If you want to join the clan, this is progress!

Instead of immersing himself in the grief of losing his father, Cheng Qing cheered up and began to plan his future. Li's first impression of her increased to five points.

The dead are hard to pursue, and the living are more important. Li likes her transparency. After asking about her study progress, Li is very dissatisfied!

This dissatisfaction is not directed at Cheng Qing, but at Cheng Zhiyuan:

"Your father enlightened you, but he didn't teach you the Four Books and Five Classics? It's such a nonsense!"

Cheng's poetry and books were passed down from family, and the clanology was expanded into academies. Although Li was the wife of the Neizai, as the wife of the clan leader, she also knew a lot about the imperial examinations.

The Four Books refer to "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius", "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean", which are official textbooks for the imperial examinations of the Great Wei Dynasty.

I haven't learned the Four Books, and I can't even pass the first county examination.

In addition to the Four Books, you also need to choose one from the Book of Songs, Book of Songs, Etiquette, Zhouyi and Spring and Autumn Annals as this sutra... The Four Books and Five Classics are the necessary knowledge for the Great Wei scientific examination!

With Cheng Qing's current level, let alone taking the imperial examination, she couldn't even get into the Cheng clan's "Nanyi Academy".

Li was worried about her, and Cheng Qing himself was optimistic:

"Grandma, now I am a filial piety period. I plan to study hard at home and try to pass the academy entrance exam as soon as possible."

She really has never learned the Four Books and Five Classics, but Cheng Qing is not afraid to start from scratch. She is unwilling to be mediocre and wants to be a superior person, so she naturally has to work hard for this!

Li was not good at damaging her enthusiasm, so she added a few more books to the meeting gift to Cheng Qing.

This time, from beginning to end, Cheng Qing never asked about the progress of the court, and showed a complete trust in the clan that he would stand up for Cheng Zhiyuan.

Of course, Li did not neglect Liu, and talked with Liu about family matters, including Cheng Qing’s three sisters’ plans for the future.

When he heard that Mrs. Cheng had already been engaged, she still gave her cousin, Li nodded:

"The Qi family is of course good."

At that time, Cheng Zhiyuan was very talented and was highly expected by the clan. His stepmother Zhu wanted to interfere in the clan but was closely watching him. Finally, he hired the daughter of the Qi family. The Qi family was not as good as the Cheng family, so it would not be too far apart. It is already a good choice for Mrs. Cheng to marry back to the Qi family.

"You don't have to worry about the second wife and the third wife. They are still young. I will pay attention to them in the past two years and then look at each other."

When the filial piety period ended, the court must have concluded that Cheng Zhiyuan's case or not was guilty, had a great impact on the marriage of Cheng Qing's second and third sisters, which was directly related to what level the two sisters could look at each other.

Of course, even if Cheng Zhiyuan is innocent, Erniang and Sanniang basically have no chance of marrying into a wealthy family. They are just short men and generals... The two little wives are really miserable. The father is dead and the younger brother is still young, so they don’t rely on both ends.

Unless Cheng Qing is really outstanding and has achieved fame when the second wife and the third wife meet each other, her future is promising, and the marriage standards of the two sisters will naturally rise.

Li also wanted to keep the mother and daughter for dinner, but Cheng Qing refused repeatedly and said that he would go home and study behind closed doors.

As soon as the mother and daughter left, Li returned to the main room of the inner courtyard.

The main room is where Master Wu and Li live. Cheng Qing came to meet Master Wu and was told that Master Wu was not at home. In fact, Master Wu had never left the house today.

Anyway, there are so many houses in the fifth bedroom. If the fifth master does not want to meet people, the visitors cannot search the fifth master one by one.

Seeing that Li was in a good mood, the fifth master also smiled:

"It seems that you like Zhiyuan, the youngest son?"

Li has not answered her husband's question yet, but instead opened the box brought by Cheng Qing and his daughter, which contained the old-fashioned snacks and candied fruits from Nanyi County. If Cheng Qing's family really couldn't take out the valuable gifts, it would be worthy of giving some food.

Li covered the box and was a little curious:

"You asked someone to arrange such a small house in Yangliu Lane. I thought the mother and son would complain about the difficult conditions when they came to the door, but they didn't mention it. Even the servants were dismissed when they returned to Nanyi County. They even asked Liu to take three young ladies to do it themselves. Zhi has been away for more than ten years and has been a county magistrate. Why is the family so poor?"

The question of his wife Li reminded the fifth master of cousin Cheng Zhiyuan's temper.

There is a reason why some people are poor.

Cheng Zhiyuan was very talented because he had a tough temper and wasted all his talents and knowledge. He had been a seventh-rank magistrate for more than ten years before he became the seventh-rank magistrate. The fifth master disagreed with Cheng Zhiyuan's toughness back then.

Isn't it? Master Wu plans to take a look again. Now it seems that he is a bit clever. I am not sure whether he can achieve success in his studies.

"Zhiyuan is now famous for his greedy disaster relief money. It would be too stupid if Liu took Cheng Qing back to Nanyi to live in a mansion and call slaves and maids, and even bought a large-scale property. Judging from the current situation, it would be better if his family was a little poor. We don't have to care if they are really poor or pretend to be poor. If the orphan and widowed mother return to Nanyi, it would be better for the tribe to take care of it."

Li nodded: "It's good for Cheng Qing to study in the academy. If he is a spiritual person, it will be beneficial to the Cheng family."

Neither the fifth master nor the Li family had the idea of ​​suppressing Cheng Qing.

Only when the children in the clan have a promising future will a family become more and more prosperous.

The children of the clan are all useless people who don’t do anything to produce cockfighting and walk dogs. Now their prosperity is a flash in the pan and no successors will lead to the family’s decline!

The fifth house and Cheng Qing family have no conflict of interest, and the fifth master and his wife are not very traitors and evil people, so they naturally hope that Cheng Qing will be good.

But the second house is on the side of the house—

Li pursed his lips. He heard that his second cousin called Cheng Qing's family back to the old house two days ago, but he didn't know if he had any difficulties with the orphan and widowed mother.

After being a sister-in-law for many years, Li knew Mrs. Zhu so well, that was not a good person.

If you haven’t learned the Four Books and Five Classics, you still don’t know whether you can pass the Nanyi Academy entrance exam!

——I hope that the child has some of the talents he inherited from Cheng Zhiyuan in his studies.

...

After coming out of the fifth room, Liu felt a lot:

"Xiaolang, the clan's clan is different from what I think. Your father has not returned to Nanyi County for many years. I once thought..."

"Do you think the clan is full of evil people and will persecute our family?"

Cheng Qing's rebellious question made Liu embarrassed. She did think so, especially when the second wife refused Cheng Zhiyuan's coffin to enter, Liu's bad impression of Cheng's Nanyi reached the highest point.

The fifth master was not doing justice. Li treated their mother and daughter kindly today, and gave them medicine and books. Liu felt that Nanyi Cheng was very different from what she imagined.

The Cheng family lived in the whole family. When the mother and daughter wanted to go back to Yangliu Lane, they had to pass by the door of the second house. The mother and daughter never thought that the people who were disturbing the old house would not cause trouble, but they would come to the door on their own initiative.

A group of young people rode their horses on the street and rushed all the way. When the horse was first closed, it rushed over without rushing. Cheng Qing quickly pulled Liu to avoid it, and the things Li gave him fell to the ground.

The horse's hooves were almost stepping on Cheng Qing's face, and the horse riding personnel barely held the reins.

Liu's face turned pale. He came to his senses and touched Cheng Qing's arms and hands, asking to confirm that she was not injured.

The person who was riding a horse didn't agree, so he looked at the medicinal materials and books that fell to the ground, and turned around and teased with his companions:
Chapter completed!