Chapter 249

Principal Tang had thought of shutting down the school countless times, but when the time came to make a decision, he locked himself in his study for a whole day.

He never thought of himself as a good person, a noble person, a person with ideals.

He is not as good as professors like Dai Yushu who are dedicated to public service and have no selfishness.

He is also not as good as Shi Wuwei’s students, simple and innocent, pure and unsullied.

He was just a commoner in this world.

He was always worried and fearful, working with fear and trembling, often unable to sleep at night.

How could he fall down? How can he retreat?

If he retreats, the people of this school are not at the mercy of others?

Mrs. Tang waited all day without bothering him, and in the evening, thinking that he didn’t eat or drink all day, she cooked a bowl of noodles and knocked on the door with the noodles.

“Officer brother, sister cooked a bowl of noodles for you, come out and have a bite.” Mrs. Tang said gently.

She was two years older than Principal Tang, and had been engaged once, but her fiancé died of a disease before she passed away, giving her the reputation of being a husband hater, and she had thought that it would be impossible for her to marry again in her life, but she didn’t want her family to bring her and her cousin together. Cousin is a headache of the child, when the children of the family to play together, the cousin loves to bully people, the family of large and small children he bullied, but bullied people, he came after a good apology to find people, so that people have no way to hold a grudge against him.

Cousin was dissatisfied with the marriage and fled the house. Before leaving, but did not forget to leave a letter, said it is not to her dissatisfaction, but do not want to be married so early to have children, can no longer play the world, he must make a career before he is willing to go home to get married, the fiancée will be handed over to the family to take care of it, he will come back to pick up the people sooner or later.

This letter relieved her, did not let her from the husband to become more unbearable, so that she could not be angry with him.

Later, when her parents died, she moved from her parents’ house to her cousin’s house to support both parents for him. I thought that this life was like this, unexpectedly, the cousin really wrote back, told her family to send her to him, and he finished the marriage.

She came from her hometown to this big city, like an outsider, and everything here is not fit.

She had thought that her cousin had already taken a concubine or had a lover and children, as the newspapers said. She didn’t want her cousin to take a concubine, and really waited for her to come. When she came, cousin first in no one kneeled down to apologize to her, and then extraordinarily beautiful wedding ceremony.

It was like a dream.

She thought that she and her cousin did not have male and female love, but his cousin said, he is lazy, like someone to pamper themselves, told him to go to please the woman is really difficult, now women want to talk about love, love is too time-consuming to spend effort, he would love her to take care of him like a sister, let him in all things.

She has not had a child, cousin said she and he is not out of three generations of blood relatives, blood too close, born out of the possibility of birth a fool crippled, did not give birth to the right, maybe it is the grace of God to not call them hard to suffer.

She discussed with her mother-in-law that she wanted to give her cousin a concubine, and he said yes, yes, he wanted a celestial fairy. She and her mother-in-law had seen many young ladies and girls, but her cousin thought they were not beautiful enough to marry and could not show his social status as the head of a school. Her cousin said that he would have to invite guests to the banquet, and that everyone would come, and it would be published in the newspaper, and that marrying a concubine with a colorful wife with a lack of color would attract ridicule, and it would be better if he didn’t marry, and that having only one wife would be good for his reputation.

Cousin is not like in his hometown when he fell in love with the green house, he said because he is now the principal, on the green house will be a bad reputation, everyone thinks he is a big sex stick, there will be no female students in the school, which will affect the enrollment of the big plan, and what is more, everything has been played before, are not rare.

She finally got it.

She had married the best and finest husband under the sky.

Mrs. Tang’s hair was white, and she had also wrapped her little feet, and now that she was older, the blood circulation in her legs was not good, and her legs were swollen like radishes for years and years, and it was very difficult for her to walk.

Principal Tang thought of her legs like this, still standing at the door with a bowl of noodles, so he could not help but open the door and let Mrs. Tang come in.

Mrs. Tang came in and didn’t say a word, but only put the noodles down and called out to him gently to eat them.

Considering that Principal Tang is not young and his appetite has diminished, he only put down a small handful of noodles and finished it in two bites.

There was nothing in the noodles, only a few chopped scallions, a little soy sauce and a little salt.

But the noodles were made by Mrs. Tang herself, the noodles were very soft, and the noodle soup was cooked very thick, thick and whistling.

Principal Tang drank this slightly salty noodle soup, hot, a little hot, drink to the stomach, a day without food and drink stomach are comfortable.

Principal Tang finished this bowl of noodles and sat in his chair, like a lazy fat child.

Mrs. Tang sat next to him and watched him, like a loving mother.

As imposing as Principal Tang was outside, he was a child in front of Mrs. Tang.

“The school is closing.” Principal Tang said with resignation.

Mrs. Tang gave a soft hmmm and said, “Just close it.”

Principal Tang’s eyes reddened in aggravation, “I won’t be the principal if it’s closed.”

He hadn’t accomplished anything in his life and had only been this one principal. Being called “principal” and “principal” every day by Prof. Dai and his students, he felt more and more that he had to be a good “principal”.

But without a school, is he still the principal? No.

Mrs. Tang didn’t say any more comforting words, but pulled Principal Tang into her arms and gently stroked his stiff shoulders.

Principal Tang spent the night aggrieved in Mrs. Tang’s arms, and when he saw Professor Dai and the others the next day, he was the spirited, chesty Principal Tang again.

“Let the students from the city go home first.” Principal Tang said, “Step by step. Then those whose families are outside the city, first are those who have assets at home, both parents are alive, have relatives and friends, such ones are sent away. Send them home early to reunite with their families.” This kind of students are also easy to buy train tickets.

Prof. Die: “Then there are some students who don’t have a home, what should they do?” For example, Shi Wuwei.

Principal Tang: “There are very few of this kind, so we’ll put it at the end of the day.”

The school is not a charity – although he nearly made it one – but most students pay tuition and sponsorship fees to go to school, and only a very few eat from the school, use the school, and make the school their home.

To summarize: those with money are driven back home.

Principal Tang: “You go back and discuss this with Professor Zhu, and it’s best to ask Zhu’s students for help, so that they must persuade all the female students to go home. They must be the first ones to leave home.”

Female students were really the most dangerous in such a world.

Zhu Yuyan quickly received the principal’s order.

“Drive them all back?” She said, “What about us? We don’t have to go back, right?”

Zhu Yanshu: “Where are we going back? You can rest assured, your mother and I are professors at the school, you guys can just follow me. If I don’t go, you guys don’t have to go either.”

Zhu Yuyan sighed in relief, she really didn’t want to leave the school yet, even though she had only been attending for a year, she had already made the school her home.

She believed that most of the students still remaining in school now were like her, the ones who were scared had run away a long time ago.

But advising them to go home is for their own good, the school is not really an ivory tower, a paradise.

She divided the labor with Dai Yuchan, both of them went to look for female students of their own age who were familiar with them.

Zhu Yuyan targeted the Charity Foundation, where she was familiar with all the female students.

The first person she approached was Huang Mingxi.

Huang Mingxi had been helping Shi Qiao’er on Shi Jingyi’s side because of her experiences as a child, and now she even went to check up on them every day and read them newspapers to help them broaden their horizons and understand more about the world.

After hearing Zhu Yuyan advise her to go home, Huang Mingxi’s tears immediately came down.

Zhu Yuyan sighed and handed her a handkerchief.

She was glad that she had pulled the person alone into the small garden after the foundation had finished its activities before opening her mouth.

This kind of thing was all about breaking them down individually, once you attracted a group attack you risked failing in your mission.

“I don’t want to go back, I want to continue going to school.” Huang Mingxi wiped her tears and said, “Once I go home, I may never get out again.”

Home and school were different.

At school, she can study, help others, and have aspirations. But at home, her mother would only tell her that she wanted her to get married, so that she would get married early, her father never cared about what she thought, he would only tell her to be obedient and to be filial to her parents, and her brothers would never talk to her, they all thought that women didn’t know anything.

Only in school she is Huang Mingxi classmates, is a person.

Zhu Yuyan knows more or less.

In fact, the female classmates in the school have pretty much the same family, to say that particularly enlightened, that is not the case, they are all very traditional feudal families. They just have money, will send the family girls to school is just because everyone does it, not want to let women also be educated, to improve the level of female education so great reason.

It’s just the simplest thing that other people’s girls go to school, and if their girls don’t go to a university and get good grades, then they’ll be outdated and will lose face.

So after many schoolgirls graduate, the family prepares them for just a marriage, and the important thing is that the family is right for them. They will be happy that their daughters have gone to college, because a woman who has gone to college will be able to have a common language with her husband.

You would be wrong to say that they don’t care about their children. Because they do worry about their daughter’s future happiness. Nowadays, society is full of uneducated feudal women who are abandoned, who can’t keep up with their husbands and are rightly disliked. Then in order to find a good husband, in order not to be divorced, it was necessary for a woman to go to college.

Therefore, Zhu Yuyan understood why Huang Mingxi was reluctant to return home. There was also Fu Peixian and Shi Jingyi, they were all the same. Once they left school and returned home, their families arranged and expected a suitable marriage for them.

This was certainly not what Huang Mingxi was seeking ah.

Zhu Yuyan said softly, ”The situation is not good right now, and the principal is also worried that something will happen in the school. After you guys go home, you can still come back and continue your schooling later when the situation is better ah.”

She patted Huang Mingxi’s shoulder, “You can still come back later.”

Huang Mingxi cried and laughed at the same time, shaking her head while nodding, “You’re right, I can still come back.” Even if she was pretty sure that she would be married off by her parents as soon as she returned home, she wanted to believe that she could still come back to school one day.

Zhu Yuyan: “Take a look at my mom, she went back to school after twenty years and became a professor. As long as you don’t give up on your studies, a keep your passion and pursuit of learning, then you can also come back like my mom, and instead of being a student, you can become a professor.”

A wave of hope rose in Huang Mingxi’s heart, and for the first time she felt that the future was no longer dark, but had a light.

“Yeah, I can come back as a professor.”

Zhu Yuyan: “Even if you’re not in school, there are still a lot of things you can do. Fu Peixian became a nurse after she left home, Sister Shi became a nun, they are both using their strength to help others and realize their ideals. Huang Mingxi, I think you can too. The thing about ideals, as long as you don’t give up on yourself, it’s not too late no matter what age you are.”

Huang Mingxi’s tears stopped, she wiped off the tears on her face and nodded her head vigorously, as if saying to herself, “Yes, I will not give up on my ideals.”