Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 30

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Du Jinning asked, and comforted her, "Are you sad about the adoption? You did the right thing. How can I adopt in such a situation?"

Mrs. Chen hugged her into her arms and cried softly: "Mother, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Du Jinning patted her on the back: "How can you be sorry for me? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to live to this day."

Seeing that Mrs. Chen was still crying, she said again: "Mother, even if I don't continue, I can let you live a good life, just wait. Look, don't we have something like that today? We’ll have more in the future.”

The house was not soundproof, and she was worried that the partition had ears, so she dared not say the word "silver".

"Mother, what are you doing? The food is already overheated." Du Fangling opened the door and came in. Seeing her two crying, she couldn't help being startled, and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"No, nothing." Mrs. Chen quickly stopped crying, wiped away her tears, patted Du Jinning and said, "Let's go to eat."

Du Fangling looked suspiciously at Mrs. Chen, then stared at Du Jinning a few more times, closed the door and went out.

When Chen Shi and Du Jinning went to the cowshed for dinner, Du Fangling was nowhere to be seen.

"Where did Sister Ling go?" Mrs. Chen asked Du Fangfei.

"Didn't she go to call you? Why, didn't you see her?" Du Fangfei was startled, stood up and wanted to find someone.

"No need to look for her, she must have gone to her uncle's place." Du Jinning said.

Chen's heart tightened, and she turned around to go out, when she saw Du Fangling coming in from outside.

"You, where have you been?" Chen said angrily.

"Didn't go anywhere." Du Fangling sat down, picked up the bowl and ate without looking at Chen.

Du Jinning tugged on Chen Shi's sleeve, signaling her not to be nervous, and stuffed a cornbread into her hand: "Mom, eat."

Chen had no choice but to sit down and eat.

She really has nothing to do with Du Fangling's daughter.The daughter knows that she loves her and her elder sister and younger sister, but she has a problem with Du Jinning, who has brought misfortune to the third room, which makes her very helpless.

The backs of the hands and the palms are full of flesh. For Du Jinning, the daughter has already suffered.She could no longer beat and scold Du Fangling for this.

Under Du Yinsheng's pressure, Du Chensheng personally sent twenty catties of rice to Sanfang.Nowadays, people in Sanfang serve white rice porridge with corn pancakes.Although they still ate vegetables, radishes and pickles, which were incomparable to those in the main house, the food had improved a little.This was improved under the threat of Du Jinning.

Even if there were twenty catties of rice, Mrs. Chen was reluctant to eat and wanted to leave it to Du Jinning, but Du Jinning refused, and ate with everyone after her "illness" recovered.Chen had no choice but to cook white rice porridge for everyone to eat together.This made Du Fangling's complexion much better.

After eating and returning to the house, Du Jinning said to Mrs. Chen: "Mother, I will go to the fields with you tomorrow."

"No need." Chen refused without thinking, "It's cold outside, what are you going to do? Be obedient and stay at home."

She winked at Du Jinning and said in a low voice, "Didn't your uncle give you a book? You can read, write and write at home. There is not much work in the field, so you don't need to do it."

Du Jinning knew what Chen meant.She wanted her to write another storybook at home, which was much better than working in the fields.But Du Jinning has his own ideas.

Du Yunyi's family is in the county. If they didn't meet each other, it doesn't mean they won't meet them in the future.Even though they were selling scripts under the name of Du Yinsheng, Mrs. Chen went to the county to sell scripts for her uncle next door without doing her job.Furthermore, I dare not spend the money I earned from selling the storybook. Everyone's life is as difficult as ever, so what's the point of earning this money?

Therefore, the most important thing right now is not to make money, but how to get Sanfang out of the control of Du Chensheng and Niu.

But in this ancient time with strong family values, how difficult is it to get rid of the control of the elders?If the way of adoption fails, you have to think of other ways.But this cannot be done in a short time.

Du Jinning didn't want to idle around at home.Seeing Chen Shi and Du Fangfei working in the field in cold weather, she was lying at home.She was uneasy.

"Yes." Du Fangfei also said, "You are thin, and you just fell ill. There is not much work in the field now, and it's cold outside. What if you get sick again? Why don't you rest at home, we can rest assured some."

Du Fanghui also nodded straightly: "Yes."

"Besides, it will be Chinese New Year in a few days. We will stop working in the fields after two or three days. What are you going to do with just these two or three days?" Chen said again.

Du Jinning's eyes lit up: "It's the Chinese New Year? Are uncle and aunt coming back?"

"Yes." Chen turned to look at her, "Why are you asking this?"

"Don't you think uncle and aunt will bring you something delicious?" Du Fangling sneered.

Du Yunyi and Mrs. Zhang of Dafang, as well as the few children born by Mrs. Zhang, can't go back to the village several times a year.When he came back, he stayed in the house and didn't go out. He was like a stranger to the Sanfang people.The food they brought back never got into the hands of the Sanfang people.So whether they come back or not has nothing to do with the Sanfang people.Chen Shi and Du Fangling really didn't know why Du Jinning was so excited when they heard the Dafang people came back.

"Haha, it's nothing." Du Jinning laughed dryly, thinking about things in his heart, and said, "Mother, auntie is the most respectful of rules, if she sees me sharing a room with you, she might say something unpleasant again .”

"Yes." When this matter was mentioned, Chen became worried.

Mrs. Zhang claimed that she was from the city, and when she returned to Du's house, she always put on airs, lest others would not know that she was from the city.She didn't dare to talk too much about Du Chensheng and Niu's, but she was always picking and stabbing the second and third householders' manners and clothing.

In the past, when she came back, Mrs. Chen would move to the outer room of the cowshed and leave the inner room for Du Jinning. Mrs. Zhang knew that they had no other place to live, so she was not picky about this.

But now that Sanfang has moved here, a room with a clear view of the snow cave, Du Jinning can't hide the fact that Du Jinning lives in the same room with his mother and sister.Mrs. Zhang is a person who can only criticize, but does not solve problems.In the end, Mrs. Chen was taught a lesson by Mrs. Zhang, and she had to be ridiculed by Mrs. Yao, and lost face among her sisters-in-law. After the end, Mrs. Niu would scold her for being troublesome and for not knowing what to do—it would be nice to live in a spacious and clean house Now, I still want to pick and choose, one person to one room, and just drive the old ones out.

Because of this, Mrs. Chen thought of going to the mountain to help people carry logs for a few days, and then changed jobs and asked someone to help separate the wooden boards to separate the house.

"Mom, I'm going to carry wood tomorrow." Du Fangfei said, "The oil and salt at home are gone, so I have to work for a few days in exchange for something."

Mrs. Chen was about to tell her to go when she saw Du Jinning tugging on her skirt.Thinking of the two taels of silver that Du Jinning earned, she suddenly felt at ease, and waved her hands: "No, I will find a way to solve the problem of wood and oil and salt, so I don't have to carry wood for others."

(End of this chapter)