The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly

Chapter 103: Chapter 079: The Whole Family Is Top-grade (Part 11)_2

”...He Tiantian, ranking first in the qualification round, the first one to advance to the top 32!”

The announcer’s standard Mandarin carried obvious excitement as he reported the results of the qualification round.

There was a moment of stillness among the villagers of He Family Village.

After a good while, someone timidly asked, ”Tian, Tiantian’s mom, is that person on the TV talking about your Tiantian?”

Liu Xiuzhi had already been trembling with excitement, her eyes glued to the television screen as if to see a flower blooming on it.

The voice of the neighbor awoke her.

Swallowing hard with a dry throat, Liu Xiuzhi didn’t directly answer the neighbor but instead forcefully pinched the husband beside her.

Ow!

He Jianguo just felt a pain in his waist and instinctively wanted to cry out, but he ended up forcefully holding it back.

He instinctively said, ”I’ll listen to you, everything’s up to you!”

Suddenly, there was a brief silence in the yard.

But the next second, upon clearly hearing He Jianguo’s words, the neighbors burst into roaring laughter.

Grandpa He and Granny He felt ashamed, sighing to themselves – why did they have such an unlucky son who was scared of his wife?

Provoked by laughter, Liu Xiuzhi responded with a forced smile, ”What do you mean ’listen to me’? I’m asking if you heard what those people on the TV are shouting?”

Hearing the laughter, He Jianguo realized he had done something foolish again.

But he didn’t care too much about it.

Having feared his wife for over twenty years, in front of his spouse, he had long forgotten what ”face” meant.

Besides, now that his Tiantian was becoming successful, even if he was laughed at for being henpecked, outsiders would still start by complimenting him.

”I, I think I heard them say that our Tiantian broke some record—”

Mid-sentence, He Jianguo suddenly thought of something and asked with some concern, ”Honey, do you think if Tiantian has broken someone else’s stuff, they won’t make us pay for it?”

As he said this, the laughter around them abruptly stopped.

Everyone looked at one another – sure enough, breaking something meant having to compensate, right?

Liu Xiuzhi, an unworldly rural woman, was startled by her husband’s words.

Cursed by the fact that her daughter was on TV, she couldn’t directly pull her out to get a clear answer.

Feeling anxious, Liu Xiuzhi’s stubborn defiance came to the fore as she said with inner softness but an outward show of fierceness, ”Afraid of what? Our girl is doing all this for the country, so, even if she broke someone else’s stuff, it’s not her own fault!”

The country couldn’t just ignore her girl!

If the country didn’t take care of it, she, she... well, okay, she might act up, but she knew better than to mess with the country.

But, Liu Xiuzhi couldn’t bear the thought of her own dear daughter facing punishment.

She bit down hard on her molars – if push came to shove, she would take her daughter’s place.

Her Tiantian was still young, while she herself was already over fifty, halfway to being buried in the yellow earth.

Whether it was a fine or jail time, she’d take it for her daughter.

”Pfft!”

It was the village’s elementary school principal, an Educated Youth who had come to He Family Village and taken a local girl for his wife, establishing his roots in He Family Village.

When the wave of returning to the cities had swept across the country, he hadn’t left but stayed to continue teaching and educating.

Being from the city, educated, his experience was naturally more extensive than that of the villagers.

Hearing the conversation between He Jianguo and Liu Xiuzhi and seeing the reaction of the villagers, he couldn’t help but laugh out loud, ”Jianguo, Sister-in-law Xiuzhi, you can rest assured.”

”Tiantian didn’t break some object, but a world record!”

”Not only will breaking a world record not lead to a fine, the country will also give a reward!”

Speaking of this, the principal couldn’t help but express his admiration, ”It’s wonderful, a girl from our He Family Village has gone on to break world records!”

His exposure was considerably broader, but his understanding of archery wasn’t deep.

However, just listening to the excited voice of the television announcer, he knew that He Tiantian’s record-breaking feat might possibly fill a gap in the national sports achievements.

The people of Hua Country in this era needed concrete accomplishments to prove themselves.

Achieving groundbreaking ’firsts’ in the Asian Games and the Olympics was the best evidence!

Becoming the filler for a blank space in a sport, a creator of records, He Tiantian was destined to be one of the greatest athletes of her time, and perhaps even go down in history.

”Not a fine? But a reward?”

He Jianguo and Liu Xiuzhi looked at each other, finally turning their gaze on the principal, ”Principal Fang, are you saying it’s all true?”