Hearing Xue Yan's words, Mama He hurriedly said, "Young Master Xiang, you can't just talk nonsense." "It's bad to say bad things about relatives or others, and it's not good to spread the impact.

Xue Wang's family didn't care much about this. After all, there are people she trusts here, and her son can say whatever he likes. Xue Wang's family paid more attention to where Xue Yan heard these nonsense words.

Hearing his mother's question, Xue Yan shook his head and said, "No one, I just know anyway." ”

In this regard, Xue Wang did not continue to ask. She thought to herself, probably someone came to the house as a guest, and that attitude was a little revealed, so that the child could notice it.

- Yes, in the eyes of Xue Wang, her youngest son is so smart that he can find out what is normal.

-- Thinking of this, Xue Wang's mood was very complicated for a while.

She has always thought that she should do her best to protect her two children and let them grow up happily.

never expected that her children would feel the cold eyes and cold reception brought by their "merchant" background at such a young age......

Once again, the Xue Wang family, who was worried that Xue Yan was too precocious, became even more determined, what really can't make this kid think alone.

She felt that for the sake of Brother Xiang'er, she might be able to tell him more things, so that the child would not be crooked because he wanted to.

After thinking about it, she ignored Mama He's dissuasion and said, "Xiang'er, since you know a little bit now, although there are some things that my mother is not happy with, she has to tell you earlier." ”

Speaking of this, Xue Wang's heart was extremely sour, but she still hardened her heart and said the next words:

"Our family, although there was a Ziwei Sheren in the ancestor, now, he is a dignified imperial businessman. But it's always just a business.

In Dashun, many people don't say it, but in fact, they look down on us businessmen in their hearts. ”

Xue Yan: "Including those peasants?"

"Including those farmers. ”

"Why, I know that many of those people can't even eat meat, but our family has meat every day...... Our family has money. ”

Hearing this, the other three people present couldn't help but laugh.

Xue Wang smiled and said, "Why doesn't my mother know." But my mother knows that in this world, money alone is not enough......"

"You have to be an official!" Xue Yan replied.

Xue Wang smiled again, "Yes, you still have to be an official." Does Xiang'er know how to be an official?"

"I want to take the imperial examination. Xue Yan said, "Mom, that's why my father wants me and my brother to go to school?"

Xue Wang's face showed a look of relief, she nodded, and said, "That's right, only by becoming an official can our family change its door and get rid of the identity of a merchant." ”

Hearing this, Xue Yan looked up at his mother.

And the Xue Wang family here looked at the "ignorant" eyes of his youngest son, and his heart softened. Raising her hand and touching the latter's head, she continued:

"So, Xiang'er, even if most people in this world will look down on us and ridicule us everywhere because our family is a merchant - but Xiang'er, you can't be afraid, you can't back down.

You can only work hard, and strive to be better at studying and better than others......

Work hard and live better than all those who look down on you......"

Speaking of the last sentence, Xue Wang's voice seemed to come from the depths of his throat. I don't know if this sentence was said to Xue Yan or to herself.

At this time, Mama He finally seized the opportunity to speak: "Miss, Young Master Xiang is still young, how can you talk about this? If you scare the child, it will not be good." ”

Probably after everything he wanted to say was finished, Xue Wang's family followed Mama He's words and responded.

Xue Yan looked at his mother's still a little trance and called softly:

“...... Mom?"

Only then did Xue Wang come back to his senses, and then he bluntly diverted the topic with some trivial matters. After lunch, she asked Xue Yan to go back to the room for a lunch break.

At this time, Xue Yan was not yet old enough to have a single courtyard, and he still lived in the same place with Xue Wang's family, and the room was only a few steps away.

After washing his face and changing his clothes, Xue Yan drove the maid out of the inner room and lay on the bed alone, pretending to be asleep and thinking at the same time.

Entering the imperial examination and changing the court...... The idea is good. Xue Yan was worried. I guess he has been thinking about this since his father's generation.

It's that his father Xue Zheng is not the material for studying, and the second uncle Xue Lu has been studying for so many years, and he still stops at Xiucai, and the other few people have not heard of anyone who is good at studying.

-- It can be seen that the journey of the imperial examination is much more difficult than the college entrance examination.

Moreover, Xue Yan knew better than the people of this era that the reason for the low status of Shang Jia was due to the means implemented by the class ruler and the emperor, in order to stabilize his own rights and interests.

If we want to make fundamental changes, we must first look at the current social productive forces...... He was three years old, and he wanted to do this.

Xue Mu is an inner house woman in the end, and she only knows that she can change the status quo by changing the court. But the reality is much more complicated. Xue Yan looked at the various fighting texts and dramas he had watched over the years, and naturally knew that the imperial examination was just the beginning, don't think that no one would talk about the merchant's background after changing the court.

On the contrary, once you stand higher than in the past, some people who once looked down and can only look up now will have more sour words.

――Don't you see Liu Bang □□ Han Dynasty, and now some people still say sourly, but he is just a "mere pavilion chief (a)er"?

However, today, Xue Mu's resentment on her face, Xue Yan can't say that she doesn't understand.

is also the daughter of the Wang family, and the sisters who grew up together, one is married to the second son of the princess, and the other is hired by the eldest son but is from a merchant.

This gap is so big, it's just a little resentful, and he holds his breath to prove that he lives better than anyone else, that is Xue Wang's mentality is good enough!

However, Xue Yan was a little suspicious of Xue Wang's origin. It is normal for the "four families" Jia Shi Wang Xue to have the same qi and branches and then check and balance each other, but as Xue Yan said, the Xue family is just such a merchant, no matter how much wealth there is, it may not be enough to make the Wang family sacrifice a long-term concubine Cheng Dù.

After all, Mother Xue has been married for almost 20 years, and that time was when the four major families were at their peak and were not short of money. In the same way, taking the daughter of the long house to marry another family is much more valuable.

The biggest possibility is that Xue Wang's family is not a concubine at all, at least not the same mother as Mrs. Wang.

However, looking at the intimacy between Mother Xue and Mrs. Wang, Xue Yan didn't know how to confirm this speculation.

But "there are two sides to everything", and outsiders say how bad it is to marry a businessman. However, standing in the position of an ancient woman, the Xue Wang clan could not be happier.

Not to mention, Xue Zheng now has two concubines, and Xue Wang's family took the initiative to mention it; after Xue Pan was born, Xue Zheng took the initiative to speak and ordered the two concubines to take sterilization medicine.

If the Xue Wang family was angry all day long because of the low-marrying merchants, how could there be today's love between husband and wife, healthy sons, and harmonious life?

Besides, Wang Xifeng climbed Jia Zhu, who seems to be a high branch, can he really do what the former wants?

- Who would have known these things in the beginning?

Thinking of this, Xue Yan sighed a little: His mother Xue Wang's family can have today, and it seems that she is not as stupid as he imagined.

What is this called, wise and foolish?