Chapter 50 Reclaiming Land for Farming (1)_1
What did the second aunt do?
Mo Qingze remained silent, recalling the events that transpired at his uncle’s home after the death of his parents. His memories stretched from distant to recent, from blurry to clear, revealing previously overlooked details that now emerged in his mind with unmistakable precision!
Back then, having just passed the examination to become a Scholar, he was hurriedly married to Mrs. Du from the neighboring village on his second aunt’s insistence. The following year, when he wanted to take the imperial examination, his second aunt claimed that the silver left by his parents was all spent, leaving him with no travel expenses to go to the city.
Though he hadn’t calculated it exactly, he knew that the forty or so taels of silver left by his parents couldn’t possibly have been spent entirely, especially with the annual yield from five acres of paddy fields. At the very least, there should have been two taels of silver, but he didn’t wish to think deeply about it and chose to believe that the silver had indeed been spent.
So, he stayed in town to teach, earning one or two pieces of silver each month. After three years, when he had barely saved enough travel money, his second aunt came to the school in tears, "Qingze, your uncle is gravely ill and the doctor said he needs ginseng for the medicine. We don’t have enough silver at home. Please give us your silver quickly."
At that moment, he hesitated briefly before his second aunt reprimanded him in front of the students at the school, calling him a white-eyed wolf who didn’t care whether his own uncle lived or died.
Helplessly, he had to hand over all his travel money for her to buy ginseng.