Chapter 257: Chapter 175

Xiao Muyang is indeed smart, but also diligent.

Not even three years old, just starting to learn literacy, he recited the Tangtou Song entirely thanks to Zhu Lingling’s teaching, line by line.

Zhu Lingling has a feeling: she is also starting school again to learn literacy.

What is gratifying is that her son really has a good memory, can remember it after being taught once.

In places where the Xiao family can’t see, her son clings to her to teach him literacy, teach him the Tangtou Song.

“Muyang, do you want to pursue academics, take examinations, and become an official?”

Every parent hopes their son becomes successful like a dragon, their daughter like a phoenix, it’s only normal to have such a mindset.

Mrs. Zhu knows that Aunt Huang has always been trying to steer her son in this direction, and Zhu Lingling also has this idea, but as Xiao family’s next generation eldest daughter-in-law, she bears the responsibility of future family matriarch, some things have to see the big picture, can only be thought without saying.

“Mother, what’s the use of being an official?”

For Xiao Muyang, besides eating, it’s recognizing medicinal herbs, making pills, which is quite fun, especially since his aunt always praises him as being powerful, isn’t that great?

At his young age, he was born in Shu City, and in the past two years, he mostly came into contact with patients.

Often sitting on the small stool by the door, watching women with faces of pain, supported by family or hunched, enter, aunt diagnoses, prescribes medicine or gives acupuncture, after which their faces light up with gratitude and smiles, or they straight-out praise the aunt’s medical skill, saying it no longer hurts as much.

In the eyes of the child, his aunt is simply a fairy, can relieve patients’ pain, instantly lift people’s mood, what great skill is that!

“Being an official means working for the court…”

For a moment, Mrs. Zhu couldn’t say the merits of being an official.

Speaking of being a pillar of the nation, well, except for the founding emperor’s time, those who fought together are the nation’s pillars, but not many had good endings after that.

On the court, it’s either you beat me or I suppress you, not careful, your whole family could end up in prison, or beheaded or exiled, like even Mr. Xiao as the Imperial Hospital head couldn’t avoid such disasters.

Forget it, better to be a doctor.

In that moment, Mrs. Zhu decided not to instill the idea of becoming an official in her son’s mind anymore.

“Mother, I want to learn from aunt. I want to make medicine, cure patients, be a great doctor.”

“Alright, alright, be a doctor. Come, let mother teach you literacy again.”

Having come to understand, Mrs. Zhu seriously taught her son this time: “However, child, we are still young, having learned this page today, we won’t learn more.”

“Not good, Muyang wants to learn more, so when aunt quizzes, I can answer.”

Mrs. Zhu… It’s frustrating, how can such a young child not know to play, only know to study?

Truly, a child from a poor family grows up early, or Aunt Huang praises too well, pushing a little child to be so hard-working, is this good or bad?

The Xiao family does not know Xiao Muyang’s efforts behind the scenes, and on the day before Chun Nuan was about to prepare to leave for the Northern Desert, Mrs. Huang received the good news she wanted.

“What did you say?”

Mrs. Xu was momentarily stunned, this news was somewhat sudden.

“Sister-in-law, this is a letter from my mother. She considered that Shu’er is getting older, raised delicately, afraid she would be bullied outside, so she asked me to send Shu’er to the Huang family.”

“I have no objection to sending her back to the Huang family, but Shu’er’s marriage must have other suitable candidates.” Mrs. Xu was quite angry: “Sister-in-law, are you muddled? A good girl, how can you send her back to your family to be a concubine, where is our Xiao family’s family rules?”

The Xiao family has family rules, men don’t take concubines, women don’t become concubines.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Huang, from a scholarly family, quite famous in the Capital as a talented woman, is to do such a disgraceful thing, sending her biological daughter back as a concubine.

“Indeed, sister-in-law, our family’s girls are not so lacking that we need to send them out to be humiliated.” Mrs. Xu usually doesn’t say much, but this time she couldn’t stand it.

“Back when the Xiao family had troubles, you didn’t abandon them, instead chose to return to Shu City with us, this time why…” Mrs. Xu patiently advised: “Now our family life is quite okay, we have food, shelter, and clothes, it’s easy for Shu’er to talk about marriage…”

“Sister-in-law, our family’s Shu’er is not as capable as the elder aunt, even if she was abandoned, she could still receive marriage given by the Emperor, marry a Great General Huaiyuan.”

“Second sister-in-law, our family’s sister doesn’t have the capability of the second girl, who in Shu City quickly got engaged to the Zhao family’s third son.”

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