"One, two, one! One, two, one! One, two, three, four!" The crisp shouts of the girls were very special on the playground.

When Huang Chengxun and other parents saw their daughters, the students of the Girls' School were conducting afternoon military training on the playground. A group of girls with short bangs and neck-length short hair, wearing dark blue military uniforms, were running in neat formation under the leadership of a female instructor. Chen Ke said he arranged for these girls from Anqing to attend the Normal School. In everyone's imagination, the Normal School should be an old-style private school, where everyone attended class in a simple but quiet classroom. Seeing a group of little girls wearing men's standard military uniforms, running in formation full of vitality with their own eyes, the family members were all dumbfounded, not knowing how to react for a moment.

Instead, the complexions of Qiu Jin and Shi Dekuan became slightly better. What they worried about most was that Chen Ke distributed the snatched female students to the leaders of the People's Party. Judging from the situation seen now, the girls really received comprehensive education. At least they didn't fall behind in physical training.

Huang Chengxun tried to find his daughter from these girls with identical clothes and hairstyles. After looking several times, he finally saw Huang Yuyue. Huang Yuyue looked really changed a bit; Huang Chengxun had never seen such a focused look on that red, sweaty little face. If the person in front of him were not his daughter but his son, just this focused attitude would make Huang Chengxun feel a sense of gratification in his heart.

Accompanying the parents group was the People's Party female officer Ren Qiying. In order to solve the problem of the female students' parents, Chen Ke specially transferred Ren Qiying over. This was also one of the reasons why the parents waited so long. Along the way, Ren Qiying had repeatedly emphasized to the parents that parents were not allowed to talk to female students until break time. Seeing the family members stretching their necks, already having the intention to shout, Ren Qiying hurriedly said: "Please observe discipline. It is not just your family's child attending class now. We will definitely let you meet in a while. Shouting now will only disturb our normal teaching order."

Hearing this, the parents cursed secretly in their hearts: "The People's Party doesn't allow us to disturb the normal teaching order, but the People's Party disrupted the order of our families; how about that?" However, although cursing in their hearts, looking at those male soldiers around, these people thought they would suffer for nothing if they made trouble.

Ren Qiying had long seen through their thoughts from these parents' faces. She laughed: "Everyone is knowledgeable. The Manchu Qing will definitely perish. If our People's Party sits in the world [rules the country] ten years later, how will everyone view the matter of your daughters joining our team and becoming people's teachers?"

Hearing this, the parents who originally looked resentful were all stunned. The People's Party rebelling was already an ironclad fact. These parents instinctively hoped to stay away from rebellion, and were even less willing to let their daughters get involved in this muddy water. Hearing Ren Qiying say this, the parents felt an indescribable sense of incongruity.

Ren Qiying didn't wait for these parents to fully understand and continued: "The political proposition of our People's Party has always included the concept of equality between men and women. Women should also go to school and work like men, supporting themselves. The profession of teacher itself is very suitable for women. You let your daughters go to school; isn't it because you hope they have a future, isn't it because you hope they can better grasp their own destiny? As the saying goes, people go to high places, water flows to low places. If these students follow our People's Party, they will definitely have a very good future."

Li Qingjiang had always been reticent. Seeing other parents had been bluffed by Ren Qiying, he disagreed with Ren Qiying's point of view, so he said: "I don't care about the future or whatever, but you can't forcibly kidnap people like this. I let my daughter go to school for her to read books and understand principles, neither expecting her to show her face in public to work, nor letting her participate in any rebellion."

Ren Qiying smiled and said: "Hehe, this gentleman. You look like a scholar. May I ask if you know about Qin Shi Huang burning books and burying scholars? Do you know about Tang Taizong Li Shimin killing his brothers and forcing his father?"

"...I know." The Anqing area located by the Yangtze River had a very strong atmosphere of learning; reading was a tradition. Not only Li Qingjiang knew these two allusions, but all the parents who came to the base area this time actually knew these two allusions. They didn't know what Ren Qiying's purpose in asking this was, but these people subconsciously felt this was by no means a sign of good words.

"Qin Shi Huang has been scolded by Confucians for so many years because the Qin Dynasty perished in the second generation. Tang Taizong Li Shimin ended up with the evaluation of a wise ruler because he created the Rule of Zhenguan. What does this show?" Ren Qiying scanned the parents with a very polite cold smile on her face. Seeing all parents had to look back at her, Ren Qiying then said the following words: "History does not condemn the victor, and history cannot condemn the victor."

All parents never expected this young and capable woman in front of them to say such fierce words. These men who were gentry obviously felt they were about to be overwhelmed in momentum by this woman Ren Qiying. Such a heavy and clear topic pointed directly to the essence of history. If the People's Party seized the world, the matter of abducting female students would never be mentioned again. If this matter became material for attacking the People's Party, that would be after the failure of the People's Party.

Just when the parents didn't know how to refute Ren Qiying, Ren Qiying spoke again: "Gentlemen, the current era is already an era of revolution; revolution has begun to sweep across the whole of China. Regardless of whether you have realized the existence of revolution, regardless of whether you are willing to join the revolution, you are already in the torrent of revolution. It is impossible to stay out of it. Our purpose in inviting these female students here is not to kidnap these students, but to let our People's Party's revolutionary cause receive more powerful help, so that our revolution can succeed early. In our view, letting these female students join the revolution is beneficial to us and to these girls. So we will absolutely not compromise with anyone."

The parents' originally happy mood of seeing their daughters safe and sound flew completely to the nine heavens. They thought they could maintain their past peaceful life and not be affected by war and revolution. To chase back the peaceful life that continued less than two months ago, these people traveled thousands of miles to Fengtai County, trying to ask for their daughters back. In their view, they were just accidentally swept by the external storm; as long as they could be more careful, they would definitely not repeat the same mistake.

After listening to the words of this young girl Ren Qiying, these people finally understood that unless they completely gave up their daughters who fell into the hands of the People's Party, they had no other way to directly get rid of the connection with the revolution. And even if they gave up decisively now, it might not necessarily be of much use. Anqing City was now in the hands of another revolutionary party, the Yuewang Society. Even if they returned to Anqing, the situation they faced was what Ren Qiying just said: "They are already in the torrent of revolution." The difference was only knowing or not knowing.

Having figured out these things, these gentry did not have the joy after contacting the truth. Seeing clearly the situation they had to face, the faces of these people all became extremely ugly.

As the principal of the Girls' School, Qiu Jin also came with the parents. She wanted to confirm that her students were not treated badly. Hearing Ren Qiying's words, Qiu Jin couldn't help shouting applause: "Good! This sister said well! Now is already the era of revolution; regardless of whether you are willing or not, no one can escape. This sister is worthy of being Wen Qing's subordinate; well said."

Ren Qiying laughed: "Teacher Qiu Jin flatters me. Chairman Chen has always warned us People's Party members to seek truth from facts; I just said some current facts, not worthy of Teacher Qiu's praise."

Seeing Ren Qiying smiling gently at Qiu Jin, parents who still refused to give up began to act pitiful again. "Miss Ren, since my little girl arrived in Fengtai County, the family members have lost their appetite, and someone has already fallen ill. I also hope Miss Ren can put in a good word in front of Mr. Chen Ke. We will definitely give heavy gifts in return."

regarding this little trick, Ren Qiying, like Chen Ke, didn't care at all. A look of concern appeared on her face. "Since your daughter joined our team, she is our comrade. Our People's Party treats comrades as warm as spring. If someone in your family is sick because of longing, we can send someone to bring your family member to the base area. This way you can reunite as a family. May I ask this gentleman's surname and where you live? We can send someone there now."

Being pressed by Ren Qiying like this, the speaker was no longer willing to speak more. As the saying goes, when a scholar meets a soldier, reasoning is unclear. What's more, these people holding weapons were also quite eloquent, and in terms of learning, they might not be inferior to these gentry.

Just at this time, the female students finished running drills, and this verbal confrontation ended temporarily. Accompanied by female instructors, the female students met with their parents. Qiu Jin and Shi Dekuan didn't want to participate in such things that were destined to be tearful anymore. Qiu Jin had her own mission, and Shi Dekuan also bad one. The two coincidentally asked Ren Qiying to take them to see Chen Ke.

Unexpectedly to both of them, Ren Qiying asked someone to take Shi Dekuan to find Chen Ke first, while she accompanied Qiu Jin to arrange accommodation. Qiu Jin was very surprised, but felt relieved after a moment. This arrangement showed that Chen Ke was prepared to make time for a long talk with her. Shi Dekuan originally didn't have much dealing with Chen Ke; seeing Shi Dekuan first this time was at most just a polite meeting.

Shi Dekuan didn't care much about such an arrangement either. He wanted to see Chen Ke more out of curiosity about Chen Ke. The Yuewang Society arranged for Shi Dekuan to come and deliver people [parents]; the only task was to deliver people. Originally this was a hard job. The crowd of the Yuewang Society didn't know how the People's Party would deal with these female students. In their view, maybe the leaders of the People's Party had already divided the female students. In ordinary gossip, there were quite a few such erotic predictions. Shi Dekuan didn't quite believe these guesses that "the masses love to hear and see." He was just very puzzled why the People's Party could do such a thing.

What he saw and heard along the way touched Shi Dekuan quite a lot. Both the sphere of influence of the People's Party and the degree of penetration into society were things Shi Dekuan dared not even think about. Especially after seeing the insight of this woman Ren Qiying, Shi Dekuan felt he must have a good talk with Chen Ke no matter what. Chen Ke was a person worth talking to.

When led into Chen Ke's office, Chen Ke was writing furiously on documents. There were many documents piled on the desk, and civil servants came in and out, very busy. Compared with the helplessness of the Yuewang Society, the People's Party here could be described as orderly.

"Wait for me a moment, okay?" Seeing Shi Dekuan enter, Chen Ke raised his head and said.

"Mr. Chen, you are busy first." Shi Dekuan used honorifics almost instinctively.

Chen Ke smiled apologetically at Shi Dekuan, then buried his head in the paperwork again.