The skilled widow is busy farming

Chapter 218

In the blink of an eye, another eight years have passed. Even Brother Chun's son has passed the Tongsheng examination. Xiu Niang now has three grandchildren and one granddaughter.

Wang Lan also gave birth to a granddaughter. Currently, she is the only girl in the family. Brother Jing and Rui Ge gave birth to a son one after another. There are many grandchildren in the family, but this one girl is the only one, so naturally she loves her dearly.

The granddaughter's name is Li Xin. She was taught by Xiu Niang and was the child she raised.

The days passed quickly, and Xiu Niang did not go to the capital again. She was old and could no longer travel long distances.

Li Rui had already gone to the capital to be a capital official, and now he was working in the cabinet with Zhou Yi and the others.

Oh, Zhou Yi is already a first-rank member of the cabinet, a close confidant of the emperor, and a highly favored minister.

Li Qun is still on the field, but he is also a third-grade official.

Brother Chun is a fifth-rank official. He has been to three overseas places and has done a very impressive job. He has achieved practical achievements.

In a blink of an eye, the children are doing well outside. The Li family is no longer the Li family it used to be. In the low-level official positions, the number of people in the clan who are officials is very impressive. There is also more than one official in the capital, which can be regarded as officially taking root. In the capital, we have established a firm position.

Qing'er and Lu Jun have done well in the field, and with the ability of the Lu family, naturally they cannot pull him down.

Their brothers had long since separated. Mrs. Lu passed away the year after Zhao Xuecheng got married. After her death, she was buried in her parents' cemetery, next to her parents and next to the cemetery reserved for her by her brother and sister-in-law.

Mrs. Lu passed away with a smile on her face. She said thank you to her brother and sister-in-law for allowing her. She was very happy to be able to live next to her parents after her death. Before she died, she also left her last remaining pension to the Zhao Family Academy.

The Lu family agrees with this, and they have tried their best to repair the relationship with the Zhao family.

After the old lady left, Lu Junwaifang was very successful for several years. Qing'er gave birth to two more sons for the Lu family. The couple had a total of three sons.

After the old lady passed away, Mr. Lu presided over the division of property without dividing the family. He also completely divided the things in the hands of the couple between the two brothers. Just fine.

Fast forward ten years, and Xiu Niang no longer teaches in the academy. She has also worked in the academy for 20 years. She has grown old and has presbyopia, so she has to resign her position as the academy's mistress and go home to take care of herself.

Brother Chun was no longer young this year. When he reached middle age, he made a decision after looking at his old mother and discussing with his brothers.

It had always been his wish to resign and go back to his hometown to teach. Now he just resigned because he wanted to go home and take care of his mother.

Li Rui and others thought about it for a long time, and finally fulfilled their brother's wish.

Now that Li Rui is in the royal family, he has a promising future, and there is still hope of promotion to the official position. Then Brother Qun and Brother Chun's other sons will not be able to become high-ranking officials again. Xiu Niang also expected this.

Brother Chun himself is not obsessed with powerful positions. He has done everything he wanted to do. He wanted to have fame and be the number one scholar, and he got it. He also wanted to do something practical for the people and go to work as a parent official. His political achievements were excellent and the emperor praised him. Pass.

Now he wants to return to his hometown to teach and inherit his mother's lifelong career. As a scholar, he is very happy to go back and teach.

Although the Li family felt a little sorry, they still supported him. More importantly, his wife Wang Lan also supported him. She gave up everything in the capital and returned to her hometown to accompany her husband as a teacher.

When Chun Ge and his wife returned to the school in their hometown, instead of feeling depressed and sad, they were extremely happy. They felt that when a fish enters the sea, the sea is vast and the fish jumps, and they have found their own happiness and what they are good at.

Wang Lan is responsible for teaching the girls etiquette, interpersonal relationships, and housekeeping. Brother Chun is responsible for teaching the boys to read for imperial examinations, play chess, calligraphy and painting. The couple found their own happiness and goals.They were able to be so determined because of Xiu Niang's encouragement and support.

Although many people in the capital do not understand, it is a pity that Chun Ge gave up when he was in his thirties, when he was in the prime of life and had excellent political performance. Even if he could not become a high-ranking official, he was still an official with real power.

Everyone sees things from a different angle and has different opinions.

The Lu family, Zhang family and other aristocratic families are full of praise for Brother Chun and the Li family. To cultivate the family's sons, it is necessary for relatives like Chun brother who have official experience to return to the family. It can be said that this is the case, who can really do it.

But Brother Chun did it. He returned to his hometown, taught and educated people, fished and painted, and took his old mother and a group of nephews and children to collect and play in the mountains and fields. He lived a leisurely and happy life.

Xiuniang is old and no longer teaches or goes to the weaving workshop. She has done some things with the money she divided from the weaving workshop and the wine shop and explained it clearly to her children and grandchildren.

Provincial capital academies regularly donated books, pens, ink and food to leave roads.

The same is true at Jiangnan Academy. Friendly exchanges give the relatives and sons many ways to go out to see Insomniac, and what should be donated cannot be spared.

The rest is used to help poor families in nearby villages to make them rich and live a good life. Don’t forget that if we want to become a famous family praised by everyone, we must help the poor people.

This money is used as the start-up capital for these things, and the Li family school will come forward to do things to prepare for the Li family to cultivate more outstanding talents, to see the suffering with their own eyes, to help the poor people, to get up and practice, and to witness the rice in the fields. The growth of wheat seedlings requires a down-to-earth approach to life and work.

This move was recorded in the family's diary. The Li family members resolutely carried out the tasks and instructions left by Xiu Niang. Brother Chun, as the supervisor, guided everyone to practice by themselves. It is not enough to have theory, but also to have practical experience. You can't just study. , and you can't read. If you don't distinguish between the five grains and the four limbs, you are useless.

Xiu Niang spent most of her free time teaching her granddaughter. She passed on all her skills and Kesi craftsmanship to her little granddaughter, who was the only one she loved the most.

Several of his grandchildren have achieved fame, and Brother Jing's two sons are also scholars, waiting to take the imperial examination later.

Last year, the old man of the Li family passed away, followed by the old lady at night.

Xiuniang and her parents-in-law were so sad.

Although I know that my grandparents are getting older and this day will come sooner or later, I still feel uncomfortable in my heart.

Brother Chun didn't dare to neglect and stayed with the elders all the time, for fear that something might happen to them.

The funeral of the old man was very grand. After the old man passed away, his share of the money left in the winery was donated to the family and school for free, and the rest was used to build ancestral halls and cemeteries.

Nowadays, the three houses do not need so much money, so they donate what is necessary. This can be regarded as leaving a way for the children. I bought a few Zhuangzi and donated them to the clan school and the clan in the name of my grandchildren.

The Li family officially withdrew from the winery and left the profits to their relatives.

My second uncle and my father-in-law also agreed with this.

The second uncle is also old and will no longer be the village chief. The current village chief is the grandson of the fourth grandfather's family. He is young and promising, fair and just, and has good methods. He has been working under the second uncle for more than ten years, and he has long been He is very familiar with the village and has been recognized by all the clan elders, Xiuniang and others.

(End of this chapter)