Chapter 183 What's the point of sending this girl to school? She'll just end up marrying into another family anyway.
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After the start of the dog days of summer, the days got hotter and hotter.
The people of Liujiatun usually get up in the dark, go to the fields first to check, gather some firewood or cut some grass, and then go home for breakfast.
Then the children in the family were sent to the school on the other side of the riverbank to study, while the adults went to work in the paper mill or build houses.
Or perhaps Li Shiyue had arranged other tasks for them, such as hauling timber from the mountains, going to Sunjia Kiln, Zhao You's house, Qingsong Town, or Sanshan County. They were all busy with their tasks.
In the past month and a half, two major events have occurred in Liujiatun.
The first thing was that the school was built and put into use.
Jiang Huai became a teacher at Liujiatun School, and the tuition fee was also arranged with Li Shiyue, following the salary of teachers in schools in the prefectural city.
Moreover, the house Jiang Huai chose in the village was diagonally opposite Li Shiyue's house, and Li Shiyue also bought the courtyard directly.
Currently, only Jiang Huai lives inside. If we can hire a tutor in the future, it will be more than enough for him.
However, there weren't many students in the school. Da Zhuang and Xiao Zhuang from Li Wangshui and Zhou Lanhua's families, Er Dan from Er Dan's mother's family, Ma Zi's nephew, Yang Zai, and Wang Shisan were forced to study by Li Shiyue.
The two of them didn't want to go, feeling embarrassed to be in the same room as little kids who were only a few years old.
But Li Shiyue said, "You can't read or do math, how are you going to work for me from now on?"
If you want to work for Li Shiyue in the future, you have to go to school!
Yangzai and Wang Shisan had no choice but to go anyway, at least they could keep each other company.
After making a superficial reconciliation with Li Youfu and his eighth uncle, five or six children from the Li family from that side came to the school.
Seeing that there were only about ten children that day, Li Shiyue personally went to Li Youfu's house to ask Yu Zhenniang to send Yue Niang to school.
“Girls should study and learn right from wrong; Yue Niang is the right age to go to school.”
"If this business grows bigger in the future, who knows if we won't have a female manager?"
In the past, Yu Zhenniang thought that if she stayed in the Li family with Yue Niang, she could at least take care of Yue Niang until she grew up. Li Youfu was the clan leader and Li Shiyang was a scholar, so staying in the Li family would eventually lead to a good life.
But ever since she accidentally learned that her family's head, Li Wangren, who was killed by Japanese pirates, had an affair with Qin Tao, she had already decided that she didn't want to live in the Li family anymore.
But what will happen to Yue Niang if she leaves? What should we do?
Looking at Li Shiyue, who dared to confront Li Youfu head-on and even won, Yu Zhenniang was filled with a variety of complex thoughts.
However, Li Shiyue interpreted Zhenniang's gaze as a sign that Zhenniang didn't want Yueniang to go to school.
"I will also invite the little chestnut from Old Man Liu's family. There is also a young girl from the Wang family. My idea is that they should all go to school to study at this time."
Don't worry, when they grow up, I might be able to build a school specifically for my daughters, and I can also hire female teachers.
"Right now, they're still young, so they're studying in the village with the boys. It's fine."
Yu Zhenniang looked down at Yue Niang beside her legs, and finally nodded to Li Shiyue, agreeing to send Yue Niang to school the next day.
Li Shiyue was a woman of action; she actually went to the Liu family and the Wang family and called Xiao Lizi from the Liu family and Wang Qiniang, who was the seventh child in the Wang family, to the school.
Thus, the school in Liujiatun was quite a novelty to the workers from Zhao Youjia and Sunjiayao.
After all, let alone Qingsong Town, even Sanshan County doesn't have a school this big.
Moreover, they also noticed that there were three little girls in the school.
"What's the point of sending this girl to school? She'll just end up marrying into another family anyway."
Why waste that money?
"That's right, if you marry into another family, won't the children still have a different surname?"
Sending them to school will cost money.
Girls should stay home and do chores!
As Wang Cuihua was wiping her bowl with burnt wood ash, she heard the two men squatting on the ground saying this, and she couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.
Wang Cuihua is the youngest daughter-in-law of the clan chief that Zhao Youtian mentioned, the one who cooks delicious food.
The reason she was angry, besides being a woman herself, was that she had only given birth to one daughter all these years.
She couldn't stand it when people said that having a girl was a benefit to someone with a different surname!
Wang Cuihua was impatient, so she threw two handfuls of wood ash at the two men who were gossiping.
These two handfuls of dust made him look all dirty. "Pah, what are you doing? What are you doing?"
Wang Cuihua, how come you can't even wash a dish properly!
Wang Cuihua stood up abruptly, her hands covered in wood ash, and shouted at the man, "What? What? I don't know how to wash, you wash me!"
Just then, Li Shiyue started walking this way. She would come to the construction site every few days to check on the progress of the construction and whether everyone had eaten a nutritious lunch.
If that's not enough, she and Li Qiutian, along with Li Xiatian and Shitou, can go up the mountain to hunt a few pheasants or rabbits when they have time. At least they can make a soup for everyone, and each person can get two pieces of meat to satisfy their hunger.
When Wang Cuihua saw Li Shiyue walking this way, she clapped her hands and pointed directly at the two men: "Come on! The person in charge of Liujiatun is here. You ask him directly why this school allows girls to study."
Hurry up and ask!
"Isn't it said that girls' education is useless?"
Everyone knows that the person in charge of Liujiatun is Li Shiyue, a girl who is only ten years old.
Not to mention the people of Sunjiayao and Zhaoyou, quite a few people in Qingsong Town already know about it.
For the past few months, the official road from Liujiatun to Qingsong Town has been constantly busy.
The carts were pulled by horses or mules, or by donkeys, carrying loads of bricks and other goods. Li Shiyue even sent people to the market in Qingsong Town to collect vegetables, just to prepare lunch for the workers.
Therefore, many people know that Liujiatun is rich, that Liujiatun will be a trading hub in the future, and that the person in charge of Liujiatun is a woman!
So how could these two men not know?
Li Shiyue had excellent hearing; she heard the voices carried by the wind and immediately headed towards Wang Cuihua.
The two men were initially angry at Wang Cuihua for throwing ashes, but when they saw Li Shiyue walking over, they instantly became sweating profusely with anxiety.
That's what they said, and of course, they genuinely believed that girls were a financial burden, destined to marry off and bear children for other families. Sending girls to school was useless and a waste of money!
But when faced with Li Shiyue, a serious and decisive person who can make decisions, the two of them would not treat her as a "money-losing" girl!
Besides, the Li family in Liujiatun all came from outside the village fleeing famine. They had heard rumors that everyone in the village, from the oldest to the youngest, had killed someone during the famine.
The reason for this is that the Li clan members are accustomed to carrying a wood-chopping knife at their waist, so that they can draw their knife and kill someone at any time!
So, when they saw Li Shiyue standing in front of them, they were not only sweating profusely, but also broke out in a fine layer of cold sweat on their backs.
Li Shiyue stood with his hands in his sleeves, listening as Wang Cuihua repeated, word by word, what the two men had just said.
"Hehe," Li Shiyue chuckled as he listened, "What? You're dissatisfied with the school in Liujiatun?"
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