Chapter 15: [15] For mother’s safety
“What, do you agree with what your daughter filled out?” Liu Hui frowned, clearly dissatisfied with Sun Rongfang’s reaction. Could it be that this parent also wouldn’t listen to the teacher’s advice?
“It’s the university she wants to apply to, so of course, she has to make the decision herself,” Sun Rongfang said.
What she said sounded perfectly reasonable and respectful of her daughter’s wishes. However, it instantly enraged Liu Hui.
Liu Hui stood up, “I understand what you mean. I came here expressly to make this clear to you parents. If her scores in the college entrance exam aren’t enough for Guoxie and she hasn’t applied to any other universities, she will end up not being able to attend any university at all. It wouldn’t be the teacher’s responsibility then. After all, I have told you again and again that her grades are just so-so; she definitely can’t get into Guoxie.”
“But if, once she does get in—” Sun Rongfang’s lips trembled as she asked the teacher.
“What! I already said she won’t get in, didn’t you hear me clearly?”
Sun Rongfang was taken aback in front of her daughter’s angry class teacher. The college entrance exam hadn’t even taken place yet, how could the teacher be so sure that her daughter wouldn’t get in?
“In any case, if she doesn’t get into Guoxie and ends up not being able to attend any university, that’s not the teacher’s responsibility. As a teacher, I have experience in training many students, to be frank with you, for your family to think about nurturing a doctor is nothing but wishful thinking. You’re not a doctor yourself, and can’t mentor her. Does she have connections in a hospital who would help her remain and work in a local hospital?”
“My cousin works in a hospital—”
“A cousin, you think a relative that distant can help your daughter?”
Xie Wanying, listening inside, couldn’t help but laugh. Even her class teacher, who also looked down on her, had seen through her cousin’s intentions.
Sun Rongfang left feeling resigned; since returning from her cousin’s house the night before, she had felt that Zhou Ruomei hadn’t considered helping her cousin at all.
“Fine, let’s leave it at that. Not even knowing the weight of one’s own family and being so presumptuous, it’s no wonder a family ends up .” Liu Hui shook her head while carrying her teacher’s briefcase as she left the Xie household.
“Mom, have some water.” Xie Wanying poured a cup of boiled water and brought it out for her mother to drink.
Taking the hot water from her daughter, Sun Rongfang was contemplating asking her if she really did apply for that prestigious university.
“Hey—” A loud shout suddenly interrupted their mother-daughter conversation from the doorway, and the two turned around to see that it was Xie Changrong who had come home.
As Xie Changrong stormed into the house, he first berated his wife: “I heard the class teacher came to our house? How did you entertain them? I heard from Old Wu next door that Yingying’s class teacher was very angry.”
In that era, offending a teacher was a serious matter; news would spread to the neighbors, and everyone would know that the child from that family was doomed.
“Not at all, not at all,” Sun Rongfang explained to her husband, “Yingying’s class teacher came over just to discuss filling out the college entrance examination preferences.”
“I heard about it, that you didn’t listen to the teacher, nor to your grandfather, choosing some medical college instead of a normal university. What are you thinking?” Xie Changrong turned and pointed his finger at his daughter’s face, his eyes ferocious.
How good it is for girls to attend a normal university, where they get living allowances and tuition is fully covered. Other majors don’t have these benefits.
“Go and study at a normal university,” Xie Changrong lectured, “Stop causing trouble for the family, we don’t have the money to pay for your education!”