Several aunts were unwilling to believe this.

Mrs. Lu curled her lips and said, "We look at least a dozen years older than her. Is it really that exaggerated?"

Qiao Ye looked at her and said, "If you don't believe what I say, then ask your uncle."

"You look like you can almost become my step-mother-in-law's mother."

Mrs. Lu turned and looked at Boss Lu.

Boss Lu coughed dryly, "Being a mother is a bit exaggerated, but she still looks 10 or 20 years older."

All the brothers used to envy the fifth brother.

The first wife he married was the daughter of a scholar, who was one of the most beautiful girls in the county.

I heard that there was a young master from a wealthy family who wanted to marry her, but the flower was picked by the fifth brother.

That's why Goro is so handsome.

Although this second wife was a widow, she was also the village beauty in the neighboring village.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for her to marry into the county town.

Now she looks like a young woman in her twenties.

And the wives they married were only decent looking.

Compared to the fifth brother's wife, she is far inferior.

When Mrs. Lu heard what her husband said, her face instantly darkened.

She gritted her teeth and said, "If we were like her, we would stay in the county town every day without leaving the gate and would not have to work in the fields."

"We eat well, dress well, and we are young."

The fifth brother's wife is a vixen. Even at her age, she still pretends to be young and weak all day long.

But it must be said that Mrs. Lu and her companions have always been envious and jealous of this younger sister-in-law.

Boss Lu smiled awkwardly and said nothing.

With the looks of his wife, even if she is well fed and well cared for at home, she is definitely not as pretty and charming as the fifth brother's wife.

But this is hard to say.

Qiao Ye looked at them and said, "See, this is the difference between you and my stepmother-in-law."

"You work all day and still eat so poorly."

"The final result is that while you keep others healthy and happy, you yourself will soon become an old woman."

These words made Mrs. Lu and the others look extremely ugly.

Even though she is married and has children, which woman doesn't want to be young and beautiful?

It's really heartbreaking to think that I'm about to become an old woman.

When Mrs. Lu saw this, her heart skipped a beat.

She said, "The women in our village all went through this same thing."

"Only if Lao Wu succeeds can our family live a better life in the future."

"If he can pass the imperial examination and become an official, our family will become an official family in the future."

"Let alone in the village, even if we go to the county town, those wealthy families will look up to us."

These were all what Lao Wu told her, so she remembered them well.

The old lady's words actually eased the ugly expressions on the faces of the girls.

Yes, in the future they will have to rely on the fifth brother to be an official to support them and live a good life.

As soon as Qiao Ye saw it, she knew that the scumbag eunuch had brainwashed and made empty promises to the old lady and others.

So she sighed and said, "Even if my father-in-law can pass the imperial examination and become an official, will you still be alive to enjoy it?"

"He is only a scholar now. The imperial examination is held every three years, and he has failed twice."

"Even if I pass this time, I have to wait another three years to take the imperial examination again if I fail."

"Three years after three years, I don't know how many years it will take."

The old lady and the others didn't like to hear this, "We may not be able to do this for such a long time."

Qiao Ye said: "I have heard a story called Fan Jin passed the imperial examination."

"I'll tell you now."

"There was a scholar named Fan Jin, he..."

"I took the exam more than twenty times, and finally passed it at the age of fifty-four. I was so happy that I went crazy."

"In the end, let alone being an official, I couldn't even take care of myself while I was alive, and I had to burden my family with care."

She looked at the old lady and asked, "Grandma, if my father-in-law doesn't pass the imperial examination until he's over 50, do you think you can survive until then if you don't take good care of your health?"

"If I can't make it, how can I wait for him to be filial and live a good life?"

The old lady was so choked that she couldn't speak. Her youngest son was in his fifties and she might not be alive.

Qiao Ye looked at the other rooms again and said, "Even if you were still alive, you would be over 60 years old. How could you benefit from my father-in-law?"

"My teeth are old and I can't chew anything good."

"Even if I can chew, my stomach is not good when I am old, and I will vomit and have diarrhea if I eat something oily."

"You're so old. Even if you dress nicely, your waist and back will be hunched and it will be ugly if you go out."

"Besides, you are suffering so much now, and you don't eat well. It's not certain whether you can live to that time."

"You have worked hard for my father-in-law's family all your life, and you have not had enough to eat or wear in your last days, so what do you want?"

"I'm not cursing you. I'm doing this for your own good."

"Don't even mention it for the sake of the children. Don't you feel regretful that you haven't even had a good life in your life?"

"Do I have to soak in bitter water for the rest of my life?"

"The point is that you are not doing this for the children! This is for my father-in-law and his step-wife, step-son and step-daughter."

She pointed at the younger generations present and said, "Look at your children. They are all as skinny as monkeys."

"And the two stepchildren raised by my father-in-law are not thin, and their skin is white and their complexion is rosy."

"The clothes they wear are the same as those of the young men and women in the county town."

"You treat your own children harshly, but you raise other people's children so well."

"I feel bad for you guys."

"The key point is that it is not the blood of your Lu family, but the child of my ex-husband's family brought by my step-mother-in-law."

“Even if the surname is changed, the bloodline is still that of the Zhou family, not the Lu family.”

"He changed his last name and deliberately kept the homophonic Zhou name."

"Lu Zhoujin, isn't this because you still miss the Zhou family?"

"Your whole family doesn't have enough to eat or wear, and you work hard every day to make money to support my father-in-law's education. I won't say anything about it, after all, he is your blood relative."

"But why should we support the Zhou family's bloodline to study?"

"If my husband passes the imperial examination and becomes an official, people will envy him and praise him, saying that the Lu family's ancestral graves are smoking."

"But if Lu Zhoujin becomes an official, people will just say that smoke is coming out of the Zhou family's ancestral graves."

"When they come back to worship their ancestors, they are also worshipping the ancestors of the Zhou family."

"This person, you can't bring him with you when you are born, and you can't take him with you when you die."

"If you don't eat well, drink well, wear clothes, and enjoy life while you are alive, you will have nothing after you die."

"Are you right?"

She covered her chest and said, "Oh, you saved money and sent them to others to raise wild children and live a good life. I feel sorry for you. You are so unlucky."

The people from the old Lu family: "..."

Not to mention, they all felt pain in their bodies, hearts and bodies.

Yes, they provided food and drink for the fifth child during his imperial examinations. That was the bloodline of the Lu family, and they accepted it.

Even after the fifth brother became rich, he couldn't get rid of them, after all, they are family.

But why should that bastard Lu Zhoujin spend their money to study?

If that bastard is born, the Zhou family will also be honored in the future.

They don't have enough to eat or wear, and they work so hard. What's the point?

Just like what Qiao Sanya said, Lao Wu had to be like Fan Jin, who was over fifty years old before he could pass the imperial examination and become a juren.

Then what benefit will they get? They don’t even know whether they can survive until that time.

Even if I get some luck, I can't eat enough and my clothes won't look good.

Thinking of this, and looking at the non-meat dishes on the table, I instantly lost my appetite.

Suddenly I felt that working so hard to support Laowu's family was particularly boring.

Not to mention the people from several rooms, even the old lady felt a little uncomfortable at this moment.

The fifth brother has taken the imperial examination twice but failed, and he doesn’t know how many more times he will have to take it.

I can't help but wonder, will she still be able to live and enjoy herself as an old lady with a royal title?

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