Chapter 60: The pride of the Chen family
When everyone came out, Qian also saw Chen Anning.
However, she scolded and scolded in the morning, and also punished her for not eating, so she didn't bother with her about the morning.
As soon as Qian spoke, except for Chen Anxiao and Chen Jingshen, the rest of the soldiers divided into two routes, digging wild vegetables all the way up the mountain, and pulling weeds all the way down the ground.
Chen Anxia followed to the field, and in the next few days, she was busy with the work in the field and had no time to go to Lianghegou Village.
It wasn't until the grass in the field was pulled out that Chen Linghong led them to turn over the ground shallowly and sprinkle a thin layer of dry manure on it, and the work in the field came to an end temporarily.
Ten days passed.
In the blink of an eye, March is here.
In March, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and everything grows.
There are more and more wild vegetables that go out to dig back every day, but Chen Anxia's small ones are getting thinner and thinner after these days of hard work.
Chen Anxia was already skinny, but now the cheekbones on her face are concave.
The Chen family is not having a good time, but she is not the only one who has had a hard time in the past two days, and the life of the family is not good.
The pride of the Chen family, Chen Jinghao has returned from Luoshan Academy.
Every time he came back, Chen Linghong, Qian and the people in Dafang were all happy, and when he came back yesterday, they were also happy.
But when they heard Chen Jinghao ask for money, they were not so happy.
"Mother, why don't you go to my second and third uncle's houses to borrow some money."
Yesterday, Chen Jinghao came back in the afternoon.
When he came back, he accompanied Chen Linghong to gossip with the Qian family until the evening.
After dinner, everyone dispersed, and he stayed behind and called them and told them that they would ask for two taels of silver.
In half a month, it will be the annual township test, and Chen Jinghao has already registered.
They thought that Chen Jinghao would just wait for the exam to report his name, but who knew that a famous old gentleman from the state capital came to Luoshan Academy to give a lecture a few days ago.
Chen Jinghao said that the lecture he gave was about the proposition of the township examination, so all the people in the college who participated in the township examination signed up, and they had to pay two taels of silver if they signed up to attend the class.
Their family will only have a little money in their hands when they sell grain after the summer harvest every year, and they can't save money almost all year round in order to provide Chen Jinghao with education.
What's more, Chen Yuankang got married before last year, and even the wedding gift brought a banquet, but it cost several taels of silver.
"What kind of life are your second and third uncle's families, it's not that you haven't seen it, and it is more difficult to borrow two taels of silver from them than to ascend to the sky."
As soon as Chen Linghong heard Chen Yuanfu say this, he immediately rejected his proposal.
His two younger brothers are not very well-off.
Besides, two taels of silver is not a small amount.
"So what's going to be done? Da Lang said that the old gentleman was very powerful, and the college would invite him to give lectures every year. And Da Lang's classmates have all signed up and paid money to attend the class, if he can't attend the class alone, in case the time comes......"
In case the old gentleman talks about the proposition, then their family Jinghao is not a loss!
So no matter what, these two taels of silver have to be scraped together!
Chen Yuanfu was so anxious that he wanted to die, but he had no choice but to turn to Chen Linghong for help.
He knew that his father and his mother valued Chen Jinghao's grandson more than him, so in front of them, sometimes they would understand if they said something moderate.
"Da Lang won't leave until tomorrow, I'll try to think about it again. You go and tell Da Lang to let him study with peace of mind, and our family will not let him have any difficulties in reading. ”