Chapter 1033: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (22)
Chapter 1033: The Man Comes Riding on a Bamboo Horse (22)
There are more than a few well-informed families in Yanzhou City.
For example, the Yuan family who ran a private school.
In fact, the family received the news ten days ago.
But it was not good news. The Yuan family in the capital sent a letter asking Yuan Xu to make preparations. If his daughter met all the requirements, she could participate in the selection from Yanzhou Prefecture.
This has two advantages. If you elect someone in Yanzhou, there will be less attention.
Moreover, those who came from small places would basically stay and become palace maids, so that they could be of help to the direct descendants of the Yuan family.
When receiving this letter, Yuan Xu could only shake his head and smile bitterly. After so many years, he still felt that he was valuable and had not been exploited.
Whenever something happens, I blame myself.
To be honest, Yuan Xu did not resign from his post willingly. It was purely an exchange of interests.
The direct descendants of the Yuan family asked him to resign and they had other arrangements for the vacant position.
Yuan Xu was originally unwilling.
but
"You think you can keep this position if you want to!" said a direct elder who was responsible for informing Yuan Xu about this matter, "Don't forget how you got this position.
I admit that you are very talented, but your local rank was not up to standard. It was your family who made some changes to your documents, which gave you the higher rank you later received, although you relied on yourself to get here.
But, from the very beginning, your assessment documents were falsified. As long as this matter is reported... "
"I am just a branch of the Yuan family. I have no ability to forge information. If this matter is reported, your family will also be in trouble." Yuan Xu looked like he wanted to fight them to the death.
Unexpectedly, the elder laughed and said, "Then go and turn yourself in! The Yuan family who forged the documents have been dead for several years. But things like this are just private transactions between you.
The most the Yuan family can do is to move that person out of the family's ancestral tomb and give some compensation to their descendants. You don't have to look at me like that. You can't twist a thigh with your arm.
Instead of wasting time with me, why not just accept your fate? After all, you are also a branch of my Yuan family. I can promise you that I will reserve a place for you as a village official, and you can give it to anyone you want. Furthermore, the family will give you an estate to ensure that you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.
The gift given by fate has long been secretly marked with a price. I originally thought that it was the support of the elders in my family, but now it seems that it is nothing more than a handle that holds me tightly in their hands.
Moreover, in this era, if you don’t have a family and background, you are like a rootless duckweed.
If Yuan Xu was born an ordinary person, he might have taken a desperate measure, but he had been taken care of by his family for so many years and was instinctively afraid of leaving the family.
Finally, he brought his wife to Yanzhou Prefecture.
When they first arrived in Yanzhou, Yuan Xu's wife didn't think there was anything wrong with it. It was just a new place to live, and this was also the provincial capital. Although it was not as prosperous as the capital, it was still very prosperous.
But as time went on, the disadvantages came up. The gap in status, as well as the differences in material and other aspects, made Yuan Xu's wife feel increasingly bad.
As a result, when she was pregnant and giving birth, she lost the will to live because of the depression in her heart, and the child died shortly after being born.
When Yuan Xu held his daughter in his arms, his first feeling was that the sky was falling.
Because he fell off a horse and was injured while his wife was pregnant, the doctor diagnosed that he would have difficulty having children in the future.
He originally thought that there would be no problem waiting for his wife to give birth to a boy.
But he lost his wife's life and only had this one daughter. Yuan Xu was devastated for a while.
Later, a friend reminded him that if he only had a daughter, he could marry her in. The son-in-law would be considered his own son, and he could support his son-in-law to become an official. After all, the Yuan family's promise did not limit the qualification of the rural pin to only members of the Yuan family.
So since his daughter Yuan Zhaoyue was very young, Yuan Xu began to pay attention to the children around him.
The first person chosen was Ning Xiu, but unfortunately he rejected her.
Later, I fell in love with other people one after another, but there was always something missing.
Talented people may not have good looks, while those with good looks often lack the drive to study hard.
Among the people who entered the advanced class this time, the one Yuan Xu was most optimistic about was actually Xiao Jianlu, and his daughter was also quite satisfied with him. However, it seemed that the Xiao family only had one son, so it might be a bit difficult to deal with him.
He had originally planned to wait a little longer, but now that this letter had arrived, Yuan Xu knew that he could not wait any longer. He had to arrange his daughter's marriage as soon as possible. If he delayed any further, by the time the second letter from his family arrived, it would probably be too late.
So Yuan Zhaoyue deliberately leaked the news and lured Xiao Jianlu to buy jasmine tofu, which was actually a test.
But this "little thing" was not even done, and Yuan Zhaoyue was angry in her room!
Yuan Zhaoyue grew up in a wealthy family, loved by her father, and had almost everything she wanted. Naturally, she didn't understand what it felt like to be short of money.
Although many people say that anything that can be solved with money is not a difficult problem in this world, how to raise enough money to solve the problem is Xiao Jianlu's biggest problem at the moment.
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