244: Chapter 245 Parents can worry, but they can't sign the contract for their children's future.

Chapter 245

[Family Consent Form for Minors' Occupational Training]

[Number of Signatures: 7.62 million]

[Status: Historically Valid]

[Description: Guardians previously consented to their children entering corresponding occupational training directions]

[Continue to Recognize?]

7.62 million.

When this number was dropped, the chalk dust in the Shiqiao Elementary School auditorium in Luochuan seemed to freeze mid-air.

The children could not understand such a large number.

But they could understand that old form lighting up on the edge of their pages.

[Personal Name: Lin Xiaokui]

[Guardian: Lin Zhihai]

[Training Direction: Hydrological Mapping Reserve]

[Guardian's Opinion: Agree]

[Status: Automatic confirmation after the person reaches the appropriate age]

Lin Xiaokui's hand, which had just relaxed a little, clenched tightly again.

"Dad signed it last year?"

Lin Zhihai stood in the rain on the embankment, his face paler than before.

He looked at that old consent form, his lips moving for a long time.

"I... I signed one for a school safety interest class."

"The teacher said it would provide an extra subsidy."

"And said there would be extra points for the hydrological direction in the future."

"I didn't know it would be written as automatic confirmation."

The system explained immediately.

[The family consent form comes with training instructions]

[Guardian confirmation is deemed as understanding the consequences]

Guo He said angrily:

"That form is a page and a half long, and the consequences are written in the last two lines of small print."

"The parent-teacher meeting only talked about subsidies and safety classes!"

Lin Zhihai lowered his head, muddy water dripping from the tips of his hair to the ground.

He was not so innocent that he did nothing at all.

He had indeed signed it.

But what he signed away was not his daughter's occupational future.

It was the name pressed down in a panic by a poor father in the face of "subsidies", "opportunities", and "safety".

Looking at that stack of consent forms, Lin Jin said coldly:

"Pull up the template."

The underlying system unfolded a unified format.

[Purpose of Family Consent Form:]

[1. Enter specialized training]

[2. Obtain resource inclination]

[3. Be included in occupational observation]

[4. Default to pre-registration after reaching appropriate age]

[5. Continued confirmation by the school, family, or public guardianship when necessary]

After reading it, Chen Ye cursed directly.

"Is this called a consent form?"

"This is called binding cram schools, subsidies, observation, and occupational pre-registration into a complete mess!"

Teacher Song Qing's voice came from Qinghe County.

"Many parents simply cannot tell them apart."

"They think what they are signing are interest classes, safety classes, scholarships, and resource applications."

"In the end, the system uses it as occupational authorization."

Ye Guizhou stamped:

[Mixed Signing Matters]

[Cannot be directly regarded as occupational consent]

Luo Wensheng Record:

[Guardian consent needs to distinguish between: attending courses, receiving subsidies, accepting observation, occupational recommendations, pre-registration, and future confirmation.]

He Zhibai added:

[The binding of resource inclination and occupational consent constitutes a coercive signature; it must enter the historical ledger.]

The system was silent for a moment and changed its perspective.

[Even if matters are mixed, the guardian still has the qualification to sign on behalf]

[Legal acts of minors may be represented by guardians]

Inspector Han Su said coldly:

"Acting on behalf does not mean one can substitute for everything."

Lin Jin pressed the new tool onto that line of definition.

[Guardian Consent = Minor's Occupational Future Consent]

Teacher Xu Wenzhou's 002 fell.

Snap!

The definition cracked.

New grayish-white characters floated out:

[Guardians may represent current protection, educational resource applications, emergency medical disposal, and safety accompaniment.]

[Concerning occupational pre-registration, long-term training directions, family inheritance, position reserves, and future occupational confirmation, the individual's right to re-confirm after reaching the appropriate age shall be reserved.]

[Historical guardianship consent forms shall not automatically convert into personal consent.]

In the Luochuan auditorium, Lin Xiaokui's old form no longer displayed [Automatic Confirmation].

Instead, it reverted to:

[The family previously consented to hydrological safety interest classes and related subsidies]

[Occupational training direction: Requires personal re-confirmation]

[Current personal statement: Wants to learn painting, can listen to flood control route classes, but will not enter the hydrological reserves]

Lin Xiaokui stared at the page for a long time.

"So even though Dad signed it, it doesn't mean I've already agreed?"

Guo He nodded.

"No."

Across the screen, Lin Zhihai's voice lowered.

"Xiaokui, I'm sorry."

Lin Xiaokui lowered her head and scratched at the drawing paper.

She did not say it didn't matter.

She only asked softly:

"Then can I still take the flood control route class?"

Lin Zhihai was stunned.

Guo He answered for her:

"Yes."

"But this time, you sign up yourself and write your own boundaries."

At this moment, another consent form lit up.

[Zhao Jing]

[Guardian's Opinion: Agree to enter the comprehensive awakening preparatory class]

[Additional clause: If the individual hesitates, the family and school will jointly recommend resuming the awakening process]

Zhao Jing's face turned pale.

"My parents signed this for me before?"

He had already chosen to temporarily not awaken.

But this old form reached out from the past like a hand, pushing his "I don't know" toward "resuming awakening".

Teacher Song Qing told him to sit down.

"No need to rush to answer."

"This form can now only serve as historical family opinion."

Zhao Jing looked at the screen and said in a low voice:

"My parents will definitely say it's for my good."

"They feel that if I don't awaken soon, I won't even be able to find a job."

Lin Jin said:

"They can say they worry."

"But worry cannot override your current 'I don't know'."

Zhao Jing slowly raised his head.

"Then can I write: I know they are worried, but I am still temporarily not [awakening]?"

Ye Guizhou stamped:

[Current personal statement received]

Luo Wensheng Record:

[Family worries and personal postponement coexist and do not cancel each other out.]

The page wrote back:

[Zhao Jing: Temporary non-awakening continues to be valid]

[Family historical consent: Converted into family worry material for reference during the explanatory period, not triggering the resumption of awakening]

In the Wuye City receiving point, A-Lu's page also lit up.

He did not have complete parent Records.

So the system gave another option.

[No complete guardian Record]

[It is recommended that the Public Guardianship Office sign basic occupational integration on behalf]

He Chunlian suddenly stood up.

"I am still alive!"

"I've raised him for so many years, can't you see that?"

The system replied:

[Care relationship has not completed statutory supplementary registration]

[Public guardianship can temporarily sign on behalf]

A-Lu grabbed He Chunlian tightly.

"I don't want anyone else to sign for me."

Zhong Minglin's wooden seal pressed down.

[Wuye City is here]

Fang Ning cut in:

"A care relationship pending verification does not mean it does not exist."

He Zhibai added:

[The legal blank space generated by the system's long-term refusal to register non-occupational care relationships shall not be turned around to authorize public institutions to sign occupations on behalf.]

Lin Jin pressed the new tool against the column of [Public Guardianship Proxy Signing].

"Public guardianship can ensure children have food, medical care, accommodation, and schooling."

"It cannot take advantage of someone not having a page to choose an occupation for them."

Teacher Xu Wenzhou dropped the blade.

Snap!

New rules emerged:

[Public guardianship can be used for minimum protection and emergency care, but shall not sign occupational pre-registration, occupational integration, reserve training, and future positions on behalf.]

[Non-page care relationships must be supplemented, verified, and protected first, and shall not be judged as having no guardianship due to lack of registration in the old system.]

A-Lu's page finally reverted.

[Care relationship: He Chunlian, pending supplementary verification, currently effectively protected]

[Occupational status: No occupational page]

[Future awakening: Enter the window by oneself after reaching the appropriate age, or temporarily not]

He Chunlian hugged A-Lu tightly.

She did not speak.

Tears just dripped one by one onto the child's hair.

The 7.62 million family consent forms in the system began to be categorized.

[Course Consent]

[Subsidy Application]

[Safety Training]

[Occupational Observation]

[Reserve Training]

[Pre-registration]

[Family Inheritance]

[Future Automatic Confirmation]

The first few categories could some be retained as historical data.

The latter categories were all stamped with a grayish-white mark:

[Requires personal re-confirmation]

[Shall not be automatically executed]

[Shall not replace the current personal will with the guardian's historical signature]

[Shall not recover basic relief due to the withdrawal of occupational clauses]

But as soon as these words fell, the system immediately popped up a new question.

[If the historical family consent form becomes invalid, how should related training resources be handled?]

A string of bills unfolded.

[Luochuan hydrological safety interest class subsidy]

[Zhao Jing comprehensive awakening preparatory class resource package]

[Zhou Family Thunder Spear early training ground resources]

[Shen Family Ice Phoenix bloodline cultivation expenses]

[Local youth reserve scholarship]

[Family occupational inheritance investment]

[Vocational college targeted quota]

[Shall they be returned by those who withdraw from or reject the training direction?]

On Lin Xiaokui's page, a glaring amount jumped out.

[Hydrological interest subsidy enjoyed: 320 yuan]

[If withdrawing from the training direction, it must be returned or transferred into a general student loan]

Lin Xiaokui shrank back in fright.

"I have no money."

Lin Zhihai was also stunned.

"The school said that subsidy didn't need to be paid back!"

Zhao Jing's side was even higher.

[Preparatory class resource package conversion: 18,600 yuan]

Zhou Yubai's early training resources were a long string of materials, venues, coaches, and family medicinal baths.

On Shen Tingxue's page, the Shen Family's old debts were more like a mountain.

This time the system did not threaten.

It was just calculating money.

Calculating the forms signed by parents.

Calculating the classes attended by children.

Calculating the resources invested by families.

Calculating scholarships, subsidies, training grounds, potions, and quotas.

Finally, it asked:

"If you don't walk this path, who will pay it back?"

In the Old Awakening Hall, the air suddenly dropped heavily.

He Zhibai slowly closed the ledger and opened it again.

"It's finally here."

Lin Jin looked at him.

He Zhibai's voice was very deep.

"The hardest rope in the occupational world is not the consent form."

"It is the training debt."

On the system's general ledger, new red characters slowly lit up.

[Minors' Occupational Training Resource Recovery Mechanism]

[If the individual rejects the established occupational direction, it can be repaid by the individual, family, or subsequent occupational income.]

[Continue execution?]

Lin Jin gripped the new tool tightly.

"It cannot lock down the future with a signature."

"So it starts collecting debts."