Speaking of Yu Shoude, he was very shrewd before going home, and exchanged one of the silver tickets that Yu Jiayan gave him for a silver ticket of fifty taels, one twenty taels, one ten taels, and twenty taels of silver.

He hid all the one hundred and eighty taels of the silver ticket in his personal pocket, and only the twenty taels of silver that he had exchanged temporarily were put into the bag he carried with him.

The reason why he did this was because Yu Shoude felt that it was necessary for him to save some private money.

He and Liu's sons, in their attitude towards his marriage with Liu, made Yu Shoude feel extremely insecure about his future life.

Yu Shoude, who has been working hard for their family in the past, is now beginning to learn to keep his own hands.

As for the small shop he bought with the money that Yu Jiayan gave him before, although this thing obviously belonged to Yu Jiayan's one-time delivery to Yu Shoude and belonged to his own "pension money", but in private, all the rent of more than 20 taels of silver collected by the shop every year was used by Yu Shoude to supplement him and Liu's sons.

Now that their family has not been separated, he and the sons of the Liu family are staring at the little silver in their father's and mother's hands every day.

Yu Shoude originally didn't mind them worrying about their money, after all, when he and the Liu family passed away, their family property would still be inherited by their son after all.

But after experiencing the impatience of his sons, Yu Shoude began to regret that he had not saved up his private money earlier.

When he came out of the bank, Yu Shoude hired a mule cart - he had to pretend that he was returning home directly from Yu Jiayan, rather than strolling around the provincial capital halfway. Only in this way would he and several of Liu's sons believe that he really only brought back a mere twenty taels.

Yu Shoude, who had already begun to fight with his own son, couldn't help but start thinking about his sons while riding a mule cart to his home, which of his sons was more kind and suitable for their old couple to live together after they split up.

After thinking about it, Yu Shoude sadly found that he had not been able to find a son who could let him trust him.

But even then, he had to choose one of his sons.

Fortunately, when he stopped thinking from his father's point of view, he suddenly had more things to do.

***

A few days later, after worshipping his ancestors in Wulitun, worshipping Xie in the suburbs of Fuxing County, and then setting up a banquet in the village and the county, Yu Jiayan began to ask people to pack up their things and prepare for him to take office.

As busy as the Yu family, there is also the Ming family.

The Ming family has three children who want to go to different places to be officials, except for San Lang, who is in a small county in this province, Ming Xu, Erlang and Yu Jiayan all have to go to other provinces.

The place where Yu Jiayan took office was the most remote, and he had to go all the way from the northeast of the country to the northwest.

The place where Ming Xu took office was slightly closer than him, but it was also very limited, and the place where the two were officials was only 200 miles apart, so Ming Xu and Yu Jiayan had already discussed that they wanted to set off together.

Erlang is closer to San Lang, although the small county where he is an official is in the province next door to Jingtai Mansion, but the small county where he is an official and the small county where San Lang is an official are bordering each other, and the distance between the two of them is only more than 120 miles.

Of course, the place where they were officials was very far away from Wulitun and Fuxing County, if the Ming family wanted to go from Fuxing County to the place where the two of them were officials, then they would first have to go to Fucheng, and then go out from another city gate and take a mule cart for a day.

But even so, the distance between the place where they were officials and their hometowns was relatively close, after all, many new scholars in the same period as them were simply northerners who went to the south to be officials, and southerners went to the north to become officials.

Compared to them, the three brothers of the Ming family and Yu Jiayan were already lucky enough.

Of course, this is an assertion that can only be made without considering how barren the small county in which they worked.

If you think about it, you won't be able to laugh.

There is no way, who let them have no one in the court, and their own ranking is relatively low.

In this absolutely unfavorable situation, they can still get a seven-grade sesame official respectively, instead of being an eight-grade and nine-grade minor official like many fellow jinshi, they should be content, right?

After explanating themselves and each other like this, the three brothers and Yu Jiayan began to collect all kinds of information about the small county they were about to take.

Even on the first night of returning to Jingtai Mansion, they had already sent a proper subordinate to take the lead.

Some of these subordinates are good, some are clever and good at finding intelligence, and some are flexible, and they were originally the most effective people in the business of the Ming family and the Yu family.

At the behest of the Ming family and the Yu family, they pretended to be caravan buddies from the small merchant family, and went to the place where their master was about to take office to inquire about the news and secretly visit the people.

In this regard, they are much luckier than Guzhi County back then.

Although Gu Zhixian was lucky enough to pick up a good defect back then, his family was poor, and he didn't even have a subordinate to serve him, so he had a master who could be used, and he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother that he finally asked a friend to invite him.

This is also why when he first arrived in Fuxing County, he would faint on the official road not far from the county seat when he was tired and hungry.

As for his later ease and ascension, it was all earned by his hard work and conscientious self-earnings.

How much effort he has put in, Yu Jiayan and the Ming family brothers, who are his disciples, know very well.

As for them, although the places where they are about to take office are all poor and remote, they all have capable subordinates, as well as reliable and capable masters introduced to them by Master Gu.

The only thing that makes them more entangled is that their respective daughters-in-law and sons all want to follow them to their posts to endure hardships.

If the Ming family and the Yu family had a tradition of taking concubines, it would be fine, and the old man and Mrs. Ming all gave orders, and they would never be allowed to have any fancy intestines for the children in the family.

In this way, Mingyue and the others actually don't have to follow their husbands to their posts to suffer.

However, Yu Jiayan and the three brothers of the Ming family were about to dry their saliva, but Mingyue and their four sisters-in-law still bit it to death and wanted to go to work with their husbands.

What especially made Yu Jiayan feel a headache was that all the elders of the Ming family actually supported these four women one-sidedly.

In the words of Mrs. Ming, "What is a husband and wife?" That's two people who want to live together in the same room for the rest of their lives. You are young, and my wife does not approve of your separation. ”

Of course, Mrs. Ming doesn't have to ask her granddaughter-in-law to endure hardships with her grandson to balance her psychology, she just understands the true thoughts of her granddaughter and granddaughter-in-law.

Young people, who wouldn't want to stay with their husband for a long time? Compared with the lack of material, the two people who do not see each other all year round are obviously more unbearable.

The reasonable old lady then became the strong backing of her granddaughter and three granddaughters-in-law, and even she explained to the old man Ming, Mingdi, Xie and others.

Yu Jiayan and the three brothers Mingxu, who were in an absolutely disadvantaged position, had no choice but to make compromises, and in the end, Mingyue and their sisters-in-law were all able to follow their husbands to take office as they wished.

Of course, they didn't take all the children with them.

Except for Mingyue, who insisted on taking away her three children, the three granddaughters-in-law of the Ming family all left their little babies under the age of five in Fuxing County and were taken care of by the elders of the family.

Fortunately, now Shiro and Goro have all been lifted, and the two "lifters" in their twenties are enough to support the lintel of the Ming family.

Then there are the children of the same generation who were born in the Ming family after Mingyue came over, and they have also been able to help the two brothers and the uncle of the family manage the Grange shop.

The biggest advantage of the prosperity of the people is that there is always no shortage of people who can use it.

***

Before leaving, Mingyue entrusted all the properties of the Yu family to the people of the Ming family to take care of, and besides, she specially left a thick makeup for her cousin Mingxue to Mrs. Ming.

With the continuous improvement of the social status of the Ming family and the continuous accumulation of wealth in the family, the marriage partners of these children of the Ming family have also been qualitatively improved.

Like Shiro and Goro, all the younger brothers married were the sisters of their own brothers' classmates, who were also scholars, and the other party was not only wealthy, delicate and lovely, but also very gentle and virtuous, and knowledgeable.

As for Ming Xue, Mrs. Ming is ready to marry her to the Qi family.

The youngest grandson of Dr. Qi is the same age as Ming Xue, and he has already been admitted to Xiucai at a young age, of course, Mrs. Ming likes the child the most about Ming Xue's heart, as well as the rigor and kindness of the Qi family's family style.

Doctor Qi's grandfather, because he was a sister-in-law but was persecuted by his aunt and concubine in the family, so after he finally became the master of the house, he immediately set up a family rule for the family that "only if you have no children at forty can you take a concubine".

Mrs. Ming is willing to give Ming Xue to the youngest grandson of Doctor Qi, and this family rule of their Qi family has made a lot of efforts.

Mingxue is already fifteen, and Mrs. Ming will marry her to the Qi family in the next year, and Mingyue will most likely not be able to watch Mingxue get married, so she specially left a small village in Fuxing County, a small mansion, and a set of gold-inlaid ruby heads, and a set of tired silk pure gold heads to Mingxue.

When Mrs. Ming received the box that Mingyue entrusted her, she was so frightened that she almost threw the box directly to the ground, but Mingyue was quick and expected to help her put the box on the kang table.

The grandfather and grandson whispered in the house for a while, and finally the old man Ming heard the voice and helped Mingyue persuade Mrs. Ming, and Mrs. Ming put the box into the kang cabinet.

At this point, Mingyue no longer has anything to worry about.

Other relatives in the family, if there is a happy event or funeral in each of their families, Mingcheng and Tao will consider helping her and Yu Jiayan give gifts, and she doesn't have to worry about it at all.

So on the third day after sending a box back to Ming's house, Mingyue took the three children of the family, together with Yu Jiayan and Ming Xu, and got on the mule cart to go.

The only thing she can be sure of is that she and her lover, family, and relatives, they will always support each other, protect each other, and will create a new future and experience a more wonderful life together.

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