After her husband died in battle, she relied on the villain cub to make a comeback.

Ye Zhizhi said nothing.

Young scholars will always be targeted to catch their son-in-law, and Xiao Xingzhi's future is too smooth and smooth as the head of the Three-Yuan case.

Therefore, during this period of time in the town, even after the results of the government examination came out, many members of the noble family came to befriend him.

The spring breeze is proud of horseshoe disease, seeing Chang'an flowers in one day.

Who hasn’t had a moment to feel happy, right? !

Xiao Xingzhi flicked the non-existent dust on his body and took out another gold hairpin with a Luan bird carved from his arms. He said with the arrogance that could not be hidden in his beautiful eyebrows,

"Mom, this is the new hairpin I chose for you in the shop. Please put it on. Don't wear silver hairpins anymore. Those are only things worn by poor people. I said, after I finish reading, naturally I want to help you live a good life."

"Wow--"

Si Zhu let out an exclamation, touched the hairpin with his white and tender hands and said, "Is this the legendary golden hairpin? Mom, this is the first time I have seen it!"

"It will definitely cost a lot of money!" Erzhu concluded.

Sanzhu nodded, "The last time I went to the town, they said that silver hairpins are sold for five or six taels of silver, and better ones cost more than ten taels, but gold hairpins are all priced at four or fifty taels, so they are expensive!"

As soon as these words were said, the boys looked at each other.

Wuya looked at Xiao Xingzhi with envy and said, "Brother, where did you get the money to buy the hairpin?"

Although Ye Zhizhi would make a lot of money and pay wages to a few of the boys, it would only be one or two taels at most. They couldn't afford four or fifty taels to buy gold hairpins!

"I know, I know!" Si Zhu said loudly, "The ancients said that there is a house of gold in a book! Brother, after reading so many books, he must have saved a lot of gold!"

Wu Ya opened her mouth wide and was about to marvel. The next moment, she saw Xiao Xingzhi frowning and said seriously,

"I don't have gold, and that's not what I meant."

He was a little disgusted, "How did you get this education? Fortunately, this is a rural area, and there are not many people who are well-educated. Otherwise, if others heard about it, wouldn't it make me laugh and embarrass my mother and me?"

what……

"Would this be embarrassing?"

Si Zhu was stunned for a moment, his face suddenly turned red, and he buttoned his shirt at a loss, "Well, I won't say anything anymore. Brother, you just came home. Are you hungry? Third brother cooked porridge. Let me warm it up for you."

"I've eaten at Liu Yuan's house and I'm not hungry yet. The weather is nice today. Don't show these useless things. I have a lot of books in my study. Third brother, please take fourth brother and take the books out to dry. , don’t let them get wet.”

The three pillars of corn were half-struck, and the current work was not finished, and new work came. I was about to say that I will finish drying the book and continue to remove the corn, when I heard my mother's voice saying, "I'm just drying the book. It’s not a tiring job. If you ask your brothers to help you post books, what are you going to do?”

"Of course I have to take a rest."

Xiao Xingzhi was already able to make money, so he said matter-of-factly, "I have to go to the homes of those rich gentry to socialize, and I also have to study peacefully. The burden of prosperity and wealth for my family is all on me, so I..."

"I'm tired from socializing and studying, but I'm not tired from going to the fields and farming?"

Ye Zhizhi felt that Xiao Xingzhi had some ability and was ready to return to his old ways, "Who doesn't have burdens on their shoulders? People have to bear these unwarranted burdens when they are alive.

In the afternoon, you go to the fields with your brothers to cut rice and see whether you are tired from sitting in school studying and socializing, or standing under the sun and doing endless work!"

Xiao Xingzhi looked at his stepmother in disbelief and wanted to ask, "Are you crazy?" ’, afraid of being beaten, he simply said:

"But now I am a scholar!"

"What's wrong with you being a scholar? You are a scholar and also my son. How you lived in the past is how you will live in the future!"

"But I am the most promising person in this family and I treat you best! Now that dad is gone, my elder brother is like my father. Why can't I direct my younger brothers and sisters to do some work?"

"Are you the conductor?"

Ye Zhizhi threw away the rice in his hand, just to save Xiao Xingzhi's face. He was embarrassed to say that he treated his younger brothers and sisters as slaves and tools, and said with a gloomy face,

"No one in our family is going to make a living, and anyone who can do it has the right to direct others to work! Do your own thing!"

Also, and the most important point -

"Most parents in the world hope that their sons will become dragons and their daughters will become phoenixes, but Xiao Xingzhi, let me tell you clearly, other people's mothers may care about how high their sons can fly, but I only care about how hard your wings are!"

She could no longer tolerate him with a smile. She had to let Xiao Xingzhi know that no matter whether it was a white lady, a scholar, or a top scholar, you had to abide by the rules of this family for one day, and you would not be punished because of your achievements. If I buy a gold hairpin or a silver hairpin, I can be below myself and above my brothers and sisters!

Of course, Xiao Xingzhi thought about giving her a gold hairpin, which shows that he has changed a lot from his selfish path.

But the road is long and long!

When you say go to the fields, you really go to the fields.

Ye Zhizhi didn't give Xiao Xingzhi a chance to be lazy.

That afternoon he was driven to the fields.

This is a big deal.

Aunt Xu was shocked, "Xingzhi, what are you doing?"

Xiao Xingzhi pulled away the rice field at hand, lowered his head and said, "My mother asked me to come to the fields."

"Isn't this nonsense?!"

Li Zheng and his wife jumped when they heard this, "You are a scholar, just study hard, where will you go? A scholar's body is very valuable, just let your younger brothers, sisters and long-term workers come here. This is no place for you." ?What on earth does your mother think?"

"That's right! Scholars, farmers, industrialists, and merchants, you are a scholar. You don't have to kneel down when you see the county magistrate. How can you embarrass yourself with our dirty legs?"

"Did you say something wrong again that made your mother unhappy? Your mother has not read many books. She is a rough person and knows how to mess around. She..."

"Aunt Zhao, be careful what you say." Although Xiao Xingzhi felt embarrassed, but what was the difference between talking about his mother and slapping him in the face?

"Although my mother has not read many books, she can open a restaurant with her skills. This alone is better than a fool who has read a lot of books but has no skills."

Aunt Zhao smiled coquettishly, "Auntie, aren't you feeling unfair for you?"

"Can you scold my mother for complaining about me? The starting point is very good, but I suggest that Auntie should not set off next time."

"..."

When making dinner, Ye Zhizhi took off the ears and didn't want to move, so he simply wrapped a few chicken legs, went to the air fryer to fry them, and cooked five or six bags of snail noodles. The hot and sour smell spread in the air. .

Ye Zhizhi took a sip, and the spicy smell made her pores tremble and make her sweat!

The little idiot Si Zhu liked to stick to her, so he didn't go to the fields. He moved a small stool and sat at the door of the kitchen to help her pick vegetables and leaves.

Smelling the smell, he shrugged his nose and said, "Mom, are you eating shit behind my back?"

He didn't know what he thought of, and tears suddenly filled his eyelashes, "I made a bet with Shang Jin last time that you could eat three kilograms of shit. You were afraid that I would become a bad boy who lies, so you really eat shit to cover my lies, right? "

Wow wow wow, grandma is so nice! Grandma is a fairy daughter!

When my mother gets old, he will definitely choose a pink coffin plank for her to lie in!

Ye Zhizhi, "..."

Shit in the mouth, ah! The snail noodles in the mouth suddenly no longer smell good.

"Xiao Sizhu, you damn——! No, your father, come in! I won't beat you to death if you come in!"

Only when the four pillars were whipped did Ye Zhizhi remember, "Recently, the college has dismissed and I have been busy farming. I didn't see Sister Zhou and Shanjin, and I don't know if her marriage has been completed."

Just as Ye Zhizhi finished wondering, Xiao Xingzhi and the others came back from the fields. The children were covered in dust and their faces were very red from the sun.

"Mom, we are back." Sanzhu said to his mother, then went to scoop some water into the basin for them to wash, and then went to the house and took out a handkerchief for them to wipe.

Ye Zhizhi sat on a chair eating snail noodles with Wu Ya and the others, nodded, looked at Xiao Xingzhi coldly, and said nothing.

After all the children were at the table, Ye Zhizhi put a large piece of chicken leg into a bowl for each of them and said, "It's such a bright sun outside. You've been working all day. Are you tired?"

Sanzhu shook his head. He was not good at studying and practicing martial arts, but he was good at farming.

If the eldest brother or the second brother can't do something, he will always be the first to do it.

What's more, my mother is carrying the sky on her shoulders and her feet on the ground, which makes the conditions at home so much better. More work is done by long-term workers. They don't have to worry as much when going to the fields as they did when they were children. They are so tired that they are covered in blood. The food has to be taken away by the milk and others.

Xiao Xingzhi looked at the back of his hand that was scratched by the rice. Hearing this, he felt aggrieved and ashamed. "It's just tired. You don't know. When people in the village saw me farming, they pointed at me." To educate my own children, they say that I have studied hard for ten years and have passed the examination to be a scholar, but I am still doing the same work as them! Studying is useless! I might as well just farm the land from the beginning!"

Erzhu also sounded very angry.

Xiao Xingzhi was not in the mood to eat snail noodles.

Ye Zhizhi picked out the fried eggs and peanuts in his bowl and added them to his meal, "Then what do you think?"

"What can I think? Seeing is believing. When they saw me, a great scholar, going to the fields, they laughed and ridiculed me. Isn't this expected?!"

Ye Zhizhi picked up the chicken legs in his bowl, stuffed them into his mouth, and said, "There are shadows under your feet because you are standing in the sun. Since you are looking at the sun, why bother with the shadows behind you?

Not to mention anything else, just by passing the examination as a scholar, you can exempt your family from taxes on sixty acres of land.People who say that reading is useless have a shallow vision and say that grapes are sour. "

Xiao Xingzhi took a bite of meat subconsciously.

The chicken legs marinated in cooking wine, black pepper, and milk are deep-fried and sprinkled with a layer of barbecue seasonings. They are crispy and flavorful. After one bite, they are crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside.

Xiao Xingzhi was tired from work, and although the food from the wealthy family was good, it was still his mother who made the best food.

But even though I enjoyed it, I still felt uncomfortable and tormented in my heart. I felt like my face was being trampled on the ground by a group of ignorant people, and I felt a little resentful towards Ye Zhizhi.

"I understand this truth, but mother, you also have to understand that a gentleman is far away from the kitchen, and the principles of the sages are there. Everyone has done this for thousands of years. The battlefield of men is in the court and on the border. You You have to trap me in the kitchen and the fields! Why do I do what these lowly people do?

Our family is not what it used to be. I think my mother can buy a house in the county, and we can move in and be city dwellers, instead of letting me get blood blisters and calluses on my hands here. Isn’t this a clear sign for others to look down on me? ? "

"If you say this, it means you still don't understand! You just want to climb up, you care about face and family background! But I don't send you to study to let you compare! I look down on those who have not read books, and their knowledge is not as good as You have many people whose status is not as high as yours!"

Ye Zhizhi shook his head. Seeing that he didn't want to eat, he simply pulled him into the yard and gestured with his hands, "Xiao Xingzhi, no matter how powerful you are in the future, but today, ask yourself if you can still do it in the future." Let yourself live in the thatched hut where we once lived.

If you can't, you're doomed!"

The evening wind blew through the rice ears, making a "swish" sound.

Then he rolled up the young man's long hair and gently stroked Ye Zhizhi's cheek.

Xiao Xingzhi opened his mouth, stubborn and serious, "People have to move forward, and those who have lived in thatched houses should go and snatch it away, hoping for the supreme glory.

If you are willing to turn around and commit yourself to a thatched house, it is a kind of incompetence. "

He has seen mountains, rivers and lakes, gold, silver and jade.

Naturally, he could no longer look down on the thatched hut that had gone through so much hardship with him.

What he yearns for is a life in which he has great power.

What I want is a wealthy family.

But he didn't have any of these, but it didn't stop him from looking down on his uncle who lived with him in the country, and his younger siblings who couldn't read well.