In the study room of Xu Mansion, Xu Chaoqian was sitting behind the desk and sipping tea.

In front of him, there sat a fair-skinned, gentle, middle-aged scholar, who looked cold and arrogant, somewhat out of touch with the world.

This person is Pan Ran, the head of the Celadon Hall of Baiyang Academy. This person is rich in knowledge and economics. He has been a teacher for 20 years. It can be said that he has students all over the world.

Xu Ming, the fourth young master of the Xu family, has been sent to Baiyang Academy since he was seven years old and has been studying in Celadon Hall for four years now.

Baiyang Academy is hundreds of miles away from the capital. When he first entered the academy, he could return to his hometown every six months. From the age of ten, it took two years to return to his hometown. He also spent the Spring Festival this year in the academy.

Xu Ming is the only son of the Xu Liu family, so naturally he is reluctant to part with it, but Xu Chaoqian is very determined on this matter. After all, Baiyang Academy is one of the best academies in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and not everyone can enter. The Celadon Hall only accepts students with excellent qualifications. of children.

Pan is here to inform Xu Chaoqian of Xu Ming's achievements in the past year, and secondly to collect this year's achievements.

Xu Ming's results last year were good and he was among the best in Celadon Hall, which made Xu Chaoqian quite gratified.

His son's efforts were finally not in vain!

After all, after seeing Xu Liu's body, the reason why he was so strong in telling Xu Rongrong not to do anything was because he was afraid of delaying his youngest son's future.

You must know that the competition in Baiyang Academy is very high. If Xu Ming returns to his hometown to mourn the death of Xu Liu, then after the expiration of three years, Xu Ming will be overage and unable to return to Celadon Hall.

If he wanted to upgrade to Bishui Hall... after missing three years of courses, it would be difficult for him to get in no matter how hard he worked.

He will definitely be kicked out of Baiyang Academy by then, which is something Xu Chaoqian cannot tolerate.

After all, being able to send his son to Baiyang Academy, which everyone yearns for, is already the envy of many colleagues. How could he let all his efforts fall by the wayside?

Not to mention it was for that woman who was no longer useful.

Thinking of this, he once again lamented his wisdom!

So, while chatting with Master Pan in the study, he ordered Xu Dong to go to the backyard to find the second young lady to be repaired.

Xu Yaoyao was wearing a pink velvet skirt and came all the way from Pingting.

Silver charcoal was burning in the study, making it warm.

Xu Yaoyao frowned: She was not willing to use such good charcoal!My father was willing to put it in the study.

Xu Chaoqian was in high spirits and didn't care about his daughter's expression. When he saw her coming in, he waved hurriedly: "Second sister is here. Come and meet your brother's teacher Pan Zhangan."

Xu Yaoyao took a sneak peek and saw that the man looked about the same age as her father, but his gestures had the aloofness of an outsider. She hurriedly lowered her body and said, "I have seen Pan Zhang's case."

Her voice was soft and pitiful.

When Master Pan saw that it was a female family member who was coming, he hurriedly lowered his eyes and returned the greeting: "Second Miss, you are so polite."

Then he called the boy into the study.

After the young man came in and bowed to his master, he took out an envelope from his bag and handed it to the master in charge of the case. He then stood aside and did not leave.

Just now Mr. Pan was having a conversation with Mr. Xu. As a servant, he should be guarding the door.

But now, there are more female relatives in the house, and Pan Zhang needs to avoid suspicion, so he can no longer go out.

However, their master and servant did not stay for long.

Mr. Pan put the envelope on the desk, then cupped his hand and said, "It's getting late. Pan has to visit the families of other students in the capital. The repairs that the fourth young master of your house needs this year are in this envelope." I'll just prepare everything before Pan leaves Beijing the day after tomorrow."

After saying that, he took the boy and left.

The Xu family's father and daughter hurriedly sent them to the door.

Watching them board the carriage and leave, Xu Chaoqian sighed: "The Baiyang Academy is indeed well-deserved, and all the teachers have an air of immortality."

Xu Yaoyao ignored her father's praise. She opened the envelope and glanced briefly.

"200 taels!" Xu Yaoyao exclaimed.

Xu Chaoqian was startled by her and glared at her: "What's the big deal? What a fuss!"

After the father and daughter returned to the study, Xu Yaoyao immediately called Manager Xu: "Show the account book to father."

The day after Xu Rongrong went to the southern suburbs, Xu Yaoyao called all the servants in the mansion to the flower hall and announced that he would take over the stewardship of the Xu mansion.

Before New Year's Eve, she was fined and grounded by Xu Chaoqian because of the New Year's ceremony. Now, as soon as the eldest lady left, she showed off her power again, so the servants naturally didn't take her seriously.

Some people secretly went to Xu Dong to complain. Unexpectedly, Xu Dong said that these were the master's wishes...

So the servants had no choice but to obey.

Although Manager Xu was dissatisfied, he could not twist his thigh with his arm, so he had to hand over the account book.

Xu Yaoyao felt the difficulty of being in charge even after a few days of fresh energy.

She has known Cheng Jintong, the granddaughter of the Minister of Etiquette, for a while, but she has never been embarrassed in front of him.Thinking that the other party was a noble lady, she wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of being the head of the family to buy a few good looks for herself, so that the nobles would take a good look at her, but who knew that the thick account book would slap her in the face.

Not to mention the expensive gemstones, even the gilt ones, she can't even buy a set of them now!

In the past two days, the house needed to buy spring clothes and the village wanted to buy spring seeds, so they all came to ask her for money.

Now, I still have to give the fourth brother a bunch of training.

There are only 250 taels of silver in the account. How can I give this bunch of money to the whole family to drink from the northwest wind?

Xu Chaoqian saw that his second daughter's face was not good, so he handed over the account book with hesitation, glanced at it and was stunned: "Why do you only have this money?"

Xu Yaoyao sneered in his heart, but put on a pitiful look on his face: "That's right. My daughter has been in such a tight situation since she took over Zhongfu. I really don't know how the eldest sister managed the house before."

She wanted to pour dirty water on Xu Rongrong.

But some people didn't like her. Manager Xu said bluntly: "After the eldest lady took over Zhongfu from Madam, all the accounts are in this book. Every item is clear and well-documented."

Xu Yaoyao: "..."

Xu Chaoqian was worried about the money at this time, so he couldn't care less about their lawsuit.Previously, he still had a porcelain shop with good profits, but last year he sold it out to fill the hole created by Xu Liu's loan sharks.

Nowadays, both the public school and the shop in his hands are running normally.

But no matter what, he still wanted to pass the hurdle before him, so he ordered: "Gather Shu Xiu together and hand them over first, don't miss Brother Ming."

Xu Yaoyao was anxious: "What will we do next?"

Xu Chaoqian glared at her: "After that? What do you think we should do? Since all the affairs of the house are in your hands, you naturally have to make more decisions when encountering problems."

Xu Yaoyao: "..."

Before she could say anything, Xu Dong knocked on the door: "Master, Second Miss. Someone from Zhuangzi wants an offering from Third Miss."

Xu Minmin was imprisoned in Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing. She was the third daughter of the Xu family. She was also worshiped by the villagers in Zhuangzi. But except for rice and grain, everything else needed money. Naturally, she had to ask the owner for the money. .

"How much?" Xu Yaoyao asked.

"30 taels." Xu Dong responded.

Xu Chaoqian lowered his head and looked at the tea foam in the tea bowl, and did not move for a long time.

Seeing this, Xu Yaoyao sneered: "Here."

After giving out, there are only 20 taels of silver left. Let’s all stop living this day!

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