Reborn as an Ugly Wife in the Countryside

Chapter 1589 - 1591: Voices of Doubt

"I heard the school in Yang Family Village has already opened, called Hope Academy."

"The name sounds nice, but I heard it was opened by a woman. Can that academy really work?"

"I don’t know if it can or not, but I heard quite a few rural kids have gone there."

"How many rural kids actually go to school? The tuition isn’t cheap, plus there’s the cost of books and stationery, how can rural people afford it? It’s really something new that so many kids went."

"You might not know this, but the tuition at Hope Academy is low, only 200 wen a month, and you don’t have to buy books. I heard the academy provides books for the kids to read."

"Is that so? No wonder kids are going."

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Yang Dong and Li Chuntao didn’t speak, but they did overhear the next table discussing Hope Academy. They were already at a loss for conversation topics, so this was just right to listen to what everyone had to say.

At that moment, people from another table joined the discussion.

"If you ask me, that academy won’t work."

"What makes you say that?"

"I heard the teachers at that academy were all former students of the academy before. They can’t teach anything worthwhile, not like the famous teachers at the town and county academies."

"Oh, I’ve heard that too. They say that Hope Academy doesn’t properly teach children to study, just teaches them useless things, and even has the kids singing and dancing. Tell me, what’s good about a bunch of boys singing and dancing?"

"What you’ve said does make it seem improbable."

"Exactly, what business does a woman have opening an academy? Just wait, maybe in a few days, it’ll shut down."

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Everyone’s words were full of skepticism toward Hope Academy. Not a single person thought well of it. Hearing this made Yang Dong quite displeased, as he feared these words would be too much for Li Chuntao and hurt her deeply.

He looked at Li Chuntao, but was quite surprised that she didn’t seem too upset. She simply smiled at him, a smile that seemed incredibly bright to him, "It’s nothing, don’t mind it. It’s normal for the academy to be questioned at the beginning."

Hearing this, Yang Dong was very astonished. He felt that he was not as strong as this woman. She was much stronger than he had imagined. No wonder she was able to open the academy.

At this moment, someone noticed the person sitting in the corner and spoke up, "Hey, isn’t that Mr. Liu from Qiming Academy?"

"Yes, yes, Mr. Liu, what do you think about a woman opening an academy?"

"Mr. Liu, has the opening of Hope Academy in Yang Family Village affected your academy?"

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Everyone was asking questions, and being asked about this, the elderly Mr. Liu sitting there had to speak, "An academy specifically for rural children doesn’t affect our academy much. After all, even if those kids don’t go to Hope Academy, they wouldn’t come to our academy either."

Learning that a school had opened in Yang Family Village was a significant blow for the teachers in town who relied on enrolling children for income. They had also gone to the countryside to gather information, and naturally, Mr. Liu had too.

He found out that the academy wasn’t very formal, not even letting the kids buy stationery, and he held nothing but disdain for such an academy.

Just recognizing characters without writing them, how can you take exams like that?

And messing with those trivial things, even teaching everyone to sing and dance.