Otherworldly Days

The red sun in the west gradually fell, sank into the mountains, and it was dark.

The doors of every household were closed, and the small village was so quiet that not even a dog was barking. Looking from a distance, it was pitch black.Tonight's night is hazy, the crescent moon in the sky hid in the clouds and did not come out, not even a little moonlight.

The oil lamp in the room was flickering, and two shadows could be seen inside from the window, and the man standing in the corner leaned against the wall and listened to the voices in the room.

"...I don't agree." Father Cao sat on a long bench smoking a pipe, and he didn't agree to do so when his daughter-in-law said that the fourth son's family would be separated at this time, "That's our fourth son!"

Seeing that the head of the family disagreed with what he said, Chen Zhu questioned, "Disagree? Ah, you disagree! Aren't you trying to kill us all? Are we all going to die with their family?"

"Where is it dead or not? Si'er can harm us all?"

"Why can't it be harmed? Even the old doctor Sun said today that Si'er's leg won't get better in the future. Now Si'er is lying on the bed like this and asked the doctor to see a doctor and get medicine. I don't know how much silver it will take to fill it up. This leg can't be cured. Tell me, the head of the family, what else can you do after this leg is lame? He has lost his job in the town, and now Qi Wanfeng is pregnant again, and he has another mouth waiting for us to raise."

"Wu'er is studying in the school, and the master said that he will definitely pass the examination of a scholar in the future. Wu'er will send a sum of money to him every month. Do you think it is easy for me to be such a big family? You, the head of the family, say Are you going to ruin our fifth son's future for the sake of the fourth son's family? I just hope that this son will rejuvenate our Cao family and make our ancestors proud. Your Cao family has not produced a single scholar in a hundred years. Don't you think so? There is a scholar in the Cao family village, don’t you want our family to produce a scholar? You are going to ruin my Wu’er’s future now, this is killing me..."

Chen Zhu scolded and cried, with snot and tears on the ground, crying miserably. Si'er's family killed their Cao family, their fifth son, and their Cao family village for a hundred years. A scholar who came out was harmed, "I dare not go down to face the ancestors after I die, to meet the ancestors of the Cao family..."

Father Cao sat there smoking a pipe, in a shadow under the dim light.Chen Zhu's words said that his heart is on his mind, his fifth son Cao Gaojin will be a scholar who has been born in the Cao family for a hundred years, and he will revitalize the lintel of their Cao family and glorify their ancestors.If he destroys Wu'er, he will not be able to go down to face the ancestors after he dies.

Si'er is lying on the bed now, and she doesn't know what to do in the future.

Chen Zhu, who covered her face and was crying, secretly went to see the head of the house from the corner of her eye. Seeing that the face of the head had loosened, she began to talk about the days when he was married. What kind of glory will Caojiacun bring to Caojia Village if he is selected as a scholar.

The moon hiding in the sky secretly showed her face, there was a faint shadow on the ground, and the chickens in the cage were hugging each other and sleeping.

After a long time, the person listening to the corner outside the room vaguely heard the response from inside, with surprise on his face, he tiptoed to the bed covered with a quilt in the room, and the husband and wife whispered, "Daddy, can you?" Really should?"

"Indeed!" said another voice.