There is a heavy snow at the end of the year, and the snowfall this winter is not much, but it is not too little, at least next year will not be as dry as the first year of Xingping, and this heavy snow will not be too bad next year.

Under the shroud of wind and snow, the night of Chang'an City can still feel the strong vitality, the soldiers patrolling the street will stop at the government office at the end of the street to roast the fire, and the warm light seeps out from the window lattice.

The firelight of the fireplace baked the room warm like spring, the sky was already dark, but it was not yet time to rest, there was a table on the bed in the room, and Juan'er, who had become a mother, wrinkled her little face and played a series of chess games with Diao Chan, who had initially integrated into the family, and raised her eyes from time to time to look at the beautiful concubine who made people feel inferior.

At the other end of the room, Chen Mo was lazily lying in the spacious bathtub, Yun Si helped Chen Mo wipe his body, Cai Yan sat by the window sewing embroidery, beside her, the young Chen Jin had already yawned, the little guy practiced martial arts in the morning, read in the morning, and learned math in the afternoon, the time of the day was almost full, and he was relaxed at the moment, he was already sleepy, and his little face was full of feelings of lovelessness.

"Mother, why do you want to study and practice martial arts?" Xiao Chen Jin raised his eyes and looked at Cai Yan.

"Why do you want to read it?" Cai Yan was stunned, she didn't seem to have thought about this problem, she was born in a scholarly family, her father was a great Confucian, even if she is a woman, she will learn since she was a child, reading seems to be born like this, it has become a habit, why read this kind of thing, Cai Yan really didn't think about it.

"Yes~" Xiao Chen Jin nodded and said, "Does everyone want to read it?" ”

"Probably not." Cai Yan shook his head, the preciousness of the book, for many people, it is not an exaggeration to say that the medical skills are not exaggerated, even in the family, many books are also extremely precious, ordinary people, I am afraid they can't read it if they want to.

"Then why did Jin'er read it?" Xiao Chen Jin said dissatisfied.

"Reading can understand the essence of all things...... Cai Yan is a talented woman, she can say a lot of truth, but before she finished speaking, she saw that Xiao Chen Jin had fallen asleep on her lap.

"It's fine, I'll teach him tomorrow." Chen Mo didn't know when, he had already put on his clothes and came over, looking at his son who was asleep, Chen Mo reached out and hugged him and smiled.

"Hmm." A smile appeared on Cai Yan's face, the talent of the husband, learning from the past and the present, and being taught by the husband is naturally the best, but it is a pity that Chen Mo is busy with official duties on weekdays and is rarely at home, and Xiao Chen Jin most of the time follows Cai Yong or the teacher invited by Cai Yong to learn.

Chen Mo called the nurse from outside the house, took Chen Jin away, and said to the four wives and concubines: "It's not early, let's rest separately." ”

Although Chen Mo occasionally makes a little ridiculous, most of the time he is still very restrained.

Tonight it was Cai Yan's turn to accompany Chen Mo to rest, Yun Si took Juan'er and Diao Chan out with interest, the bed had been made by Diao Chan and Juan'er, Cai Yan helped Chen Mo remove his coat, and then turned off the lights, and the husband and wife hugged each other and slept together.

There was nothing to say all night, and when Xiao Chen Jin woke up early the next morning, he was told that he didn't have to go to practice martial arts to study today, but was brought to Chen Mo.

"I've seen my father." Xiao Chen Jin saluted Chen Mo with a glance.

"Take a break today, you don't need to study, come with me." Chen Mo nodded, took Cai Yan and Chen Jin into the carriage, and went straight out of Chang'an City.

"Father, where are we going?" Chen Jin leaned on the window with some excitement, looking at the crowd coming and going on the street.

"Take you to live other people's lives, from this day on, we live in the countryside, and you don't have to study and practice martial arts, but you also have to do some household chores." Chen Mo touched his son's head and smiled.

"Well, Jin'er will." Chen Jin nodded excitedly, the so-called housework should be to serve tea and pour water, what the servants at home do on weekdays, he will also.

"Husband......" Cai Yan looked at Chen Mo with some concern.

"Nothing." Chen Mo shook his head and smiled.

The carriage traveled all the way to the vicinity of Baqiao, there is a farm here, which is Chen Mo's private property, and it is also a place for information transmission, the people in the village are all the people in charge of sorting out information in Skynet, and they will also work and farm on weekdays, it seems that there is no difference from ordinary manors, but there are a lot of secret protections here.

Chen Mo took his wife and children to a fairly tidy courtyard.

"Why did the father bring his children to this firewood house?" Chen Jin looked at the chickens raised in the courtyard with some curiosity.

"This is not a firewood house, it is a dwelling, and for the next half a month, you, your father and your mother will live here." Chen Mo took his wife and children into the house, changed into coarse cloth clothes, and said: "How people who don't study live, how we live." ”

Chen Jin nodded ignorantly, looking at the narrow house, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he thought that he didn't have to study, and the living was poor, so he endured it.

"Breakfast hasn't been eaten yet, my father will make breakfast in a while, you go and bring some dry firewood, it's over there, it's already chopped, my son can move here." Chen Mo pointed to the pyre in the courtyard and smiled.

"Husband, this kind of thing should be done by the concubine." Cai Yan grabbed Chen Mo.

"Madame will do it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

This......

Cai Yan shook his head helplessly: "Husband, Jin'er is just joking for a while, why should Husband be so serious?" ”

"Sometimes, children's words are not jokes, we as parents are the ones who guide them, and it is up to them to choose how they should go in the future and what path they should take, rather than we force them to go." Chen Mo said with a smile: "If he wants to inherit my family's business, he needs to know the sufferings of the people, if he can't even do this, how can he be a prince of one side every day, how can he be compassionate to the people?" It's not just a book. ”

"My husband is a hero in the world, how can I do these things myself?" Cai Yan smiled bitterly.

"Life in the world, in fact, is to live for three meals and clothing, why not?" Chen Mo rolled up his sleeves, set up the kettle and said with a smile: "Madame only knows that my family was poor when I was young, but how poor I am, Madame probably doesn't know, this is to make a fire to make food, go to the field to plow the fields, or make a living on the streets, for the husband understands." ”

When Cai Yan heard this, he could only smile bitterly to help, Xiao Chen Jin suddenly came to a new environment, a little excited, and he was also quite interested in Chen Mo's request, so he immediately brought firewood one by one, and watched Chen Mo start cooking by the stove.

"There's chickens in the coop, go get two." Chen Mo pointed in the direction of the chicken coop while digging for corn.

"Good!"

After a while, looking at the son who was being chased around the yard by the hen and crying for his father, Chen Mo smiled very happily, but Cai Yan on the side stepped forward to drive the hen away in distress.

When Xiao Chen Jin came over with two chickens, there were still tears on his little face.

"Later, lead the hens away first, and then dig out the chickens." Chen Mo smiled while cooking.

"Father, why don't you kill that chicken!?" Xiao Chen Jin hated the way.

"Its baby gave you food, are you sure you want to kill it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"Kid?" Xiao Chen Jin looked at the chicken in his hand puzzled.

"Yes, those chickens in the yard came out of the chickens, and for it, the chickens are their children." Chen Mo nodded.

"That'...... I don't eat it. Chen Jin hurriedly put down the chicken.

"For chickens, its greatest value is to produce chickens, if we don't eat chickens, we will be hungry, and secondly, it will have no value, so we can only use it for stew." Chen Mo smiled.

"Chicken soup?" Xiao Chen Jin swallowed his saliva, and then shook his head: "Father, is this a little cruel?" ”

"Natural selection, this is the way of survival of all things, I want to be able to eat chickens every day, so raise it, but one day when it no longer produces chickens, why should I raise it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

Half an hour later, Chen Mo made breakfast, corn and chicken, compared to the current Chen family, this breakfast is monotonous and boring.

"Father, it's not delicious, the child wants to eat egg custard, goat milk, preserved fruits, pastries~" After Xiao Chen Jin ate the chicken, the corn rice was really difficult to swallow, compared with the Chen family's food, it was difficult to swallow at all.

"That's the food of people who read, and that's what people who don't study." Chen Mo laughed while eating with relish, cooking this kind of thing, Chen Mo is only limited to being able to do it, to compare his skills with the Chen family's cooks, Chen Mo is naturally too far behind.

Xiao Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo, who was eating corn rice with relish, hesitated, and continued to take a few bites before stopping.

Farmhouses are relatively idle in winter, and if they catch up with spring ploughing, they naturally don't need four-year-old children to go to the fields, but they won't be too happy.

Next, Chen Mo's family of three lived here for three days, eating corn and rice every day is actually good in this year, but not everyone can have surplus food, and they sleep on dry and hard wooden boards, not even the couch can be counted, and they help to do some chores every day, at first maybe because of the freshness, they still think it is interesting, but after three days, Chen Jin just wants to escape from such a life.

After all, compared to the hardships of Chen Mo's childhood, Chen Jin has been clothed and fed since he was a child, which is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and from luxury to thrift.

On the evening of the third day, the little one sat down by the hen's coop and suddenly began to weep in a low voice.

"That's how my dad came here when he was a kid." Chen Mo didn't know when he appeared beside Chen Jin and smiled.

"How many days has my father passed?" Xiao Chen Jin looked at his father.

"Ten years, the last year, I was driven away with your grandmother, and my father killed people at the age of nine for a piece of corn cake." Chen Mo looked at the distance and said abruptly: "Later, when I met your master, life was a little better." ”

"Isn't the child useless?" Chen Jin secretly looked at his father.

"The covetousness of people is different, from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift, that day you asked your mother why she wants to study? Say smaller, it is to be able to live a little more luxurious, you don't have to run around for three meals a day, live decently, to say bigger, people in this life, after food and clothing, always want to do something, you don't understand anything, you want to do things but don't know where to start, isn't it sad, say ordinary, can talk to people calmly. Chen Mo touched his son's head and smiled.

"Then why do you want to practice martial arts?" Chen Jin said curiously.

"Is this ...... Presumably to make people feel comfortable talking to you. Chen Mo groped his chin and pondered.

"Poof~" Chen Jin understood after thinking for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "It turns out that my father would do such a vulgar thing?" ”

"Is it vulgar?" Chen Mo shook his head and said: "Sometimes it's useless to just be reasonable, this is not called vulgarity, it is called strategy!" ”

"Got it!" Chen Jin nodded and said.

"It doesn't matter if you understand it or not, you have to stick to it for half a month, you should have a beginning and an end to doing things, and people should keep their word." Chen Mo got up and smiled.

Chen Jin nodded with a bitter face, he could only continue to live like this, his father could live for ten years, and there was no reason why he couldn't.