When Xia Daohua looked up, she saw Wulang looking at her with a smile.
"I didn't think much of anything. My father was just talking to my aunt."
Wu Lang followed Xia Daohua's gaze and saw Xia Youtian and Xia Yujiao talking and laughing. He suddenly felt as if he understood his sister's thoughts. He raised his hand and gently pinched Xia Daohua's nose.
"Little girl, are you envious? Hehe, in fact, not only does your aunt have a good fourth brother, you also have a good fifth brother!"
Xia Daohua burst out laughing.
Most of the Xia family's generation are honest children, and even if they are naughty, they are limited.
She had never seen anyone as boastful as Wu Lang.
However, Wulang is indeed worthy of being called a good brother.
Wu Lang chatted with Xia Daohua for a few minutes, and seeing that Xia Daohua's expression was always very happy, he gradually felt relieved.
Just now, seeing his sister frowning and thinking hard, he felt so distressed.
Xia Daohua didn't realize that Wulang came to cheer her up because he noticed her frown, but she was very touched that her brother was willing to patiently talk to her.
She likes this kind of gentle and considerate child.
Xia Daohua looked at Wulang with sparkling eyes, which were full of naked love, appreciation, and trust, and her face was always smiling.
Wu Lang's ears suddenly turned red. It felt so good to have my sister's support...
Wu Lang unconsciously avoided Xia Daohua's gaze and looked at the small vegetable patch that had been newly reclaimed in the yard:
"The new vegetable seeds that mom brought back from grandma's house are really good. Look, these vegetables have grown into a large patch."
Xia Daohua smiled even more happily and nodded repeatedly:
"Yeah, it's not just the rapeseed that's good! The weather has been good this year, and I heard the wheat seedlings in our fields are growing well too!"
Speaking of wheat seedlings, the brother and sister couldn't help but look at each other with a smile.
Grandma’s new wheat seeds are really great!
Xia Daohua had actually been to the fields and secretly compared her own fields with those of the old couple, the first wife, the second wife, the third wife, and the fifth wife.
In my own fields, whenever I use new wheat seeds, the wheat seedlings grow particularly well.
Just looking at the green scenery makes people feel comfortable.
However, the difference in wheat seedlings is so great that I guess other families should have noticed it. I don’t know if Xia Youtian and Jiang can keep this little secret of the fourth house.
Xia Daohua guessed correctly. Both Xia Youtian and Jiang were not very good at keeping secrets, especially in front of Old Man Xia and Zhou.
In front of the other families, Mr. Xia and Mrs. Zhou asked about the wheat seedlings. Xia Youtian and Mrs. Jiang honestly told the truth:
The seeds were bought from Jiang's mother's family. The quantity was small, and I'm not sure if they are as good as people say.
After discussing it, the couple decided to try growing it themselves first.
If the seeds grow well, they will be distributed among the family and everyone will replace the seeds together next year; if the seeds do not perform well, at least everyone will not rashly suffer losses with them.
The old couple believed these words as soon as they heard them; the third and fifth wives also thought they were reliable, but the first and second wives refused to believe them.
The first wife judges others by her own standards and thinks that the fourth wife is harboring evil intentions.
Liu's face was round and mellow, but her words were like cold knives, stabbing Xia Youtian and Jiang Shi with chills and heartache:
"Oh my, when we were still together, the fourth brother and his wife were like a pair of quails, so honest and kind!
It just so happened that my fourth brother's wife's family didn't even bother to get any new seeds back then. But after the family split up, they started getting new wheat seeds and new rapeseed, nothing was left out!"
Liu always felt that although the couple was hiding their affair, they were not cunning enough. It was obvious that they could not hide it anymore, so she racked her brains to come up with such an excuse!
Who can be fooled by this kind of bullshit?
The second wife also believed that the fourth wife and her husband were having an affair.
However, Sun thought it was Jiang's idea, while Xia Yougui thought it was Xia Youtian's idea.
The couple in the second house even suspected that perhaps the fourth son and his family could not have imagined it so deeply, and that Jiang's family must have contributed to this.
Looking at the aggressive Liu and Sun, the interested Wu, and the slightly frowning Cheng, Lihua and Wulang felt a little nervous.
Seeing Xia Youtian and Jiang blushing but not knowing how to defend themselves, Lihua almost stood up to answer.
Xia Daohua and Wulang held Lihua down and prevented her from speaking.
Although Lihua was a little confused, she was willing to listen to advice. She just glanced at Xia Daohua and Wulang and then calmed down.
The eldest daughter came back this time to transport food.
The expenses of living in the town are not small.
Before the family split up, the old couple used all their resources to support their eldest son, Xia Dalang, to study at Songxi Academy.
I wholeheartedly hope to produce a true scholar.
After all, only by producing a true scholar can the Xia family bring honor to their ancestors, change their family fortune, and truly prosper.
In fact, in many places in the Great Chu Dynasty, it was considered a small investment for a family to mobilize the whole family and live frugally to support a scholar.
In some places, the entire clan or even the entire village has to work together to support a scholar.
However, Beiguan Village was a remote place, situated on the border between two countries, and its people valued martial arts over education. Therefore, for the Xia family, supporting a scholar with their entire family resources was a significant investment.
However, before the family split up, the "whole family's strength" was really the whole family's strength. But after the family split up, the "whole family's strength" was only left to the old couple!
Although it was agreed that after the division of the family, the five heads of the family and even the two daughters would provide the old couple with retirement funds.
But that was retirement money, the money for the old couple's funeral. Given Zhou's shrewdness and frugality, how could she possibly use that money?
On weekdays, the crops grown by the old couple themselves are enough for the three of them to eat.
The money for "supporting Xia Dalang" was actually the money for supporting Xia Dalang's family's life in the town, which could only be paid from the daily necessities left over by the old couple.
This amount of money has shrunk a lot compared to before the separation!
At first, Liu didn't notice the difference.
You should know that on weekdays, the food and vegetables of Xia Youcai's family were all brought from the village. Sometimes, Old Man Xia and Zhou would take the initiative to arrange for other sons to send them to the town;
In order to pay Xia Dalang's tuition, buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and maintain good relationships with his classmates in the academy, the family would support him as soon as they had some income and extra money.
The eldest brother and his wife would often come home to complain, claiming they were borrowing money from home, but in reality they never paid it back. However, Grandpa Xia and Mrs. Zhou had to sell their land twice because of these things.
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