Chapter 236
Dai Yu Cicada was very difficult.
“Going to study abroad or not?” She couldn’t help but ask her sister’s opinion.
“Go if you want to go.” Zhu Yuyan said.
Dai Yucan hit her, “Seriously, if you, go or not?”
Zhu Yuyan had to put down her writing pen and pause her homework to solve her sister’s problem.
She knew very well that Ms. Zhu wanted to send Dai Yucan out. The reason was not hard to understand, it was to avoid someone in the family being hurt in the future when things got worse and worse.
If it were possible, Ms. Zhu would have wanted to send everyone to a safe, war-free place.
Unfortunately such a place does not exist.
As some people have realized, the world has been shrouded in war and no place is safe. But if we had to choose the least safe place, it would be China, which today has neither a strong government nor a strong force to protect it.
China has become a chaotic battleground, where all countries have brought in their armies in an ostentatious show of force.
So, relatively speaking, the strong countries and big countries should be safe at home. Because even if the strong and great countries want to go to war, they will not choose the battlefield in their own countries, which is a very easy question to think of.
Therefore, nowadays, many people who yearn for the land of peace are trying to find ways and means, with their families, to trek millions of miles from here to another country.
They don’t know if the other land is better, but at least there is no war there.
There are always foreign fishing boats on the dock, they only want men, and only young men, not those with gray hair, not those with unsound legs, and they don’t want women or children, there is a pole next to the recruiting table, and children who want to get on the boat have to be measured, and only those who are tall enough can get on the boat.
In the past, there was a settlement fee for those who came on board, but now even the settlement fee is not given, and there are countless people who want to come on board.
Gangs of people there every day loud propaganda, said the United States can pan for gold, gold panning people, the first three years must be given to the gold to the recruitment of factories, to the fourth year will be free, and then he panned gold is their own, they can take the gold home to their hometowns, you can also hand over the gold to the shipping company as a ship’s fee, so that you can pick up your family over.
They took out a clearly written contract, stamped, regardless of whether those people know how to read and write, pointing to the contract, “This is the American company’s contract, the Americans open so many banks, so rich, will not cheat you this poor people, they pay attention to a fair and just, you signed the word, it is their company, you can get on the boat to go to the gold rush. They’re all about fairness and justice.
Coaxed boat after boat of men willingly boarded the boat, to go for the family’s dream to boil dry the last drop of blood.
Such as Zhu Yanshu and others, naturally, will not believe that those American companies have become great benefactors. She would not send the Zhu family on such a ship, and she would not let them sign any contracts.
She knew that not everyone could live well in a foreign country. For example, Zhang Ma, she was just an ordinary person in China, she could only do housework and she was old, it would be better for her to stay at home if she went to a foreign country like this.
As for young people like Shi Wuwei and Dai Yucan, they are smart and studious, and when they go to a foreign country, they can learn knowledge with their own minds, find a job, and live on.
Maybe they will come back, will come back to build the motherland. But by that time, there must have been no more wars raging here, it must have been a peaceful land, and it didn’t matter if they came back then.
Zhu Yanshu hoped that if she sent them away now, perhaps she would still be alive to see them twenty, thirty, or forty years later.
She was sending them away with this thought in mind.
Zhu Yuyan could understand.
As for Dai Yu Cicada, it was obvious that she couldn’t think that far ahead. She didn’t know that this time she left, it might be ten years before she would return to her hometown and reunite with her family again.
What she thought was going to school was just school. Just like when she went to college, she could come back after four or five years of study and graduation, just four or five years, which was already a very long time in her mind – but this bit of length was still acceptable.
Zhu Yuyan could also understand Dai Yucan’s thoughts. She can understand this pair of mother and daughter, just hesitant …… to stand on Zhu Yanshu’s side together to “cheat” Dai Yucan.
“What do you yourself think?” She asked Dai Yucan.
“What do I think?” Dai Yucchan hesitated for a few moments and said, “I just don’t know what I think …….”
Regarding studying abroad, it couldn’t be said that she didn’t yearn for it.
There was Su Chunjun in front of her, and Professor Dai in the back. Although there were only these two people around who had gone out to study, their insight and knowledge were both extremely admirable to her.
She also longed for the advanced scientific knowledge of foreign countries.
Although she was not as smart as Yan Yan, she also had a positive heart for learning!
On the other hand, besides yearning for foreign scientific knowledge, she also yearned for foreign advanced ideas.
This is just a glimpse of what was published in the pictorials and newspapers, but a glimpse is a glimpse of a panorama!
It was a world where women had left the house and were trying to speak out for themselves! It was also a world without emperors and kings, but with a democratic government.
She longed to see such a world with her own eyes, so that she could come back and tell her classmates and friends back home about it.
She longed to be an evangelist, a messenger, to spread new ideas.
She was wanting to study abroad.
It was not timidity that held her back, but family and affection.
How much she loved her family, how much she couldn’t leave them.
And going to study abroad with Shi Wuwei was also a problem that wasn’t that difficult to solve, she just needed to think about it and make a choice after she had solved the big issue.
She could understand why Zhu Yanshu would bring up Shi Wuwei.
Two unmarried men and women, studying abroad together for four or five years, by the time they came back, they would be almost thirty years old. They went abroad together at a marriageable age, missed the marriageable age before coming back, and by the time they came back, men and women of the same age would have already gotten married, and they would have become “widows and orphans”.
And what’s more, she and Shi Wuwei have feelings.
Therefore, Ms. Zhu’s proposal at this time is tantamount to putting the marriage matter into her own hands and letting her decide for herself.
If she were to decide to stay with Shi Wuwei, then she would go with him to study abroad.
And if she didn’t want to go with him to study abroad, it would be the same as refusing to marry Shi Wuwei.
Shi Wuwei was a very good man, an excellent man. She liked him very much, but could this liking reach the level of marriage?
Last time, she chose her lover with a lot of confidence, but she was opposed by her whole family.
This time, she was no longer confident, but her family was not willing to give her guidance anymore.
Zhu Yuyan pondered for a moment, and still couldn’t decide whether to pull the plug or not.
She simply asked her sister, “What is the most difficult thing? For you.”
Dai Yu Cicada thought for a moment and said, “Leaving home.” She looked at her sister and said, “I don’t want to leave you and mom, and Zhang Ma, I don’t feel comfortable with you guys!”
Her words made Zhu Yuyan decide to side with Ms. Zhu.
To send Dai Yuchan to a foreign country.
Originally, she just wanted to go with the flow. But now she suddenly appreciated Ms. Zhu’s feelings, the feelings of not wanting her family to suffer the slightest bit of harm, even if she had to lie to her, she still wanted her to be safe and sound.
She also appreciated even more why Zhu Yanshu would decide to marry Professor Dai again.
“You don’t have to worry about us ah. I have Teacher Su, and mom has Professor Dai. Moreover, I will also take care of mom and mom will take care of me. You worry about us, I’m the one who has to worry about you… You and Shi Wuwei are the two people who can’t be relied on by either one, that’s why I’m worried.” Zhu Yuyan said.
“What nonsense, what do you mean by unreliable ah, you’re the one who’s worrying, so good at causing trouble.” Dai Yu Cicada pushed her younger sister and hugged her again, “Shi Wuwei and I won’t get into trouble, we’ll just study hard and try to come back the day after we finish our studies.”
“If you want to go, go.” Zhu Yuyan looked at her sister, her heart was complicated and worried, but her face showed incomparable firmness, “There is only so much time to study, it’s good to study more when you are young, or else when you are old and can’t study anymore, only then do you want to regret it, then it’s too late. I don’t want you to wait until you’re old later, only to regret that you didn’t have time to study abroad when you were young.”
Since she had already made up her mind to persuade her to go study abroad, Zhu Yuyan could say even more.
“It’s just right for you to go now. Neither are you married nor do you have children. When you come back from studying abroad, you won’t be thirty yet, so it’s not too late to get married and have children.”
“What nonsense. You silly child, you have no control over your mouth. It’s hard to hear a girl talk about having children.” Dai Yu Cicada said with worry, “I’m really worried that this mouth of yours will cause trouble again.”
She reached out to pull her sister’s mouth, angry and loving.
Zhu Yuyan pushed her hand away and said, “I say what I want to say to whoever I want to say it to, do you think I’m as good with others as I am with you? Don’t be silly.” She thought about it and suddenly came up with a good idea, “Let’s see, why don’t the four of us just get married together. Have a group wedding, you and Shi Wuwei, and I’ll be with Mr. Su. You guys are going to study outside, it’s still better to arrange it as married, otherwise I really don’t feel at ease with you as a single woman.”
Dai Yucan was shocked to hear this and immediately said, “Don’t coax me! Do you think I’ve read so many foreign books for nothing? I’ll just get engaged to Shi Wuwei, it’s normal for an unmarried woman to go to school and find a job, and a married woman should be at home to have children and raise them. Why do you want to marry Mr. Su, tell me first!”
Zhu Yuyan momentarily underestimated her sister, but was caught in a break, so she had to confess that the Japanese wanted to persuade her to study in Japan, and she planned to use her married status to refuse.
Zhu Yuyan: “In Japan, it’s normal for married women to work, but married girls usually don’t go to school. They work for the family, but go to school for themselves, so that’s the difference. By default, when a woman gets married, she is part of the family, not an independent person.”
Therefore, after she married Mr. Su she could simply refuse the Japanese’s invitation to study abroad, and any trouble about the Japanese could be put off to Mr. Su to solve it openly and honestly.
Dai Yuchan asked uneasily, “You guys didn’t do anything bad, did you?”
Zhu Yuyan comforted her in a clear and organized manner, “He comes back so late every time, and the building is full of people, so a little bit of noise won’t be heard by everyone? We didn’t have a chance to do anything bad alone, don’t worry.”
Dai Yu Cicada paused for a moment, not quite believing it and asked, “…… There is a sound when you do this kind of thing?” How could there be sound? Physiology and hygiene class is clearly written, just like the mortar and mallet meet, mutual action and become a thing. The mortar and mallet are instruments, and it is normal to have a sound when they hit each other, but the human body is flesh, so how can it have a sound? It is like hitting someone like a sound, but also just muffled, should not be noisy people right.
Zhu Yuyan: “……” How to explain this?
Dai Yu Cicada’s eyebrows stood up: “How do you know there is a sound?”
Zhu Yuyan in a hurry: “Male cats and female cats have to wail twice, how can people not make a sound? Besides, the novels are written, what sound like cracking.” Sound like cracking how to call, this she really can not imagine.
Generation Yu Cicada heard this image description, face all red into a persimmon, lowered his voice and cursed: “And where you read what book! Give me threw it!”