Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

"Thank you, Brother Fang." Liang Kangsheng gave Fang Junyan his hands. Without Fang Junyan's help, he would have to find another way to buy clay pots.

"Brother Liang, there is no need to be too polite. I have benefited a lot from listening to you discuss knowledge before the government exam. I feel that I am very hopeful to pass the government exam this time." Fang Junyan smiled heartily.

Fang Junyan is relatively the most educated person in the direct branch of their Fang family. For this reason, he is often told by the elders in the family that he must study hard and take the imperial examination to earn fame for the family.

This is his third government examination, and he will have to retake the county examination. Before he left, he always felt that his future was bleak. He never thought that listening to Liang Kangsheng and others discuss knowledge at the inn would enlighten him. It made him see the possibility that he was less likely to suffer from studying and scientific research.

When it came to the topic of the government examination, Fang Junyan couldn't help pulling Liang Kangsheng aside, and talked about his own ideas for the government examination essay.

Liang Kangsheng thinks that Fang Junyan's essay ideas are generally okay, but whether his writing style can be favored by the examiners depends on whether his writing style is the type that the examiners like. As long as the deviation is not too large, there is still a great chance of passing the government examination.

After getting the answer that satisfied him, Fang Junyan cheerfully proposed to send Liang Kangsheng and the others for a ride.

Liang Kangsheng did not refuse. He felt that Fang Junyan was a good friend. Although his knowledge was a little poor, he had a good character.

Fang Junyan lived in the same inn as Liang Kangsheng's classmates, and after talking with Fang Junyan, it was almost the departure time he had agreed with his classmates.

When they came, Liang Kangsheng followed the caravan, and there was no need to find the caravan when they went back with their classmates. They hired three carriages from a horse shop, and the two of them took one together to go back to Yang'an County.

I still remember that when I set off for Fucheng, Qu Yi was uneasy and didn't have the heart to look at the scenery outside the carriage.

Now that the worries in his heart were put down, he opened the curtains of the carriage in a good mood and admired the flowers, plants and crops on both sides of the road.

The fields around the official road are very flat, and the seedlings planted during the spring plowing have grown to the height of a person’s calf. The sparse old farmers in the field rolled up their trouser legs to weed the crops, catch insects, and fertilize the crops. Looking at these bent-over, hard-working old farmers, Quyi's thoughts drifted to the uncle he saw on the day of his wedding.

What impressed Qu Yi deeply was the uncle he met a few years later, he was so thin that only a skeleton was left on his body, his back was always bent, and his brows were tightly frowned.

Obviously the uncle is only six years older than the father, but when the two stand together, they will feel that there is a difference of ten years between them, even if the father has already greyed a lot of hair because of the younger brother.

Similarly, the eldest aunt Mi Shi always had a sad face. In Qu Yi's memory, the eldest aunt did not have the air of a eldest sister-in-law. It was completely different from the eldest aunt in his grandfather's family. He didn't understand it when he was a child, but now he vaguely understands it.

Just as Qu Yi's thoughts were drifting further and further away, a hurried "Ouch!" came from outside the carriage.

Qu Yi regained consciousness and looked in the direction of the sound, and found a slightly bloated woman limping and sitting cautiously on the dirt slope beside the road.

As the carriage got closer, Qu Yi realized that the woman was not fat, but pregnant, her belly was already obvious. After she sat down, she rubbed one of the ankles a few times, and then seemed to intend to stand up again.

The woman's foot might be crooked, and obviously it won't get better after rubbing it twice. She tried to take two steps but it didn't work, so she sat down again and anxiously looked to the other side of the road frequently.

Qu Yi and Liang Kangsheng were at the front of their group in the carriage. After a moment of hesitation, Qu Yi asked the driver to stop.

Liang Kangsheng looked at Qu Yi in confusion, "Brother Yi, what's wrong?"

Qu Yi said shyly: "A sister-in-law in front of me seems to have sprained her ankle. I saw that she was pregnant, so I thought about asking her how she is doing. Do you think it's okay?"

Hearing this, Liang Kangsheng looked in the direction of the woman through the window that Qu Yi raised, and he could indeed see her protruding belly.

If the other party wasn't pregnant, Liang Kangsheng didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but the other party was pregnant, and the group of them saw it, so it might not be good if they ignored it.

After thinking for a moment, Liang Kangsheng nodded: "Ask and see what's going on."

After Liang Kangsheng agreed, Qu Yi raised the curtain of the carriage, raised her voice in the direction of the woman and asked, "That sister-in-law over there, how are you doing now?"

The woman turned her head when she heard the words, and looked at the three carriages parked behind her with a little surprise, as if she didn't expect the people in these carriages to stop and ask her.

At the same time, Liang Kangsheng, who was in the two carriages behind, also felt that the carriage stopped, and asked what was the matter. Everyone saw the woman with a protruding belly.

Seeing that the other party didn't reply, Qu Yi asked again: "Sister-in-law, are you okay?"

The woman quickly realized and waved her hand: "It's nothing, it's nothing."