Seeing her being so angry, the two children shrank their necks and stood still in front of the door. Sihu picked up the pheasant in his hand and said, "Mom, we are not freeloaders. Look, we caught one."
Pheasants can be sold for a lot of money.
"Yes, yes." Sanhu nodded repeatedly.
"Pheasants can be sold for money, but you can hunt pheasants for a lifetime?"
Ye Chuqiu glanced at them angrily, "What did mother tell you? You are still young. You should learn more skills and stop thinking about playing."
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The two guys lowered their heads and admitted their mistake very quickly.
"Okay, leave the pheasants alone. Let me ask you, do you remember all the words I assigned you?" Ye Chuqiu looked at the two of them.
The two of them shook their heads in unison. During this period, the family was busy building a house, and the adults had many things to do and had no time to talk to them. How could the two of them think about anything else.
"Sanhu, after this year, you will be fourteen years old. Let me tell you, there are many people in the countryside who fall in love with each other at the age of fourteen or fifteen. By then, no girl will be willing to marry you if you are so lazy.
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"Mom, my second brother hasn't married yet, I'm not in a hurry." Sanhu glanced at Ye Chuqiu and said with his head lowered.
"Your second brother was delayed by the famine. Do you think your second brother can't get a wife? Your second brother is down-to-earth and hardworking. He is no better than you. Mom, I really don't know what you are thinking about every day. Work, work, work."
No, studying is not the material for studying. Even if you are smart, you are not smart at all. What can you do in the future?"
Ye Chuqiu hadn't scolded them for half a month, and today he spoke a bit harshly. Sanhu didn't dare to refute and just lowered his head, but in his heart, he was definitely not convinced.
"I'm too lazy to talk to you. If you weren't my son, I wouldn't even bother to care about you. Go and read for me." Seeing that they didn't say anything, Ye Chuqiu sent them into the wooden house next to them.
The two brothers went in dejectedly. As soon as they entered the wooden house, Sanhu complained, "I caught a pheasant. I thought my mother would reward me. Unexpectedly, she even scolded me, saying I can't do this, I can't do that, I can't do this.
Aren’t you training your hunting skills? I can support myself when I hunt in the future.”
"Third brother, please stop saying a few words. Mom can hear me from next door." Sihu whispered, then picked up the words written by Ye Chuqiu, read them, and then picked up the wooden stick on the side.
Making gestures on the clay bowl.
"So what if my mother is next door? I've met a lot of people in the village, and they haven't studied either. Why don't we just live our lives the same way? What's the use of studying? We're not cousins, so we don't have this ability."
Sanhu seemed to be very resentful, "I see, my mother has started dreaming about her old title of king again. Now that my eldest cousin has separated from us, she will start to force us again."
"Third brother, please stop saying a few words. Mother heard carefully," Sihu advised.
"So what if my mother heard it? Even in front of her, I dare to say this." Sanhu said loudly.
"Yeah?"
Ye Chuqiu's voice sounded leisurely behind him.
Sanhu was startled. He turned around and saw Ye Chuqiu's expressionless face. His heart seemed to have sunk into an ice cellar. He just shrank his head like a quail and called out, "Mother."
"Sanhu, you are really capable now. Is it because I fed you too much?"
Ye Chuqiu looked at him, really angry, "Do you still think I am counting on you? Let me ask you, did you rely on me to escape the famine on this journey?"
"Also, don't mention that bitch Ye Yaozu to me. I have nothing to do with him anymore. If he dares to stand in front of me again now, I won't be able to beat him with a stick.
Of course, it was precisely because of him that I realized that no one else can be relied upon, and everyone has to rely on himself. As for you, you are still your mother’s biological son, and your wings haven’t grown strong yet, and you start saying such nonsense. Then wait
Now that your wings are strong, can your mother still rely on you?
Is it true that your mother is a good mother when she urges you to study? When you become successful and become a high official in the future, who will be respected? It will be you, not me.
I just got the name of an old lord, so what’s the use? That’s just a false name, the only person who really benefits is you.
Now, I want to tell you, if you want to learn, just learn. If you don't, forget it. I won't force you. If I force you, you still have resentment in your heart, and I have spent all my energy and money on it."
After saying that, Ye Chuqiu turned and left.
To be honest, when she heard Lin Sanhu's words, she was really angry. She was not the original owner. She didn't care about the old lord's name at all. On the contrary, she wanted to stay in peace and no one would come.
She is satisfied when she makes trouble and no one bothers her.
But these children are not too old now. We can't let them live like this all their lives, right?
Young people always have to do something in their careers, so she urges them to study. Only if they read books and know a few words, they will be more comfortable no matter what they do in the future.
If you can write and do calculations, you will not be easily fooled. Even if you are a farmer and sell grain and pay taxes, you will also do the calculations yourself. Not to mention that if you want to start a small business in the future, you will need to be literate even more.
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So, Lin Sanhu said that she asked him to read just because she wanted this false reputation, which really made him a little angry.
She decided to let him build a house tomorrow so that he could feel the pain and tiredness, and she would no longer spoil him because she thought he was young.
Thinking of this, Ye Chuqiu turned around and walked in again, "You two, since you don't want to learn to read, you can't be idle. You can go to our homestead to help later. The children of those families in the village are seven or eight years old.
Now that you can help out, you are not young anymore and it is time for you to contribute to the family."
"Mom, do you want us to build a house?" Lin Sanhu's face turned bitter when he thought of this.
"Yes, your eldest brother and second brother have both gone. You will also have a share in this house from now on. Of course you have to contribute as well. You can't live here in vain."
Ye Chuqiu said, walked over and took back all the paper in their hands, "Go now, mother will not let you study and practice calligraphy in the future, mother will not force you to do things you don't like."
The two brothers walked out with a grimace on their faces. Ye Chuqiu disliked their slow pace and turned around and shouted: "Hurry up, stop working as a foreigner. You four brothers, I need a basin of water to level it. You are young, and you are already doing this."
Life is not as good as that of a big tiger or a second tiger. If you don't work harder, how can you make up for this gap?"
"Mom, we are young, how can we compare with the eldest brother and the second brother." Sihu couldn't help but say something.
"But I also showed you my mother's plan. From now on, each of you will be assigned a wing, so of course you have to do the same work."
After that, she had already led the two children to Huang Yougui, "Brother, please find a place for my two children on the construction site and let them do some work within their ability."
"Okay, there is a lot of trivial work involved in building a house. There are a lot of jobs suitable for them." Huang Yougui nodded in agreement.
They are both from the countryside, and their methods of educating children are similar. Since Aunt Lin is willing to let her two children work, why is he reluctant to do it?
"Did you see the pile of mud bricks over there? Go and stack them neatly." Huang Yougui turned around and drove the two children to work.