Ever since Gucun told the story about the Gu family collecting crabs, almost the entire Gujia village went to catch crabs, and they were almost catching all the crabs in the river.

These crabs also earned a lot of money for the Gu family. Seeing this money, the Gu family started looking for some strong women in the village to repair their house.

They wanted to tear down the house and rebuild it from scratch, and even went to the village chief to buy some land to build a brick and tile house.

After all, the Gujia Village also saw the money she made. If she didn't spend the money, many people would probably be jealous.

Although she is not worried about others being jealous, she has no fame after all, and she will not be able to protect her family if someone does something bad to her.

Everyone was already happy to know that the Gu family was harvesting crabs, and now they were even more surprised to hear that they were also going to build a house.

When the Gu family's neighbors, the Zhao family, heard that they were building a house, they were all confused.

"Is it possible that the Gu family is really making money now? Or are these crabs really worth a lot of money?"

The doctor of the Zhao family listened to her father-in-law's words and laughed: "Dad, I guess crabs really make money. Let's not forget that they charge two cents per pound for crabs, and our family has made several hundred cents. So they must be really rich now, otherwise they wouldn't have married Gu Yao off so quickly. Now they are building a house, and I heard they want to build a big house with blue bricks and tiles."

The wife of the Zhao family was really surprised to hear what her son-in-law said. She said, "It seems that the Gu family is really rich now. We must be good friends with them. After all, they are the ones who started the crab business. Now we can also drink soup from them. Big brother, second brother, you must catch crabs well. Catch a few and exchange them for some money. When the Chinese New Year comes, buy each of our children a set of clothes."

The Zhao family's children were very happy when they heard that they would get new clothes for the New Year. Some of the sensible ones even said that they wanted to go to the river with their mother to catch crabs. After all, the more they caught, the more money they would make.

The Gu family had a good Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, the family was rich, and Gu Yao had a fiancé, so everything was going in a good direction.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, she had returned to the private school. All the crabs at home had been sold. Even the house was being looked after by Gu's mother, and he had nothing else to do.

She still needs to study hard as she will take the imperial examination next year, and she even has to continue working as a temporary accountant.

She used part of the money she earned from the crabs to build a house, and used the rest, as a betrothal gift, to buy land for Gu Yao, but she didn't buy much, only three acres.

The land is too expensive. I have so much money that I want to buy it but I don’t have the money. Besides, the family needs to keep some money as a backup and cannot spend it all.

After living in this world for a month or two, Gu Yao has completely adapted to it.

Her changed personality also made many people have a good impression of her. After all, no one was a sadist. Before, Gu Yao always ignored them, and they really couldn't stand it.

The families of students in private schools were all okay. After all, those who could afford to study, unless they were too poor, would have a sense of pride. How could they possibly put their faces against someone else's cold butt?

They were quite surprised by Gu Yao's big change, but they were also relieved because they were classmates and didn't want to make enemies.

So after returning from the Mid-Autumn Festival, Gu Yao felt like a fish in water in the private school. She absorbed the knowledge in the private school like crazy and even asked Master Li some questions after each get out of class, which made her love and hate him.

In the evening, Master Li sighed to her husband: "Gu Yao is a talented person. She will definitely go there in February next year. She has a good chance of becoming a student. Maybe she can even get the title of a scholar in one fell swoop."

Master Li's doctor, Yan, was a little surprised: "My wife, didn't you say before that Gu Yao was only average and might not pass the exam? Why do you have so much emotion towards her today, and you seem to be quite optimistic about her?"

Yan knew all the students in the private school. After all, he and Master Li lived here, and sometimes Master Li would talk to him about school matters.

So he knew Gu Yao very well, and he never expected that his wife was quite optimistic about Gu Yao.

"She has changed now, and she is good at studying. She can even draw inferences from one thing to another. However, she is still not good at writing poetry. It is too mechanical. If she can change, she can definitely pass the imperial examination. But she must not go back to the way she was before."

"It seems that this Gu Yao will have a bright future, but you are not still competing with Master Niu, are you? You used to be classmates, why are you still acting like a child even though you are so old?"

Yan was a little speechless. Although she was a person from the rear house, she was also educated and she and Master Li were childhood sweethearts, so she knew everything about her and the Niu father and son.

Upon hearing this, Master Li said proudly: "Who asked her to compete with me every day? Last year, many students from her private school took the exam to become a scholar. This year, I will give her a hard time. If Gu Yao passes the exam to become a scholar, it will also bring honor to me."

"I hope so. However, there are several people in the academy who also have hope. I hope they won't let me down."

Gu Yao didn't know that Master Li thought so highly of her. He was now discussing with a few classmates where they would go hiking in the next two days.

At this time, Wang Yang said: "Sisters, why don't we go and burn incense? I heard that the red maples in the Red Maple Temple in our town are particularly beautiful. If we go to burn incense this time, we can still see them."

Gu Yao also found it interesting when she heard it. She had never been to an ancient temple before.

"Yes, I think what Sister Wang said is right, why don't we go and take a look."

The other two classmates, Huang Xiaoyan and Liu Xiumin, also thought it was a good idea. They were scholars and did not have much physical strength, so they were really afraid of climbing mountains. Now that they heard that they could go to Hongfeng Temple for a visit, it was not a big deal for them.

"Let's go there in a couple of days. I heard the vegetarian food there is pretty good too. We can go and try it."

Since they had decided to go to Hongfeng Temple, Gu Yao prepared clothes after they returned, and there were plenty of them, and Gu's father and the others made several sets of clothes for her.

She had simpler clothes, which she thought were good, so when she went to the Red Maple Temple, she was dressed quite well;

The simple sleeves are not so spacious that they will not hinder your walking even when climbing a mountain.

The four of them came to the Red Maple Temple. Wang Yang sighed as he looked at the red maples all over the ground: "No wonder it is named the Red Maple Temple. The red maples here are really beautiful. I want to pick up a few leaves and take them back to make bookmarks. They will definitely be very beautiful."

Wang Yang is a fairly romantic scholar, and her paintings are also very romantic. Although Master Li criticized her poems for being too sentimental, at least she writes good poems.

Huang Xiaoyan laughed out loud when she heard this: "It seems that Sister Wang is still so talented. The red maple trees here are really good, and they also have the scent of incense. If I make them into bookmarks and put them in books, the books will be infused with incense."

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