Chapter 762 Influence
Old Madam Zuo covered her chest with her hands, feeling a throbbing pain in her head. Their family had just arrived in Yizhou City, and they hadn't even settled the land yet. There was the King of Yizhou above them, and the county magistrate who came from a noble family below them. None of them could be offended by a family of small officials of the fifth rank like them.
They had to save face in order to break into the upper class of Yizhou City, but it was only a short time after the Winter Solstice Banquet, and their face was trampled on the ground.
The grandson is young and a generation apart, so it is their responsibility as parents to educate him.
Old Madam Zuo could only point at Bai Yu and was speechless for a long time.
Duan hurried to calm her down, but Old Lady Zuo was also resentful of her. She pushed her hand away angrily and said, "You are a mother. If your son does something wrong, you can beat or scold him. You are also a wife. If your husband does something wrong, you should also advise him. Isn't he your son? Isn't he your husband? Isn't this family your home? Do you think you can get away with it by just standing by and watching?"
Duan was so frightened that she quickly took a step back and knelt down.
Old Madam Zuo scolded her, and then scolded Bai Yu, "You are a cousin and an official, yet you are arguing with three children. Isn't it shameful? You have corrupted all your sons..."
Bai Yu also knelt down and waited until his mother had finished scolding him before asking, "Since we won't let them withdraw the complaint, what should we do about this?"
Old Madam Zuo sat on the chair, looked down at him and asked, "What do you think?"
Bai Yu certainly knew what his mother meant, but... that would be too embarrassing.
Seeing her son keep his head down and remain silent, Old Lady Zuo closed her eyes and said, "Although I've only met those three children twice, and have only spoken a few words to Bai Shan and Bai Cheng, I can tell they are very proud children."
"Especially Bai Shan and the little girl from the Zhou family. You want them to bow their heads, but it's impossible." Old Madam Zuo said, "Don't look down on the poor young people. You think they have no father and no foundation, but you don't even think about Bai Qi. If he hadn't died so early, the old house would be in such a mess now... Humph."
Bai Yu lowered his head.
Madam Zuo took a deep breath and said, "You don't need me to teach you anymore, do you? Tomorrow, when he finishes his exams and comes out of the academy, go to the county government office."
Bai Yu could only agree.
Old Madam Zuo glanced at the people kneeling on the ground. Since her parents were kneeling, Bai Ling, her two younger sisters, and her concubines also knelt down.
The masters in the room had all knelt, so the servants dared not stand, and now the room was full of people kneeling.
When Old Madam Zuo saw this, she got a headache, waved her hand, and stood up with the help of a chair. Duan quickly got up and supported her.
Madam Zuo glanced at her and said, "I have servants here to serve you. You can go and do your own thing."
Duan nodded in agreement.
Because Old Lady Zuo had just scolded her for being incompetent, Duan did not take her daughters away immediately. Instead, she helped Bai Yu up and comforted him.
Bai Yu waved her hand away and said, "It's not a big deal. You don't need to worry about it. Although it's a complaint, since County Magistrate Tang sent yamen runners to inform us beforehand, it's obvious that it won't become a big deal. At most, Erlang will be reprimanded and fined tomorrow. If you don't spread the word, no one will know."
Duan lowered her eyes and agreed, but she sneered in her heart: Since you know everything, why bother to think of causing trouble for the neighbors in the first place?
Bai Yu didn't have time to care about what Duan was thinking. What worried him was how to meet County Magistrate Tang tomorrow.
After all, they are colleagues, although they are not in the same department. But it is too embarrassing to appear in the county government like this.
Bai Yu couldn't control his temper any more when he thought of this. He glared at Bai Ning fiercely and scolded, "Get out of here now! I'll punish you after your end-of-year exams. Get out!"
Bai Ning retreated with a pale face. After all, she was only thirteen years old. When she thought about having to go to the government office to report tomorrow, her face turned extremely pale.
She was nervous all night, and couldn't even concentrate, let alone review her lessons. You know, Bai Ning was thinking about getting good grades this year so that she could directly take the entrance examination for the provincial school next year.
He always felt that he was no worse than Bai Shan. It was just that he was not in Yizhou City during the provincial school examination last year, otherwise he would have definitely gone to take the exam.
Bai Shan was admitted to the provincial school with the last place. If he had also taken the exam, Bai Shan might not have had a chance. At that time, he would have been the youngest student admitted to the provincial school.
Ever since he knew Bai Shan, his family, from his grandmother to his brothers, had been talking about how great he was. He had been admitted to the provincial school at a very young age, and his father would tell him three times a day to learn from him.
You know, he was the one other fathers called Bai Shan before, and this was the first time he heard his father say such things to him.
Bai Ning returned to her room in a daze, and went out to the academy to take the exam in a daze the next day.
Bai Shan and the others had almost forgotten about the matter after a good night's sleep. After all, they had done so much work yesterday evening, and the remaining anger after filing a complaint with County Magistrate Tang also dissipated during the work.
In addition, Mr. Zhuang's words last night made them all hurry up to review their lessons, so who would still remember Bai Ning?
Early in the morning, Manbao stood at the door, waving goodbye to them and wishing them good luck in their exams.
Then she went to the pharmacy empty-handed and told Dr. Ji that she also had exams in the next few days and would not come to the pharmacy.
Doctor Ji looked at her curiously, "Why do you want to take the exam even if you don't go to the academy?"
Manbao nodded. "The teacher asked me to go to the provincial school to get a test paper. I have to read the book. After reading it, I have to take the test to see how well I have mastered it."
Doctor Ji waved his hand and said, "Okay, I understand. By the way, haven't you been asking the herbalists to help you pick some fresh and active herbs? They will deliver the herbs in a few days. Would you like to come and take a look then?"
Manbao said without much hope: "Okay, I'll come and take a look then."
But in fact, few herbal farmers would bring her fresh herbs. The main reason is that most herbs are picked from the wild.
It is difficult to keep it alive after it is picked, so they have to process it in order to preserve it.
Generally, herbal farmers would accumulate the picked herbs for one or two months before delivering them. Therefore, even if someone wanted to plant some fresh herbs in pots for her, they would most likely be dead by the time they were given to her.
Therefore, in the past six months, Manbao has collected very few fresh herbs from farmers, and most of the ones he has collected are common in the encyclopedia, and the points are not high.
Manbao doesn't have much hope, but it's better to have hope than no hope.
Koko thought so too.
Over the past six months, the host has been hanging around nearby, collecting everything he could. The ones he couldn't collect were either too expensive for the host to buy, or he couldn't get them and could only watch.
As soon as she returned from the pharmacy, Manbao immediately went into the study to review her lessons. What made her better than Bai Shan and Bai Erlang was that she always had one more day to review than them.
When Manbao thought of this, he felt happy.
good evening
(End of this chapter)
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