Qingshui Town.
After getting two hundred coins from Liu Fengjiao, Chen Zhancai rented a house and spent his days sleeping.
It wasn't until Ru Hua urged him to find a way to make a living that he finally went to the Confucius Academy in a leisurely manner.
Master Ye of the Confucius Academy did not want to keep him.
But since he was a scholar, he couldn't be easily offended, so they reluctantly arranged for him to work as a teacher.
Chen Zhancai is good at boasting, but when it comes to teaching, he's practically misleading students.
His lectures to the students consisted either of telling stories or fabricating bizarre and outlandish theories.
Or they just spout the same old nonsense.
Whenever he taught a class, the students would either sleep or cause trouble.
Even when he went out to play, Chen Zhancai didn't care or ask questions, continuing to ramble on and on until get out of class ended, at which point he would finally shut up...
He would go looking for trouble with Chen Han whenever he had nothing better to do.
They would either punish him by making him copy books, or make him memorize the entire "Book of Rites" in one night.
He used his power to make things difficult for Chen Han at every turn, simply because he didn't like him.
Chen Han ignored him and continued his studies as usual, asking Master Ye directly about anything he didn't understand, bypassing Chen Zhancai.
This move thoroughly enraged Chen Zhancai.
That day, he started bragging in class again, talking about how hard he studied and how he passed the imperial examination with flying colors, which made all the students lose their focus.
Only when Chen Han cleared his mind of distractions and copied the text left by Master Ye,
Seeing this, Chen Zhancai was so angry that he gritted his teeth. In order to vent his own anger, he kicked Chen Han out of the classroom and made him stand outside in the rain for the entire class.
This scene was witnessed by Master Ye, who, recalling the rumors circulating about Chen Zhancai over the past few days, was filled with rage.
They believed that Chen Zhancai had disobeyed his teachers and was unworthy of being a qualified teacher.
In order to prevent him from ruining the academy's reputation, he was promptly sent away.
Chen Zhancai, having lost his livelihood, spent his days eating and sleeping, living a leisurely and carefree life, finding joy in his simple pleasures.
Later, on Ru Hua's advice, he found a job copying books.
But he was sent back after less than two days.
The reason was that not only was the handwriting ugly, but the characters were also copied incorrectly, resulting in the waste of dozens of good sheets of Xuan paper.
Seeing that Chen Zhancai was idle all day and the family's food was running low, Ru Hua couldn't help but sigh and complain.
"Now that we've lost our source of income, how are we going to make a living?"
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhancai became furious and yelled, "Stop troubling me! Live your life however you want! Can't you live without me? If you're so capable, go out and make some money!"
"A woman marries a man for food and clothing. Instead of thinking about how to support the family, you expect me, a woman, to earn money? Is that even human?"
"Stop lecturing me. I want to make money more than anyone else right now, but those damn bastards don't know what's good for me. They're always picking and choosing, looking down on everything. I have a lot of talent but nowhere to use it. What am I supposed to do now? I can't just go to the docks and do manual labor to earn money to support my family, can I?"
"If you can endure hardship, it's not impossible." Ru Hua now completely understood that Chen Zhancai was a complete coward.
He was utterly useless, not only incompetent but also unwilling to work hard, and in the end, he was filled with resentment, reaching a point where he was practically beyond redemption.
How could I have been so blind to pick such a worthless thing? I really regret it!
Chen Zhancai immediately flew into a rage, pointed angrily at Ruhua, and roared,
"You're such an unreasonable and resentful woman. Don't forget, I'm a dignified scholar. How can I do those dirty and tiring menial jobs like the common people? If word gets back to Nanshan Village, won't we be laughed at?"
"Alright, when it comes to survival, face is worthless. As long as you earn money to support your family with your own hands, I don't think it's shameful at all."
"That's utterly childish and absurd! I, Chen Zhancai, can have nothing, but I cannot lose face!"
"You're just being stubborn and suffering for it. Don't you know what our family's situation is?" Ru Hua looked at Chen Zhancai with a hint of disappointment. "If you can't come up with a way to make money, we'll be begging for food in less than ten days or half a month."
Chen Zhancai was furious. His face was ashen and his eyes were blazing with anger. "Ruhua, Ruhua, when I first met you, I thought you were different from other women. I never expected you to be so vain and materialistic. I really misjudged you. I shouldn't have redeemed you from Chunfeng Tower."
Ru Hua nearly fainted from anger at these words. "You've misjudged me, but I'm blind!"
"You damned old hag, how dare you talk back to me! I'll beat you to death!" Chen Zhancai was furious and raised his hand to strike.
Ru Hua had been holding back her anger for a long time and desperately needed to vent it.
Seeing that Chen Zhancai was about to make a move, she didn't think twice and kicked him.
Caught off guard, Chen Zhancai was kicked flat on his back.
His face was half shocked and half furious. "You shameless bastard, you dare to fight back? I'll beat you to death!"
Ru Hua was so angry she lost her mind. Before he could even get up, she rushed forward and slapped Chen Zhancai across the face several times, cursing and slapping him as she did so.
"You useless piece of trash! All those years of studying have gone to waste. You're good for nothing, but you're a master of bragging."
I'll teach you to be unambitious and to brag all the time.
I treat you like royalty every day, and you still want to hit me?
Today I'll show you that I'm not a pushover.
Chen Zhancai was stunned by the slap. Before, Ru Hua had always been very obedient to him.
He said one thing and meant another, and she would never dare to talk back.
But what's going on now? Not only is he talking back, but he's even behaving so rebelliously by beating me up.
If we don't subdue her this time, what will happen in the future?
Thinking of this, Chen Zhancai struggled to stand up.
Ru Hua felt increasingly satisfied as she fought, and finally swung her arms wide, attacking from both sides.
They gave Chen Zhancai no chance to breathe, beating him until he was dizzy and disoriented, begging for mercy with his hands on his head.
"Okay, Ruhua, calm down, stop hitting me. I know I was wrong, I will never hit you again, please stop."
Seeing Chen Zhancai's cowardly appearance, even though she knew he was just giving a perfunctory apology, Ruhua couldn't help but soften her heart.
She stopped, tears streaming down her face.
"Husband, it's not that I want to hit you, it's that you disappoint me too much. When I was with you, I never thought about a life of great wealth and luxury. I just wanted to live an ordinary life with you. But now you have no ambition at all. You don't want to do this or that. Tell me, what do you want to do?"
Our family is struggling to even meet our most basic needs for food and drink. How can you expect me to stay calm?
Let me tell you, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't want to go hungry and want others to respect you, you have to work hard and not be inconsistent in anything you do.
Don't forget, you still have an elderly couple at home who are waiting for you to support them!
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