How can someone travel through time and space and become a beggar?

The next evening, Dong Xiaomao drove to pick up his parents and took them home.

Guan Xu hugged Dong's mother and said in a sticky voice, "Grandma, Xu'er will come to see you next time I have a day off."

"Okay, okay." Dong's mother smiled. "When you come, grandma will make you something delicious."

Guan Xu shook his head and said, "I learned several dishes yesterday. I will cook them for my grandmother!"

"Okay." Dong's mother touched his head lovingly.

After his parents and younger brother left, Xiatian closed the door and the family returned to the front hall to sit and drink tea.

"Xiaotian, you are twenty-three now, right?" Dong Xiaohuan's eyes were bright.

When Xia Tian heard this, his back straightened up. He thought, here it comes, here it comes again.

Zhang Zhou's eyes fixed, and he subconsciously looked at Xia Chu. Xia Chu avoided his gaze and looked at the beams. It seemed that he was also in trouble this time. "Mom, I haven't finished reading today, so I'm going back to my room first."

Dong Xiaohuan whispered, "Come back."

Zhang Zhou lowered his raised buttocks again. He and his elder brother looked at each other and both sighed.

"Mom, I want to find someone I love, like you and Dad." Xia Tian sincerely thought so. His parents' unwavering love, their tacit understanding and their love for each other, was enviable. The first time he went to see the girl his mother had chosen, he thought, only by being like his parents would he not be lonely for the rest of his life.

"Your father and I were introduced by someone else." Dong Xiaohuan said.

"That's not true. I chose you myself, and then I asked a matchmaker to come to my house." Wang Yong spoke of this with a certain smugness. "I never told you, but I've seen you twice before. The first time, you were pointing your finger and cursing at a man who was trying to shirk his debt. I thought you were such a fierce woman. The second time, I saw you carrying Xiao Mao on your back, crying and cursing. Your legs were shaking and you couldn't walk, yet you still had the energy to curse. I thought, this girl is really stubborn, so fierce. It would be fun to marry her."

"Who are you calling stubborn and fierce?" Dong Xiaohuan was a little shy at first, feeling shameless for saying such things in front of the children. But when she heard the latter part, she became furious and raised her hand to pinch Wang Yong's ear and twist it.

Xia Chu covered her mouth and laughed secretly. This scene is really something I never get tired of watching.

Dong Xiaohuan was only about as tall as Wang Yong's chest, and she was petite. Wang Yong was strong and muscular, and every time his ear was twisted, he would grimace in pain, but he would always lean to the side, fearing that he would stretch his wife's waist.

"I was wrong, I was wrong. I was wrong." Wang Yong quickly begged for mercy.

Several children were laughing secretly, but Wang Qiuyu frowned. "Dad! I heard others say that men shouldn't let women be too arrogant. It will damage the dignity of men!"

Dong Xiaohuan was stunned and quickly let go of her hand.

Wang Yong's face turned cold. "Who told you that?"

Wang Qiuyu knew his father was angry, and his voice trailed off, "My classmate..."

"Why did he tell you this?" Dong Xiaohuan asked curiously.

Wang Qiuyu secretly glanced at Xia Chu. "He asked me to go to the Washe after class, but I said my sister wouldn't let me go to places like that alone. Then he said this, and also told me that at home, all the sisters had to flatter him because he was a man and could carry on the family line. Girls have to get married and belong to other families. Only boys are useful to the family..."

"Bullshit!" Wang Yong slammed the table. Dong Xiaohuan exclaimed softly, clutching her chest and glaring at Wang Yong. The anger on Wang Yong's face vanished, and he smiled apologetically as he gently stroked his wife's back.

Wang Qiuyu shuddered with fear. He had a vague feeling that his classmate was wrong. He loved his mother and sister, even though they often scolded him. But they treated him well more often. Just thinking about them holding him in their arms made Wang Qiuyu feel uneasy.

"Tian'er, take your brother out and teach him a lesson. I get a headache just seeing him." Wang Yong waved his hands and coaxed his wife.

Xia Tian stood up immediately. Although it was a headache to teach his younger brother, it was better than being urged to get married.

Dong Xiaohuan was unhappy, "Wait, I haven't told you about Xiaotian's marriage yet."

"Then Zhuo'er goes and Tian'er stays." Wang Yong said casually.

Xia Tian sighed.

Zhang Zhou looked at his elder brother and coughed lightly to hide his smile.

"Zhou'er can't do it either." Dong Xiaohuan said again.

Zhang Zhou's face froze.

"Xiaochu, go, hurry up." Wang Yong changed another person and looked at his wife, "Xiaochu, don't you want one too?"

"I'm leaving!" Xia Chu pulled Wang Qiuyu and ran away.

"If you run away, then run away. Let's talk about you two first." Dong Xiaohuan sighed helplessly, "Tell me what kind of girl you like. Mother will find a matchmaker."

Xia Tian and Zhang Zhou looked at each other and said nothing.

Xia Chu pulled Wang Qiuyu into the room, played the pipa herself, and ignored him.

After Wang Qiuyu was six, his mother had warned him not to enter or leave his sister's room at will. His sister's room seemed to have remained largely unchanged over the years. He tilted his head and looked around, and a small item on the shelf caught his eye.

There were straw weavings, wood carvings, and all sorts of cute little animals. There were also all sorts of lanterns. He spotted a fish-dragon lantern and happily took it, "Sister, do you still have this lantern?"

"Yes." Every year during the Lantern Festival, Xia would buy a lantern for her younger siblings and take them out for fun at night. At first, she didn't have much money, so she only made simple square lanterns with flowers and plants.

After school, he would solve lantern riddles, giving the best lantern to Xia Chu and the lesser ones to his younger brothers. When he earned money at the martial arts school, he bought different lanterns. This dragon fish lantern was bought the first year he made money, and the second year he bought a butterfly lantern with flapping wings.

Xia Chu put down her pipa and walked over, holding up a small flying tiger lantern, which Zhang Zhou had guessed from a lantern riddle. There was also a revolving lantern, and when it turned, a woman in palace dress danced on the lantern's surface.

"Here's a bunch of candied haws! Sister, why don't you eat some?"

"Carved from wood."

"Where are the grapes?"

"fake."

"Big chicken drumstick!"

"fake."

Wang Qiuyu threw it away in frustration, "Why are they all fake?"

"These are all collected by your third brother." Xia Chu arranged them one by one and said disdainfully, "If you have nothing else, hurry up and leave."

Wang Qiuyu pursed his lips and looked up at Xia Chu, "Didn't Dad ask you to teach me a lesson?"

"What lesson?" Xia Chu turned around and looked at him. "If you think like your classmates, I can only say that all these years of caring for you have been in vain."

"I don't know." Wang Qiuyu was confused. Many of his classmates looked down on women and sneered at their sisters. But he felt that this shouldn't be the case. His sister would scold him and pull his ears, but only when he was wrong, and pulling his ears didn't hurt him. "But they all say that."

"You have read so many books, but have you ever read that a gentleman discusses right and wrong and does not argue about similarities and differences. A villain compares similarities and differences and does not care about right and wrong?" Xia Chu poured him a cup of tea.

"I've read it." Wang Qiuyu nodded. "A gentleman distinguishes right from wrong, upholds the truth, and doesn't care about differences in stance. A villain compares similarities and differences in stance, but doesn't care about right or wrong."

"Go back and read it a few more times." Xia Chu saw him drinking tea and took out a few pieces of crispy candy and stuffed them into his hands. "Go and have fun."