On the contrary, am I not much different from him now?

She clenched the loose silver in her hand. Despite being a concubine, her life at home was worse than that of a maid.

After thinking about it, Wang Wanlian felt a surge of anger that she couldn't vent, and she even felt a sense of nausea.

She glared at Xu Qingyou and threw the loose silver in her hand towards him.

Xu Qingyou reacted quickly and dodged, but her silver coin fell into the stinking ditch beside her.

After hearing the thud, Wang Wanlian realized with a start what she had done in her anger.

She realized she had actually thrown away the silver coin. She glared at Xu Qingyou and jumped into the stinking ditch.

Looking at her frightened expression, Xu Qingyou understood. It seemed that the rich man's daughter had trained her to be very servile.

In this cold weather, and in such a dirty ditch, she actually jumped in.

Standing in the black ditch, she groped around for a long time before finally finding the broken silver coin.

At this moment, Xu Qingyou had already boarded the carriage and left.

At this moment, she turned around and saw Wang Wanlian bowing and scraping as she spoke with the old man selling sesame cakes.

Looking at her lowly appearance, Xu Qingyou smiled mockingly. She lowered the carriage curtain, and the carriage headed towards the capital.

After arriving in the capital, I was really lucky and found a shop with a courtyard in the back.

Knowing he was a top scholar in the imperial examinations, they charged him a lower rent.

The family settled down there, but since it was winter, the snack wasn't available in the capital.

And so, the family resumed that business.

After the provincial and palace examinations, Lu Ziyao gained the emperor's favor.

Originally, he was handsome, and the title of Tan Hua (third-place scholar) was tailor-made for him. However, the emperor did not want to waste his talent and forcibly promoted a man who was over fifty years old to Tan Hua.

Lu Ziyao was the top scholar, achieving the highest honor of passing all three levels of the imperial examinations.

It won't be until May that I need to enter the Hanlin Academy.

So, Lu's mother kept saying that it was time to go back to her hometown to pay respects to her ancestors.

So later on, Xu Qingyou went back to her hometown with them to pay respects to her ancestors.

Xu Changsheng and Li Cuilian stayed in the capital to manage the shop.

Upon returning to his hometown, he was greeted by the villagers who lined the streets to welcome him, after all, he was a top scholar.

He is the number one scholar in the world.

Looking at the bustling crowd around him, Xu Qingyou couldn't help but ponder. This ancient system of education was truly a bit frightening.

Even though she considered herself a top student, she didn't have the courage to take the imperial examination in this ancient era.

After the ancestral worship ceremony, Xu Qingyou went to check on her shop, and Lu Ziyao naturally accompanied her.

After the two went inside, they had just stepped out of the shop when they saw Wang Wanlian bowing and scraping as she was being scolded by a young woman.

Xu Qingyou and Lu Ziyao exchanged a glance, but neither of them left; they just stared at each other.

It had been several months since I last saw Wang Wanlian. She was still wearing the same padded jacket she wore in the winter before.

He was extremely thin, with hardly any flesh on his body, and looked very frail.

Seemingly noticing that Xu Qingyou was looking at her, Wang Wanlian also looked at Xu Qingyou.

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