When he woke up, his wife and child were both already present...

Cao Xiangnan looked down at the child who was standing in front of the bed, licking his little finger and looking at him. The child was very thin, with waxy yellow skin, and it was obvious that he was malnourished. The child's name was Cao Ruian, a little boy, who was four years old, but actually less than three weeks old.

Is this his son? It doesn't seem so.

Daughter? Cao Xiangnan immediately rejected this idea and just treated it as his son.

People of this era got married early, as young as fifteen or sixteen, and some as early as twelve or thirteen. The original body got married at the age of fifteen, and married a boy who was two years older than him.

Originally, Cao Xiangnan did not like this tall and two-year-old wife. He liked a weak boy from the same village. The boy was famous for his beauty in the village. Many people wanted to marry him, but unfortunately, they looked down on him and despised their poor family. Later, a rich family in the town took a fancy to him and brought him home to be his concubine. After Cao Xiangnan stopped missing her, the matchmaker in the village acted as a matchmaker for him. His family spent a lot of money to marry him to Qi Wanfeng.

After marriage, Cao Xiangnan and Qi Wanfeng could not say whether they loved each other or not. They lived numbly and later had a little boy, An'an. Unfortunately, the little boy was not loved by the family. He asked

the child standing in front of the bed to find a place to sit. Seeing the child sitting down on the small stool, his eyes were still looking at him. Cao Xiangnan didn't care. He continued to clear the memory of his original body and slowly sorted it out.

The place where he was was called Caojia Village. Most of the people in the village had the surname Cao. Their family was also a big family. Cao Xiangnan was the fourth child in this family.

Cao Ashan, the father of the Cao family, was a cowardly man in Cao Xiangnan's memory. The head of the family was his mother Chen Zhu, who was in charge of the family's money and was a stingy and stingy person.

Cao Xiangnan has three older brothers, the eldest is Cao Fugui, the second is Cao Fuqiang, and the third is Cao Chunqing, who is a younger brother. He ranks fourth and is called Cao Xiangnan. He has a younger brother named Cao Gaojin.

The eldest is Cao Fugui, a loyal and honest man from a village. He married Chen Li, who was from the same village as his mother. Chen Li was the favorite of his mother. They had three children, two boys and one boy. The eldest is Cao Jinbao, eleven years old, the second is Cao Yinbao, nine years old, and the third is Cao Qinglan, eight years old.

The second is Cao Fuqiang, a lazy man who likes to eat and do things, and likes gambling. He married a wife named Wang Yan. Both husband and wife are unproductive people in this family. There were four children in their family. The eldest, Cao Tianbao, was eight years old. In between, there were two younger brothers. The last one was Cao Abao, who was a few months older than Cao Ruian.

The third brother, Cao Chunqing, was a younger brother. In my memory, he was a very beautiful boy. He married the young master of a restaurant in Fenshui City and became a concubine. After he got married, he gave birth to two boys in a row. He was very spoiled. He would send some gifts to his mother's family every year, but he never set foot in Caojia Village again.

Cao Gaojin, the youngest son of the Cao family, was told by a fortune teller when Chen Zhu was pregnant. The fortune teller said that the unborn child would be a scholar. Chen Zhu protected this child as if he were her lifeblood, so Cao Gaojin was sent to a private school to study since he was young.

Cao Gaojin has always been a student praised by his teachers and is a good candidate for study. Last year, he was the only person in the village who passed the examination for a Tongsheng. After passing the Tongsheng examination, he went to Fenshui Town to study and prepare to participate in this year's imperial examination. The Cao family is looking forward to Cao Gaojin bringing honor to the family.