangshu shook his head.
Ye Wangshu walked over to Zhou's mother and held her hand. "Mom, if my younger sister can master a craft, it would be a good career path for her."
"How can this be possible? Learning a craft takes so much energy and effort, and there's no telling if it will lead to anything in the future. Studying is still better. There are so many girls who want to study but can't! I asked her to study, but she won't!"
The more Zhou's mother spoke, the more aggrieved she felt, and she actually started crying in front of Ye Wangshu.
"Mom, think about it from another perspective. My little sister doesn't want to go to school, and she won't study well even if she goes to school. She's in her rebellious phase now, and the more we try to stop her, the more she won't listen."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother nodded thoughtfully, "Then what do you think we should do? She's just a little girl going out to learn a craft. What if she gets bullied..."
"Mom, there are many skills that only require girls now. Don't worry, I will find a reliable one for my little sister to learn. If my little sister can learn well, she will definitely be good in the future."
After hearing Ye Wangshu's assurance, Zhou's mother nodded, but her heart was still hanging.
During dinner that day, Zhou's mother told everyone that Zhou Xiaohong wanted to learn a skill.
Naturally, the brothers Zhou Jincong and Zhou Jinrui did not want Zhou Xiaohong to give up her studies and learn a craft.
Ye Wangshu used the same rhetoric he used to persuade Zhou's mother to persuade the two brothers.
Both of them knew their younger sister's stubborn nature, and after thinking about it, they felt that learning a skill might be another way out.
After all, learning a craft nowadays is not as hard as it was in the past, and you won’t be like a maid being ordered around by others.
Zhou Xiaohong was obviously happy, and she even treated Ye Wangshu much better.
"What do you think Ye Wangshu is thinking? He lets my little sister act like a fool and even asks everyone in the family to agree to my little sister learning a craft!"
Li Xiaoxia's face was full of displeasure, and the person in front of her was Gao Xiuyun, whom she had avoided at the beginning.
Gao Xiuyun frowned, and then a trace of anger appeared on her face. "My little sister is at school age now, how can you let her study!?"
Gao Xiuyun has a good relationship with Zhou Xiaohong, and there is no competition between them. She has always used Zhou Xiaohong to make her presence felt in front of the Zhou family.
When Gao Xiuyun heard that it was about Zhou Xiaohong, she became immediately angry.
"Ye Wangshu, I've only been away for a few days and you've already caused such a mess! Xiaohong should be studying hard right now, and you're asking her to learn a craft. What are you thinking?!"
Ye Wangshu didn't take Gao Xiuyun's responsibilities seriously.
"So, cousin, tell me, if I asked you to do something you don't like, would you be willing to do it?"
"How can you put these two things together? Letting Xiaohong study is for her own good. What are you talking about?"
Ye Wangshu chuckled. "How do you know, cousin, that what I'm asking you to do isn't for your own good? Look, you yourself aren't happy about it, so why should you expect Xiaohong to listen to you and study?"
"Don't change the subject. I'm talking about Xiaohong's studies." Gao Xiuyun couldn't argue with Ye Wangshu, so she repeatedly emphasized the purpose of her visit.
Ye Wangshu didn't want to indulge her, and didn't want to waste any more words with her. "Since my cousin said so, then you go and persuade Xiaohong. If you can persuade Xiaohong to go to school, it will be a great achievement."
Compared to learning a craft, it is naturally better to study.
However, Zhou Xiaohong had already made plans. With the support of her family during this period, she was even more determined to learn the craft.
Although Gao Xiuyun made an emotional and logical analysis in front of everyone, the Zhou family still respected Zhou Xiaohong's ideas.
But Zhou Xiaohong still wanted to learn a craft.
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