Chapter 189 Why are you crying too?
In the end, Lili didn't care why such delicious water was called urine. She couldn't help it and gulped down a big gulp. Her shoulders first shrank together and then she opened her mouth and exhaled.
“Really, really—it’s delicious!!!”
After drinking, she suddenly realized her current situation. She turned around suddenly and found that her sisters who were not far away just now were gone, and she was the only one left.
She slowly lowered her head again, as if in slow motion, glanced at Gu Ji guiltily, and then quickly looked down again.
"Are all the people here girls?" Gu Ji asked.
Gu Ji's voice broke the silence. She deliberately softened her voice because she knew that if she spoke like that, the child would let down his guard.
really.
Li Li's tense body relaxed a little. She held the lid of the milk tea cup, bit the straw and nodded.
Gu Ji: "Are you happy here?"
Lili nodded, then shook her head after a while. She said, "I don't know."
"You want to leave and see the outside world, right?"
"Yeah." Lili nodded subconsciously, but then her back suddenly arched like a stressed cat with its fur standing on end, her pupils erect. "My sister said that anyone who tries to trick us into going out is a bad person!!!"
Gu Ji smiled, her tone still gentle: "I didn't mean to trick you out. I saw you in school, what did you learn?"
She took out some books she had studied from her Qiankun bag, fortunately she had not thrown them away.
When the textbooks were spread out in front of Lili, she opened her mouth wide and her eyes were full of confusion.
"What is this...?"
“Textbooks.”
"What are the teaching materials?"
"You stay in school like a primary school student, don't you know what a textbook is?" Gu Ji teased her.
Li Li scratched her head, "I know!"
Gu Ji pointed to a basic second-grade elementary school math problem and said, "So, how do you solve this problem?"
Li Li slowly lowered the hand that was scratching her head, put it to her mouth, and began to nibble.
Visible embarrassment.
"You know?" Gu Ji raised his eyebrows.
“…” She bit her lower lip, her face visibly flushed, and looked behind her, trying to find help outside the venue.
Gu Ji stretched out his hand to block her view, "Your sisters may not know either."
Lili's brows furrowed more and more, and she was about to cry. Gu Ji smiled and touched her head, "It doesn't matter if you don't know. Do you want to learn?"
The little girl looked up, tears welling up in her eyes, making them appear even brighter. "I...I can really learn it?"
"You're already in school, and you're wearing such a beautiful uniform, so why can't you study?"
"Because our school uniform and school are——"
Li Li suddenly covered her mouth and didn't say anything else.
Gu Ji didn't ask. She knew that if she wanted to know why these girls were here and how to get out, she must not be anxious.
A flower cannot be watered with impatience.
She extended her hand and invited Lili, "How about we go to the classroom to study?"
Li Li hesitated for a moment, and finally chose to believe her and placed her little hand in Gu Ji's palm.
In her peripheral vision, Gu Ji could see many figures not far away looking at the two of them, with curiosity and vigilance.
In the spacious classroom, Gu Ji stood at the blackboard and Li Li sat in the center of the first row.
The moment Gu Ji wrote his name on the blackboard, Li Li's face was filled with admiration, and he murmured softly, "It's much more beautiful than the village teacher's handwriting!"
She started teaching from the most basic reading, and Lili studied very seriously and quickly.
There is no night here, only day. They don't need to sleep, and the passage of time does not exist here. This place is like a perfect utopia for girls.
Another girl appeared outside the window.
But without exception, the girls here are very young, almost all in puberty.
They went from being cautious at the beginning to lying outside the window eagerly listening to Gu Ji's lecture in the end, without feeling tired at all.
Some brave ones came in and sat in the back. In the end, the whole classroom was full.
She spoke very slowly, explaining the basic knowledge to them bit by bit, and also gave them an in-class test to see how much knowledge they had. When Gu Ji got the test paper, she seemed to see her former self - she knew nothing and couldn't recognize a single word.
Common name: illiterate.
Gu Ji's skin broke out in goosebumps. Almost at that moment, looking at the bright eyes of these girls, she knew the meaning of the last barrier - to protect these girls.
The person who created this barrier wanted to protect these girls from suffering and allow them to happily immerse themselves in their best years.
It is also cruel to deprive girls of their curiosity.
Gu Ji was unable to judge whether the person behind the creation of the barrier was good or bad, so she could only teach them little by little.
She didn't say what it was like outside, even though a few girls couldn't help but cautiously ask, "Can girls go to school now?"
Gu Ji just said that you have to go and see for yourself.
She couldn't give a definite answer. The world hadn't become a better place yet. At least, it wasn't yet possible to truly love girls as much as boys.
Maybe Gu Ji could invent a perfect world and build a flawless diamond for them, but that would be fake.
She was also briefly abandoned by the world.
She understood that a sharp knife with flaws could withstand this imperfect world better than exquisite cake candy.
Li Li took Gu Ji to visit the school. Like any other school, it had cleaners and dormitory managers, but no teachers.
"Teacher Jiji, I always thought there were no teachers in schools."
Her little hand was very cold, and she grabbed Gu Ji's little finger and shook it gently.
Gu Ji hummed lightly and looked down at the little girl. He could only see her furry head with two whorls on top.
Lili's pace slowed down. "Because girls are not allowed to enter the school, and the teachers in the school don't like girls. We have always believed so."
"None of the girls here have ever been to school. Some older sisters are a bit more capable. They passed by the school and took a look. There were girls attending. So I thought, maybe it's just us who are not allowed to go to school because we are money-losing goods, cheap girls, daughters who are married off and poured out, tools to exchange for betrothal gifts. Anyway, we are not human beings."
Her childish voice and these words were deafening.
Li Li looked up, and the tears that had been held back by fear at first now dripped onto the back of Gu Ji's hand. "Teacher Ji Ji, I've learned so much. You taught us knowledge. I know how to write my own name. We all know how to do it, so we are human beings now, right?"
Gu Ji's throat seemed to be blocked.
Her nose felt terrible.
I blinked and tears fell.
"Teacher Jiji, why are you crying?"
Gu Ji squatted down, "Then why are you crying too?"
"I'm very happy. My mother used to say that I wouldn't be able to learn anything even if I tried, but you praised me for learning quickly and writing beautifully."
"I'm not praising you, I'm just telling the truth. I'm crying because you're great, you're all great, you're the best girls."
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