Chapter 18 - 4_3
Sister Yingzi's parents never paid much attention to her education, but they never said things like "It's useless for girls to go to school," "Marrying off early is better," or "Find a connection and work in a textile factory to make money."
When it was time to pay tuition fees before the term started, they would pay up. Regular fees for materials and such, there was no need to feel embarrassed or any sense of guilt; it was all about asking straightforwardly.
However, everything is relative. Compared to the other girls' families in the village, Yingzi's parents, who simply left her be without much care, inadvertently became a model of valuing their daughter's education.
Yingzi knew that this was influenced by her aunt Li Lan.
Aunt Lan had managed to change her own fate through education, becoming the pride of her grandparents, and even her own father and uncles puffed up their chests with pride when they spoke of her to outsiders.
However, Yingzi's academic performance was only mediocre, even though she truly put in the effort without slacking off;
Of course, her grandparents could never intentionally sacrifice the sons just to provide for the daughter—it was really because her father and uncles genuinely couldn't absorb their studies.
This made her wonder if all the brains in the Li family went to her aunt?
At first, this thought was just that—a thought, not very intense—until the second day after Little Yuanhou was sent here. The somewhat reserved boy sat next to her, and when Yingzi faced a math problem that left her without a clue for a long time, a soft whisper came to her ear:
"Square root of 3."
Later, when Yingzi couldn't solve a problem, she would always ask Li Zhiyuan to do it, and she discovered that Little Yuanhou could almost instantly produce the answer without thinking, eyes glancing at the problem.