Chapter 732: Chapter 730 Extremely Extremely Extremely
Even Jiang Dashan couldn’t help but smile at the child’s innocent display of filial respect.
The couple from the Third Branch watched their son delight the grandparents and their smiles deepened.
The second son’s family was also overjoyed that Zhiwen and Zhiwu could eventually stay with Eldest’s family.
This meant that their own son could follow the same path for junior high school, staying at the elder brother’s home just like they had.
Everyone in the family was happy, except for Zhaodi, who felt utterly dismayed, watching the Third Branch’s family enjoy themselves, filled with confusion and anger.
Why was everything now so completely different from the past life’s path?!
Zhiwen had famously repeated a year three times before barely making the cut for junior high school in his previous life.
Zhiwu also had to repeat a year before managing to get into junior high school.
These two failures had only made it because the grandparents and the Third Branch’s efforts, through a mix of threats and bribes.
Even after getting into junior high, Zhiwu had still hated studying, and due to poor performance and constant fights, the school had asked him to leave in the second year.
Zhiwen had also ended up dropping out because he could never pass the entrance exams for high school.
Having gotten used to the ease of school life, the brothers were unwilling to farm, and they ended up just idling their lives away in the village, living off the money that the old lady extorted from their sisters.
Even their wives had been brought into the family with dowry money squeezed out of their sisters by the old lady.
When they had children, the situation didn’t change; none knew how to strive, and the whole family remained as country bumpkins that could never show their faces in society.
This was the end Zhaodi longed to see!
Evil people should receive their just deserts!
“Alright, stop trying to please us with sweet words and go back to your room to do your homework. If either of you fails any exam after starting junior high, see if I won’t tan your hides,” Jiang Changtao said sternly to his sons.
He feared that once these boys went to town, beyond his reach, they might indulge in too much play and neglect their studies, hence he warned them in advance.
“Understood, Dad, we’ll go do our homework now,” Zhiwen and Zhiwu replied, then went inside to work on their homework.
Seeing her brothers obediently going inside to study, Zhaodi clenched her fists hidden in her sleeves even tighter.
She really, truly did not wish for Zhiwen and Zhiwu to become successful or for the Third Branch’s family to move to the city and have a better life.
Zhaodi now felt anxious, as many things were deviating from the previous life’s course.
Last month, she had merely made a few more trips to the Shen family’s house when the old lady scolded her, pointing her finger and chastising her for laziness and always running off.
Out of fear of the old lady’s authority at home, she dared not meet with Shen Qingming to play anymore.
If the old lady knew she was helping out at the Shen family’s house, she would probably have heard even harsher words.
Actually, because of the dream sent by the Immortal, the old lady had been quite decent to Zhaodi, certainly much better than she was with Da Ya and Er Ya.
The reason the old lady had scolded her last time was because Zhaodi’s visit to the Shen family had coincided with the busiest planting months of July and August.
The old lady had called several times for her to come work in the fields, and not finding her, had scolded her severely in her frustration.
Thus, Zhaodi was becoming ever more eager for school to start so she could use being at school as a chance to grow closer to Shen Qingming.
With more and more things deviating from their original course, Shen Qingming was the only lifeline Zhaodi had left to cling to.