Chapter 53
Struggle in Ancient Times
Liao Tingyu calmed down and said, âItâs okay. Iâm not an unreasonable person. In my eyes, parents must love their children so they would honour their parents. These are mutual thing. Both of you have good value of friendship and kindness. You can send your children to my house after I settle down in the town. As for the salary, we will talk about later, okay?â
It was normal for a teacher of Qingshan Academy to accept students outside the school. This habit was formed from the past where the merchant family would send their children with gifts to the teacherâs house and let them taught by the teacher. Later, people were more invested in the Qingshan Academy and the teacher only accepted if they needed extra money.
The two friends looked at each other and felt this matter was done.
Yang Shu took the tea he prepared for Liao Tingyu to bring back, âThese are the new tea. They taste very good, Liao-xiucai could drink it on his free time.â
Not to be left, Zhang Yi took a small box; inside was a clear jade pendant, âLiao-xiucai, I prepared this, please donât dislike it.â
Liao Tingyu looked at the things, as a small people, he couldnât hold himself back. He didnât the hobby of drinking tea, but this tea seemed to be expensive and the aroma was really good. He glanced at the jade pendant, it was a crystal clear in colour and must cost a bit of money. So, he calmly accepted the gifts.
Liao Tingyu thought these people were really good. In this era, where filial piety could blind everyone, they still had righteousness and didnât mourn in self-pity. Instead, the fought back to live better life.
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On the way back, Liao Tingyu thought a lot. Although everything here was very similar with the ancient China; there was a little different. He felt like a freshwater fish trying to swim inside the ocean. He felt lonely and suffocated.
Sometimes, he remembered Mother Deng and Liao Ming worked so hard for him and he thought of his own parents in his own modern world. His mother was a strong and wise woman and his father was indecisive person. They were different people but they both loved him.
Every time Mother Deng was nice to him, he couldnât accept it and wanted to pay her back ten times. He felt it must be ignorant of him to refuse Mother Dengâs love and kindness, but he couldnât ignore the pain in his heart.
When Mother Deng brought all the good things for him, he wanted to tell her that he wasnât her son and she shouldnât be so kind to him. But he couldnât say it. He knew the consequences; he might destroy this family and someone might want him dead for occupying this body.
He kept telling himself to ignore that feeling, but he was suffocated; there was a hole inside his chest, that woman wasnât his real mother. It would be good if he was a person without father or mother, he wouldnât have to pretend every day like this.
He must work hard to be rich and paid back all the loves from Liao family that didnât belong to him. He wanted to have his own path, he couldnât go back to the future so he wanted to have a wife and children who loved him.
People were always dissatisfied with life and wanted to have more and more. But they should take things slowly as they come, there was nothing good in rushing.
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At night, Liao Tingyu hugged his quilt and cried silently. He looked at the bright moon outside his window, he felt really sad.
This moon wasnât the same like in his hometown. The moon like back there wasnât bright and white, it was pale yellow from the pollution.
âI miss you, Mom.â With a sudden sadness and nostalgia, Liao Tingyu whispered lowly.
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The sun would rise the next day and chased away the moon. Just like a sadness, it would come someday but it would leave our mind in no time.@@novelbin@@