Parents are busy farming

In the mutton soup restaurant, after Ye Zifen taught Zhang Gaoyi the last character, he said to him: "These are all the characters in the surnames of hundreds of families. Next we will learn the Three Character Classic. You'd better buy a copy and I'll teach you how to memorize it." After that, you can learn to read by yourself.”

"I want to read some fighting books so that I can become more powerful!" Zhang Gaoyi said tentatively.

He wasn't interested in those docile books, so he asked Ye Zifen, "What book? After reading it, you will be good at fighting and hunting!"

Ye Zifen thought for a moment and answered with two words: "Book of war!"

Zhang Gaoyi nodded when he heard it. He gave money to Ye Zifen for the wild rabbits he brought to the store recently. He didn't give it to his family or his sister, thinking that the money should be enough to buy books.

So after dawn the next day, he went to the bookstore to buy books.

"Shopkeeper, do you have any military books here?" Zhang Gaoyi asked as soon as he entered the door.

The shopkeeper raised his head and glanced at him. He saw that he was dressed like a peasant boy, not a scholar. Hearing that he asked for a military book, he asked, "Are you literate?"

Zhang Gaoyi scratched his head and said: "I want to buy the book first, and if there are words I don't know, I can find someone to teach me!"

The shopkeeper nodded when he heard this and asked the boy to take him to look among the pile of old books. He remembered that there were several military books in it.

They come here to buy books, usually scholars, and some ladies from wealthy families buy some novels.

Few people buy military books.

Zhang Gaoyi took the military books in his hand and came to the shopkeeper and asked: "How much silver?"

Those books have been there for five or six years. Fortunately, they are in a bookstore. If they were in the same store as before, the pages would probably be rotten.

The shopkeeper decided not to make any money from him, but only charged him the cost price.

So he said: "Two taels of silver!"

Zhang Gaoyi only had one or two and a half pieces of silver on him, but he was reluctant to give it back when asked.

So he put the book on the counter and said to the shopkeeper: "I'm going to borrow money and I'll be back soon."

The shopkeeper thought he had been tricked, and sighed in his heart as he looked at the books in front of him.

He had collected these books from the family of a down-and-out scholar. According to the scholar, his family had been a member of the military for three generations, but the war had decimated the family members.

His grandfather decided to give up martial arts and pursue literature. Unexpectedly, they were not the material at all, and the family eventually fell into ruin.

I can only survive by selling things.

On his way back to the dock, Zhang Gaoyi saw Ye Yongwang driving a donkey cart in front of the medicine shop, and soon helped the next woman out.

Zhang Gaoyi has been to Ye's house many times and has never met Wang Tinghe, so he doesn't know who the woman is.

After returning to the mutton soup restaurant and borrowing money from Zi Zifen, he told Zi Zifen about the matter.

Zi Zifen was not worried about what her father would do to other women. Once she heard Zhang Gaoyi's description, she knew it was his mother, but she became even more worried.

‘My mother has gotten much better, why did dad suddenly take her to see a doctor? ’

Ye Zifen was worried, so she took off her apron and spoke to Ye Yefei, then ran to the medicine shop.

When she arrived at the drug store, Ye Yongwang had already left with Wang Tinghe.

I just didn't feel so good when I left.

It turns out that Wang Tinghe cried a lot when he was young, which hurt his eyes.

It's just that my good health didn't show up at that time. After this birth, my physical condition has deteriorated a lot.

The hidden danger came out. Fortunately, she felt uncomfortable and came to the hospital.

"According to the current situation, if you don't receive treatment, you will lose your sight within five years. If you receive treatment and regular conditioning, it will extend to ten years at most!" the old doctor said to the couple.

After the two heard this, they were extremely sad. Ye Yongwang said: "Treatment, we will definitely treat it."

The old doctor sighed and wrote an order for them.

Zi Zifen came to the drug store but didn't see her parents, so she went to the old doctor to ask about the situation.

When I heard the old doctor say that his mother would go blind, I felt a sense of powerlessness.

They had spent so much energy treating their mother, but they didn't expect that one day she would be unable to see.

"Girl! It's not easy for your mother to survive. We all see your filial piety, but you can't force anything!" The old doctor comforted Ye Zifen.

Ye Zifen nodded and left.

The old doctor knew that Ye Zifen didn't listen, so he could only sigh and go back to continue seeing the patient.

Zhang Gaoyi happily returned to the Yangtang Restaurant with a few military books in his arms, and was planning to wait for Ye Zifen to come back and read them to him.

As a result, neither the left nor the right came, and when it was time for Ye Ziwei to go back together after breakfast, she did not show up.

With his face full of doubts, his brain suddenly seemed to have caught something.

"Let's go home. Zifen must have gone home. I saw your father going to the pharmacy this morning. I guess someone was seeing a doctor. I told Zifen. I guess Zifen has gone home," Zhang Gaoyi said.

When Ye Ziwei heard this, she immediately became anxious and called "Master".

"Go back!" Mu Hongzhou only said two words, and the three masters and disciples rushed to Lujiazhuang.

Ye Zifen had just arrived home. When Mrs. Feng saw her coming back, she asked with confusion: "Miss Fifth, didn't Miss Six come back with you today?"

Ye Zifen was confused all the way, and only came back to her senses when she heard Mrs. Feng's voice.

He said with a sad expression: "They are at the back. Are my parents back?"

Mrs. Feng didn't know why the fifth lady asked Mrs. Ye, but she still said: "No, the master took his wife out early and hasn't come back yet."

Ye Zifen didn't know where Ye Yongwang had taken Wang Tinghe, and she didn't know where to look, so she returned to the house and lay on the kang fully clothed.

Mother Song, who originally wanted to come in with Ye Chengsi in her arms, was stopped by Mrs. Feng.

"Don't bother Miss Fifth. I think Miss Fifth is in a bad mood today. Let's keep an eye on the young master!"

When Mother Song heard what Mrs. Feng said, she immediately nodded.

She has been at Ye's house for more than two months. She has nothing else to do except breastfeed the young master. When the fifth lady saw that she could not feed her own Niuniu, she gave her a lot of good things, and even provided food for another baby at home. When she got up, her husband at home was almost recovering from his injuries. She was very grateful to Miss Fifth.

Ye Zifen was lying on the kang. Sometimes she looked like the second and fourth sister, sometimes she was being entrusted by her aunt, and sometimes she was being threatened by her mother again and again.

Suddenly she felt extremely tired, even though she had worked so hard.

I hope everyone in the family can live a good life, but it seems that there are always things waiting for her that she can't do anything about.

How should she face the matter of life and death?

‘Although my mother has an eye problem this time and is still alive and well, it would be a terrible thing if a person loses his sight! ’

She couldn't imagine that the old doctor's words were still ringing in her ears, and she seemed to have no choice but to accept them.

When the three masters and apprentices returned home and found out that Ye Zifen had come back, they all breathed a sigh of relief. However, when they heard that Ye Yongwang had not come back yet, they felt relieved again.