Farming and reading family

Since she can travel through time, others may be able to do so as well.

Since time travel exists, rebirth is not impossible.

Gao E wondered if her elder brother had also had some adventure.

"Big brother is always like this." Chen Jie said as a matter of course, "It's just that he doesn't like to talk when there's nothing going on."

Gao E was surprised. Could this be the legendary Sweeping Monk, who had no presence in normal times and could only turn the tide when life and death came?

"I heard from my father that my eldest brother learned to read faster than my second brother at the beginning. At that time, the teacher thought that my eldest brother would pass the imperial examination." Chen Jie talked about some past events to himself.

"As a result, after my eldest brother learned to read, he liked to read miscellaneous books, such as travel notes and strange stories. He refused to read serious books at all. This made my father very angry. After he failed the examination to become a scholar, he was not allowed to study anymore." Chen Jie lamented.

Gao E suddenly realized that her elder brother just had different preferences from others: "What about you?"

Chen Jie smiled awkwardly: "I can't sit still. What the teacher taught me is only for recognition, and I don't understand it at all..."

Lei rolled his eyes at Chen Jie and said, "According to what you said, it's still the scholar who is wrong."

"Isn't it? I can tell what the number is by listening to the sound of the abacus." Chen Jie became excited.

"Come on, you just have your eyes on the money corresponding to the number." Lei didn't give him any face at all.

Chen Jie chuckled.

As the three people were talking, Chen Duokui stood at the entrance of the cave, holding the door frame. When he saw that it was his home outside, he burst into tears.

Gao E was startled. She turned around and saw that it was Chen Duokui who woke up. She hurried over to comfort him.

Chen Jie and Lei were no longer joking. The child was almost kidnapped, so it was normal for him to be scared.

"Mom is here, mom is here, don't cry, don't cry." Gao E hugged Chen Duokui to comfort him.

When Chen Duokui heard his mother say this, his body began to tremble. He knew very well that it was his mother who had wanted to sell him out before.

Gao E noticed something was wrong with Chen Duokui and turned to look at the Lei family. "You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll get the child something to eat."

Chen Jie and Lei nodded.

Gao E pulled Chen Duokui into the cave and closed the door.

She did not prepare food for Chen Duokui immediately, but pulled Chen Duokui to sit on a stool.

"It's not me." Gao E looked at Chen Duokui seriously.

Gao E felt that Chen Duokui was more mature than other children, but he was just a child. Although he had suppressed the original master's attempt to sell him out, he would become extremely nervous at the slightest sign of trouble.

Chen Duokui looked at his mother in disbelief.

"If I still wanted to do that, I wouldn't have brought you out then." Gao E stared into Chen Duokui's eyes.

Chen Duokui's eyes flickered and hesitated for a moment before looking up at his mother again.

This seems to be the case.

"I was wrong about what happened before. It was also at that time that I realized that you brothers are more important than anything else, more important than your father's fame." Gao E said seriously.

Chen Duokui's little face showed great shock. His mother actually said that they were more important than his father's fame?

"Don't worry, Mom won't let the person who kidnapped you go," Gao E promised. "I won't let this happen again."

Chen Duokui hesitated for a long time before nodding.

"I know you have been hiding this matter for me. You are very sensible. Thank you for being sensible this time. Mother will not let you work so hard in the future." Gao E looked at Chen Duokui seriously.

Chen Duokui didn't quite understand what this meant, but he felt his mother was serious.

"Okay, eat something first. In the evening, you and your father will go and give something to the person who chased you back." Gao E started to prepare food for Chen Duokui.

Chen Duokui stared blankly at his mother's back, feeling that it was a little unreal.

Chen Duokui was eating in the cave, and Gao E went out to watch them divide the meat.

According to Gao E's plan, each family would receive two pounds of meat, and the headman's family would send more. Chen Jie and Lei both felt that it was a bit too much, but they did not object.

After all, this wild boar was caught according to my second sister-in-law's method, and there are more left.

They worked for an entire afternoon to divide the meat. After dinner in the evening, Chen Ke took Chen Jie and Chen Duokui to deliver meat to the villagers, while Gao E took Yang and Lei to deal with the remaining meat at home.

Originally, Gao E didn't plan to make smoked meat, but there was too much meat left over, and it was not practical to simmer it all in oil, so she had to make some smoked meat.

"Let Chen Jie check it out tomorrow morning. This time we'll kill the meat and sell it ourselves." Mrs. Lei felt sad to see that she had to eat all the meat herself.

"Have you asked the restaurants in the city?" Gao E suddenly asked.

"Those people in the restaurant are so arrogant that they don't even look at us." Lei said angrily.

In fact, even in the city, the amount of pork consumed per day is very limited, and people living in the city cannot eat meat every day.

"How about we sell braised food?" Lei suggested.

"The source of wild boars is unstable. They are gone just two days after we set up the stall. The money we earn is not enough to cover the cost of maintaining the stall." Gao E said helplessly.

Lei also knew this: "Isn't there a wealthy family that would buy us a pig at a time?"

Gao E laughed.

She directed Yang to marinate the meat and watched Lei boil the oil, and they had just finished cleaning up when Chen Ke and the others came back.

Chen Jie was in high spirits. After all, the people who visited tonight were all very easy to talk to. They were very happy to see the two pounds of meat and told them to come to him if he had any problems in the future.

But when Chen Jie saw the meat marinated in the wooden basin and the boiled oil in the jar filled with meat, he felt a pang of pain in his flesh.

This could have been more than two taels of silver.

He never thought that one day he would be troubled by having too much meat.

"Take a jar of this stewed meat with you and let mother cook it for you." Gao E reminded Chen Jie.

"With parents like that, they definitely won't be able to bear to eat it." Chen Jie said unhappily, "You might even get scolded for not knowing how to live."

"We have to let them get used to it slowly." Gao E actually had no intention of changing the old man's mind.

They have lived like that all their lives, and it's not something they can change overnight. Just don't cause trouble.

Chen Jie was helpless and looked at his second brother: "There's a market in a couple of days, do you want to go buy food?"

"Go." Chen Ke agreed.

"I think we can talk to those who sell grain and make an appointment to go and get it directly." Chen Jie suggested.

Gao E discovered that Chen Jie did have a business mind, but he just had never done it.

Chen Ke thought about it and nodded. There was no time to delay stockpiling food.

"Then I'll go check the trap again tomorrow." Chen Jie looked a little tired.

After Chen Jie and the others left, Gao E was ready to go to bed. Chen Ke hesitated for a long time and found an excuse to call Chen Duokui out.

Gao E saw Chen Ke sighing slightly and then fell asleep.

She knew that Chen Ke was still brooding over her selling out Chen Duokui.

In the dark night, Chen Ke took Chen Duokui out of the house and walked a long way, looking back cautiously. He wanted to make sure whether Gao had done this.

"Dad, what's wrong?" Chen Duokui was very panicked. He guessed what his father was going to ask.