Chapter 593: The Dispute Caused by Raising Ducks

President Yu was also keeping an eye on everything at this moment.

Seeing the old principal eager to try, he worried that he would rush forward and say something inappropriate, so he quickly grabbed his hand and warned in a low voice, "Let me tell you, the people who have come are very important. Our commune's current sideline income depends on them.

Of course, I know you are also doing this for the good of our commune. Look... Factory Director Lu came here just to solve this matter. Do you know that she is a famous mediator at the military factory's neighborhood office? Let's see how she handles it first before you speak, okay?"

The old principal nodded.

Although he was only a principal of a primary school with one teacher.

Although he was actually also a teacher.

But he had indeed heard of Lu Lu Qiao's name.

Since they attached so much importance to it, he shouldn't rush up to say anything, and President Yu was right; let's see what the other side says first...

After getting out of the car, Lu Lu Qiao exchanged pleasantries with the leaders of the Satellite Commune and then said very seriously, "Take me to the village where this situation is most severe to have a look. This is not a small matter, and it cannot be treated as a small matter. If the commune members all follow suit, then our side business will have no meaning."

The director of the down jacket factory was surnamed Lin.

He was specifically sent from above and was very cooperative with Lu Lu Qiao's work.

At this time, he also expressed his stance strongly.

"Factory Director Lu's idea is consistent with our down jacket factory's. No matter what, they must go to school when they reach the age for schooling..."

President Yu on the side quickly said, "The data here has already been compiled. This is the old principal of Qinggang Village Primary School. He was the one who reported the problem first. Let's go to Qinggang Village and take a look."

Lu Lu Qiao looked at the old principal.

He was indeed very old, with white hair.

No need to look, this was a community-run teacher, the kind without a pension.

Community-run teachers in this era were all very miserable.

Sometimes one teacher had to lead students from several grades. Although there were few students, it was very exhausting because their learning levels were different.

Moreover, the teaching conditions were poor, and the environment was simple. Some villages were wealthy and might not delay the grain payment, while in others that were not wealthy, the grain used to pay the community-run teachers would be delayed.

Community-run teachers in this era were actually all very great.

No matter what they did it for, this kind of behavior was worthy of praise.

Lu Lu Qiao thanked the old principal with a full face of smiles, which made the old principal feel embarrassed.

He said somewhat awkwardly, "This work is not easy to do. Speaking of which, those few children didn't like going to school in the first place. It was only after I did a lot of work that they came to study. Look... since they started raising ducks and geese this year, they have stopped coming to study one after another, saying they get a headache when they see books. They like to go to the low-lying land to herd ducks and catch small fish to eat..."

President Yu's expression was also helpless.

The old principal continued, "However, there are two families among them whose children like to study and have excellent grades. But the parents won't let them come. I went to their homes to do ideological work, but was driven out by the parents with big sticks, saying that if their children don't go herd ducks, then the ducks raised at home will have no one to herd them..."

The old principal didn't mention that the girl's mother had a very bad temper.

That old woman even said that as long as he helped herd the ducks and geese, she would agree to let her daughter go to school.

Lu Lu Qiao listened very seriously.

This was actually a common phenomenon; not to mention now, it would still exist decades later.

She didn't linger at the commune. Since the old principal was there, she directly drove him and headed towards Qinggang Village.

Qinggang Village was very close to the West Low-lying Wasteland, but there were only over a hundred households in the village. It used to be a production team with a small population, but later the population increased, and the higher-ups directly changed many production teams into villages.

This place became Qinggang Village.

So many cars entering the village naturally attracted many onlookers.

There was a lot of work in the fields now, but Lu Lu Qiao's group arrived after lunch.

This time was just when these people had finished their work and were returning home.

The weather was already a bit hot this season, and most of the commune members started working early in the morning.

So people could be found at this time.

President Yu said to the old principal, "Take us to the home of the student who wants to go to school but whose family won't let them first."

The old principal had the same idea, so he led everyone towards a household in the west of the village, with a group of children following behind, all looking curiously at the three jeeps parked at the entrance of the village.

This family was surnamed Cao.

Before they could get close, they heard a woman's cursing.

"You are a debt-collecting jinx, and you still want to study? You think of beautiful things all day long. Who doesn't want to study? Not blown by the wind or rained on, but how are these chores at home going to be done? You want to tire me to death?

Look at the neighbors, who goes to school? What's the use of going to school? You can't bring back a cent and still have to pay out money. I worked hard to raise you to ten years old, and this is how you trample on me? You still dare to look at me like that? I might as well beat you to death..."

She couldn't finish the rest of her words because the old principal, who was walking in the front, had already raised his voice and shouted, "Are you beating the child again? Can't you talk properly? Why is it always beating and scolding? Look at what you're saying? Stop beating her, President Yu of our commune is here."

Upon hearing that it was President Yu of the commune, the cursing woman immediately stopped her hand and her mouth.

And Lu Lu Qiao had already seen the situation in the courtyard.

There were no high walls or large courtyards here, just low wattle fences.

Standing not far away, one could see the scene in the courtyard: a haggard-looking woman was holding a willow branch and beating a girl who was squatting on the ground holding her head.

There were not only these two mother and daughter in the courtyard.

A middle-aged man was sitting on a bench not far away, crossing his legs, looking at the mother and daughter with a look of disgust...

There was an old lady not far away, holding a stick in her hand, not knowing what she wanted to do, but perhaps seeing people coming, she put the stick against the wall.

Was she going to beat the child?

There were also three girls and four or five boys in the courtyard, the oldest being fourteen or fifteen, and the youngest two or three, barely able to walk steadily.

Yet none of them stepped forward to stop it.

There were also two women who seemed to be watching with schadenfreude.

It should be a large family living together, in a state of not having divided the family property.

Because on the other side, an old man with gray hair was puffing on a pipe.

He didn't seem moved at all by the woman beating the child.

This should be a normal phenomenon, right?

Standing behind President Yu was the brigade leader of Qinggang Village. His expression was not good, and he secretly glared at the troublesome Old Cao family.

Even though it was a village now, everyone wasn't used to calling him village chief.

The village women's director also hurried over upon hearing the news.

She was startled when she saw this scene, and then when she saw it was the Old Cao family, she couldn't help but frown. ===== CHAPTER 594 =====