Chapter 185
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Their homes were far away, so they were given a few months' vacation to return home to prepare and take up their new posts.
The two of them still had a lot of things to do, so they went back to the small county town and bought the yard they had rented before, and let Tugen and Luwei continue to run their business here.
Ah Xiang manages all the noodle shops in the county and all the franchisees in the province.
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However, they still have to transport the raw materials.
Before leaving, Shen Yuntang left Ah Xiang with two years' worth of seasonings. These seasonings have a long shelf life and are not afraid of spoiling. If franchise stores want to use the seasonings, they can temporarily come to Ah Xiang to get them.
Shen Yuntang wanted to cooperate with the young general and use their escort agency to deliver seasonings to noodle shops all over the country.
Liuya, Yuanbao's fourth brother Ye Gou went with him to the capital. They asked Yuanbao and Ye Gou to stay in the county to pack their luggage, and he took his fourth brother home to tell his family.
Liu Ya said that the village had left him with too many psychological traumas and he would never go back there in his lifetime. If his parents wanted to see him, it would be the same if they came to the county town to say goodbye to him, but they would have to keep it a secret from his brother.
To Shen Yuntang's surprise, Fourth Brother also said he didn't want to go back.
"Aren't you going home to say goodbye to your parents? The capital is far away from here. You don't know when you can come back next time." Shen Yuntang felt that his fourth brother seemed indifferent to the family and was not as nice to him as to Yuanbao.
"Whether I go back or not, they won't care, and they won't think of me. There's no need for me to go back to that home." The fourth brother has never felt the love of his parents since he was a child. He is a invisible person at home. In addition, he has no talent for carpentry, so he is even less valued by his father.
"Dad and Mom just don't know how to express themselves. Do you hate them because of this?" Shen Yuntang didn't expect that his fourth brother would think this way. He thought of his childhood when his parents didn't talk to him much, and his previous life when he had a hard time in Xia Xiaowu's house, and his parents never visited him or helped him.
The character of the parents determines the character of the child. If other people have four older brothers in their mother's family, they will be able to stand up straight even after getting married. But he is different. After getting married in his previous life, it seems as if he has lost his mother's family.
He also resented his parents, but after he married Cheng Yeran in this life, his parents always cared about him. He realized that his parents actually had him in their hearts, but their parents might care about him more. They were timid and did not dare to offend the Xia family. In this life, seeing that Cheng Yeran had no parents, but dared to go to the Cheng family and dared to take care of their affairs, and when they saw that they were in trouble, his parents felt that they were better than them, pitied them, and helped them.
But the fourth brother didn't think so. He said to Shen Yuntang, "You have been favored by your parents since you were a child. You are favored. You don't understand what I think, and you are not qualified to criticize my attitude towards my parents."
Shen Yuntang had never heard his fourth brother talk so much in one breath. He felt that his fourth brother still cared about his parents, but because he cared too much and could not get their attention, he held a grudge against them.
In the end, he and Cheng Yeran returned to her mother's home without taking her fourth brother with them.
When the village chief knew that he had passed the imperial examination and become the top scorer, he specially invited a lion dance team to welcome him with drums and gongs.
Ever since Cheng Yeran passed the exam, the villagers have been speaking much nicer. Every word they say is a compliment, praising him to the sky.
"I said that the Cheng family boy has a promising future."
"What kid? He is the master now. Master Cheng looks like a wealthy man. How could he stay in this small village all his life?"
"Mr. Cheng is kind-hearted. He built a school for our village, so that all the children in our village have the opportunity to study for free. All of us in the village are very grateful to Mr. Cheng."
Cheng Yeran tried hard to hold back his laughter. Don’t these people feel embarrassed? If I were as thick-skinned as them, I would definitely be able to thrive in the officialdom.
Parents had already prepared the banquet and were waiting for them to come back.
Several husbands in the village gathered together to gossip about Shen Yuntang. "Before, everyone in the village said that Shen Yuntang's life was ruined because she married a lazy man. On the contrary, her cousin was lucky because he married Xia Xiaowu and would become an official's wife in the future. Who knew that Shen Yuntang was even luckier and managed to change the lazy man."
Now the situation is reversed. Shen Yuntang has become an official's wife. They are secretly jealous of Shen Yuntang. How can she have such a good life? She actually became an official's wife, and her husband was so good to her!
"He actually took a carriage this time. Did you see that? When he got off the carriage, his husband personally helped him down."
"An official like that is so considerate to his husband. Look at my man, he can't even do farm work properly and he stays at home all day acting like a boss."
"Just be thankful that your man is not good enough. If he is not capable, he will not be unfaithful and look for someone else. So what if Shen Yuntang married well? Cheng Yeran went to the capital to become a high-ranking official. He has power and money. Can he still treat him wholeheartedly? It is impossible even if you use your toes to imagine it."
They imagined that Shen Yuntang would have to face a room full of concubines and compete for favor with them in the future. When Shen Yuntang grew old, the concubines would be in their teens and young age, and they might even go after his wife and act wildly. How embarrassing and infuriating that would be.
"Fortunately, my man doesn't have the ability of Cheng Yeran, otherwise I would have to endure this kind of humiliation."
They said that they were lucky that they didn't have to suffer humiliation, but they were extremely jealous of Shen Yuntang in their hearts and wished they could immediately possess Shen Yuntang. Even if the man found a concubine in the future, so what? She was an official's wife and had face, pomp and money. What's more, they might not be unable to defeat the concubines at home.
They even began to fantasize about what methods they would use to deal with concubines if they became wives of officials, making those evil women wish they were dead and unable to live. The more they thought about it, the more refreshing they felt. However, the men in their families were already in their twenties or thirties and it was impossible for them to study and become officials.
After they returned, they were even stricter with their sons. If their sons became officials, they would be able to bring honor to them and would be more prestigious than being the wives of officials. Although they would have no concubines to fight with, if their sons brought more concubines home in the future, they could set rules for their daughters-in-law and concubines and feel more comfortable.
Shen Yuntang had no idea about the perverted thoughts of the men in the village. If he knew, he would be glad that he would soon leave this terrible village.
After the banquet, Shen's mother called Shen Yuntang over to talk alone and asked him how he was doing recently and whether his stomach was still moving. If there is really no other choice, just adopt one from your relatives now. When they go to the capital, the child's biological parents won't be able to see the child, so the child will be no different from theirs.
Shen Yuntang said to her mother shyly, "No need to adopt. We didn't have time before. When we get to the capital, we will be ready to have a child. It's better to have one of our own."
Mother Shen thought that you didn’t give birth, isn’t it because Cheng Yeran was born infertile?
Many people in the village who were jealous of Cheng Yeran to death felt relieved when they thought about the fact that he couldn't have children. Only his parents were worried about them.
Mother Shen asked again: "He won the first place in the imperial examination. Are there any high-ranking officials in the capital who would marry their daughters to him? Didn't you say last time that one of his classmates divorced his husband and became a prince consort? Your husband is the first place in the imperial examination and looks like this. You have to be careful."
"Don't worry, mother. No one wants to marry their daughter to him." Shen Yuntang thought of the time when Cheng Yeran passed the exam. There were people who tried to win him over. However, they were not high-ranking officials. They were some wealthy business families who wanted to marry their daughters to him as concubines, but Cheng Yeran refused.
On the day of the parade, Cheng Yeran also said that he was married and observed male virtues, and would not accept love confessions from others. When he loudly declared this, he was in the crowd and was very moved, but also embarrassed, digging his toes into the ground. He had never heard of the term male virtues, and a number one scholar said it in public, and people on the street laughed at him.
Those senior officials may have thought that he had mental problems and was difficult to control, so they gave up their attempts to win him over.
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