A young man from another world returned to his hometown.

Chapter 57 Rural Girls' Study Abroad Program

The three men walked out of the courtyard gate and stood by the motorcycle for a while, but none of them spoke.

Section Chief Ma took out a lighter and lit everyone's lamps.

"Do you know what's the scariest thing?"

Neither of them responded.

"It wasn't those parents who stopped her from studying."

Section Chief Ma flicked it.

"Even she herself felt that not studying was the right thing to do."

"Let's go, let's check out a few more."

They visited more than a dozen households in two or three other villages, and the situation was exactly the same.

By the time they left the last house, the sun was already setting. Section Chief Ma leaned against his motorcycle and let out a long sigh.

Section Chief Ma's voice sounded tired.

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"Outstanding young people have returned, investment has come in, and jobs have been created, but people's hearts are a complicated thing..."

He looked up at the scattered self-built houses under the setting sun.

"It's much harder than building a road."

Lin Jiayao didn't say much on the way home. When he got home that night, he stared blankly at the registration form.

He wrote and crossed out on the paper, crossed out and wrote again.

Then he picked up his phone and dialed a number.

"Jiaqing".

"Hey? Jiayao, what's wrong?"

"Could you take two days off? I need your help."

The next morning, a white SUV stopped on the village road.

Lin Jiaqing got out of the car dressed in a business suit and low-heeled leather shoes. Her hair was tied in a neat ponytail, and she wore thin-rimmed glasses. She looked capable and energetic.

Several middle-aged men and women passing by were all stunned.

"Who is this? She's so beautiful!"

"Don't you recognize him? That's the owner of the Tamura Hayashi family!"

"Jiaqing? Is that the building in town?"

Lin Jiaqing took several large bags from the back seat of the car and gestured with her chin towards Lin Jiayao.

"Let's go, which villages?"

Lin Jiayao explained the situation to her in detail last night.

"Sister Jiaqing, reasoning with them won't work. From childhood, all they've been taught is how girls should be. When we go to give presentations, the parents smile politely to our faces, but then they go back to doing what they always have done."

Lin Jiaqing pushed up her glasses.

"That's why you called me here."

"Um."

Lin Jiayao nodded earnestly.

"Preaching grand principles is useless. We need to show them an example, a rural girl who was once just like them, and what kind of life she is living now."

"Jiayao, don't worry."

She turned and got into the car.

"I can relate to this."

Lin Jiaqing did not knock on the door directly to take the person away.

She first visited the parents, bringing some gifts, and then chatted with them for a while.

Then he went back to Section Chief Ma and got a list. He screened all the girls in the town who were ranked high in their junior high school graduation list and invited them to study abroad in the name of the school, saying that it was related to their graduation certificates. Their parents quickly agreed to the trip.

"I'll treat you to milk tea."

Free milk tea is still quite an attraction for the girls in the village.

At Mixue Ice Cream, looking out from the door, there were about ten girls around fifteen years old sitting together at two tables, including Liu Xiaohui from Uncle Liu's family.

Lin Jiaqing, holding a cup of milk tea, sat down opposite them.

"Here, have a drink first."

"Order whatever you like, it's on me."

The girls looked at each other, none of them daring to speak first.

Finally, it was a slightly more outgoing girl who spoke up first in a low voice.

Lin Jiaqing shouted at the bar, and the milk tea was served quickly.

The girls drank cautiously, and Lin Jiaqing didn't rush to say anything, just watched them with a smile.

"Is it good?"

"It tastes good..."

Do you usually drink milk tea?

"I rarely drink it...it's expensive."

"Come to my shop whenever you want a drink. You can drink whatever you want."

The girls finally relaxed a little.

"Sister, are you the owner of this shop?"

Lin Jiaqing smiled.

"Yes, I am the store manager, and this is the store I manage."

A girl couldn't help but glance at Lin Jiaqing a couple more times.

"Sis...did you buy your own car?"

"Yes, I bought it with my own money."

The girls exchanged glances.

Lin Jiaqing didn't take the opportunity to preach any grand principles.

She stood up.

"Let's go."

"Huh? Where to?"

"I'll take you guys out to play."

"Play?"

The girls were all stunned.

"Yes, get in the car."

Section Chief Ma arranged for Xiao Zheng to drive a nanny van, and together with Jia Qing's newly bought SUV, the two cars were parked in front of the store, which was also opposite their middle school.

"What are you standing there for? Come on up."

When they got to the city, they went to eat KFC first, something these girls had never done before.

Liu Xiaohui ate her portion the slowest, taking small bites, even chewing and sucking the chicken bones. Lin Jiaqing just smiled and gave her two more pieces.

Then we went to the movie theater.

In the dark screening room, the girls experienced a 4D movie for the first time. The moment the screen lit up, their seats swayed, and they all exclaimed in unison.

After watching the movie, the sunlight was a bit too bright. They stood at the entrance of the mall, somewhat dazed.

"Sis... these places must be very expensive, right?"

"Where is it expensive? Once you've earned your own money, you can come whenever you want."

But these were just appetizers; the car stopped in front of the undergraduate university in the city.

The girls followed Lin Jiaqing and Xiao Zheng into the university gates; they had never seen such a large building before.

Tall deciduous trees lined both sides of the tree-lined avenue, and sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting dappled patterns of light on the ground. Students rode past them on their bicycles.

"This place is so big..."

A girl murmured.

"Yes, this is a university campus."

The two men led them inside, through the teaching building, library, dormitory, and playground.

She didn't say anything like, "Study hard so you can come here someday."

Lin Jiaqing simply showed them around, while Xiao Zheng kept introducing the architecture to them.

When I got to the edge of the playground, I saw several students running on the track. They were wearing sportswear and their ponytails were swinging back and forth.

The girls in town, though dressed in what could be considered new clothes, had a distinctly different style that seemed rather out of place compared to their youth. They stood outside the railing, watching quietly.

"They have sunshine on them, they look so beautiful."

Liu Xiaohui stood at the very back, her eyes fixed on the running figures on the playground. Those girls were probably only a few years older, but they laughed so freely, as if the whole world belonged to them.

The car was quiet on the way back.

The girl didn't say much.

Lin Jiaqing didn't say anything; she turned on the stereo and played a song in a local dialect.

As the car drove out of the city, the buildings on both sides gradually became shorter, turning into fields and hills.

As they approached the town, a girl suddenly spoke up in a low voice.

"sister."

"Um?"

"Did you... grow up in our town too?"

"right."