The fish was starving and wanted to eat quickly, then wash away the smell of cooking oil before feeding the children.

Hearing this, he looked up at Shen Kai who had spoken and said, "Yes! That's the idea."

After saying that, he looked into Qin Mu's eyes and said, "Brother Qin, can you help me memorize the Three Hundred Thousand?"

Don't worry, I won't let you help for nothing. If you need anything that I can help you with, just let me know.

Qin Mu felt a little hot under her gaze and was somewhat embarrassed to meet her eyes.

He immediately lowered his eyes, picked up a slice of sausage and put it in the bowl, before looking up at the other person again.

"Brother Aqing asked me about this earlier. I can recite it from memory, but I don't agree with you teaching me."

Firstly, your child is still young and needs your constant care.

Secondly, once the grocery store opens, someone will need to be there at all times, and you won't have time to spare.

I'm all alone and have nothing to do. If you can't find a teacher here, I can offer myself!

Shen Kai offered his support, saying, "Miss Chi Yu, Brother Mu is fine now. It's better for him to stay here than in the county town."

Since you can't find a teacher here anyway, you might as well keep Brother Mu here.

You know Mu Ge's situation in the county town. I can handle all the things he has to deal with now.

All you need to do is provide him with food and lodging.

The place to stay... well, I think this place is pretty good.

There's an empty room in the west wing; we can build a kang (heated brick bed) there later.

He had barely finished speaking when he was interrupted by the three Chi brothers:

"No! We are certainly happy that the young Qin brother is willing to stay as a teacher."

But living here is absolutely out of the question!

Shen Kai knew why they refused, but he didn't want to give them a chance, so he said directly:

"Why not? Is it because Miss Chiyu has returned from her divorce and is staying here, so Brother Mu can't stay here?"

Just because it's not good to live under the same roof?

But this place is in a good location, convenient to go anywhere, and it's not like Miss Chiyu is the only one living here, is it?

If you're still worried, bring two more people with you, and that will be fine.

Or do you think there are better teaching locations than this?

After saying this, he thought for a moment and decided to just be direct.

"Let me ask you, after Miss Chiyu returned from her divorce, are you so concerned about your reputation that you don't plan to let her remarry?"

Or should we wait until she turns twenty and have the government arrange a marriage for her?

Chi Yu was unaware of this matter and blinked in confusion upon hearing this.

"What do you mean? What do you mean by waiting until the age of twenty for the government to arrange a marriage?"

Are people not allowed to refuse to marry?

If that's the case, then what about Zhuang Zilan?

Shen Kai directly answered her question.

"Our Great Chu Kingdom has a small population, and the imperial court encourages marriage. If a woman is not married by the age of twenty, the government will arrange a marriage for her."

The conditions for men should be slightly more favorable, up to twenty-five.

Miss Chiyu, you are eighteen this year. Even if you divorce and return home, if you do not marry by the time you are twenty, the government will assign you a husband.

Similarly, our Brother Mu is the same. He's twenty-three this year, and if he's still unmarried by twenty-five, the government will directly assign him a wife.

Chi Yu was a little confused. Neither her memories nor those of the original owner mentioned this at all.

Upon hearing this, she stopped rushing to feed the child and decided to ask her second sister-in-law to help take care of the baby later.

She now urgently needs to learn about the marriage laws of this dynasty.

So he simply put down his chopsticks and asked, "According to you, divorced women must remarry, but what about widows?"

Zhuang Zilan, Qi Mingyu's sister-in-law from Qijia Village. She is a widow, twenty-one years old this year.