After doing this important thing, a stone in Yu Jiayan's heart finally fell to the ground.

On the morning of the twentieth day of the lunar month, he and Mingyue went to Gu's house to give a New Year's gift.

As in previous years, most of the things they gave to the Gu family were mainly practical, except for a very few calligraphy and paintings, tea, wine, and silk that were used to increase the overall value of the gifts, and all the other things that the Yu family gave to the Gu family came from their own Zhuangzi and workshop.

Old Madam Gu and Mrs. Gu took Mingyue to Old Madam Gu's inner room to talk, and Gu Zhixian called Yu Jiayan to his study to test his homework.

"I heard that Jiayan and your two elder brothers have been invited back to be masters by the academy they studied in before?" Holding Mingyue's hand, Old Madam Gu gossiped with her with a smile on her face.

Mingyue smiled crookedly, "It was the mountain chief of the academy who personally found them, my brother didn't dare to agree at the time, and then they made a special trip to ask Lord Gu, and Lord Gu said that they could go, and my brother gave the mountain chief a letter of permission." ”

Mrs. Gu patted Mingyue's hand, "Teaching and educating people is a good thing, not to mention being clean and decent, there can be an extra entry in the family." ”

The most regrettable thing in her life is that her son will turn black-faced in seconds when he faces students, so that in the years he was in his hometown, those schools and academies did not dare to ask him to be a master.

Now that Yu Jiayan and the three of them can enter the academy as masters, Mrs. Gu is really happy and relieved for the two of them.

Mingyue couldn't understand Mrs. Gu's enthusiasm and optimism about the profession of "people's teacher", but this did not prevent her from expressing her joy along with Mrs. Gu.

“... Jia Yan said that they only need to go to the academy once a day and spend about one or two hours teaching those students, and they can still use them freely the rest of the time. ”

What Mingyue didn't say was that Yu Jiayan had a very strong reservation for the time they could have spent freely, and Gu Zhixian had already booked it very strongly the day before they became the masters of the academy.

In his words, "A few of you are just hanging at the bottom of the list and gaining fame, and there is still a distance of 108,000 miles away from being admitted to the Jinshi." ”

In order to make up for this long distance, Gu Zhixian said, "Stinky boys, your days of hanging beams and stabbing and studying hard are still miles ahead. ”

Yu Jiayan has no opinion on this, as a young man who is not yet twenty years old and has just started his good life, of course Yu Jiayan will not learn from Master Wu and give up the opportunity to continue climbing.

Regardless of whether he can be admitted to the Jinshi in the future, or whether he can wear an official uniform as a poor scholar like Gu Zhixian, he wants to take advantage of his youth to fight the road to the imperial examination.

For his great ambition, Mingyue neither encouraged nor opposed, she did not have the ambition to become an official wife, but she would not stop her man from being aggressive.

If he stops at making a name for himself, then she will accompany him to be a wealthy squire in Fuxing County, and if he can continue to improve, then she will do her best to be his virtuous helper.

Her virtuous mentality of "marrying a chicken with a chicken, marrying a dog with a dog" surprised Yu Jiayan, who originally thought she was a strong woman through and through, of course, what was more than the accident was his indescribable endless joy.

A powerful woman who has the ability to hold up the sky alone, always ready to "go with the flow" for him, Yu Jiayan insisted without any doubt that this must be because Mingyue has a deep love for him that has never been put into words.

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The day before the New Year, the Ming family took the convoy back to Wulitun for the New Year.

Mingyue and Yu Jiayan didn't go back with them, Brother An was still young, and Mingyue didn't want to take him back and forth in the cold weather of nine cold days.

Mrs. Ming also means this, those little dolls of the Ming family who are less than two years old, Mrs. Ming never refuses to let the adults in the family take them around.

The children of Ming Xu, Erlang and Sanlang, Mrs. Ming has always left them in Wulitun to take care of them.

Brother An was born in the county seat, and Mrs. Ming felt that he had to stay in the county seat at least until he was two years old before he could try to change the water and soil.

Although her concerns about "water and soil" seemed to have no basis, Mingyue still obediently accepted Mrs. Ming's suggestion - although she just felt that this kind of weather was not suitable for children to go out.

New Year's gift to relatives, Mingyue asked them to bring them back to Wulitun together.

Mingcheng will be sent to the Tao family by the way, and Mingyue, who is given to Minghe and Mingju, the two aunts, will be entrusted with Mingxu to help send it to her two aunts.

Because Mrs. Zheng has always treated her as affectionate as her own granddaughter, Mingyue also specially prepared two thick cotton clothes sewn by herself for her.

As for the children of the Ming family, the Tao family, the Chen family, and the Zheng family who need to call her sister, aunt, or cousin, Mingyue prepared a number of small silver bills made in the shape of cute small animals, and asked Ming Xu to wait until the end of the New Year to help her send them to these children in the family.

Then there is Zheng Youyan, who once taught them to practice martial arts, since Zheng Youyan went out, the Yu family has always had a special gift for her since Zheng Youyan went out.

This Mingyue gift is basically the county's special snacks, all kinds of dolls and toys that the little babies love, and the fashionable rouge gouache and cloth jewelry in the county, which are obviously specially given to Zheng Youyan's mother and daughter.

She didn't guard against the Zheng family, after all, as long as the Zheng family had Mrs. Zheng and Ming Ju, the rest of the Zheng family would not be able to treat Zheng Youyan badly.

She was mainly guarding against Zheng Youyan's two concubines.

Zheng Youyan married a family in the same village as her, the elders of her mother-in-law's family are quite reasonable, and the husband she married is also extremely considerate and capable, the only bad thing is her two concubines.

These two are not heinous villains, their only problem is greed and love to compare.

Because of the problem of origin and vision, these two people do not have big eye holes.

When they were in their mother's house, they faced people who were in a similar situation to themselves, so their petty family spirit has never had a chance to show it.

On the contrary, after getting married, because Zheng Youyan, a concubine whose mother's family is rich and has powerful relatives, is always in front of her, the grievances, unwillingness, and resentment in the hearts of the two gradually emerge uncontrollably.

They began to take advantage of Zheng Youyan, either you borrow a piece of cloth today, or she borrows embroidery thread tomorrow.

Zheng Youyan borrowed it very happily at first, until they began to ask her to "borrow" clothes, jewelry, silver, and cloth, and Zheng Youyan realized that her two concubines were not satisfied with just taking some small advantages.