I am Pei Qingyang, who is considered smart by many people.
But actually I don’t think so. I’m just more sober than many people.
When I was a kid, I didn't study. Do you think I really didn't want to study? I studied for three years in the second grade and couldn't pass the third grade. Isn't that something that can be done with hands?
I just feel that studying is a waste of time, it's very tiring and useless.
Of course I am not saying that studying is useless, but I am saying that it is of no use to me.
Our family lived in a small village in the mountains. My elders worked hard all their lives, facing the earth and back to the sky. We children had no chance to go out.
From childhood to adulthood, the farthest place I have ever been to is the commune. It takes a long time to walk to the commune. The farthest village in our commune takes several hours to walk to the commune.
Our village is relatively close.
After three years of second grade, I was still a slacker. My mother had no choice but to scold me all the way when she took me home. But she was fine with scolding me, at least I could have more time to do what I wanted to do.
I often used the excuse of peeing and shitting to run away for the whole day, and my mother got angry and scolded me for being lazy and having a lot of pee and shit. What she didn't know was that during the time I disappeared, I went to the commune to "listen to lessons" from the master.
There was a half-baked Chinese medicine practitioner in the commune. Because of his old age, many people came to see him for treatment.
He needed a lot of medicinal herbs, and many people would recognize some common herbs from him, pick them, and exchange them with him for some money to supplement their family income.
I first learned how to identify the varieties of herbs from him. He was a very nice guy and occasionally gave me a candy.
Once I learned one, I went to pick it.
The first ones I got to know were Houttuynia cordata and Plantain. These two herbs are very common, so they are not expensive, but I believe that a little bit of accumulation can add up to a lot.
I knew since I was a child that my mother was not good to me.
She smiles in front of my father, but looks sullen behind his back. She is the kind of bad woman that the villagers talk about.
So I thought at that time that I must save more money for myself. When I have saved enough money in the future, I won’t have to care whether she is good to me or not.
And my second brother is a fool. He studies so hard just to please mom. Can mom please look at him more?
My mother liked my eldest brother because he was an average student. But even though he was a good student, she still didn't pay much attention to him. When it came to lunch, my eldest brother's food was flour pancakes, while ours were corn and sweet potatoes.
But we really couldn't say anything to our eldest brother. He often shared his bread with us and also ate our corn and sweet potatoes.
My eldest brother is still very good to us.
If I become successful in the future, I will also help my brother.
Forget about that idiot second brother!
As for the fourth brother, he is even more miserable than my second brother and me.
I knew very early on that he was not my parents' biological son. I didn't say I was very nice to him, but I felt very sympathetic towards him. We were close in age, and our relationship had always been good.
I have only one thought about him, that when he becomes rich in the future, he should not care about us, his relatives who have nothing to do with him at all.
Before I got married, I was a slacker at home and worked very hard outside. I saved a lot of money and occasionally exchanged some tickets with the Chinese medicine master in the commune.
Although I have saved a lot, I am reluctant to spend it.
My mother is so stingy. She treats me like this. How can she be good to my future wife? I make money by myself and treat my wife well.
It doesn’t matter if I don’t have enough to eat at home. I can buy food outside and fill my stomach. It doesn’t matter if the food is very good.
But I have a wife and children, so I can’t be the kind of man who can’t make life good for others if they follow me.
In this way, I accumulated money bit by bit, and occasionally I could eat some delicious food, but I didn’t eat much. I was afraid that if I spent too much, my future wife and children would have to live a hard life with me.
In fact, I knew Lanhua before she secretly followed me home.
Who doesn’t know such a large group of lucky dolls?
Although feudal superstition was no longer allowed in those days, the rumor that she was born to enjoy a good life still spread.
How many people want to marry her and bring their family's life to a better place, hoping that she will bring them good fortune.
I have seen her several times in the commune, and there are not many girls in the whole commune who are so "good-looking".
When I say she is good-looking, I don't mean she is really beautiful, but an overall feeling.
With flawless skin, simple personality and an innocent look that is ignorant of the world, such a girl seems to be born to enjoy a happy life.
Since the first time I saw her, I have often fantasized in my mind, if my future daughter-in-law is a woman like this, how many boxes of clam shell oil can I afford?
Not to mention those delicate shampoos and the like.
It is because of meeting her that my desire to save money has become stronger.
I really don't like doing farm work, and I just go through the motions when I go to work, because I feel that I should do as much work as I eat. If I'm not even given enough food, why should I be treated like a slave?
Even if she is my future daughter-in-law, I will teach her the same thing: do as much work as you eat, and don't be like my second brother and his wife, those two idiots, who never finish their work and still can't eat enough.
To be honest, I never thought that Lanhua would like me. After all, apart from my face, I have almost nothing else to offer.
Everyone says that I am "the third child of Pei Xiaowu's family who is good at being sneaky and cunning." They say I am cunning, crafty, and incompetent.
I don't care at all. Let them say whatever they want. I can clearly distinguish between a good reputation and a good life.
But what I never expected was that Lanhua fell in love with me and secretly followed me home.
At that moment, I felt indescribable.
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