My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

Zhao Kerong kept trying to persuade her, but neither mother nor daughter would compromise.

In the end, Mrs. Fang relented and gave her one year to teach at Baichuan Academy.

As soon as the time limit agreed between the mother and daughter was up, Zhao Keyan immediately resigned from her teaching position and went home to get married.

Once Fang agreed, Zhao Yongfu no longer objected.

You can't really let your beautiful daughter ruin your good body and bones.

In order to prevent another accident, Zhao Keyan reported to Baichuan Academy before she fully recovered from her leg injury.

When Su Yunwan saw her again, he found that she had lost weight, her face was pale, and her steps were difficult, as if she had just been seriously ill.

It can be seen what price has been paid to obtain the consent of parents.

However, she didn't know that Qin Mu never came back since he sent Yin Ruoshu away that night.

If Qin Mu doesn't return to Beiling Village for a long time, is it worth it for her to do this?

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Whether it's worth it or not is never within Zhao Keyan's consideration.

After she took office, she devoted all her energy to her job, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and cultivating the musical literacy of young students.

Because of her gentleness, sweetness, and patience, she soon won the closeness and love of the children, and also attracted the admiration of other young teachers and students, who frequently expressed their goodwill.

Zhao Keyan hides her thoughts, so naturally she cannot accept others. No matter who confesses, she will politely refuse, leaving no room to kill the budding emotions in the other person's heart.

Over time, people guessed that she might already have someone in her heart, but they never saw her getting closer to any man, and they didn't know who won her heart.

Only those who walked with her on the road to exile knew that she had once liked Qin Mu, and secretly sighed that she was as tough as a pampas grass and was determined to be unswerving.

No matter what outsiders looked at her, Zhao Keyan didn't care and just lived her peaceful life.

Only in the dead of night can humble thoughts be allowed to subvert loneliness.

On this day, the sun was shining brightly and there was a gentle breeze.

Zhao Keyan was sitting at home, and on a whim, she made a box of specialty pastries that were both delicious and delicious.

Looking at her carefully crafted finished product, she wanted to share it with her friends, so she took the box of pastries to the Qin Mansion and asked Su Yunwan to taste it.

In the pavilion in the courtyard of the Qin Mansion, Su Yunwan gently picked up a piece of osmanthus cake and put it into his mouth. He felt that the taste was soft and waxy, delicate and smooth, with a strong fragrance of osmanthus, which made people have endless aftertaste.

"Your skills are becoming more and more exquisite. No wonder there are so many guests in Piaomingxuan. It is indeed extraordinary." Su Yunwan was full of praise.

After hearing this, Zhao Keyan had a happy smile on her face, "I didn't expect that the one I made this time would be so delicious. I guess it's because the osmanthus grows so well."

"How to say?"

"The fragrance of the osmanthus I picked on the roadside is much stronger than that of other places."

"I feel the same way." Su Yunwan responded casually, feeling relieved.

On days when Qin Junyi was not around, she would mostly arouse spiritual energy in the quiet night.

The spiritual energy scattered between the heaven and the earth was transformed through the cultivation of her wood power, and turned into a richer vitality to feed back to the earth.

Beiling Village has received this feedback within a hundred-mile radius. The air is extremely fresh and the vegetation is full of vitality.

Even the output in the farmland is of better quality and higher yield than elsewhere.

The people marveled at it, secretly rumoring that Beiling Village was the land of dragon veins, and that Qin Junyi was a real dragon, and would one day become the master of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.

Just when Su Yunwan and Zhao Keyan were tasting the delicious pastries and chatting and laughing, the third aunt came over.

Su Yunwan stood up to greet me with a smile on her face, "Third Yi Niang, you are here at the right time. Let's sit down together and try the pastries made by Yan'er. They are delicious."

"Yeah, then I'm really lucky." Third Yiniang responded with a smile and walked into the pavilion.

After sitting down and tasting a piece, she repeatedly praised: "Well, not bad, it's delicious. Miss Yan'er is so versatile and ingenious!"

"Thank you for the award." Zhao Keyan responded generously and did not take this opportunity to propose making more pastries as a gift to her in the future.

Ever since the Qin family established its foundation in Youzhou, she realized that the class gap between the two would only get bigger and bigger, so she stopped moving closer to him.

Later, with the appearance of Yin Ruoshu, she completely withdrew from Qin Mu's sight so as not to cause any further annoyance to Qin Mu's disciples.

What she wants now is not to take advantage of the situation and become someone close to Qin Mu, so that she will not deliberately please the third aunt.

Third Yiniang came to Youzhou relatively late and didn't know Zhao Keyan's affection for her son.

At that time, Zhao Keyan had moved out of the Qin Mansion and had no contact with Qin Mu. She also realized that there was a huge difference between her own family and the Qin family. When they met by chance, she was restrained and polite and did not reveal any hidden feelings in her heart.

However, Third Yiniang is not completely unfamiliar with the Zhao sisters.

As Su Yunwan's only good friends, the two sisters often went to the house for get-togethers. It wasn't until they opened a teahouse in the city and moved to the city that they rarely appeared around Su Yunwan.

One of these sisters is dignified and steady, while the other is charming and lively. Their appearance is extremely outstanding, and their talents and skills are both rare. They are rare beauties in the world.

What's even more rare is that, facing the ardent pursuit of many men, they are neither arrogant nor arrogant, nor are they romantic, nor do they have any thoughts of climbing high.

And their parents did not treat their beautiful daughters as pawns like most parents in the world, marrying them into high families as concubines, just in exchange for glory and wealth.

Third Yiniang once had the idea of ​​proposing marriage to the Zhao family for her son. She liked her sister Zhao Kerong or her sister Zhao Keyan very much, and she could marry anyone to her son.

However, before she could say anything, Yin Ruoshu appeared in Youzhou and reunited with her son.

No matter how unhappy she was with Yin Ruoshu, she still put her son's thoughts first, so she gave up her thoughts.

Now his son is suspected of breaking up with Yin Ruoshu, but he has officially recognized his ancestor and returned to the Qin family.

As the father-in-law of the Qin family, his son's marriage is no longer something that a concubine of his own can interfere with.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will marry the daughter of a civil servant and military general to expand or consolidate the power of the Qin family.

Personal preferences and a woman's character are not worth mentioning in the face of the overall situation and interests.

In the past, the Qin ancestors ordered their eldest son, the late prince, to marry the daughter of the Pei family, the most influential local people, in order to regain the southeastern coastal areas without spending a single soldier.

At that time, the Pei family did not have a legitimate daughter of the right age, so the marriage fell on Pei, the daughter of the head of the Pei family.

The ancestor of Qin was dissatisfied with Pei's origin and character, but still ordered his son to marry her.

Even the Qin ancestor's own wife, now Mrs. Qin, was married out of profit.

In San Yiniang's view, Qin Junyi had violated his ancestral precepts by allowing his son to be with the orphaned Yin Ruoshu, which also reflected his trust in his son.

She couldn't push her too far and let Qin Junyi make an exception again.

No matter who his son will marry in the future, Qin Junyi should make the decision.

It's just that the third aunt didn't know whether her son and Yin Ruoshu had really broken off completely, or whether she had hidden her beauty in the golden house and asked Yin Ruoshu to change places.

Although the possibility of the latter is slim, it is not completely impossible.

And if it was the former, then just thinking about how sad her son must be made her heartache, and she wished she could be with her son.

She couldn't wait for her son to return home for a long time, so after much thought, she came to Su Yunwan to inquire about the news.

After finishing the pastry in her hand, the third aunt took a sip from her tea cup, then glanced at Zhao Keyan who stood up to pick up the teapot, and revealed her intention without hesitation: "Madam, do you know what the situation of Brother Mu and Miss Yin is now?"

As soon as he said this, Zhao Keyan, who was adding tea, shook his hand and the tea almost overflowed the cup.