After becoming a widow, I became the mother of seven children

Li Xinniang finally left with Yan Qingqing, but she seemed a little thoughtful along the way.

Yan Qingqing thought that Li Xinniang was reluctant to leave the Wu family, so she said with a sullen face: "If you really don't want to leave, don't force me, I will send you back to the Wu family now.

Just don’t come to me again if anything happens in the future. "

Then why did the second housekeeper Wu take the risk of betraying the Wu family and come to Mingzhao Mansion to inform them? Even though Yan Qingqing didn't mention it, she knew that he must have been instructed by Li Xinniang.

It's just that Li Xinniang didn't confess, so Yan Qingqing just pretended that she didn't know.

Yan Qingqing can break up with the Wu family for Li Xinniang, but if she uses herself as a gunman while still thinking about the Wu family, Yan Qingqing will definitely be chilled again.

Li Xinniang heard this and said quickly: "Mom, I don't want to go back to the Wu family. I just think it's difficult to get married. Why is it completely different from what I imagined."

Yan Qingqing replied calmly: "That's natural. If two people are in love before getting married, it is only a matter between two people.

But after getting married, it becomes a matter of two families. "

Li Xinniang became silent again after hearing this.

Mu Xi couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Sister, why did you hang yourself from a tree?

It would be fine if the Wu family was nice to you, but I see Mrs. Wu's attitude that even our wife doesn't look down upon, so how could she like you?

And Wu Jingzhi, didn’t he show any sign of your being so wronged? "

Mu Xi also felt strange. Normally, Wu Jingzhi, as the son-in-law of the Li family, should have paid a visit to them when they came to Beijing. Today Yan Qingqing came to visit in person, but he still didn't show up.

Yan Qingqing naturally thought of this matter and said calmly: "Wu Jingzhi should not be in the capital."

Li Xinniang nodded and said, "He was sent to the capital by Mrs. Wu to audit the accounts more than half a month ago."

After saying that, Li Xinniang looked at Mu Xi beside her. The more she looked, the more familiar she felt, and finally the face gradually overlapped with the face in her memory.

Then he suddenly looked at Mu Xi with wide eyes and asked, "You, are you Mu Xi?"

Mu Xi nodded and did not deny it.

Yan Qingqing replied: "This is the wife I found for my second son. They are already engaged, and they will also be the hostess of the family in the future. You should call her sister-in-law."

Li Xinniang knew how loyal Mu Xi was to Yan Qingqing. Mu Xi even slapped her in the face.

But now she felt that Mu Xi had done the right thing.

Mu Xi was also very discerning. When he saw this, he stood up and bowed to Li Xinniang and said, "I hope my sister will forgive me if I have offended her before."

Li Xinniang knew the importance of Mu Xi in Yan Qingqing's heart. In addition, she did something wrong at that time, so she quickly responded: "I don't blame my sister, it was me who did something wrong."

Soon Yan Qingqing and his party returned to Mingzhao Mansion. After Li Xinniang saw Li Yueniang and Li Xiangyang, she hugged each other and cried again.

Yan Qingqing asked Butler Yu to arrange a separate yard for Li Xinniang.

There is no need to arrange the servants. The dowry originally arranged for Li Xinniang was brought back by Yan Qingqing today.

Naturally, they were willing to follow Yan Qingqing back. After all, they had been ostracized by the Wu family's servants in the Wu family.

Although Li Xinniang also defended them, she was not in the Li family after all. They were more or less punished by Mrs. Wu.

After Yan Qingqing learned about their experience, he asked Ruyi to reward them with twenty taels of silver, which was regarded as compensation for the suffering they had suffered over the past year.

Yan Qingqing's move immediately won over people's hearts, and they became even more grateful to Yan Qingqing.

A few days later, the emperor held the palace examination, and these students all entered the venue in high spirits.

Regardless of the results of today's palace examination, they will all be disciples of the Emperor from now on.

Those with good grades can stay in the capital and be reused. Those with poor grades can still become county magistrates as long as they can get into the second grade.

If nothing goes wrong in three years, he will be the perfect candidate for the prefect.

Of course, if you are reduced to the top three, you can only be awarded the Tongjinshi. The future of the Tongjinshi is not good, unless your own abilities and connections are relatively strong.

Someone like Magistrate Gao, who was born in the same Jinshi class, has survived for many years and has certain abilities. Only then did he get to the county magistrate.

However, in the eyes of ordinary people, being a county magistrate is still a great person.

At the same time, bets are also being made in major gambling houses in the capital. They are all betting on who can become the top pick in the Jinke Science.

Han Yu from Chengyang, Xuancheng Prefecture was also escorted, but his voice was very low, not as loud as Ji Tongwen, the grandson of Ji Ge's hometown.

Ruyi happily told Yan Qingqing what she had learned.

Then he asked with a smile: "Madam, would you like to place a bet too? Is the gambling house very busy now?"

Yan Qingqing thought for a while and asked: "How is Han Yu? Does he have a loud voice?"

Ruyi covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Master Han is paying ten for one now."

Yan Qingqing understood that they were not optimistic about Han Yu.

So he said: "You take 50,000 taels of silver from my private treasury and pledge it all to Han Yu."

Yan Qingqing suddenly gave out so much money, which surprised Ruyi.

It's not that Yan Qingqing has much trust in Han Yu, but that she only knows Han Yu among so many students.

Han Yu, who was held 50,000 taels of silver, also entered the hall with a group of people.

The topic of today's palace examination is disaster relief. The topic says that if you are an official, how should you respond in a year of great disaster and epidemic.

This is a topic closely related to current affairs. It is said that Xiao Mochen came up with this topic. He believes that as an official of Dayan, he should care about people's livelihood, instead of being a fool who is ignorant of what is happening outside the window and only reads books by sages.

When this topic came up, some people were happy and some were worried.

Some students from poor families have experienced this epidemic and will pay more or less attention to it.

Especially the opinions given by Mrs. Mingzhao are very practical.

However, many children from wealthy families, especially those from official families, are not so concerned about this matter.

After all, they have food and drink, so it doesn't affect them.

In any case, after the emperor gave the order, these students began to answer.

While everyone else was thinking, Han Yu had already started writing. He was from Chengyang County and knew the plans implemented by Yan Qingqing and Ling Ziyuan best.

In addition, he later thought about these plans again and again, and even added some of his own insights, so he wrote like a god.

Even the emperor noticed Han Yu and secretly made a note, thinking that he would take a good look at his test paper later.

Xiao Mochen also knew Han Yu, although they only met once. But Han Yu was the son-in-law that his aunt favored, and he went to all the trouble to go to Fucheng for his aunt.

In the future, when Han Yu becomes an official in the DPRK, he will naturally have to take more care of him.

An hour later, it was time to answer questions.

Some students are ambitious and confident. Some are crestfallen.

The emperor and several cabinet ministers read through all the test papers.

Finally, four people were picked out. There is no doubt that these four people are the upcoming number one pick, second place pick, third overall pick and Chuanlu.

These four people are Han Yu, Mu Yang, Ji Tongwen and Xing Wenfeng.

It can be said that the literary talents of these four people are comparable, so this ranking makes the emperor feel quite difficult.