Farming and reading family

In Jiang's view, Chen Fancai is also a capable person, and she always hopes that he can help her family.

Sitting under the eaves, Chen Fansheng had a cold expression on his face: "It looks like it's going to rain, why don't you go and turn over the things drying in the sun?"

Jiang smiled awkwardly and went over to turn over the dried radishes.

Chen Fancai carried ten eggs and sat down next to his eldest brother: "I heard that my eldest brother was injured. I was so busy that I couldn't leave. I finally found some time to come and see him."

They have been brothers for decades, and Chen Fansheng knows Chen Fancai too well. Apart from his death, his younger brother would come to cry hypocritically, there must be something else.

"Since you're so busy, there's no need to come. We brothers don't need these empty formalities." Chen Fansheng looked like he didn't want to pay any attention to Chen Fancai.

"Brother, what are you talking about..."

"As an uncle, you should have known what I was talking about when you bargained down the price to buy your nephew's yard." Chen Fansheng interrupted Chen Fancai directly.

Chen Fancai chuckled, "Big brother, do you still mind this? I'm doing this for the good of the second child. He's going on a scientific expedition, and he can't have any psychological pressure."

Chen Fansheng snorted coldly and didn't want to pay any attention to Chen Fancai.

He clearly had the money, but he took advantage of the situation and pushed the price of the second son's house down to such a low level. Everyone knew what he was thinking.

Chen Fancai was too lazy to pretend: "Then the second brother is living a good life now, driving a carriage to the city every day, and the horse feed alone must cost a lot of money."

Chen Fansheng didn't know that Chen Ke and his friends often went to the city. He only knew that they were busy repairing the courtyard wall.

"So much meat was given to the villagers before. If the second brother hadn't become rich, would he have dared to be so generous?" Chen Fan added fuel to the fire when he saw that his eldest brother seemed to be unaware of the matter.

"What does it have to do with you?" Chen Fansheng was still more repulsed by Chen Fancai.

"I'm just concerned about my nephew. What if he gets tricked into spending all the money he saved? How will he afford his studies?"

Chen Fan then realized that his elder brother would risk his life to let Chen Ke study.

Chen Fansheng didn't say anything.

"The second son is a scholar. It's normal for him to go to the city to see his classmates occasionally, but it's not normal to go there every day." Chen Fancai whispered, "I'm doing this for the second son's good. Our Chen family finally has a scholar, and the first scholar in Batou Village."

Chen Fansheng stopped talking.

In fact, she also felt that her three sons had been acting a little abnormal recently, but they all had their reasons, and she didn't delve into it because of her inconvenient legs and feet.

Seeing that the conversation was almost over, Chen Fan got up and left.

Chen Fansheng thought for a long time: "Old woman."

"What's the matter?" Jiang was still sitting there flipping through the dried radishes, arranging them neatly like in a beauty pageant.

"Go to the second brother's house and call him down." Chen Fansheng ordered.

"Why would you ask the second brother to come down for no reason?"

"Just go when I tell you to." Chen Fansheng said unhappily.

Only then did Jiang get up and go out.

Plans are not as good as changes. Today Chen Qing and Chen Jie went to dig a trap.

According to Chen Jie's observation, there were many more wild animals around the pond, and there were also many more wild boar footprints, but they only had one trap, so they missed a lot of prey.

So they planned to dig another one, otherwise they felt that the salt would be a bit of a waste.

When Jiang arrived at Chen Ke's house, Gao E and Chen Yuning were peeling bamboo shoots. Lei had already picked two baskets and planned to eat them at noon.

"Mom." When Yang saw Jiang come in, she subconsciously wanted to stand up and gasped in pain.

Jiang looked around the second brother's yard. It had only been a short time, but the family already had a stone mill and a stone roller. Gao really didn't know how to live.

There were a lot of acorns piled in the yard on one side, which made her feel a little better.

"What's the matter, mother?" Gao E didn't like others looking at her things.

"Where is the second son?" Jiang asked directly.

"Kui'er, go out and call your father." Gao E ordered.

Chen Duokui ran out immediately.

The place where Chen Ke picked acorns was very close to his home, and he could hear it by calling out at the gate.

Jiang looked at Yang and Yu Ning again and asked, "Is Yu Ning's injury almost healed?"

"It takes a hundred days to heal a broken bone, and it's only been a few days. Besides, Yu Ning is a girl, and she can't get any problems." Gao E said directly.

Jiang's mouth twitched. "She can't walk, but her hands are healed. The corn at home is all dried up, so she can peel it while sitting down."

"This really won't work. One small move will affect the entire body. Besides, the doctor told us to take good care of the child." Gao E retorted.

Yang was horrified when she heard this, and wondered how her second brother's wife dared to speak to her mother like that.

But since she was speaking for her family, she had to remain silent even if she didn't want to help.

Jiang was about to lose her temper when Chen Ke came in from outside. Seeing his mother in the yard, he hurriedly put the backpack on the ground.

When Jiang saw the acorns in Chen Ke's backpack, she immediately became angry: "You are a scholar, how can you do such rough work?"

Chen Ke was worried that his mother would say that.

Gao E stood up and said, "This is called combining work and rest, which is more conducive to studying."

Jiang turned her head and glared at Gao: "What do you, a woman, know?"

Got it!

Stop making personal attacks.

"What's the matter, Mom?" Chen Kezhen was worried that they would start arguing.

"Your father asked you to go downstairs." Jiang said and left.

Chen Ke gave Gao E a soothing look and followed his mother downstairs.

Yang then said worriedly, "You'll make me angry if you talk back to me like this."

"When did being reasonable become being unreasonable?" Gao E didn't care.

Yang thought about it and felt that her second brother didn't seem angry, so she didn't need to worry so much.

Jiang started shouting as soon as she entered the room: "If I hadn't gone up to see, I wouldn't have known Gao actually let the second son pick acorns. She doesn't want to do business, she just doesn't want the second son to study."

Chen Fansheng looked at Chen Ke with a serious expression: "Is there such a thing?"

Chen Ke hurriedly bowed, "I read some of the writings of ancient sages about rural life, and I tried to understand them more thoroughly, so that I could better grasp the artistic conception."

Chen Fansheng glanced at Jiang with dissatisfaction, and Jiang turned and left, feeling somewhat guilty.

"Scholars believe in reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles. Your awareness is progress." Chen Fansheng encouraged his son again.

Chen Ke breathed a sigh of relief. If it were in the past, he would definitely not have been able to handle it so smoothly. He has learned a lot from his wife and third brother recently.

"Dad, what's the matter that you want me to come down for?" Chen Ke sat on a bamboo chair on the side.

Chen Fansheng finally realized: "Why have you been going to the city so often recently?"

Chen Ke immediately became alert, wondering if his father had discovered what they were doing.

"There's been a lot going on at home lately..." Chen Ke's mind raced. "There's a lot of stuff I need to buy, and sometimes I don't think things through, so I have to make a few more trips..."

He wasn't sure how much his father knew, so he could only speak slowly and see his father's reaction.

Chen Fansheng frowned. "Although we have a carriage at home, it costs a lot of money to run these trips. Besides, what will the villagers think of you running back and forth like this?"