Chapter 46: Neither of them is easy to deal with
"Second brother, I didn't laugh at your handwriting."
Seeing that he looked hurt, Baoya raised her little hand to wipe the ink off his face: "Your face is covered in ink, like a little cat."
As a result, Yun Chenglu's face became even more red.
Yunhua and Yunyue finished writing their own articles. When they looked up, they saw Yun Chenglu's big painted face and laughed unrestrainedly.
Zhao Zhilan originally wanted to scold them, but when she saw this situation, she swallowed the words that were on the tip of her tongue. The four adults also started laughing.
It was getting late, so Yun Chengfu didn't force them to continue writing. Instead, he took out the paper bag Baoya had given him, opened it, and shared the delicious food with everyone.
As soon as the paper bag was opened, the tempting aroma came out. It was not the sweet smell of the snack, but the salty and fragrant taste.
Yun Chengfu poured the food onto a plate, and the salty and fragrant taste became even stronger. It was a lotus root box.
"Eat, you've worked hard on your calligraphy. We have to keep working hard tomorrow."
After he finished speaking, he sat at one end of the small table, waving a folding fan, like a little gentleman.
The outer skin of the lotus root box is fried golden and crispy, and the meat filling and lotus root inside are very tender. The meat filling is soft and glutinous, and the lotus root is still crispy, and the taste is particularly good.
Baoya, Yunhua and Yunyue have already picked up the lotus root boxes and started to feast on them.
Only Yun Chenglu felt unwell again when he heard the words "keep working hard tomorrow".
"I shouldn't have given in for a few lotus root boxes."
With a look of annoyance on his face, he pinched a lotus root box and put it in his mouth. His eyes lit up and said, "Hey, it's quite delicious!"
Baoya finished the lotus root box in her hand and asked Yun Chenglu with a smile: "Will Second Brother continue to give in tomorrow?"
Yun Chenglu stuffed the lotus root box into his mouth and nodded: "Keep going, of course!"
"But there will be no lotus root boxes tomorrow." Baoya winked at him.
Yun Chenglu: ...
"Tomorrow we have eggplant boxes, tofu boxes, and leek boxes!" Wang Cailian laughed. "As long as you all learn to write well from Big Brother, I'll make you any box you want!"
Zhao Zhilan also said, "Grandma will make you pork stewed with vermicelli and cornmeal pancakes tomorrow."
"Great!" Baoya, Yunhua and Yunyue cheered.
Yun Chenglu wiped the oil from his mouth and said, "Okay! Mom, Grandma, I'm going all out!"
Anyway, his elder brother will only be at home for three days, so it’s nice to be able to eat delicious food for three days.
After the children finished eating the lotus root boxes, they were taken back by their mothers to sleep.
…
The Chen family in the backyard was not so warm and harmonious.
Yucai Academy was closed, so Chen Chengcai naturally came back.
As soon as he entered the yard, he saw Chen Xiaojuan wearing a new coat, sitting on a small stool eating melon seeds, her legs shaking.
Chen Chengcai frowned when he saw it.
He took a few steps to Chen Xiaojuan and knocked the melon seeds out of her hand. "You've finished your housework, and you're just sitting here eating melon seeds?"
Chen Xiaojuan was startled by him. She looked up and saw her brother's ferocious face. She didn't show any weakness at all: "My hand is injured and I can't work. Mom told me to rest!"
As he said this, he showed Chen Chengcai his fingers wrapped in cloth.
Chen Chengcai was not polite. Now that Baoya was no longer at their house, what he hated most was Chen Xiaojuan sitting around doing nothing.
Deeply influenced by Zhou Cuihua, Chen Chengcai has always believed that girls are born to work for the family, and when they reach marriageable age, they can get married in exchange for a dowry, which is the only way to feel that the family has not raised them in vain.
"Get up! You dare rest for such a minor injury?"
He grabbed Chen Xiaojuan by the collar and lifted her up from the ground: "Go, wash my clothes!"
"I won't go!" Chen Xiaojuan also got angry.
Ever since her mother found out about that incident, she rarely asked her to do heavy work.
Although she still had a bad mood and cursed at everyone, she was much better off than before.
"Hey, I haven't been back for a few days, and you have become more capable!" Chen Chengcai suddenly became angry and raised his hand to slap Chen Xiaojuan in the face.
He was spanked on the palm by his teacher yesterday because he didn't finish his homework and couldn't memorize the book. His palm is still swollen.
Now that I'm back home, I urgently need someone to vent my anger on.
"Mom!" Chen Xiaojuan staggered after being hit, fell to the ground with a thud, and covered her face and howled.
It’s not that she expected Zhou Cuihua to support her, but before the matter was finally settled, she felt that Zhou Cuihua would still have some concerns.
"What are you doing? You're so troublesome even when I let you rest! You're a born jerk!"
Zhou Cuihua ran out of the house cursing.
As soon as she saw Chen Chengcai standing in the yard with a basket of books on his back, her sad face suddenly smiled: "Oh, my good-old son is back!"
Chen Xiaojuan: ...
Chen Chengcai wiped the non-existent sweat from his head, and the anger on his face disappeared without a trace: "Mom, the academy is closed. I'll go home to see you and my dad."
"Our success is filial piety!" Zhou Cuihua's mouth was grinning from ear to ear. "You must be tired after the journey back. Come on, let's go inside and rest."
Chen Chengcai was not tired. He spent two copper coins and came back by donkey cart.
The distance from Ping'an Town to Feishui Village is more than ten miles, which is naturally not short. It will take at least one or two hours to walk there.
Several children from Feishui Village who study in Ping'an Town have to walk to and from school because their families already have a hard time paying for their education and naturally have no spare money for taking a bus.
Even Yun Chengfu from the Yun family walked to and from work.
It’s not that Zhao Zhilan didn’t give him money for the bus fare, it’s that he himself was reluctant to spend it.
Children from poor families were used to being frugal. He saved up the money he earned from copying books, the money Zhao Zhilan gave him for bus fare, and his own savings to buy brushes and calligraphy copies for his younger brothers and sisters.
In the past, his family was so poor that they could only afford to send him to school. Now that his family is better off, he also wants his younger brothers and sisters to go to the academy with him.
As soon as Zhou Cuihua saw Chen Chengcai, she forgot everything and pulled her eldest son into the house to talk.
But Chen Chengcai has not forgotten what happened to Chen Xiaojuan.
He turned his head to glance at Chen Xiaojuan who was still sitting on the ground, and said to Zhou Cuihua, "Mom, Xiaojuan is grown up now, you should stop pampering her."
"You won't work for just a minor injury? She thinks our family is so rich that you have to take care of everything by yourself! You're not the eldest daughter of a wealthy family, so why would you be so spoiled!"
"My son is right! It was mother who didn't think it through!" Zhou Cuihua nodded repeatedly, feeling extremely happy.
Look at how good her eldest son is, he knows how to care for others and how to be considerate of his family!
Unlike Chen Xiaojuan, that money-losing girl, if she was a little soft-hearted and asked her to do less work, this damn girl would cause trouble for her!
Thinking of this, she walked over to Chen Xiaojuan and kicked her directly: "Get up and work! You've been resting for a long time, even a donkey pulling a mill should have had enough rest!"
"Mom, I'll go right away." Chen Xiaojuan sniffed and got up from the ground.
When she looked up and met Chen Chengcai's triumphant and defiant eyes, she gritted her teeth and clenched her little black hands into fists.
Be patient, you must be patient, she will let Chen Chengcai be proud for a few days first!
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