After finally breaking through the encirclement and returning home, the family ate watermelon chilled with well water. Lin Chaobei seemed to remember something funny, and burst out laughing, unable to stop.
Yue Jiuyue pretended not to see it, and Lin Chaonan frowned but didn't ask. Only Xiaoman'er, at the height of her curiosity, couldn't help but ask:
"Little Big Brother, what are you laughing at?"
Lin Chaobei said with a smile:
"I was laughing at what that eunuch said yesterday. The emperor was thinking about a title for your grandma in the imperial study, something like 'cotton,' 'rice,' and 'melon.' If that's true, then your grandma would be 'Madam Cotton,' 'Madam Rice,' and 'Madam Melon,' wouldn't she? Listen to these strange names, don't you want to laugh? Hahahaha!"
"Fourth brother! Shut up! Do you think you can just spout nonsense about the emperor?"
Upon hearing Lin Chaobei's words, Lin Chaonan became so angry that he threw melon rinds at Lin Chaobei.
Is the emperor someone to be judged by others? The eunuch said that only to express how much the emperor valued Yue Jiuyue. He even had to think long and hard about a title for her, rejecting one after another, before finally settling on the character "Yu" from Yumi's name.
But Lin Chaobei actually listened to this as a joke. Luckily, everyone else had left, and only his family was left in the main room. If others had overheard, the whole family would have died without even knowing how!
Lin Chaobei: ⊙︿⊙
He just suddenly thought of this, and since he was in front of his family, he couldn't help himself...
"Third Brother, I was wrong! I'll never do it again!"
Lin Chaobei immediately admitted his mistake, and he genuinely knew he was wrong.
He was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, his eyes wide open. If it weren't for his family members around him, he probably would have collapsed from fright.
He had no idea why his brain had suddenly gone haywire, and he had recklessly started to insult the current emperor. He must have lost his mind and was tired of living!
Use your brain next time!
Lin Chaonan gave a reprimand but didn't say anything more. It wasn't that he didn't want to say more, but that he couldn't, since there was a four or five-year-old girl present, and what if she didn't know what to say...
Lin Chaonan was extremely worried; his family was full of people who were a burden!
Their mother is now the most conspicuous person in the surrounding area, and countless people are envious, thinking that one day they can find a fault with her and drag her into the mire.
Besides him and his mother, no one else in the family was reliable. He always felt that the family was fraught with danger, and that something might happen at any time...
Don't think about it! Don't think about it! Things are just starting to get better at home, how can you keep thinking about the worst?!
He should go do some work; it'll distract him and prevent him from constantly thinking about those things. That's not good! Not good!
Of course, he had to go out to work under the scorching sun, and the little dog was no exception. He could only dream of lying at home and resting!
Especially since he just spoke recklessly and almost caused trouble for the family, we must take him to do some strenuous physical labor so that he won't have the energy to talk nonsense anymore.
Lin Chaobei was taken away by Lin Chaonan to work. He planned to first take his troublesome younger brother to harvest the grain from their two acres of land, and then harvest the grain from the hills that their mother had fenced off.
Yesterday afternoon, he took the people from Beijing around the village. The places they visited the most were the hills around their house. In particular, yesterday afternoon, some people were picking corn, some were digging sweet potatoes, some were picking cotton, and some were digging lotus roots. They were busy and bustling about. Even the people from Beijing were helping out, but they were all so useless. They were not as capable as their little girl!
Of course, you can just think these words to yourself, but you absolutely must not say them out loud. There's a saying, "Words can be dangerous," and Lin Chaobei is a perfect example of what not to do!
Xiao Man'er went back to continue learning needlework, while Yue Jiuyue, overly excited, returned to her room. She took out the five thousand taels of silver and the silver ingots, and she pampered each one, touching them again and again, as if she wanted to polish them until they were smooth and shiny! Finally, she happily put them into her spatial storage.
Then came all sorts of gold, silver, jade, silk, and satin. Yue Jiuyue looked at each item again and again before reluctantly putting them into her space.
Finally, there's the official robes of a ninth-rank Confucian scholar.
To be honest, there was no chance of wearing this in a rural area, and it looked quite cumbersome, so Yue Jiuyue just threw it into her spatial storage.
After checking her personal belongings, Yue Jiuyue was in a good mood and bought herself a glass of iced strawberry juice. After drinking it, she rinsed her mouth with water before stepping out the door with peace of mind.
She's in a good mood today and wants to go out and explore.
Of course, she didn't forget sunscreen.
Yue Jiuyue, who was completely covered up, went for a walk in the cornfield, then in the sweet potato field, then in the area where the wall was being built, then in the area where houses were being built, and finally went to the lotus pond.
As expected of a scholar, Huang Banxian loved picturesque lotus ponds and always taught in the pavilion. The school she built was empty except on rainy days.
Listening to Huang Banxian drinking and reciting ancient poems while swaying his head, Yue Jiuyue was really worried that he might spill the wine in his cup, which she had bought with her own hard-earned money!
It's all her money that's being spent. Even if it's just a single copper coin, it's money she worked hard to earn and deserves respect. Wasting it is shameful!
"Hey! Fortune teller! You spilled wine from that glass!"
Yue Jiuyue suddenly spoke, completely shattering the atmosphere that Huang Banxian had painstakingly created. He stopped leaning to one side, stopped squinting, and stopped swaying his head. He stood up and bowed to Yue Jiuyue.
"Greetings, Madam Yu!"
Hey! They completely stumped Yue Jiuyue.
Shouldn't they be exchanging some sarcastic remarks? When did this old geezer change the plot without her permission? Why didn't he give her a heads-up beforehand? How boring!
"Hey! Get up! Why are you suddenly being so polite and formal? It makes me uncomfortable!"
Yue Jiuyue felt a prickling sensation all over her body, and she felt uncomfortable everywhere.
Originally, she didn't take the imperial edict for a ninth-rank lady seriously. After all, it was a ninth-rank, the lowest of the low, and she really didn't care about it.
She had seen online that college students were equivalent to scholars in ancient times!
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