Chapter 165: Fairness and Unfairness

The sky was bright.

Zhang Gui carefully put away the Jade Talisman Book he had been playing with for a long time.

He got up to wash.

His mother had already taken the two aunts out to do business.

But the cousins were all left at home, sleeping soundly...

The ancients said, when one person attains the Dao, even their chickens and dogs ascend to heaven.

If adults don't have a firm will and their own life persistence, they will be lost in power and wealth, let alone teenage girls.

The few girls of the Caiyang family, although they felt a little bit at the beginning that their days seemed a bit different from before.

But the time was short, and the degree of change was low, so it didn't count for much.

But a few months ago.

Zhang Gui became the so-called 'Nine Islands Expedition,' and gradually the quantitative change formed a qualitative change.

The little girls finally had a different self-cognition.

Before, when they took the silver given by the adults to learn to buy miscellaneous fish and sell shrimp paste, they could always hear a few jokes.

But I don't know when, everyone became respectful and well-behaved.

It was fine at the wharf of Youyu Ward in Pingyang Town, but sometimes they followed their aunt to play in Zhihai Town.

When strolling, no shop would accept their silver money.

Even if they did, it was ridiculously cheap.

From time to time, they would faintly hear dialogues such as:

"Who is this girl, which elder in the family is so shielding,

Even Song Big Cabinet is so good-tempered when seeing her."

"Does this still need to be asked? What is the surname of Zhihai Town? Naturally, it's that family's daughter."

"So it's the sister of that person, then it's no wonder."

"Even the richest merchants are seeking wealth on someone else's land, so it's normal to lower their status."

"But these noble ladies of the Caiyang family are dressed so plainly; if they meet someone who doesn't know their identity,

It might be a disaster; isn't this harming people."

"Isn't this the kind of fun that noble people play with 'White Dragon Fish Suit'?

Not to mention that they are noble ladies of barbarian origin, don't talk too much, don't talk too much...", and so on.

But clearly, everyone could know by just asking a little that their sisters were from poor backgrounds.

The so-called 'plain' clothes they were wearing now were already gorgeous clothes compared to before.

But who would care about the feelings of the few little girls of the Caiyang family among the general public? They would only make up stories according to their own 'assumptions.'

And slowly, those stories began to influence the parties involved, making the Caiyang sisters truly recognize their status as noble ladies.

Slowly, they were no longer willing to get up early to work.

And from time to time, they would play little tricks to act like spoiled children to their aunt and ask for money.

One moment they said they wanted to study, and the next they said they wanted to learn martial arts.

And although Caiyang Duojie had her own ideas, she was an extremely doting parent.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have worked herself to death selling shrimp paste and fish paste to support Zhang Gui's studies in the past.

As a result, Zhang Gui studied so poorly that he couldn't even pass the scholar exam, but she couldn't bear to hit him even with a finger.

She was even afraid that her good son would be sad, saying she would support him for a lifetime.

And now that Caiyang Duojie's good son had achieved great success, she couldn't see him easily.

Her love was unconsciously transferred a little to her nieces on her maiden side.

And as the saying goes, 'Aunt is close, Aunt is close, bones are broken but tendons are connected.'

Caiyang Duojie actually felt very sorry for her nieces who lost their father at a young age, otherwise she wouldn't have taken them in to take care of them as soon as life became a little richer.

It's just that in the past, one was the effect of habit;

Second, the children voluntarily continued to walk the 'right path,' so she was happy not to change anything.

But now that the nieces had realized it themselves, she let them go...

Coming to the well in the courtyard.

While brushing her teeth and rinsing her mouth with peppermint green salt paste on her fingers,

She washed her hair happily with cold water.

Zhang Gui wiped his face hard, ran to the kitchen to light the stove, and cooked a big pot of stretched noodles.

The fire was strong, and the water was boiling.

More than ten catties of dried noodles were cooked thoroughly in a short while.

He served them in a large basin, topped with fresh vegetables, and covered with a large jar of shrimp paste.

Mixing it with two-foot-long thick chopsticks, he ate and drank heartily with the noodle soup, using the original soup to digest the original food.

He cooked two pots of noodles in a row and took another pure Pu Pill.

Finally, he was both full and had supplemented sufficient nutrition.

Just as he was about to drink another bowl of noodle soup to walk the seams.

Suddenly, a timid voice sounded at the kitchen door,

"Brother Gui, are you full?"

The speaker was the fourth daughter of the little aunt Caiyang Sangjia, which was the youngest daughter, Caiyang Caicai.

In Zhang Gui's impression, the little girl was ordinary and timid, but now as her facial features opened up bit by bit, she had become much prettier.

However, no matter how pretty, at this age in his eyes, it was also 'three years to start, until the death penalty.'

Besides, although 'relatives marrying relatives' was very common in this world.

But Zhang Gui couldn't have the habit of 'German Bone Clinic' even if he were beaten to death and saved.

Still treating her like a little sister who was half-grown like before, he replied casually:

"Ah, Caicai is awake, Brother is full.

I'll cook a bowl for you too, by the way, are your sisters awake, is it okay to eat noodles in the morning?

I haven't seen you for a while, little sister, you've become much prettier.

Have you met any young boys?

Tsk tsk tsk, what a good life..."

Seeing him acting old and mature while cooking noodles and talking casually.

Caiyang Caicai's cheeks flushed, she endured and endured, and finally couldn't help but speak:

"Brother Gui, how can you be such a big official and still love to play like before.

Although I don't get up early to do business with my aunt, aunt, and mother anymore, I am seriously studying in the 'Female School' in town.

Today is the teacher's holiday, so I slept in.

I have never looked for any young boys."

"If you haven't looked for young boys, then you haven't; it's best if you can study at your age.

Then there is cultivation.

If you can endure the bitterness of studying, you might as well try cultivation.

If you are willing, I will talk to the elders in the clan later and let you sisters experience it.

If it doesn't suit the 'Vertical and Horizontal Record' path, I can also send you to a powerful friend at 'Dragon Gate Berth' to try the 'Primordial Spirit' cultivation technique.

Of course, I don't force it.

There is an old saying, interest is the best teacher, a twisted melon is not sweet."

Zhang Gui's words were not bragging.

After all, no matter how precious the entry technique of "Vertical and Horizontal Record" was, from the perspective of the Pingyang Zhang family, it was not even one-hundredth or one-thousandth of the 'Ironwood Turtle Mechanism Ship' full set of production diagrams.

So since the 'watermelon' was given generously, it was impossible for a fool to be stingy with a few 'sesame seeds.'

And listening to his cousin talking in clouds and mist.

Caiyang Caicai, who already had some knowledge, felt regret in her heart.

Entry cultivation techniques, according to the teacher at the Female School, were extremely rare for common people.

Even for the direct descendants of the Pingyang Zhang family, they had to pay various prices and work for the family for a long, long time before they could try.

But in the mouth of her cousin, it seemed worthless.

Not only could it be obtained with one word, but it could also be changed if it didn't fit.

Truly, how unfair is the nobility and lowliness of life.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 166 =====