Breakfast is ready.
The children ate in a hurry and rushed to school without saying goodbye properly. Liu Ji only had time to tell the four brothers and sisters:
"Listen to your mother at home and don't act naughty. If you don't understand the homework assigned by the teacher, copy it down in the notebook first. Dad will teach you when he comes back. Don't bother your mother, okay?"
Otherwise, don't blame him for not warning them in advance if they get hurt.
The children responded by saying they understood, dragging their book boxes all the way to the door of the old house, got on the carriage driven by Liu Zhong, and left.
As if they didn't care about their own father's life or death.
Liu Ji: Myocardial infarction!
“Father!”
Si Niang’s cry came from the entrance of the village.
The little girl stood on the shaft of the carriage, used her hands as a trumpet, and shouted loudly: "You must pass the exam!"
The old father who had suffered a heart attack instantly cheered up, ran a few steps to the courtyard, and responded with a big laugh: "Fourth Mother, when Dad comes back, you will be a successful candidate in the imperial examination! Dad will get you whatever you want!"
Qin Yao was leaning against the door frame, and the corners of her mouth twitched when she heard this. This was just a pie in the sky.
Si Niang happily responded: "Okay!!!"
The whole valley was filled with the girl's confident voice. Liu Ji stood there with his arms outstretched and his eyes closed, listening. He felt that there was no more beautiful voice in the world.
"Agu is coming." Qin Yao reminded.
Someone who was immersed in it finally opened his eyes and walked over to her, smiling at her: "My lady, when I come back, I will make you look at me with new eyes."
Qin Yao smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll wait for you to impress me."
At critical moments, she never says discouraging words to others, which Liu Ji thinks is her best point.
After helping Agu load his luggage, Liu Ji got into the carriage, waved to Qin Yao, lowered the curtain, and walked away briskly.
Qin Yao thought he would talk for a while, but she didn't expect him to be so straightforward. She raised her eyebrows in surprise and asked Awang to bring the horse over so that she could give Gong Liangliao a ride.
Qin Yao escorted the convoy all the way to Xiahe Village and watched them get on the official road before leaving.
She didn't know that as soon as she turned around on her horse, the people in the car couldn't help but lift up the curtain of the back door, and looked at her hesitantly all the way under Gong Liangliao's disdainful gaze.
"What a loser." Gong Liangliao cursed.
How long has he been gone? Only two months.
I haven't even left the house yet, and it's still like this.
If I am assigned to work in another place in the future, wouldn’t it be a matter of life and death between us?
How many officials have been working away from home for several years without being able to see their wives and children, yet they still get through it as if nothing happened?
It was so lonely that he kept a concubine to help him get through it.
Suddenly thinking of this, Gong Liangliao glanced suspiciously at the disciple who was secretly wiping his eyes with his sleeves, and asked him:
"Do you want to take a concubine?"
Liu Ji let out an "Ah?" and was obviously still immersed in the sadness of separation and unable to extricate himself, looking a little dazed for a moment.
Gong Liangliao asked again impatiently, "Don't you always think your wife is fierce? Do you want to take a gentle concubine?"
Liu Ji blinked his big peach blossom eyes, "Teacher, do you think this is a question of whether you want to or not? Shouldn't you ask me if I dare?"
Gong Liangliao: "."
The air in the car condensed for a moment.
After a moment, the master and the disciple looked at each other and tacitly stopped talking about taking a concubine.
Just a quarter of an hour later.
Gong Liangliao suddenly said, "A man should have great ambitions and avoid sentimental relationships."
Liu Ji said "oh", as if he understood, but not completely.
"Teacher, if I fail the exam again this time, will my wife divorce me?"
Gong Liangliao was dumbfounded!
Then he calmly patted his disciple on the top of his head and said, "Don't worry, there is no law in Sheng Country that allows women to divorce their husbands. Just focus on the imperial examination and don't think about anything else."
Liu Ji suddenly felt a sense of relief.
Fortunately, fortunately there is no law in Sheng State that allows women to divorce their husbands!
Gong Liangliao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his disciple calm down.
In fact, he didn't say anything else.
That is - for Yu Yaoniang, if she wants to leave, the so-called divorce under the laws of Sheng Country will be meaningless to her.
She is not someone who will be bound by rules and etiquette.
However, with the final exam approaching, Gong Liangliao would not say anything that would shake the morale of the troops.
When Qin Yao returned home, Awang had already gone to the fields, and Li had also gone to the river to wash the dirty clothes.
The sudden loneliness made her feel a little uncomfortable.
But soon, the arrival of Old Man Liu broke this inexplicable loneliness.
"The third brother is gone?" asked Old Man Liu.
Qin Yao responded: "I just sent them to Xiahe Village."
She asked him to sit in the main room, poured him a cup of tea, and added a plate of jam shortbread baked this morning. She asked Old Man Liu to eat first and take some back to the old house later.
Old man Liu picked up a piece curiously and tasted it. He praised Awang and Li for their good cooking skills and was reluctant to eat any more.
He just held the tea and asked Qin Yao if she was planning to plant rice seedlings.
Because the couple had not been active in farming in the past two years, Old Man Liu was traumatized. If he didn't come and ask about it in person, he wouldn't be able to sleep at night. He would dream of the third brother's family starving to death because they didn't grow any crops.
It was not until Qin Yao said that the family had enough granary and had just collected rent from a hundred acres of land that Old Man Liu suddenly remembered that the third brother's family no longer relied on the ten acres of land in the village for food.
"Look at my memory, I completely forgot about this." Old man Liu was a little embarrassed and quickly picked up the teacup to drink tea.
Qin Yao smiled and waited for Old Man Liu to finish his tea, and discussed the plans for adding new buildings and renovating the house after the busy farming season.
Old man Liu had said before that he would take care of this matter, and he used the same excuse this time.
"I'm free anyway, so I'll ask your cousins to help me. It will take at most a month to get things done. You can just provide meals as usual."
Just for the sake of the broth in the pot, there will definitely be many uninvited helpers.
Qin Yao felt that it would be bad not to pay the workers, as it was hard to repay a favor, so she added five cents a day to each worker's wages.
Seeing Qin Yao's insistence, Old Man Liu didn't say anything else, but only reminded her: "Then don't make meat soup every meal, just make some vegetable soup."
The old man was afraid of being poor and was used to being frugal. Qin Yao did not argue with him and nodded in agreement.
After the two of them reached an agreement, Qin Yao sent Old Man Liu back and also went to the village chief's house.
After being reminded by Old Man Liu, she suddenly remembered that County Magistrate Song was going to bring people to the village for a tour, and planned to inform the villagers about this matter.
Unfortunately, there was no gong at home, so I had to go to the village chief's house to borrow one.
This time, when Qin Yao borrowed the gong from the village chief's house and left, the village chief once again looked at her with the same complicated and regretful look as before.
Qin Yao really couldn't hold back her temper, so she asked out loud on the spot.
"Village Chief, you keep looking at me like this, is there something you can't say?"
The village chief waved his hands guiltily, "It's okay, it's okay. Go and inform everyone so they can be prepared."
"This is a great event that will bring honor to our Liujia Village. Tell them not to let me down!"
When the village chief of Xiahe Village heard about this, he was very envious.
Not every village will have a county magistrate come!
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