He Xiaoyou closed the book he was reading, pressed his eye sockets, and said, "Even if I wanted to go to school, the teachers wouldn't dare teach me. Even the principal was demoted. Even if they do teach, they don't dare to teach serious articles. They slip away as fast as rabbits after class. I don't understand many of the questions I have."
"If you don't understand, ask your sister. She also went to high school."
He Xiaojie quickly waved her hands, "Don't ask me. I've almost forgotten everything I learned in high school, and my grades back then were only average. How could I possibly teach him?"
He Chunsheng glared at her and looked at He Ruixue.
Thinking of her long-term lagging performance, he turned his gaze back, obviously not intending to count on her.
"What's the point of studying hard if you can't get into university?"
He Dagen was lighting a fire when he suddenly blurted out, his tone full of regret, "The best student in our family is Xia Sheng. She always gets first place. The boys in her class are so overshadowed by her that they can't even lift their heads up..."
In the past, studying meant you had a bright future, but who knows what will happen in the future. If this continues, we country folk will have no future at all."
"Dad, I want to go to the countryside."
He Xiaoyou's tone was calm, but it was like a huge flash of lightning and thunder, almost knocking over everyone in the yard.
"What are you talking about, you bastard?"
He Chunsheng thought he had misheard, but when he heard him say it again, he was so angry that he turned around on the spot, pointing at his forehead and scolding him, "Other people have tried every possible way and used every possible connection to avoid going to the countryside, but you insisted on going there. Do you really think the countryside is a good place?
How many of those who volunteered to join the program regretted it? You've also been farming, so how could you not know what the situation was like at your grandparents' home?"
He Xiaoyou said stubbornly, "I've thought it through. This is my own choice. I won't regret it."
Wang Taozhi stood up and said, "I disagree. I think you've become stupid from studying too much!
We just cleaned the mud off our legs and have only been eating commercial grain for a few years, and yet you're going backwards. If our ancestors knew, they'd crawl out of the ground to teach you a lesson!"
"I understand all this, but Mom and Dad, think about it carefully. You have four children, so someone has to go to the countryside. Otherwise, how can they let us go?"
Despite his parents' strong objections, He Xiaoyou did not waver in his determination.
He had been thinking about this matter for a year and had made sufficient mental preparations.
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