In Fucheng, at the door of a quiet Sanjin house, Mingyue held her eldest son Ange'er, who was about to be three years old, and held her eldest daughter Lele, who was less than one year old, and reluctantly bid farewell to Yu Jiayan, who was about to enter Beijing to take the exam.

In March this year, after the weather was completely warm, Yu Jiayan took Mingyue, An Ge'er and Lele, who was only a few months old, from Fuxing County to Fucheng to study.

This house in Fucheng was bought by them a long time ago, because the location was not in Dongcheng District, where officials and huge wealth gathered, but in Nancheng District, where scholars and small businessmen gathered, so the house was relatively cheap.

Such a large house with three entrances with a cross courtyard and a small garden, Yu Jiayan only spent more than 2,800 taels to buy it.

Coupled with the money for repainting, adding furniture, and transplanting flowers and trees, Yu Jiayan spent a total of about 3,100 taels of silver on this house.

The Ming family's mansion, which is located in the same alley as their house, is also a three-entry mansion with a cross-courtyard and a small garden.

Although Old Man Ming, Mrs. Ming, Ming Tang, Xie Shi and others still live in the countryside most of the time, when Ming Xu bought a house, they still gave up the kind of two-entry small courtyard they loved to buy before, and uncharacteristically bought a three-entry mansion that was enough to live in everyone in the Ming family.

"Be careful on the road, don't be reluctant to spend money." After reconciling with Mingcheng, Mingxu, Erlang and others, Mingyue whispered to her father, brother and husband.

When they entered Beijing this time, each of them carried a small amount of silver tickets of 200 taels of silver and scattered silver, and in their close-fitting pockets, the ladies of the family sewed a large amount of silver tickets tightly wrapped in oiled paper.

Ming Cheng, who was responsible for taking care of Ming Xu and the others' daily life, was the richest, in addition to the two hundred taels of silver placed on the bright side, he carried as many as three thousand taels of silver tickets.

And the money brought by Ming Xu and the others was far less than that of Ming Cheng, except for Yu Jiayan, who brought two thousand taels, the others only brought five hundred taels.

In order to protect Mingcheng and the others, and also to protect the silver money they carried, Mingyue asked Jin Shiping to help hire a few dart masters early, so this time the Ming family and Yu Jiayan went to Beijing together, in addition to the mother-in-law who cooked and washed the food and laundry brought by the two of them, and the little maid who served with them, there were also six dart masters, including Jin Shiping's two brothers.

In response to Yu Jiayan's request, Jin Shiping and his five companions all changed into the same standard clothes as those of the Ming family.

The reason why he did this was because Yu Jiayan didn't want to put the combat effectiveness of his team in front of others.

Just like Mingyue said, this kind of thing is a killer weapon, which can only be hidden well in normal times, and it can play its unexpected effect at critical moments.

Jin Shiping and the others are all old rivers and lakes who have traveled south and north, and several people agreed to Yu Jiayan's proposal very happily.

Sending away this mighty group of people, Mingyue took Brother An, hugged Lele, and was accompanied by the people of the family to go back to his house at the end of the alley.

Mrs. Ming and other female relatives who also came to see off Ming Xu and others warmly invited her to Ming's house for dinner at noon, of course Mingyue would not talk to her mother's family, as soon as Mrs. Ming said it, Mingyue responded happily.

Back at her home, she first played with the two children for a while, and then rushed into the study and put up the accounts of the snack shop for the month.

Waiting for her is the maid Xiaoxue, the winter solstice was found to be pregnant a month ago, and Mingyue has not let her serve her close since that day.

As for Gu Yu, another little girl who came to the Yu family with Xiaoxue, Mingyue assigned her to her little girl Lele.

Although Sister-in-law Sun and Sister-in-law Qian are down-to-earth and hardworking, they are cowardly one by one, and Mingyue is afraid that they will affect Lele, so she doesn't plan to let them stay by Lele's side.

After Mingyue was out of confinement, Sister-in-law Sun was arranged by her to take care of the flowers and trees in the small garden, and Sister-in-law Qian, who had good cooking skills, was assigned by Mingyue to the big kitchen, responsible for buying and washing vegetables and preparing three meals a day for all the subordinates of the Yu family.

As for Xiaoxue, the original cook of the Yu family, she now only needs to cook for several masters of the Yu family every day, prepare snacks and pastries, and occasionally Mingyue will let her make some snacks and pastries unique to the family and give them away.

It's just that Xiaoxue is an idle person, when she has nothing to do, she never hides and is lazy by herself, but will clean up neatly, and come to Mingyue's side to spread paper and ink for her, serve tea and pour water.

If Mingyue didn't use her, she would pick up the embroidery bandage and go to learn needlework from the Liu Sanjia, and by the way, she could also work with Gu Yu to help the Liu Sanjia take care of An Ge'er and Lele.

"Master." Seeing Mingyue put down her pen and put away her abacus, Xiaoxue immediately handed her a cup of tea.

Mingyue motioned for her to sit down on the chair she was holding, "Don't be busy, on this hot day, you should also learn to be lazy." ”

Xiaoxue pursed her lips and smiled, and the two small dimples on her cheeks added a little cuteness to her delicate face.

She leaned over and sat down on the chair that Mingyue was working on, and after hesitating for a moment, she asked Mingyue with a cautious face, "Master, can the slave learn to write with you?" ”

Mingyue was a little surprised.

This is an era that pays attention to women's lack of talent is virtue, not to mention a little girl like Xiaoxue, even Mrs. Gu, who is the wife of an official, she actually knows far less words than Mingyue.

But Mingyue is a modern person from later generations after all, and she can understand the little girl's mood of wanting to read and write, and she doesn't intend to refuse.

After a moment's hesitation, she got up and rummaged through the shelves.

After a while, Xiaoxue saw her pull out a thin book from the shelf.

"This is a book of "Thousand Character Text", which is used for enlightenment, and in the future, you will come to me with this book every evening, and I will teach you for half an hour."

Xiaoxue took the book with shaking hands, and then before Mingyue could ask her to retreat, she was already kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to Mingyue three times.

Mingyue was startled by her, and hurriedly helped her up with her own hands, "You kid, you are not afraid of overexerting yourself and turning yourself into a fool." ”

Xiaoxue hugged the book and giggled.

Mingyue shook her head slightly helplessly, "Okay, okay, you go down first." ”

Kicking the excited little girl out of the door, Mingyue rested for a while before preparing to go to Ming's house for lunch.

She left Lele at home, and only took Brother An to her grandfather's house to play.

Brother An likes the Ming family with a lot of little cousins and little cousins to play with him, and many elders give him all kinds of delicious and fun things, every time Mingyue takes him back to his parents' house, the little guy jumps and jumps happily.

The mother and son were accompanied by their subordinates, and took the snacks and gadgets that Mingyue prepared for several nephews and nieces, and went to Ming's house with a smile.