Chapter 160

Liu Xiangqin wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, "I want..."

Jiang Zhuxin spoke warily, "What are you planning to do? I advise you to think carefully before you speak."

Liu Xiangqin pursed her lips. "I'm going to expose my husband to the reporters."

Jiang Zhuxin:?

Mother Jiang:?

This time, even Song Shiwei was supposed to be at the Gossip Compendium, was completely at a loss. [I don't think that's how it's written in the plot?]

[Oh my god, this love-struck woman is actually going to expose her husband? Doesn't she care about her husband's reputation?]

[Didn't she say that a woman should know how to protect her husband's reputation in public? Even if she's beaten to death, she shouldn't say a bad word about her husband?]

Liu Xiangqin thought back and realized that she had indeed been that outrageous before. She had been enduring it all along, but only today did she realize that she should fight back.

Liu Xiangqin forced a smile. "Yes, I want to expose my husband. Please help me make the arrangements, thank you."

Although she didn't know what Liu Xiangqin was up to, Mother Jiang still glanced at her and was about to take out her phone to find a reporter she knew well.

On the one hand, it was to prevent reporters from talking nonsense, and on the other hand, it was to prevent Liu Xiangqin, that simpleton, from talking nonsense later.

Before she could even make the call, she heard Song Shiwei's inner thoughts. "[No need for arrangements, reporters are already waiting outside the hospital.]"

[With such exciting news, reporters are bound to grab the front page!]

Jiang Zhuxin quietly walked to the door of the lounge. Sure enough, the door of the ward was full of reporters carrying long lenses and microphones, all craning their necks to look inside.

If the doctor hadn't been inside and closed the door, she dared say they would have rushed in and killed Wu Jianguo on the spot.

With a resolute look in her eyes, Liu Xiangqin walked out firmly under their gaze. "Dear reporters," she said, "I am Wu Jianguo, my wife. I have a few words to say."

Upon hearing that she was the wife of the melon seller inside, the reporters swarmed around her like wolves eyeing meat, practically shoving their equipment into Liu Xiangqin's mouth.

"Hello, did your husband really steal something and hide it there?"

"As his wife, what are your thoughts on your husband's theft?"

"An insider also revealed that you came to Yanjing to find your daughter, right? Then why did you steal things?"

One sharp question after another came at Liu Xiangqin like snowflakes. The Jiang Family looked at her with some concern and were about to take her away.

Liu Xiangqin looked directly at the camera and said, word by word, "My husband did commit the crime, and the stolen goods were indeed hidden in his leather swallow skin. But what I want to talk about today is not that matter, but about my daughter."

She lowered her voice and continued, "I have two daughters, one named Qiaodi and the other Fuge. They're such ironic names, aren't they? I've let them down. Qiaoqiao dropped out of school before finishing junior high, and Fuge is in her second year of high school, but I'm not letting her continue. I want her to come home and get married, so the bride price can go to Yaozu and find him a wife."

Even though the reporters had mentally prepared themselves, they still clenched their fists tightly after hearing Liu Xiangqin's words. Why did women have to make things difficult for each other?

Those who favor sons over daughters should be removed from this world.

Song Shiwei muttered to herself, "[If Liu Xiangqin posts this, netizens will curse her to death. Will she be cyberbullied?]"

Isn't she afraid?

How could Liu Xiangqin not be afraid? She was a traditional country woman, facing so many reporters, having her private affairs exposed, and suffering criticism from others. But even though she was afraid, she could not back down.

This is the punishment she deserves.

Reporters' cameras and microphones were pointed at Liu Xiangqin, but she seemed completely unfazed, stating frankly, "But today my daughter told me that Principal Zhang of their girls' school told them that women should be self-reliant, that we should live a wonderful life in this world based on our own abilities, that we are not anyone's appendage, and that we don't need to be confined to the home to have children. We are eagles soaring in the sky, or fish swimming in the water. As long as we want, we have a wider world to experience life with."

"Principal Zhang's words woke me up. I shouldn't become such a cannibalistic monster. I think that's why Principal Zhang risked his life to establish a girls' school that didn't charge tuition and provided free education for girls."

"Because of parents like us who favor sons over daughters, girls in the mountains either get married and have children early, or go out to work early like my daughter, becoming the lifeblood of their families. I'm sorry to my daughter, I don't deserve to be a mother."

As Liu Xiangqin spoke, tears welled up in her eyes. She bowed deeply to the camera, saying, "Daughter, if you see this news about your mother, I hope you will come back to find me. I miss you. I will listen to you and let my sister go to school. I will work hard to earn money, and the three of us, mother and daughters, will live a good life from now on."

The reporters, however, were unusually astute enough to pick up on the information in Liu Xiangqin's words. "Does this girls' school you mentioned really exist?"

Liu Xiangqin paused for a moment, then said without hesitation, "Of course it's true. My daughter just told me that Principal Zhang said she should focus on her studies and not worry about anything else; the girls' school will take care of everything."

The reporters quickly jotted down everything Liu Xiangqin said in their notebooks. They never expected that interviewing such an explosive story would come with a bonus of a "merit melon" (a metaphor for a good deed).

Such social news is bound to cause a huge uproar. Using this explosive news to pave the way for the girls' school's publicity can be considered a meritorious act of this explosive news.

Liu Xiangqin blurted out all these things, which made her feel a little better. The girls' school should be known by more people. She was a bad person anyway, and she would pretend not to hear the netizens cursing her.

However, Principal Zhang of the girls' school should be known by everyone, just as Song Shiwei said in her heart, Principal Zhang deserves to be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.