Farming and reading family

Gao E and Chen Ke looked at each other. They had already given the money, so what was their father up to again?

"Don't be anxious, take me to see your elder sister first." Gao E comforted Han Yue.

She felt that Hanyue was more independent-minded than Yuning, but she was still young and had no say in the family.

Gao E followed Han Yue to the big house, while Chen Ke took the four children back to his own room first.

Chen Yuning was lying on the bed with a pale face. When he saw his second aunt, he cried out with difficulty.

"What did you eat for lunch?" Gao E felt that Yu Ning's condition was getting worse.

"Second Aunt didn't eat breakfast, so she heated up the leftovers and shared them at noon." Chen Hanyue's tone was a little dissatisfied.

Gao E was speechless for a moment: "What's going on with the medicine?"

"My parents went into the mountains, so I boiled medicine for my eldest sister. Grandpa asked me to go clean the chicken coop. I agreed and said I would boil the medicine. Then grandpa got angry and kicked over the medicine jar." Chen Hanyue said with tears in her eyes.

Gao E really didn't know what to say: "Wait a moment." She said and left.

She went back to the house and brought over four multi-grain steamed buns. They were all in the growing stage, and one was still injured. If this continued, the baby would die.

Chen Yuning and Chen Hanyue looked at the steamed buns and didn't dare to eat them for a moment.

"Eat." Gao E looked at them.

Only then did Chen Hanyue hand the two steamed buns to her elder sister.

"I'll just eat one, and save the rest for Xichen and Yan'er." Chen Yuning said as he secretly swallowed his saliva.

"You're still injured, so eat more." Gao E felt very uncomfortable.

The Chen family was a good family, and they had a good life originally. However, for common people like them, studying was too expensive. They only knew how to farm and did not seek personal gain.

"I can't eat much." Chen Yuning insisted.

Gao E looked at Chen Yuning seriously: "Have you ever thought about what would happen if your leg can't be healed?"

Chen Yuning fell silent for a moment.

"Sister, this is given to you by Second Aunt, just eat it." Chen Hanyue urged.

"You two eat." Gao E looked at them.

Chen Yuning and Chen Hanyue then slowly began to eat.

"Where is the medicine? I'll go and boil it." Gao E remembered that Chen Yuning had not taken the medicine yet.

"The medicine jar was broken. There is no medicine jar." Chen Hanyue said angrily.

But she is the younger generation and doesn't dare to get angry with the older ones.

Gao E didn't know what to say. She watched the two of them finish their steamed buns before getting up and leaving.

Chen Hanyue sent Second Aunt to the door before returning to her sister's bedside: "Sister, is Second Aunt going to make medicine for you?"

"You go and watch. If grandpa gets angry, you go and stop him." Chen Yuning reminded.

Chen Hanyue curled her lips and said, "Second Aunt is not afraid of Grandpa. I think Grandpa and Grandma just bully whoever they want."

Chen Yuning sighed: "Grandpa wasn't like this before."

When Chen Yuning was a child, her grandfather worked as an accountant in the city. Every time he came back, he would bring some food, and she would get some. Her peers were very envious of her.

But later on, all the money in the family had to be used for my second uncle's education, so we became tight.

When my second uncle just passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, my grandfather was happier than anyone else. He walked around the village with his hands behind his back every day, praising my second uncle to everyone he met. He even had the best seat to bask in the sun in winter.

When Gao E returned to the house, she saw Chen Ke packing up his things: "Dad broke the medicine pot that Yu Ning used to boil medicine."

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment: "I'll go talk to Dad." Then he left.

Gao E looked at the things piled in the house. If they were moved up there, it would be enough for them to live on.

But the cave house still needs to have a sealed door, so she hesitated whether to move in now or move in after the door is sealed.

Before she could think it through, she heard shouting and cursing coming from the main room, and Chen Ke retreated from the main room in a somewhat embarrassed manner.

"If you keep doing this, you must go to the capital for the imperial examination next year, otherwise I will die in front of you." Chen Fansheng threatened.

He was also angry.

If the second son failed to pass the imperial examination like the eldest and third sons, he could risk his reputation to find them jobs in the city, which would be something the villagers would envy.

But the second son passed the exam, which made him feel that smoke was coming out of the graves of the Chen family. The Chen family was definitely not an ordinary family.

Everyone envied him at that time.

But now that the second child has not graduated from high school, those envious words have become sarcasm, making him unable to hold his head up in the village. Now he doesn't even dare to leave the house, for fear of hearing those sarcastic words.

"Dad——" Chen Ke looked helpless.

"Stop talking!" Chen Fansheng interrupted Chen Ke. "I'll sell everything I have and burn my bones to get you to take the imperial examination."

Gao E felt a headache after hearing this. This old man's obsession was extremely strong.

Didn’t Chen Ke tell his father about the medicine jar?

What does this say?

It was like stepping on his father's tail.

"Smash pots and sell iron, grind bones and make oil?" Gao E said as she walked out of the house. "How many pots can the Chen family smash, and how many people's bones can they grind?"

When Chen Fansheng heard his daughter-in-law disobeying him like this, his face turned pale.

"It's a good thing that Dad wants my husband to have a bright future, but he should also think about the family's livelihood first. That is the future of the Chen family!" Gao E stared at her father-in-law.

She was born in a family that favors boys over girls. Her parents kept her alive just so that she could be used as a dowry for her younger brother when she grew up.

Later, she became successful in her career, but in the eyes of her family, everything she had should belong to her younger brother.

Until she had no children, everyone wanted to kill her.

The Chen family is more inclined towards her, but she doesn't like this kind of bias either.

While she was speaking, she didn't know that the Chen family had already returned and was standing at the door listening to her quarrel with her father-in-law.

"Reading is to gain knowledge and correct oneself. We do not seek to be remembered for generations, but to live a life without regrets. If my husband, because of studying, fails to respect his parents, be friendly to his brothers, and be loving to his children, it is a shame for a scholar." Gao E said in a resounding voice.

She wanted to study very much and suffered a lot from not having enough education.

But she also knows that studying is not everything.

Chen Fansheng was speechless.

Chen Ke was stunned. These words really touched his heart.

Is this still the woman who was devoted to letting him study?

How could she actually say these truths?

no……

When did his wife understand these principles?

"Yes!" Chen Jie couldn't help but cheer.

That's what he thought.

He also hoped that his second brother could pass the imperial examination, so that their Chen family could get rid of their poverty and become wealthy.

But people have to survive first.

Chen Ke and Gao E turned around and found that the Chen family had been standing at the door without them knowing when.

"What's right?" Jiang saw her husband lose face and slapped her troubled son on the head. "If your daughter-in-law talks back to her father-in-law, people will criticize us Chen family members."

"Then we won't tell anyone." Lei said immediately.

She suddenly felt that she could get along with this second sister-in-law.

Even the eldest and his wife looked surprised, and their faces, as stiff as dead wood, relaxed a little.