Chapter 492 The Grand Finale (2)
“Yes, it’s lilac,” Lu Qingqing said with a smile.
Dingxiang, who once held a strong belief in scholars, has long since changed her mind.
As long as a person is honest, there are plenty of ways to succeed in any profession.
"Do you know who the child's teacher is?"
Ji Ruyan asked in confusion, "I know him too?"
"I know him." Lu Qingqing stopped being mysterious. "It's Liu Sheng."
Liu Sheng passed the county-level imperial examination and then took the provincial-level imperial examination, but failed. So he started a private school, charging very low tuition fees, and many children studied under him.
As for his family's shop, he handed it over to his wife to manage, and he was often scolded by her for helping children who couldn't afford to go to school.
However, his wife has a sharp tongue but a soft heart; she'll give him money after scolding him.
Ji Ruyan laughed again, her voice light and clear, like a spring breeze in April.
Although Ming'an County has changed, the old friends are still here.
He held Lu Qingqing's hand and continued strolling around.
Then I ran into a familiar-looking woman.
Tian Leshan's wife.
Exhausted, she grabbed a boy and cursed him:
"You're so young and you're already going to the gambling den like everyone else. You've gambled away all the money your father earned. How could I have raised such a thing as you!"
Look at your Aunt Mo's daughter, she's three years younger than you, and she can already identify hundreds of kinds of medicine!
The boy gave a wicked smile: "I'm a boy, I'm going to carry on the Tian family line in the future, what use are girls!"
"How is it useless? Look at Doctor Lu, look at his apprentice. Why can't women carry on the family line? Just find a son-in-law to live with them!"
The boy got angry and kicked his mother, yelling, "Then why didn't you have a daughter! Don't worry about me anymore, who wants to be your son!"
The boy ran away, and the woman stood there, clutching her kicked leg.
"What's the use of having a son like that?" someone nearby commented.
"It would be better to raise a daughter, educate her well, and find a son-in-law to live with you! Look at the orphans that Madam Wan adopted. Whether they are boys or girls, they all come back to repay the kindness and are all capable."
"Yeah, are boys so great? Raising such an ungrateful child is worse than raising a dog."
Yeah, why raise such a thing? She treated him like a treasure, but he started hitting his mother before he even grew up.
"Fine, if you won't be my son, I don't want you anymore. I'll just get a daughter instead."
"That jinx! It's ruined my family over the years!"
The woman cursed and didn't chase after the spendthrift son anymore.
The road was bustling with the voices of the people.
Ji Ruyan and Lu Qingqing were tired from their sightseeing, so they went into a restaurant for a meal.
I spotted a familiar figure again in the restaurant.
The figure and his entourage entered a private room on the third floor, and the two went to the room next to them.
A moment later, a mournful sigh could be heard from the other side:
"Back then, Your Majesty, no, the late Emperor, in this Ming'an County... to put it bluntly, we had a father-son relationship... sob..."
"This official is truly suffering!"
"My lord, don't be sad. Look, isn't that Madam Wan?"
Hearing this, Lu Qingqing also looked down from the window.
It really was Madam Wan and her family. They were pulling a cart full of paper money, paper ingots, and paper horses, followed by a long line of people. It seemed they were going to the temple to offer sacrifices to the recently deceased emperor.
The Wan family is now a well-known righteous business.
The war in the Western Liao Dynasty involved supplying materials.
The Wan'an Hall, run by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, has taken in over a thousand orphans. Many of those orphans have now grown up and are working in various professions.
A humble merchant, she slapped the faces of noble and powerful families, and the imperial court awarded her a plaque and bestowed upon her the name "Ciyi Lady".
It was included in the county annals and the prefectural annals.
Wan Yuting also expanded his cloth business to the prefectural city, and the prefect granted them full authority.
The embroidery workshop that Lin Ye collaborated with has already opened in the capital.
Lin Ye was known as the "Embroidery Lady with Both Hands and Both Sides," and her embroidery workshop was sought after by the powerful and wealthy as soon as it entered the capital.
Unexpectedly, the entire Wan family also returned to offer sacrifices to Emperor Yuanning.
"Am I... really that popular among the common people?" Ji Ruyan couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, everything you do has truly benefited the people, and now many temples enshrine your statue!"
If he could be emperor for a few more years, that would be even more remarkable…
Lu Qingqing didn't continue.
He could no longer be emperor, and he was experiencing more and more dizziness and headaches, which Mo Lang had told her.
Lu Qingqing stood in front of him and cupped his face in her hands.
"But the statue is ugly, not as handsome as you in real life."
Ji Ruyan smiled, her eyes seeming to capture the shimmering light of the entire Milky Way.
He reached out and closed the window, then cupped Lu Qingqing's face in his hands and lowered his head: "My wife always praises me so much that I lose my bearings."
"Why are you looking for Bei? Just look for me. Keep your eyes on me the whole time. That's the most basic courtesy of a son-in-law."
"Yes, ma'am."
He pressed his lips to hers and began to trace her lips in detail.
The conversation from the private room continued:
"My lord, Madam Wan is truly admirable. Her son is also quite good; he is virtuous and upright, and he and his wife are deeply in love and support each other. The whole family is of high moral character."
You've been single for so many years, don't you plan to remarry?
"Why should I marry? I am an upright official who often offends people. Marrying someone would only harm them."
"How could that be? The late emperor punished corrupt officials with such force, and the new emperor is completely following the late emperor's approach. You are highly valued and will soon be transferred to the capital as a second-rank Grand Master of the Palace. Who would dare to harm you?"
I don't know what they said next, they were so engrossed in their kiss that I couldn't hear them anymore.
Then all we heard was Xu Hengzhi's last sentence: "Then let's give it a try?"
The man suddenly picked her up, and the woman wrapped her legs around him.
"Give it a try?" Her face flushed, her almond-shaped eyes filled with temptation.
Like a seductive enchantress.
"Don't try, go home."
"snort."
However, he bit his Adam's apple, and they almost both fell over.
Is he able to walk?
...
They spent their days together, inseparable.
The medical exchange conference, which Lu Qingqing had been preparing for three months, was held in Fancheng.
The couple hosted the event together, and by the time it ended, it was already cold.
The two discussed it and decided to go to Jiangnan in March of the following year!
However, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month after the New Year, when they went to the temple to offer incense, Ji Ruyan accidentally missed a step while going down the steps, fell, and lost consciousness.
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