Chapter 127 The Second Daughter-in-law Who Was Ugly in the Farming Literature 11
"But, but it's no use for me to study..."
Luo An tapped the other person's forehead lightly, "Why is it useless? In the future, when your brother becomes the top scholar and an official, do you still want to be an illiterate village woman in this country?"
Zhang Hua was of course unwilling, but she felt even more that her mother was insane. "Mom, do you really think Xiaorui can become the top scorer? What if he doesn't pass the exam?"
"As long as your brother knows how to work hard, it doesn't matter if he's not the top scorer. Mom is just talking."
Zhang Hua's mouth twitched. Her mother was just talking, but looking at her brother's expression, she was afraid that he really took it seriously.
From that day on, Zhang Hua lived an enviable life. She would run and do boxing with her mother in the morning, and continue learning to read when she got home. This made Zhang Erya, who was confined in the house to do embroidery, so angry that she scolded him for a long time, and Chen Xinghua, who was lying on the bed, was very upset.
"Go ahead and curse me if you want to. I can't even sleep because of you!"
Zhang Erya secretly glared at her mother, muttering, "Sleep, sleep, sleep, all you do is sleep. Why are you so useless? You can't give birth to a son and you can't compete with the other two families. All you do is make us suffer..."
Zhang Daya reached out and tried to slap her, but it was too late. Chen Xinghua had heard everything her little daughter said, bent down to pick up her shoes, and smacked her on the head. "You silly girl, if you think I'm not good enough, go and claim them as your mother. Don't you think about who would be interested in a lazy person like you?"
Chen Xinghua took out all the anger she had recently suffered on Zhang Erya. Zhang Erya was beaten so hard that she screamed and her cries could be heard throughout the entire courtyard.
Old Mrs. Zhang was sitting on the kang doing embroidery. When she heard the sound, she turned her head and looked out the window, muttering to herself, "Oh my god! This life is unbearable."
Old man Zhang was too lazy to listen to this and tapped his pipe to signal her to shut up.
Zhang Hua, who was concentrating on writing, was startled. She looked up and saw that her mother seemed to have heard nothing and started to learn the words again.
Maybe the two children inherited the genes of the Luo family. Even Zhang Hua's learning ability is much better than Zhang Cheng, the glory of the Zhang family. If old man Zhang knew about this, he would be so angry that he would die.
But he was already close to death.
Thinking of him as the head of the family, he had to carry clothes to the river to wash every day like the women in the village. Although he was washing clothes for several grown men, he didn't know how many times he was laughed at by other old guys.
As for the women and children's clothes, they were pushed to Old Mrs. Zhang despite Old Man Zhang's strong resistance. In Luo An's words, husband and wife are one, so if you don't do your old man's work, who will?
Old Mrs. Zhang had no choice but to wash clothes in the morning, and then rush home to do embroidery. She had to stay up late for the last two days to finish the work. Her hard work was comparable to that of the previous owner.
The two Zhang brothers went out early and came back late every day, keeping the frequency of one pheasant and one rabbit every two days. In just ten days, they stockpiled a lot of pheasants. Of course, these were not all caught by themselves. Most of them were bought from other people. Soon, their private money was almost gone.
Wang Qiao hadn't tasted meat for a long time, so she planned to take a few copper coins to the town to buy some meat to eat secretly, and by the way, she would go to her son to complain and see if her son had any way to change the current situation. However, when she touched her purse, she found something was obviously wrong, and when she took it out, she saw that there were only a few copper coins left.
Her first reaction was that Luo An had taken away her family savings, but these days she had been embroidering all the time in the house, and the other party had no chance to do anything.
Wang Qiao ruled out everyone else and then cast a suspicious eye on the sleeping Boss Zhang. She walked up to him, woke him up, and asked him where the money had gone.
Boss Zhang felt a little guilty, but there was nothing he could do. Prey was not that easy to catch. If he couldn't catch the prey, his brother-in-law would have to catch them.
"I took it, okay?"
Wang Qiao hadn't expected him to look so helpless. She rushed over and yelled at him, "You're going to touch that little bit of money. You really don't want your son to continue his studies, right?"
Boss Zhang pushed the man away, cursing, "Study, study, study. He's studied for so many years but hasn't made any progress. Since he can't do it, I have to take care of myself."
When Wang Qiao found out that Zhang Lao Da had spent all his money on buying wild animals, she almost cried to death. She couldn't understand why her life had been so good, and how it suddenly became like this just because Zhang Lao Er died.
Luo An and her daughter had just taken their embroidery and game to the town to exchange for money. Wang Qiao also sneaked to the town, but when she arrived at the school and asked, she found that Zhang Cheng was not there.
After asking, she learned that her son had gone to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. She almost didn't realize what that place was, and her face turned red after being reminded by the other party.
Don't worry, it's not because of shame, it's because of anger.
When Luo An scolded her for giving birth to a loser, she was filled with dissatisfaction. In her heart, her son was the best student in the village.
She never thought that her son's study led him to the point of touching a woman's belly. No wonder he couldn't even pass the examination to become a student for so many years.
After Wang Qiao found out the location, she rushed to Xiaoxiang Courtyard. The guard at the door knew she was not their customer when he saw her poor appearance, so he stopped her outside.
Seeing this, Wang Qiao shouted loudly at the door, attracting the attention of people around who were watching the show.
Zhang Cheng was flirting with Cui'er when he heard someone calling him outside. He lifted a corner of the curtain and looked down, only to see his mother sitting at the door and rolling around like a madman. He felt ashamed.
The more times like this, the more he couldn't just go downstairs. He could only say goodbye to Xiao Cui with regret, walk around from the back door, and then pretend to have come from somewhere else. Panting, he pulled his mother up and squeezed out of the crowd, "Mom, what are you doing here?"
"How could I have known what you were doing in town if I hadn't come? Your family saved money to send you here to study, and this is how you repay us?"
Zhang Cheng denied it repeatedly, refusing to admit that he was obsessed with flowers. "Who told you that? I just went to the street to buy some things. I heard you were coming here specially. Did you listen to my classmates' nonsense? I told you that they were just jealous of my favor with the teacher and deliberately ruined my reputation so that the teacher would expel me from the school. I didn't expect you to fall for their tricks. You almost killed me."
Zhang Cheng turned the tables, his serious expression making Wang Qiao hesitate, "Really?"
"If you don't even trust me, who else can you trust? When have I ever lied to you? You're really going to kill me."
Wang Qiao saw that he didn't seem to be lying, and immediately panicked, "What should I do?"
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