Chapter 43 The Li Family's Situation
After listening to Li Bai's words, Li pondered for a moment, and said, "My elder brother is already forty-eight years old. The whole family expects him to pass the imperial examination before he is fifty and become a role model in these villages."
"But for some reason, he reads books tirelessly at home every day, and does not need him to go to the fields to weed or go up the mountain to hunt."
"After the exam, the whole family has money and hard work, so that he can pass the exam."
"It's a pity that whenever the results are released, he is nowhere to be named."
"Hey! He really felt wronged. He had been taking the exam more than ten times in the past 20 years, and he wanted to give up. If my father hadn't advised him to take the exam again, he would have given up long ago."
"Uh... it's not right?" Li Bai looked a little puzzled.
This is just a provincial examination. Is it really that difficult? Or is it really not a little talent for studying?
That shouldn’t be! How can you pass the county examination without talent? The government examination and the college examination become a scholar?
There must be something they don't know about.
"Hi! Don't mention it. When it comes to my miserable elder brother, I feel sorry for him."
"Every time we don't know the name on the list, we cry bitterly, and we feel bad either!"
"I will take the prey back to my father's place in the evening and replenish my elder brother's body. Xiaobai, come with me?"
"Brother Li, you have the final say." Li Bai nodded.
Li Lao Shi left, Li Bai looked at the woman sitting in the yard with his eyes staring at the sky, and Li Bai asked, "I don't know what the girl is called?"
"girl?"
"Are you asleep?"
Li Bai shouted a few times, but the beautiful woman did not respond at all.
Li Bai ignored it, there was no need to touch someone's butt with a warm face.
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Wang Zhenzhen took Wang Chao and Ma Han to her field.
As we all know, it is most likely to grow grass with water in the fields. Once the grass grows stronger than rice, it will absorb the nutrients of rice seeds.
Therefore, once grass grows in the fields, they will come to weed in order to prevent the rice from being affected.
After the dynasty Ma Han was taught, the two lived a miserable life as rural people under the rays of the sun.
Wang Zhenzhen sat under the trunk to enjoy the cool air, feeling happy.
This time, I took in a scholar, but I had two free laborers.
At this time, Aunt Liu from the next house came over and said, "Honest sister-in-law, what are these two doing?"
"Hehe, free labor!"
"Ah? What's going on?" Aunt Liu asked curiously.
Wang Zhenzhen was also a big mouth and immediately told her the story of Li Bai coming to join their family today.
After hearing this, Aunt Liu exclaimed: "What? Honest sister-in-law, you... have you actually taken in a few poor people who came here today?"
"Poor ghost?" Wang Zhenzhen asked in a daze.
"Yes! Three people came today and said they wanted to stay in our house temporarily. We all refused. You don't know how poor that scholar is."
"Although it looks gentle, the coarse cloth I wear can't cost a few dollars at first glance."
"A person who is so poor lives in your house. If he doesn't drive him away, you will be involved in a big deal." Aunt Liu said with a scared look.
"That's how..." Wang Zhenzhen pondered. She didn't think Li Bai was poor, because Li Bai lived in their house and took out twenty taels.
There was no bargaining, and they were given two free coolies.
It's worth more than anything, so she trusts her vision.
Aunt Liu continued, "You have taken in a mute who can't speak anymore. If you continue eating like this, your family will definitely be poor."
"You must know that your husband's family has two elders and the elder brother who passed the exam, and two younger brothers who are ignorant. Your family is all supported by you."
"If your family is really poor by them, who will take care of Uncle Li and Aunt?"
"Listen to my advice, drive them away quickly." Aunt Liu said earnestly.
Wang Zhenzhen pondered for a moment, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I know what I think, second aunt, don't worry."
"Hey! Why don't you listen to advice?"
Aunt Liu looked at Wang Zhenzhen with a look of regret, saying, "Honest Aunt, you will suffer a great loss."
"Our family will suffer a great loss, so don't panic."
Wang Zhenzhen is not a fool. From Li Bai's words and deeds, she could guess that Li Bai is definitely not a child from a poor family.
In addition, Li Bai came to her for a temporary stay and gave her money, and also gave her two free laborers.
Their family is the poorest in Canyon Village.
After all, his husband is the pillar of this family, and his husband is four brothers, and he ranks second.
There are two old men in the village. The two are considered to be relatively respected elderly people in the village, and they are already in their eighties.
His eldest brother Li Conghui is a scholar. People from all over the country hope that he can become a juren and shine in his hometown.
But this hope... has been hope for more than twenty years.
The second son, Li Hushi, is the pillar of the whole family. He goes up the mountain to hunt at night and goes to the fields to work in the fields during the day.
The third brother Li Congming is a little clever, but he doesn't have to go on the right path. He is idle all day long and organizes strong men in the village, often bullying the weak and bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
The fourth brother Li Tiancai, the two oldest son, married a wife and ate and drank at home like the old man every day. He reached out and asked the two oldest for money.
But the two old people love him, the youngest son!
But people in their thirties are even more overwhelming than to go to the fields to work or go up the mountains to hunt.
I don’t even wash my clothes at home, so I have to wash them.
Neither Li nor his wife could stand this, but every time they mentioned it, the two old men dote on the fourth brother, and directly said that he, the second brother, did not know how to understand his younger brother.
Wang Zhenzhen couldn't stand this, so she moved out of her ancestral home and built a little house by herself at the entrance of the village.
Of course! Although they moved out, the burden on the family was still on them.
After all, it is the hope of the whole family that my elder brother wants to take the exam.
The third brother is ignorant and does not expect him to subsidize his family income, so he only helps for a few days during the busy farming season.
I am idle at other times, and if I don’t ask for money at home, I will smoke from my ancestors’ graves.
Not to mention the fourth brother, it’s okay if he is lazy, but he will marry a wife who is even lazy than him and will drag down the whole family.
Wang Zhenzhen is now having a dream, that is, there are two more free laborers. He wants to develop more fields so that his family can become more prosperous.
How can such a beautiful dream be lost before it can be done?
So she didn't plan to listen to her advice, although this would make her seem out of place.
But if you can make your family richer, why should you care about the eyes of others?
"Honest sister-in-law, you are really...I can't tell you."
"If the aunt knows this, she will definitely scold you."
"This is my family matter. Aunt Liu, don't worry, you should take care of your land! It's all covered with grass and won't remove the weeds."
"I'm not your third brother yet, I'm going to ruin my Liu Er..."
Chapter completed!