Mrs. Liu didn't understand what rebellious period was. She just felt that her child was ungrateful.
How many people want to read and write but don’t have the conditions? But he, who has someone to teach him at home, doesn’t even want to learn.
"Don't let him touch the books these days. Leave all the housework to him. If he does more, he'll get more food. If he doesn't do anything, he won't get any."
Letting his children experience the hardships of society early on is a common trick used by parents when their children are tired of studying.
If the child doesn't want to go to school, then let him go to work, do the hardest and most tiring work, get the least pay, and join the boss in scolding him the harshest words.
After experiencing the hardships of society, most children will clamor to go back to school.
"Eh!" Liu sighed, "Your brother wasn't like this before. He changed after moving to the new house. I don't know why."
Because living standards have improved and there is no burden of life on shoulders, people become leisurely, without a sense of oppression or ambition.
In addition, there is no one to supervise them all the time, and there are many temptations from the outside world. How can a half-grown child keep his original intention unchanged?
Liu was just grumbling, not expecting Lin Shiyu to respond. Even if she knew her soul was already in her twenties, she hadn't married or had children, so how much could she possibly know about parenting?!
"If you're tired, go take a rest. I'll wake you up when dinner is ready."
Lin Shiyu nodded. She wasn't tired at all, but she was feeling uneasy and confused after spending some time with her family and coming back here.
After her daughter left, Liu closed the door, and then Lin Anru spoke:
"Thanks a lot."
"You know how hard I work, so study hard and get an official position. Then you can buy a few maids to serve me, so that I, as an official's wife, won't have to work so hard."
"Yes, yes, I will go now."
He wants to be an official, his daughter-in-law wants to be an official's wife, his daughter wants to be an official's daughter, but his son has no ambition. Tsk!
The father and son of the Lin family were working hard on mental work, while the other was doing hard labor, while the mother and daughter in the family had already gone to bed.
After resting for a while, Liu got up and supervised her son to prepare dinner.
"Mom, isn't it too early? I'm not even hungry yet!"
It started raining not long after they finished breakfast. It was only a little after noon, and they had eaten dry rice with meat in the morning, so they were very hungry.
"You are not hungry, but your mother is hungry, and your sister is hungry too. Go and do it quickly. When you are done, come back and dig the ground."
"All right!"
Lin Boyu had no choice but to put down the hoe in his hand and went to the kitchen. Soon, the smell of food wafted out.
"Mom, the food is ready, come and eat!"
Lin Boyu brought the last dish to the table and shouted loudly.
Liu came out of the house, glanced at the dining table casually, and immediately turned around to question her son:
"Without dishes and chopsticks, what do you want your mother to eat?"
Lin Boyu felt aggrieved. This was the first time his mother had spoken to him in this tone since he was a child.
"What are you still standing here for? Go get some dishes and chopsticks, and call your dad and sister to come out for dinner."
Bang!
Lin Boyu was angry and put the bowl on the table with so much force that he even scared himself.
He glanced at Liu and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he didn't react.
In the past, he was only responsible for cooking, while his mother and sister were responsible for getting and cleaning the dishes. There were also people who helped with lighting the fire. Now, all the work fell on him.
Lin Anru swallowed the food in her mouth and suddenly asked, "Do you think the meat is delicious?"
Everyone nodded without hesitation.
"Do you know? Such delicious meat. When Dad was a kid, he could only eat it during festivals. On weekdays, let alone meat, he couldn't even have thick porridge. It's not like you now, who have no festivals and can eat meat and dry rice."
Lin Anru sighed as she recalled.
"It was the same with Mom. Your grandpa was quite rich back then, but at most he would give Mom an egg occasionally to nourish her body. He never gave her meat."
At that time, Doctor Lin was afraid that his daughter would be in poor health and would need a lot of money, so he tried to save as much as possible on daily expenses. Later, he accepted Lin Anru as his apprentice, and the expenses became even greater, so he simply tried to save as much as possible.
Lin Shiyu lowered her head and ate seriously. The couple was educating their son, so she didn't get involved.
Lin Boyu stared at the meat in the bowl in a daze. Not long ago, before the family split up, he and his parents were in a similar situation when they were children.
At that time, let alone meat, even an egg would make him think about it for a long time.
"That was when Dad was a kid. Things got better when he grew up." Lin Anru continued, "Every year when he grew up, someone in the family would go to serve in the military, and everyone who went could eat meat."
In order to eat meat, several brothers even rushed to serve in the army.
After finishing her meal, Lin Shiyu put down her chopsticks and sighed, "Dad, you're so pitiful!"
"Compared to you guys, Dad is really quite pitiful." Lin Anru continued, "When we were little, we had to do all the housework except for the kitchen, like chopping wood, carrying water, sowing seeds, pulling weeds, catching insects, etc. During this time, I also had to squeeze out time to study with your grandfather. It was really hard."
"Dad, you've never thought of giving up after working so hard?"
"No." Lin Anru answered firmly.
"Toil day after day, like torture every year, is too hard. Life is long, and I don't want to continue living like this for the next few decades. Just thinking about it makes me tired. How can I give up the opportunity to strive for change when others have no way to get this opportunity?"
Lin Boyu lowered his head. His mind was in a mess at the moment. He felt like he should say something, but he didn't know what to say.
His brain was still working frantically, but before he could come to a conclusion, he was interrupted by Liu's words.
"Boyu, remember to clean up the bowl after eating."
He looked up at the table. Everyone's bowl was empty, except him, who still had half a bowl of rice left.
But he couldn't eat at this moment.
But we can’t throw it away, because it is precious food, and it is the rice that everyone longs to eat!
You have to eat even if you can’t eat it!
…
Lin Anru and the other two went to the yard together and lay down to rest.
"I don't know if this will help him."
Liu looked in her son's direction. Sometimes she wished her family was like any other, where no one was illiterate. That way, there wouldn't be any pressure on them to decide whether their child should study or not.
"We'll have to observe him carefully over the next few days. If things don't work, we'll have to take him to the county town."
Meng Mu moved three times for her children, and he was about to follow suit.
The expenses for him to study in the county town alone were huge enough, and adding a son to the mix, the pressure was really beyond the ability of their farming family to bear.
“Hey!”
Liu sighed and then stopped talking.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Bang, bang, bang!”
There was a regular knock on the door outside the yard.
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