Quick Transmigration: The Cannon Fodder's Comeback in the Era Tales-Chapter 36: The Miserable Woman

There’s still a month before the winter break, and the school collected a month’s tuition for the four students. The next day, Yuan Chun, Feng Guoping, Feng Guo’an, and Feng Yuanzhen went to school.

Feng Family Village is not far from the town, only about a half-hour walk, so the four of them had company going to and from school.

The four young ones from the Feng family also smoothly entered the village elementary school.

Feng Guokang and Feng Guojian were in the fifth grade, Feng Guoqiang was in the third grade, and Yu Ling, the youngest, was in the first grade.

All six children from the Feng family went to school.

Even Feng Guoping went. When the people in Feng Family Village heard, they were all in an uproar, flocking to the Feng family to inquire about this matter.

"Guihua, did your Guoping really go to school?"

"Oh my, what was your mother-in-law thinking? Guoping is already a father-to-be, why go to school? When he goes to school, the house loses a laborer, and you lose so many work points in a year."

"And Yuan Chun and Yuan Zhen, those two money-wasters, no matter how much they study, they’ll end up being someone else’s family. You’re wasting money on their education; you might as well use their young age to arrange good marriages for them."

"Exactly, Yuan Chun is seventeen, just the right age to settle her marriage. In a few years, she’ll become too old to easily find a husband, even if she has an education."

"Guihua, isn’t your Guo’an twenty already? You should quickly marry him off while he’s still young so he can give you a chubby grandson. What’s he doing at school? If this delays him getting a wife, how would you and Dada regret this?"

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A group of women surrounded the Feng family and their daughter-in-law, throwing sarcastic remarks, making their faces turn dark.

Grandma Feng said angrily, "My grandchildren, I’m willing to support their education. It’s not like we’re spending your money, so why are you concerned?"

"As for their marriages, we as grandparents and parents aren’t worried, so why should you be? Once they’re middle or high school students, am I supposed to worry that my grandsons can’t get wives, or my granddaughters can’t get married?"

"Stop worrying about other people’s affairs. Have you finished collecting the mountain products? Turned over your own plots? Instead of hurrying back to work, why are you here making sarcastic remarks?"

Grandma Feng’s unreserved scolding made the crowd leave sheepishly.

However, behind their backs, many still laughed at the Feng family for being foolish, spending so much money to send so many kids to school, money that could have been used for Guo’an and his brothers to get wives.

Some even whispered sarcastic remarks to Ding Chunli, "Chunli, when your Guoping becomes a cultured man, will he look down on you?"

"Chunli, your Guoping is going to school, and you didn’t stop him. You’re heavily pregnant and still working in the fields for work points, while he goes to school, depending on you. He’s eating soft rice, he doesn’t even have pity for you."

Qiu Guihua, who had come to help her daughter-in-law with work, overheard this.

Qiu Guihua was quite feisty. She rushed over and got into a fight with that woman, "My son is taken care of by Dada and me. We’re willing to support his schooling and keep him, so what’s it to you? You with the foul mouth, gossiping and spreading nonsense."

Not far away, Liu Qingqiu and Ding Xiaotao saw their sister-in-law fighting and immediately dropped their work to help.

The woman’s sisters-in-law were many, but because she was usually talkative and lazy, often shirking tasks, she wasn’t liked by them.

Seeing her getting beaten, they covered their mouths, secretly laughing, and stayed away, pretending not to see.

It wasn’t until someone called the village chief that the women stopped.

After this incident, there were fewer discussions in the village about the Feng family sending their kids to school. The few who still made sarcastic remarks did so behind their backs, not daring to say anything openly.