It was also thanks to the help of these loyal servants, otherwise Shen Jiwei's family would have gone out to beg for food long ago just based on Fang's ability to read and recite poems.
But Fang was still very disgusted with Shen Jiwei. Whenever she saw Shen Jiwei, she would always lose her temper and even had a bad look towards Shen Runing.
Fang hated Shen Jiwei, and even more hated the two elders of the Shen family.
After all, she is now considered the daughter of an official family. If it weren't for the marriage proposal from Shen Jiwei's family, she would have been an official wife by now.
When Shen Runing was a child, she was ignorant and felt very happy when Shen Jiwei played with her.
It's just that her mother was always cold to him, and Shen Runing was so scared that she didn't even dare to say anything.
When Shen Runing grew older, she keenly discovered that only when she yelled at Shen Jiwei, her mother would look at her with loving eyes.
The other little sisters of the same age stayed away from her and laughed at her for having a crazy father.
Shen Runing, who had no friends, yearned for maternal love even more, to the point where Fang had to obey her every word.
Even in order to get closer to her mother, Shen Runing began to bully Shen Jiwei.
Sure enough, after Shen Runing started to treat Shen Jiwei coldly, Fang's attitude towards Shen Runing improved a lot.
Even occasionally when he was in a good mood, he would give Shen Runing a few books.
Feeling that she had gained the favor of her mother, Shen Runing began to bully Shen Jiwei even harder.
Although Shen Jiwei couldn't figure out why his daughter suddenly didn't like him, he still followed his daughter cautiously.
In his eyes, Shen Runing, who did not hit him, was the person he loved most in the world.
Shen Runing was so entangled until she was 14 years old.
Over the years, Mrs. Fang has never been close to her daughter. Instead, she is extremely interested in the children of her elder brother and younger brother.
It wasn't until after sending the eldest girl from her brother's house out that Fang remembered that Shen Runing should also find her husband's family.
Due to Shen Jiwei's situation, coupled with Fang's aloofness and unwillingness to "complicit" with merchants.
No one has come to propose marriage in these years.
After all, those merchants who have scholars at home are not willing to marry a idiot, and those pure merchants can't stand a mother-in-law like Fang.
Thanks to her parents, Shen Runing's marriage was delayed.
After discovering that her daughter's marriage had been delayed, Ms. Fang was also anxious. Having a crazy husband at home was enough to make her angry.
If she had another daughter who couldn't get married, she might as well hang herself with a hemp rope.
With this idea in mind, Fang Xiu wrote a book to his elder brother who also became a fellow Jinshi, hoping to discuss the matter with him.
Fang's sister-in-law originally looked down upon her sister-in-law's family background as a merchant.
So with a bit of teasing, she asked her eldest brother to write the words "catch a son-in-law under the list" in the letter.
Who would have thought that her eldest brother was also an unknown person. Her eldest brother's knowledge was really limited, and he finally won the prize in middle age.
It was already past his forties when he was admitted to the Tongjinshi examination, and he originally thought of asking his sister to donate money to him for an official position like his father had done.
Who would have thought that his sister was too worldly and would reject her over and over again.
My sister doesn't even think about it, if her father hadn't cared so much about his political performance that he didn't dare to reach out for money and kept taking money out of his own pocket to maintain relationships.
How could he possibly borrow money from a merchant? He is a man of integrity!
The eldest brother of the Fang family was originally dissatisfied with his sister, but after hearing his wife's teasing, he suddenly became energetic.
When the results were released, when he saw those young candidates being carried back to get married, the eldest brother of the Fang family felt that this was both elegant and interesting.
I just wish I could be a teenager and participate in it personally, maybe it will become a romantic story in the future.
Hearing his wife's teasing at this time, he became even more interested. He personally wrote and revised Fang's book, and planned for Fang to capture her son-in-law.
He also specifically warned Mr. Fang that if he wanted to catch his son-in-law, he must not do so when the results of the provincial examination were released.
Scholars have a noble character. If the other party wins the lottery, they will definitely not choose a merchant's daughter as their future wife.
Therefore, Fang might as well catch a scholar with good grades and come back.
It would be better to have someone with a poor family background but good grades. In this way, after Fang promised Shen Runing to him, it would be like giving him timely help.
As long as you spend a little money and support the other person to study for a period of time, Shen Runing will naturally become the wife of an official when the other person is in high school.
If you are lucky, you may be able to have a royal status in the future, and you won't have to waste your life like Fang.
The words of the eldest sister-in-law of the Fang family were full of ridicule and ridicule, while the eldest brother of the Fang family was full of romantic affairs.
In their eyes, although Shen Runing was born from the Fang family, she was still the daughter of a merchant in the final analysis.
If she didn't know people so well, I would probably have to be a concubine.
Therefore, the eldest brother of the Fang family is very proud and thinks that he has pointed out a clear path for his sister.
Mrs. Fang read the letter carefully several times, and couldn't help but admire the idea that her elder brother gave her.
She was originally a noble person who did not value money, and she had long been extremely impatient with household chores.
Anyway, Shen Runing is a daughter, and she has a lifelong hope of becoming an official's wife in the future. Coupled with the Shen family's money, her life will definitely be more comfortable than that of a mother like her.
When the time comes, she will transfer all her business and shops out of her home and read and write when she has nothing to do. Wouldn't it be a wonderful life?
As soon as she thought of it, she decided to do it. Fang sent someone out to get a rough idea of the family situation of these new students.
Since we want to catch a son-in-law, we naturally want to catch someone who has never been married.
Fang didn't want to catch someone who had been married. After all, Shen Runing was her biological daughter and not an enemy.
It would be a huge loss to really bring back someone with a family background.
After this investigation, Fang initially found a suitable candidate.
The man's name was Mu Zhen, he was second in the children's examination, and he was just sixteen years old this year.
Mu Zhen's family was poor, but he was extremely motivated. His father died young, leaving him with only a widowed mother and four older sisters, living on a few acres of thin farmland.
Later, there was no other way to make a living at home. In order to support Mu Zhen's education, his mother sold all the land in the family.
Simply, several of her sisters have also gotten married one after another, and they can subsidize Mu Zhen from time to time, so that Mu Zhen will not drop out of school.
Mu Zhen was on the bright side. He knew how difficult it was for his sister and family, so he worked even harder on his studies. He was qualified as a child just after finishing school last year.
In order for him to successfully take the hospital examination this year, the widowed mother was so cruel that she mortgaged the house where she lived and took turns staying with her son at the homes of several of her daughters.
Being a sojourner would inevitably lead to criticism, so Mu Zhen endured everyone's probing gaze and prepared for the exam under all kinds of pressure.
The strength of his mental endurance can be seen in general.
After learning that there was such a person, Fang was really overjoyed.
This is simply the uncle tailor-made for her by God.
In such a harsh environment, he can become the second place in the children's voice test. If there is a good study environment...
