Transmigrated as A Farm Girl Making Her Family Rich-Chapter 194 - 193 Morning Exercises
Chapter 194: Chapter 193 Morning Exercises
Chapter 194 -193 Morning Exercises
Ye Shiqi, content with her parents’ agreement to her request, returned to her room satisfactorily.
With the body of a little over one year old, she knew that being too tired wasn’t good. It was only by keeping herself busy every day that she could feel a sense of security in this world described in the book of ancient times.
Ye Shiqi was so determined partly because she had memories from her previous life. In ancient times, she was considered talented, but her parents were so poor. If she didn’t strive, well…
She couldn’t describe how well she could live, but she didn’t want to end up like those elder sisters who had to go out to work the fields so young.
Now that they had an estate, they would go to the mountains there, but they hired people to do the heavy labor. To her and her sisters, working on the estate and going to the mountains felt no more strenuous than an exercise in their daily routine.
Every day, Ye Shiqi would lead her sisters and the maids in morning exercises, which were actually a form of fitness dance.
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Without music, others might think they were dancing chaotically.
Ye Shiqi actually knew yoga, but she found that the Martial Arts morning exercises were much more effective than anything yoga had to offer.
She had heard that people in ancient times could practice Qinggong, but they, being from a farmer’s family, couldn’t afford to hire a master to teach them.
After the rooster crowed and dawn began to break, their biological clocks, already trained by their grandmother’s daily morning knock on the door to get them up for work, woke them.
As day broke, they woke up at home and washed their faces with water prepared for them, despite the absence of toothbrushes and toothpaste in ancient times, using the rougher tooth-cleaning tools they had, which were still better than nothing.
Ye Shiqi put on specially designed exercise clothes, wide-legged pants, and an oversized dress.
She made sure that all her sisters had uniforms made from the same fabric and design, tailored by the seamstress. The dress was designed with wider sleeves and a bit more flutter, adding a sense of flying skirts and flowing sleeves when dancing.
Having the same type of clothes made was possible with Mrs. Li’s approval.
For this, they faced ridicule from their family, specifically from Ye Shuzhen.
“Hmph, such a waste of money on this frivolous attire; won’t people laugh their heads off if you wear this outside? Does this look like a madwoman’s garb? Where’s the elegance befitting a young lady of wealth?”
Ever since the household became wealthier, Ye Shuzhen demanded that the family buy her better fabrics to make clothes, imitating the sashay of wealthy young ladies, swaying her hips as she walked, believing this to be the essence of the elegance she sought to emulate.
Yet she was unaware that such a gait made her a laughingstock, although no one dared to laugh outright in her presence.
“They’re really squandering the family’s fortune! Wearing such clothes outside, people will think our family has gone mad,” said Mrs. Lai, who always favored the Ye sisters over the rest. She deemed the girls’ spending frivolous no matter what they did and considered any of their activities a waste of money.
Hongji’s father didn’t understand why his daughters needed such clothes.
However, after hearing from his wife that the girls wanted to do it for fitness, he thought that exercise was a good thing and hoped that his children would grow up healthy.
Mrs. Li remained silent when she heard her mother-in-law speak like this. She had learned to ignore her mother-in-law’s words, letting them go in one ear and out the other. The mother-in-law could only nag without causing harm to her or her children.
She wasn’t the same person she had been before; she wouldn’t let her mother-in-law or any other family members hurt her children at their whim.
Hongji’s father remained the same as always, he never voiced his opinion on what his wife said, appearing like a nice old man, forever playing the role of a peacemaker. In fact, sometimes he shared the same views as Mrs. Lai, thinking that it was unnecessary to waste money on girls, believing that providing them food and shelter was enough.
Learning so many arts, the habit of buying things recklessly and wasting money was indeed not good. He would not say it out loud, but when Mrs. Lai made a scene ranting and raving, she sometimes ended up voicing the thoughts he kept to himself.
Even though Hongji’s father now had money, he stuck to his old habits, puffing on his bamboo-tube cigarette, exhaling smoke through his nose and mouth…
The bamboo-tube cigarette was a daily vice that he couldn’t quit, and even though the tobacco was cheap, he was too frugal to buy higher-quality leaves despite his wealth.
Even with more money, he did not squander it, but the clothes he wore were much better than before. Except for when he worked, he wore special work clothes that were durable, dirt-resistant, and sweat-absorbent.
Ye Shiqi and her sisters, regardless of what Third Aunt or their grandmother said, remained silent, they wouldn’t retort, but continued to do what they were doing.
The sisters’ disregard made the taunting words from Ye Shuzhen and Mrs. Lai feel like punching cotton, leaving them with a sense of powerlessness.
Once, they would have reacted with fury, responding with even more venomous words to express the anger in their hearts from being ignored.
“Talking to you, don’t you understand how to respect your elders? What kind of attitude is that? And those eyes? Hmph!” came Ye Shuzhen’s angered voice.
The five sisters of the Ye family…
“With no manners at all, they don’t listen when their elders speak, just going their own way. How did our family end up raising such things?” echoed Mrs. Lai’s angry voice.
The five sisters of the Ye family…
Did the sisters have no thoughts of their own? Wrong… In fact, they were also very irritated, but they kept their anger inside. The family’s attitude towards them was so familiar that their hearts had become like walls of brass and iron; such verbal attacks were nothing compared to physical ones.
As long as they did not physically attack the sisters, let them say whatever they wanted. Deep down, they always thought, didn’t those hurling insults reflect on how, by insulting them, they themselves were revealing their lack of manners?
Was this the kind of upbringing the elders were proud of?
Since they studied the Three Character Classic, the sisters of the Ye family began to understand the importance of filial piety and upright behavior to prevent leading the younger generation astray.
The sisters of the Ye family would educate their little brother in his early years, hoping that he would grow up intelligent and clever. Unable to pursue the path of official examinations themselves, the sisters hoped their brother could fulfill the dreams and wishes they could not achieve.
Just earning money was not enough; having a scholar in the family, a top scorer, that was what truly brought glory to one’s ancestors.
Like the newly wealthy farmer who had made money, he was just a rich man of the lower class. In any era, scholars were the most useful, and all the wealth and splendor could fade in the blink of an eye.
Bringing glory to one’s ancestors was something only scholars could achieve, and coming out on top in the civil examinations was the greatest honor.
As a woman, Ye Shiqi knew she couldn’t achieve this, but she hoped her brother, who was only two or three months old, could do it.
Women could become talented ladies, but they couldn’t follow the path of the imperial examinations. The sisters hoped their brother could walk this path, while their family aimed to earn more money. After all, one day, they could support a scholar’s education, and educating a scholar was very expensive.
After Ye Shiqi dressed herself, it was still not time for breakfast. She took her maid and walked out of the yard. Their home looked large, built like a courtyard house, but unlike a wealthy family with many courtyards, the sisters used the same yard as the rest of the family.
