In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

The greedy Wang Wu looked at the soft and rotten ribs on the table and couldn't help swallowing hard.

Seeing the dull atmosphere, mother had no intention of picking up her chopsticks and cautiously tried to test the waters:

"Mother...are we still waiting for the fourth brother and his wife?"

Facing Wang Wu’s question.

Shen Qian suddenly laughed, and Wang Wu was so scared that he fell off the stool and knelt on the ground, thinking that he had said something wrong.

After all, my mother's smile came so suddenly!

"Ah...Mother!" Wang Wu begged for mercy in panic, his eyes tightly closed.

Shen Qian just glanced at him casually, and then said:

"Since the fourth brother and his wife complain that the food at home is not good, you don't have to cook for them from now on."

"Let's eat!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she picked up the chopsticks in the basin.

The soft and rotten meat ribs were picked up.

Seeing their mother picking up her chopsticks, Wang You and Wang Liang tacitly forgot about the fourth brother and his wife and stared intently at the meat in the bowl.

The moment Shen Qian spoke, Wang Wu immediately stood up from the ground, sat down on the small wooden stool, picked up a piece of pork ribs and put it into his mouth.

Only the second oldest, Wang Miaomiao, mourned for them in his heart for a moment. After seeing his younger brothers wolfing down the meat, which made the already small amount of meat in the bowl even less, he also joined the fight!

With just a slight sip, the large piece of meat was sucked into his mouth, leaving only a piece of bone. But Wang Miaomiao did not intend to throw it away. Instead, after eating the meat, he chewed the bone repeatedly several times, broke it into pieces and swallowed it.

This is especially true for her younger brothers.

The sound of chewing bones could be heard on the dining table.

Shen Qian, on the other hand, spit out the bones directly after sucking on the meat.

Anyway, we have enough money now, and there is still some time before we have to flee the famine, so we have to take good care of our health. We can't lose our teeth before we start fleeing the famine.

......

Five hundred meters outside Wangjia Village.

A group of three people walked side by side. A man and a woman in linen clothes surrounded the man in a long green gown and chattered incessantly:

"Brother, you can't lie to us."

"The agreed reward of fifty coins cannot be less!"

"Don't worry, I will hand over fifty cents to you two when I get the money from my mother." The man in the long gown who was called the eldest brother flicked the folding fan in his hand lightly, fanning the breeze while responding casually.

The two people who got the answer were filled with joy.

They gathered together and whispered about what to do after getting the money.

Village entrance.

An old man sitting under a tree enjoying the cool breeze looked at the man in a green robe walking towards him and took the initiative to greet him, saying jokingly:

"Isn't this the student from Wang Shen's family?"

"You knew that Wang Shen was going to propose marriage to you today, so you came back to see her?"

"Propose a marriage?" Wang Qingliu's eyes widened when he heard the news. After being shocked, his breathing became heavy and he clenched his fists in anger.

I thought to myself: So the fourth brother and his wife asked me to come back, didn’t they sell their family for money?

He turned around and glared fiercely at the fourth brother and his wife who were whispering behind him.

He strode towards home at a brisk pace.

This matter must be rejected sternly, otherwise if I marry an ordinary farmer's girl, my life will be ruined!

The fourth brother and his wife were slightly stunned after being glared at by the eldest brother.

When they reacted.

He quickly caught up with her and shouted anxiously:

"Brother! Listen to our explanation!"

"We really don't know anything about the marriage proposal!"

"I called you back because I had this year's tuition paid for. Don't you understand what my husband and I are thinking?"

Looking at the three people walking away quickly, the old man leaned against the tree and lay down again.

Shaking his head repeatedly:

"Now there will be more excitement in the Wang and Shen families!"

Less than a minute after he closed his eyes, an anxious voice came:

"Jia Shan!"

"Don't sleep anymore, your sheep is about to give birth!"

Upon hearing the news, Jia Shan quickly got up from the tree and ran home.

When a ewe gives birth, it’s a big deal!

If you are not careful, there will be serious property losses at home!

......

"Mom!"

"Why did you let Shilang and the other two go to the county town to deceive me?"

Before the people arrive, the sound arrives first!

Shen Qian had just finished eating and stood up from the table. She looked outside the yard and saw her eldest son Wang Qingliu walking towards her in a hurry.

In the past, as the eldest son that Shen Qian's predecessor loved the most, even if he didn't take her as his mother seriously, her predecessor would never blame him.

Instead, I will be patient and explain it to him in detail.

Not to mention such trivial matters as blaming others before meeting them!

"Kneel down!" Shen Qian shouted loudly, with an unquestionable command in her tone.

The superior who had experienced the ups and downs of the business world for many years suddenly burst out with momentum.

She wasn't the old mother of the favored eldest son in her previous life, so how could she allow him to be so presumptuous? Not to mention, when Shen Qian was fleeing famine before her reincarnation, her beloved eldest son had sent her to live with a village scoundrel for just a few dollars!

If he hadn't disappeared since then, I would have wanted to skin him alive in my previous life!

How can there be any affection left when we meet again at this moment?

Wang Qingliu stood at the gate of the yard, staring blankly at his mother in front of him, feeling a little strange!

His mother, who always doted on him, actually made him kneel down?

But... as a Tongsheng, one of the only five Tongsheng in the village, how could he be willing to kneel down!

Not to mention that it has now attracted the attention of several villagers.

If I kneel down, I'll probably attract a lot of ridicule.

"Hey? That's the eldest son of Wang Shen's family, right? How could Wang Shen bear to let him kneel?"

"Keep your voice down! You might not have heard it just now, but Wang Qingliu blamed Wang Shenshi as soon as he got home. It was like he was arresting someone for a crime!"

"But even so... is Wang Shen really willing to let her child kneel down?"

"..."

Listening to those undisguised discussions, Wang Qingliu blushed slightly and whispered:

"Mom!"

"What's the matter? Let's go back to the house and talk."

"So as to avoid being laughed at by the neighbors."

Seeing Wang Qingliu's shameless look, Shen Qian sneered in her heart:

Are you trying to save face now? Why didn't you think of saving face when I tied up your mother and sent her to someone else's house?

"Don't go back to the house, stay here." Shen Qian shouted loudly, afraid that the neighbors couldn't hear:

"It's a good opportunity to let the neighbors judge for themselves."

"Ever since my son passed the imperial examination and became a student, everything has gone wrong at home."

"Every month, apart from asking for money, he never returned home, let alone brought anything back when he did."

"Today, even before entering the door, he questioned me, an old lady."

Having said that, Shen Qian paused and saw Wang Qingliu blinking at her.

Obviously he knew that he had just spoken out of turn and wished he would stop talking.

In today's society, filial piety governs the country! If I investigate his problem from this aspect, if it gets out of hand, his status as a student will be stripped away!

Not to mention that Wang Qingliu was planning to take the imperial examination and become a scholar! He naturally didn't want to ruin his reputation and be unable to take the imperial examination in the future.

But how could Shen Qian do as he wished? If you do something wrong, you must accept the punishment!

Perhaps it was their nature to watch the fun that made more and more villagers from Wangjia Village gather and surround Shen Qian's house not far away.

Pointing at Wang Qingliu:

"A son accuses his mother? Is Wang Qingliu...trying to overthrow Tiangang?"

"He's just a student, yet he doesn't respect filial piety! We can't let such a person become an official!"

"As the saying goes, a son never despises his mother's ugliness, and a dog never despises his family's poverty. Has he read so much that he's already got a dog's belly?"

"..."

Faced with these accusations, beads of sweat the size of beans slid down Wang Qingliu's cheeks.

We can't let them go on like this! Wang Qingliu, who knew the imperial laws well, trembled with fear: being unfilial is a serious crime, and your official title will be stripped away!

What he values ​​most is his own fame and what he wants most is to marry a woman from a wealthy family.

If you don’t have any achievements, then all this is in vain!

"Mother, I was wrong!" Wang Qingliu slumped on the ground, saying with a look of panic on his face.

Shen Qian looked at Wang Qingliu's terrified expression.

Sneered:

"You're not wrong."

"You are scared!"