Chapter 118 Girls Don’t Need to Study Too Much

There was nothing to do in winter. The next day, after feeding the cattle and horses at home, my second brother-in-law went to the mountains to hunt with his eldest brother Wang Dahu. My second sister Gu brought a few children and a pheasant to Gu's side.

In addition to the caregiver Su He, there was also an aunt, Aunt Wang from next door.

That's how it is in the countryside. Unless there is a deep hatred between the two families, they will be friends again after a few months or years.

Previously, because of the chicken issue, Gu's mother had a quarrel with Aunt Wang next door, but because of the radio issue, they are reconciled.

Because Aunt Wang, her silly husband, and her son, the three of them all like to listen to radio stories, and they can't get along well with the radio they buy.

In the summer, Aunt Wang gave Mother Gu a lot of vegetables from the yard.

"Yuncai is here." Aunt Wang greeted Second Sister Gu.

Sister Gu nodded, "I'm just taking a walk, auntie."

Aunt Wang, "I have nothing to do at home, come and chat with your mother."

"Mingyue, how old is the New Year? She looks like a grown-up girl."

Aunt Wang glanced at Mingyue behind Second Sister Gu and said.

Sister Gu smiled and said, "It's the 16th day of the Chinese New Year."

Aunt Wang exclaimed, "She's already sixteen, a grown-up girl. She can get married in two years."

Second Sister Gu felt uncomfortable hearing this. She said, "It's too early to marry someone. Mingyue is still in school."

"Are you going to school? Junior high school?" asked Aunt Wang.

Second sister Gu hummed, and Aunt Wang said hi, "Girls don't need to read so many books. It's the best for them to graduate from primary school."

"Look at our village, whose daughter is in junior high school."

"No matter how well you study, you are just being raised by someone else. It's a waste of money."

Second Sister Gu rolled her eyes and said, "Auntie Wang, what are you saying? Great leaders have said that we women are capable of doing a lot. Why do you still think that it is useless for girls to study?"

"You have feudal ideas, you must change them quickly."

Aunt Wang saw that Second Sister Gu's face had changed. She knew that she didn't like what she heard. She also blamed herself for being quick-witted. She said,

"Yes, yes, Yuncai, you are right, my mouth."

Second Sister Gu felt that Aunt Wang was really bad at talking, no wonder she couldn't get along with her neighbors.

She doesn't care whether the daughter of a noble family goes to school or not. Even if she doesn't go to school, she won't marry her son. It's annoying to hear these words.

Second Sister Gu grumbled to herself for a while and then went to chat with Su He.

Mrs. Gu continued chatting with Aunt Wang.

She asked Aunt Wang, "Hey, do you know about the ancient times of our country?"

Aunt Wang shook her head. "How would I know that?"

Gu's mother told her everything one by one, "This is the history of our country."

"Where did you hear this?" Aunt Wang asked in surprise.

Mother Gu: "Xiao He told me about this. She also told me about foreign countries, about Russia. Let me tell you about it."

"Xiao He, is her name Catherine the Great?" Gu's mother confirmed with Su He.

Su He nodded, "Yes, Mom."

After getting confirmation, Gu's mother told Aunt Wang the story of Catherine the Great, which left Aunt Wang stunned.

After hearing this, she praised, "This woman is amazing!"

Mother Gu: "Right, we also had an empress in Chinese history."

Aunt Wang, "Tell me what you are talking about."

Gu's mother told her. After listening, Aunt Wang asked Gu's mother, "Xiao He told you all this."

Mother Gu said, "Yes, otherwise how would I know? I think if conditions permit, it is better to let children read more books, otherwise they will become illiterate."

Aunt Wang nodded unconsciously, but then she felt something was not right. Was Zhao Jinzhi implying her?

Before she could think more, Gu's mother pulled her away and started talking about something else.

Yes, Mrs. Gu was implying that she should talk more.

Regarding the issue of children's education, Gu's mother thought that as long as the family conditions were good, both boys and girls would be sent to school. If the conditions were not good, the one with good academic performance would be supported.

Why should we differentiate between men and women? Great leaders have said that women hold up half the sky, but Wang Guihua is still talking nonsense.

It annoys the listener.

But Gu's mother could understand her, after all, her thoughts were different from theirs.

Mother Gu feels that now she can only talk to her mother-in-law, Mother Su, and they can reach spiritual agreement with each other, but the women in the village cannot do that.

It won’t work if everyone has feudal ideas.

Su He was chatting with Second Sister Gu, and they talked about Mingyue. Second Sister Gu said, "Chunqing told me when she came back that Teacher Zhang was like that, very vicious, and loved to scold students."

Su He, "Ming Yue's grades were poor when she was in primary school. I guess it was because of that teacher. The child was said to have a shadow and was afraid of her when he saw her."

Second Sister Gu nodded and said, "I heard from Chunqing that this teacher not only likes to scold students, but also beat them. There was a child in their class whose face was swollen and bleeding from being beaten."

In their era, if teachers beat students, parents would not make trouble, and would even think that the beating was a good thing, believing that the teacher must have beaten their children because they had done something wrong.

Su He, "I was just wondering if Chun Qing's grades were not good, just like Ming Yue's."

When you are in school, your teacher scolds you, belittles you, and makes fun of you every day. It would be strange if the child does not hate studying.

"Aunt, I just don't like studying. It has nothing to do with the teacher." Chunqing whispered aside.

It is true that the teacher often scolds her, but she doesn't take it to heart. She lets the teacher scold her and thinks her own way, and it goes in one ear and out the other.

She won't take it to heart.

Her elder sister might have been influenced by the teacher, but she was not. She really didn't like studying and just wanted to stay at home.

Gu's second sister also said, "Probably not, she simply doesn't like studying."

Her three daughters came home from school and talked about what happened at school. The eldest was scolded by the teacher and was in a bad mood, but the second one was heartless and still cheerful.

As for the third child, she was never scolded, and the teachers always praised her.