Chapter 509 New Year Greetings

"Sister, sister!" Xiaotao shook Su Ying with her soft little hands.

"Xiao Tao, let me sleep for a while, I'm sleepy!" It's not too much to sleep in on the first day of the new year, as we're busy all year round.

"Sister, the young master of the Hu family is here to pay New Year's greetings!" Xiao Tao was helpless.

In Lingnan, my sister was so busy that she was exhausted every day. Now that she is back in Chang'an, why is she even busier? Didn't she say she would resign from her official position to help them grow sugarcane?

I don't know when I got back last night. I finally got a good sleep in, and the young man from the Hu family came to pay New Year's greetings again, saying that he wanted to ask my sister some questions.

Oh, really!

"Hmm?" Su Ying slowly woke up and turned over to sit up. "Hu Erlang or Hu Dalang?"

"Everyone is here!" Xiaotao and Atang brought women's cotton clothes to their elder sister.

Ah Hua fetched some hot water to wash up.

"Ahua, cook some preserved egg and vegetable porridge later." Su Ying felt dry in the mouth and wanted to eat something light.

"Yes!" Ah Hua was tall and thin, wearing a jacket made of fine gauze.

He ate well at the Su family, grew taller rapidly, and his dry and yellow hair became shiny black.

"Ahua, I want to eat too!" Xiaotao and Atang became greedy again after hearing this.

"Miss Second and Miss Third, you just ate fermented glutinous rice wine and eggs, can you still eat more?" Ah Hua was worried that they would be too full.

"It's okay, just cook more. I think my brothers will want some too!" Su Ying said with a smile.

Take the two sisters to the front yard.

The housekeeper, Huang Cui'er, was leading the two women to the back house.

"Master Su!" Huang Cui'er stopped and greeted him.

"Well, Mother Huang, Happy New Year!" Su Ying said auspicious words on the first day of the new year.

"Happy New Year, sir!" replied Mother Huang.

The two women looked Su Ying up and down, their eyes showing satisfaction, and nodded continuously.

Su Ying looked at the two of them, "The two ladies are..."

"Aying, don't you recognize me? I am your second aunt, and this is my sister-in-law from my mother's side - Xue Wuniang!" One of the forty-year-old women spoke with a smile.

"Hello, second aunt! Hello, Madam Xue Wu!" Su Ying bowed hurriedly.

Her second uncle had been working in another place for many years, and Su Ying had a vague impression of her second aunt. She only remembered that this person existed, but she didn't have much memory of her appearance.

"Girls really change a lot when they grow up. Ah Ying has become even more beautiful!" Second aunt took Su Ying's hand and patted her.

"Second aunt, please go sit with my mother for a while. I have visitors here. We can talk again when we have time."

My second aunt came unexpectedly, and the way she looked at me made me feel uncomfortable. It was most likely about a marriage, so I ran away quickly.

"Greetings, Lord Su!" Seeing Su Ying come in, Hu Dalang and Hu Erlang hurriedly stood up and saluted.

The brothers Ah Hei and Ah Niu were also there.

I haven't seen Ah Hei for nearly two years. He has lost his rustic air. His eyes are calm and his gestures have a more scholarly temperament.

Ah Niu lived with Xie Jinan and Ah He in Li Anyan's house, and was influenced by them to develop a sense of nobility.

"Happy New Year, gentlemen!" Su Ying hurriedly returned the greeting.

The brothers Su Boyan and Su Zhongyan from the first wife, Su Zhaoyan from the second wife, and Su Quanyan and Su Bangyan from the third wife accompanied them.

"Brother Boyan, I didn't expect that among those of us here, the first to enter the officialdom was Lord Su!" Hu Erlang sighed.

At first, Su Ying followed the old shopkeeper Zhu to the Hu Mansion to sell Jiangdong plows. She was dressed in rags and looked skinny, but she had a pair of black, bright and lively eyes.

Selling the Jiangdong plow blueprint just to get a plow and oxen to reclaim wasteland.

At that time, I was amazed that there was such an intelligent girl in the world, but it was a pity that she would be buried in Lingnan because of her exile.

Who would have thought that within a few years, not only were her family members pardoned and promoted, but she herself also became the number one female official in the Tang Dynasty.

Even the Hu family rose to prominence and became part of the Lingnan rich list. His father was promoted to the position of Chief Secretary of Wuzhou, and his mother was granted the title of Lady.

He followed Lord Fu and made great contributions, so he was exempted from the examination and entered the Imperial College.

How could he have expected that the fate of the Hu family would change as a result when he admired the talent back then?

"Yes, who says women are inferior to men! The smartest and most capable person in my family is Aying!" Su Boyan was proud of it.

"My brothers are too kind! I was just taking shortcuts. If I had taken the imperial examination like you brothers and taken the test on classics and history, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have passed the provincial examination." Su Ying said modestly.

All of you here are students who have studied hard. I just relied on the knowledge acquired thousands of years later to unexpectedly obtain an official position. There is nothing to be proud of.

"Aying, I heard that you have new math books, so I came here to ask for two!" Hu Erlang said.

This book was only distributed to the children who were studying in Lingnan. It spread very quickly in the School of Mathematics and the Imperial College, and many people borrowed it to copy.

"Qingyun didn't give it to you?" Su Ying was surprised.

When Xie Qingyun contacted Hu Erlang about renting a house for her child, it was impossible for her not to bring books with her.

"No!" Hu Erlang was depressed. "If I hadn't seen it from Ah Hei, I wouldn't have known about it at all."

"Xiaotao, Atang, help me get two math books." Su Ying said to her two sisters who were playing with the cat outside the door.

"Hey!" Xiaotao picked up Li Nu and ran back to the inner house with Atang.

"Where are Shi Yan and Chen Yan?" Hu Dalang didn't see the two brothers show up for a long time.

"Spending the New Year with their grandparents in the south of the city." Su Boyan said lightly.

"Brother Boyan, how was your annual exam?" Hu Dalang knew that the two brothers were not likable, so he quickly changed the subject.

Since they are all students of the Imperial College, it is inevitable that they will compare with each other.

"Not bad. I can enter the Imperial College at the beginning of the year." Su Boyan was full of confidence.

He studied hard this year, passed the annual exam with honors, and was admitted to the Imperial Academy.

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Hu Dalang said enviously.

"Brother Buwen, what about you?" Su Boyan asked.

"Record the last person!" Hu Dalang felt a little embarrassed.

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Everyone present congratulated.

"My brothers are really awesome. Are you planning to take part in the Autumn Examination in September and the Spring Examination in March next year?" Su Ying joked.

"Brother Boyan, you guys should be able to do it. I'm far from it, so I won't join in the fun. I'd rather wait for the next class!" Hu Dalang was not blindly arrogant.

This time, it was all thanks to my good performance in answering the questions that I got the last supplementary admission spot.

His knowledge of classics and history was still insufficient, and it was impossible for him to graduate from the Imperial College in just a few months.

"Let's give it a try and use this subject as practice." Su Boyan said modestly.

Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. It is a new year again and I am almost twenty-one. Time flies!

"Sister!" Xiaotao came in with two math books.

"Look, this is such a good book, Ah Ying should take it out as soon as possible!" Hu Erlang gave a copy to his brother and began to read it himself.

"At that time, I thought it might not be useful!" Su Ying said embarrassedly. Intermediate mathematics was about to be taught, and the development was faster than expected.

"Sir, the porridge is ready. Would you like to bring it in?" Ah Hua asked outside the door.

"Come in!" Su Ying replied, and then asked the brothers, "Would you like some porridge? Century egg and vegetable porridge!"

"Let me have a bowl! I came out on an empty stomach this morning!" Hu Erlang said bluntly.

"Hehe, I'll have a bowl too! It smells so good!" Ah Hei said with a smile.

"One bowl each!" How could Hu Dalang miss it?

"I'll have a bowl too!" Li Chengqian's voice came from outside the door.

The curtain was lifted, and a group of princes came in, along with two princesses, Changle and Yuzhang.

"Happy New Year, Master Su!" Yu Zhang jumped up and down, pulling Chang Le in. "Wow, it smells so good! What kind of porridge is this?"