Rebirth of the Merchant Woman's Revenge

"How could it be...Si Shi?" When Xie Cheng'an saw his official title on the appointment document, he almost dropped the document on the ground.

The Si Shi was mainly responsible for the historical records and compilation of history books to ensure the accuracy and completeness of historical documents. He was an official rank below the seventh rank, which was several ranks lower than the fifth rank Zhishu Shiyushi mentioned by Xie Chengan yesterday.

Thinking that he was a top scholar in the imperial examination, he ended up being a minor official of the seventh rank. Anyone who encountered such a thing would be filled with grief and indignation.

According to past practice, most people who won the top spot in the imperial examination would start as sixth-rank officials. It was rare for someone like him to directly get a seventh-rank position.

Before he attended the Qionglin Banquet yesterday, he had already heard that he would be the Assistant Censor, but today he was changed to the Secretary. It can only be said that what happened at the Qionglin Banquet had a great impact on him.

He had been frowning since he came back from the Qionglin Banquet yesterday, because the champion of this imperial examination, Lin Feng, had loudly announced that his aunt was pregnant, which had drawn a lot of ridicule.

Presumably, some people think that they can't even manage their own backyard, so naturally they are unwilling to be assigned important positions.

If this is true, he is not worried. As long as he does his job well, he will soon let them see his abilities. However, there is another problem with the position of Sishi. It is now directly under the Hanlin Academy, and the Hanlin Academy is the department managed by Wang Zhuo, the grandfather of the third prince, Prince An, and the president of the Hanlin Academy.

In this case, he would directly serve under Prince An, which would be far different from the original plan.

While he was lost in thought, Gu Xunwei had already seen the contents of the appointment document. She was shocked. Could it be that Gu Qiongsi's affairs had such a great impact on his official career?

"Master," Mother Wu came out from the hanging flower gate at this time and said in a low voice, "My aunt is feeling a little unwell and wants to see you."

Xie Chengan woke up from his chaotic thoughts. He was furious when he thought about how he only got such a small official position because of Aunt Gu. He said in a bad tone, "Mother Wu, go back and tell Aunt Gu to have a good rest. I'll go see her when I'm free."

After saying this, he walked out of the house, and went to ask someone for news.

Mother Wu was stunned. Xie Chengan had never treated the young lady like this before. What happened?

"Mother Wu, since your aunt is not feeling well, then you should take good care of yourself. Our family is short of money right now, and I'm afraid we can't afford a doctor for the time being. You have to bear with the discomfort." Bai Zhi didn't wait for Gu Xunwei to speak, she reached out and pulled Mother Wu up, saying helplessly.

Gu Xunwei continued Bai Zhi's words and said, "Hey, Mother Wu, we just bought a new house and have spent all the money. Now we need to hire people and buy furniture. I have already used up all the money from my dowry. It's really, hey..."

Hearing what Gu Xunwei said, Mother Wu was very confused, but she still bowed and walked quickly towards the west wing in the backyard.

In the room, the child was crying loudly. Gu Qiongsi held him in a headache, not knowing how to comfort him.

The good wet nurse she found was driven away by Qian because of the money issue, so she had to feed the baby by herself. Because she was born prematurely, her milk did not come in in time, and she still has no milk until now.

Qian had no choice but to go to the kitchen with Nanny Li to cook some porridge.

"Are they here? Is Sanlang here?" Gu Qiongsi asked hurriedly when he saw Mother Wu come in.

"Aunt, aunt, the young master's appointment document just came down today, and he has gone out to deal with some things." Mother Wu didn't dare to tell the truth and could only evade the question.

"Oh, that's fine. You can go find him later when the young master comes back. My brother has been crying like this. I don't know if it's too cold here. You can burn the charcoal fire a little more." Gu Qiongsi didn't have the mind to think about it now. He focused all his attention on his son.

"Okay, I'll go get some more charcoal." Mother Wu trotted out.

When I came back a while later, the fire in the charcoal basin was burning much more vigorously, but the child was still crying. His little face had turned purple and the color of his lips was even darker.

"Mom Wu, what should we do? Why don't you go get a doctor? Maybe she's feeling unwell." Gu Qiongsi was so worried that cold sweat broke out on his head and his face looked frighteningly pale.

"No need to find a doctor," Qian and Li came in with cooked millet porridge, "The child is just hungry. He is still young. He needs to be fed every hour or so."

Qian was an experienced person. She had insufficient milk at that time and no money to hire a wet nurse. She fed her three children with just one mouthful of rice porridge at a time.

However, after they had spent half a day and were sweating profusely, they had only fed the child two mouthfuls of porridge, and the child was still crying.

Moreover, at this time, the child was already twitching because he had been crying for too long, and looked very worried.

"Madam, please, please get a doctor to see my brother, I beg you..." Gu Qiongsi held back her tears and had to ask Qian again to get a doctor.

Nothing must happen to her son; this is the foundation for her future foothold in the Xie family.

Qian was also unsure at this time. This was her son's first child and there couldn't be any mistakes. After thinking it over, she asked Nanny Li to quickly call a doctor.

Madam Wu was feeling uneasy, wondering whether Nanny Li would be persuaded by the young lady to come back, when Nanny Li had already come back and said, "Madam, the housekeeper said that the money the young lady can take out is only enough to buy a few pieces of furniture for the new house. If we ask a doctor for medicine, I'm afraid..."

"Asshole, it's already this late and you're still thinking so much. Who will be responsible if something happens to my brother? Go quickly, I'll pay for the doctor." Qian got angry immediately. She hated her daughter-in-law for crying poor at this time, and she also hated the housekeeper for not thinking before speaking.

After a while, Nanny Li called a doctor over and said that the child had caught a cold and had gas in his stomach. He needed to keep warm and would be fine after the gas was discharged. He also left a prescription and asked them to go to the pharmacy to get the medicine and boil it to feed the child.

When they got there, the money for hiring the doctor and the prescription was paid by the housekeeper from the public account, which cost a full ten taels of silver. The master also took away twenty taels of silver. The housekeeper's eyebrows were twisted together.

For the next two days, Xie Cheng'an never entered Gu Qiongsi's room, let alone went to see his son, because he was in big trouble.

The person who had been in contact with him had lost track of him in the past few days. He had to withdraw money from his account again and try to build relationships, but he was told that the money was no longer available.