It wasn't as if there were no high school students in the village.
But those who did go to high school still had to come back and work the fields in the end.
Sweet Girl liked books, but she felt studying was useless. She'd rather do more farm work to ease her older sister's burden.
Gu Jiaojiao found it difficult to explain the policy issues, so she gave an example instead.
"Sweet Girl, all the aunties in the village say school is useless, but doesn't the job of village accountant require a junior high diploma?"
"And what about the cadres, the team leader, the village chief? Is a single one of them illiterate? Haven't they all been to school?"
Sweet Girl was at a loss for words. After thinking it over, she realized it was true.
"And think about this: when it rained so heavily before, I developed a threshing machine. The county gave us a reward and prizes, and the neighboring village even gave us a hundred catties of fine grain. Isn't that all because I'm educated?"
