Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

Liu Donglai not only bought New Year gifts, but also specially selected a red jade hairpin from the spoils to give to his daughter.

Her daughter is coming of age this year, but at that time he was attacking the city. He was an incompetent father.

Old Man Liu didn't know yet that in order for him not to miss his daughter's important day, her family had postponed her coming-of-age ceremony.

It was already mid-to-late twelfth lunar month when the gifts were returned.

Nanyue’s clothing is very different from Dongsheng’s because the climate is warm and the clothes are thinner.

What Liu Donglai bought there were all for winter, but here they can only be worn in spring and autumn.

He asked an old maid in the Tongcheng provincial capital to help him choose these clothes. It was said that they were worn by the noble ladies of Nanyue.

The fabrics include Fenghua brocade, which is unique to Tongcheng and is only sold after being tributed to the royal family every year.

However, because Tongcheng had been occupied by Dongsheng, a group of people were left behind when the Dong family fled, and were thus picked up by Liu Donglai and his men.

The Su family helped transport all the things back, and there were several full boxes.

Liu Xu estimated that his father's salary and spoils of war were almost exhausted.

The twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month is the small year.

The workshop has stopped working and the academy has also been closed for holiday.

Every household in Liujia Village began to slaughter the New Year pig.

The village is the busiest at this time of year.

Nowadays, every household in the village has enough meat to eat, but everyone still gathers together on this day to eat the pig-killing meal.

The cured meat shop was bustling with activity, and Liu Xu and her sisters gathered at Yuexinyuan.

After a few years, the flowers, plants and trees in the yard have grown up. The two plum trees that were originally as big as a child's fist are now as thick as a bowl.

The flowers are in full bloom at this time, and the fragrance of plum blossoms fills the yard, making people linger.

The weather was a bit cold, so the little sisters huddled in Liu Xu's original room.

The furnishings in the room remained unchanged, and everyone smiled at each other.

This place holds many beautiful memories for them. Even Liu Xu, even though she has lived in the County Lady's Mansion longer than in the Grand Courtyard, still likes this place the most.

The Zhu family, who helped her build the house, has moved to the provincial capital, and their business has even expanded to the capital.

Speaking of this, the person the Zhu family is most grateful to is Liu Xu. Not to mention the construction of the kitchens and bathrooms, the Zhu family was able to open up the situation in the capital because Liu Xu specially invited them to help her renovate the general's mansion. Later, they also helped with the Xu family's new mansion.

In terms of luxury, they are certainly not as good as those craftsmen in the capital, but they took the route of comfort and livability, and with those new objects, although they did not help rebuild many mansions, they did build quite a few villas and manors.

In the entire Zhu family, except for Grandpa Zhu who would occasionally bring Zhu Zhu back to Liujia Village to live for a while, the rest of the family would only see each other once or twice a year.

Let's not talk about these for now. Now the four little sisters are sitting on the sofa, eating fruits grown in the greenhouse and chatting.

"Brother Shuisheng and the others should take the imperial examination next year, right?" Liu Xu swallowed the grape in her mouth and raised her eyebrows at Xing'er.

The exam was originally scheduled for this year, but because of the war, Xiao Yan postponed the imperial examination for one year.

Xing Er nodded, "Not only them, many students in the academy will take the exam next year. My brother said when he came back a few days ago that from Tongsheng to Jinshi, our academy will send a hundred people to the exam hall next year."

The other three nodded.

"My uncle said that he signed up for two subjects, and after he finishes the civil examination he will take the military examination. If he passes the military examination, he can follow my second uncle to the border." Liu Chuntao said helplessly.

In the past two years, my mother-in-law was almost worried. She found several girls for him, both in the town and in the county, but they disappeared every time they went to meet a matchmaker. Now, when the matchmakers heard that they were looking for a matchmaker for him, they avoided him.

Xing'er deeply sympathized with this situation; her brother was also one of the people rejected by the matchmaker.

Among their group of girls, except Xing'er, all the other girls have found a home.

But the men were all single.

Liu Chengjie and Shuisheng said that they would talk about marriage after passing the imperial examination, while Liu Chengyi and Liu Fukang were thinking about joining the military camp after passing the examination.

As for Liu Chengtao... Zhuang was so worried that her hair turned white.

He can now be said to be the most knowledgeable of the four of them. He has been to Beihan, Nanjiang, and the capital twice.

Now he is planning to take the caravan to visit Xiling. Liu Xu estimates that after the war in Nanyue is over, this man will probably go to Nanyue for a few more strolls.

Liu Xin shrugged, "My brother said he would bring me a scholar next year, but I don't know if it will work."

"That will definitely work! People say it's nice to lean on a big tree for shade, and his brother-in-law is going to take the imperial examination!" Liu Xu blinked with a mischievous look on her face.

Xing'er was so embarrassed that she threw a pillow at him.

"Hey hey...a gentleman uses words instead of fists. Besides, I'm not wrong." Liu Xu yelled while dodging.

Liu Xin rolled her eyes at her unhappily, "I'm a little girl!"

"Alas, only women and villains are difficult to raise. The ancients were right!" Liu Xu shook his head.

The whole room suddenly burst into laughter.

"Sister Erya, what does it feel like to study with your fiancé?" Liu Xu asked curiously.

Liu Xin was stunned, tilted his head and thought for a while, then said seriously: "It is indescribable!"

"Tsk..." Liu Xu's eyes were about to roll up to the sky.

Maybe because he was engaged to someone he liked, Liu Xin's personality became much more cheerful now. He even teased Liu Xu, "You are so curious, how about I talk to the prince and ask him to accompany you to study next year?"

Liu Xu thought about the scene, touched his chin, and said seriously: "I'll think about it!"

Now not only the four people in the room laughed, but the maids outside also lowered their heads and shrugged their shoulders.

But in the midst of laughter, Liu Chuntao's sharp eyes saw Xing'er's eyes darken, and her heart ached slightly, and she whispered, "Third sister?"

Hearing this, Xing Er raised her head and smiled slightly, "I'm fine!"

But that smile didn't look like nothing happened.

Liu Xu had sharp ears and looked over immediately. Thinking of what happened between her and Yang Mofan, she couldn't help feeling a little pain in her heart.

General Yang had previously said that he would go back and discuss this matter with his wife, but he never mentioned it again after he came back.

Yang Mofan was also in a bad mood. Liu Xu and Liu Xin went to Song Zhiqiu and Qin Hua to inquire about it, and both of them were hesitant.

It was not until later that she asked Mu Lingxuan to ask, and only then did she find out that Madam Yang Er did not agree.

It wasn't that she looked down on Xing'er's family background, but that Madam Yang had already made a verbal agreement with her parents' side a long time ago.

However, it seems that Yang Zheng disagrees, so the matter remains at a stalemate.

Yang Mofan had a quarrel with his mother about this, but judging from the result, it was obvious that the other party did not give in.

However, Mu Lingxuan said that Second Madam Yang could not make the decision on the marriage of the Yang family’s children alone.

As long as the old man or Duke Yang agrees, unless the other party asks for an imperial decree, the marriage between Xing'er and Yang Mofan can be accomplished.

Yang Mofan didn’t know how to explain to Xing’er, so he kept finding excuses to delay it.

Judging from Xing'er's expression, I guess she was thinking about something wrong.