Rebirth Married The Control Group Fulang

    On the sixth day, the couple went to Xu's house with their belongings.

    Xu Shaochun also took Fei Lian back to her natal home, since the two got married, this was the first time they brought their husbands back home.

    "Mother, I brought you two bolts of cloth."

    Xu He only said the cloth, but Zhang Fangyuan actually brought a lot of things, not only the cloth but also a box of fruit, and a large piece of fresh meat.

    Liu Xianglan smiled from ear to ear when she saw the things they brought, and beckoned the two of them to hurry into the house to warm up: "At noon, we will eat stewed fish with tofu. The fish I bought is big, weighs more than four catties. Your father is killing it." 

    The house hadn't been so lively for a long time, and the Xu family couple were also a little happy.

    Xu Shaochun and Fei Lian went to Xu's house first, and when they heard the voice, Xu Shaochun came to look at the door. Whe she saw Xu He with his belly up and his hands were empty, while Zhang Fangyuan holding everything in his hands, she felt a little uncomfortable.

    She thought about when they came  here before, Fei Lian walked straight ahead empty-handed. Not to mention helping her to hold the things, it rained at the beginning of the year, and the road was full of mud and slippery. He didn't even hold her hands, and went all the way by himself. He also complained and said why she wanted to go back to her mother's house for dinner today, and his feet were muddy and dirty all the way.

    Furthermore, seeing Xu He and his husband brought so many things, and the two of them only brought a basket of eggs and a small jar of wine, even if she looked at it herself, it felt a little strange, and she didn't know if her mother would feel suspicious.

    "Second Sister is here first."

    Xu Shaochun nodded, and said flatly: "Come in, it's cold outside."

    "I'll go to the kitchen to see Dad first."

    Zhang Fangyuan supported Xu He's waist, the two went to the kitchen to call Xu Changren.

    Xu Shaochun went into the main hall and couldn't help complaining to Fei Lian: "It's rare to go back to my mother's house. I said to prepare more things so as not to lose face, but your mother insisted and refused. Look at Xu He, who came back with fruits and cloths, what do we look like."

    “We are a scholarly family, how can we compare ourselves with a merchant family who runs a business, a merchant family is naturally richer than our family, and they even build the blue brick and tile mansion, so when they go to mother in law's house, they must bring more things than ordinary people."

    Hearing this, Xu Shaochun became more annoyed: "They can build a big house, but the eaves at the back of our house collapsed and it took a long time to repair it. On the contrary, you can still confidently say that someone build a big house."

    Fei Lian continued: "In a few days when the school starts, I can find the parents of two students to help repair the house without paying any money. Can the Zhang family do it? Shaochun, I tell you to read some books, but you don't want to read, this is called short-sightedness.”

    Xu Shaochun didn’t like this kind of thing anymore, after half a year of hard work, she was no longer admiring scholars like she used to be when she was still a girl.

    The scholars were good, but the ones that had to be applauded were the scholars from wealthy families in the city, who were like the fairy characters in the story book. 

    If he was a poor scholar in the village, he was probably a master with high eyesight and low hands who thought of himself as high and pure.

[眼高手低 yǎn gāo shǒu dīto: high eyesight and low hands(idiom), have high standards but little ability; to be fastidious but incompetent]

[自命清高zì mìng qīng gāoto: think of oneself as high and pure (idiom); smug and self-righteous; holier-than-thou]

    "Stop bluffing me with these things. The merchants in these years are not as low as the previous two generations, and they are no longer get suppressed like before. It seems that their life is more prosperous than anyone else." 

    Xu Shaochun became more angry when he said that: "You can only blame me if I don’t read books, do you think I still have the time to study? Your mother keeps telling me to do this or that.”

    Fei Lian saw that Xu Shaochun’s voice was getting louder and louder, and it seemed like she was going to cry at her mother’s house, he hurriedly coaxed her: "I'll go back and talk to my mother."

    Only then Xu Shaochun stopped talking.

    Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He met Xu Changren in the kitchen, and then came to the main hall.

    "This fish is really big. Mr. Zou's house didn't release the news that they would sell the fish in their fishpond last year. The fish are fattened up, if we are not busy, we should buy one to eat."

    "With so many things, how can you still have the time to eat fish?"

    The two entered through the middle door, and they saw Fei Lian in a dark green cotton long robe, sitting in the square table against the wall with a cup of hot tea, he was served and acted like a noble scholar, full of charms. If it was not for the background was the house with mud walls, it would give people the illusion of entering a house in the city for a while.

    After working as a teacher for a few months, Fei Lian lost a lot of his bookishness when he was still a student, but he looked more like a master.

    Zhang Fangyuan and Xu He glanced at each other. It seemed that they had learned something after spending a lot of time with those rich young masters in the city, so they didn’t shrink back like before. But now they went back to the mother’s house, they were not a student who came to beg master and give the master shuxiu gift, so what was the use of putting on air like this?.

[束脩 shù xiū: payment for tutor]

    Fei Lian waited for the two to take the initiative to greet him, but he didn't hear a sound for a long time. He quietly raised his eyes and glanced at the two of them. He saw Xu He with a big belly and Zhang Fangyuan who was circling around him, nodding his head and bowing.

[点头哈腰 diǎn tóu hā yāoto: nod one's head and bow (idiom); bowing and scraping; unctuous fawning]

    He couldn't tell what it was like, but when he saw that the two of them didn't even look at him, and didn't intend to say hello to him, he felt a little embarrassed and put the teacup back.

    "He ge'er and butcher Zhang are here, is it okay along the way?"

    Zhang Fangyuan raised his head when he heard his tone like a master asking a student. He felt it was very funny, everyone knew the roots and knew the backgrounds, what the use to pretend.

    "It's alright, we drove carriage to come here and it didn't slip. I don't know how Fei Xiucai came here?" Zhang Fangyuan glanced at Fei Lian's shoes. 

    Xu Shaochun felt that the atmosphere in the room was a bit strange, but she couldn't tell what was wrong, so she went to the kitchen to help her mother to light the fire.