You need to raise your pet using a system [Era]

Chapter 58 Random Thoughts on Reading

After delivering the grain to the government, the village began to harvest sweet potatoes as quickly as possible.

Lu Yuanqing sent Lu Yuanhuan, Lu Mingdong, and Lu Mingxi to school.

Although this incident made most of the villagers think he was mentally unstable, and even speculated about his family background.

Lu Yuanqing, with great foresight, borrowed some money from the brigade, promising to pay it back when the money was distributed during the New Year.

With this excuse, no one doubted anything anymore.

However, he made a lot of sarcastic remarks about sending Lu Mingxi to junior high school and Lu Yuanhuan to high school.

Of course, these sarcastic remarks had no effect on Lu Yuanqing whatsoever.

Lu Yuanhuan, the only one in the family who needed to be careful not to be affected, also stopped caring about those sarcastic remarks after his encouragement.

The third brother went to school, and the three younger brothers were too young to work, so in the end, the only people in the Lu family who worked all day were Lu Yuanqing and Lu Yuanbo.

"I have to say, Yuanqing is really meticulous when he works. I watched him dig sweet potatoes for half a day, and not a single one was damaged. Yuanqing, how did you do that!"

An elderly woman standing nearby, separated by a patch of earth, watched in amazement!

Lu Yuanqing raised his hoe and dug down hard. Then he pulled, and the soil scattered, revealing sweet potatoes of different sizes.

Lu Yuanbo followed behind him, picking them up one by one into the basket.

"Hey, I just dug it up randomly!" Lu Yuanqing replied with a smile.

That's talent! Hahaha!

Actually, it relies on the system's precise scanning.

The system was able to cooperate so well this time entirely because it reconciled with Lu Yuanqing.

The two had an open and honest conversation.

The system promises to help Lu Yuanqing complete his tasks as much as possible in the future.

As for Lu Yuanqing, he was not allowed to test it from time to time, and most importantly, he was not allowed to speak to it in a sarcastic or ambiguous way in the future.

The two reached a harmonious agreement.

Therefore, now when Lu Yuanqing is working, the system helps him with precise calculations so that he can work a little easier, instead of the previous brute force that was not only physically exhausting but also hard on his hands.

“My brother is very capable; he can be compared to experienced workers!” Lu Yuanbo immediately presented his evidence.

He followed behind, but didn't pick up a single bad sweet potato.

"Haha, Yuan Qing did a great job, I agree!"

"If he can't do anything, how can he possibly send his three children to school?"

"Tch, what's wrong with sending them to school? Do you expect them to be blind like you?"

"It's fine for Xiao Dong to go to school, but his family also has two daughters going, one in high school and one in junior high. How much tuition will that cost in a year? They're really burning money!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuanbo became indignant. He threw a large clump of mud that he had carelessly wiped off the sweet potato at the speaker, saying, "Why is it burning so badly? What's wrong with my sister studying? Is she in your way? Then don't look!"

"My sister got into high school, while your eldest daughter didn't even finish elementary school for a few years. What are you jealous of?"

"What do you mean I'm jealous? I'm just trying to be helpful. Your family is struggling financially, and you're wasting money sending two girls to school. Isn't that a waste? You're ungrateful for my kindness. You should be saving that money. Your third brother is getting on in years and still single! Wouldn't it be better to save it for getting married?"

Lu Yuanqing: "..."

Very old? Him?

"Bullshit! My brother has a girlfriend! How can he not get married?" Lu Yuanbo was furious. "My future sister-in-law really likes my brother. Their marriage is just a matter of time!"

"My brother just wants to send his sister to school, what's it to you! Mind your own business!"

"Yuanbo, what are you so angry about? Your third brother has a wife, aren't you worried about yourself? Hahaha, I think Sister-in-law Chen is right. What's the use of a girl studying so much? She'll get married sooner or later anyway. I think it's better to find Huanhuan a partner from a well-off family as soon as possible. Then you'll have enough money to get married!"

Lu Yuanqing frowned.

He said that encountering a group of middle-aged women is a tragedy, and it's true!

“Sister-in-law Zhou, you’re right. It’s true that all three of your daughters are married, but it seems like none of them have ever returned to their parents’ home! Even though Huanhuan is married, I still hope that she can come home for holidays. So, you should just keep this idea to yourself!”

As soon as Lu Yuanqing said this, muffled laughter immediately erupted from those around him.

Mrs. Zhou was embarrassed by him and laughed at by those around her. She couldn't keep her composure and turned her head away, cursing.

Finally, it was quiet, and he felt that the air was much fresher.

He didn't like chatting with these older women, and he didn't want to be the subject of their conversations.

If you can avoid participating, then decisively play dead.

But that doesn't mean he's afraid of them.

"Brother, you're amazing!" Lu Yuanbo squatted on the ground, tilted his head back, and looked at Lu Yuanqing with admiration.

Lu Yuanqing raised an eyebrow and smiled, "So-so!" So-so, third in the world.

"Teach me!" Lu Yuanbo said, "I can never win an argument with them!"

Moreover, every time he gets angry and wants to lash out, they accuse him of being petty. In any case, they are always right, and he is completely wrong. When they criticize him, he has to obediently admit it.

So frustrating!

Lu Yuanqing looked at his sullen face with amusement. "What? Want to learn how to shut them up?"

"Mmm!" Lu Yuanbo nodded vigorously like a silly dog.

"Ahem!" Lu Yuanqing immediately assumed a fighting stance. "So, what do you think is the key point of arguing?"

"What is it?"

"Of course, it's about poking at someone's wounds!" Lu Yuanqing rolled her eyes at him.

"Oh!" Lu Yuanbo said thoughtfully.

Lu Yuanqing said, "Just now, Aunt Zhou was a typical example of the village's preference for sons over daughters. She has four daughters and one son, and three of her daughters are already married."

"Your eldest daughter has been married for five years now! Have you ever seen her come back to her parents' home?"

"No!" Lu Yuanbo shook his head honestly. "When my daughter got married, we received a huge dowry, but she didn't give any dowry at all. She just left with a tattered dress. Only a fool would come back!"

Since they were all from the same village, they naturally heard some gossip.

Aunt Zhou said she was marrying off her daughter, but in reality, she was selling her daughter.

She sold her daughter, naturally all for the sake of her family's only son.

Everyone says that her fourth child is probably of marriageable age and will be sold to her younger brother as a bride price.

“Yes!” Lu Yuanqing felt a little uncomfortable. “People care about their reputation. People talk about her behind her back, but if they don’t say it to her face, she will pretend that she doesn’t know anything. But as long as the matter is put in front of everyone, her sense of shame will come out.”

After all, if there were a hierarchy for selling daughters, she would be at the top.

Even if they withheld their own daughter's dowry, they wouldn't have kicked her out the door for wearing such tattered clothes.

So even though her three daughters didn't have the support of their maternal family and their lives in their husbands' families were just average, they were unwilling to go back to their maternal home.

It's easy to imagine how unsuccessful Aunt Zhou was as a mother.

"Oh! I get it!" Lu Yuanbo said smugly.

"What do you understand?" Lu Yuanqing asked.

Lu Yuanbo chuckled twice, "We're all from the same village, everyone knows a little about other people's dirty laundry! Don't rush to defend yourselves in the future, just talk about her dirty laundry, let's hurt each other! Who's afraid of who!"

Lu Yuanqing hissed and said, "What you're saying is pretty much true!"

only……

Lu Yuanqing felt a little guilty, but he knew how to save face, so he didn't say it directly.

But what about Lu Yuanbo...?

He probably doesn't understand what tact is!

Forget it, better to die for your fellow Daoist than for me.

Lu Yuanqing had long been annoyed by these old women's tendency to lecture Lu Yuanbo.

Lu Yuanbo is the dumbest; he always gets so angry at them that he can't even speak.

No matter what, Lu Yuanbo is his younger brother. Rather than letting him get away with things every time and making himself angry, it's better to let him go out and annoy these old ladies.

"Brother, hasn't the brigade leader said when the grain will be distributed yet?" After having a solution, Lu Yuanbo started asking about the grain distribution.

You know, in the past, grain would be distributed after the grain was handed over to the state, but this year we're busy harvesting sweet potatoes, and there's no sign of grain being distributed yet!

Many villagers asked about it, but Zhao Zhongcai said they would talk about it after the sweet potatoes were harvested.

"The brigade leader will distribute the sweet potatoes after they're harvested," Lu Yuanqing said. "We lent grain to the villagers in advance this year, so the grain shortage isn't too bad yet!"

"What? Are you out of food at home?"

"Of course not!" Lu Yuanbo frowned and said, "Huanhuan has been eating potatoes for every meal these past few days..." She wants to eat something else.

Not to mention Lu Yuanbo, Lu Yuanqing couldn't stand it either; he felt nauseous at the sight of potatoes.

Thinking back to his original memories, he realized that he ate potatoes and sweet potatoes every day, and cornmeal was a rare treat. Rice was even rarer. He felt like he had no will to live.

How can I stop Lu Yuanhuan from being so stingy? Oh! Save money!

"Don't even think about it. We only have a few pounds of millet this year. Once it's husked, there will be even less rice. Huanhuan won't be able to cook a proper rice meal!" Lu Yuanqing sighed.

Throughout the autumn harvest, although the weather was hot and porridge was easier to swallow, eating it every meal was unbearable.

Sweet potato porridge, a bowlful is all sweet potato with only a few grains of rice, it makes you want to cry.

"When will we be able to eat rice every day?" Lu Yuanbo said with anticipation and longing.