It snowed heavily at the end of the year. The amount of snowfall this winter is not much, but it is not too little. At least next year will not be as severe as the drought in the first year of Xingping. In addition to this heavy snow, next year will not be too bad.

Difference.

Covered by wind and snow, you can still feel the strong vitality in Chang'an City at night. The soldiers patrolling the streets will stop to warm themselves by the fire in the government office at the end of the street, and the warm light seeps out from the window lattice.

The firelight of the fireplace made the room as warm as spring. The sky was already dark, but it was not yet time to rest. There was a table on the bed in the room. Juan'er, who was already a mother, wrinkled her little face and drooled with Diao Chan, who had just begun to integrate into the family.

Playing chess, he raised his eyes from time to time to look at the concubine opposite who was so beautiful that it made people feel a little inferior.

At the other end of the room, Chen Mo was lying lazily in the spacious bathtub. Yun Si helped Chen Mo wipe his body. Cai Yan was sitting by the window sewing embroidery. Beside her, the young Chen Jin was already yawning.

The guy practiced martial arts in the morning, read in the morning, and studied mathematics in the afternoon. The day was almost full. Now that he was relaxing, he was already exhausted, and his face was full of the feeling of having no life left.

"Mom, why do you want to study and practice martial arts?" Xiao Chen Jin raised his eyes and looked at Cai Yan.

"Why study?" Cai Yan was startled, as if she had never thought about this problem. She was born in a scholarly family, and her father was a great scholar in the world. Even as a woman, she has been able to study since she was a child. Reading seems to be what she was born to do.

It has become a habit. Why should I read this? Cai Yan has never thought about it.

"Yes~" Xiao Chen Jin nodded and said, "Does everyone have to read it?"

"Probably not." Cai Yan shook his head. For many people, the preciousness of the slips is not an exaggeration for medical skills. Even among aristocratic families, many books are extremely precious. Ordinary people may want to read them all.

No.

"Then why does Jin'er want to read?" Xiao Chen Jin asked dissatisfied.

"Reading can reveal the origin of all things..." Cai Yan, as a talented woman, could say a lot of truths, but before she finished speaking, she saw that little Chen Jin had fallen asleep on her lap.

"It's okay. I'll teach him tomorrow." Chen Mo didn't know when he had put on his clothes and came over. Looking at his son who was sleeping soundly, Chen Mo reached out and picked him up and said with a smile.

"Yes." A smile appeared on Cai Yan's face. Her husband is talented and has learned from ancient and modern times. It is naturally best for her husband to teach her. Unfortunately, Chen Mo is busy with official duties and is rarely at home. Little Chen Jin spends most of his time at home.

I studied with Cai Yong or the teachers invited by Cai Yong.

Chen Mo called the wet nurse from outside the house, took Chen Jin away, and said to the four wives and concubines: "It's getting late, let's all take a rest."

Although Chen Mo occasionally gets ridiculous, most of the time he is very restrained.

Tonight, it was Cai Yan's turn to accompany Chen Mo to rest. Yun Si took Juan'er and Diao Chan out knowingly. The bed had been made by Diao Chan and Juan'er. Cai Yan helped Chen Mo take off his coat, then turned off the lights, and the couple fell asleep hugging each other.

.

There was nothing to say all night. When Xiao Chen Jin woke up early the next morning, he was told that he did not have to go to martial arts and study today, but was brought to Chen Mo.

"I've met my father." Xiao Chen Jin saluted Chen Mo solemnly.

"Let's take a rest today. There is no need to study. Come with me." Chen Mo nodded, took Cai Yan and Chen Jin into the carriage, and went straight out of Chang'an City.

"Father, where are we going?" Chen Jin lay down at the window with some excitement, looking at the people passing by on the street.

"I'll take you to live the life of other people. From today on, we live in the countryside. You don't have to study and practice martial arts, but you still have to do some housework." Chen Mo touched his son's head and said with a smile.

"Yes, Jin'er can do it." Chen Jin nodded excitedly. The so-called housework should be serving tea and pouring water. It's just the things that servants do at home, and he can do it.

"Husband..." Cai Yan looked at Chen Mo worriedly.

"Nothing." Chen Mo shook his head and smiled.

The carriage drove until near Baqiao. There was a farm here, which was regarded as Chen Mo's private property. It was also a place for transmitting information. The people in the village were the people responsible for sorting out information from Skynet. They would also work in farming on weekdays. It seemed that

, is no different from an ordinary manor, but there are a lot of secret protections here.

Chen Mo took his wife and children to a relatively tidy courtyard.

"Why did father bring his children to this woodshed?" Chen Jin looked at the chickens raised in the courtyard with some curiosity.

"This is not a firewood shed, but a residential house. You, your father, and your mother will live here for the next half month." Chen Mo entered the house with his wife and children, put on coarse clothes and said, "How do people who don't study live?

, that’s how we live.”

Chen Jin nodded ignorantly. Looking at the small house, he felt a little uncomfortable, but he thought about not having to study and living in a worse place, so he tolerated it.

"Breakfast hasn't been eaten yet. Father will make breakfast soon. You go and bring some dry firewood. It's already chopped over there. My son can just bring it here." Chen Mo pointed to the pile of firewood in the courtyard.

, smiled.

"Husband, this concubine should do this." Cai Yan pulled Chen Mo.

"Can Madam do it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

this……

Cai Yan shook his head helplessly: "Husband, Jin'er was just joking for a moment, why should you be so serious?"

"Sometimes, what children say is not a joke. As parents, we are the ones who guide them. It is up to them to choose how they should go in the future and what path they should take, rather than us forcing them to go." Chen Mo said with a smile.

: "If he wants to inherit my family business, he needs to foresee the sufferings of the people. If he can't even do this, how can he be able to care for the people as a prince in the future? This can't be done just by reading it in a book."

"My husband is a hero in the world, how can he do these things himself?" Cai Yan said with a bitter smile.

"When you are in this world, you actually live for three meals and clothing. Why not?" Chen Mo rolled up his sleeves, set up the cauldron and said with a smile: "Madam only knows that my family was poor when I was young, but how poor I am, Madam probably doesn't know.

, I know how to make a fire to make food, go to the fields to plow the fields, or make a living on the streets."

When Cai Yan heard this, he could only help with a wry smile. Little Chen Jin suddenly came to the new environment. He was a little excited and was also quite interested in Chen Mo's request. He immediately picked up firewood one after another and looked at Chen Mo.

Light a fire by the stove and start cooking.

"There are chickens in the chicken coop, go get two of them." Chen Mo pointed to the direction of the chicken coop while scouring for corn.

"good!"

After a while, Chen Mo smiled happily when he saw his son being driven around the yard by the hens, crying for his father and mother, while Cai Yan on the side felt distressed and stepped forward to drive the hens away.

When Xiao Chen Jin came over with two chickens, there were still tears on his face.

"In the future, first lure the hen away and then pick out the chicken eggs." Chen Mo said with a smile while cooking.

"Father, why don't you kill that chicken!?" Xiao Chen Jin said bitterly.

"Its baby is for you to eat, are you sure you want to kill it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"Child?" Xiao Chen Jin looked at the chicken in his hand in confusion and asked.

"Yes, those chickens in the courtyard emerged from chickens. For them, these chickens are their children." Chen Mo nodded.

"Then...I won't eat it." Chen Jin quickly put down the chicken.

"As for chickens, their greatest value is the eggs they produce. If we don't eat chickens, firstly we will go hungry. Secondly, they will have no value, so we can only use them to stew soup." Chen Mo

smiled.

"Chicken soup?" Xiao Chen Jin swallowed and then shook his head: "Father, is this a bit cruel?"

"Natural selection is the way for all things to survive. I want to eat chickens every day, so I raise it. But one day when it stops producing chickens, why should I raise it?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

Half an hour later, Chen Mo prepared breakfast, which consisted of corn and chicken. Compared to today's Chen family, this breakfast was monotonous and boring.

"Father, it doesn't taste good. The kid wants to eat egg custard, goat's milk, preserved fruits, and cakes~" After Xiao Chen Jin ate the chicken, the corn rice was really hard to swallow. Compared with the Chen family's meals, it was hard to swallow at all.

"That's the food for scholars. People who don't study, that's what they eat." Chen Mo laughed and ate with relish. Chen Mo was only good at cooking. He had to compete with the Chen family's kitchen workers.

Compared with his craftsmanship, Chen Mo is naturally far behind.

Xiao Chen Jin looked at Chen Mo who was eating corn rice with gusto, hesitated for a moment, continued to take a few bites and then stopped eating.

Farmers are relatively free in winter. If they catch up with spring plowing, they will naturally not have to have four-year-old children in the fields, but it will not be too happy.

Next, Chen Mo's family of three stayed here for three days. They ate corn rice every day, which is actually pretty good in today's times. But not everyone has enough food, and they slept on dry wooden boards, even couches.

It doesn't matter. Helping with some chores every day may have been interesting at first because of the novelty, but after three days, Chen Jin just wanted to escape from this kind of life.

After all, compared to Chen Mo's childhood hardship, Chen Jin had been well-clothed and well-fed since he was a child. It was easy to transition from frugality to luxury, but difficult to transition from extravagance to frugality. For a child who had been well-clothed and well-fed since childhood, suddenly living such a life

The days of rushing around for three meals are really unbearable.

On the evening of the third day, the little guy was sitting by the chicken coop and suddenly began to cry softly.

"This is how dad came here when he was a kid." Chen Mo appeared next to Chen Jin at some unknown time and said with a smile.

"How many days have passed, father?" Xiao Chen Jin looked at his father.

"Ten years, maybe. In the last year, there was a military disaster and your grandmother was driven away. For a piece of corn cake, my father killed someone at the age of nine." Chen Mo looked into the distance and said sadly: "Then I met your master.

It feels a little better."

"Isn't the child useless?" Chen Jin looked at his father secretly.

"People's desires are different. It's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from extravagance to frugality. That day you asked your mother why she wanted to study? To put it more lightly, it was just to live a more luxurious life without having to pay three meals per day.

Running around for meals and living a decent life, speaking more generally, in this life, after having enough food and clothing, people always want to do something. You don’t know anything, and you want to do things but don’t know where to start. Isn’t it sad? To put it more generally, you can

Talk to people calmly." Chen Mo touched his son's head and smiled.

"Then why do we need to practice martial arts?" Chen Jin asked curiously.

"Is this...probably to allow others to talk to you calmly?" Chen Mo thought while stroking his chin.

"Pfft~" Chen Jin understood after thinking for a moment and couldn't help but laugh out loud: "So my father can do such vulgar things?"

"Is it vulgar?" Chen Mo shook his head and said, "Sometimes it's useless to just be reasonable. This is not called vulgarity, it's called strategy!"

"I understand, kid!" Chen Jin nodded.

"It doesn't matter whether you understand or not. You have to persevere in these half months. Things should have a beginning and an end. People should keep their word." Chen Mo stood up and said with a smile.
Chapter completed!