Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng packed up in a hurry, and when they came out of the room, the butler Dai Xing had already welcomed everyone into the front hall.

When Ye Changyan saw his brother and sister whom he hadn't seen for more than a year, his face was full of excitement and joy. Wulang had grown visibly taller than he had been more than a year ago, and Erniu, who was now fifteen years old, had become even more beautiful.

"Wulang, Erniu, why didn't you tell me in advance that you were coming to Beijing? I had planned to go to Yujing Palace early tomorrow morning to pick up my parents and master to go down the mountain to celebrate the New Year. If you hadn't entered the city today, you would have missed me tomorrow."

"Brother, Brother Zhong said he wanted to give you a surprise, so he didn't send you a message in advance."

Wu Lang was so excited to see his long-lost brother that Ye Changyan's face was full of smiles.

Ye Changyan saw his mother Lian from the sight of Erniu taking out the local specialties she brought from Yuzhou Prefecture and excitedly introducing them. The girl in front of him had already reached the age of marriage and was now considered a grown-up girl. Once her parents were done with mourning, it would be time to arrange her marriage with Zhong Yunfeng.

Seeing her brother looking at her, Erniu was excited but also a little shy. Seeing Zhong Yunfeng looking at her with a doting smile, Erniu's face turned slightly red.

Wulang and Erniu brought quite a lot of things with them, a considerable part of which were prepared by Ye Changyan's maternal grandfather. Now, his maternal grandfather is no longer the tenant farmer in Changxi County. In previous family letters, Ye Changyan knew that his maternal grandfather had bought a few acres of land not far from Shanglin Village. Now, matters such as mushroom cultivation and chicken-fried food have all been handed over to his maternal grandfather, and his maternal grandfather's family is getting better day by day.

However, what Ye Changyan found a little rare was that among the things Wulang and Erniu brought with them, some were prepared by the old house. The most things were prepared by his aunt-in-law, which was easy to understand, after all, his aunt-in-law's daughter and son-in-law came to help him.

Dalang is now doing well in the milk processing workshop, and his wife is pregnant again, and he will soon be a father. From the conversation between Erniu and Wulang, it can be heard that Wulang has become much more mature than he was more than a year ago.

When Erniu took out the things prepared by Second Uncle's Mother, she mentioned that Erlang and Jiang Li'niang's wedding date was set for the sixth day of March after the New Year. Second Uncle also asked Wulang and Erniu to convey the news of Erlang and Jiang Li'niang's marriage to his parents to see if they could go back to attend the wedding.

Zhong Yunfeng gave Ye Changyan a brief account of Erlang and Silang's recent situation. Under the care of his future father-in-law, Erlang has matured a lot and has become more down-to-earth in his work. Now Erlang is in charge of many things in the team. After a period of observation, Zhong Yunfeng was quite satisfied with Erlang's performance in the team.

Ye Changyan was relieved to hear that Erlang had finally matured. After all, among his cousins, Erlang was the most unruly. Erlang was going to get married after the new year, and Ye Changyan was sincerely happy for him.

In Ye Changyan's eyes, Silang is kind-hearted, a bit stubborn, and seems a bit one-track-minded. But precisely because of his honest character, Silang has now become a backbone of the milk processing workshop just as Ye Changyan had arranged. He has won the recognition of many uncles and aunts in the workshop. Silang, who is younger than Ye Changyan, now has many people in the workshop who want to marry him.

However, what surprised Ye Changyan the most was that his eldest aunt actually asked Erniu and Wulang to bring some things. Erniu said that his eldest aunt's cousin Sun Yiming seemed to have not found a decent marriage yet. From what Erniu said, it seemed that Sun Yiming had fallen in love with the daughter of a relatively well-known family in the county town.

But the other party asked for a betrothal gift of one thousand taels. The eldest aunt felt that the other party was asking for too much, but she couldn't resist Sun Yiming, who fell in love with the girl. Sun Yiming was older than Dalang, and seeing that Dalang was about to become a father, Sun Yiming really couldn't afford to delay any longer.

"Brother, you don't know that in order to arrange this marriage for cousin Yiming, my eldest aunt brought Sun Yiming back early last month and went to see my grandmother to see if she could help think of a solution."

Seeing Erniu's contemptuous look, Ye Changyan guessed that the matter might have ended in a bad mood. Ye Changyan did not interrupt and continued to listen to what happened.

"When the eldest aunt came to our house and told us her purpose, the second aunt's wife was furious. She directly brought up the incident of the eldest girl and Silang going to the Sun family to borrow money to save the second uncle and Erlang. I heard that it was a big fight at that time. If it wasn't for my grandmother stopping her, the eldest aunt and cousin Yiming would have been kicked out of the house by the second uncle."

Upon hearing this, Ye Changyan couldn't help but sigh, thinking that what his aunt had done was really too much at the beginning. Now she was just asking for trouble by coming to his house.

"My aunt also said that she arranged my eldest brother's marriage last year and my eldest sister's marriage this year. Seeing that the family will have more children, they don't have much savings, and my aunt didn't borrow money from my uncle."

As soon as Erniu finished speaking, Wulang spoke with some indignation.

"Fortunately, my parents are not at home. They came to the capital. My eldest aunt couldn't borrow money from the old house, so she dragged my grandmother to come to our house."

Ye Changyan and Liang Jingcheng were both a little surprised, but after listening to Wulang's words, it seemed that the eldest aunt's visit to their house was probably in vain.

"At that time, I was in Mr. Xia's private school and not at home. My sister said that our family's money was kept by mother. Now mother has gone to the capital, and she only left some for the family's daily expenses."

Ye Changyan raised his lips slightly, revealing a smile. If his parents were at home, with his mother's temper, she would not be indifferent, but if she wanted to borrow too much, it would be unlikely.

But if the eldest aunt plays the family card with his father, and with the support of his grandmother, Ye Changyan estimates that his father, who is a bit of a spoiled child, will not watch his nephew being unable to get married at such an old age. Let alone one thousand taels, the other party might ask for a mountain of gold. As long as Ye Xiaozheng knows that his family has it, he will probably give it to him.

It's not that Ye Changyan was unwilling to lend money to his eldest aunt, but the behavior of his eldest aunt's family made Ye Changyan feel that it was not worth it. When he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar, his eldest aunt completely ignored the fact that her family was still in mourning, and hurriedly proposed to marry him and Erniu. Second Uncle and Erlang were locked up in the cell, not to mention taking the initiative to ask about it. It was not until Da Niu and Silang came to them in person that Ye Changyan realized that his eldest aunt's behavior was really too cold.