Farming and reading family

This made some people in Baotou Village angry. They thought the bricks and tiles belonged to their family and wanted to ask Luo Dagang for them.

But Luo Dagang looked ferocious and Zheng Xiaoshun's words could really make people angry, so those who came to ask for bricks and tiles had to give up.

Gao E was speechless when she heard this: "Why is Zheng Xiaoshun running into the yard every day now?"

Chen Jie was speechless: "He has a crush on Luo Dagang's sister."

"Ah?" Gao E was a little overwhelmed.

She felt that Zheng Xiaoshun and Chen Jie were about the same age, and Luo Qing'er was still a little girl.

"Yeah." Chen Jie nodded. "I've been following Luo Dagang around every day lately to try to please him."

Gao E didn't know what to say. This roundabout way of saving the country was better than directly bothering the girl.

"Tell them that they can pick up the bricks and tiles that are far away, but don't touch those on other people's foundations." Gao E reminded.

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. They still have some rules." Chen Jie didn't care.

At night, Chen Ke sat in the cave and cut bamboo strips. Gao E thought he would cut his hand from his movements.

"What are you carving this for?" Gao E was puzzled.

"I'll make a ruler," Chen Ke said, gesturing. "Start teaching them to read tomorrow."

Gao'e...

The ruler arrived before the book was opened. I suddenly felt a little sympathy for those children.

"There is no distinction in teaching. The children are still young, so we should be good at observing and guiding them, and not just punishing them blindly," Gao E said with a smile.

Chen Ke stopped and looked at his palms, thinking back to when he first started school, he was often slapped on the palms by his father and son, and sometimes his palms were so swollen that he couldn't even hold a pen.

Gao E glanced at Chen Ke's little movements. It couldn't be that he was reborn and still remembered the experience of being beaten as a child. It meant that he would remember it for a lifetime.

"You always think that children can't learn anything. Maybe they remember everything except the words in the book. That is also a kind of learning." Gao E said slowly.

Chen Ke immediately withdrew his hand. He felt as if his wife was talking about him: "Master said that jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved."

"Why didn't your master tell you that jade will break if dropped?" Gao E said jokingly, "To carve jade, you must observe its appearance and follow its grain. It depends on the skill of the jade carver, not just hammering and banging."

Chen Ke fell into deep thought. This was the first time he had heard such truth in his two lifetimes.

"Before, you said that the eldest brother and the third brother are better than you. If you think about it this way, the eldest brother and the third brother are also another kind of talents." Gao E looked like she was chatting.

Chen Ke remained silent and listened to everything Gao E said.

He is just like that. If you talk to him in a literary way, he will think it is the truth from the book.

If you rush to tell him that this is the truth, he will think you are being unreasonable.

Gao E didn't say anything else, and Chen Ke didn't sharpen the ruler anymore. When Wu came in, Chen Ke got up and left.

Wu cleaned up the bamboo shavings on the ground and said, "I've noticed your mother-in-law has been going out for the past few days, whether she has something to do or not. Is she planning to move out?"

Gao E thought there was nothing down there, so how could she move down there? She probably went out to show off because the old women in the village complimented her.

"Don't stare at her." Gao E reminded.

"Who's watching her?" Wu said disdainfully. "She runs in and out all day long, who..."

"What did you say?" Gao E suddenly interrupted Wu.

Mrs. Wu thought what she said was nothing special: "She runs in and out every day with the wind on her feet. Everyone knows it."

Gao E thought that all the food in their family was in the cave where she lived, but she had previously packed a few jars of smoked fish and placed them in the third cave, as well as a few jars of pickled bamboo shoots.

"Go and call my third sister-in-law in." Gao E wondered what her mother-in-law could do.

Soon Lei came in. After her father came, Lei was in better spirits.

"What's the matter, second sister-in-law?" Lei looked as if she was willing to go through fire and water for Gao E.

"Go and see if the number of smoked fish and pickled bamboo shoots in the jars matches." Gao E ordered.

Lei was stunned for a moment: "Second sister-in-law suspects that we are cheating?"

"You haven't lost a single bite of food, why do you have to steal it?" Gao E said unhappily.

Lei laughed and said, "Of course not. Then why did Second Sister-in-law ask that?"

"You go and take a look." Gao E was not sure either.

She knew her mother-in-law was unreliable, but she shouldn't be that unreliable. However, she still wanted to confirm it.

"Okay." Lei turned and left.

Wu has been in the Chen family for some time and has a pretty good understanding of the personalities of everyone in the family. In this family, Lei treats her eldest sister-in-law the best.

The smoked fish at home had been consumed recently, but they were all taken from the jars outside. When Lei went over to take a look, he saw that one of the jars was already half empty, and his face changed immediately.

She was even angrier than Gao E and told the story again.

After saying that, he suddenly realized: "It's my mother, it must be my mother."

The third cave is where men live. Usually, only the mother-in-law goes in to visit the father-in-law, and she and the eldest sister-in-law go in to cook or get things. No other women go in.

Mrs. Wu looked at her elder sister-in-law and then at Mrs. Wu. She really didn't know how her elder sister-in-law came up with this idea.

"I was wondering why those old women in the village like my mother so much recently. I'm going to talk to her about it right now." Mrs. Wu walked out angrily.

"Wait a moment." Gao E called out to Wu.

"What's there to wait for? Our home has been robbed." Mrs. Wu became angrier and angrier as she spoke.

These were things they had worked so hard to get back from dawn to dusk, but were stolen away by her mother-in-law without a word.

"Don't be angry." Gao E looked at Lei who was about to go out for a fight. "I'll handle this matter. Our Chen family can't let others make fun of us at this time. If you really go out to argue, there will be more conflicts in the family in the future."

Mrs. Wu patted her chest and said, "I really can't swallow this."

"It's okay, believe me, you will feel better then." Gao E said with a smile.

Lei really didn't know why her second sister-in-law's temper suddenly became so good and she could tolerate such a thing.

"Go find your second brother." Gao E didn't know how to explain to Gao E.

Gao E went out angrily.

"I'll go and get Xiaoliang to go to bed early. He can't sleep well when others are playing here." Mrs. Wu found an excuse and went out.

Chen Ke didn't know why Gao E called him so late at night, but his third brother's wife looked very unhappy when she called him, which made him feel that it was definitely not a good thing.

"What's wrong?" Chen Ke asked worriedly.

"There is less smoked fish at home." Gao E said directly.

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment: "I've been consuming a lot recently, so it's normal to have less."

"I mean, it's less than the normal consumption."

"Someone stole it?" Chen Ke finally reacted.

"Who do you think would steal in your cave?" Gao E looked at Chen Ke seriously.

Chen Ke thought about the people carefully and felt that no one would steal. Even Luo Dagang, who he was always vigilant about, had no time to steal after thinking about it carefully.

"We have elders in our family. I think you should discuss this matter with Dad and let him ask about it." Gao E suggested.