Chapter 162 The hero's mother is the best (Forty-nine) Please vote for the monthly pass at the end of the month

Lady Wan just ran to tell Gu that the new county magistrate has no rules and actually favors his concubine over his wife.

As for Gu, she immediately ran to curry favor with the concubine, Aunt Xue.

Yes, the county lord is very powerful. If you want to please him, you have to start with his favorite concubine.

But a concubine is a concubine.

Gu was the legal wife and a virtuous woman praised by the court.

But she got together with a lowly, unruly concubine, and even tried to curry favor with her!

Half of such a large pharmacy was given to Aunt Xue.

Fortunately, although the new magistrate was a little stupid, he was not extremely stupid.

Knowing that he was new here and that the Gu family had a good reputation, he turned around and asked Aunt Xue to give him some silver, which was considered as buying half of the shares.

Well, it’s about one-third of the market price.

The Gu family will definitely suffer a loss, but it is better than losing nothing.

Madam Wan knew how difficult it was for an orphan and a widow. In the past, she had the protection of Mrs. Cui. Now, Mrs. Gu wanted to do the same and find the new magistrate as a backer.

But, you can go find your original wife, why bother with a concubine? "Stupid! So stupid!"

"It has brought trouble to Qingyun's reputation."

Zhao Qingyun is the youngest scholar in the county and a student on government stipend at the county school.

How many families are optimistic about this child? There are also some wealthy families who are vying to recruit Zhao Qingyun as their son-in-law.

Even if it were not for her husband's partiality, Wan Niangzi would have wanted to marry her daughter to Zhao Qingyun.

As a result, the Gu family caused such a scene.

Be willing to be lowly!

No rules!

How will others view Zhao Qingyun after she acts like this?

Subsequent facts also verified Wan Niangzi's words -

Some wealthy businessmen originally wanted to invest in Zhao Qingyun in advance.

But after Gu Qingcheng did this, those people began to retreat.

Zhao Qingyun is indeed a potential stock, but his mother is unreliable.

He doesn't know the rules, has no scruples, and easily gets into trouble.

Having such a relative-in-law and my daughter having such a mother-in-law, it’s scary just thinking about it.

Even Aunt Xue had originally been optimistic about Zhao Qingyun.

My master has said that Zhao Qingyun is a good seedling, and he can rise to the top without the support of others! He is still a young scholar from a farming family. If I marry my daughter to him, my family will still marry him down.

The Zhao family must pamper and worship their own daughter.

When he becomes successful in the future, he will also be grateful for the "support" of Yue family! Aunt Xue's eldest daughter is eleven years old this year, and she is just the right age for Zhao Qingyun.

Moreover, by getting engaged first, one's family will have the initiative.

If Zhao Qingyun does have a promising future and can pass the imperial examination, it won’t be too late to get married then.

If Zhao Qingyun hurt Zhongyong and failed in the exams repeatedly, he could also regret it.

It's okay to advance or retreat. The more Aunt Xue thought about it, the more satisfied she became.

But she never expected that Zhao Qingyun's mother was so unreliable.

If it were someone else, Aunt Xue would only be proud of having bought such a big shop by spending only a few hundred taels of silver.

But this person is the mother of the son-in-law she favors! "I can't marry her! I absolutely can't marry such a confused and confused mother-in-law."

Aunt Xue shook her head repeatedly.

Although she was a favored concubine, she was a vested interest in breaking the rules.

But when it comes to her own daughter, she still hopes that the man's family will abide by the rules.

After all, her daughter is the legal wife, and etiquette and law protect the interests of the legal wife and legitimate son.

Aunt Xue knew even more that having an unreliable mother-in-law would definitely be a disaster for her daughter-in-law.

No matter how outstanding the son is, he cannot marry a bad mother- in-law! The new county magistrate was a little hesitant: "Maybe Gu just wants to seek protection from our family."

The heart should be good.

There's just something wrong with his behavior.

Aunt Xue sneered inwardly: Can it be forgiven if one does something bad with good intentions?

"Bad things" are the results. If the results are bad, then the whole thing is bad!

Aunt Xue dared to bet that this was not the first time, nor the last time, that Gu was so "confused".

What he said came true!

The storm of this incident has not yet passed, and Gu Qingcheng has made another bold move——

"What? Gu used the money from selling his medicine shop to open a martial arts school?"

"I didn't open a martial arts school, but was persuaded by my neighbor to buy shares!"

"Tsk tsk, Heyin County is so small, there are not many people practicing martial arts. Opening a martial arts school will not have much business."

"That's right. I think it was that cunning neighbor who saw that Madam Gu was easy to fool, so he lied to her and fooled her."

"... Young Scholar Zhao, what a pity!"

Heyin County is not big, so any new news will spread to everyone in an instant.

Everyone was discussing it in teahouses, taverns, and on the streets.

In the county school, everyone from the instructor to the students looked at Zhao Qingyun with sympathy.

Everyone knows that when the previous magistrate leaves office, the Zhao family will no longer have protection.

Such a big pharmacy is definitely not going to be able to be maintained.

Afterwards, Madam Gu really sold the pharmacy at a low price.

Although it was sold at a low price, it was still worth more than five hundred taels.

This amount of money is enough to support Zhao Qingyun to pass the imperial examination.

I never expected that Madam Gu would be so capable and would just squander all the money so easily.

Give people investment to open a martial arts school?

Humph, it would be better to throw it into the moat.

At least you can still hear a sound!

Without money and support, how can these orphans and widows of the Zhao family survive? Zhao Qingyun: ...Who said my family only has a few hundred taels of silver? Who said my mother was stupid and did something foolish?

Zhao Qingyun still had a childish face, and he didn't seem to be angry, but he was already very happy in his heart.

Mother!

Well done!

His mother once again hit the mark accurately.

After the new county magistrate took office, he met Zhao Qingyun alone when he went to the county school.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Zhao Qingyun felt very clearly that the new magistrate was jealous and admired him.

As for jealousy, Zhao Qingyun could understand it, as he was a young talent and had passed the imperial examination and became a scholar at the age of twelve.

As for the new county magistrate, he was a scholar in his twenties or a juren in his thirties.

When I passed the imperial examination, I was almost forty years old, an age when I could call myself "old"!

It is natural that mediocre superiors are jealous of talented young men.

The new magistrate’s “appreciation” is easier to understand.

Jealousy is jealousy, but genius is genius.

People may not all have talent and love, but they all have the nature of "gambling".

When encountering a good seedling, investing in advance is the way many successful people want to achieve further success.

And when it comes to attracting talent, what could be more reliable than marriage?

When the new magistrate looked at Zhao Qingyun, he acted as if he was looking for a son-in-law.

Zhao Qingyun, the young lady from the new magistrate's family, respectfully declines the offer.

Favoring a concubine and ignoring one's wife is not only a bad family tradition, it is also too stupid!

Having a father-in-law like this will only hold you back.

Zhao Qingyun already had a clear goal and was working steadily towards it.

He would never allow anyone to sabotage.

Just when Zhao Qingyun was thinking about how to reject the new magistrate without causing him to bear grudge, his mother came up with a "double attack"! The new magistrate never summoned Zhao Qingyun alone again.

Whenever I see him, I would look at him with pity.

The child is really good, but it's a pity that his mother is so weird.

Confused, spendthrift, and easily influenced.

After the new magistrate's family had been in the county town for a long time, they heard more "strange stories" about Mrs. Gu.

Buying a knife, giving a beggar a grand funeral, etc. are all things of the past.

The days of currying favor with concubines and being cheated of money have slowly passed.

The latest joke in the Zhao family is that Madam Gu, after listening to some charlatan's nonsense, decided that young scholar Zhao had bad luck in the past two years and wanted to go to a Taoist temple to avoid disaster.

They cried and made a fuss, and insisted on forcing Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was studying, to drop out of the county school and go to a deserted Taoist temple in the neighboring county.

The people in the county town: ... Is this still my mother? Does she know that it is important for her son to study? Poor Zhao Qingyun, although he was not happy, he did not refuse because of filial piety. He actually packed his luggage and went straight to the Taoist temple with several cousins.

I saw that there were actually younger members of the Gu family in the group accompanying Zhao Qingyun.

Many people couldn't help but murmur: "Gu Shi has also started to betray her family, and actually praised her mother's family so much."

"Haha, that's why I say she's confused. Just when she had a good reputation as a good wife and mother, she started to act up!"

At the beginning, countless men praised Gu as a virtuous wife because she did not bear grudges and treated her husband's family as one family, while she tried her best to distance herself from her own family who had done her favors.

As a result, within just three years, the Gu family's "true colors were revealed."

She, like those daughters-in-law who are difficult to keep, is more inclined towards her parents' home in her heart.

When the opportunity arises, he will do whatever he can to support his parents.

Not only did he bring his nephews and grandnephews to the county and put them next to his son, he also raised his niece by his side.

All the money and property of the Zhao family were given to the man named Gu.

Gu Qingcheng's series of outrageous actions completely confirmed her reputation as being ridiculous and confused.

Zhao Qingyun also successfully disappeared in the county and was no longer the young man that everyone (including the new magistrate) paid attention to.

When Zhao Qingyun went to the Taoist temple, he not only enjoyed a quiet study environment, but also met a great scholar of the time who was meditating there.

The great scholar cherished talent and loved it, so he immediately accepted Zhao Qingyun as his last disciple! Gu Qingcheng: ... This was really not my plan! I can only say that Zhao Qingyun is worthy of being the male protagonist, and he encounters adventures wherever he goes.

Two years passed in a flash.

Gu Qingcheng takes care of her youngest son, and is served by several nieces from her natal family and her husband's family. She lives a very comfortable life.

Soon, autumn arrived and a new round of provincial examinations was about to begin.

Zhao Qingyun, who is fifteen years old, has grown into a handsome young man.

Both the Zhao family and the Gu family sent people to escort him to the provincial capital to take the exam.

Good news came, Zhao Qingyun once again broke history——

He passed the imperial examination at the age of fifteen and won the first place, which was the best in the whole Qizhou.

The people who brought the good news came to the back street of the academy with gongs and drums. The frail Gu Qingcheng walked out and happily accepted everyone's congratulations.

A lot of copper coins were scattered like raindrops.

The Zheng family next door also received good news, and the sixteen-year-old Ji Keji was also on the list.

Although he was only the last one, he was also a real juren.

Unfortunately, he still suffered from the disadvantage of being one year older than him, and his limelight was once again completely overshadowed by Zhao Qingyun.

The second youngest scholar?

People will only remember the first one, who will remember the second and third?

Even though Mr. Zheng tried to comfort himself, he couldn't help but wonder: Is Zhao Qingyun here just to defeat himself?

He always beats him!

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