Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

When Yu Ru cleaned up the dishes and returned to the main room, her little nephew Fan Hong was reciting the Thousand Character Classic.

Fan Hong was still a child, so Yu Ru and Lai Di loved to read the Thousand Character Classic to him. Children have good memories and can remember a lot after listening to it several times.

".….. Love and educate the people of Li, subdue the Rong and Qiang. The far and the near are one, and lead the guests to return to the king."

Fan Hong only remembered this much and stopped reciting here. Feng Shi, who was eating melon seeds, saw him stop and asked, "Why don't you recite anymore? That's it?"

“I haven’t learned the rest yet.”

Feng curled her lips and said, "I know that the Thousand Character Classic has a thousand characters, and you have only memorized a few of them."

Fan Hong, who was waiting for praise, didn't expect that after reciting for a long time, he only got this sentence from his mother. Then he went to see his father.

Fan Zheng drank his tea and said calmly, "Well - that's good. I'll send you to a private school after the New Year to start your studies."

Suddenly little Fan Hong felt a little aggrieved: when his aunt was carrying him on her back, her reaction was not like this.

Just as she saw her aunt coming in, she ran to her aunt with a pouty mouth and hugged Yuru pitifully, shouting, "Aunt..."

"Hong'er is amazing. He has memorized several sentences."

"Hmm~"

Fan Hong felt a little happier after receiving praise from his aunt. He hugged his aunt and twisted around, being very affectionate.

Feng continued to crunch the melon seeds.

"You know what, the pastries from Guixiangzhai are delicious." Feng said with a look of nostalgia, "Let's go to the county to buy some tomorrow."

Fan Hong became more interested in eating when he heard this: "Well, the desserts at Guixiangzhai are delicious!"

"We from a small family think it's good, but rich families might eat it every day." Feng said as she glanced at Yu Ru.

Yu Ru smiled softly and said, "All the sweets are the same, what's so delicious about them?"

"Anyway, it's different. Otherwise, why is it so hard to buy at Guixiangzhai? Not only sweets, but everything that rich families eat is the best."

After Feng Shi finished speaking, she found that Yu Ru did not respond, so she continued: "If you marry Jin Biao, you will be the wife of a wealthy family in the future, and you will wear gold and silver and eat delicious food every day."

Yu Ru laughed: "We are from a small family, how can we be worthy of the master."

"How can you not be good enough for her? You are just... why are you so timid? Mr. Jin has asked a matchmaker to propose marriage to her, so of course he likes her."

"Do you really want to go back and live with Qin Wen?" Feng pouted again, "Your family is so poor. And you brag about being a child prodigy every day. Have you passed the exam to become a scholar in these years?"

Yu Ru didn't respond, nor did she take her sister-in-law's words seriously: A Wen never boasted that he was a child prodigy.

Fan Hong listened to his mother's talk for a long time with a puzzled look on his face, but still didn't understand: "What does it mean to fancy? Why does Master Jin fancy my aunt?"

"Yes, I want to marry your aunt. If Mr. Jin marries your aunt, he will be your new uncle, and you can eat Guixiangzhai's pastries every day."

"Sister-in-law!" Yu Ru spoke up to stop her sister-in-law from speaking.

Fan Hong said doubtfully: "Oh..."

"Why, don't you want to eat Guixiangzhai's sweets every day?" Mrs. Feng asked when she saw her son's unenthusiastic reaction.

"What about my uncle?"

The child's cognition was limited, and he always felt that something was wrong. He wanted to eat Guixiangzhai's pastries every day, but he didn't want a new uncle. So he felt a little conflicted.

"Qin Wen is no longer your uncle..."

"Sister-in-law, don't tell the children this."

"What's the big deal? You guys are divorced, so he's not Hong'er's uncle anymore."

This time Fan Hong didn't ask why. He just lowered his head and fiddled with his toys, looking a little depressed.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. I'll ask someone after the New Year."

Fan Zheng interrupted Feng and said to Yu Ru, "No matter whether you can be with Mr. Jin or not, Qin Wen is unreliable. Forget about it. After the Chinese New Year, your sister-in-law will help you find one."

At this moment, Lai Di, who was sleeping nearby, woke up and started calling for her mother.

Yu Ru felt that she couldn't explain it clearly to her brother and sister-in-law, and she was too tired to speak anymore, so she took this opportunity to quickly go over and hug Lai Di, and didn't respond to her brother's question. But she made up her mind that no matter who her sister-in-law said, she would not agree.

Seeing that his sister didn't respond, Fan Zheng stopped talking about it and instead started talking about Fan Hong's enlightenment the following year.

At the Qin family, Qin's mother and Lianhua had already finished cleaning up and sat back in the main room. After burning incense, Chen Er also returned to the Qin family. The two children, Qin An and Qin Shi, played with their friends and then went home.

Everyone sat in the main room, celebrating the New Year and chatting.

"...I heard from Aunt Hu before that a family in Beiying Village brought back a kind of sweet potato seedlings from outside. The fruits grow in the soil and can be dug out in large pieces. They are soft and sweet when cooked, and they produce a lot..."

When Lianhua was at her mother's home, she took care of household chores and farm work, and she paid great attention to farming.

"I'm thinking about going to see what good stuff it is and asking for some seedlings to plant."

Mother Qin listened and said with some concern: "How can we grow something we have never heard of or seen? If we don't plant it well and delay the farming season, the whole year's harvest will be affected."

The eldest son was adopted out, and now there is no elder to help the family, so Qin's mother always has an extra layer of worries.

"I have heard that this sweet potato is easy to grow, drought-resistant, and delicious."

Qin Yunhe naturally didn't hear about it at this time.

In the previous life, a few years later, there was a drought that affected the harvest of many crops. However, at that time, there were farmers in the surrounding villages who planted sweet potatoes. Not only was their yield not affected, they even made a small profit.

From that year on, people in the surrounding villages began to grow sweet potatoes.

"You heard... you still pay attention to these things?" Qin Si laughed.

His younger brother had never known the difference between grains, let alone farming or even household chores, yet he actually knew what sweet potatoes were and understood them so clearly.

Chen Er was also surprised and asked, "Ah Wen, are you still paying attention to farming? I have never heard of sweet potatoes."

Qin Yunhe was a little embarrassed. He also knew what impression he had given others, so he said, "I had this once before at a tea party with friends."

In fact, it was not a tea party but a poetry party. But now Qin Yunhe was embarrassed to say that he went to a poetry party. After all, most of the time, everyone just gathered together to drink tea and have fun, and finally wrote a few poems.

Qin's mother and others suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Qin Yun knew about these crops.

Chen Er asked curiously, "Is this sweet potato really that delicious?"

"Mm, sweet and soft, very filling."

Chen Er imagined it and smacked his lips, wanting to try it very much. He thought that if it was really that delicious, it would be snapped up by everyone after it was grown, but unfortunately he didn't have any land at home.

"Where did your friend get the sweet potatoes from? Did he grow them himself?"

When Lianhua heard that the sweet potato was really delicious, she became even more eager to try it.

"That's not the case. He bought some to try because he heard people said they were delicious. But he asked the sweet potato seller and he was told that they are indeed very easy to grow and don't require much effort to take care of them."

Qin's mother thought that her youngest son didn't know much about farming and didn't know how to take care of the crops.

Qin Si heard this and said, "It seems that we can indeed try to plant some. We can try planting one acre of land first."