Hearing this, the middle-aged woman didn't say anything, but started sobbing.
No one dared to step forward to persuade her. When she had almost finished crying, Qu Xiangbai finally said:
“Okay, Auntie, I know you’re angry that I accepted an apprentice.
Although our family is safe now, it doesn't mean we will be safe in the future. This kid is pretty good, at least he's braver and smarter than your nephew.
Then we will have another choice, and besides, isn’t this also for the purpose of educating talents for His Majesty? It’s okay! ”
Hearing him say this, Qu Xiangbai's aunt Liang said with a thick nasal voice: "I just want you to live a normal life, why is it so difficult? Even if you don't listen to me on this matter, then tell me when you plan to get married.
You are already 25, and your brothers’ children are already grown up. How can I face your parents if you do this to me?”
Before she could finish, she started crying again.
…Here it comes again, here it comes again.
Qu Xiangbai knew that asking him to come back and take in an apprentice was a small matter, and starting a family was what his aunt had always been thinking about.
Qu Chaonan also spoke up: "Your aunt is also worried about you. I have already implicated you in this situation. I also heard that your apprentice is extremely intelligent. It is only a matter of time before he passes the exam.
Your aunt is afraid that the man surnamed Yin will think that you have some ulterior motives in training new people and will cause trouble for you again.
Besides, you are not young anymore, it is time for you to start a family."
"There's no rush to get married, so don't worry about it. As for the matter of taking on a new apprentice, I'm just teaching a student, it's no big deal. How could someone surnamed Yin have the guts to target a student with a good academic record?
If this is true, the emperor probably won't tolerate him.
Don’t worry, one day…”
Qu Xiangbai didn’t say what would happen one day, but everyone present understood.
Whether there is any hidden secret in the case back then will be revealed one day.
"Since you know what's going on, we won't ask any more questions. But you should still pay attention to the matter of getting married. Don't always agree to things and then forget about them," said Liang.
"Yes, yes, don't worry, Auntie." Qu Xiangbai nodded in agreement.
Seeing his perfunctory attitude, Liang was still about to speak.
But Qu Qinghui stopped him: "Okay, Mom, Big Brother already knows. He finally came back, let's eat quickly, Big Brother must be hungry."
He winked at Qu Xiangbai while speaking, and Qu Xiangbai instantly understood what he meant and spoke immediately:
"Yes, I am hungry, aunt. I have been travelling without eating anything this afternoon."
Liang Shi certainly saw the brothers' quarrel, but she was also worried that Qu Xiangbai was really hungry, so she snorted heavily and shouted to the servants outside:
"Let's set the table."
Qu Xiangbai then secretly breathed a sigh of relief and gave his cousin a grateful look.
I'm really afraid that his aunt will keep urging him to get married.
After dinner, the family chatted for a while and then everyone went home.
Only Qu Chaonan's family was left. Liang knew that they had something to say, so she went to bed first.
There were four people sitting in the study.
The eldest patriarch Qu Chaonan sits at the top, and the next are Qu Xiangbai and his two cousins Qu Qinghui and Qu Qingxu.
"Have you really decided? Do you want to take that kid as your apprentice? I heard that the kid is good, no worse than you were back then." Qu Chaonan said.
"So amazing? Dad! The person who spread the news is exaggerating. Who can be as good as my eldest brother in studying?"
This is the voice of Qu Chaonan's second son, Qu Qingxu.
He didn't believe that there was anyone better than his elder brother, whom he had admired since childhood.
His brother Qu Qinghui also looked unconvinced.
Qu Qingxu asked him: "Brother, what do you think? Do you believe it?"
Qu Qinghui shook his head, obviously not believing it either.
Seeing their expressions, Qu Xiangbai smiled.
"Then you really think too highly of your elder brother. It's true, he's better than me, but he just has too little experience and too little reading.
I used to think that this guy was just ambitious, but after spending the past few days with him, I found that no matter what you tell him, he really gets it.
You are still a young student now, but your political sensitivity is much stronger than your brother and I were back then.
Don't look down on me. I guess people have guessed most of what's going on in our family.
I even have a feeling that he knows everything about our library."
"Is it really that powerful?" Qu Chaonan was also skeptical.
"That's right, this kid doesn't look like someone who was raised in a farming family, but he is from a farming family, for sure.
Isn't this exactly the person Your Majesty is looking for?
"I've never been to school, yet I managed to get into the school run by that old fox, King Yu. Don't you think it's fate?"
When several people heard that he had never attended school for a single day, yet he could pass the examination to become a student in just half a year, they all found it incredible.
"I really want to meet this kid."
Qu Chaonan said.
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