"So, let's send the second child to school!"

Lu Yunfeng was stunned, wondering if he had misheard! "What?"

Sending his second brother to school?! Although he and his second brother had both gone to school two years ago, since the changes in the family, the idea of ​​going to school seemed to be a thing of the past, a luxury. He didn't expect Qin Xiaozhou to suddenly bring this up, and he couldn't understand why the topic of school came up for a moment.

Qin Xiaozhou seemed to have suddenly found a bright path in the darkness, and became excited, "Yes, that's it, let the second son go to school!"

Scholars have a high social status. If Lu Yunxing could pass the imperial examination and obtain an official position, then the Lu family and she would no longer have to worry about being targeted because of their high profile, or having to share their spoils with others and drag them onto a pirate ship.

Lu Yunfeng naturally knew that scholars held a high social status, but he still couldn't believe it. "Are you serious?"

After much hesitation, I finally said, "Studying is very expensive."

Qin Xiaozhou thought it over and over and found it more and more feasible. "I know that studying is very expensive, but when one day we make a lot of money, enough to make many people envious and jealous, and we are unable to protect ourselves, you will know that compared with having our property confiscated, being imprisoned, and being falsely accused, it is worth the expense to spend money to raise our second son and make him our pillar of support in the future."

She said earnestly, "How much money we make determines the bottom of the Lu family, while the education of the second and fourth children determines the height of the Lu family. So this book is a must-read."

The decision to send him to school has been made, but now is the time to harvest fruit and put it on the market, so there's no rush.

Gui had thus planned Lu Yunxing's life trajectory, but he knew nothing about it yet. That day, he borrowed the village chief's oxcart and, together with Wang Dahe, loaded a cart of fruit into the city to go to the store.

On the oxcart was a basket containing clothes for the shop assistants. Before leaving, Wang Lanqian had repeatedly told her, "You must give this basket to your sister-in-law yourself. Don't damage it. The clothes are made of good fabric, and your sister-in-law needs them urgently."

Lu Yunxing nodded, "Grandma, don't worry, I know. Uncle Dahe came to town with me today, and the chickens and ducks haven't been let out of their pens. They've been fed and watered. Grandma, you don't need to let the chickens and ducks out today."

Wang Lan felt uneasy, wondering if she was the only one left at home with so many people. "Go quickly, you'll be back later, don't be late."

Lu Yunxing and Wang Dahe were both quiet and honest men. They kept their heads down and drove the whole way until the shop was about to close before they arrived.

Lu Yunfeng quickly led his men to move a cart of fruit into the yard. Zhao Fang also missed her son terribly, but she was too busy to have a proper conversation with him. "You've grown taller and thinner. Don't go back tonight, it's almost dark."

Wang Dahe rubbed his hands together. He wanted to go back. He hadn't seen his wife and mother all day and didn't know if they had eaten enough. His wife was sick and his mother was old. He had to go back to fetch water and chop firewood. He couldn't stay out overnight. However, he worked for the Lu family, so he had to do whatever his employer asked. Besides, he wasn't good at talking, so he could only worry anxiously from the side.

Lu Yunxing handed the basket containing the clothes to Qin Xiaozhou, saying as he busied himself, "We need to go back. Grandma is home alone. We'll take the oxcart; it'll be faster."

Lu Yunfeng told them to come earlier next time.

Lu Yunxing nodded in agreement, hitched up the oxcart, and was about to leave when Qin Xiaozhou gave them two bamboo tubes of milk tea and two packets of desserts, saying, "Eat these on the road, and be careful on your journey."

After closing the shop, Zhao Fang escorted her second son all the way to the city gate, and quietly revealed that her eldest son and daughter-in-law wanted to send their second son to school. "I heard about this from your eldest brother and sister-in-law the day before yesterday, but they said they can only send you there after this batch of fruit from the orchard is picked."

Lu Yunxing was so excited that he couldn't speak. When his family suddenly suffered a misfortune, he and his older brother were forced to return home and interrupt their studies. He was heartbroken, sad, confused, and hopeless.

There's still a sense of resentment.

He was unwilling to spend his whole life toiling in the fields, living a mediocre life. He wanted to wield his pen like a sword, standing tall and making a name for himself in the imperial examinations...

Unfortunately, it was all just a dream!

Even so, he kept all his books carefully. Even when he was down on his luck and moved to an old house, he couldn't bear to lose them. They were his lifeblood!

Two years later, just when he had accepted that he had no hope of studying in his life and could only make a living in the mountains and struggle for a few taels of silver, his mother told him on such an ordinary evening that his elder brother and sister-in-law were going to send him to school!

"Mother, are you... are you serious?"

Lu Yunxing felt his heart beat again, sending something called hope and ecstasy to his limbs and bones, and he began to revive and become vibrant!

Zhao Fang didn't know what her son was thinking, but she felt that being able to study was a very important thing. "It should be true, but I didn't hear it clearly. I only heard some words about studying."

Lu Yunxing was really dissatisfied with this ambiguity. He was determined to get to the bottom of this. "Mother, could you ask my elder brother and sister-in-law for me? I... I want to know."

Zhao Fang then realized the impact of her son's tone and attitude, and, somewhat surprised and suspicious, tentatively asked, "Do you want to study?"

Her eldest son was a man of few words but hard work, who only knew how to bury himself in his work and once he made up his mind, nothing could sway him. Her second son was also not very talkative and had a soft personality, like a little lamb. He usually did whatever they said, and it was rare for him to have his own ideas like this now.

But studying is an expensive affair. Now Qin Xiaozhou is in charge of the Lu family. Although the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, there is no reason for her to support her younger brother-in-law's studies. Moreover, passing the imperial examinations is not something that can be accomplished overnight; it takes several years. Some families exhaust their wealth and still fail to pass.

Zhao Fang was a little worried that Qin Xiaozhou might just want Lu Yunxing to learn to read so that he could become a shopkeeper and manage the business in the future, and perhaps he didn't want his second son to take the imperial examination at all. Wouldn't that make his second son happy for nothing?

Lu Yunxing nodded firmly, "Mother, I want to."

He wouldn't have dared to say this before, when even getting enough to eat was a problem, let alone studying. But now it's different; he wants to study, he desperately wants to!

Zhao Fang regretted telling her second brother about this beforehand. "I'll tell your eldest brother and sister-in-law when I get back. You should go home quickly."