Xu Huixue was very troubled; the task her mother-in-law had given her was truly difficult.
These days, who doesn't lack oil to eat?
People don't have many gas coupons to begin with, so it's still difficult to buy gas, whether in the city or the countryside.
Xu Huixue had to think of other ways, since her mother-in-law had asked her to bring back some oil today.
Chen Suwen didn't care about anything else. When she came out of the kitchen and saw her daughter coming back with a red face, her face immediately hardened.
"Zhou Min!"
The little girl was startled by the shout, her whole body trembled, and she looked at Chen Suwen at the door with a look of terror on her face.
"……mom?"
What's wrong?
Is her mother angry because her third sister-in-law gave birth to two daughters, and she has nowhere to vent her anger, so she takes it out on her?
Chen Suwen beckoned to her with her finger, "Have you been behaving well at school?"
"Yes, I'm very obedient," Zhou Min replied softly.
Chen Suwen glanced at her own fence, which was only about 1.2 meters high, and had no intention of letting the neighbors watch the spectacle from the yard. She then took her daughter inside.
"Does anyone bully you at school?"
When Chen Su asked this question, her tone wasn't very gentle; it was just a very ordinary inquiry.
Zhou Min's heart skipped a beat. "No, no, no one bullied me."
She was the daughter of a level 7 welder, and her three older brothers all had jobs and were not to be trifled with, so no one bullied her at school.
There are only kindergartens and primary schools on Guangming Road, and Zhou Min attends a different school.
The students there also knew about Zhou Min's situation and wouldn't bully her.
School bullying is something that wouldn't happen to her.
Chen Suwen stared at her until she realized she wasn't lying, then changed the subject to something else—
"You blushed just now?"
She didn't see anyone bring her daughter back, so why would she blush?
At fifteen, the girl was just beginning to experience romantic feelings, so Chen Suwen didn't force her not to like anyone.
But it shouldn't have too much of an impact, especially not on her studies.
"Zhou Min, let me make this clear: I won't force you not to like someone if you have someone you like."
“This kind of thing isn’t something we can control… but you’re not allowed to let it affect your studies.” Chen Suwen stared at her.
“If you don’t get into high school and your grades drop, then you’ll have to go to the countryside as an educated youth.”
You should think this through carefully.
Chen Suwen wasn't worried about scaring her daughter, because she had taken her children to experience what it was like to work in the countryside.
The original owner's hometown was on Hainan Island. She rarely went back to her parents' home after marrying into Guangzhou. But no matter how little she went back, it was impossible for her not to go back for decades.
The last time she went back to her parents' home was five years ago. She took all her children with her and let them experience farm work for a month.
That's why her children obediently listen to her, working and getting married, and they would never be foolish enough to go to the countryside to work.
They simply cannot endure the hardship of farm work. If they were to do farm work to earn work points, they wouldn't even be able to support themselves.
Zhou Min was only ten years old at the time, but she still had to work in the fields. She didn't even have to do the lighter work with the other children, but with the adults.
She has done all kinds of jobs, including harvesting rice, planting rice seedlings, harvesting corn, peanuts, and sweet potatoes.
Chen Suwen's words that if she didn't study hard and failed the high school entrance exam, she would be sent to the countryside as an educated youth made Zhou Min shudder.
She has a good memory; she still remembers things from five years ago very clearly—it was the hardest she had ever suffered in over a decade.
So even now, looking back, she is still very scared.
Her heart, which had been racing because the boy she liked was getting close to her, had calmed down.
Chen Suwen immediately realized that she had guessed correctly; her daughter did indeed have someone she liked.
"Who do you like?" Chen Suwen asked her, arms crossed. "Won't this person affect your studies?"
Although the school did not place much importance on students' studies due to the turmoil of the past few years, the Zhou family still kept a very close eye on their children's education.
Look at those factories when they recruit workers, don't they also look at educational background?
Chen Suwen and Zhou Qingyun also kept a close eye on their children's studies. Regardless of other people's attitudes toward learning at school, their children had to study hard.
"Your math score seemed to have dropped in the last exam, what happened?"
Zhou Min has a good aptitude for science, and of course she is also decent in humanities, but she is better at science.
She used to get almost full marks in math, but in the last exam, she scored a few points lower.
Chen Suwen stared at her and said, "Tell me honestly, is it because you're in a relationship that your grades have dropped?"
Zhou Min quickly shook her head, "No, no! I'm not in a relationship!"
She does have a boy she likes, but she hasn't made a relationship with him official, and she doesn't even dare to let him know that she likes him.
She simply had a crush on him.
Chen Suwen raised an eyebrow. "A crush? So you were distracted in class because you had a crush on someone, but they didn't know you liked them? Or were you distracted during the exam?"
Zhou Min lowered her head guiltily.
“Zhou Min, if you don’t study hard, I really will send you to the countryside after you graduate from junior high school.”
"When the time comes, I will make sure you and the boy you like are separated by vast distances. If he goes to the west, you go to the east; if he goes to the south, you go to the north."
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