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Chapter 338 Educational Issues
Catherine lived in a wealthy family when she was a child. Her parents were farmers who owned a large wine estate. The husband and wife had a harmonious relationship. Although they quarreled occasionally, they were small quarrels over trivial matters and never over principled issues. Cross frame.

They were French immigrants to Chile, almost self-made, living a good life through hard work and savings.

Catherine was their first child. They liked her very much and provided her with a good life since she was a child, so that she could grow up happily and carefree.

She is lively and active by nature, running wildly among the rows of grape arbors all day long, and every time she comes back with a disheveled face, she always makes her mother lament that she has given birth to a tomboy-like daughter.

Chile is a long and narrow country extending from north to south, and so is their wine estate, which spans four hundred kilometers from north to south and covers an area of ​​nearly six thousand acres—it may sound scary, but in fact the local large farms Basically this size.Their family's farm was not so big at the beginning. During the development process, it gradually merged the nearby small farms that were not well managed, and finally reached this scale.

Why does little Catherine not get tired of playing wildly on the farm every day?Because at that time, she had no concept of the number of [-] kilometers from north to south, and always wanted to go to the northernmost or southernmost side of the farm to have a look. In her imagination, the north and south sides of the farm should be the North Pole and the South Pole... She Every day I ran farther than the day before, but no matter how much I ran, I was always within the boundaries of their farm.

The parents were worried that their daughter would be lonely, so after discussion, they decided to give Catherine a younger brother or sister, so that Catherine would have a playmate.The father hopes to have a son, and the mother hopes to have a daughter, because the mother thinks that Catherine is basically a son... She wants to have a gentle and virtuous little padded jacket, and prays to the Virgin Mary every day for this.

Sure enough, their second child was a daughter, which was supposed to be a great event to celebrate, but as soon as the second daughter was born, the doctor discovered the problem-the baby girl's eyes were gray and white, and did not respond to light stimulation.

Worried parents did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to take their second daughter to big cities or abroad to find famous doctors for treatment, but the doctors who had treated them all shook their heads and sighed, saying that it was difficult to do surgery for such a small baby, so they had to wait for her. Let's talk about it when we grow up, maybe when the medical science develops, there will be new surgical treatment methods.

In desperation, the parents had to temporarily give up treatment and return to Chile. They told Catherine that her sister was blind and asked her to take good care of her sister.

The first time Catherine saw Arabella in her infancy, she immediately fell in love with the younger sister, because Arabella was so good and beautiful that she never cried for no reason like other babies, who are usually ugly in infancy Yes, and Arabella showed the potential of a beauty embryo in her infancy, her skin was pink and tender, and her smile was like a hundred flowers blooming.

Catherine spends less time going out every day, and always spends some time playing with her sister. Because she can't see, Arabella learns to speak late, and it takes a lot of effort to learn, but after the words "father" and "mother" , the third word she learned, which was also her first personal name, was "Catherine".

Except for the regret that the younger sister is blind, the whole family is in harmony, and the parents did not neglect their love for Catherine because of Arabella's birth, and because Catherine always runs outside, in fact, the time to take care of the two daughters is not enough. conflict.

The ordinary but happy days passed day by day, and Catherine and Arabella grew up gradually.

Just as the mother prayed to the Virgin Mary, although Arabella had a good relationship with her sister, she did not suffer from the overly lively and outgoing personality of her sister. She was always as quiet as a doll, which won her mother's favor.

There are also hidden worries lurking in daily life.

The local law and order is not very good. Although it is not as bad as Central America, it is far from reassuring. There are endless kidnapping and extortion cases targeting wealthy businessmen. It is so high that how many wealthy families have lost their wealth.

As the price of copper, the local livelihood, continues to fall, the political situation is turbulent, and the law and order are becoming more and more chaotic. Incidents of beatings, smashing, looting and burning have occurred frequently in the city.

Catherine and her family live on such a vast farm. The farm means the countryside, and the countryside means that the law and order is worse than that in the city. Although incidents of beating, smashing, looting and burning are less likely to occur, kidnappers are more rampant.

Their next-door neighbor is also a big farmer. On the south side of their home, they mainly grow blueberries and cherries. Just one party?Because the total length of the two farms from north to south is 300 kilometers, and the straight-line distance between the two estates is more than [-] kilometers, it takes half a day's drive to get together.

There is an only child in the neighbor’s family, who is one or two years older than Catherine. The two of them will have a good time every time they get together. Their personalities and hobbies are very compatible. The two adults joked that the two of them might get married when they grow up. .

However, when Catherine was six years old, the neighbor's only son was kidnapped while he was in school, and a huge sum of money was extorted. The boy's body, swollen with blisters, was found, and the criminal escaped.

Some people say that the local police and bandits are full of criminals, and there are criminals inside the police. It makes no difference whether to report to the police or not.

The neighbor couple was devastated, suffered a huge blow, were devastated, quarreled and blamed each other all day long, and finally their marriage broke up, and the operation of the farm also plummeted, and they were not far from bankruptcy.

Catherine's parents didn't dare to tell her about it, they only said that the neighbor's house moved away and moved to a foreign country. At that time, little Catherine was sad for a long time because she lost her playmate. He wanted to run to the farm next door to see with his own eyes if the little friend was gone.

However, since the two families only got together once a month, Catherine's sadness only lasted for a few days, and then she resumed her usual life, only occasionally talking about the boy next door—at this time, her parents always It's a forced smile, and the heart is very tangled.

The reason for the entanglement is that Catherine is almost at the age of school.

With the lesson of the boy-next-door, the parents were terrified and worried about Catherine's schooling.

The main employees and security guards of the manor have been with their parents for many years and are trustworthy. The new employees will be subject to strict background checks and can only move around the farm, and there are many surveillance cameras installed in the area near the manor, so at least they are safe on the farm. of.

Catherine shares a room with Arabella so she can take care of her younger sister more easily.

One night, when Catherine got up to go to the toilet, she seemed to vaguely hear her parents arguing.

Seeing that her younger sister was fast asleep, she quietly left the room and ran outside her parents' door to eavesdrop.

It turned out that her parents were arguing about her going to school again.

"It's okay for Catherine to stay out of school like this. Other children of the same age have gone to school. At worst, let's send bodyguards to escort her to and from school every day." The father said.

"No, I don't worry!" The mother's attitude was very strong, "What happened to the neighbor's child, have you forgotten? They also sent bodyguards to follow the child, but the kidnappers drove their car into the car on the way to school. On the side of the road, the bodyguard and driver was knocked into a dizzy state, and the child was snatched away before he recovered his senses, without even seeing the robber!"

"Then what should I do? Just send her to a boarding school." The father said, "The most dangerous thing is on the way to and from school. Boarding schools are fine.

"Boarding school?" The mother sneered, "I don't discriminate against the locals here. Look at the children of those locals. What kind of ghosts do they get in boarding schools? After entering junior high school, they can't even add and subtract beyond 10." No, I was pregnant by a man at the age of twelve or thirteen, and I don't even know who the father of the child is, I will not let my daughter go to this kind of school!"

The father was speechless for a while in annoyance, and could not refute it, because what the mother said was the truth.

The locals don't pay much attention to education, they advocate instant pleasure, and reading is useless. Boys and girls get together whenever they have the opportunity. The birth certificate of 75% of newborns in Chile has an empty "father" column.

Why can immigrant parents easily make their businesses bigger and stronger locally?This is the reason—in a country where most people are idiots, people with normal IQs become geniuses. If they have normal IQs and are willing to work hard and endure hardships, it will be strange if they fail.

"This won't work, that won't work, what do you say? Don't you let Catherine go to school? And Arabella, she should go to school in two or three years, don't you let her go to school?" The father became angry. .

Catherine, who was eavesdropping outside, was a little scared when she heard her parents' tone getting more and more intense, but she didn't dare to make a sound.

Catherine is also looking forward to going to school, because there will be many friends of the same age to play with and learn a lot of new knowledge.

"Go to school, of course you have to go to school." The mother said confidently: "But I won't let my daughters go to day school, and I won't let them go to boarding school here!"

"That……"

The mother interrupted the father, "I have inquired about it a long time ago. There is a famous girls' school in the west called Hongye College. I plan to send Catherine to study in the East. There, she should be able to enjoy a good education. Both the school spirit and campus security are impeccable.”

Her father was stunned, and Catherine outside the room was also stunned. This was the first time she had heard the name Hongye Academy.

The west?

In Catherine’s mind, there is only the boundless sea in the west, called the Pacific Ocean. Her parents took her and her sister to the beach for vacation. Her father told her that throwing tens of thousands of farms the size of their family into the sea would not fill the Pacific Ocean. .

Are there other countries further west in the Pacific Ocean?

Catherine's thoughts grew wings and flew away. She measured the farm with her feet every day, but she only measured one percent of the farm. What is it like?

She used all the imagination of a child, and she was simply dazzled.

"Are you kidding me?" Dad asked.

"A joke? Of course not. I think I've been thinking about this for a long time. When it's time for Arabella to go to school, I will also send Arabella to be with Catherine. Before that, let Catherine get used to it." life." Mother said firmly.

The father scratched his head, "It's thousands of miles away, can you endure being separated from your daughters for a long time?"

"If you can't bear it, you have to bear it! For my daughter's education, I'm already mentally prepared—you'd better be mentally prepared too, because when Arabella passes by, I will also move there and buy next to the school." A house, settled there for more than half a year, and only come back during vacations."

My mother had held back her thoughts for a long time, and finally had the opportunity to speak out. Growing up in a French Catholic family, she really couldn't understand some bad customs in Chile, especially the relationship between men and women.

Many employees on the farm also have their own children. Some of the children are about the same age as Catherine. The father was afraid that Catherine would be lonely, so he suggested that the employees send their children to live in the manor and play with Catherine, but the mother firmly refused. At that time, she did not clearly explain the reason, but in fact, she would rather spend more time with Catherine, would rather Catherine be lonely, and did not want her daughter to be contaminated with the bad character of local children.

"Crazy, crazy, really crazy!" Father shook his head and sighed.

"I never intervene in the management of the farm, but I will not back down on the education of my daughters. Even if it is a divorce, I will stick to it." The mother said flatly and calmly.

Obviously, this is an ultimatum and a big killer, because once divorced, the father has no chance to win the custody of his daughter unless the mother voluntarily gives up the custody.

Upon hearing this, my father knew that it was pointless to argue any longer, so he could only admit he was cowardly.

"But what about the language? I haven't learned about Hongye College yet, but Spanish is definitely not spoken there, right? Have you thought about how to communicate with the local students after Catherine has gone?" Father tried to make the last effort.

"I have thought about this too. It will be inconvenient at the beginning, but children learn languages ​​very efficiently, especially when they are immersed in the local language atmosphere. Besides, Hongye College is an international school. There are few foreign students, and simple communication is definitely no problem." The mother said, "I plan to hire a teacher who can speak Chinese, and give Catherine and Arabella Chinese lessons for a period of time."

"Your task is to work hard to earn money, because you have to pay a high sponsorship fee to enter Hongye College, and our two daughters have to prepare double the money." The mother ended the conversation.

(End of this chapter)