Old Mrs. Zhao thought for a moment and made an excuse: "Her mother at home is not feeling well, so she said she would go back to visit..."
Wait a minute, isn't this a curse on the Empress? If anyone finds out, she'll be beheaded. So Old Lady Zhao thought for a long time about the excuse and said, "Their family got rich, and they felt they were being unfair to their son-in-law, so they left..."
"Hey, how can you be richer than your Zhao family? You are really stupid."
“That’s right…”
"I think it's obvious that he still has a childhood sweetheart at home and can't let go..."
Then he said that everything was ready. At this moment, Gu Chengyu was sitting in the carriage going back to Beijing. He sneezed a few times and felt uncomfortable.
Perhaps this noble son of heaven would occasionally think of the Zhao family's simple and honest days.
But that was already a thing of the past for him, and he just regarded it as a dream.
But for Zhao Taoqin, it was not even a dream. He just felt that a freelance farmhand had come to his house and he had finally left after waiting for him for a long time.
Their lives are like a clear dividing line.
The Zhao family's life was still prosperous. Zhao Tao was busy all the time, doing business, opening a workshop and running an assembly line.
It seemed as if just a few days had passed and it was already the end of the year. Now that Hexi Village had made a fortune, the New Year celebrations this year were particularly lively.
During this period, Zhao Taoqi also heard news about Zhou Muzhi.
He had already prepared for the exam and was no longer in a hurry to take the imperial examination. Instead, he opened a school in the village and enrolled children to attend and pay tuition.
However, most people in Hedong Village looked down on him and felt that he was lacking in morals. Besides, his rent was very expensive and not as cheap as those in Hexi Village.
The private school in Hexi Village is run by the government, but the children from the village can attend it for free.
The villages outside only had to pay half of the renovation fee, which was very cheap, so the surrounding villages with spare money donated it.
It doesn’t matter whether you study or not. As long as you have a connection with Hexi Village, you will be able to develop in the future.
Moreover, they not only have schools for studying, but also schools for girls, and martial arts teachers to teach men and strengthen their bodies.
No matter how you look at it, it's more cost-effective than last week's lesson.
His only reliance was his status as a scholar, but Hexi Village had hired teachers from the county at a high price, and one of them had even taught Zhou Mu.
Zhou Muzhi would call him teacher whenever he saw him.
Can't you tell who is strong and who is weak? So Zhou Muzhi's private school was originally a great cause, but it collapsed halfway. Now he can only barely reclaim a few acres of wasteland, plus some income from copying books, and live a hard and simple life.
He was also criticized by his fellow villagers every day. As arrogant as he was, he had lost his composure. Villagers often saw him drinking at home with an unshaven beard.
No matter how much Mrs. Zhou tried to persuade him, she wouldn't listen. When she was drunk, she would beat people, but she mainly beat her daughter-in-law. She beat her so hard that she didn't even have the strength to scream.
"What a sin."
"Or rather, this wife who has lived with me through thick and thin cannot be abandoned. This old Zhou family's feng shui is ruined..."
Time flies and it is the new year.
This is probably the most lively New Year in the history of Hexi Village. Now every household has become rich, and everyone is busy buying new clothes or building houses.
So the three busiest types of people are: first, the tailors, who will be living in Hexi Village for several generations. They are as busy as a top, measuring clothes and deciding on fabrics.
The second type is Foreman Lin. Thanks to the Zhao family, all the villagers have tiled houses now, and every family needs to renovate them. He is simply unable to handle it all by himself, so he instructs foreman Lin from a nearby town to build together.
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