Chapter 233 Backward Thoughts
Chapter 233 Backward Thoughts
"By the way, Principal, isn't it summer vacation now? Why are there still so many children in school?"
Xia Jinxi counted and found that there were a total of six children here, one junior high school girl who looked a little older, and five boys in the lower grades of elementary school.
"The parents of these children have chosen to work outside to earn money, leaving only the elderly at home to take care of the children, so now that I have a long holiday, I will help out and bring them together to play."
He Banxue slowly explained to the brother and sister.
In the past, almost no one in the village would go out to work because every household had farmland.
Now, the development of the village is getting better step by step. Many families have accepted assistance from the state and started greenhouse cultivation and machine cultivation.
While planting efficiency is higher, there is no need to worry too much about natural disasters or man-made disasters.
With more convenient planting techniques, the manpower and time spent in the fields began to decrease.
But even with better and more convenient planting techniques, their annual income has not increased much.
If you want to make more money, isn't it just a matter of going out to work?
"No wonder. When I was still in Guangming School, I never heard of coming to school to play during the summer vacation."
No, according to Xia Jinxi, she would have no chance to play games with other kids during the summer vacation.
"Let's find a place to sit first."
A few children were still playing games. When Tang Yuze and the other two sat on a nearby bench, they quickly gathered around.
"Have you ever met a brother or sister?"
"Is she a friend of the principal's grandmother?"
"They are very good-looking. Are they from our village?"
A group of children came over and chattered, making the place very lively.
"Yes, let me introduce to you all. This is Brother Tang Yuze, and this is Sister Xia Jinxi."
"Sister Xia Jinxi was also a student at our school before, and now she's been admitted to university."
"I hope everyone can learn from her, study hard, and get into university in the future."
He Banxue did not tell the children which school Xia Jinxi was admitted to.
In their Qingshui Village, educational resources are extremely limited, and they never expected their children to be able to get into a top university like Li Ning University.
In the eyes of parents, children who can be admitted to public colleges and universities are the pride of everyone, and those who are admitted to undergraduate programs are even more favored.
"Sister, can I be as beautiful as you in the future?"
The little girl who took the lead looked at Xia Jinxi with eyes full of envy.
The sister in front of me has fair skin and a tender face. She is incredibly beautiful no matter from which angle you look at her.
Unlike her, because of her tanned skin, some naughty boys in the class called her an African black person.
"Little sister, what's your name?"
"My name is Yu Lele, and my nickname is Lele."
The girl's voice was loud and sweet. Perhaps because she did a lot of farm work, she was darker than Xia Jinxi's classmates.
But apart from her dark skin, the girl's face is still very clean.
Her facial features are all very regular, and she looks very fresh, without any freckles or moles. She is likable no matter how you look at her.
"Lele."
Yu Lele had just played with other children, and although her washed-white skirt was not stained with mud, there was still some dust on it.
Xia Jinxi didn't despise her and just hugged her and let her sit on her lap.
"No one can predict what will happen in the future. You may not know that when I was studying at Guangming School, I was recognized as an ugly duckling. I was so ugly that many classmates didn't want to play with me."
"Really? I don't believe it..."
Yu Lele said bluntly.
To be honest, when Tang Yuze looked at Yu Lele, he felt like he was seeing Xia Jinxi who had just come to their house, cute and innocent.
The students in the village are indeed much more simple and honest. They can still have such a mindset even when they are in junior high school.
Tang Yuze couldn't say whether it was because the students in the city matured too early or the students in the countryside matured too late.
But there is one thing he is sure of, that is, in this era, it is a good thing to understand many things early.
"Really? Besides, a person's beauty or ugliness is not determined by skin color alone."
"As long as Lele studies hard and gets into a good university, maybe she will be better and prettier than her sister in the future?"
"Then you'll be able to impress those who hate you!"
Xia Jinxi educated Yu Lele very seriously.
But in fact, Xia Jinxi was ugly only when she was in the lower grades of elementary school. After she grew up, she became beautiful.
It certainly has nothing to do with her studying hard.
Because she has a good brother, she was able to quickly get rid of the shadow of domestic violence, start a new life in the city, and find herself again.
But Yu Lele can only rely on herself.
"I really want to go to college, but my family said that after I finish junior high school, Lele will have to go home to help with the housework. The money at home is only enough for my younger brother to go to high school."
Yu Lele said so.
At this moment, Xia Jinxi fell silent.
She still remembered that she watched a recorded variety show during her vacation. In that show, a male star named Huang went to the mountains to help alleviate poverty.
At that time, there was a girl younger than Yu Lele who was very polite, well-behaved and likable.
When it was time for lunch, other children rushed to eat, but she was the only one who served the male star a bowl of rice first.
The girl likes dancing and performed a perfect split for the male star. She said that she practiced it by herself without any teacher.
The male star admired the girl very much and wanted to sponsor her to help her get out of the mountains and realize her dream.
The girl brought him and the program crew home, but when the girl's grandmother saw her bringing so many people home, she came up and gave her a loud slap in the face.
This slap stunned the male star and the program crew.
The male star realized that the girl’s grandmother must be unhappy that the girl brought so many people to her home for a free meal, so he quickly said that he had already eaten.
He hoped that grandma would stop getting angry at the girl.
However, the old lady was still very irritable and would often insult the girl in the local dialect.
But he is very fond of his grandson at home, which is a typical example of favoring boys over girls.
Many fairies are shouting about male chauvinism and female awakening on the Internet every day, but in fact they have never experienced how terrible the purest male chauvinism in the village is.
Knowing that he could not change anything if he could not change the grandmother's backward thinking, the male star gave up the idea of sponsoring the girl's family.
Before leaving, he gave the girl a phone watch and told her to call him if she encountered anything she couldn't handle.
The show ends here.
Xia Jinxi felt that the male star named Huang had done his best.
The girl's grandmother's feudal ideas are deeply rooted. Even if the male star provides financial support, the money will never be used on the girl.
Therefore, it is extremely difficult for children in rural areas to leave the countryside, and there are still many ideas such as favoring boys over girls that constrain them.
The audience couldn't see what happened next, but based on the grandmother's decadent thoughts, it's not difficult to guess that the phone watch that the male star gave to the girl was either sold or forcibly taken away by her grandmother and given to her younger brother to wear.
In fact, Xia Jinxi knew about this problem when she was in elementary and junior high school. After all, there were very few girls in the village who could go to school.
Low emotional intelligence is said to be due to the backward thinking of the villagers, who favor boys over girls and are unwilling to spend money to send their girls to school.
People with high emotional intelligence would say that Guangming School is full of science classes.
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