C16 Unreasonable

Let's just believe it's true...

However, after waiting for a long time, the old man still didn't show up. They waited for a whole day.

Xia Yu looked at Xia Yu's face and saw that the sky was slowly turning dark. She did not feel good about it. "Forget it, forget it. Let him go. Let's pretend nothing happened."

These words were actually for Xia Qingyun to hear. Xia Yu was afraid that he would be upset.

Although Xia Qingyun was not too happy, she did not say anything in the end.

In any case, the matter of Xia Qingyun and Xia Yu going to acknowledge him as their master would be brought up in the last two days.

He originally thought that the matter would be over and that the Xia family would be peaceful in the future.

However, he didn't expect that this matter would not go further. In the end, every family in the village knew about it.

This was not what Xia Yu had heard. It was what Xia Qingyun had heard from the others while she was helping Xia Changping with work outside.

However, when they talked about the Xia family, their faces were filled with disdain.

Families like Xia Yu's should not enjoy the things that only rich people should do, such as sending their children to school.

No wonder the villagers thought so. After all, the Xia family and the Lin family couldn't be compared. No one would have thought that the once-poor Xia family would have the ability to send their children to school.

But what was more important was that children as old as Xia Qingyun in the village did what they could for their families. How many of them went to school?

There was only one person in the entire village, Lin Chengcan. He was a man of great wealth, and when he looked at the Xia family, he couldn't help but think about how high profile they were after only a few good days.

The village was only so big, and soon the Xia family became the laughing stock of others. Even when Xia Yu went out, she would be teased a little.

Xia Yu was actually almost thirty years old, so she naturally did not take these words to heart. Even if she heard them, she would just laugh it off. On the other hand, Xia Qingyun, who was young, heard the unpleasant words outside and went home to cry with Xia Yu.

Looking at the crying Xia Qingyun, Xia Yu's heart could not help but ache. Ever since she came to this strange place, Xia Qingyun could be said to have taken care of her sister. Compared to the devilish brat she had seen in the modern world, she was like ice and fire.

"All right, Qingyun, let's not cry anymore. Those people saw that our family is doing better now, so they lost their balance, just like Aunt Zhou next door framed Dad to steal their money."

He would not be able to understand anything that was too profound for a child to understand, but no matter how much Xia Yu had shaken the world in her previous life and how many plans she had taken down with her team, he knew nothing about coaxing children.

As soon as Shen Yao and Xia Changping returned, they saw their youngest son in his daughter's arms. He was crying so hard that his eyes turned red. Who was it that took advantage of their absence to bully Yu and Qing Yun again?

Seeing that Shen Yao had returned, Xia Yu seemed to have seen her savior. She quickly explained without hesitation, "Didn't I take Qing Yun to visit that old gentleman that day? I don't know how people found out about it. Right now, the entire village is talking about this matter. Aunt Zhou next door said a few words to Qing Yun. She felt embarrassed and cried with me."

Only then did Shen Yao feel at ease. She sat down beside Xia Qingyun and gently patted her back. They had long since heard those unpleasant words, but they couldn't say them to the child. They didn't expect the old Zhou family to be so talkative, saying such things in front of the child.

Xia Yu wished she could go next door right now and ask Aunt Zhou why she said such things in front of Xia Qingyun, but she couldn't control what she said.

"Yu, why don't you stop letting Qingyun read first and let him learn carpentry from me?"

In this era, it was not shameful to not read and learn a skill. One had to know that the money Xia Changping earned every day as a carpenter was countless times more than the money he earned in the fields.

Xia Yu shook her head stubbornly. She insisted on letting Xia Qingyun study, not because she wanted him to study, but because she wanted Chengcan to be able to help her a little in the future. Even if he had to be an accountant, he could help her.

"Dad, don't say anymore. I'll take Qingyun there again tomorrow and ask the old man a good question. I don't want Qingyun to stay in this village for the rest of her life."

Xia Yu was a very good person, except for one thing. When she was stubborn, no one could say anything about it. Otherwise, a good beauty like her would not be in her late thirties and not even have a boyfriend.

Shen Yao looked at Xia Changping and then at Xia Yu. She thought back to Lin Chengcan from the Lin family. Didn't he only look down on their Yu because he knew a few of them? Looking at the way Lin Ning's wife was acting, if their family's Qingyun also studied under Sir in the future, she would still be able to treat the Xia family with her nose up in the air.

"Sister, I don't want to read anymore, I'm not..."

Xia Qingyun's words had truly angered Xia Yu. Without thinking, Xia Yu slapped her mother, but she didn't use much strength. Xia Qingyun had always been the one to take care of her sister. In the future, she couldn't always let Xia Qingyun protect her.

"Xia Qingyun, the more others look down on us, the harder we have to work to make the Xia family someone they can't afford to offend."

Looking at his daughter's stubborn appearance, Xia Changping sighed in his heart. His daughter had always been soft, but why was she so stubborn all of a sudden? There weren't many children in the village who studied. If Xia Qingyun wanted to become a scholar, others would naturally say something unpleasant to her. Furthermore, it was natural for others to talk about her failing to become his disciple.

In a way he was delusional, with a little spare money, thinking of impractical things.

"Yu, listen to your father. Let's put aside the matter of your brother's studies for now."

No matter how much Xia Changping said, Xia Yu had already made up her mind. She would definitely make Xia Qingyun read and write. If she really couldn't, she would personally teach Xia Qingyun how to read. As long as this brat didn't tell anyone, no one would know.

The two of them went to the back of the mountain and said that they were going to pick herbs. Shen Yao would not suspect anything. Xia Changping was not home for ten days or half a month, so he could not care less about them.

The most important thing now was to make the people who were talking about their family behind their backs suffer a silent loss, especially the culprit. If she, Xia Yu, let them go, she would really be a vegetarian.

Only the Lin family knew that their family wanted to send Xia Qingyun to school. Lin Ning would definitely not tell those gossipy women about this because of his status. Lin Chengcan was also not at home. He was very proud and self-proclaimed to be a scholar. He would not talk about these things. Aunt Lin was the one who talked about the family affairs.

Maybe there was Aunt Zhou next door as well. After all, the two families' yards were next to each other.

When she thought about how Aunt Zhou and Xia Changlian had teamed up to harm her last time, Xia Yu was unhappy. Although Aunt Zhou might have said it, she had not been able to vent her anger in the first place.

Whether these words came out of her mouth or not, Xia Yu was not going to let her go this time. If she hadn't hurt Xia Qingyun's heart, Xia Changping wouldn't have objected to Xia Qingyun's reading. A simple question had suddenly become very troublesome. Anyone would be in a bad mood.

The consequence of being in a bad mood was that Xia Yu could not sleep, tossing and turning. The image of the old man flashed across her mind, and then she saw Xia Qingyun crying today.