Chapter 3504: Old Zhoutou 2
Zhou Jin patted his head and said, "You just want to play all day long. If you don't study, you will have no future. I will send you back home to farm."
The child, with tears in his eyes, touched his head and said, "I don't like studying. I like farming."
Qian pulled the child over and glared at Zhou Jin, "Why are you hitting the child for no reason?"
She patted the child's head soothingly and said to him gently, "If you don't want to go to school, then don't go. Tomorrow I'll ask your third uncle to take you to the fields to farm."
The child happily agreed.
Zhou Jin looked at the silly child without saying anything.
The child finally came back from the field crying, but since he had agreed to go to the field, he had to go to the field. The next day, Qian still asked Zhou Sanlang to carry him to the field.
The child cried so hard, this was completely different from the land he farmed in the capital.
When they were in the capital, the academy was closed during the busy farming season and they would go to the fields with their families to work. However, they only did light work like picking rice ears, handing seedlings or pulling weeds. They had never once worked in the fields to hoe the ground under the scorching sun or to plant rice.
The child could only cry to Old Zhou, "Grandpa..."
Old Zhou looked at him lovingly, saying he could do nothing to help. "I have to listen to your grandfather."
After experiencing a harder life, he no longer felt that studying was difficult. If he felt that studying was difficult, it must be because he was not cut out for it, so he should just farm or do something else.
Qian never forced any of her children to study. After all, some people are smart, some are stupid. It is innate and given by their parents. It cannot be forced.
Why should we force children to change something that even the Lord Tianzun cannot change?
Intelligence cannot be changed, only laziness can, like Zhou Jin.
Qian glanced at Zhou Jin, who was leaning on a lounge chair basking in the sun. Although he was very old, with wrinkles all over his face and wrinkles at the corners of his eyes when he smiled, he still looked better than other old men.
Looking back on her life, Qian did not regret her original choice. Even when the Zhou family was in the most difficult time and she was suffering the most, she did not regret it.
She chose Zhou Jin herself. The main reason was that she was attracted by his face, which was really handsome.
He was timid but also loyal. Before deciding to marry him, Qian knew that he was lazy and greedy, was favored at home, and was not very good at work.
But she doesn't think it's a problem. She'll just teach you slowly. If worst comes to worst, there's always her.
Laziness can be corrected, but face cannot, it is something that is innate.
Although she found that life was not as she had imagined after getting married, she did not feel it was very hard.
Although he was lazy, he knew how to say nice things to her. Knowing that her legs and feet were swollen and she was suffering from the pain during pregnancy, he boiled a basin of hot water for her to soak her feet and massage her legs every night.
Even her mother-in-law has never received such treatment.
It was because of these details that she never regretted it.
Later, Zhou Yin was born and he was no longer the most favored one in the Zhou family. The three sensible people in the family forced him to work. Although he kept grumbling, he still went.
He was a slow learner, and his inherent laziness was hard to get rid of. She hated him at the time, but looking back later, she felt a little regretful.
In fact, there was nothing wrong with him being lazy. When he became so diligent later, she only felt sad and distressed.
When people get old, they want to return to their roots and tend to recall things from their youth. Old Zhou is no exception.
Even as Qian was staring at him in a daze, he was also rambling on about the past, "...It was so many years ago, they remember it better than I do. How could I have been so lazy back then?"
Old Zhou, who was reminded of the past again outside, came back angrily and decided not to play with those old men and women anymore.
Qian retracted her gaze and said nonchalantly, "When they were young, they didn't love their wives much. They've also experienced the hardships I've experienced. Isn't it enough for you to just talk back?"
Old Zhou thought about it carefully and realized that it was true. Qian had suffered a lot with him, but their wives also suffered a lot with them.
So he cheered himself up, turned around and went out again.
Qian shook her head and continued to lean back in the lounge chair to bask in the sun.
Zhou Dalang returned from the vegetable patch and saw his mother alone in the yard. He asked, "Dad, have you gone to the village entrance again?"
Qian replied, "Go and fetch him back when it's time for dinner."
Zhou Dalang has been following Old Zhou and Qian for many years. As the eldest son of the eldest house, he basically goes wherever his parents are.
When they lived in the capital, he managed Zhou Man's official land there; when they returned to their hometown, he would come back and live with them for a while.
Now Old Zhou and Qian wanted to return to their roots, so they moved back to Qili Village, and the couple also brought their little grandson back with them.
In the eyes of the villagers of Qili Village, he is an extremely filial and promising man. His two sons and one daughter-in-law all became officials. It is said that his eldest granddaughter and eldest grandson are also very good at studying and are about to take the civil service examination.
So the old people like to see Zhou Dalang very much, and every time they see him, they will pull him aside and talk to him for a long time.
Zhou Dalang is not young anymore, and when he sees peers who are about the same age as his father, he is willing to stop and listen to what they say.
Qili Village was bustling with activity because of the return of Old Zhou and his companions.
A few days later, someone urged Old Zhou to renovate his house. "You're a wealthy family now. Why don't you build a big courtyard like Mr. Bai and his family? Courtyards within courtyards, one floor upon another, it would be so beautiful."
"Yes, yes, it will give Manbao and his family face when they come back to visit."
Old Zhou was excited and ran back to find Qian, "Why don't we build a house?"
Qian said, "It's too much trouble. Where can we get the homestead now?"
"Right here..."
"No, a perfectly good house is being demolished. The children came back just to see their old home, but now they've lost theirs. What's the point?" Qian said. "Besides the two of us, there are only the eldest, second, and third children at home. They're not young anymore. Why do you have to torment them?"
Old Zhoutou: "Then wait for the fourth brother to come back and have him repair it?"
Qian paused and asked, "With so many of us here, do we have to vacate his house and renovate it?"
Old Zhou was so frustrated by Qian that he dropped the matter, but he refused to admit defeat in front of outsiders. So when they asked him about it outside, he said with a look of disgust, "I went back to sort it out and found that there were too many things. The bed in my room was made for us by the second son from a good tree. It's very comfortable to sleep on. If we want to repair the yard, we have to move it, and the bed has to be moved out. Not to mention all the things given by the eldest, third, and fourth sons, all of which have to be moved out. And then there's our Manbao. She prepared a lot of things for me when she came back this time, and they're all piled up in the room. It will take a lot of time to move them all out now."
He said with a sad face: "It's too troublesome, forget it."
The old men and women: "..."
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