Son-in-law in the early deceased original match
"What are you pitying? Starve her for a few meals, then she’ll behave. She’s just a girl, really giving her too much face. She plans to attend university? What university can she possibly attend? In the end, isn’t every woman’s role just to marry and bear children?"
"But her father, Yan’s health has always been poor, we should just persuade her kindly, this meal..." Ms. Li’s face showed pain.
However, her husband was extremely resentful towards her attempts at reasoning.
"What meal? Could skipping a few meals kill someone?" The man’s anger was incendiary, and his irritability made him raise his voice even more, "We provided her food and drink and even supported her through high school. Have we not done enough for her? What’s wrong with her getting married? Our little Bao is a boy, and growing up, getting a wife, building a house, doesn’t everything cost money? What’s wrong with her, as an older sister, getting married early to help her brother?"
The man grew angrier as he spoke.
In his view, allowing a girl to graduate from high school was exceptionally generous.
How many girls in their village had managed to attend high school?
"I always said we shouldn’t have let her study so much. Look, giving her a few more letters to read, and she’s let her mind run wild."
Ms. Li listened to her husband’s words, her complexion turning from pale to flushed.
Yet, she somewhat agreed with her husband’s words.
She also thought that they shouldn’t have let their daughter study so much.
Otherwise, she wouldn’t be so disobedient now.
Unfortunately, the schooling wasn’t their choice; the principal from the school had visited the village chief’s home, and then several of them came to their house... They insisted that Rong Yan attend school.
They said they wouldn’t have to pay the tuition for the three years of high school, and moreover, attending high school would bring a reward of one hundred yuan.
If they had known earlier that this girl would want to attend university after high school, they certainly wouldn’t have been tempted by the one hundred yuan.
Thinking this, Ms. Li felt a deep regret.
Their girl was attractive; if she had been matched for marriage earlier, just the bride price would have been more than one hundred yuan.
Had she not studied so much, she wouldn’t have developed so many wild ambitions, and now, it has even estranged the relationship with her parents.
"Enough, I’m off to sleep. Don’t you dare prepare any food for that ungrateful girl. If she has the energy to run off to the college entrance exam tomorrow, I will deal with you too." After dropping these harsh words, he walked out.
Ms. Li watched his departing figure and deeply sighed.
Then she walked out of the main room, arriving at her daughter’s door.
She stood at the doorway, not entering.
"Yanyan, stop making trouble. Just listen to your parents. Don’t go for the college exam. Even if you pass, we can’t afford to send you to university."
Upon saying this, she heard no response from inside.
She continued reluctantly, "Why should we women study so much? In the end, don’t we all just get married? Your parents wouldn’t harm you. Go meet someone for marriage tomorrow. If you like him, you can marry early and have children... You could lead a good life. If you could also bear a son, you would be blessed in the future..."
Listening to these words, Rong Yan felt like vomiting. What kind of feudal dregs were these thoughts? A son brings blessings—those blessings for you? Updates are released by NoveI[F]ire.net
Actually, she had woken up half an hour ago, sorted through the original body’s memories, knew that her name was Rong Yan, and that she was nominally nineteen but actually eighteen years old.
Because she started school later than others, she was only taking the college entrance exam this year.
However, since many in the rural area also started school late, her age wasn’t unusual.