After several years of getting along with each other, An Rui and Feng Lingyun from Xuanping Marquis's Mansion finally got married.
The couple of Marquis Xuanping chose Feng Lingyun as their legitimate daughter. Her fiancé had died, and she married into the An family, a new noble family in the court.
And not to mention his cousin An Xin, who is a high-ranking official, and his fellow apprentices who all have extraordinary statuses now, An Rui himself is now a third-rank chief academic officer of the Imperial College.
Considering his status, he is quite handsome. If he and Feng Lingyun were not in love with each other, there are countless girls from aristocratic families who would want to marry a young high-ranking official like him.
The wife of Marquis Xuanping might have had some concerns. In order to show how much her family valued her daughter, she almost gave half of the marquisate as a dowry to her daughter.
As a result, the originally small Anzhai was no longer suitable as Anrui's new home, as it could not even accommodate the dowry.
This was not a problem for An Xin, who was not short of money. She decisively paid for a new house across the street for her cousin An Rui as their residence after marriage.
Because he saw his cousin getting married, and thought that Li Ziyu and his gang had grown up quite a bit, and that they had intentionally or unintentionally placed a lot of money with him over the years.
An Xin narrowed his eyes, thinking that it was too late to keep his sons, so he bought a house for each of them.
Except for Liu Boxing who has a home in the capital.
When Li Ziyu, Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing and Jiang Zhou learned that An Xin was buying a new house for An Rui, they also bought houses for them.
They all looked at An Xin with resentment in their eyes.
Seeing that they looked like they were ruthlessly thrown out of the house by her, An Xin's eyes twitched.
I am their teacher, not their parent. Do I have to support them for the rest of their lives?
An Xin decisively chose to ignore the resentment and accusations in their eyes. Anyway, when An Rui was moved out, these brats had to move out as well.
Thinking about how my second uncle and his wife had often written to me in recent years to urge my cousins to get married, I finally got an explanation this time.
The current Wanhua Academy is prosperous because of An Xin, a female official who has reached the pinnacle of her life, as well as Li Ziyu and Leng Xiangbai, a group of fellow apprentices who have reached high positions in government.
There are also rising stars such as Wen Yucheng and Ma Xiuzhu who passed the imperial examinations in recent years and have contributed to the good reputation of Wanhua Academy.
Wanhua Academy is now well-known among scholars not only in Lin'an County and Ningzhou Prefecture, but also in the entire Daqian.
There were many people who came here from other places to study. Some of the teachers here were scholars and literati who had passed the imperial examinations and were no longer suitable for the treacherous and shady officialdom.
Anyone who was willing was recruited by An Xin and invited to Wanhua Academy with high salaries to become a scholar and teach.
At the same time, An Xin and the successful Li Ziyu sent money to Uncle An without returning it. After so many years of expansion, Wanhua Academy has become much different from the old and small academy it once was.
Neither the knowledge and quality of the teachers today nor the environment inside can be compared with the past.
Because of the prosperity of Wanhua Academy, everyone thinks that this place has good feng shui.
Many people bought land and built houses and a few shops far away from Wanhua Academy, where they would not affect the students' studies.
Now it is not as noisy as the streets, and the people living here are all well-educated and well-off.
The area around Wanhua Academy has become a prosperous yet quiet place.
Da Zhuang, who looked more calm in his dark satin formal suit with a front opening, and Ling Yun, who was dressed as the leader of the guards of An Mansion, led a group of tall, mighty and awe-inspiring guards.
The team that came here with letters from An Xin's cousin and brother to pick up Uncle An and his wife to go to the capital arrived at Wanhua Academy. The people around saw this scene and began to think something had happened.
After learning the truth, everyone looked at Uncle An with jealousy and envy as he walked out of the academy gate.
Not to mention how people around him envy Uncle An, the scholar.
Even the teachers in the academy looked at Uncle An with jealousy and envy when they saw him. After listening to the report from Da Zhuang who brought people back this time, they almost smiled.
She secretly wondered how Uncle An was so lucky. Not only was his son successful, but his niece, who was originally looked down upon and had her engagement annulled, was also successful.
I heard that now she is praised by everyone in the court as a pillar of the country who is no less capable than men.
Da Zhuang was originally a servant of the An family. When Uncle An saw him come back, he was naturally happy and friendly to him.
However, when dealing with Ling Yun and the guards, he also politely led them into the back house of the academy.
A seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister.
Just as Da Zhuang and Ling Yun, who had rushed all the way back to Lin'an County to pick someone up, were arranged by Uncle An to rest in the back house of the academy.
The magistrate of Lin'an County hurried over with his subordinates.
The person at this time was none other than Jiang Zhou's uncle who used to be the chief clerk of Lin'an County.
Next to come were Li Ziyu's aunt and uncle, Zhu Shijing's biological parents, Yun and Mr. Zhu, and the Jiang family couple Jiang Zhou's parents.
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There were also those big families and merchants from Lin'an County who heard the news and came to curry favor with An Xin's teachers and students.
Some of them wanted to get an official position for their descendants in order to impress the already powerful Anxin teachers and students, as they were from the same hometown.
The purpose of those merchants coming here was even clearer, they wanted An Xin's teachers and students to become their backers so that they could have something to rely on when doing business.
When they saw Da Zhuang and Ling Yun, they didn't care about their identities and just tried to please them in a nice way.
Anyway, they only need two people to convey their meaning to An Xin teachers and students. As for Da Zhuang and Ling Yun, their identities are servants in charge or the head of the guards.
Even if they secretly look down on them, for the sake of their own interests, they can compromise and treat the two of them as bosses.
The Da Zhuang at this moment is no longer the same silly guy as he was back then.
Ling Yun was made dizzy by those people and he ran away to urinate.
However, Da Zhuang, who had been intentionally trained by An Xin for many years, was still able to remain neither humble nor arrogant when facing those people, and he knew when to advance and retreat after listening to the purpose of their coming here.
He fought back without being soft or hard, and would never cause trouble for his master.
Jiang Zhou's uncle, now the magistrate of Lin'an County, Fang, as well as the Zhu and Jiang couples all looked at those people unkindly.
They had just been invited in and had not yet exchanged a few words with Uncle An. They originally wanted to ask Da Zhuang and Ling Yun about the situation of Headmaster An Xin and their son and nephew in the capital, but they had not had time to open their mouths.
It was messed up by these guys with impure motives and the bastards who swarmed in.
It was not until those people realized that no matter how much they talked to the slippery Da Zhuang, it would be useless, that they left reluctantly.
In his heart, he cursed Da Zhuang for being ungrateful. They had all hinted that as long as he, a servant, was willing to help convey the message to the high-ranking official An Xin, he would get a lot of silver as a reward for his hard work.
As a result, their lips were almost worn out, but the other party was still pretending to be deaf and dumb and playing Tai Chi. They had no choice but to leave in disappointment.
(End of this chapter)