Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

When Cui Jinyin entered the main hall carrying the six gifts of tribute, she could hardly walk.

Beside her, Yu Nanshu and others were staring at her. She didn't even dare to look them in the eye, for fear of being laughed at.

She walked slowly, step by step in the afternoon sunlight that came through the window, to Shen Zheng's front, then knelt on the ground with her knees bent, and raised the six gifts of tribute above her head.

"Disciple Cui Jinyin respectfully pays homage to the teacher with the six rituals."

She spoke every word very clearly, and when she said the last two words, her voice began to tremble.

Even she herself didn't know why she was still worried at this point, worried that Lord Shen would not be willing to accept her as his disciple.

However, after a while, she didn't get any answer from Shen Zheng, and her mind became confused. She had many panic thoughts and subconsciously looked at her uncle.

"Don't be afraid." Xu Zhijie mouthed the words and then looked at Shen Zheng.

Shen Zheng looked at the plain wooden hairpin on Cui Jinyin's head, then looked at the six rituals on the plate, and always felt that today was a little unreal.

She actually has the ability to be a teacher.

For her, isn't this a kind of recognition?

The recognition of the emperor, the recognition of Xu Zhijie, and the recognition of Cui Jinyin.

A subtle emotion rose in her heart, and she gestured to Gu Mama to accept the gift, saying, "Since you have presented the gift, let's perform the ceremony of becoming your disciple."

Cui Jinyin held her breath for a long time and finally let it out.

She quickly stood up, walked to the green cloth mat in front of the incense table, knelt down, folded her hands on her knees, and leaned forward slightly.

Xu Zhijie smiled and stood up and said, "Bow..."

Cui Jinyin touched the ground with her forehead, her movements slow and reverent. "I bow to you, Master, and thank you for not abandoning me. I am willing to accept you as my disciple."

Xu Zhijie said again: "Second bow——"

She kowtowed again, her voice even more resolute than before: "Second bow, Master. Thank you for your teachings. I am willing to teach you."

“Three bows—”

During this last bow, she kowtowed deeply, with her forehead pressed to the ground for a long time before raising it.

"I bow three times to the Master, thanking him for guiding me. I wish to follow him in cultivating my body, mind, and character."

After bowing, she stood up, and the plain pattern on her skirt took on color under the sunlight.

Pinching her numb fingertips, she looked at Xu Zhijie again, as if urging him to speak.

Xu Zhijie stroked his sleeves and said with a smile, "Tea."

Nanny Gu brought the tea and Cui Jinyin took it carefully, not daring to spill any.

Yu Nanshu whispered, "Look at her, it's like she's stealing someone else's tea."

Fang Ziyan moved his nose: "Nan Shu, do you smell anything?"

"What's that smell?" Yu Nanshu twitched her nose and sniffed for a while. "It doesn't smell strange. Did you smell it wrongly?"

Fang Ziyan shook his head and whispered, "Lift your sleeve and smell it."

Yu Nanshu was puzzled, but did as she was told.

"Still nothing." She held out her sleeve to Fang Ziyan, "What do you smell? Is it because I got caught in the rain before..."

"Sour." Fang Ziyan chuckled and lowered his voice: "Are you envious of Cui Jinyin for being able to worship Sister Shen as her teacher?"

Yu Nanshu's face suddenly turned red.

This trip to Beijing was not in vain, Fang Ziyan actually learned how to bend people!

"Nonsense!" She put her sleeves behind her back and gritted her teeth, "Sister Shen and I call each other sisters! Although we are not biological sisters, our relationship has long surpassed that of biological sisters! Tell me, who is more important, a sister or a disciple!"

"Of course it's you!" Seeing that she was about to get nervous, Fang Ziyan quickly comforted her: "We have had such a long-standing relationship with Sister Shen, so our relationship is naturally very deep!"

Yu Nanshu snorted, as if she had thought of something, and whispered, "But when Cui Jinyin goes to the county in the future, we must treat her as one of our own, so that she won't cry every other day and complain to her uncle when we return to Beijing."

Fang Ziyan smiled innocently and nodded, thinking that Nan Shu had a sharp tongue but a soft heart.

In the middle of the hall, Shen Zheng drank the tea, put the teacup on the tray, stood up and helped Cui Jinyin up.

Nanny Gu brought another tray with several items on it.

Shen Zheng said, "I don't know what you like, but I know you love beauty and jewelry, so I prepared a long gown, a piece of glass jewelry, a small glass mirror, and a few books that you often read as a gift."

Giving jewelry and a mirror as a gift was a decision she made after much hesitation.

If you prepare pens, ink, gold and silver, it would be too thoughtless and too rigid.

After all, Cui Jinyin came from a noble family and had lived a life of luxury since childhood. What new things had she not seen?

In this case, it would be better to give some real "new things" to make the little girl happy.

"Thank you, Master!" Cui Jinyin was truly overjoyed. "I will definitely treasure this and live up to your high expectations!"

She called out "Master" so fluently and without any awkwardness, as if she had practiced it thousands of times in her mind.

Xu Zhijie stood aside, watching his child complete the apprenticeship ceremony, and couldn't help but tear up.

He looked outside the hall and mistook a bird flying by, a cloud drifting by, and a breeze blowing by for his own sister.

Sister, did you see it?

Jinyin has grown up, found a master, and is about to go to a wider world.

......

Shen Zheng originally thought that Xu Zhijie had only prepared six gifts of tribute and tuition for Cui Jinyin, but she didn't expect that he had prepared many additional "apprenticeship gifts".

These gift boxes were tied with red silk and piled up in the front yard like cabbages. Shen Zheng called Xu Zhijie to take them back.

How could Xu Zhijie agree to that?

While Cui Jinyin was away, he spoke his heart out to Shen Zheng: "Master Shen, Jinyin is my elder sister's only child. Now that my elder sister is gone, she is the legacy she left me. I must take good care of her and treat her like my own child."

He looked toward the front hall and lowered his voice again, "She's been spoiled since she was little, and her temperament has been somewhat warped. Sometimes her ideas are too simple, her words easily offend people, and she's prone to losing her temper. But her temper comes and goes quickly, and she doesn't hold grudges. Things that happened that day can be resolved that day."

"If she does anything wrong, feel free to tell her. If you have to hit her... please be gentle. She's a girl after all, and scars on her body wouldn't look good."

"If she's ignorant and has angered you, remember this. When you return to the capital, I'll personally apologize to you. But for one thing, you absolutely must not send her back. If she returns to the capital on her own, it would be like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth..."

Xu Zhijie spoke seriously, word by word, and Shen Zheng listened very attentively.

The dignified Minister of Personnel, a man who could cover the sky with one hand, could say something like "I will personally apologize to you" for a little girl...

Love is so deep, so far, sour and swollen.

"I understand." Shen Zheng bowed. "Don't worry, Master Xu. Now that I have accepted Jinyin as my disciple, I will treat her well."

"Well... I have official business to attend to, so I'll take my leave now." Xu Zhijie glanced at the front hall again and whispered, "I'll come and take her back later. Your official certificate has been signed and sealed by Prime Minister Cui. The decree to appoint you as an official will be issued within three days."