Chapter 303: School
As soon as the news that "a school is going to be built in the mountains" came out, the conference room was like cold water dripping into a boiling hot pot, and the whole place was in an uproar in an instant.
However, there was no loud explosion that stunned everyone. The conference room suddenly became so quiet that you could hear an embroidery needle falling to the ground.
At this moment, in everyone's mind, they were as unreal as the fireworks during a festival. They were in a fog and felt like they were treading on a ball of cotton. They dared not say anything, nor ask anything.
The excitement in their minds suddenly became like an old dog that had broken free from its leash in their hometown village, and they started running wildly.
They all held their breath and felt like they were about to suffocate.
Li Youcai stood up and clenched his fists tightly, afraid that everyone would see his shaking hands. But his trembling voice still betrayed him: "Really, really want to open a school?"
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Ziyi. Ziyi nodded and once again announced with certainty that a school would be set up in the mountains and that the teachers had been found.
All the people who couldn't believe it or didn't react just now finally exploded with a "buzz". There were screams, shouts, talks, and cries... The conference room was in chaos.
"Ah, a school has been established. The children can finally go to school!"
"School, our own school, our children don't have to be blind!"
"That's great. We can read books like people outside the mountains."
"Woo, woo, I'm so happy, my child can finally go to school."
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The eyes of Li Xiaoying, Chen Fugui, Hu Lili and Hu Fangfang sparkled, and they looked particularly lively under the electric light. They shouted "Ahhhhh" and cheered: "Read, read!"
Sun Meili came over and pulled Yi Ke, tremblingly. She looked like she was having epilepsy. But even if she was having epilepsy, she was a beautiful epileptic as her name suggested.
Sun Meili's eyes were filled with tears: "Yike, good Yike, thank you! Thank you so much! You have brought all this to all of us. Thank you! Thank you!"
Yi Ke said speechlessly: "Aunt Meili, this is the result of everyone's hard work. I didn't do anything. You don't have to thank me."
Sun Meili said excitedly: "Yike, I have lived in the mountains for at least seven or eight years. For so many years, we have been relying on the little income from hunting to barely have enough to eat. But since you married Ziyi, you first brought us here to cultivate the fields, and then taught us to raise chickens, ducks, pigs, and cattle scientifically, and also to make dried fruits, water heads, and make organic fertilizers. All of these, one by one, which one was not done by you with us. Without you leading us to do these, how could we have the good life we have today? Not to mention the children's education. The children's father and I have been worried about the children's education for a long time. We don't know a few words and have no way to teach them. Now you have helped us solve this big problem in one go. This is related to our future generations. Thank you! Thank you! If possible, I want to kowtow to you a few times, otherwise I can't express my gratitude!"
"Yes, Meili has expressed the thoughts of all of us. We thought that our descendants would be illiterate and uneducated. We never expected that the children would have the chance to go to school one day. Yike, you are really our lucky star. When you came here, you changed the fate of everyone here, from being poor to being rich. I also want to kowtow to you." Godmother Wang Cuihua said gratefully.
"Yes, we can have a comfortable life now. We don't have to go hunting and looking for food in fear every day. We have to thank Yike. Otherwise, Yike, can you just let us aunts kowtow to you? I always feel uncomfortable in my heart if I don't kowtow to you." Tao Xiu'e was really going to kneel down and kowtow as she said this.
"Oh no, I can't do this! I can't do this!" Yi Ke stood up in a hurry, "Quick, quick, hold on to Auntie, how can I do this?"
"Xiu'e, you can't kowtow. Aren't you shortening your child's lifespan? There are many ways to express gratitude, but kowtow isn't enough." Chen Hongmei stopped Tao Xiu'e, who really wanted to kneel down.
"Oh, you don't know, my man not only can't hunt, but is also very reckless. Several times during hunting in the past, he almost harmed himself and his son because of his recklessness. Whenever they go hunting, I'm always worried. If they're gone for a few days, my mother and I won't be able to sleep. I'm so worried!" Tao Xiu'e wiped her eyes.
Then she continued, "Since we moved here, we no longer have to worry about our lives, nor do we have to live in fear. But my stupid man not only doesn't know how to be grateful, but he has always been against Yi Ke. I am ashamed."
"Yeah, it's the same for us. We can only sleep well after coming here. Men, how can we understand the worries of women and children at home? So, they don't think so much."
"That's right. When you drink water, you should remember the person who dug the well. I think they are just male chauvinists. They forgot that there is no place to discover and no method to teach. Even if they have a lot of strength, they have no place to use it."
"Huh! Those men are just arrogant. They look down on women, and they can't stand women being better than them."
"Yes, that's right. It's as if they would lose face if they admit that women are more capable than them."
Yike was dumbfounded. This topic had gone too far off track. They were just discussing the school, then turned to thanking her, and finally how did it turn into a meeting criticizing men?
The men also looked confused. It seemed like they hadn't done anything to anger God or anyone. Why was it rejected? Thinking about it more carefully, it seems that only Chen Shengli is the kind of person who is ungrateful and looks down on Yi Ke. They are the ones who have suffered from the consequences. The men all glared at Chen Shengli angrily. Chen Shengli was so frightened that he trembled like a dove and wished he could just pull his head into his stomach.
Yike was speechless for a while and could only signal Ziyi to quickly straighten the crooked building.
Ziyi coughed a few times to attract the aunts' attention, then said loudly: "The school needs to be run. Although we have teachers, we don't have classrooms, so we have to build classrooms first."
"Ziyi, you said there is a teacher. Who is it? Except for your family who can read a lot, everyone else here can only recognize a few words." Sun Meili interrupted Ziyi.
"Han Guihua and my aunt Wu Feifei will be the teachers for the time being. Yike and I will also teach when we have time. We will find a way to invite teachers from outside the mountain in the future, so don't worry about that." Ziyi explained.
"Sister Yike can also teach!" Tao Xiu'e said in surprise.
"My sister is a junior high school student, so she has no problem teaching children." Yi Ke said proudly.
"Wow, you're still in junior high school. Your parents really love you. You're a girl, but you can still go to junior high school."
Yike and Han Guihua both changed their expressions, especially Han Guihua. She felt sick when she thought that her mother let her go to junior high school just to sell her for a good price.
"Both the school and the factory need to be built, so everyone will be very busy this winter. I will go out with Yi Ke to find some people to help. Otherwise, if we rely on ourselves, it will take who knows when the construction will be completed. But we can't just rely on others, we have to work hard ourselves." After Zi Yi finished speaking, he let his father Li Haoran speak, because he was the eldest brother that those people trusted the most.
"Ziyi has said everything he should have said. I only have one thing to say: don't be impatient in doing anything. Bamboo shoots have to be peeled one by one, and sugarcane has to be eaten one by one. So, things have to be done slowly, one by one. You can't get fat in one bite. As long as we don't be lazy and don't rely on others, I believe our lives will only get better and better!" Li Haoran said slowly.
Finally, the company’s first meeting ended smoothly and successfully amid everyone’s applause and cheers.
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