Chapter 180 Wishes Fulfilled
Miss Wei, Madam Li, and all the constables in the courtyard looked bewildered.
Is his family here?
Where?
They looked around but found no one else besides themselves.
But both Lord Yu and Li Qingmiao seemed to be able to see those people.
Miss Wei couldn't help but cross her arms: "Why do I feel a little cold?"
Li Zhangshi and the constables in the courtyard nodded in agreement: "It is indeed cold."
No one answered their questions.
At that moment, Li Qingmiao was venting his anger.
"Why do we hate them? Of course, it's because they are hateful!"
He suddenly looked at Li Chenshi, his birth mother: "You, a hen that can't do anything but lay eggs! You can't fly yourself, yet you expect me to become a dragon or a phoenix, to lead you to great heights? Don't you even know if you're worthy?"
“From childhood to adulthood, I have never slept in for a single day. The villagers who go to do farm work get up at the earliest at dawn, but you make me get up at dawn to study!”
"I feel like throwing up just looking at all that soup and water you give me every day!"
Li Chenshi's empty white eyes were filled with confusion: "Those soups are all very nourishing, I'm worried about your health... Besides, the early bird catches the worm, you can only remember things if you get up early to study, haven't you felt that too?"
"I want to sleep! I want to rest! I want to play like everyone else!"
He then looked at his grandmother: "And you, you greedy old woman who loves the poor and loves the rich, Cuihua from the village and I were in love, but you insisted that Cuihua was not good enough for me, and that she was after our family's money, not me as a person, and you insisted on breaking us up. As a result, Cuihua married a butcher, who was violent and beat her every day."
"That day, Cuihua just came to me to confide in me, and that butcher beat her to death! You killed Cuihua, so I want you dead too!"
Then, pointing at Li Daniu and his other brothers and sisters, she said, "And you, you have no ability of yourselves, yet you're just like this greedy and incompetent woman, hoping I'll help you live a good life! Yes, you work in the fields every day and pay for my education, but has any of you ever asked me if I wanted to study?"
"You all think that once I make something of myself, you'll live a good life with me. I'm going to shatter your hopes! I'll show you how ridiculous you are! Hahaha..."
In the end, he became like a madman.
The Li family members were both heartbroken and furious, their resentment churning within them.
Overwhelmed by their resentment, they revealed themselves, startling everyone in the courtyard.
With a flick of her finger, Yu Zhiyi sent a ray of golden light shattering the darkness.
The Li family members instantly came to their senses.
She said calmly, "Don't worry, I will make him turn over a new leaf."
As she spoke, she threw a talisman at Li Qingmiao.
The talisman automatically stuck to Li Qingmiao's forehead, and Li Qingmiao suddenly stopped moving as if frozen in place.
He closed his eyes, as if he were asleep.
Miss Wei and Madam Li asked anxiously, "Sir, what's wrong with him?"
"Well, let him get what he wanted."
It was a dream-entering talisman, with a similar effect to the Hundred Dreams Killing Technique used by that evil cultivator before.
The difference is that the dream-entering talisman won't kill you; it will only generate the most realistic dream based on the deepest desires in people's hearts.
Therefore, Li Qingmiao has now become a mediocre talent.
He carried the memories with him and became a mediocre talent.
He returned to the Li family.
At that time, none of the Li family members were still alive.
When Li Qingmiao was three years old and began his formal education, his teacher deemed him to have no talent for studying, while his older brother became a genius.
As a result, Li Qingmiao got her wish and was expelled from the school.
Although the Li family was quite wealthy, as a farming family, their assets were only enough to support one person's education.
If they lived in Shengjing, they could also attend Joseph's School for free.
But they were 108,000 miles away from Shengjing.
Moreover, the Joseph School of today is not the same as it was when it was first established a hundred years ago.
A century ago, Joseph's School was not accepted by the wealthy and powerful because it was incompatible with the values of aristocratic families, and could only accept children from poor families.
Children from poor families mostly had to help with farm work. Although people longed to study, the real food was more reassuring than the unattainable dream of becoming a top scholar.
Therefore, when Joseph's School was first established, it was actually very difficult to recruit students.
In the first year, fewer than 100 students enrolled.
But now, whether they are high-ranking officials or ordinary people, everyone wants to get their children into the program.
Ordinary people simply cannot get a spot.
Li Qingmiao was able to stop going to school as she had wished.
But for some reason, he felt a little unhappy.
He didn't think much of it, after all, it was something he had always longed for, so he quickly dispelled the inexplicable unhappiness in his heart and happily went home.
His parents knew he didn't have a talent for studying, so they didn't blame him.
When they learned that their eldest brother was a genius, they were overjoyed, just as they had been when they first learned he was a genius. That very night, they killed two chickens, bought a pound of pork, and cooked a big meal.
The older brother was beaming from the praise he received from those around him.
Li Qingmiao watched coldly, thinking that you'd know how bitter it was in a few years.
Unexpectedly, the first person to notice the "bitterness" was not his older brother, but him.
Doing farm work is so cool.
Although he was only three years old and didn't need to work in the fields, farm children have to work as soon as they can walk.
If you can't do heavy work, you can pull weeds, catch insects, feed chickens, or go up the mountain to find wild vegetables.
Every day at dawn, he had to get up and go up the mountain with his brothers and sisters to find wild vegetables and catch insects.
Sometimes we even had to go down to the fields with the adults to pull weeds.
During the busy farming season, each person in the family would be stretched to be eight, so this little rascal also went to pick up wheat ears.
The first year passed by in a daze.
Although Li Qingmiao felt a little regretful, it wasn't too strong. After all, these weren't heavy tasks, and she would get used to them.
Throughout the year, he also observed his older brother, hoping to see him in pain.
Unexpectedly, the eldest brother never complained. Sometimes, when he came home from school, he would teach his other siblings to write a few words and how to do arithmetic.
The brothers and sisters all greatly admired their eldest brother.
Seeing the admiration in everyone's eyes, Li Qingmiao felt a little resentful.
Why is it that these people only tell him to work harder and harder so that he can become the top scholar in the imperial examination and lead his whole family to a good life?
When it comes to the older brother, it's like, "Wow, brother, you're amazing!"
Soon, Li Qingmiao lost all interest in being jealous.
As he gets older, he has more and more work to do, and it gets heavier and heavier.
In the village, children start working in the fields at the age of twelve or thirteen.
Composting fertilizer, clearing land, planting crops, harvesting, even planting trees on the mountain, carrying loads on shoulder poles to the market in the big village...
All of these jobs were exhausting, and he was completely worn out every day.
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