"So I want to live directly in the Imperial Academy. Don't worry, elder sister, I will participate in the next imperial examination and try to get a good ranking. I will earn money to pay you back in the future."
Ye Xu assured her.
He didn't care where the people in the Earl's mansion would live in the future.
His biological mother was just one of the many women the Earl of Pingchang had affairs with when he was young. After giving birth to him, she sent him back to the Earl's mansion, took a sum of money, and then disappeared.
Having lived in the Earl's mansion for many years, with his father unloving him and his mother indifferent to his affairs, he had nothing to miss. He only wanted to go to the Imperial Academy to completely get away from this family and study hard.
Looking at Ye Xu's pitiful and thin appearance, Ye Chaoxi could hardly imagine that this person would become a top scholar in the imperial examination and have a proud and unyielding spirit.
"Okay, I'll help you, but whether you can keep the money after I give it to you is not my responsibility."
If he took the money back with him and those people from the Earl's mansion found out, they would surely try to seize it to pay off their debts.
"Cuiyu, go and fetch five hundred taels of silver."
"yes."
Cuiyu took out five hundred taels of silver notes and handed them to Ye Xu.
"From now on, I will give you five hundred taels every year for three years, until the next imperial examination. Are you confident?"
Ye Xu nodded firmly, "Thank you, elder sister!"
After Ye Xu left, Cuiyu asked worriedly, "Madam, since you helped the Third Young Master, will the Earl's Mansion come to you to borrow money?"
After all, she had just heard that the Earl's mansion was currently very short of money.
Ye Chaoxi smiled, not worried at all, "When I agreed to give the money to Ye Xu, I was prepared for them to come and make trouble. If they dare to make trouble, I dare to put aside my own family for the greater good."
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