Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Speaking of Madam Zhao, Zhou Banxia couldn't help but mention Dajiang's newly-appointed mother-in-law, their Aunt Qi, who was also the daughter of a military family.

Why do we emphasize the daughters of military families? It is probably because there is a mandatory path in the Daliang imperial examination system, where civil servants have to take tests on horseback riding and archery starting from the provincial examination.

The assessment of horse riding and archery is not as strict as the military examination, but at least the test requires one to reach the level of hitting six out of ten arrows within a hundred steps in a "static state".

Otherwise, even if you have an "admission ticket" issued by the county school, if you cannot pass the test of riding and archery, you can only regretfully stop at the level of scholar.

Moreover, the results of riding and archery will also affect the ranking of the provincial examination. There is no first place in the literary examination, so the chief examiner and the deputy examiner will make a note when they finally decide on the top candidate.

With the same anonymous name system, there is only a stamp of "top-top", "top-middle", or "top-bottom" on the top. What if the answer sheet is accompanied by a note with such a stamp of "top-bottom"?

Dangerous!

Similarly, this stamp is not used to determine the top scorer, but is also used to determine the final number of successful candidates, unless the candidate's answers are truly outstanding.

However, in this case, the county academy was only open to scholars who had passed the imperial examination, which was very unfair to the scholars from farming families and poor families.

This is also the reason why private academies have always been more popular than county schools. For example, Jingshan Academy has courses targeting riding and archery tests for students starting from elementary school.

However, not everyone could enter these academies, so there were many more of them. Even if they were not from poor families, there were many families with a reputation for marriage between scholars and military generals.

Uncle Qi and his wife are not a marriage between a civil official and a military general. Instead, they are a combination of military and military, which is a close relationship among the circle of military generals with military honors.

However, the marriage between their two families was not as pure as that of the Gao family. It was not until Mrs. Gao came to power that the Gao family became the most typical example of marriage between civil and military officials.

For example, Aunt Qi's maternal family, the Xu family, had a biological aunt who was betrothed to a scholar, and this scholar later betrothed his eldest daughter to another family of military generals as a daughter-in-law.

What about this other family of military generals?

Skillful!

It is Qian Huaizhi's in-laws' family and the family of Qian Huaizhi's wife Luo Jinyi. The legitimate daughter of Aunt Qi, the aunt, is Luo Jinyi's eldest cousin, and they have the same grandfather.

This is the eldest daughter-in-law, and the eldest legitimate daughter from a scholarly family. Scholarly families have always been very particular about etiquette and rules. It is conceivable that Luo Jinyi's family still attaches great importance to rules.

With such a grandfather who values ​​rules so much, and as a granddaughter, and the eldest legitimate granddaughter at that, how could the educational resources that Luo Jinyi had received since childhood be bad?

Just like Hui Jie'er, as the only legitimate daughter of Uncle Qi and the apple of his eye, she has never missed any lessons for a girl since she was young.

Not to mention her skills in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and her excellent manners in interacting with others, she was also very good at needlework, and she never asked her personal maid to do a few stitches as if she were doing it herself.

She paid special attention to the sachet that Dajiang was wearing last night. According to her mother, the sachet was made by Huijie stitch by stitch.

Of course, that silly boy Dajiang might not be too embarrassed to say it out loud, but in his heart, he still wanted to let his third sister see it.

You see, third sister, my wife still loves me very much!
As the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together." This stupid boy is also furious, and he even gives his third sister a show of silence!
After hearing this, Gu Wenxuan remembered that Dajiang had told him last night with a red face that he was not in a hurry to get married. He couldn't help but laugh. Fortunately, he had already had lunch, otherwise he would have choked.

No matter how shy or slow this boy is, it doesn't matter. Once he becomes smart, he will naturally know how to make the girl he likes happy without any instruction.

Very good. As long as Dajiang is not love-brained, his wife has the final say in everything. It is a good thing for Dajiang to meet a girl he likes, and a girl with a good family background. No matter whether he is sullen or not, if he can't even coax his wife, that's annoying, and his wife won't have to worry about it.

Dajiang can save a lot of trouble by having such a daughter-in-law who is good at dealing with people. At least after two years, he will have a hostess who can really take charge of the household chores.

By then?
Given his wife's personality, as long as her brother's sister-in-law is not unfilial and does not make things difficult for her parents and asks her to interfere in her mother's family affairs, she will be concerned about her status as the eldest sister-in-law and will not want to interfere in her mother's family affairs.

Just like when her second sister and her husband had a fight, she asked her second sister if she wanted to divorce. If she didn’t want to divorce, she wanted her to go and beat them to death, and she didn’t care!

Today's weather is another afternoon that is very suitable for sunbathing.

After digesting the food, the courtyard would be filled with old women and maids who would bring out the screens, couches, tables and chairs, and lay out cakes, tea, etc.

It was a nice day as usual and when the sun was shining in the courtyard, one person was practicing calligraphy and reviewing his writing at the desk, while another was lying on the couch drowsily.

But on this day, when he went from drowsiness to deep sleep and then woke up, the people who came were not Zhou Daya or Ma Shan and others.

The good mother-in-law, Mrs. Liu, deliberately chose to go to the west courtyard to find her old daughter-in-law a quarter of an hour after she woke up from her usual nap.

Coincidentally, this action did not delay her daughter-in-law's usual nap at all. She either woke up a quarter of an hour earlier or a quarter of an hour later than usual.

This brings us to the benefits of having a self-ringing clock at home. You can have a self-ringing clock in the study in the front yard and another one in the living room. Then you will be on time every time.

So, it wasn't that she, as a mother-in-law, repeatedly declined her old daughter-in-law's filial piety, but she really didn't want to have another clock in the house, which would be annoying to hear the clanging sound.

It's fine when nothing happens, but as soon as there is something to do, it starts ringing early, reminding her what to do next, which makes her uneasy.

"Mother~"

"Slow down!"

When Liu saw the eldest daughter-in-law's big belly, she became very panicked. Not only was her body not as strong as her eldest daughter-in-law, but she was also about to give birth.

Why is she trying to come forward with such a big belly? This kid, Liu glared at her old son who was clearly supporting his old daughter-in-law and walking towards her.

Zhou Banxia said that she was very kind. She immediately came to the rescue of her good husband. Without waiting for Liu to speak again, she asked her mother-in-law with a smile, "Where is Baoya?"

"I'm entangled in a long lock. I'm still at your sister-in-law's place now. I'll come over later. Before coming, I have to go to Lian Jie'er's place with your sister-in-law.

Your sister-in-law and Baoya are with Lian Jie'er, and your mother is at home with you, so just stay at ease. If there is anything, let Mai Huang and the others know, okay?"

Zhou Banxia nodded obediently and reached out to hold Liu's right hand as she walked towards him. "I know. I feel relieved that you and Dad are at home."

I'm at home guarding you, and you're still feeling uneasy? Gu Wenxuan, who was abandoned by his wife and could not help but laugh and shake his head, was once again unable to snatch his mother away.

When they had finished their affectionate conversation, he took advantage of his mother's presence to bring up the question of whether he and his wife should move into the east wing.

Be smart! (End of this chapter)