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Chapter 143 The young women who left the family in this era

After class, Lin Zixuan kept Jiang Wei to find out the situation.

The female student's face was a little round, not pretty, but she looked very angry and lively. She told her origins in detail.

Jiang Wei was born in Linli, Hunan in 1904. The Jiang family is a prominent family in the local area.

Her grandfather was a high-ranking official and left behind a large amount of wealth. It is said that she owns a courtyard with more than 200 rooms.

However, the family was in decline. Her father, a scholar in his teenage years, studied law in Japan, was infected with the bad habit of smoking cigarettes and spending money as copper coins.

Because of his illness and depression, he dropped out of school and returned to China. He was idle at home, flirted with medical books, looked for illness, fiddled with antiques, and invited guests to dinner. He died of illness in his early thirties.

Jiang Wei was just four years old at that time.

Her mother's surname is Yu and her boudoir is Manzhen. She was born in a scholarly family in Changde. She studied in a private school when she was young and learned to write poetry and painting.

When her husband died, she was only 30 years old and her family had gone bankrupt. Almost all the creditors who came to mourn at home came to ask for money at the same time. There was no way, so she had to take her children back to Changde and live in her parents' home.

This is an amazing woman. She doesn't want to rely on others' roofs and is discriminated against. If she wants to strive for independence, she takes her daughter to study at Changde Normal School.

The mother went to the normal class and the daughter went to the kindergarten class, which caused a sensation in Changde County at that time.

A year later, Yu Manzhen took her daughter to Changsha Hunan No. 1 Women's Normal School to study.

But because he had no money to continue studying, Yu Manzhen worked as a primary school teacher in Taoyuan County and asked his daughter to stay in Changsha alone to continue studying.

Around 1916, Yu Manzhen served as the supervisor of Changde Women's Primary School.

He also founded the Jiande Girls' Primary School and also opened a "work study mutual aid group" for poor girls. Students did not pay tuition to learn culture and craftsmanship, and they also had to pay wages to subsidize their families.

In 1918, Jiang Wei studied in the preparatory course of Taoyuan No. 2 Women's Normal School, and then transferred to Changsha Zhounan Girls' Middle School.

At that time, it was the beginning of the May Fourth New Culture. At Zhounan Women's Middle School, she came into contact with new literature and saw a brand new world. She thought of leaving this closed environment and going outside to breathe fresh air.

However, his uncle came forward to interfere roughly, and he asked Jiang Wei to marry his cousin after graduation in another half a year.

But the mother supports her daughter. She believes that it is correct for children to seek knowledge, find a way out, and learn the most practical knowledge.

In the spring of 1922, a civilian girl school appeared in Shanghai, calling for half-work and half-study.

This gave Jiang Wei a hope, so he came to Shanghai with his classmates and entered the civilian girls' school to study.

It’s just that the conditions for running a civilian girl’s school are too difficult, which is different from what she imagined.

In the original history, Jiang Wei was quite disappointed. He would leave Shanghai in the autumn and go to Nanjing to study. It was not until the summer of 2019 that she would return to Shanghai and study in the Department of Chinese Literature of Shanghai University.

However, Lin Zixuan's time travel led to the butterfly effect. Jiang Wei actually persisted at the Civilian Girls' School and entered Shanghai University to listen to Lin Zixuan's lecture, which attracted Lin Zixuan's attention.

Because of Lin Zixuan's appearance, Shanghai has a new literary atmosphere, so Jiang Wei can persevere.

Well, this is a bit high-sounding, but it is actually because the audio films of the celebrity film company allowed Jiang Wei to stay in Shanghai. She especially likes the movie "Sunrise".

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Zixuan's appearance has more or less changed the fate of some people.

For example, Zheng Zhengqiu, Ruan Lingyu, Jiang Wei...

This is another young man who left his family in order to get rid of arranged marriages and pursue freedom!

Lin Zixuan was deeply moved.

In this era, there are many such young people. They escape from their families and wander in society, fantasizing about a new and free life, but underestimating the cruelty of society.

He asked about Jiang Wei's living conditions, but he was indeed not optimistic.

Although the civilian girls' school is half-working, it does not have much business or income, and there are less than 30 students in total.

The girls' school is divided into two classes, senior and junior. Teachers are voluntarily teaching at the school without charge.

The teaching contents of advanced classes include Chinese, mathematics, English, economics, education, sociology, lectures, physics, etc.

The junior class implements semi-working and half-reading, and teaches classes every morning, sewing in the afternoon, and self-study in the evening.

There is also a work department to introduce work to students and set up professional classes to help some older women or students who are not suitable for general education improve their cultural level faster.

In addition to listening to classes in class, students often go to factories to work.

After persisting for more than half a year, the girls' schools were extremely short of funds, and even normal classes could not be guaranteed, and they faced the risk of closure.

In fact, the civilian girls' school was closed after half a month.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Wei had time to go to Shanghai University to attend classes. She not only listened to Lin Zixuan's classes, but also listened to other teachers' classes. She and her classmates came to Shanghai University to take classes specially.

Shanghai University is in the pioneering stage and its management is not so strict. In addition, they are girls, so they let it go.

Lin Zixuan didn’t know what to say, so he had to come in groups when he was free, so studying was too difficult.

He took Jiang Wei to the office of Vice President Shao Lizi, and talked about Jiang Wei. With Lin Zixuan's guarantee, she would become a formal student at Shanghai University in the future.

"I have a fellow villager..." Jiang Wei said weakly.

Maybe she felt that her request was a bit too much, and she said it very low, but she was still heard by Lin Zixuan and Shao Li.

Shao Li is very clear about the situation of the common girls' schools. The admission advertisement for the common girls' schools was published in the "Republic of China Daily", which was founded by Shao Li.

Shanghai University can accept some female students who are suitable for school, but there is nothing to do about those girls who are too young or too old.

Lin Zixuan can provide some part-time jobs.

For example, going to a newspaper to do odd jobs or helping with film companies, similar to interns in later companies, it allows female students with difficulties to have a certain income and will not be left without food and clothing.

Shao Li thought this idea was good, so the two decided on the matter as soon as they discussed it.

Lin Zixuan took Jiang Wei away from Shanghai University, invited her to have a meal, and encouraged her to continue writing. If she wanted to work and study half-time, she could come to Wanxiang Bookstore to help.

This moved Jiang Wei very much and agreed to try it at the bookstore.

Looking at the female student's back as she left, Lin Zixuan felt that she had the tendency to be a life tutor.

The life mentor will be very busy in the next time because he and Feng Chengcheng will hold a Western-style wedding on January 1, 2019.

Moreover, a Chinese-style wedding will be held before the Spring Festival.

The reason why we have to hold a Western-style wedding in the church is that they live in the concession and invite close-knit foreigners to attend the wedding is an inevitable social event, while the Chinese-style wedding is a wedding held by the family.
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