Chapter 6 (2/2)

Zhou fried a large bowl of eggs and specially reserved a bowl for Zhao’er.

This move is a bit interesting. You should know that the third wife is usually very reticent. She belongs to the old ox in the Xue family, and rarely helps the two children of the second wife.

However, Zhao’er didn’t think much about it. Everyone has their own thoughts in this family, and she couldn’t control anyone’s thoughts. Don’t make her anxious is fine.

She returned to the house carrying the food, and when she entered the door, she smiled at Xue Gouzi and said, “Gou’er, look, there will be eggs at noon.”

Looking at the bright smile on the girl’s face, Xue Gouzi had a complex flash in his eyes.

Although he was in the house, he heard everything before.

This is the case with Zhao’er, which is bold and vigorous., and never cares what other people think. Once he cared a lot, and always feels that she is embarrassing to herself, finding troubles for herself. He repeatedly failing to persuade her, and because of something else, he dislikes her.

But he found that he was hypocritical and inferior and he was stupid, but it was a pity that when he understood it, it was too late.

“Just for an egg, you chose to argue with grandma.” Speaking of words, he only realized that he hadn’t changed the awkward mode of speaking before, she would have misunderstood. Sure enough, a dark color flashed on Zhao’er’s face, and then she smiled and said, “Xue Juncai can eat, and my Gou’er can also eat. Come and eat, and eat more nourishing food, you will soon be better off.”

Look, she is like this, always take him as a child, and “Gou’er” is always in her mouth, in fact, he is no longer a child. The young man’s mentality was sensitive, and he didn’t like this, but he didn’t know how to express it, so he slowly grew to disgust and subconsciousness.

Xue Gouzi didn’t know why he thought about this. He just felt that he had become very strange now. He seemed to have become two different people, one is Xue Gouzi and the other is Xue Tingxiang. And whenever he encountered something about Zhao’er, a voice murmured in his mind, as if telling him the real thoughts deep in his heart.

During the time of his thinking, something was feeding his mouth, and he looked down at it, a crispy and soft egg.

“The third auntie’s egg was well fried. My Gou’er takes a big bite and  will be tall and strong.”

As soon as this word was spoken, Zhao’er regretted it.

This is also because the little man is so obedient today, she could not help but remember the scene when the little man was still young when she coaxed him to eat. She used to coax Gou’er when she was a child, but suddenly she didn’t know when he started to resist her, and he hated her most.

When she felt uneasy in her heart, she smiled and tried to take back the spoon she had handed.

Suddenly, he came together, took a big bite, and ate a spoonful of rice.

“Delicious.”

Looking at him chewing on the food with his eyes closed, she smiled suddenly and said, “Eat more if you like. Later, I will work hard to make money and scramble eggs for Gou’er every day.”

After that, she secretly glanced at Xue Gouzi from under her eyelids. Seeing that he didn’t show any displeasure, she couldn’t help but feel relieved.

In fact, Zhao’er said this deliberately. The little man has always hated her running around most or learned to do business with people. For this matter, the two were unhappy many times, but she could not always stops going out to make money just because he was not happy.

She wanted to be rich, she wanted to have money for the little man to study, and not to compete with this group of stupid people. She thought a lot, and all of this required his support. After all, they are family, and now two of them are left in the second wife’s room.

But Zhao’er thought about it too. Even if he objected, she would do it.

Of course agreement is the best.

In this case, she couldn’t help but say a few more words, “I just talked to grandma about the separation and was objected by the grandfather.” Seeing what the little man wanted to say, she interrupted, “You listen to my me, I didn’t want to talk to you too much about some things. I always thought you are still young and I didn’t want to disturb you in studying. But what happened today, I can see that you have your own ideas. At home, if we can strive for, we should do. It should have been ours. We can’t just give it to others so innocently. Even if we want to give, we have to be given a reason, and we don’t have to be bullied by others like this! I’m not afraid of it. I found a business recently, and I can also put together the money that sent you to study. Having said so much, in fact, it ’s just to let you relax and don’t be afraid. If the sky is falling, and I will hold it for you. We don’t have the only solution. We have a lot of ways to go. It ’s a fool ’s job to have a contest with ourselves.”

In fact, Zhao’er wanted to talk to Xue Gouzi long ago, but she also knew that the little man was a thoughtful man. She was afraid that he would think more. But she ever thought he still had thought more, and even had a disease. Today such a good opportunity, she made it clear.

Xue Gouzi looked at her.

This was not the same scene in his dream, because of his sudden outbreak, the Xue family was in chaos, and everyone in the family rebuked him, saying that he was not sensible, not thinking about his family, saying that he was not filial, and stunned Grandma. In order to protect him, Zhao’er quarreled with the whole Xue family, and finally the clan leader was involved.

Zhao’er disrespected his elders and made a mistake in speaking. She was beaten in public in the Xue family ancestral hall with five whips, and to warn others against following a bad example. And this matter was also suppressed by the clan leader. She didn’t even have the ability to resist, so she was robbed of her own things.

Later, Xue Juncai went to the school in the town and was very proud. Everyone in the second wife’s room was completely disgusted by the whole family because of this incident, especially the eldest wife added fuel to the flames, so their life at the Xue family was not good.

No one at home helped them, even in the village. He couldn’t even go to the private school because his uncle said that he was terrible and could not teach him. He also said that he had beaten his aunt. He didn’t want to find anything to trouble his family.

At that time he was only fourteen. Even if he knew that some people were not good, he could not understand the maliciousness. Perhaps it is understandable, but the inferior root of human nature made him push the responsibility out subconsciously. He blamed Zhao’er on all his dissatisfaction, dissatisfaction, and even fate’s unfairness.

Even if later he knew that he was wrong to blame her, and he knew that he was wrong, but the misunderstanding was too deep. The two were moving away, and he had no face to explain it to her.

The author has something to say:

There are still some readers who are entangled with Xue Tingxiang’s story in the play.

First of all, Xue Tingxiang in the book did not die, and later he was reconciled with his son. Xue Tingxiang in this book is dead. Since Xue Tingxaing in the play was able to reconcile with Wang Mingsheng later, it shows that the so-called wife-killing and child-killing have other secrets.

Besides, how is Xue Tingxiang in the play hypocritical? He is not a good guy. He was able to stand for three dynasties, and he brought a group of official servants to fight against the Emperor, and ruled out dissidents. Only then did he have a grade in the official residence. The forces behind it were intertwined. he got stuck in everything, including river, rich businessmen in Jiangnan, smuggling by sea. He couldn’t be a good person. But he is not a bad guy, and he has done many things that contribute to the society, otherwise his reputation outside will not be so good.

As for someone who thinks that he is an honest civil servant leader, it is funny. It must be your illusion. But if you can climb to the position of the first assistant and participate in the party battle, there is no pure and flawless. Especially as for the background of the Dachang Dynasty, its setting is that after Ming dynasty’s death and Qing people did not enter the border. The small civil service groups, the rich businessmen in Jiangnan, and the small family groups around the world jointly elected the most powerful and bravest Dachang Tai Zu ascended the throne at that time. Pros and cons all followed the last dynasty, so the civil service system can refer to the Donglin Party, but the Donglin Party has been suffered many crackdowns

Some things about Xue Tingxiang’s last life will be interspersed to tell everyone. Don’t worry. And the framework of this book’s background will slowly unfold with the advancement of Xue Tingxiang.