I am a Big Villain

"At the beginning of human beings, their natures are good, they are similar in nature, but they are accustomed to each other and are far away from each other..."

A little boy of four or five years old stood by the window of the book school, standing on tiptoes, secretly raising his head and looking inside. The little man was wearing a wide-sleeved double-breasted coat made from adult clothes, with his hands raised. At some point, the sleeves slid down, revealing a white, fat, lotus-jointed arm.

His hair was tied up high into a ball and tied with a red headband. He had a round face, a high nose bridge, delicate eyebrows, red lips and white teeth. Everyone who saw him had to praise him.

"Xiaobao, why are you here again? If you disturb the third uncle's class, grandpa will beat you."

Mei Hua was about to go home after cutting the pigweed, when she saw her little brother lying outside the school in the village. She was so frightened that she hurried forward, pulled her little brother to leave.

"Second sister, I won't disturb my third uncle's class. I just want to see what my cousin and the others are learning every day."

Yan Chu, now nicknamed Xiaobao, obediently held the hand of his second sister Mei Hua and walked home without any intention of causing trouble.

"Do you want to study too?"

Meihua is eleven years old this year. She is quite tall, but a little thin. She wears ill-fitting clothes and looks like a stick.

However, she looks very good, with an oval face and big eyes. Although her skin is darker, it does not cover up her beautiful facial features.

The siblings are somewhat similar, and they look like they were born to the same parents.

Girls from rural families can be married at the age of 12 or 13, and get married at the age of 14 or 15. In small places, only those families who are really poor and want to keep their daughter for two more years to help the family will keep their daughter. She is seventeen or eighteen years old, and she will not be allowed until she has become an old girl.

Therefore, Yan Meihua, who still looked like a child in the eyes of later generations, now had the air of an adult.

"My family has had a good harvest in the past two years. When you turn six years old, your grandparents may allow you to go to school."

She was carrying a basket of pigweed that was taller than the people in Yan Chu. She moved quickly, like a normal person. She was obviously used to farm work. She looked at her younger brother with hope in her eyes. Yan Meihua did not hit him more, but instead He offered appropriate encouragement.

In fact, this seems to be the case for Yan Meihua.

The village they live in now is called Yongning Village. The Yan family is a common surname in Yongning Village. Legend has it that the ancestor of the Yan family fled to this wasteland. He took his wife and children to take root here and thrive. Generation after generation. It was only then that this land was reclaimed into this rich and beautiful small village. Therefore, if we talk about it, the people named Yan in the village really had the same ancestor eight hundred years ago.

Later, some people with other surnames moved to this village one after another, and Yan gradually became no longer the only surname in the village.

However, in Yongning Village, the head of the Yan family is the village head of Yongning Village. This will never change. It is inevitable that the Yan family has more say in the village than other people with other surnames.

The ancestor of the Yan family was very forward-looking. He encouraged his younger generations to study. In his later years, he even asked his descendants to clear out part of the fertile land. The annual income from that part of the fertile land was used to repair the book school in the village and help those with poor conditions. The descendants of the Yan family studied. After hundreds of years, the dynasties changed twice, but the family rules of the Yan family have been passed down from generation to generation until now.

Among the nearby villages, Yongning Village is the only one that has its own book school. Except for the children named Yan, other families can come to the school to study if they are willing to pay.

Their school is not a big one, and most of the people in charge of teaching are members of the Yan family who have been admitted to the scholar level and are concentrating on preparing for the imperial examination. They want to relive their past and earn some money to support their families through teaching.

Usually, children who are admitted to Tongsheng will no longer stay in the school to study, but will choose to go to the county school. However, the basics are learned in the school in the village. Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the Yan family school has trained all It is already a very good result to have two Jinshi, three Juren, seven scholars and several Tongsheng. Because of this, some families in the town will specially send their children to the Yan family to study. What I like is the learning atmosphere here and the master's ability.

The Jinshi of the Yan family is from the clan leader's branch. He is now a fourth-rank official. His official rank is not particularly high, but he is a capital official. Because of the other party's existence, even the county magistrate and the prefect are more polite to the people in Yongning Village. .

In this area, the surname Yan is a good sign. You don't have to worry about being bullied when you go out. However, that is external. Internally, those with the same surname Yan do not have so much preferential treatment.

Yan Meihua's grandfather and the clan leader are still cousins. When they meet the clan leader, they can still call them cousin.

The patriarch's father was the eldest son, so he naturally inherited the position of patriarch. Yan Chu's great-grandfather was the second son. After his elder brother inherited the position of patriarch, their line became a side branch.

Their grandfather was an only son and inherited from his great-grandfather thirteen acres of high-grade paddy fields, seven acres of medium-grade paddy fields, and twenty-four acres of sandy land. The grain crops harvested from these lands were enough to feed the family for a year, and even It's more than enough. Compared with some tribesmen and villagers who can only feed themselves with food and clothing, their family can go to the pork shop in the town to cut a few taels of pork from time to time, or buy some small game from the hunters in the village to satisfy their craving.

Yan Huai, Yan Chu's grandfather, was married to Yan Jiang and had two sons and one daughter.

The eldest son, Yan Changxue, studied for several years in his early years and became literate. Now he works as a shopkeeper in a tavern in the town, earning nearly 800 yuan a month. His wife is Liu Fuchun, a girl from a neighboring village, who just married into the Yan family. In the first year of his life, he gave birth to an eldest grandson to the Yan family, and he was very famous in the Yan family.

The couple now has two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Yan Chu, is 13 years old this year. The second daughter, Yan Chunhua, is 11 years old. The youngest son is as old as Yan Chu and was born only one month earlier than him. Because he is an old man, he is very favored by the couple.

Because Yan Changxue worked as a shopkeeper in a tavern in the town, it was troublesome to travel back and forth. After Yan Chu passed the Tongsheng Examination and went to the county school, Mr. Yan and Yan Jiang paid for a small courtyard in the town, which cost them fifty taels. That money almost wiped out all the savings the old couple had saved over the years.

Since then, Yan's parents have basically lived in the town and have to wait until the holidays before coming back.

Yan Changxi, the father of Yan Chu's body, now stays in Yongning Village, helping the Yan family tend to the crops in the fields. His wife Li Qiuyue is also from a neighboring village. The couple are not very good at fighting. With a sullen voice, they never had the courage to raise objections to their parents' orders, which destined them to be ignored, ignored and bullied in this family.

The two have three daughters and one son, the eldest daughter Meihua is eleven years old this year, the second daughter Peach Blossom is eight years old this year, and the youngest daughter Lanhua is seven years old this year. Yan Chu is the youngest child. Before he was born, because he did not give birth to a son, Li Qiuyue's life in the Yan family was very difficult, and because they had no son, neither of them spoke forcefully. Seeing the blatant partiality of the old couple, they did not dare to have any opinions.

Old Man Yan and Yan Jiang's youngest daughter, Yan Mudan, got married early. Her man is quite capable and he does a small business. Over the years, the business has grown bigger and bigger, and the family has moved to the county.

Yan Mudan has a son and a daughter, and she doesn't think highly of her second brother who works in the fields. She doesn't care about her second brother's children as much as her eldest brother's children.

However, Yan Mudan's life is not that easy. Men become bad when they are rich. Since her family became rich, her men have taken in two concubines. Although it will not shake her status, looking at those two enchanting The women also felt disgusted, and one of them even created a concubine. Whenever Yan Mudan went home, she would mention the three women she hated so much.

Yan Mudan fully supports her nephew's academic progress. She also wants to have a scholar in her family. If so, her man will not shame her so unscrupulously.

Yan Ying, the eldest son of the eldest son, is the child that everyone expects to grow up.

He has shown a talent for reading since he was a child. He passed the boy examination at the age of eight. The master of the county school is optimistic about him. Everyone thinks that his future is bright, including the Yan family. In this clan's children, there is a promising future. , provided a lot of funding.

But Yan Yan is already thirteen years old this year. He has repeatedly failed in the subsequent college examinations. Fortunately, he is still young. Although many people think that he does not have the spirituality he had when he was a child, they still firmly believe that for this eight-year-old For children who have passed the boy examination, it is only a matter of time before they become a scholar.

At this time, providing for a scholar was definitely not an easy task. Even with the support of the clan, Yan Mudan would sneak some things home from time to time. Yan Pei's expenses in the county town still left the Yan family struggling. A scholar has already made the family so miserable. Tough, let alone two.

The Yan family has not yet been divided, so all expenses come from the public house. However, although it is said that it is the public house's money, in fact it is better to say that it is the money of Mr. Yan, his wife and the second son's family.

Yan Changxue had a salary of 800 wen per month. During the holidays, the tavern would also distribute some meat and rice oil and other things, but the money and food had never been handed over to the public school. The second eldest child, Yan Changxi, and his family, the local The money earned from the harvest always goes directly to the Yan Jiang family.

Li Qiuyue and her daughters occasionally earned a few or more than a dozen pennies from working as a prostitute during the slack season, and the money Yan Changxi earned from working as a part-time laborer in the town and county was also ordered to be handed over by the Yan Jiang family. You may not even be able to find ten cents.

Yan Meihua understood better than her foolish and filial parents, so although she said she was relaxed, she was not sure whether her brother would be able to study.

Based on the character of the uncle and aunt, if there is another scholar in the family, it will definitely be their youngest son.

Grandpa and grandma are used to being partial, so it’s not certain what will happen when the time comes.

The two siblings, one tall and one short, walked slowly towards home. Because they had something to hide in their hearts, they didn't notice when Yan Taohua walked in front of them.

"What are you thinking about, second sister?"

Yan Taohua waved to Yan Meihua, then took out a small piece of soybean cake from her arms and stuffed it into her younger brother Yan Chu's mouth.

"Eat quickly, my aunt is back, she rewarded me with it."

Yan Taohua has a bad temper and is not close to the aunt who likes to look at people with her nostrils. Every time she comes back to get something, most of it is for her grandma and uncle's family. She gives them a few cakes and chats with her. It's the same as cutting meat, so every time Yan Taohua said that her aunt gave her something, she liked to say that it was a reward for her.

"Auntie is back?"

Yan Meihua didn't think there was anything wrong with her sister giving food to her brother instead of herself.

Firstly, she is the eldest sister, so she should have given way to her younger brothers and sisters. Secondly, had it not been for the birth of her younger brother, their life would have been even more difficult. Therefore, not only Yan Meihua, but also the three older sisters in the family love this younger brother. There are pluses.

"Not only the old lady, but also the uncle and the mother-in-law seem to be talking about sending Yan Chen to study. The younger brother is obviously only one month younger than Yan Chen, so why don't they say they want to send the younger brother to study. "

Yan Taohua looked angry. Grandpa and grandma were old, and their parents were basically taking care of the land at home. The money earned by the uncle's family was only enough to cover the family's expenses in the town. They worked as cattle and horses to support their eldest cousin's education. Less than one sentence, now there is a little cousin. Their family owes them. Grandpa and grandma are too partial, and Yan Taohua is dissatisfied.

"You said that uncle and the others are talking to grandma about sending the second child to school?"

Yan Meihua thought a lot in her heart: "Taohua, go to the fields and call your parents."

After saying that, she lowered her head and looked at her brother beside her.

"If there is still a scholar in the family, it must be you, Xiaobao."

Yan Meihua's expression was firm. Yan Chu had already seen this scene once when he accepted the plot of this world, but the emotion he felt through personal experience was completely different from when he just watched the world.

The original person is very lucky to have such a sister who loves him so much. He does not know how to cherish it. She will help him take good care of them. In this life, he will not repeat the mistakes that the original person made.