Chapter 364: Chapter 364 Too Embarrassing Chapter 364: Chapter 364 Too Embarrassing “Very good, very good, very good!”
Old Lady Mo was so pleased she repeated her praises, and the smile on her face couldn’t be concealed, as she kindly asked, “Hengjian! You’re going to take the Child Student exam this year, aren’t you confident?”
Upon hearing this, Old Master Mo and Mr. and Mrs. Mo Daoyan stopped eating and looked at him anxiously. The hopes of their entire family rested on his shoulders; they had invested all their financial and material resources in him alone, naturally fearing he wouldn’t pass.
With so many eyes on him, Mo Hengjian certainly wouldn’t say anything discouraging. He lifted his head with a domineering air and said, “Confident, it’s just a asly Child Student exam. In the future, I will also pass the Scholar and Juren exams to return, what’s a Child Student to .”
Upon hearing this, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Old Master Mo didn’t forget to remind him, saying, “Hengjian! While being confident is good, you can’t take it lightly, you know?”
“Alright, alright! I know, it’s practically a sure thing, so you all can stop worrying,” he said with a dismissive tone.
Xiaoqiang, with his face greasy from eating, heard this and said disdainfully, “Hengjian, not to criticize you, but you said the sa thing the past two years, and what happened? You failed the exam and had to re-study at the Academy. Tell , how much money of ours have you wasted already? I think if you don’t pass this year, you might as well stop studying to save the silver, and just return ho to farm with your uncle.”
Upon hearing this, Madam Ruan imdiately shrieked, “Uncle, what do you an by that? Is that any way to speak? You actually want to ruin Hengjian’s future; your thoughts are too vicious.”
“Smack!”
Xiaoqiang, now furious, slamd the table again, “Sister-in-law, our main branch has always yielded to you, but don’t take us for fools.”
“What do you an ‘what’? Isn’t it the truth? Hengjian is the Mo family’s only male grandchild, and you’re calling him back to farm? You don’t have a son yourself, and that’s fine, but don’t harm our Hengjian,” Madam Ruan retorted with defiance.
“When have I ever hard him? I’m just saying if he doesn’t pass, he shouldn’t study to avoid wasting more of our family’s silver,” Xiaoqiang retorted, extrely annoyed, as Madam Ruan repeatedly jabbed at his sore spot of not having a son and he felt he was nearing the edge of his patience.
“Why are you worrying about nonsense? Hengjian is the Mo family’s only male grandchild; he should spend as much silver as is needed,” she said.
Madam Ruan insisted, never straying from her point that Hengjian was the Mo family’s only male offspring.
This completely infuriated Xiaoqiang, who glared fiercely at Madam Ruan and said, “Are you implying that even if Hengjian doesn’t pass, our Mo family should support him indefinitely?”
“Of course, even if he doesn’t pass, the family’s line will still depend on him to continue in the future; naturally, we have to support him,” Madam Ruan said as if it were a matter of course.
Xiaoqiang grew silent, sinking into quiet.
Triumphantly, Madam Ruan thought it disgraceful for such a grown man to argue with her and considered the conflict over, thus she quietly began to eat. Her son had rarely co ho, and even she, his mother, had the chance to eat at; she didn’t want to miss such a good opportunity, so she bowed her head and devoured her al as if she had been locked in a jail for eighteen years without tasting at, quite unseemly.
Watching her, Hengjian frowned, feeling utter contempt. How could his mother behave like this? It was too shaful.
After nearly obliterating a whole chicken, everyone finally stopped, burping contentedly.
Xiaoqiang, filled with pent-up anger and forgoing decorum, wiped his greasy mouth with his sleeve and said to Old Master Mo, “Father, since everyone’s here today, I have sothing to tell you: our main branch wants to split from the family.”
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