The seven emotions and six desires are all my nourishment

"Don't cry, they're gone!"

"Hmph, when I pass the imperial examination, I will make sure you two old people eat and drink the best food, and have servants sitting around us." These words made Old Man Hua feel relaxed all over. He smiled and praised his son for being so capable.

Hua Ganji glanced at his still-crying mother with some disdain and said impatiently, "If you really can't bear to leave Big Brother, then you can go with Big Brother!"

When Hua Lao Niang heard this, she stopped crying immediately and said, "That won't do. Who will take care of you if I'm gone?"

Who wants to go with the eldest son? Once he leaves, you will think about not being able to take care of the youngest son. Isn't it heartbreaking? You will have to do all the work by yourself in the future!

"My son, you must be hungry. Come back to the house quickly and I'll make you a bowl of egg custard." After saying this, Hua's mother jumped up from the ground without anyone's help and hurried into the house to make egg custard.

Hua Lao Da brought his son and his wife back to his parents' home. Liu Xiao'e's family naturally welcomed them. They had five girls, and Liu Xiao'e was the fourth. They had originally wanted to keep the youngest one to marry into the family, but now it seems that is no longer necessary!

Look, even the eldest grandson is ready!

In Liu Xiao'e's home, Hua Lao Da felt unprecedented respect and was commonly known as the pillar of the family.

He has all the delicious food and drinks, and he will only eat when he is at the table. There are two old people, and a younger sister-in-law who is about to get married. The younger sister-in-law is only seven or eight years old and holds her son all day long.

He felt so comfortable that Boss Hua was so happy that he worked even harder.

Many people said that Liu Xiao'e had drugged Hua Lao Da, otherwise why would all his brothers pass the imperial examination and he want to split up the family business at this time, and now they have all become live-in sons-in-law.

Outsiders don’t understand, but the neighbors, including Mr. Hua, do have some understanding, but it’s not enough.

After all, Hua Xiaozi is already a scholar. If he works hard and manages to reveal the secrets, it would be a blessing.

It is really not a wise move to split up the family at this time. Look at how they have sold their tax-free quota and are now living a good life at home. The old family is really crazy.

But Boss Hua doesn't care. The couple lives much better than before. They dare not even think about their brother's well-being, for fear that the whole family will die!

Zhang Yaoyao seemed to have grown up suddenly. The house was always clean, and he would order his father around every day. If the firewood pile was not neat, he would rebuild it.

Looking at the clean house, the neatly dressed Yaoyao, and his daughter who was competing with him for financial power, Father Zhang finally realized that his daughter had grown up.

Yesterday, the father and daughter went from street to street, cleaning the piglets. They were able to cut off a lot of piglets' testicles in one day.

My wallet is full and sometimes I can even get a free meal from others.

By cutting the testicles, you can determine who raises pigs and how many they have. When you collect the pigs, you can find them accurately and avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Now that they have the money, the father and daughter can't sit still today.

One of them took half the money to buy piglets.

One of them took the money to buy salt, cloth, and buy, buy, buy.

The two had different goals, so they went their separate ways and went their separate ways.

Yaoyao, carrying a bamboo basket on his back, skipped off to the city. He hadn't bought much cloth yet, just a few sweatshirts would be enough. He did buy a lot of salt, coarse grains, and fine cereals.

I also bought a bamboo basket of chicks.

After returning with a full load, they heard a faint cry for help in the ditch by the roadside at the entrance of the village.

Yaoyao leaned over to look and saw that it was Li Xiucai. It turned out that he died here.

This kid is as thin as a skeleton. He is the only one in his family. It turns out that his family is also a wealthy family.

His father was smart and knew that if he failed to pass the imperial examination, he could just teach at home. However, the situation was turbulent and their house was robbed.

The old scholar is also dead, his mother is beautiful and...

He was sick and crazy, but he disappeared two years ago.

The only one left was Xiao Li, who worked as an accountant during the day, copying books and selling couplets, and managed to get himself certified as a scholar.

In the original owner's life, this person was not discovered until a long time after his death, and no one knew when he died.

If it weren't for his relatives who wanted to use his name to get some land tax exemption and searched for him everywhere, they wouldn't have known that he was dead.

"Hey, are you dead? If not, squeak."

Li Xiucai: “…………Help…”

He had been hungry for too long, so he worked all the way after the exam and finally came back.

As soon as he got there, he felt dizzy and fell down. Only when he heard the humming did he gather his strength and shout weakly.

Yaoyao put down what she was holding, jumped into the ditch, raised her hands from under Li Xiucai's armpits, and shook off the mud on her body. "Can you still walk?"

"...I don't have the strength... Please help me... send it back." Li Xiucai raised his hand slightly, wanting to make a gesture of greeting, but he was too hungry and had no strength.

"Tsk, you have to compensate me for my clothes." As he said this, he carried Li Xiucai on his shoulders and crossed the ditch in one step.

Yaoyao carried the big basket in one hand and Li Xiucai on his back in the other, and walked home in a swagger.

Li Xiucai was upside down and was already lacking in energy and blood, so he fainted.

When they got home, Yaoyao put down his things, looked at the unconscious person, carried him to his father's room, added some brown sugar water, pinched his mouth and poured it into his mouth, then cooked a bowl of porridge and brought him a steamed bun and an egg.

As soon as the egg was shaken in front of his nostrils, Li Xiucai woke up, grabbed the egg with trembling hands and stuffed it into his mouth, choking him so much that he could only roll his eyes.

Yaoyao's mouth twitched as she poured him a glass of water. "Eat slowly. If you choked to death on an egg, it would be a ridiculous way to die."

Li Xiucai blushed and said, "Thank you very much, Miss Zhang, for saving my life. I will definitely repay you well in the future."

"Ah, I thought you were going to say you'd repay me with your life-saving grace." Yaoyao blinked innocently and handed him a bowl of porridge. "Drink the porridge. You won't be afraid of lice biting you anyway."

Li Xiucai was forced to take it, and drank the porridge with a red face, and whispered, "That's all in the opera. If you save someone, you have to marry them. I'm afraid many people don't dare to save others."

"You are different from that flowery scholar. Although you are both sour, you are more down-to-earth. But he is better looking."

"Why did you faint in the ditch? You look so thin, like a bamboo pole. Don't you have money to eat?" Yaoyao peeled another egg and put it in his bowl.

"Thank you, Miss Zhang. I came back with some silver, but I was in a hurry and didn't buy enough bread. I fainted just as I reached the village entrance. If I hadn't met you, I might have..."

"I see, you passed the exam and became a scholar. This way you can use the tax exemption to earn some money and don't have to work so hard."

Li Xiucai just smiled and said nothing. That little bit of silver was not enough...

"Are you full?" Yaoyao's voice rang out, and Li Xiucai realized that he had eaten so much.

"I'm full, I'm full, thank you Miss Zhang." Li Xiucai handed over the bowl with a red face.

Yaoyao handed over another steamed bun, "Have some more. When I brought you back, your stomach was growling all the way, like thunder, so loud!"