Some villagers even asked Jiang Xiucai if he would accept students, as they also wanted to have a scholar in their family, which would bring them great honor.
Is studying expensive?
Widow Jiang can provide for a child, so why can't their whole family provide for one?
Do you have any shame?
Jiang Xiucai also wanted to find a way to make a living in these three years. Although he received gifts from wealthy people, he could not accept all of them, so the growth of his small treasury was limited.
You can't just live off your savings, you still have to make money.
So we agreed to open a class in Xiashan Village, and any family that wanted to send their children could do so.
After two years, those who were truly talented were sent to private schools in town. Others who could only read and write were given two years to study hard, and they would be better off than the average person when they went out to work part-time.
Of course, since they are all from the same village, the fees can only be as low as possible. Fortunately, many children from several nearby villages also come, so the number is large and the money is barely enough.
Ever since Jiang Xiucai became a teacher, the Jiang family never ran out of meat or vegetables, as there were always students' parents sending them. Others also rushed to do the farm work, freeing up Jiang Dani.
After a period of time, Jiang Dani's hands became more tender. Widow Jiang's eyesight became worse year by year, so she had to let her daughter-in-law inherit this craft. In the future, her son would only spend more money and have to raise grandchildren.
Women are not needed for farm work, so they have to pick up the work at hand.
Jiang Dani had learned embroidery from Widow Jiang before, but later on she had to take on farm work, so it was not suitable for her to do embroidery anymore.
As for why they didn't hire someone to till the fields? Orphans and widows still had money left over to hire a farmhand. Perhaps they thought the world was full of good people!
Only when others see that your family is also living a hard life can you feel more at peace.
As a widow, it was difficult for her to work in the fields, which made life difficult for Dani.
Now the hard times have finally come to an end.
At the hunter He's house, a half-baked doctor took He's pulse and looked at his face carefully. Based on his not-so-sophisticated medical skills, it was estimated that He was unlikely to die.
But a few days ago, I asked He the Hunter to prepare for the funeral, and now I say that the patient has been cured. Isn't this slapping myself in the face!
But the half-baked doctor had seen many medical disputes in his life, and he immediately came up with an idea, "Have you taken the herbs I gave you earlier?"
Looking at the doctor's unfathomable expression, He took the initiative to reply that she had eaten everything and not missed a single meal.
In order to maximize the effect of the money she spent on medicine, she boiled each herbal medicine several times and drank it all.
"Well, that's right. We doctors like obedient patients like you the most. You were seriously ill before, and the prescription was changed several times. The last time, I considered it over and over again and could only give it a try. I didn't expect that your family is so lucky that the medicine worked and you are all cured." You are sensible and should bring out some more thank you gift.
Hey, Hunter He, I saved your wife's life, you should show your appreciation. Otherwise, with all the children in your family, who would be willing to fill the hole?
He was so stunned by the surprise that she was almost dead.
He the hunter didn't look happy at all. What was there to be happy about?
Are you glad that the money is saved and you don’t have to use it as a betrothal gift for your new bride?
If he had not mentioned marrying a new wife at the beginning, he could have continued to live with He.
But the restless heart has been aroused, can it sink back down again?
After sending the doctor away, Hunter He grabbed He's hand and said, "You bitch, you are pretending to be sick!" It was not a question, but an affirmation.
The boy from the Jiang family passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, and Jiang Dani was also pregnant.
If he married Jiang Dani, he would have a brother-in-law who was a scholar. In the future, his children with Jiang Dani would be able to study with Jiang Xiucai, and maybe they could even become high-ranking officials.
He intuitively felt that he should live the life of an old man and enjoy a happy life.
"He Datou, I was so sick a few days ago that I couldn't get out of bed. Are you blind? You're pretending to be sick! Try pretending like one." God knows she finally escaped from the King of Hell, but the first person to challenge her was her husband who shared the same bed with her. He just didn't want her to be alive.
It’s all that damn vixen’s fault. She’s already married but still hooking up with someone else’s man.
If the young man from the Jiang family had not passed the imperial examination and gained fame, she would have gone to Widow Jiang's door and cursed her for three days and three nights.
Mrs. He is now completely healthy again, and the happiest people are her children.
No one wants to have a stepmother. A biological mother won’t kill someone if she beats him, but a stepmother will beat him to death.
Ever since He started to take charge of the family, the lives of the younger sisters in the family have become difficult. Every day they are either assigned to look for wild vegetables or asked to go out to collect firewood.
The income from labor is exchanged for three meals a day.
As for his sons, regardless of age, they were all sent to the school run by Jiang Xiucai. The small amount of tuition fees they received was just a drop in the bucket for their family.
She didn't know that pens, ink, paper and inkstone were the most expensive items.
Changsheng was really tired of living like this where she worked the most and ate the least, so she swallowed a powerful pill and inadvertently demonstrated her immense strength, successfully following her father into the mountains to hunt.
The first time, "You damned child, if you get carried away by that beast, I will have raised you in vain!"
The second time, "The child I gave birth to looks just like me. He can bring income to the family at a young age. And as the head of the family, this skill should be passed down to my son. If I pass it down to my daughter, she will take it to her husband's family and benefit outsiders."
"Okay, okay, it's still too early for the fourth girl to get married. She can marry far away in the future so that it won't be a problem for our son." Secretly, he didn't want his son to inherit his craft, for fear that he might lose his life by accident.
Otherwise, he would not have spent two taels of silver to marry He, who was a few years older than him, just to continue the family line.
Besides, his sons were all in school now, and the fourth girl could help him share some of the burden by going hunting with him. Even if he died in the mountains, it would still be better than losing his sons.
"Stinky girl, I'll have to ask for more betrothal gifts next time."
“…”
No matter what his parents, brothers and sisters think, Changsheng lives a good life that his sisters envy, without having to do housework and being able to eat meat.
Even several of his brothers who had male sex didn't dare to order the maids around as they used to.
If you jump around too much and catch Changsheng's eye, her fists will be inexcusable. Every punch is so painful that the He family's parents dare not intervene.
There is no time in the mountains, and two years passed in a hurry.
The village school opened by Jiang Xiucai has closed, so he has to concentrate on studying for another year before he can take the exam.
In the past two years, the Jiang family's life has improved visibly, and no one in the village says anything sour about them.
He would only praise Jiang Xiucai for his kindness and righteousness to everyone he met, and said that Jiang Xiucai's son was well-born and handsome, and he had the potential to become an official and make a fortune in the future.
Of the three boys in the He family, only the sixth one is somewhat clever, but he is too active and it would be difficult for him to do so without someone to keep him under control.
The most important thing to avoid when studying is being impatient. In private schools in small towns, competition is rampant. What's more, when you go to bigger and farther places in the future, there will be more opportunities and also more temptations.
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