130 families reunited
"My Lord, my servant and I will find an inn to stay in, so that we won't interfere with your family reunion."
Sun Sicheng said, "How about this. I have a courtyard not far from my home and Baicaotang. Usually, only some of my guards live there. I will make room for you. You will have someone to serve you three meals a day."
He didn't want to take Wu Min home because they weren't that close. Besides, the Qi family were his mother's cousins after all.
"Thank you very much."
Wu Min did not refuse. It was still unknown how long he would live in the capital, and all the money he had saved was only over a hundred taels. It was time to hurry up and write the storybook.
His vernacular novels are still popular in Huainan Prefecture, and his pen name Yixiao Gongzi is quite well-known locally. It is also because of this that he has been able to ask people everywhere to find his relatives over the years, but to no avail.
However, only he and Xiao Sanzi knew about writing the storybook. For the scholar, it was not a proud thing, but it was just out of helplessness in life. How much could one earn in a month by doing accounting for others?
Da Zhuang directly sent Wu Min to the small courtyard, where they also had to put their own luggage. There were more than a dozen people who came to Beijing this time, but only three or four of them really followed the eldest master closely every day, and the rest did not have to live in the Sun Mansion.
A quarter of an hour later, the carriage arrived at the door.
Sun Siyuan helped his wife and daughter down. They both felt a little carsick during the journey and only felt better after taking medicine. They basically lay in the carriage and suffered a lot.
Mrs. Wu hurried to the front yard with her little daughter, followed not far behind by her mother-in-law.
Ah Wu ran over and said, "Sister, sister."
Ah Xin's discomfort was gone in an instant, and she broke free from her mother's hand and went forward: "Sister, sister."
Awu held her younger sister's hand and came over with a smile, calling "Dad", "Uncle" and "Auntie". Here, Mrs. Wu was already getting intimate with Mrs. Ma.
Sun Sicheng curled his lips and said, "Awu, you are the best. Look at your mother. She seems to have not seen your father."
Awu smiled, her eyes slightly raised, her little face as white as porcelain, like a spring flower, and Sun Sicheng also smiled.
Sun Wang came over breathlessly: "I thought it would take two days for you to get home. Congratulations this year, you've already entered the house before the twelfth lunar month."
Several people were busy paying their respects to their mother.
Wang held Ah Wu with one hand and Ah Xin with the other: "Your father and grandfather are both in Baicaotang. There are more people in the city these days. I heard that many scholars are here to take the exam. Is it necessary to come so early? The exam is almost two months away."
Sun Sicheng said: "If they come late, the better inns will be full, and the private courtyards closer to them will also be rented out. They would rather come earlier so that they can get familiar with the environment and adapt to the local climate. However, some environments are still very beneficial."
Wang turned around and rushed to the backyard: "Go back to your respective courtyards and wash up. A Wu Niang has already cleaned up your courtyards. I have asked someone to tell the master and the old master."
Ma smiled brightly: "Mother and sister-in-law are the best. I don't want to leave now that I'm back."
If she wasn't reluctant to leave her husband, she really didn't want to leave her husband's home. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law treated them really well.
Sun Sicheng returned to his yard, looked at his wife who had followed him, and hugged her: "You didn't even look at me just now, do you dislike your husband?"
Wu twisted her body symbolically: "Let go, what if Ah Wu comes over and see if you have any shame? Why should I see you, aren't you running around outside all year round?"
Sun Sicheng let her go and sat down on the chair. He was really tired.
"I came back this time to discuss something with my father and grandfather. If it's settled, I can stay at home half the year, but I can't stay at home all the time."
It would be good enough to have half of it. Mrs. Wu would not be so naive as to let her husband abandon the Sun family's businesses outside. That is unrealistic.
"Go wash up first. When dad and grandfather come back, I'll go to the kitchen to check. I thought you would bring your little apprentice back this time. Why didn't you bring him? It's true. His parents probably don't want to let him go."
"My dear, you will like Ping An when you see him. He is a very special child. Let's take him back to Beijing next year."
"I know you like him. You mention him every time you write to me. I'm jealous and say you treat him like your son."
"My dear, please don't laugh. I don't treat him as my son. I treat him as my son-in-law. Really, I have to keep such a good child for my family."
Mrs. Wu looked at her husband with a serious expression and said, "No, don't mention this to anyone. Our Ah Wu is only six years old. I don't want to arrange a marriage for her. Who knows if she will like it when she grows up."
"I'm just telling you this, just keep it in mind, don't promise my daughter to anyone else.
There is no need for our family to marry into those wealthy families. Awu may not be comfortable marrying into those families. It is better to pick someone with the best character."
Mrs. Wu said nothing more and walked out the door. It was pointless to argue about these things now as the child was only six years old. Besides, even if the marriage was arranged, no one could do it without her mother's consent.
Her husband can be nice to his young apprentice, but she is not very optimistic about having him as her son-in-law in the future. After all, he is a country boy and comes from a remarried family, so he is not suitable for a family like theirs.
Although the Sun family was not a high-ranking official family, they were also one of the most famous medical families in the Great Zhou. Several families had already expressed their intention to form a marriage alliance with her, but she had always laughed them off.
When Sun Sicheng arrived at his mother's yard, before he had sat for a while, someone came to call him and his second son to go to the front yard.
Wang was very dissatisfied: "Dinner is only half an hour away. Can't we talk in the evening? Go ahead."
Ma smiled and said, "Mother, isn't it better for me, my eldest sister-in-law, Awu and Axin to accompany us? Your three grandchildren will come over soon after they finish washing up."
She just saw her son and nephew. The three children now go to the academy in the morning and study medicine with their grandfather in the afternoon. There is nothing wrong with this as the academy usually has self-study in the afternoon.
If the boys in their family have a good talent for studying and are willing to take the imperial examinations, they will concentrate on their studies after the age of ten. Otherwise, they will spend half of their time studying and half of their time learning medicine, and then go directly to Baicaotang as an apprentice after the age of fifteen.
The seven-year-old son was well taken care of by the eldest sister-in-law. He was healthy and well-educated. This time, the couple decided to keep Ah Xin as they felt lonely, so they decided to raise a younger one to play with.
Sun Sicheng and his brothers went to the front yard and met their father and grandfather who were waiting in the study.
The two brothers hurried forward to greet him.
"Sit down, sit down. Are you tired?" The old man is already sixty-five years old. He speaks in a loud voice and looks energetic.
On the contrary, Forty-Six's father looked tired.
"Dad, are you busy these days?" Sun Sicheng asked.
Sun Yinan said, "There are a lot of patients in the clinic these days. Even those who are not sick have been given medicine. Most of them are suffering from colds. Many scholars have suddenly arrived in the capital. Some are not used to the local climate, and some are not used to it. It is not easy for them to study."
"My eldest brother also brought a scholar with him and arranged him in my small courtyard. He is also in poor health."
"Sicheng, your friend?" asked the old man.
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