"A lot of students had their education interrupted. Shortening it will only produce a ton of illiterate students back into the workforce.
They are already struggling to learn, and many of them are being forced to repeat a year to relearn everything."
"How about Lily then?" Xiaoyun questioned.
"She's an outlier... Even though she's a lot younger than her peers, she has been a hard-working student studying in her own ti."
The teacher paused for a second, then continued.
"Mr.Governor, it's hard to teach kids to learn when a whole apocalypse is outside."
"Please, we need more ti. The students need more ti to learn."
Despite the teacher's argunt, Xiaoyun shook his head in a dismissive tone.
"I get what you're coming from. But we don't currently have a business sector for those degree holders.
All the manufacturing jobs don't require that much knowledge other than just a basic high school degree."
The teacher fell into silence, knowing how much of a fantasy it would be for her to convince him.
"Xiaoyun, do I need to remind you that Yuqi has already agreed to it? Why are you arguing against my teachers?"
Shuli's answer quickly flipped the situation, as Xiaoyun was now the one in silence.
He couldn't understand why Yuqi would agree to this status quo. It just made no logical sense to him.
"Look, Xiaoyun, think about it. Rember how you said at the dinner table that employnt had been rising over the past few months?"
"Yeah..."
"Imagine all these students graduating and heading straight into the job market. What do you think will happen?"
After a short silence, Xiaoyun finally let out a sigh, realizing why Yuqi had agreed to it.
"Never mind. This is absolutely perfect, then. You guys are all geniuses."
"Of course, we're geniuses. Or else why would we have our teaching degrees——Ahem, we should probably get back on topic."
As Shuli cleared her throat, the other two quickly noticed Lily's face, which looked a little annoyed.
"Oh, right. Ahem, I see that there are two paths for Lily, is that right?" Xiaoyun asked.
"Yes. Based on the current score, I really recomnd sending Lily to the university to have her talent be fully utilized."
Looking over, Xiaoyun noticed Lily's nervousness appearing. In his hand was a decision that would determine her future for the next few years.
"Vocational schools are just hard labor jobs, right?"
With the teacher nodding, it was abundantly clear what option he should pick. But still, he didn't want to be the one deciding it.
"Lily, what choice do you want to pick?"
"I... I don't know."
"Shuli, what do you think?"
"Lily, you should make your opinion heard. This choice is going to affect you in the next few years."
After a short silence, Lily finally gained the courage to speak up as she looked up right over to Xiaoyun.
"I-I want to graduate right now." Lily quietly whispered.
"Huh?"
All three of the adults in the room were caught off guard and looked puzzled by Lily's answer.
"Lily, are you sure?"
Seeing Lily nodding in agreent only raised more concern between the three of them.
None of them had ever expected her to say that kind of answer. Not in a million years would they expect her to want to graduate now.
"Lily, why do you not want to go to university?" The teacher curiously asked.
"I-I..."
With Lily's face blushing and turning fully quiet, all three of them are once again confused beyond understanding.
But Shuli finally noticed what was off about her as she grabbed onto Lily's hand before walking out into the hallway.
After a short mont, the two finally ca back into the room.
"Lily said she wants to go to university," Shuli answered.
Seeing Lily rapidly nodding in agreent, the two of them didn't question it and accepted the decision.
"Great. I'll put her on the list of students going to university next year. Thank you for the help, Miss Shuli."
"No problem... Ahem, let's go ho now."
As Shuli dragged both Xiaoyun and Lily out of the room, the teacher didn't follow them out and remained in her seat.
"Lily's guardian is the governor? Why didn't I think of that earlier? Who else would be fitting to be Miss Leyan's husband?"
The mont the teacher took out a piece of paper and a pen, she suddenly froze.
"Wait a mont... If the governor is married to Miss Leyan, how could Shuli be that close to Xiaoyun?"
Just as the teacher's brain was about to be overloaded, the school security guard walked into the room.
"Hey, teacher Lin, you know where Mrs. Shuli is?" The security guard questioned.
"She just finished working."
"Oh well. I guess I'll deliver this file tomorrow——"
"Wait, you said Mrs.Shuli?" The teacher interrupted.
"Yeah. What's wrong?"
"She's married?"
"Yeah. She even has a kid with the governor. How else do you think she's in charge of education that young?"
"I-I..."
"Actually, can you deliver this file to Mrs.Shuli tomorrow? I need to take a break tomorrow."
"Sure."
As the security guard left the room, the teacher still looked a little stunned. Almost as if her image of Shuli had shattered.
"A man marrying two wives... Am I really awake?"
---
"Shuli, why did Lily want to graduate so early?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as the three of them walked out of the school.
"Are you sure you want to know why?"
Seeing Xiaoyun nodding, Shuli still chose not to reveal the answer. Instead, she poked Lily's elbow a little.
"Lily, do you want to tell him why?"
"Y-Yes. I-I an no."
The nervousness and refusal to answer only eluded Xiaoyun even more, as neither of them was willing to spill the beans.
"Co on, just tell . We're already out of school. Not like soone else is going to overhear it."
"Lily has to tell you it herself. I ain't saying it."
With Lily shaking her head, Xiaoyun had no other choice but to admit defeat.
"Whatever. I'll know it one day."
Xiaoyun's comnt suddenly made Lily blush a little as she almost tripped over the rock on the sidewalk.
"Careful."
A few minutes later...
As the three of them finally arrived at the front door, Xiaoyun opened the door and entered inside.
"Welco back!"
"Is dinner ready?" Shuli asked as she closed the door behind her.
"Almost... How's the school talk today?" Leyan asked as she turned her attention to Lily.
Lily didn't say anything as she quickly ran back to her room, leaving Xiaoyun and Shuli behind at the doorstep.
"We just talked about Lily going to university next year."
"That's good to hear——"
"Shuli! Welco back!"
As Wuli ran downstairs with her baby, she almost tripped right into Shuli's chest if it wasn't for Leyan's quick reaction.
"Be careful, would you? Bingbing is in your arm, you idiot."
"Sorry."
"Ahem, where's everyone?"
"Yuqi brought Nami and Yueyue to give them a tour of where you used to work.
And the others haven't co back from work yet... They should be back around six."
"How bored are they... Whatever."
---
When six o'clock arrived, all of Xiaoyun's wives had finally co back ho.
As Xiaoyun exited the bathroom and entered the kitchen, he imdiately noticed the weird look on all of his wives' faces.
"Why are you all looking at like this? Is there sothing wrong with my clothes?"
Xiaoyun questioned as he looked down to check his face and clothes. After finding nothing, he took a seat at the table.
"Hello? Did I do sothing wrong?"
None of them answered him, but they all gave him a disapproving cold look for so reason.
anwhile, Lily's face was once again blushing red for so reason. Almost as if it was sothing to do with her.
"Why am I being targeted? Co on, let at least die in peace. Soone, please tell ."
"Honey, you really are a sick pervert sotis. Why would Lily ever call you her brother?"
Leyan's mysterious insult only led Xiaoyun into even more confusion as he couldn't understand the ssaging.
"Dummy idiot..." Wuli murmured.
"Coward..." Kate murmured next.
With more and more quiet, random insults targeting him from the girls, Xiaoyun only got more confused.
"What? I didn't even do anything weird. Why am I being insulted? What's wrong with Lily calling brother?"
None of the girls answered back, leaving Xiaoyun with only one hope as he looked over to Tianci.
"I never even told her to call that... Tianci, what did you all talk about when I was gone?"
"Um——"
"Ahem, it's a secret."
Leyan's interruption ended his attempt to pressure Tianci as she shoved as much rice as possible into her mouth.
"Whatever. It doesn't bother anyway."
Despite Xiaoyun trying his best to focus on eating, he could still feel the glaring look from each of them.
"Ahem, let's all start eating before the food gets cold."
Leyan's intervention finally stopped the weird look. However, he could feel an awkward atmosphere in the kitchen.
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