The wife of the Xiao family, the Yu family, was sold into the Xiao Mansion by the Yu family.

Yu Jiadalang was thirteen years old at the time, and he learned calligraphy for a few years with a private school teacher in the town, and he also learned the arrogance of a scholar, and he thought that he was the most talented in the village, and he would definitely be able to get ahead by virtue of the imperial examination in the future.

But the people in the village are not wealthy, and his family alone cannot support him to study, so the villagers discussed it and decided to support a child with the strength of the clan, and then repay the clan when the child is born.

The patriarch went to see the master of the private school, and wanted to ask how many people in the village behaved on weekdays, so he could choose someone to come out, and the teacher of the private school judged several people one by one, and only sighed when it came to the Yu family.

This Yu family has some talent, but he never associates with people who are not as literate as him. He reads quickly, but he refuses to go back and review, feeling that he is wasting time. Even in order not to be disturbed while studying, he did not let the teacher's family work.

When the master was young, his family had meager assets, and he also invited the master to come to teach, and he was also high-spirited and felt that he would be able to be named on the gold list, but he was only able to be a talent in middle age.

This Yu Jialang was enlightened at the age of nine, and after learning calligraphy for a few years, he only read basic enlightenment books such as "Thousand Character Text", "Analects", "Disciple Rules", and "Zengguang Xianwen".

Euphemistically expressed that the character of the Yu family was too eager for quick success and quick profit, and was not suitable for learning, and the master persuaded the patriarch to dispel the idea that Li Zheng was supporting one person with the strength of the whole clan.

The difficulty of the imperial examination is very much people think, every three years, only 300 people are taken, and tens of thousands of people take the examination every year in this dynasty, of which nearly half are from poor families, and it is good to have more than five people who can be selected in the cold door.

The master is a native of the town, and he has heard a little about the situation in his village, almost all of them are surnamed Yu, they are all relatives with relatives, there are many people, unity, but also poverty, and supporting one person to study means that the whole village will have to cut down on food and clothing for the next ten or twenty years or even longer.

It's not worth paying such a big price for a future that is almost fruitless.

The patriarch was convinced, but the Yu family was not reconciled, he felt that he studied hard, made fast progress, was smart, and was full of ambition.

The patriarch didn't want to help him, he could only figure out his own way, he was the eldest son, and he would inherit the family to support his parents in the future, and his parents favored him, he coaxed his parents to raise money to send him to the county academy to go to school, but the Yu family was poor, and he couldn't even make up the most basic bundles, not to mention the expenses such as pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Yu Jialang has a younger sister and two younger brothers, and I don't know why he came up with the idea of selling his sister, Yu was only nine years old that year, and was coaxed by his eldest brother to go to the county to sell to Yapo.

Xiao Xiucai was not a Xiucai that year, just a teenager. Xiao Xiucai's mother was seriously ill, Xiao Xiucai's father was also Xiucai, he couldn't cook, and he couldn't take care of people to clean up the room.

Xiao's mother has selfishness in her heart, Xiao's father can only chant poems against him, and he doesn't understand the world, if he can't survive this time, his son's future marriage will be delayed, Yu's good looks and works neatly, Xiao's mother will look at it at a glance.

It means that when the family knew about it, the Yu family had been sold to the Xiao family by Ya Po.