In the morning, in the southeast area of Guangzhou City, Shen Qingjia.

Bang! Bang!

With two knocks on the door, a middle-aged female voice sounded outside the door.

"Is Shen Qing at home?"

Hearing the sound outside the door, Shen Qing opened the door and walked out, seeing this matchmaker who seemed to be surnamed Zhao and asked, "Something?" ”

"Something, something, a big event, Shen Qing, your eldest girl doesn't have anyone, right?" Mrs. Zhao asked with a smile.

"Nope."

Shen Qing shook his head, he had already guessed why this matchmaker Zhao came over, the matter was already obvious, his eldest girl was 14 years old, almost to the age of marriage, if it was in the past, the eldest girl was a girl from the bottom of the common people's family, and her appearance was ordinary, so she almost didn't have to think about having a matchmaker come to the door.

But now it's different, more than two years ago, the eldest girl entered the first girls' school in Guangzhou City, this school is not ordinary, Mrs. Metropolitan Governor personally served as the principal and teacher, no matter how ordinary the students were before entering the school, they were not ordinary after entering the school.

Women are literate in reading, this is something that can only happen to large families, how can the daughters of low-level ordinary people be able to read and write, but this happened to the eldest daughter of Shen Qing's family, and the eldest girl is not ordinary.

After studying in a girls' school for more than two years, the eldest girl learned a lot of things, reading and literacy, arithmetic, embroidery, painting and even dressing up, the eldest girl walked with a peasant girl of the same age, both of them were wearing ordinary clothes, the peasant girl looked rustic, but the eldest girl was a delicate little girl, who looked different in spirit and spirit, with self-confidence.

By the way, after entering the girls' school, the eldest girl also has her own name, Qiuyan, Shen Qiuyan.

An originally ordinary little girl has become extraordinary, can read and write, and is still a student of Mrs. Dadu, which can be regarded as the daughter of an upper-middle-income family.

Before Zhao matchmaker, there were already other matchmakers who came to the door, but they were all rejected by Shen Qing, you must know that Shen Qing's family is just a vegetable seller in Guangzhou, and the income is at the bottom, and the most people who come to propose marriage are at least middle-income families.

The Shen family itself is at the bottom, even if the eldest daughter enters the girls' school, Shen Qing does not feel that her daughter's status has improved much, after all, she is just a woman, just marry a similar family, if she really marries into a big family, Shen Qing is also worried that her daughter will be bullied after marrying, and she doesn't think that her daughter will become a wife.

However, one day in March this year, the eldest girl came home from school and said something to Shen Qing, which made Shen Qing change his mind, and then the matchmaker came to the door and refused to do so.

In fact, there is more than one case similar to Shen Qing's family in Guangzhou City, there are many girls who go to girls' schools, even if they look ordinary, but in the eyes of many people, they become very good candidates for wives or daughters-in-law, as long as the other party's family agrees, as soon as the girls graduate from the girls' school, they will pass the door.

There are girls' parents who see the money, and they really agreed, the girl didn't react much for the time being after she went home and knew that she was promised, she didn't want to marry a man she didn't know, but she knew that she couldn't resist her parents, in the education of girls' schools, filial piety was also very important, and after going to school the next day, she told the teacher about the matter and sought a solution from the teacher.

In the end, the matter was learned by Hu Xiaoya, and Hu Xiaoya came up with a solution.

These girls are all her Hu Xiaoya's students, Hu Xiaoya naturally doesn't want her students to marry so easily, they are so young, they can't let marriage limit their lives, even if they want to marry, they have to marry a more suitable person.

The most suitable candidates are naturally in the People's Army, and many of those graduates of the three-year education in the People's Army system are very suitable candidates, and they are still very young, and marrying the son of a merchant is obviously not as good as marrying an officer or official.

After figuring out what had happened, Hu Xiaoya called a meeting with all the students at the girls' school and told them to go home and tell their parents that the school did not allow them to marry before the age of 16 and that they would marry KPA officers or government officials in the future.

Of course, these are all words to tell their parents, and Hu Xiaoya told the students that there is no need to marry an officer or an official, and that what they like is the most important thing.

The students went home and told their parents what the Headmaster had said, which was what the Grand Governor had said, and even if a few parents were very unhappy, they had to obey, but when they heard the latter words, the displeasure on their faces disappeared completely.

How can the son of a merchant be compared to an officer or an official? No matter how rich a businessman is, he must bow his head in front of officers and officials, and his daughter is a student of the wife of the Grand Governor, and if she wants to marry, she will marry an officer or official of the People's Army.

The status of businessmen is higher than that of ordinary people, but no matter how high they are, they are not as high as officials, which is something that ordinary people know.

The words of the Governor's wife slowly spread, but the students of the girls' school became more popular, and more people came to the door to propose marriage, and the dowry also increased, many of them were large families, and they all said that they would pass through the door when she reached the age of sixteen, but they were all refused.

The students of the girls' school do not need to worry about their marriage for the time being, at least they do not need to worry about their parents marrying them off so soon, and they still have more power to choose the person they like in the future.

They didn't have much time to think about their future husbands before, but now because of such a thing, they also began to think about whether it would be better to marry an officer or an official in the future.

The girls are not very old when they enter school, but they have never promised to marry a certain childhood sweetheart, after entering the girls' school to study, they learn more knowledge, and understand more things, they are naturally reluctant to marry people who do not know a single word, those officers and officials who have studied in school, should have a lot of common language with them.

Hu Xiaoya felt the change in the mood of the students, and shook her head helplessly, the girls' school is not comparable to other schools, the graduates of other schools are boys, there are many things they can do, and the graduates of the girls' school can probably only do two, one is to be a teacher in a girls' school, and the other is waiting to get married.

Hu Xiaoya asked Fang Nan about the solution, Fang Nan couldn't think of it for the time being, I'm afraid that it will be until the emergence of large textile factories and the entry of women into the textile factories to work in the textile factories that the role of women will gradually appear.

If the situation of women wants to change dramatically, it must wait until the older generation dies, and the tradition is gone, and now is an era of constant change.