"...He Tiantian, ranking first in the qualification round, the first one to advance to the top 32!"
The announcer’s standard Mandarin carried obvious excitent as he reported the results of the qualification round.
There was a mont of stillness among the villagers of He Family Village.
After a good while, soone timidly asked, "Tian, Tiantian’s mom, is that person on the TV talking about your Tiantian?"
Liu Xiuzhi had already been trembling with excitent, her eyes glued to the television screen as if to see a flower blooming on it.
The voice of the neighbor awoke her.
Swallowing hard with a dry throat, Liu Xiuzhi didn’t directly answer the neighbor but instead forcefully pinched the husband beside her.
Ow!
He Jianguo just felt a pain in his waist and instinctively wanted to cry out, but he ended up forcefully holding it back.
He instinctively said, "I’ll listen to you, everything’s up to you!"
Suddenly, there was a brief silence in the yard.
But the next second, upon clearly hearing He Jianguo’s words, the neighbors burst into roaring laughter.
Grandpa He and Granny He felt ashad, sighing to themselves – why did they have such an unlucky son who was scared of his wife?
Provoked by laughter, Liu Xiuzhi responded with a forced smile, "What do you an ’listen to ’? I’m asking if you heard what those people on the TV are shouting?"
Hearing the laughter, He Jianguo realized he had done sothing foolish again.
But he didn’t care too much about it.
Having feared his wife for over twenty years, in front of his spouse, he had long forgotten what "face" ant.
Besides, now that his Tiantian was becoming successful, even if he was laughed at for being henpecked, outsiders would still start by complinting him.
"I, I think I heard them say that our Tiantian broke so record—"
Mid-sentence, He Jianguo suddenly thought of sothing and asked with so concern, "Honey, do you think if Tiantian has broken soone else’s stuff, they won’t make us pay for it?"
As he said this, the laughter around them abruptly stopped.
Everyone looked at one another – sure enough, breaking sothing ant having to compensate, right?
Liu Xiuzhi, an unworldly rural woman, was startled by her husband’s words.
Cursed by the fact that her daughter was on TV, she couldn’t directly pull her out to get a clear answer.
Feeling anxious, Liu Xiuzhi’s stubborn defiance ca to the fore as she said with inner softness but an outward show of fierceness, "Afraid of what? Our girl is doing all this for the country, so, even if she broke soone else’s stuff, it’s not her own fault!"
The country couldn’t just ignore her girl!
If the country didn’t take care of it, she, she... well, okay, she might act up, but she knew better than to ss with the country.
But, Liu Xiuzhi couldn’t bear the thought of her own dear daughter facing punishnt.
She bit down hard on her molars – if push ca to shove, she would take her daughter’s place.
Her Tiantian was still young, while she herself was already over fifty, halfway to being buried in the yellow earth.
Whether it was a fine or jail ti, she’d take it for her daughter.
"Pfft!"
It was the village’s elentary school principal, an Educated Youth who had co to He Family Village and taken a local girl for his wife, establishing his roots in He Family Village.
When the wave of returning to the cities had swept across the country, he hadn’t left but stayed to continue teaching and educating.
Being from the city, educated, his experience was naturally more extensive than that of the villagers.
Hearing the conversation between He Jianguo and Liu Xiuzhi and seeing the reaction of the villagers, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud, "Jianguo, Sister-in-law Xiuzhi, you can rest assured."
"Tiantian didn’t break so object, but a world record!"
"Not only will breaking a world record not lead to a fine, the country will also give a reward!"
Speaking of this, the principal couldn’t help but express his admiration, "It’s wonderful, a girl from our He Family Village has gone on to break world records!"
His exposure was considerably broader, but his understanding of archery wasn’t deep.
However, just listening to the excited voice of the television announcer, he knew that He Tiantian’s record-breaking feat might possibly fill a gap in the national sports achievents.
The people of Hua Country in this era needed concrete accomplishnts to prove themselves.
Achieving groundbreaking ’firsts’ in the Asian Gas and the Olympics was the best evidence!
Becoming the filler for a blank space in a sport, a creator of records, He Tiantian was destined to be one of the greatest athletes of her ti, and perhaps even go down in history.
"Not a fine? But a reward?"
He Jianguo and Liu Xiuzhi looked at each other, finally turning their gaze on the principal, "Principal Fang, are you saying it’s all true?"
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