The road to wealth of a peasant widow

Liu Youliang took the money bag, weighed it, and asked with some disappointment: "Since the business is good, your boss hasn't said anything about raising your salary?"

Liu Wende smiled bitterly and said, "Dad, we are just a small restaurant. My salary was raised the year before last. It's only been a year, so it won't increase again so soon. If the boss doesn't mention this, I can't take the initiative to say it!"

Liu Youliang sighed.

Although my eldest grandson no longer goes to school this year, which means one less expense, the five acres of land was given to my second son's family, which also means the family has less income. After offsetting the two, it feels like his loss is greater.

Originally, there were two things that made Liu Youliang proud. One was that his family had 17 acres of land, the largest in the village, and the other was that his sons and grandsons all went to school, and sooner or later someone with honor would emerge in his family.

Now he only has twelve acres of land, which is no longer the largest in the village. His eldest grandson has also temporarily bid farewell to his studies and gone to work in a shop.

Now that he has lost both of these advantages, how can he not feel disappointed?

Thinking of his eldest grandson, Liu Youliang thought that he had only seen Changsheng once since his son and grandson returned home, and he had not seen him until now. He couldn't help but ask, "Where is Changsheng? Why didn't he come?"

"Dad, Changsheng is still studying in his room. Next year, he wants to try again." Liu Wende said slowly.

He knew that his eldest son was an ambitious man and had been very confident of passing the exam this year, but he failed, which made him very frustrated and lost for a long time.

But he is already eighteen years old this year and has been studying for so many years. His family can no longer support him endlessly, so he can only find a job in the shop, at least he can get some salary and food.

However, Changsheng did not give up the idea of ​​going to school. Even if he could not get into the school, he would plan to take the exam again.

Liu Wende knew what he was thinking, so he asked someone to find him a job as a clerk in a bookstore. He could be accompanied by books every day and read whenever he had free time, which was considered to be what he had wished for.

The wife he married, Ms. Tan, was also a girl from a wealthy family. She was dignified and docile, and she became pregnant not long after she got married, which made the whole family very satisfied with her.

When Liu Youliang heard this, there was no expression on his face. He should be happy that his eldest grandson had ambition, but he didn't dare to hold any more hope in his heart.

At the beginning, he had placed high hopes on his smart and clever eldest son. For this reason, he even gave up the idea of ​​his second son studying and placed all his hopes on the eldest son.

However, Wende failed to pass the examination until he was twenty years old, so he could only find a job in the county town. He placed his hopes on his newly born grandson.

Changsheng has been smarter than his father since he was young. He could recognize many words before going to school. Therefore, this time Liu Youliang poured all the family resources into his eldest grandson.

Unfortunately, Changsheng has the same bad luck as his father. Although he was smart when he was a child, he became more and more mediocre as he grew older, and he has not made any achievements until now.

After two generations of studying, the old man's family fortune accumulated over the years was almost drained out. His second son, who was treated unfairly, became completely alienated from him, abandoned his family, and moved away.

He was afraid that if his grandson continued to study, he and his wife would have to worry about their future.

Besides, even if the second son's family separated, he still has two grandsons.

These two grandsons were born to the same mother as Changsheng, but they did not have the same opportunity to go to school as he did. Although Liu Youliang did not regret his decision to let his eldest son and grandson go to school, he also felt that he had to make up for it to his two younger grandsons.

It’s just a pity that his Eryong died at such a young age, leaving him no chance to make up for it.

Liu Youliang had originally thought that when his second daughter-in-law came with her grandson a few days ago, he would suppress her severely and then show her kindness to her, so as to show how valuable she was.

Unfortunately, Chen had become so cunning and mean, and was no longer as generous as before. This made him very unhappy, so he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​supporting the second branch. He would wait until the day when they could no longer make ends meet and then come to him for help.

Liu Youliang originally wanted to ask his eldest grandson to pay part of his monthly salary, but when he thought about the fact that he only had less than 300 coins a month, and he still had to buy paper and pens, and take an exam in the spring, so there were many expenses, he stopped talking about it and decided to wait until he finished the exam.

Liu Wende looked at the old man's face and said carefully, "Dad, you should make peace with Mom, otherwise, during the New Year, if people know about it, they will laugh at our family discord."

He knew that the old man cared most about his reputation, so he would definitely take action if he heard that.

Sure enough, although Liu Youliang looked unhappy, he still agreed: "I understand, you can go out."

I don’t know what the old man did, but when they were having the New Year’s Eve dinner on the night of the 30th, the old couple had resumed communicating and looked normal again.

Changsheng finally decided to walk out of his room and sit with everyone.

There are only nine people in the old house now, just enough to fill one table.

Because the relationship between the two elders was restored, Liu Wende and Zhou were willing to promote the relationship, and the other younger generations were also tactful, so the atmosphere was relatively harmonious.

Liu Youliang looked at his grandchildren, all of whom were descendants of the eldest wife, and felt deeply moved.

Although the second son died, life had to go on. He had to lead the descendants of the first house to live a more prosperous life and have more thriving descendants, so that his hard work would not be in vain.

After finishing the meal, the whole family sat in the main room to celebrate the New Year.

Changsheng said goodbye and went back to his room to continue reviewing. Liu Youliang nodded in agreement and told him to go to bed early after finishing his reading.

Seeing this, Changxing wanted to take the opportunity to ask his elder brother about questions in the book, but was stopped by his father.

"Your elder brother is preparing for the exam, so don't bother him. Just stay here and enjoy the New Year."

Changxing felt a little aggrieved. He went to see his elder brother to ask for advice on academic matters, so why did he bother him?

Besides, he is already sixteen or seventeen years old, but his father still talks to him in a scolding tone, while he is always consultative with his elder brother.

He is only two years younger than his elder brother. Does that mean he will always be inferior to his elder brother and have to stand aside in everything?

When my eldest brother was studying, the whole family had to give in to him and not influence him. If I wanted to ask him questions, it would be seen as disturbing him.

Changxing thought of his deceased second uncle and the different fates of his father and second uncle. Isn't this a reflection of his and his eldest brother's future?

Compared with his eldest brother, they are all abandoned children. In this life, he will probably be like his second uncle, working honestly on the farm and trying his best to support his eldest brother.

Perhaps, in the future his children will have to give way to his eldest brother's children just like himself.

Thinking of this, Changxing couldn't help but shudder. Looking at Changrong who was happily eating snacks, he felt a deep sadness.