Shen Jianhua was not here, and with the meddlesome Liu Da Niang and Li Chunhua also gone, Zhou Lanfang stepped on Shen Mianmian without any reservations.
"Zhang Meizi, judge for yourself," she said. "Siyu is my niece, sure, but I raised her like my own daughter. Our family can't afford to educate two children. She's a good student, so of course the family is willing to support her, right?"
She glared at Shen Mianmian, "This ingrate is just here to settle scores, not to mention going to the village chief's house and complaining. The chief insists we support her too, even though she's clearly not cut out for studying, yet she insists on competing with Siyu."
At these words, everyone could not help but feel that Shen Mianmian was being unreasonable.
Why compete with Zhou Siyu when her own academic performance was mediocre?
It would have been different had she been a boy, but, unfortunately, she was a girl.