Chapter 365: The Past
The man asked, "I wonder what the girl wants to know?" ”
In fact, he was also very curious, he didn't know this girl, but how did the other party know that he was literate?
Speaking of Xue Langjing, of course she would not be impulsive enough to delay her work for the sake of an uneven fight.
There are more injustices in the world, does she want to help one when she sees one, and force herself everywhere? She's not that stupid!
She did this, of course, to satisfy her curiosity.
For her, it is important to satisfy her curiosity in a small job.
It's just to help him get in touch with him.
She wanted to know what kind of environment this man had grown up in to become what he was today.
That being said, she can't be so straightforward in inquiring into other people's privacy.
Thinking like this, he saw Xue Langjing also arching his hand towards the man, "I don't know who your surname is?" ”
The man replied, "In Xia Feng Weidong, I don't know what to call the girl?" ”
"It's Brother Feng, under Xue Langjing."
"Miss Xue is polite, I don't know what the girl wants to ask?"
Xue Langjing thought about it, and then asked, "When I passed by Brother Feng's yard the next morning, I happened to hear that you asked your daughter to write, thinking that Brother Feng should be a person who reads, and since he is a scholar, why do you want to carry a sack and do these manual work?" ”
Hearing this, Feng Weidong sighed deeply, "This, it's a long story!" ”
"Oh? I don't know if it's inconvenient for Brother Feng to talk about it? Of course, if it's inconvenient, don't ask. ”
Feng Weidong waved his hand, "There's nothing inconvenient to say, I did read some books in Xia, but unfortunately I didn't read many books, although I can write some words, but my knowledge is limited, and I am far from being able to copy books, or even write letters for others." ”
"I see, but this sack is manual work, and I really can't resist it without much strength, why doesn't Brother Feng find another job?"
"Alas, don't mention it, I'm a weak scholar, I haven't even done housework before, and I haven't laid the ground, what else can I do? I can't do anything, so I can only find some manual work without experience", Feng Weidong shook his head helplessly.
Uh, nothing?
This, this is a little different from what she imagined!
Seeing that the other party was silent, I guess it was a sad thing.
Although it is not very authentic to let others talk about her sad things, but she gave him ten taels of silver, and she also earned him a breath of air, so it shouldn't matter if you ask?
Xue Langjing felt that she was not just to satisfy her curiosity, and knowing his past could also help her better understand the way of a person's growth, which was worth studying.
Thinking so, she continued, "When I heard the conversation between Brother Feng and Ling Ai before, I was really shocked, my daughter was only so young, so I decided to let her recruit her, this is really the first time I have seen her."
We are very curious about Brother Feng's past, what kind of environment can make Brother Feng so different, such an idea is really admirable! ”
Hearing her inquiry, Feng Weidong sighed lightly, "Feng's past is not bad to talk to people, in fact, there is nothing special, it's..."
It turned out that this Feng Weidong family was not very wealthy like ordinary people, and the only difference was probably that he lost his father early and was raised by his mother alone.
However, although his family is not wealthy, he still wants to study very much and wants to be a reader.
His mother couldn't resist him, thinking that there was still a little money left in the family, so she agreed to let him study.
It's just that although he agreed, the family doesn't have much money, and he will marry a daughter-in-law in the future.
Therefore, his mother deducted the bride price so that he could use the rest of the money to study.
With that little money, it was enough to buy him the most basic pen, ink and paper, but he really couldn't afford to go to a private school, and there were other expenses.
The conditions at home did not allow it, but his desire to study was extremely strong.
So what about it? I had to walk a long way every day to listen to the private school in the next town.
tossed and turned like this, and when he reached the age when he should marry a daughter-in-law, he didn't make a big name, and the family tossed a few books for him. 000 Literature
Fortunately, the daughter-in-law who married later was virtuous and capable, not only worked with his mother to do the work in the fields, but also shared a few acres of land to plant.
And the daughter-in-law is also good at cooking, and occasionally she can go to the town to be a cook for others to earn money for the family.
In this way, he can study with more peace of mind, and the progress in recent years has been much greater than in the past years.
If only the days had gone on like this.
It's a pity that God didn't fulfill people's wishes, and within two years of marrying his daughter-in-law, his mother-in-law, who had raised him with hard work, died.
There is no capable helper in the family, and life is a lot sader, and the investment in him is smaller, and the progress of his study can only slow down.
Two years later, worse things came, and his capable daughter-in-law also went.
And the cause is overwork.
At such a young age, she became ill from hard work, and you can imagine how much work she usually did without him knowing.
Only then did he suddenly realize how much his daughter-in-law had done for him over the years in order to satisfy his desire to study.
And not only does he usually do nothing at home, but he doesn't even know how much money he spends on his own study, and he often complains that his family is too poor and delays him from studying, otherwise he wouldn't have studied for so many years, and he still looks like he can't do anything.
It's a pity that he reflected too late, the daughter-in-law and mother-in-law who could help him are no longer there, and the family basically has no money left because of his study, and after dealing with the funeral of his daughter-in-law, there is no eldest son left.
Except for that room and a few acres of land, there was nothing left of any family property.
But life still has to be lived, especially when he has a daughter waiting for him to support.
But what can he do in the village?
It seems that you can only farm.
However, he has been studying since he was a child, and he considers himself a scholar, and he spends most of his time studying.
It's like there is no life for a scholar, but there is a disease for a scholar!
It was impossible to farm, so in the end I had to sell those few acres of land and bring my daughter to the county to beg for a living.
I thought that although I didn't know anything, as a man, I still have the strength to do some physical work, right?
But I never thought that I had to test my physical strength before carrying a sack.
As for why he let his daughter recruit him.
That's simpler, the lady died of exhaustion for him, how can he have the face to remarry in the name of continuing incense in the future!
But there is only one daughter under his knees, and if he wants to continue the incense, he has to let his daughter recruit him.
Moreover, if he lets his daughter marry, he will have no father, no mother, no wife and no children, won't he become a loner?
Again, he found out that this woman is not necessarily worse than a man.
Wasn't he himself raised by a widow, if he didn't have to study, his own life would be no worse than that of other people's fathers and mothers.
Thinking about his daughter-in-law's dedication to the family over the years, comparing himself with her, it is really embarrassing.
Mother-in-law can, daughter-in-law can, why can't his daughter?
Thinking that when he was young, he was a widow living with her son, and the people in the village said that his mother was a husband who killed her husband and was an unknown person.
After marrying his daughter-in-law, the people in the village praised him for his daughter-in-law's ability.
But since the death of his mother, they said that his daughter-in-law had a bad life and would restrain their Feng family, wouldn't this kill his mother.
When his daughter-in-law went, he thought that the villagers would say that he was a lonely star or something, and that he was a daughter-in-law.
As a result, these people only pitied him, felt sorry for him, and praised him for what a good young man, but it was a pity that his mother and daughter-in-law had a thin life, not a happy life.
There are many other things, which make him understand that the world has too many misinterpretations of women.
After all this, he believed that if Jiabao was cultivated well, he would definitely not be worse than a man in the future, and his Jiabao was a well-known little clever ghost in the village.