In the shop, Su Qiuya asked Liu Yanbo's teacher why he asked this question, and Liu Yanbo knew that Su Qiuya was angry.
"I have already told the Master that I have a wife." Liu Yanbo was not a stupid person. After a little thought, he knew what the Master meant.
It was simply that the teacher saw that he had some talent in studying, so he wanted him to be his son-in-law.
Many teachers are like this. When they see a student with good talent, they recruit him as their son-in-law. For many people, the relationship with the teacher is that of father-in-law and son-in-law, as well as teacher-student relationship.
This doesn't mean that all students will become successful, but those students are still very willing to marry the master's daughter. Most of the master's daughters can read and write, which is much better than those peasant girls.
Liu Yanbo didn't tell the teacher about his background, at most he just said he was from Shiyuan Village. He didn't want others to think he was trying to get close to the eldest wife, and since no one knew him, there was no need for him to mention the eldest wife.
"Master, you can't let me divorce my wife and remarry." Liu Yanbo said, "I'm not the only student in the academy. There are other students."
"Maybe they are not as good as you." Su Qiuya said.
"So what?" Liu Yanbo said, "Don't worry. We've come all this way, so there's no way we'd abandon you and go be with those people."
Liu Yanbo wondered if he divorced his wife and remarried, but the Master might not necessarily like him. If a scholar lacked good character, he might eventually become successful and divorce his wife to marry someone from a prestigious family.
"If you don't hang out with those girls, they might not stay close to you." Su Qiuya didn't want Liu Yanbo to hang out with those girls. "You should just focus on your studies. If you're already obsessed with those girls before you even get up, how are you going to achieve anything great in the future?"
"If I'm not bewitched by them, I'll be bewitched by you." Liu Yanbo would never marry the teacher's daughter, he repeatedly assured Su Qiuya.
Just because Liu Yanbo and his wife think so doesn’t mean that Master Xu and his daughter also think so.
Master Xu's daughter was pregnant, and Master Xu was furious, but he had no other choice. His daughter had been so young, so she had been seduced by the man's sweet talk, thinking he was a powerful figure, and so she got together with him. It turned out that he was not a good person at all.
Prince Su had already returned to the capital, and the person who was with Master Xu's daughter was not Prince Su, nor was he one of the nobles around him. But Master Xu was still thinking that it would be great if he could hook up with Prince Su, thinking that the person Prince Su had left behind was a son of an official in the capital, and that he must be a good person.
Later, when the man was caught, Master Xu realized that he was a liar. However, Master Xu's daughter had been deceived a long time ago and was now pregnant.
Master Xu wanted his daughter to abort the baby so that he could quickly arrange a marriage for her. He thought Liu Yanbo was from the countryside and that his education would cost him a lot of money, so perhaps someone like him would be willing to marry Miss Xu.
Of course, Master Xu couldn't tell Liu Yanbo about his daughter's situation. He just asked for some information and asked if Liu Yanbo was married. After Master Xu asked, Liu Yanbo said he had a wife and praised her good qualities. Master Xu knew that Liu Yanbo was unlikely to divorce his wife.
It just so happened that Master Xu's daughter heard about it, and Miss Xu wanted to marry Liu Yanbo. She had lost her innocence and could not marry into a wealthy family. If she married Liu Yanbo, she would pinch him a little. Most importantly, Liu Yanbo was more affectionate, and Miss Xu wanted a deep affection.
Therefore, Miss Xu did not give up at all, thinking that after the abortion, she would slowly work her way back. She believed that Liu Yanbo would eventually be persuaded to marry her, and as for Liu Yanbo's wife, she was not to be feared at all.
In the town, Liu Yulian personally prepared several dishes including sweet and sour pork ribs, and also made some snacks.
The family sat together for dinner, and Liu Yanjing would take care of his daughter from time to time. Liu Yanjing only came back once in a long time, so he had no way to take care of his daughter more, so he could only take care of his daughter more when he was home.
"I can eat by myself," Xiao Liujia said. She could already hold a spoon, but she wasn't holding it steady. She didn't think about asking her father to feed her more. "Eat."
Seeing his daughter being so well-behaved, Liu Yanjing reached out and touched her head.
"You can't touch my head while eating." Xiao Liujia said in a soft voice.
"Okay, I won't touch you." Liu Yanjing nodded.
Liu Qingyun was a well-behaved child. He ate quietly, thinking about reading later. He didn't think about going to the battlefield in the future. He knew that his family hoped that he would study more and take the imperial examinations.
When his father joined the army, his family couldn't help but worry about him.
Liu Qingyun was also afraid that his father would get into trouble on the battlefield, so he decided to study hard and not let his family worry about him.
"Eat it." Liu Yanjing picked up some spareribs for his son.
"Father." Liu Qingyun looked at his father.
"Eat slowly." Liu Yanjing said, "You must have eaten a lot of food cooked by your aunt at home."
"Yeah." Liu Qingyun nodded, "Auntie's cooking is delicious."
Liu Yulian cooks every few days. She doesn’t cook many dishes, but Liu Qingyun and the others all like them very much.
"Brother, you don't have to watch over them. Just eat too." Liu Yulian said with a smile, "They're at home, so they won't go hungry. Don't worry, I'll definitely raise your two children to be plump and healthy."
"Thanks to you." Liu Yanjing thought that it was because of these people at home that he could stay in the military camp with peace of mind.
Liu Yanjing didn't think about getting married at this time. He wasn't at home, and if he married a bad wife, it would cause trouble for his sisters. Liu Yanjing had to wait at least a few more years. He also told his parents not to think about getting him engaged so soon.
"Sister Lian is very good," He Xiyuan interjected. He always felt that if he didn't say anything, then these people would treat him as if he didn't exist. He still liked the food very much. It was all made by Sister Lian herself, so how could it be bad?
He Xiyuan didn't feel comfortable giving Liu Yulian more food, and Liu Yulian didn't give him more food either, but they were all eating at the same table. He Xiyuan would look at Liu Yulian from time to time and ask her to eat more.
After dinner, He Xiyuan thought about staying there for a few days so that he could go out for more walks with Sister Lian.
"Go back and rest early." Liu Yanjing said, "The weather is cold and it gets dark quickly."
Liu Yanjing didn't intend to let He Xiyuan get too close to Liu Yulian. It was okay during the day, but after dinner, it was dark, so it was better not to get too close.
"Sit down for a while." He Xiyuan wondered why this future uncle was so troublesome. "Don't you want to spend some time with your children?"
"They don't need me to accompany them. The younger one is going to her younger sister's place, and the older one is going to study." Liu Yanjing sighed. His daughter said she wanted to go to her aunt's place to listen to stories, and his son said he wanted to go to study.
What else could Liu Yanjing say? Of course he would go along with them.
"It's warm here." He Xiyuan said. The Liu family's main house is not a military camp. The conditions in the military camp are relatively harsh and sometimes you can feel lonely. He Xiyuan likes to come to the Liu family and wants to see more of Liu Yulian. "Sister Lian's knitted sweaters are also very good."
"To make a woolen sweater, she started by collecting wool." Liu Yanjing knew that his sister had a woolen workshop and collected a lot of wool, which she used to make sweaters. Liu Yanjing thought that no rich family was like Liu Yulian. To make clothes, they had to start from the very beginning. "She doesn't just care about you."
"I know you have it too." He Xiyuan said, "Brother, please don't talk about this. We don't even know who was implicated."
Of course, she might still be important to Sister Lian now, but after a while, after a few years, it would be different. When Sister Lian married her, they would become a family and have their own children, that would be truly wonderful.
He Xiyuan was not afraid that Liu Yanjing had a sweater, because Lian Meimei didn't make sweaters for others anyway. The sweaters made by Lian Meimei were really good. Lian Meimei also said that she needed to have some to change into. She didn't knit so many sweaters, so she let others knit them.
He Xiyuan didn't think it was bad for Liu Yulian to have others knit wool. When he was in the Duke of Cheng's mansion, there was an embroiderer at home. The clothes his father wore were not all made by his mother, but basically by the embroiderer.
The housewife only needs to do it occasionally, there is no need to work so hard.
"You're really lucky." Liu Yanjing glanced at He Xiyuan.
"I will treat Sister Lian well and not take a concubine." He Xiyuan said, "No one else can treat Sister Lian so well."
"..." Liu Yanjing thought that people like He Xiyuan were shameless. He said such things before getting married. He didn't know if He Xiyuan could never take a concubine in his life, but he hoped that He Xiyuan could do it.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Liu Yanjing took Liu Qingyun to give gifts to Master Li, and asked Master Li about Liu Qingyun's studies. Master Li honestly said that he was very optimistic about Liu Qingyun.
Many children as young as Liu Qingyun were very active, some always staring out the window and not studying seriously. However, Liu Qingyun was always very serious about his studies. He did not take others out to play just because he was the young master of the Marquis's family. He did not mess around.
Liu Qingyun is not a playboy.
"If he is disobedient, just beat him." Liu Yanjing is not at home most of the time, and his father inevitably has to go out to do some things. They may not notice some small things about Liu Qingyun.
Liu Yanjing hoped that the teacher would take better care of Liu Qingyun and prevent him from becoming a playboy. One of the reasons why he didn't marry so quickly was because he was worried that his son would be raised in a wrong way.
Some families are like that. When there is a stepmother in the family, the stepmother appears to be very good to the children left by the original wife, but in fact she is just praising them to death.
Liu Yanjing couldn't help but think too much. He didn't care about what happened to Mrs. Huo, he just thought about his son.
"He studies very hard," Master Li said. "I'm not exaggerating; this is the truth. If you can test him, you'll know."
Liu Yanjing felt relieved when he heard this. His son was a pretty good boy and didn't cause his family much worry.
In the county town, Su Qiuya went with Liu Yanbo to Mr. Xu's house to deliver a festival gift. Su Qiuya felt uneasy whenever she thought of Mr. Xu asking Liu Yanbo if he was married. Liu Yanbo simply brought Su Qiuya along, and they brought a basket of food.
The basket contained pastries and mooncakes made by Su Qiuya, and Su Qiuya also bought some meat.
After all, Su Qiuya is the heroine of the original novel. She looks good and is even prettier than Miss Xu.
When Miss Xu learned that Liu Yanbo had brought his wife, she came out specially. She originally thought that Liu Yanbo's wife was a country woman, but she didn't expect that Liu Yanbo's wife was so beautiful.
"The girl is sick and looks a little haggard." Su Qiuya said, "If she has caught a cold and has a cough, she still needs to take some medicine."
Miss Xu's face looked bad because she had just had an abortion. She disliked Su Qiuya very much and wondered if Su Qiuya had said that on purpose, trying to say that she was not in good health and was not suitable to be a wife.
"Our shop is near the academy. If you are free, you can go over and try it. It's free." As soon as Su Qiuya saw this Miss Xu, she thought that she was not a good person. She looked sick and weak.
Su Qiuya's father had such a concubine, and she didn't like such a woman at all. At most, she liked to watch her father's concubine suppress the second wife. The second wife was not a good thing, and the concubine was not a good thing either, so they would fight each other.
This type of women is difficult to deal with, men like those who are delicate and gentle.
"You are all small businesses, how can you not charge money?" Mrs. Xu said quickly.
Mrs. Xu looked at her daughter. She knew that she was being too stubborn. Her daughter was only interested in Liu Yanbo. Mrs. Xu did not think that Liu Yanbo was that good. Liu Yanbo relied on his wife to run a shop and study.
If a man like this abandons his wife, he will also abandon his daughter in the future.
But it was useless for Madam Xu to say those words, as her daughter was only thinking about Liu Yanbo. Liu Yanbo's appearance was indeed not bad, but looks could not be used to make a living.
If Liu Yanbo knew that Miss Xu had already lost her innocence, he would not have said anything at the time. But after Liu Yanbo became successful, he would have definitely taken ruthless action against the Xu family. That would not be a marriage, but an enmity.
But Master Xu thought that his daughter had lost her virginity long ago and had suffered a miscarriage, so it would be better for her to marry into a more ordinary family. Liu Yanbo, who came from the countryside, would definitely not dare to make a fuss.
"Sister Su." Miss Xu still called Su Qiuya tenderly, "Thanks to you, Master Liu can study in the academy with peace of mind."
Miss Xu did not directly ask Su Qiuya to leave Liu Yanbo, but Su Qiuya felt that Miss Xu had not given up on Liu Yanbo.
After Su Qiuya and her husband left the Xu family, Su Qiuya thought that Mr. Xu and Miss Xu were not in much better condition, and Mrs. Xu might be better.
"Aren't there several teachers in the academy? Why can't we change teachers?" Su Qiuya didn't want Liu Yanbo to continue studying with Master Xu.
"It's not easy to change." Liu Yanbo said.
The teachers in the academy basically all knew each other. If Liu Yanbo changed teachers, who knows what others would think of him. Master Xu hadn't given him too much trouble yet, nor had he done anything excessive. It was impossible for Liu Yanbo to change teachers just because Master Xu asked him if he was married.
"Stay away from your teacher's daughter." Su Qiuya felt that something was wrong with Miss Xu, and she had to find a way to investigate.
Miss Xu's face was very pale and haggard. It didn't look like she had caught a cold, but rather that she had lost too much blood.
Su Qiuya had seen her father's concubine after a miscarriage. She looked pale and frail. And Miss Xu was still an unmarried girl, so why was she also so pale? Su Qiuya wondered if there was something else going on with Miss Xu.
At the Xu family, Miss Xu saw how good Liu Yanbo was to Su Qiuya, and she wanted to be with Liu Yanbo even more.
"You can see that they have a good relationship," said Mrs. Xu.
"Yeah." Miss Xu nodded, "It just looks good."
"You are not as pretty as his wife." Mrs. Xu didn't want her daughter to make a fuss over a married man. Liu Yanbo was just a student and not a very capable person.
Many young men were already scholars before they even got married, but Liu Yanbo was only a student. This shows that Liu Yanbo himself did not have such a high talent for studying. Liu Yanbo also had a bit of nobility, probably because his family supported him.
His family supports him to study alone, and he is still a student.
Mrs. Xu thought that perhaps the Liu family saw that Liu Yanbo had not passed the exam yet, so they wanted him to get married earlier.
"Tongsheng, there are quite a few in the county." Mrs. Xu said.
"But I like him." Miss Xu just likes Liu Yanbo and wants to marry him.
On the other hand, the leader who had sneaked into the wool shop to work had already returned to the tribe. He also asked the people in the tribe to sell wool. Some sheep in their tribe had good wool and were sold at a higher price.
There is no such thing as Mid-Autumn Festival in their tribe. They just used the money from selling wool to buy a lot of food.
Not only their tribe, but people from other tribes also sold a lot of wool. They didn't dare to buy too much food at once, for fear of being targeted, so they bought in batches.
Even so, they still used the money from selling wool to buy a lot of food. They also wished that if they had known that wool could be so profitable, they would have raised more sheep with more wool.
"I heard that some people over there have started collecting goat milk."
"Goat milk is not bad either. They buy it and we exchange it for food."
"This winter should be much better."
…
They were afraid of being cold and hungry in winter, so they had to find a way. If they didn't go to other places to find food, they might be attacked by other tribes.
That's how it is on the grassland, winter is not easy.
Some people saw that the Liu family's wool shop was doing well and had started selling wool yarn, so some people wanted to buy wool as well, but they didn't know how to make wool yarn.
So someone poached people from the wool mill at a high price, and Liu Yulian didn't stop them. They could just poach people, they were all assembly line workers, and if they could really tell them something, then they could tell them.
Liu Yulian had long known that she could not take over the wool market alone, and she had to let more people collect wool and make wool yarn so that this industry could develop better.
Just now, someone came to tell Liu Yulian early in the morning that there were fewer people in the wool workshop, but Liu Yulian was not worried.
"If they want to leave, let them go," Liu Yulian said. "Water flows to the lowest places, and people go to higher places. It's normal."
Liu Yulian couldn't afford to pay a high price to keep them, so she thought about getting a book about the craftsmanship of wool yarn.
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