Happiness System

Perhaps it was fate, or perhaps it was the thought of his own childhood, but Mu Jingheng was moved with compassion and he bought the Goudan brothers.

Later, when Mu Jingheng was naming them, Goudan pulled his brother to kneel on the ground and said that he did not want to take his biological father's surname anymore, and begged the master to give him a surname.

Mu Jingheng named them Mu Dong and Mu Nan.

The elder brother Mu Dong followed Mu Jingheng, and the younger brother Mu Nan followed Qin Yunming.

The original storage room at home was cleared out for the two brothers to live in, and half a room was built in the corner of the yard to store miscellaneous items.

Fortunately, Qin Yunxi does not have a hoarding habit, and all the things in the house were newly purchased in the past two years, so there are no old things that need to be stored that she is reluctant to clear out.

The house is barely big enough for us to live in.

"No need, Yinbao has already gone to check out the list. If the list is released, he will come back naturally after checking it out."

Mu Jingheng was reading Qin Yunxi's book of palace fighting stories with great interest at the moment, and he didn't even raise his head when he heard the words.

Mu Dong was extremely disappointed. He had to stretch his neck to look at the hourglass in the room to see what time it was. At the same time, he was trying to recall what place Mo Xiucai next door had won just now.

Finally, the gate was pushed open.

Before Yinbao, with a face full of joy, could open his mouth, the sound of music announcing good news and the loud and pleasant voice of the people announcing the good news came from outside.

"Congratulations to Master Qingteng Mu Jingheng for winning the eighth place in the palace exam!"

It’s getting closer, the sound is getting closer!

Even the calm Qin Yunxi couldn't help but stand up excitedly.

She looked at Mu Jingheng and smiled, "Husband! Eighth place, what a good ranking!"

Mu Jingheng looked back with a smile, and said with a cupped hand: "Madam, I have fulfilled my mission!"

As soon as Xiren stepped into the room, he saw the couple looking at each other affectionately. He was stunned for a moment before asking, "Who is Qingteng Mu Jingheng, Master Mu?"

Mu Jingheng took Qin Yunxi one step forward and said, "I am Mu Jingheng from Qingteng County."

"Congratulations, Mr. Mu, for winning the eighth place in the provincial examination and becoming a juren!" Xiren handed over the congratulatory message and the invitation letter with both hands.

Mu Jingheng took it, then took out the prepared wedding money from his pocket and handed it over, saying, "Sorry to bother you all, please have some tea to share in the good luck."

After seeing off the person who brought the good news, Mu Jingheng felt relieved.

The fact that his wife was infertile could not be hidden from anyone who was interested. In the past two years, there were many men who threw themselves into his arms and offered themselves to him.

Offspring were not necessary for him. Tired of dealing with those people, he spread the word that it was he who was unable to have children, not his wife.

Then he began to tone down his style, reduced his social interactions and entertainments, and focused on studying.

I took great care in preparing for the provincial examination, just to get a name on the list without standing out.

Doing this was naturally very dangerous, but fortunately I managed to get through it.

Only sixty-six people were admitted to the provincial examination this time, and he was ranked eighth, which was neither bad nor outstanding.

Qin Yunxi asked Chun Xing and Mu Dong to scatter the prepared wedding cakes and copper coins outside the door, and then she and Mu Jingheng greeted the neighbors. She closed the door and thanked the guests on the pretext of going out to thank the teacher.

Soon, Cao Yu and Li Hua arrived.

Neither of them came empty-handed. Knowing that the Mu family had no shortage of meat, they brought two bottles of wine.

They were trying to get Mu Jingheng drunk, but Mu Jingheng certainly wouldn't do as they wished.

After saying hello to Qin Yunxi, he took the two of them to the master's house, carrying the meat that had been prepared earlier and the wine that Cao Yu and the others had just brought.

Qin Yunxi knew that their trip this time was almost like saying goodbye to their husband.

After Li Hua passed the imperial examination, his family reconciled with him. Then he learned that Qin Yunxi had not been in good health before and it took a long time for her to recover.

After asking for some details, he felt that his wife must have weakened her health from giving birth to a daughter, and then she didn't eat well. Even though she came to Mo Nan, she was busy all day long, so her health did not get better but got worse.

After passing the imperial examination, he became more confident about his future. He shamelessly asked Mu Jingheng to borrow twenty taels of silver. Then he rented a better house with his wife and hired a maid to take care of his daughter and wife.

Fearing that his wife would be reluctant to eat and drink, he kept all his money in his hands and gave it to the old woman every day to buy some meat for the mother and daughter.

Mu Jingheng also gave Li Hua the recipe for the medicinal food that Qin Yunxi had taken to recuperate. After Li Hua took the recipe and his wife to the clinic for a checkup, his family had one more medicinal meal every day.

Sure enough, Li Hua's wife's health gradually recovered.

Before this, Cao Yu's family had arranged a fiancée for him. The fiancée was the daughter of a wealthy family in the same village.

My fiancée’s family owns more than 30 acres of land, which is considered a very good family in the village.

Cao Yu arranged his marriage before his first provincial examination. He had planned to marry his fiancée after she reached the age of 15 after the examination, but unfortunately he failed.

The Cao family, with more than a dozen people, had a total of only five acres of land. If Cao Yu had not had some talent for studying, and if one of his aunts had not married into Mo Nan City and became a concubine,

The uncle ran a noodle shop and liked scholars very much. Half of the money Cao Yuwei spent on private school before he passed the imperial examination came from the financial support of this uncle.

In addition, my uncle also hired Cao Yu's brother, which was another addition.

The Cao family lives in the countryside on the outskirts of Mo Nan City, close to the provincial capital, so a poor scholar is really nothing.

But Cao Yu was not bad looking and had a talent for studying. If he had not been burdened with the burden of his family, many wealthy families in the city would have wanted to marry him.

The family of his ex-fiancee also saw this point. If Cao Yu passed the imperial examination, even if he did not take the imperial examination in the spring, he could go to the academy to earn some extra points, which would mean he had left the farming family and moved to a higher class. He would not become rich in the future, but he would not have to worry about money either.

Unfortunately, the "genius" who was famous among the neighbors failed the first provincial examination, and his ex-fiancée's family became hesitant.

The woman was arrogant and swore that she would never marry into a poor family.

Before Cao's parents had time to react after hearing the rumor, his ex-fiancée's family sent a matchmaker to their house saying that they couldn't bear to part with their daughter and planned to keep her for another two years.

The marriage was delayed for three years, and Cao Yu once again took part in the provincial examination.

Cao Yu already knew that his fiancée's family had been secretly looking for a husband for their daughter, but the girl was spoiled and had been rumored to be engaged to Cao Yu, so he couldn't find a suitable one for the time being.

After the provincial examination, Cao Yu felt that he had done well, but he pretended to be depressed and returned home. When someone asked him about the provincial examination, he sighed and said vaguely that he could have done better...

When the fiancée's family saw this, they immediately broke off the engagement.

No one knows a son better than his father. When Cao's father saw that his son's brow was somewhat relaxed in private, he understood what was going on, but he was also holding a grudge.

He didn't want his ex-fiancée's family to harass him again after his son passed the imperial examination, so he asked his wife to go to the city to find his sister and ask her if there was anyone in her area who liked his youngest son. It would be best if they could decide on a date before the results of the provincial examination were announced.

When Cao's mother went to the city and asked her sister-in-law, it turned out to be true!

Originally, Cao Yu failed the imperial examination, and his ex-fiancée's family rejected the marriage proposal many times, which made Aunt Cao very unhappy.

Her stepson had just gotten married not long ago, and she had found many good girls before that.

Her favorites were the two girls from the Zhong family restaurant next to her shop.

Unfortunately, the other family is of higher status than hers, and the woman looks down on a mediocre man like her stepson.

When Mother Cao asked this question, Aunt Cao thought of the second young lady of the Zhong family again. She felt that she was a perfect match for her nephew no matter how she looked at her!

He didn't care about the shop's business at the moment and ran to Zhong's house to find Zhong's mother.

I didn't expect this marriage to happen!

The two families officially decided on the marriage before the results of the provincial examination were announced, and at that time, the ex-fiancee's family came to laugh at her.

It is said that Cao Yu either found a plain girl or intended to be a son-in-law and make the family rich.

The Zhong family indeed only had three daughters and no sons.

Like Uncle Cao, Mr. Zhong also loved scholars. His family had no intention of looking for a live-in son-in-law. They originally planned to choose a grandson from among their daughters to adopt as the heir to the family business and see them through to the end of their lives.

The eldest daughter of the Zhong family married the young master of a nearby cloth shop, and the younger daughter has also been engaged. Both sons-in-law are dull-witted and not good at studying, and he doesn't think the eldest daughter's child will be talented either.

His second daughter, who is only two years older than the youngest one and has not yet settled down, is so opinionated that it gives people a headache!

When Aunt Cao came to propose marriage to her nephew, Miss Zhong did not object as usual.

The other party is a scholar that he likes. Seeing this, Father Zhong wants to pack up his second daughter and give her away immediately. She will soon become an old maid at home!

However, the Zhong family also had requirements for marrying off their daughter, which was that after the two got married, the second son had to have the surname Zhong. Not to mention the matter of adoption, everyone knew that scholars had to save face.

After the results of the provincial examination were announced, the Cao family quickly began to arrange Cao Yu's marriage.

In fact, after Cao Yu passed the examination and was admitted to Mo Nan Academy, the financial situation of the Cao family had improved a lot.

Not only did Cao Yu not need to use any money from his family when studying at the academy, but he was also diligent and motivated, and even had some extra money to take home.

The reason why he didn't build a house or buy land was because he was afraid that Cao Yu would need money to get married, and he was afraid that he would not have enough money when the time came.

After Cao Yu passed the imperial examination, the money he earned would only increase, not decrease.

The younger son's engagement was broken off despite all his efforts. Cao's father and mother were very angry and took out all the money they had saved over the years to hold the wedding in a grand manner.

The Zhong family was also generous. In addition to giving their second daughter a dowry of 300 taels of silver, they also gave her a house in the city, which was not far from the Mu family.

The couple moved in after they got married.

The old couple of the Cao family were also sensible and said that they would not live with the two of them in the future. When they could no longer work, the youngest son and his wife could just give them more money as filial piety.

Miss Zhong was also generous. Seeing that her parents-in-law really cared about them, she spent thirty taels of silver to build a brick house for them in the countryside.

The house that Li Hua had just rented was not far from the Mu family, so naturally the women from these families would move around.

But Qin Yunxi is really busy, and her schedule is fully scheduled every day.

Li Hua's wife Wan Fangfang and Cao Yu's wife Zhong Lin saw that every time they went to the Mu family, Qin Yunxi had to put down her work to entertain them. After coming a few times, they felt embarrassed and reduced the frequency of going to the Mu family.