"You didn't know how to control your strength when you hit me. If I had to fight, I would have done it. Look at you, you broke someone's nose with one punch. If he goes back to the village and tells lies, we will have to argue with him. You shouldn't have hit him in the face."
"Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Chunxiao looked at his two brothers with a mixture of laughter and tears. It turned out that his eldest brother didn't mean to not beat him, but wanted to beat him so that no one could see. He really had some ideas.
The onlookers were driven back to the village. Everyone had watched a lively scene today and thought it was really funny. It seemed that the scholar regretted what he had done earlier.
After returning to Yanjia Village, Dahe told Zhou about this incident. Zhou was so angry that she sat in the room and scolded Zhou Hongzhi.
"Okay, I lost my mind today and said a lot to him. From now on, I'll just turn around and walk away when I see him. There's nothing to be angry about. He's not even worth scolding."
"He thinks he's still a hot commodity, bah!"
"Have you been to the manor and seen how things are going? If there's anything you need to pay attention to, please tell us more." Although Yan Bingfa didn't like Zhou Hongzhi, he couldn't bring himself to curse at him. Anyway, his daughter didn't care about it, so it was better not to mention it.
"It's all good. Shuwen has remembered everything I taught him. I think there will be someone to take over from you, Big Brother."
Zhou cursed heartily, "You'd better not go to Zhoujia Village anymore. I only hate that you didn't let anyone know how powerful you are now, otherwise they would have tasted the bitter slap in the face. Want to ask for my hand in marriage again? What wishful thinking!"
"I told my second brother not to mention this to you. Look, there's nothing to be angry about. Today, my second brother even hit someone's nose and made it bleed. We didn't suffer any loss."
"He deserves it!"
Chunxiao returned from the village and thought about what happened today and found it funny. This world is really not short of weird people. It seems that she was too gentle and virtuous in the past, which made others think she was easy to control.
In mid-May, the cotton in Chunxiao's field bloomed with small pale yellow and pale pink flowers, which looked very beautiful together. Where there are flowers, there must be fruits. Looking at the number of flowers, there must be fruits. The villagers were very envious. Chunxiao told them that this was just the beginning, and the heavy work was still to come. After some time, when the cotton flowers were bigger, it would be time to top the cotton.
Just when the cotton fields in the village were blooming with large patches of flowers, a yamen runner came to the village to report a death. Three young men in the village had died on the battlefield. Their bodies were missing, so they were given 10 taels of silver as compensation.
Several people from those three families fainted that day. Although the other villagers were relieved that there was no news about their children, they became even more worried afterwards. What they feared most now was the soldiers entering the village.
On the last day of May, Zhou came over early in the morning. "Dongsheng's mother is not well. Your uncle Shizhu knocked on the door in the middle of the night yesterday, asking to borrow an ox cart. He said he wanted to take your Aunt Wen to see a doctor in town. I asked your eldest brother to accompany him, but he hasn't come back yet. I'm afraid the situation is not optimistic."
Chunxiao muttered inwardly, "Mom, let's go and take a look. I promised Dongsheng that I would help out if anything happened at home."
"I don't even know which clinic they're going to, how can I get treatment?"
"There are only two families like that in the town, just ask. Wait for me, I'll get some silver. I'll go look for them after we deliver the braised meat." She went into the house to get the silver, and said a few words to Xingfu and Meiman who had already gone to the fields at the door. Then she took Zhou and drove the ox cart away. Now she could also drive an ox cart. Xingfu taught her. Not only did she know how to do it, but Meiman also learned it.
After they finished their work, they quickly found her elder brother and others in the town. Wen's condition was very bad. The doctor used the most expensive ginseng but there was still no improvement. Chunxiao took out some silver and asked the doctor to use the best medicine to treat her.
"It's no use. After Dongsheng left, she has been getting worse day by day. Some time ago, she accidentally heard about some boys in the village, and her health collapsed the next day. I brought her here once, and she took medicine but didn't get better. She even vomited blood last night." Xu Shizhu's tears came out as he spoke. "I told her that she has to hold on. She hasn't seen her son yet. How am I going to explain to him when he comes back? She can't hear me. She can't hear me!" Xu Shizhu spoke in a low voice, as if talking to himself.
The doctor also shook his head and said, "He won't last a few days. It's better to arrange his funeral as soon as possible."
Wen held on for three days but finally passed away, and the village set up a mourning hall again.
Dongsheng was gone; it was Dahe who broke the basin. On the day of the burial, many villagers came, urging Xu Shizhu to be more open-minded. Wen had been ill for so many years, and now that she was gone, she was finally free. Xu Shizhu knew this, but he had someone by his side for so many years, and now that she was gone, he felt completely alone.
Life is always like this, with all kinds of misfortunes, but life must go on. In June, the villagers began to busy themselves with topping the cotton. Although they didn't know why they had to do this, they did it when Chunxiao asked them to, just like the Yan family did in the past.
Regarding the difficult-to-understand things they were asked to do, they not only did not ask why, but instead asked a lot of details about topping and pruning, such as how long the topping should be, whether to prune the main branches, and whether to prune the branches.
Chunxiao felt that their family could not compare to the villagers in terms of rigor.
Now that the weather was warm, preparing and braising the meat had moved to the evenings again. Chunxiao had handed this task over to Xingfu and Meiman, letting them take turns. Naturally, during the day, it was Tian, Zhou, or Zhang who would help out in the fields. Changxing was already five months old and very lively and adorable. Shuduo had already learned how to care for his little brother, which inadvertently helped Zhang a lot.
Chunxiao went to the manor about once every ten days. Shufeng's management skills were now quite good. Every time he went back, the manor ran smoothly. However, he still couldn't teach Wang Shiwen how to read. When Wang Shiwen mentioned this, he said with a bitter face, "Master, I will definitely complete all the other tasks you have instructed me to do, but I think you should forget about teaching me how to read. I am really clumsy. I learned it on the first day and forgot it the next day. It's a waste of your efforts."
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