Chapter 288 No
Geng Qiaoju's smile froze on her face. "Uncle, we don't need you to spend any money or effort to build a school. Is there anything you need to discuss?"
Geng Laosan raised his eyebrows, "What about the land? Where do you plan to let them build it?"
Geng Qiaoju was surprised and said, "Of course, they demolished the old classroom and rebuilt it on the original site."
Geng Laowu stood aside and deliberately said in a sarcastic tone, "How dare you say that? The old classroom is only seven or eight meters away from the ancestral hall. They brought so much wood, so the house they built must be bigger than the old classroom, right? It would be right next to the ancestral hall."
Feng Qi was puzzled. "It's next to the ancestral hall, so what?"
As the clan leader, Geng Lao San said forcefully, "It is not okay for male and female students to mingle together, chatter all day long, and stay close to the ancestral hall, disturbing the ancestors!"
Geng Laosan looked at the people in the village and said, "From now on, each family will send a male to watch near the ancestral hall. If anyone dares to start construction, they will be trampled over."
Geng Qiaoju looked at Feng Qi in embarrassment. Feng Qi silently rolled up his sleeves and whispered, "The garlic in your village is not enough for me to warm up. I might as well fight them and break their arms and legs. At worst, I will pay for their medical expenses."
Geng Qiaoju said, "No, we don't have the formal procedures. If you hit someone, you will go to jail. Besides, the school cannot be built in a day or two. Once a conflict occurs, they will come to make trouble every day. I don't know how long it will take."
"What should I do?" Feng Qi looked around anxiously. Why haven't Luo Jiu and the others arrived yet? They said they would pick someone up at the train station, but why haven't they picked them up yet?
Geng Qiaoju had no choice but to give in, "Uncle San, we won't expand. We will just build a new classroom of the same size on the original land. It won't be too close to the ancestral hall."
Everyone looked at Geng Lao San, who was still arrogant and said, "No, the ancestral hall will be expanded in a few days, and the school is still too close to where it is."
Feng Qi was so angry that he put his hands on his hips and said, "Hey, don't go too far, okay? A place for the dead is already big enough, and you want to expand it? What are you going to do with such a large building?
You don't care about the living children who have nowhere to go to school, but you want to use the dead to grab land."
Old Geng Wu said angrily: "Watch your mouth, the dead person you are talking about is the ancestor of our Geng family!"
Feng Qi stepped forward and said, "I am just cursing your ancestors, so what? I am also going to curse you old men as well, so what? Try to touch me?"
Geng Qiaoju saw that everyone was moving forward, and fearing that Feng Qi would suffer, she quickly hugged Feng Qi's waist and stood in the way.
Geng Qiaoju shouted, "Everyone, stop arguing! Let's move, okay? Let's move three meters toward the back of the mountain, okay?"
Geng Laosan waved his hand and said, "Three meters won't work, we have to move five meters!"
Geng Qiaoju gritted her teeth and said, "Okay."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a woman not far away shouting, "No!"
Everyone looked over at the same time and saw five or six carriages lined up in a row, coming from the village.
Because of the trees blocking the view, everyone could only see a few carriages at the back.
There were a dozen strong middle-aged women standing on each car, each holding a wooden stick as thick as a wrist. From a distance, the people were tall and the sticks were straight, standing tall like a jungle.
These women were serious, had dark complexions, and fierce looks. They looked like the Vajra in the temple, making people tremble with fear.
In the blink of an eye, the lead car came out from the corner, and everyone saw that the leading car was half loaded with bedding, pots, pans, and other daily necessities, as well as three young women who looked like students.
The three women were very agile. They jumped out of the car one after another and landed steadily before the car stopped.
The person who spoke just now was naturally Luo Jiu. She stepped forward quickly and said loudly to everyone: "Education is the top priority of a country. There is no reason for schools to give up space for ancestral halls. Want schools to give up space for ancestral halls? No! Not even a centimeter!"
She looked at Geng Laosan and asked loudly, "Let me ask you, what is the ancestral hall?"
Geng Lao San said disdainfully: "Of course it is a holy place where incense is passed down to worship ancestors."
"Wrong!" Luo Jiu turned around and said to everyone: "Comrades, this is not the old society. We have established our country. The new society is a society where everyone is equal and any discrimination against women is not allowed.
What is an ancestral hall? It only enshrines the tablets of men, only allows men to worship during sacrifices, and only allows men to eat in it. This is not a holy place, it is a backward and feudal place.
If a place only allows men to enter but not women, it can only be a men's toilet, men's bathroom, and men's changing room.
Otherwise, it is inequality, discrimination and oppression.”
Luo Jiu looked at the women present and said, "Sisters, think carefully about what the existence of the ancestral hall means to you?
Here, women cannot be included in the family tree when they are born, and cannot be entered into the ancestral hall after they die.
When you are alive, you have to work like a slave for these men, cleaning the house, wiping tablets, preparing offerings, cooking and making soup. Why?
You should wake up, rise up and resist, and overthrow the ancestral hall that represents feudalism and backwardness!"
Geng Laosan was shocked. "Shut up! What qualifications do you have to destroy our ancestral hall?"
Luo Jiu sneered, "Feudal old things should naturally be killed by everyone.
But don't worry, I am an educated and progressive young man, and I always do things in a legal and compliant manner."
As she spoke, she stepped aside. A strong middle-aged woman came forward, slammed the wooden stick in her hand to the ground, and looked at Geng Laosan menacingly.
She was the woman strongly recommended by Comrade Quan Sheng, a woman who frightened many gentry and landlords, Lu Ping, the director of a farmers' association who had made great success in Hunan Province.
The person next to Sister Lu took out a document with a red seal on it, opened it up, and read it to everyone.
"Order No. 103 of the Ministry of State Affairs, the First Farmers' Association of Hunan Province shall manage all affairs of Yi County from a different location, and all farmers' associations and government officials in Yi County and surrounding towns and villages shall actively cooperate and not violate it."
After she finished reading it and showed it to everyone, Lu Ping looked at Geng Lao San with sharp eyes and asked loudly: "Are you the clan leader? Do you understand what the document says? Do you want me to have someone translate it for you?"
Geng Laowu looked at Geng Laosan nervously, "Third brother, you have to hold on. You can't let them do whatever they want."
Geng Laosan glared at him and coughed lightly, "Since the comrades from the Farmers' Association are here, we should both take a step back when it comes to building the school.
How about this, instead of moving five meters, three meters will do."
Luo Jiu sneered, "Aren't you afraid that your ancestors will be disturbed now? What a pity, now is not the time for you to have the final say."
Her eyes were as sharp as a sword, and she said firmly: "I say, no."
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