Chapter 35: Illiteracy is shameful
“Hmm…”
When Sun Pu talked about the tofu from Baoya's family, Rong He remembered what Baoya said about her mother's leg pain.
So he asked, "Grandpa Sun, can you cure leg pain?"
"What's so difficult about this? Of course I can cure it." Sun Pu smiled as he ate.
"That's great. Next time Baoya comes, I can ask her to bring her mother to see you for her leg disease." Rong He said happily.
Sun Pu was stunned by the chopsticks he was using to pick up food. "You mean Baoya's mother has leg pain?"
Rong He nodded: "Yes."
Sun Pu sucked on the chopsticks in his mouth, and the mustache on his lips curled up. "No need for her to come, I can see the patient myself."
You can also buy some more tofu from Baoya's house.
"But I don't know where she lives. I only know that she is from Feishui Village." Rong He blinked.
Sun Pu tapped him on the head with chopsticks and said, "Silly boy, how big can a village be? Go there and ask around and you'll find out."
"Oh," Rong He suddenly realized and became even more excited, "Then Grandpa Sun, I want to go with you! I want to go to Baoya's house to play!"
"Okay." Sun Pu agreed immediately.
He also wanted to meet this girl named Baoya. Judging from He'er's tone, she should be a child as well, and she played very well with He'er.
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The Yun family of Feishui Village.
After lunch, Zhao Zhilan gathered everyone together again to check the accounts and things.
This time, he earned more than 150 taels of silver from selling pearls and tofu. He spent 18 taels, leaving 132 taels of silver.
If you use this money to build a two-story building, it will cost about forty or fifty taels. If you make some furniture, it will cost another ten taels. In the end, only half of the money will be left.
She calculated the bill again in front of the whole family, then deducted fifteen taels for the family's food, clothing and other expenses, and saved the rest to use for the children's education.
This time when they went back to the town, Chengfu gave Baoya a picture book. She thought that the family was rich now, and they could not send only Chengfu to private school. Chenglu and Baoya and other girls should also go to school. Regardless of whether they studied well or not, at least they had to learn to read so that they would not be blind when they grew up.
The whole family had no objection, but Wang Cailian looked unhappy: "What's the point of a girl studying? She will get married in a few years. It's a waste of money."
"What do you know?" Zhao Zhilan glared at her. "Besides, the money was paid by me from the public account. What does it have to do with you?"
"Anyway, it's settled that the kids will go to school. We'll prepare the materials to build a new house before the New Year, and then we'll send the remaining children to school after the New Year."
Zhao Zhilan scolded Wang Cailian, then slapped her thigh and calmed down.
Baoya just thinks studying is new and fun, and Yunyue also feels new and curious.
Yunhua is already eight years old and understands a little bit. Compared with Baoya and Yunyue's playful attitude, she seems much more serious and really wants to go to school.
Only Yun Chenglu was not so interested.
Seeing him like that, Zhao Zhilan raised her hand and patted him on the back of the neck: "Even if you want to learn martial arts, you still have to go to school and learn to read."
"Why? I practice martial arts with my fists and feet. What does it have to do with whether I can read or not?" Yun Chenglu was not convinced.
He played with the children in the village, and the heroes they talked about were all good at wielding swords and flying in the sky. They were very powerful, but he had never heard of any hero who was good at reading and writing.
Baoya was nestled in He Chunxiu's arms, eating maltose. When she heard Yun Chenglu say that, she felt something was wrong: "Second brother, just like grandma, I also think you should go to school and learn to read."
Yun Chenglu didn't expect that even his beloved little Baoya would contradict him. He pouted and said, "Baoya, why do you say that too?"
"Because," Baoya turned over in He Chunxiu's arms, "if your martial arts master gave you a secret manual, you wouldn't be able to understand it if you can't read."
"Besides, what if you go out and beat up some bad guys in the future and someone writes a plaque to praise you, and you don't even know what's written on it? That would be so embarrassing."
Yun Chenglu: ...
That seems to be the case.
"Ahem," Yun Chenglu blushed at what his little sister said and scratched the back of his head. "Sister Baoya is right. I'll go to school with you, too."
"Okay~" Baoya smiled with her big eyes like purple grapes curved.
Seeing that Bao Ya had convinced Yun Chenglu with just a few words, Zhao Zhilan smiled with relief.
After sending a few children to play in the yard, Zhao Zhilan called Wang Cailian to her room with a sullen face.
The eldest wife secretly embezzled money from the public account. The few taels today might not be much, but if she pretended not to see it, Wang Cailian would probably become even more unrestrained in the future.
"Mom, what do you want from me?" Wang Cailian walked into the house, pretending to know nothing.
Zhao Zhilan didn't mention Dalang's lack of money after buying things. Instead, she said, "Every time Chengfu took the rations from his family, he would give me the copper coins he earned from copying books. Sometimes it was a few hundred coins, sometimes only a few dozen."
"Ah..." Wang Cailian was stunned. She really didn't know about this.
She had gone to the town to deliver food rations to Chengfu twice before, but Chengfu never said anything about giving money home. Was he deliberately avoiding her?
Zhao Zhilan sighed when she saw her look like that.
Really, this greedy and money-hungry daughter-in-law is sometimes even worse than a child.
"Chengfu said that now that Baoya has been added to the family, there is one more mouth to feed. He can't let the family support him for nothing, so he has to contribute at least a little."
"I know what you're thinking about all the time." Zhao Zhilan rolled her eyes at Wang Cailian. "I've saved the dowries for the three maids and the money for the two boys to marry."
"If you keep having these evil thoughts and plotting this and that with Dalang, then I won't care about Chengfu and Chenglu's share in the future. You have to figure it out on your own."
"Mom, mom, that's not what I meant!" Wang Cailian suddenly became anxious.
She saw that the family's income was flowing in like water, and her mother had the money in her hands. She felt itchy in her heart and always wanted to take the opportunity to get some for her two sons. After all, boys definitely cost more money than girls.
Their Yun family was not like other families in the village who treated their male children as treasures and wanted to give them all the best things. She had given birth to two sons for the Yun family, but Zhao Zhilan had never looked upon her favorably. She treasured and doted on her two sons, so couldn't she secretly save some for herself?
"So what do you mean?" Zhao Zhilan asked bluntly, "You've been married into the Yun family for so many years. What are you thinking? Can you really fool me?"
"You just think that because you have two sons, you feel that you are different from others. You think that I should treasure your two sons! Those three girls in Erlang and Sanlang's family are worthless and should be sent to work every day, right?"
"Mom..." Wang Cailian was exposed, her face flushed with shame and she couldn't say a word.
"You're so confused!" Zhao Zhilan reached out and tapped her forehead. "You've grown up to be a girl, so why are girls considered inferior to boys? I don't care about other families, but in my family, boys and girls are treated the same!"
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