The mistress of the Hou family worked herself to death, and she did not serve after her rebirth

Pei Jiuniang and Yu Ge had just left the academy when they ran into a servant who was returning in a hurry, accompanied by a man wearing the official uniform of the Dali Temple.

From the servant, Pei Jiuniang learned that Gu Tingzhi was away on official business and was not in the Ministry of War. However, after hearing what had happened, the officials who worked with Gu Tingzhi helped to invite people from the Dali Temple.

The visitor claimed to be the Chief Justice of Dali Temple, a minor official of the sixth rank. He was very respectful to Pei Jiuniang, the wife of the marquis. After finding out the truth, although the matter had nothing to do with Dali Temple, he immediately became abnormal with Pei Jiuniang.

"I know the Censor and the Ministry of Rites, and I will ask them to help Madam avenge her anger."

Pei Jiuniang was slightly stunned and a little puzzled, but she quickly remembered that Gu Tingzhi had recently helped the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple catch criminals. Perhaps for Gu Tingzhi's sake, she didn't say anything, but just politely thanked him.

On the way back home, the servant boy followed the carriage silently, but he seemed more worried than usual.

In the carriage, Pei Jiuniang carefully asked Brother Yu whether the book boy knew that Brother Yu was treated specially by the teacher. Brother Yu nodded.

This servant was originally carefully selected by Pei Jiuniang for the purpose of taking good care of Brother Yu.

In her previous life, she had seen this servant boy by chance. At that time, he was bought to serve Chu Xingzhou. Chu Xingzhou did not like to study and was unlearned. The servant boy helped him with his homework. Later, his crime was exposed and he was beaten to death by Gu Lanzhi. She remembered it clearly and she also happened to see the servant boy's handwriting and thought it was not bad.

When I thought of it in this life, I asked someone to find this book boy, thinking that it would be of some help.

But she didn't expect that the other party would still disappoint her.

When getting off the carriage, the servant rushed over and knelt in front of Pei Jiuniang, crying and telling her the whole story.

"Madam, it is because my brother has developed a bad habit of gambling..."

Before the book boy could finish, Pei Jiuniang interrupted him, "When did you have a brother?"

Hearing this, the servant Ah Si was stunned and looked at Pei Jiuniang in disbelief. He couldn't believe that the wife of a marquis would even investigate the background of a small person like him.

"I'll give you a chance. If you tell the truth, I'll still show mercy."

Pei Jiuniang said this with her eyes slightly narrowed, her expression already somewhat impatient.

"My dear, I didn't lie. He is my cousin..."

Ah Si wanted to argue, but Pei Jiuniang glared at him fiercely, so he trembled and changed his words, "It was the teacher who said that I was smart, but I didn't go to the right place, and said that he could let me study in the academy..."

"So you're just selling out your master for glory, and watching your master being bullied in silence?!"

The more Pei Jiuniang thought about it, the angrier she became. She thought she could save people by being kind, but she didn't expect that the other party was not satisfied at all.

"I, I didn't, and the Master didn't do anything..."

Ah Si didn't dare to look into Pei Jiuniang's eyes. He lowered his head and trembled, but his tone clearly showed that he knew nothing was wrong.

Pei Jiuniang sighed and looked down at him. "I picked you specially. I thought you could take good care of Brother Yu. I didn't expect that. Never mind. I thought that if you could get some influence from Brother Yu by his side, then..."

"You, what did you say? Don't fool me?"

Ah Si seemed to realize something and found it hard to accept for a moment.

"Fooling you?"

Pei Jiuniang sneered, but before she could speak, Caifeng beside her couldn't help but ask, "Who do you think you are? Does the Madam need you?"

"No, that's not the case. You must be lying to me. If you really meant it, why did you buy me and make me a slave?"

Ah Si raised his head.

"If I don't buy you, will your parents and your cruel brother and sister-in-law keep you at home to torture you? Aren't you your parents and brother and sister-in-law's biological child? If I don't buy you, will they lie on you forever?"

Caifeng, who knew about this, said indignantly.

It would cost at most a few dozen taels of silver to hire a literate servant, but Ah Si's brother and sister-in-law asked for a huge sum of money, a hundred taels.

Caifeng and Cuiping both tried to persuade the lady, but she still took it out. At that time, the lady said, "If you encounter it, do a good deed on the same day, which can also be regarded as accumulating merit for Brother Yu."

But he didn't expect that the other party didn't appreciate it at all, and even resented the other party for buying him, not knowing that the other party was doing it for his own good.

"I, I don't know, ma'am, I was wrong, can I..."

"No." Pei Jiuniang said firmly, then stepped back and shook him off.

After she finished speaking, the light in Ah Si's eyes completely extinguished, but he still did not give up, and desperately crawled towards Brother Yu, "Master, please ask the Madam for me..."

Hearing this, Pei Jiuniang paused and looked at Brother Yu. She knew that Brother Yu was a kind-hearted child...

"Mother, please sell him to a good family."

Brother Yu did not show any mercy, because he had heard Ah Si cursing him a fool behind his back more than once, complaining about everything and asking why he was not Madam Hou's son.

At that time he knew that he couldn't keep Ah Si, but Ah Si was chosen by his mother for him, and he didn't want his mother to be sad.

Hearing this, a trace of despair flashed across Ah Si's eyes, but then hope burst out.

Later, Pei Jiuniang heard that Ah Si begged the old woman who sold him, so she went to ask Master Song. However, Master Song could not protect himself and his family was poor, so where would he get the money to redeem Ah Si? He had previously said that he could redeem Ah Si and make him a regular student in the academy, but it was just a lie to deceive Ah Si.

After Ah Si learned the truth, he cried for a long time, but was finally sold out.

As for what will happen in the future, Pei Jiuniang doesn't want to know, nor does she want to care.

But after this incident, she felt that she should learn her lesson and not be so kind so easily.

She picked out a new servant boy for Brother Yu from among the children born at home. He looked clumsy but was capable of taking care of people.

For Brother Yu, this is enough.

I heard that Master Song was too embarrassed to stay in the academy and resigned. As for Master Wang, Wang Ju, when the news spread that he lost to a boy who had only been learning for less than a month, he hid at home, too embarrassed to see anyone, and even the Wang family was questioned.

Some people actually looked up Wang Ju and found out that he was unlearned and unskillful when studying in the academy. He was scolded for being illiterate more than once. However, he passed the examinations for tongsheng and xiucai very smoothly, but failed the examination for juren repeatedly.

Later, an incident happened. A person who passed the examination and became a scholar at the same time as Wang Ju got drunk and talked nonsense. He said that he spent one thousand taels to buy the examination papers. Later, someone leaked it and the matter became a big deal. The provincial education commissioner sent people to investigate and found out that it was true and the culprit was Wang Ju.

Not only was Wang Ju's fame stripped away, he was also not allowed to take the imperial examination again.

He was also sent to jail for leaking exam questions.

The person from the Wang family who was responsible for setting the questions that year was also said to have been impeached.

Originally, he was supposed to preside over the spring examination, but after this incident, he was worried that his chances were in jeopardy.