Soon it arrived that Fan Siyuan was to become an apprentice.
The date for the apprenticeship ceremony was carefully chosen by Wang Kang.
Just three days before the enrollment registration for Jingwu Academy, Fan Siyuan was able to enter the academy to study with the new students.
Jingwu Academy doesn't just teach children martial arts; it also teaches them to read and write. If they can't even read, they won't be able to understand a martial arts manual, let alone become officials or lead troops into battle.
All the teachers in the academy, whether they teach literature or martial arts, were hired by Wang Kang at great expense. There was even a dedicated nutritionist, all to ensure that the children ate well and had healthy bodies.
This is why, despite the high tuition fees at Jingwu Academy, so many people still want to send their children there to study.
It is a bit expensive, but you get what you pay for.
It's impossible to hire all the academy's teachers for one-on-one tutoring at your home for 100 taels of silver, so you have no choice but to come to the academy.
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The lively hall was packed with people, all of whom were relatives and friends whom Wang Kang had specially invited to attend the apprenticeship ceremony.
"Master, please have some tea," Fan Siyuan said, kneeling on the ground and respectfully holding a cup of tea in his hands.
Wang Kang smiled, took the tea, and sipped it lightly: "Get up. From now on, you will be my fourth personally taught disciple. I will personally teach you the techniques. I hope you can be self-disciplined, guard your mind and understand your nature, and get along well with your three senior brothers."
"Thank you, Master. Your disciple will certainly not let you down," Fan Siyuan said with unwavering determination.
Wang Kang handed the apprenticeship gift he had prepared to Fan Siyuan: "Each of your senior brothers has a jade pendant with your names engraved on it."
Fan Siyuan looked down and indeed found the character "远" in a corner of the jade pendant.
He happily thanked Wang Kang, saying, "Thank you, Master. I really like this gift."
As Fan Sheng watched his son become an apprentice, he couldn't help but secretly wipe away a tear. His son, Yuan'er, would one day see a wider world and not live a mediocre life like him.
"Husband," Luo Suyue held Fan Sheng's hand tightly. She was genuinely happy for Yuan'er that he had such a powerful master, but she couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.
I won't be able to see Yuan'er every day anymore, and I don't know if Yuan'er will be able to get used to life at the academy.
After Fan Si completed the apprenticeship ceremony, a beautiful little girl hugged his leg and called him "brother" in a soft, sweet voice.
"Hey..." Fan Siyuan looked down and realized that the person holding him was the abducted little girl, who was also his master's daughter.
Seeing this, Madam Wang, who was standing quietly to the side, smiled and said, "Yuan'er, Baozhu seems to like you very much. Take this little girl out to play more often when you have time."
Wang Baozhu understood her mother's words and nodded vigorously: "Baozhu likes brother~ Let's play together~".
Wang Baozhu was the youngest daughter of Wang Kang and his wife. She had two older brothers, but there was a significant age difference between her and her brothers, who were more than ten years apart.
Although her two older brothers were very kind to her, due to the huge age difference, it was impossible for them to play with her.
Upon seeing the little brother her mother had mentioned who had saved her, Wang Baozhu immediately took a liking to him and wanted him to play with her from now on.
"Baozhu, you're such a good girl~", Fan Siyuan gently patted Wang Baozhu's head.
He was very glad that the little girl had been rescued. He couldn't imagine what would have happened to her if she had really been abducted. Such a lovely little girl should have been pampered by her whole family as she grew up.
Much later, Fan Siyuan learned from Wang Baozhu that it was actually her sister who had abducted her.
No, she can't really be called my older sister, she's just a distant cousin.
After the master and his wife got married, the wife especially hoped that she could give birth to a delicate and sweet daughter, but unfortunately she gave birth to two sons in succession.
Later, the master noticed that his wife was very envious of other people's daughters, so he found a well-behaved and sensible little girl from the clan to entertain his wife.
This little girl is Wang Baozhu's distant cousin, Wang Mengxia.
After Wang Mengxia came to the Wang family, she quickly won over Madam Wang's favor with her obedient and sensible nature and her clever tongue.
This continued for five years. Wang Mengxia lived a pampered life as a young lady in the Wang family, and even for a time forgot that she was not Madam Wang's biological daughter.
Anyway, since Madam Wang doesn't have her own daughter and likes her so much, she definitely won't mistreat her in the future.
This dream continued until Madam Wang suddenly became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter as she had wished.
Now that the manor had a real young lady, everyone's attention was focused on this real young lady.
Although Madam Wang treated Wang Mengxia as well as ever, she still felt a sense of loss.
She tried hard to suppress her true feelings and pretended to like the newborn little sister very much.
Mrs. Wang didn't realize that an 11-year-old girl had so many little thoughts. However, her youngest daughter did take up too much of her time, so her interactions with Wang Mengxia naturally decreased.
Seeing that Wang Mengxia was about to reach marriageable age, her biological parents proposed to take her back to marry someone else, which made her really panic.
How could that be? She's lived such a good life in the Wang family for so many years that she's long forgotten that her biological parents were just ordinary farmers. What kind of good family could such parents find for her?
A wicked thought suddenly occurred to her: if only Wang Baozhu didn't exist, then Madam Wang would definitely treat her like her own daughter, and she would still be the young lady the servants talked about, instead of Miss Mengxia.
Then she used her savings accumulated over the years in the Wang family to bribe people to create chaos, and took advantage of the chaos to drug and kidnap Wang Baozhu.
As long as the traffickers sell Wang Baozhu far away, from then on, Madam Wang will only have her as her obedient daughter by her side, and she will try her best to soothe Madam Wang's grief over losing her daughter.
The day the truth was revealed, Madam Wang was heartbroken. After all, her niece had been by her side for eight years, and she had truly regarded her as her own daughter.
He even considered finding her a good marriage partner and giving her a generous dowry, but fearing the young girl might be shy, he didn't discuss these matters with her in detail.
Who knew that they would raise such an ungrateful child who almost harmed their own daughter?
Enraged, Wang Kang wanted to send Wang Mengxia to prison, but Madam Wang, mindful of their eight years of relationship, ultimately couldn't bring herself to do anything to Wang Mengxia and simply kicked her out of the mansion.
As for how the other person ends up in the future, that's none of her business.
Wang Mengxia only realized her mistake then, but it was too late.
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