Chapter 200: Who Will Pay for Her Death
Chapter 200 Who Pays for Her Death?
Mengyu looked up at her classmates, "It’s normal to have feelings of affection during adolescence. As long as one does not act or speak inappropriately and does not cross the line of friendship, as long as it doesn’t affect their studies, there is absolutely no fault in liking someone!
Isn’t that right, everyone?"
The students answered with a roar: "Right!"
Initially, only a few students had responded. This time, almost everyone had uttered that "Right!"
Indeed, emotions during puberty should be guided and channeled, not suppressed harshly.
But their school, quite bluntly, stifles them, and once an early love affair is uncovered, they expel students harshly.
Unaware of how irresponsible that is towards the students.
Just because they fall in love, they are expelled without any chance of regret.
In fact, many students are very dissatisfied with the school’s actions. It has gotten to the point where male and female students dare not even speak to each other, for fear that any conversation might be misconstrued as dating.
The students started discussing amongst themselves, all pointing out that the school was wrong to expel that girl, as it would ruin her.
A student mentioned, "Qiu Ziyin has already been victimized to death."
"What, dead?"
"What happened? How did she die?"
"Who knows the details, please tell us."
So, the student who knew the situation started to explain.
It turned out that after the girl returned home, having been expelled for dating, she was locked up by her father.
Actually, Qiu Ziyin did not reject the courtship of the worker from the county chemical fertilizer plant because her father was planning to use her as dowry for her brother’s marriage.
Qiu Ziyin’s brother was a decent-looking man, and the girl from the other family was also attractive; they took a liking to each other and were both interested.
However, the other party made a condition—they did not want a dowry but demanded that Qiu Ziyin marry the woman’s brother, also known as an exchange marriage.
But their brother was a thirty-five-year-old man.
And the fact that he, at thirty-five, was unable to find a wife was not because of poverty, but because the man was slightly foolish and prone to violence.
Qiu Ziyin was unwilling to sacrifice her own happiness for her brother and thus was eager to find a partner for herself.
But as soon as she found someone, it brought an end to her academic career.
After being expelled and sent home for refusing an arranged marriage, Qiu Ziyin was locked up by her father.
Stubborn in nature, after several futile escape attempts, Qiu Ziyin initially went on a hunger strike. Two days later, when her father still would not compromise, she ate a meal and then hanged herself.
One could say that the school bears great responsibility for the death of this female student.
Qiu Ziyin merely accepted the feelings of a man who admired her and did not do anything inappropriate. She was not absorbed in emotions to the extent of affecting her studies.
On the contrary, she studied even harder because she was hoping to change her fate by getting into a university.
But just because the school wanted to make an example of her, they expelled her, which led to her tragedy.
The more the students talked, the angrier they became.
Wu Jiangsheng timely shouted, "Fellow students, let’s discuss, who should pay for Qiu Ziyin’s death?"
"School leaders!"
"Should normal interactions between male and female students be allowed?"
"They should!"
"Long live understanding!"
"Long live friendship!"
Mengyu was somewhat amused and helpless; she had forgotten that people in this period still liked to shout slogans.
But to be honest, after being led by Wu Jiangsheng to shout, the students’ emotions quickly escalated.
It seems that shouting slogans really is a good method for inciting people’s hearts. No wonder pyramid schemes in later generations always require shouting slogans.
The Director of Education, Chu Zisong, who had been secretly eavesdropping in his office, saw the students’ fury and actually started to panic.