Logically speaking, their family was not poor. The Cao family lived in a large tiled house with green bricks in Caojia Village. There were four rooms and two small rooms outside. His father and mother lived in one of the four large rooms, and his eldest brother and second brother each had one room. The last room was given to the youngest brother by his mother. He, the fourth child, lived in the small room outside. The remaining small room was given to the eldest brother's children. The second brother was very dissatisfied with this.

The original Cao Xiangnan was a foolishly filial person. He did not feel unfair or have any thoughts of resistance. He accepted his mother's arrangement as a matter of course.

When Cao Xiangnan was a child, he envied his younger brother for going to school. He secretly followed him to the school and eavesdropped on the teacher's lectures. This child was actually very smart. He could remember what the teacher said once. Later, he went to the town to find a job because he could read, so he was hired. Now he has a fixed salary of three guan every month.

In that era, one guan was one hundred coins, and one thousand coins was one tael of silver. Three guan of money every month would amount to more than three taels a year, but Cao Xiangnan paid all of it back to his mother.

The big brick and tile house of the Cao family could only be built with the salary Cao Xiangnan paid every month and the gift money his third brother's husband's family gave him every year. Chen Zhu saved all of it to build the big brick and tile house, but only gave Cao Xiangnan's family a small house.

A little more than 30 yuan a year was enough for the three of them to live a good life, and his wife Qi Wanfeng was also hardworking, but their life was the most difficult in the family.

The eldest son, Cao Fugui, was honest and hardworking, but he married a calculating wife. The second son, Cao Fuqiang, was a lazy person who liked to eat but didn't work, and his wife was also lazy. The whole family didn't produce anything, and six mouths were waiting for the family to feed. The fifth son, Cao Gaojin, was a student, but he could only study and did nothing, and he only spent money but didn't earn anything.

In this era, if a family wanted to cultivate a scholar, especially a farmer who worked all his life, the family's money would not be enough to support him.

Cao Gaojin spent almost all the money in the family on his studies since he was young. Chen Zhu was stingy with everyone except this youngest son. He was willing to give him money no matter how much money he spent on him. Fortunately, after Cao Gaojin passed the examination for a student last year, the village also gave them some money. This money was just a drop in the bucket for his more than ten years of study. The cost of studying for so many years still had to be paid by the family.

The family bought a lot of land in the past few years. The more than ten acres of land were managed by his father, eldest brother and Qi Wanfeng. The eldest and second brothers usually took the women in the family to do needlework to make money.

Cao Xiangnan is not favored in this family, and his wife Qi Wanfeng is not liked by his mother, not to mention that he only has one little brother, which makes him even less favored by this family. There are more than ten people in this family, and all the housework is pushed onto Qi Wanfeng. The eldest and second brothers do nothing, not to mention his mother Chen Zhu.

So the biggest income in this family is Cao Xiangnan's monthly salary, and the biggest labor force is his wife Qi Wanfeng, who raises such a large family and serves them, and their family is treated the worst in this family.

When Cao Xiangnan thought of this, he was so angry that his liver hurt. He had seen stupid people before, but he had never seen such a stupid person. He and his wife worked hard, but their family was treated the worst in this family. This stupid man made his wife and children live a miserable life, and his own children were malnourished, while other people's children were raised to be white and fat, and they raised other people's families well.

The foolish filial piety of the ancients is really annoying!