Speaking of Chen Jiao, Zhang felt both distressed and helpless.

The Chen family is also a well-known farming and reading family in the local area.

The Zhang family's family is better than the Chen family. They have houses and shops in the county town, and her father is even a scholar.

However, Zhang's father was not lucky in the exam. Although he became a scholar at the age of seventeen or eighteen, he then took several provincial exams but failed repeatedly but never made any progress. He had several mouthfuls of eating at home.

Seeing that the imperial examination was hopeless, the family's life became more and more tight. When Zhang was thirty, his father finally took the imperial examination road and opened a private school in the county town.

Chen County Wei was a student of Zhang's private school. Because of his intelligence and diligence, Zhang's father valued it and became a student that Zhang's father focused on training.

The Zhang County Magistrate did not disappoint Zhang's father's high hopes. He became a scholar at the age of sixteen, and the following year he married Zhang in a grand manner.

In the third year of getting married to Zhang, he successfully passed the provincial examination and became the only candidate in the local area for decades.

Chen County Wei, who became the candidate, was really energetic and very energetic at that time. He almost didn't think much about it and decided to go to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination.

If County Wei Chen could go to Beijing to participate in the examination that year, he might be able to continue his miracle with his enthusiasm.

It’s a pity that a sudden disaster shattered Chen County Wei’s spirit. Although he only retreated for three years after taking the exam, he felt something was wrong.

At least Zhang felt that when her man set out to Beijing to take the imperial examination, she no longer had the aura she had from three years ago, and even made her feel a little decadent.

Fortunately, County Wei Zhang did not disappoint his family too much. Although he was just from the same Jinshi, he had to find a job, so he would not have made his family too hard.

Whenever he thinks of the disaster three years ago, Zhang will involuntarily chill, but he feels a little glad.

If it weren't for the fact that he was pregnant again, the person who went to the town to go to the market that day would be Zhang and his son Chen Xing, who was less than two years old at the time, then they would be their mother and son who had climbed into the cliff with the ox cart.

You should know that the disaster was killed and injured, and the scene was vague and terrible.

However, although the Zhang and his son were lucky enough to escape this disaster, they did not mean that the Chen family was not involved in this disaster.

That day, the old couple of Chen's family took the chickens they raised to the ox cart to the town to find their second son Chen Erlin, and planned to raise some more money for their eldest son Chen Dalin from Chen Erlin.

Chen Erlin was married half a year ago, and his wife was from the town. Her parents gave her only daughter, so the dowry was a bit generous, and there was a grocery shop in the town.

After Chen Erlin got married, he took his wife to live in the town on the excuse of running a grocery store himself.

Although Chen Erlin married his wife and now lives in his wife's dowry shop, more and more people say that Chen Erlin is a son-in-law.

Chen’s father and mother talked a lot about Chen Erlin. Even if Chen Erlin wanted to run a shop in the town, his wife should stay in the village.

Chen Erlin was still the same, and had no intention of letting his wife go back to the village to live. Chen's father and mother complained a lot but could not help.

After Chen Dalin passed the imperial examination, Chen Erlin took his wife back to the village a little more times. However, when he heard that his parents were raising the exam for his brother to go to Beijing, the couple "disappeared" again.

The second son and his wife naturally could not hide the idea of ​​the old couple in the Chen family. The old couple simply did not discuss with the second son and took out all the deposits in the family.

The Chen family lived a good life in the local area, otherwise they would not be able to afford Chen Dalin's study.

But this is only relatively good. Although Zhang's mother's family immediately gave him twenty taels of silver after learning about Chen Dalin's plan, and with the congratulations Chen Dalin received after passing the imperial examination, the sum of nearly one hundred taels of silver.

A hundred taels of silver can really be said to be a huge sum of money for the farmers, but it seems to be a bit insufficient to the old couple of Chen’s family.

It is said that if the family is poor and rich, there is land and land at home, you can always pass the exam after some days. Chen Dalin wants to go to Beijing from Shu to take the exam, but he must not have enough money!

As a farming and reading family, Chen Dalin has only been released for several generations, and the hopes of several generations are all on Chen Dalin, so naturally hope that Chen Dalin can go to a higher level.

After thinking about it, he decided to sell the chickens raised at home and beans that had just been collected from the field to the market to sell them, and then ask Chen Erlin to raise some money, and no matter how much money he had to raise.

Since Chen Erlin took his wife to the town, it has gradually become a saying that Chen Erlin has become a son-in-law in the village or the town. The two elders of the Chen family who are fond of face rarely go to the town to go to the market. Occasionally, they have to go to the town to do all the things they need to do to Zhang.

This time, Chen's mother even specifically told Zhang to bring Chen Xing with her.

Since Chen Xing was born, Chen Erlin has loved this nephew very much.

For the sake of Chen Xing, his nephew, Chen Erlin should be funding some money.

But the day before the market, Zhang suddenly fainted and invited the barefoot doctor in the village to take the pulse and found out that he was happy again.

The eldest son had just passed the imperial examination and the eldest daughter-in-law was diagnosed with another happy moment. This was a perfect match.

The two elders of the Chen family were happy, so they kept Zhang at home to give birth and gave birth. They also specially told their daughter Chen Jiao to take care of Chen Xing and not let Chen Xing disturb Zhang. The old couple took the chicken and beans to the ox cart happily.

But no one expected that the old cow who was pulling a cart in the village went crazy that day and rushed down the cliff with a cart of villagers.

As a result, Chen's father and several other villagers died on the spot, but Chen's mother did not follow him, but several fractures on her body also had serious internal injuries.

In this way, Chen's father died, Chen's mother was injured, and Chen Dalin's journey to Beijing to take the exam was also cut off.

Chen Dalin, who was studying in the county academy, got the news and rushed back to the village. When he learned about the situation, he punched Chen Erlin.

The two brothers with pretty good relationships blushed for the first time in front of Chen's father's mourning hall.

Fortunately, the Chen clan is a big clan in the local area. Although other clan members died that day, there were still many people coming to help.

With the help of his clan members, Zhang started the funeral of Chen's father and asked the doctor to treat Chen's mother, while taking care of Chen Jiao who was crying to death.

At that time, Zhang didn't care about her newly diagnosed pregnancy. It was not until Chen's father was buried and Chen's mother woke up that Zhang felt relieved, but found that she had signs of miscarriage.

If the mother of her mother was not around at that time, the child in her belly would have really lost her.

Zhang was protecting his fetus, but Chen’s mother’s situation took a sharp turn for the worse. Although she spent a lot of money to use ginseng, she still couldn’t keep Chen’s mother who was determined to go with her husband.

Before Chen's father's funeral ended, Chen's mother took her last breath.

Before she died, Chen's mother pointed at Zhang's belly and said, "Please...be sure...be born!"

Zhang didn't feel much about the last sentence left by her mother-in-law before she died. It was not until rumors gradually broke out in the village that Zhang realized that her mother-in-law's words were good.

My mother-in-law must have known in her heart that as long as she closes her eyes, the child in Zhang's belly will be regarded as the nemesis.

Zhang knew that when her mother-in-law was dying, she would give the child a way out.
Chapter completed!