Bai's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
She doesn't even eat pork, so why would she raise pigs!
But Yi Sheng still asked, "Madam, would you like to give them names?"
Bai shook her head: "Why bother giving a beast a name?"
She regretted it as soon as the words left her mouth, and when she looked at Yi Sheng, she saw that he looked hurt.
"I thought Madam really liked raising pigs."
Yi Sheng said dejectedly.
"I didn't realize I was wrong."
A faint doubt arose in his heart: was the woman riding the pig really his wife?
She doesn't seem to like pigs at all.
Bai quickly tried to explain: "Of course I like pigs, but I have too deep feelings for the previous pig, and I can't accept other pigs for the time being."
Yi Sheng suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. It was my fault. I shouldn't have forced Madam."
In the lady's heart, that pig was definitely irreplaceable.
"However, I've already bought these two piglets, so it's not convenient to return them. Let's keep them for now. I'll take care of them; you don't need to worry about them, Madam."
Bai hurriedly said, "Let Wu take care of her, you still have to teach."
Yi Sheng nodded: "Okay."
After saying that, he drove the two piglets to the backyard.
Seeing that the pigsty was not clean enough, he filled several buckets with water to wash it, cleaning the pigsty and feeding troughs until they were spotless.
Aunt Wu wanted to help, but he refused, saying, "You still have to do laundry and cook; you won't be able to manage."
Seeing this, Bai wished she could poison the two piglets to death.
But if he dies from poisoning, Yi Sheng might just buy a new one.
She had no choice but to endure it.
I figured once he started teaching, he wouldn't have the time for this.
However, she was wrong.
Even after Yi Sheng started teaching at the village school, he still cleaned the pigsty and fed the pigs every day, becoming extremely enamored with this life of teaching and raising pigs at the same time.
The pigsty and the pigs were clean and tidy, but Bai was furious.
What she wanted was a refined scholar, otherworldly and ethereal, not this vulgar man who fed pigs, cooked, and made himself look like a country bumpkin.
That day, when Yi Sheng picked up the swill bucket to feed the pigs again, she reached out and stopped him.
“Ah Xian, these hands of yours are for grinding ink and writing, for painting, not for cooking and feeding pigs. You can leave these things to Aunt Wu.”
Yi Sheng frowned: "But I think I'm very good at these things, and I enjoy doing them. Why do I have to write and paint?"
“You are a scholar,” Bai replied, “you should be doing refined things, how can you act like a country bumpkin?”
Yi Sheng smiled and said, "Didn't Mr. Wu Liu also hoe and plant beans? If you have to do elegant things, you're just being pretentious. I think being a country bumpkin is quite nice too."
I wonder how many people envy the idyllic life of Tao Yuanming, who could pick chrysanthemums by the eastern fence and leisurely gaze at the southern mountains.
He pushed Bai's hand away, picked up the slop bucket, and went out.
Bai looked at his retreating figure and felt a wave of powerlessness wash over her.
Is this the price of erasing memories?
Having lost his memory, Yi Sheng went from being a man as pure and gentle as a breeze and as bright as the moon to the rustic country bumpkin she despised the most.
Wasn't all her previous efforts wasted?
I should have known better than to do that.
But it was too late for regrets now, and she had no way to help Yi Sheng regain his memories.
Besides, once Yi Sheng regains his memories, he might only want to kill her or escape, and would never sit down at the same table with her to eat peacefully.
After a few days of depression, Bai finally came up with a solution.
"It must be because they live in the countryside."
She thought to herself.
"Yi Sheng, who has lost his memory, is like a child. He imitates the people around him. The villagers are all barbarians, which is why they led him astray."
Mencius' mother moved three times because she believed that the living environment would affect her child.
She was wrong from the start; she shouldn't have brought Yi Sheng to the countryside, but should have taken him to the academy instead.
But Zhaoyang is definitely looking for people everywhere now, and it would be too easy for him to be discovered if he went to the academy.
As a second choice, the Bai family found a minor aristocratic family, controlled the head of the family, and sent Yi Sheng to teach at their clan's private school.
Yi Sheng was reluctant to leave Peach Tree Village.
"I just sowed the rapeseed, and it hasn't sprouted yet. The piglets can't easily migrate either, so why must we leave the village school to go to a private school?"
Bai had already prepared an excuse.
“The village chief originally invited another gentleman, but he was delayed by something and couldn’t come. Now that he’s here, the village chief wants him to stay.”
Yi Sheng was always indifferent to worldly affairs, so after hearing her words, he did not insist any further.
He gave the two piglets to Sister Wu.
"Please take good care of them. Castrate them in a month or two, and their meat will taste much better."
Aunt Wu was stunned: "Pickling? You want to pickle it at such a young age? I was thinking of raising it for another year or two."
"It's not the 'pickled' as in pickled vegetables, it's the 'castrated' as in castration
Yi Sheng replied.
"It's about removing their eggs."
When Wu Sao first heard that pigs were better eaten after being castrated, she thought that Yi Sheng was a teacher and more knowledgeable than them, so she readily agreed.
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."
Bai's face was extremely pale.
She suddenly realized that Yi Sheng knew a lot about pig farming and had figured out quite a few tricks up his sleeve, so he must have spent a lot of time on it.
In other words, he had already raised pigs before coming to Peach Tree Village.
"That bitch must have made him keep him!"
Bai gritted his teeth.
That bitch is a shepherdess who grew up on the grasslands. She likes all kinds of animals. She's been with Yi Sheng for so many years and has corrupted him too.
She didn't know how much effort it would take to win Yi Sheng back.
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