Goblin Goblin: Don't flirt, the villain is blackening

Chapter 374: The violent warlords of the Republic of China vs. the wise scholar and the gifted daughter who stayed abroad 33

Quan Jiu glanced around and found that everyone had an empty desk without a pen or rice paper. The only things on the table were branches dipped in ink and discarded old newspapers.

"These are all the children that Mr. Xu subsidizes for free. The family members are more or less patriarchal. They have never thought about letting them study and read. They just wait until they are old enough to marry them off and use the money they get in exchange.

A dowry to give our son a virtuous wife..."

The woman who brought the wine into the house met a pair of clear black eyes and couldn't help but sigh.

"A son can carry on the family lineage, but a daughter is like water thrown away. Alas..."

The girl closest to Quan Jiu was about ten years old, wearing two braids, and curiously stared at her beautifully embroidered cheongsam.

What a beautiful sister.

Quan Jiu rubbed her head. The little girl blushed shyly, but did not move away.

The middle-aged woman came close to Quan Jiu's ear and whispered:

"Her name is A Fang, and she is the eldest in the family. There are three younger sisters and one younger brother in the family. Because the wife has never been able to give birth to a son, she was forced by the old lady in the family to keep having children... But her father is just a young carpenter and has no way of raising a son.

She didn’t have five children alive, so she was asked to follow her mother to work in a beer factory since she was a child..."

At the age of ten, she was the eldest child in the family. Quan Jiu made a rough calculation and found that this mother gave birth to five children in ten years, almost one. After a year of rest, she began to prepare for pregnancy non-stop.

She walked around the house, and the woman introduced her children's backgrounds one by one.

There is a 13-year-old girl who comes from a feng/jian/family. Because her feet have been bound all year round, her five toes are stuck together and can no longer be separated.

There is a mentally retarded girl who was forced by her parents to marry a middle-aged man because her mother had a difficult delivery and was deprived of oxygen for a long time, resulting in mental retardation.

A poor female student who has great ambition and wants to dedicate her life to the country, but has no way to do so.

"Mr. Xu has always advocated equality between men and women, but the people's wisdom has not yet developed. The idea of ​​​​valuing men over women has been passed down for thousands of years and has been deeply ingrained for a long time. It is not something that he can change by himself..."

To this day, many women are still unable to eat at the table, are still ashamed to wear skirts, and still have to follow their parents' orders and the words of their matchmakers.

The middle-aged man who had always been silent and spoke little spoke for the first time. His fighting spirit had long been wiped out. He lowered his eyes and smoked a cigarette:

"Mr. Xu is too idealistic. Equality between men and women cannot be so easy to achieve. In my opinion, in another five thousand years, men will still be in charge of the world..."

Quan Jiu thought of what Xu Danbin said in the alley and asked proactively:

"Why are you looking for Xu Danbin today?"

The woman's face was bright:

"The children's textbooks and teaching materials are too expensive. Recently, a new group of students have been admitted. Our family's financial resources have long been emptied, and we simply cannot afford so much money... Unfortunately, something has happened to Mr. Xu's family now, and he cannot protect himself.

, I definitely can’t take care of things in school anymore… Sigh…”

She was afraid that Quan Jiu might misunderstand Xu Danbin, so she added another sentence.

"Girl, don't get me wrong. Mr. Xu is a good man. If he hadn't been funding us, this girls' school wouldn't have been able to run three years ago... I heard that Mr. Xu sold all the valuable things in his home in order to raise money."

The man also took over:

"Mr. Xu is a talented person. If he can find a stable job in a newspaper, he will not be rich and wealthy, but he can be considered well-off. However, he just chooses to raise a group of losers, dragging himself down to eating only three meals a day.

To the extent of making steamed buns with green vegetables...it's a sin to say the least..."

Quan Jiu spent a long time reading and writing with the children in the school, and then went to the hospital.

In the corridor of the hospital, she met Xu Danbin again.

Compared to last time, the man had an extra warm blanket at hand, and he seemed to be planning to stay in the corridor for a long time.

Seeing Quan Jiu, he just nodded politely like he had done a few days ago.

Surprisingly, this time, Quan Jiu did not walk straight into the ward, but stopped in front of him.

Xu Danbin was surprised: "Miss Liu, is something wrong?"

Quan Jiu sat down next to him: "I didn't understand why she liked you before, but now I understand."

Xu Danbin, with the integrity and pedantry of a scholar, is, to put it harshly, a single-minded person.

But in this era, we need people who are unyielding and unwilling to admit defeat.

While Xu Danbin looked confused, Quan Jiu continued to speak:

"Why don't you care about the school?"

Xu Danbin was first surprised by her understanding of the school affairs, and then the surprise was fleeting. He lowered his head, like a dejected lion who once had high morale but was finally defeated by reality:

"I can't control it anymore..."

If he can't even save the person he likes, how can he save thousands of compatriots?

"Maybe it's like what they said... I'm just a madman who relies solely on imagination. This world will never have a peaceful and beautiful day... The land of China, burned by the flames of war, will continue to be riddled with holes, and

True equality between men and women will never appear, and we will live under feudal rule forever, never to see the light of day for thousands of years."

When young people prosper, the country will prosper, and when young people are strong, the country will be strong. He once also set up a lofty ambition to open up wisdom, help the people of the country, and rejuvenate China.

But when he wanted to break into the banquet hall to save Man Qing that day, but because of his humble status, he couldn't even enter the banquet hall, he suddenly felt a sense of sadness.

"Miss Liu, you are a good person. Before I met you that night, I had knelt down and begged eleven people, but no one was willing to help me."

Scholars with nothing, actors of low status, no one is willing to offend the powerful for their sake.

A trace of sadness and ridicule flashed in his eyes: "I have always tried to be a good person, but it turns out that good people are not rewarded. Although the third master is not a good person, he is at least a strong person."

And a strong person can at least protect the people he wants to protect in troubled times.

Xu Danbin closed his eyes, and Quan Jiu's soft tone was almost inaudible:

"Miss Liu, I suddenly don't want to be a good person anymore."

In the torrent of the times, everyone is like a grain of sand. It is he who overestimates his own capabilities and shakes the tree like a mayfly in an attempt to change this troubled era.

He might really be wrong.

As he finished speaking, the hospital corridor suddenly became quiet.

Quan Jiu sighed slightly and looked at the man whose face was buried in his hands and whose shoulders were hunched. She took out a handkerchief from her bag and handed it to his hand with a gentle but firm tone:

"It will happen."

"It will all come true."

Another hundred years.

in the future twenty-first century.

"The schools at that time were no longer divided into men and women. The sound of books in the morning was accompanied by the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers outside the window."

"Girls at that time would wear beautiful floral skirts, beautiful makeup, confident faces, independent and brave faces."

"There are many high-rise buildings and busy traffic, and all the rejuvenation and hopes will eventually be realized."

The contributions of all pioneers will be meaningful.

All suffering and misfortune will come to an end.

All seeds irrigated by flesh and blood will take root and sprout, and bloom into the most dazzling sunflowers.

And the fragrance of flowers will overflow the entire land of China.

--Dividing line--

"Xu Danbin" is not a person, but a group of people.

(End of chapter)