The back house of the Qin family has a courtyard layout.

The five rooms to the north are the main house, which is Qin Yutian's residence. There is a central hall, with study rooms and bedrooms on both sides. When you pass through the corner door on the west side of the main house, you will immediately be greeted by the fragrance of flowers. This is a small garden, but it is particularly unique.

There are all kinds of flowers planted in the garden, which are in full bloom. A swing sways in the wind.

There are two cross-courtyards on the east and west sides of the garden. The Liu family lives in the east courtyard, and the Hou family lives in the west courtyard. The fourth daughter of the Qin family lives with the Hou family; the second daughter Qin Muyao has a courtyard next to the Hou family's.

There is also a courtyard adjacent to the west courtyard and the east courtyard, which has been vacant and uninhabited.

Qin Yutian was illiterate and preferred arty elegance. He specially invited people to name each courtyard. Liu's east courtyard was named Mingqiu Garden; Hou's west courtyard was named Jiayuexuan; and the second lady's courtyard was called Caiwei Pavilion.

As for the main house, bedroom, study room and practice room where he lived, they all had inscriptions.

Qin Xiao and Qin Zhong have grown up, and they live in the front yard and the east and west courtyards respectively. One is called Mingzhang and the other is Shuyu.

Such a large house with three entrances costs at least five thousand taels of silver in Tokyo City. With Qin Yutian's salary level, he cannot afford to live there. However, this is the northwest, and it is Shayuan Prison. With his

Because of his official position, it was normal for him to spend very little money to buy this house. Naturally, no one would gossip about him going over the limit.

Under the flower trees in the east courtyard, Aunt Liu changed into a thin lavender gauze skirt and leaned on the brocade couch, as lazy as a cat. Several young maids gently shook their fans to drive away the heat of noon.

Aunt Liu was born as a singer, and she has a good appearance and figure. She is almost forty years old, but she still looks like she is twenty years old. The skin under her gauze skirt is smooth and smooth, and she has the charm of a mature woman.

"Alas." Aunt Liu sighed softly and asked, "Has Dalang ever come back?"

"As for my wife, the eldest young master has not come back yet."

"What a careless person." Aunt Liu was annoyed, but there was nothing she could do.

Suddenly, a little maid ran in like crazy, shouting as she ran, "It's not good, it's not good, my wife is not good." Before she could finish her words, she stumbled to the ground with a plop, and she screamed in pain.

"Why are you panicking?" Aunt Liu scolded angrily.

The little maid got up, not daring to speak, and sobbed softly with tears in her eyes.

"What happened?" asked an older maid next to Aunt Liu.

"Oh." The little maid was so painful that she forgot that she still had something important to report, and said hurriedly, "Everyone in front of the gate has left."

"Leaving?" Aunt Liu straightened her back with an impossible look on her face.

"Really, they're all gone." The little maid nodded heavily.

"Tell me clearly, why you left and what happened?"

"It's the third young master." The little maid stopped talking and glanced at Aunt Liu secretly. "Just now, he asked Fu Bao to post a pair of pairs outside the door for the scholars to match."

"In the end, no one could stand up to him, so they all left."

The little maid stumbled and talked, Aunt Liu frowned and listened, and after a long time of effort, she finally understood what happened outside the door. Aunt Liu was silent, but her heart was filled with ups and downs. She couldn't believe that Qin Chong actually

With such knowledge, she could never think of ways to deal with scholars.

A huge turmoil was calmed down in such an understatement?

It would be great if this was my Xiao'er. The disappointment in Aunt Liu's heart is not only because Qin Zhong did not die, nor because of his means of turning the rain around, but because of what Qin Xiao will do with her own biological son.

After training, you can be as talented as Qin Zhong, who became famous in Shayuan Supervisor at a young age and shined brightly.

Thinking of Qin Xiao, Aunt Liu let out a long sigh, full of confusion about the future.

Qin Xiao was born prematurely and was frail and sickly since he was a child. He could not live without decoctions. When he was in his teens, he was still as thin as a chicken. Naturally, he was unable to practice martial arts with such a body. Later, he was sent to study, but he could not study. Qin Xiao, who had read the Four Books and Five Classics,

I had a splitting headache at night and often pretended to be sick to avoid going to school.

Qin Yutian was extremely disappointed because of his incompetence in martial arts and literature, and he gradually turned a blind eye and let himself go.

In fact, Qin Yutian and Aunt Liu didn't know that Qin Xiao was very interested in accounting. At a very young age, he showed a talent for accounting. He could calculate the household's incoming and outgoing accounts faster than the accountant.

This made the accountant very curious, so he taught some simple multiplication and division shortcuts, which Qin Xiao quickly learned. The accountant increased the difficulty, first with daily arithmetic, then with multiplication and division of fields and acres, and finally, he moved out nine chapters of arithmetic. Qin Xiao

Xiao seemed to have discovered a new world, and she spent all her sleep and food immersed in it.

Then, the accountant could no longer teach. At that time, Qin Xiao was only fifteen years old.

But this matter was hidden from Aunt Liu. In this era, everything is of low quality, only good education. Aunt Liu, who is strong in everything and has a higher ambition than the sky, has great expectations for her son, and hopes that in the future, a mother will be more valuable than a son.

The grievance of being a concubine has been washed away for half of his life. Therefore, for Qin Xiao, studying to become a Jinshi is the only way.

Every day, Qin Xiao went to school in a decent manner, but instead of studying the Four Books and Five Classics, he searched for arithmetic books everywhere and studied secretly. When he encountered a difficult problem, he went to the accountant for advice. However, the accountant had limited knowledge, so he recommended one.

A familiar scribe and Qin Xiao’s second husband, Liang Zheng.

This Liang Zheng is not an ordinary person. Although he is just a clerk in Hucao, he is very different. The Liang family is an old family in Dali County. Every generation, someone enters the county government and serves as a clerk. After several lifetimes of management, Hucao

The position of secretary is as if it belongs to the Liang family and no one can take it away.

This is the skill of the Liang family, the study of accounting, and the origin of family learning. Measurement of acres, collection of taxes, and all related calculations and accounts are all returned to the household. Paper was expensive in this era, and printing was even more expensive. Therefore, there were very few books, including arithmetic books.

Even less pitiful. Calculation skills and knowledge cannot be learned at all without anyone's guidance.

Those who truly study a subject or skill are those who have relied on it for generations. The Taoism in this subject cannot be mastered by reading a few books or learning a few techniques. The joints, depth, and even

Including experience, experience, and vision, if you want to become familiar with it, it will not be accomplished in a day.

It is enough to become a family or a unique skill passed down by the family, and is regarded as a secret that is not passed down.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the spring of the second year of Baoyuan, and Qin Xiao celebrated her nineteenth birthday.

For two years, Qin Xiao secretly followed Liang Zhengxi to learn arithmetic. She thought she had concealed it perfectly, but in the end, she was discovered by Aunt Liu. For Aunt Liu, who was looking forward to her son's gold medal, this was like a bolt from the blue. At that moment, Aunt Liu

I felt like the sky was falling and I was completely furious.

She had high hopes for Qin Xiao, hoping that in the future a mother would be more valuable than her son. Who would have thought that Qin Xiao would be willing to degenerate and learn nothing about arithmetic. Can arithmetic lead to Jinshi? Can being an accountant bring glory to the ancestors? Will he be a servant all his life?

?This kind of Qin Xiao is definitely not what Aunt Liu wants.

Aunt Liu got angry and beat Qin Xiao well, and burned all the books on arithmetic. Even the accountant in the mansion was so angry that Aunt Liu found an excuse to drive him out of the mansion.

Qin Xiao was frightened. He had never seen his mother so angry. It took a full month for Qin Xiao to recover from his injuries and get out of bed. His whole body was skin and bones, and he was so thin that he was not human-like. However, the biggest change was

He seemed to have a mental problem, his eyes were stiff and lifeless, and he sat all day without saying a word.

Aunt Liu looked distressed and persuaded Qin Xiao to go out to relax. The result of the relaxation was to get drunk. Qin Xiao drank so drunk every day that he was carried back by the servant late at night, and it was the same the next day. Such days lasted for several months, and even

Aunt Liu lost her energy and was about to compromise when Qin Xiao became normal again.

Until this day, Qin Xiao stopped drinking and went to the academy to study on time every day.

Aunt Liu was very puzzled, so she called the servant to ask questions, and finally figured out the reason.

It turned out that Qin Xiao went to a brothel and met an oiran. When the two hit it off, they persuaded Qin Xiao not to let down his good years. A good man should do something good to live in this world in vain. Although his son visited the brothel,

Aunt Liu felt unhappy, but she accepted it if she could cheer up and study.

However, the original appearance of the matter is not like this.

It's true that Qin Xiao has always been in a brothel, but he has never been able to meet an oiran. Even in Dali County, the price of an oiran is very high. Just for a tea party, it costs ten taels of silver. Unless he has unparalleled talent and poetry that touches people's hearts, don't say

For ten taels of silver, if you pay a hundred taels for it, courtesans all over the city will flock to it.

That day, Qin Xiao drank too much and had a conflict with others.

As they walked in and out, they accidentally bumped into each other. The man was arrogant and cursed loudly.

"Well, you little son of a bitch, you're blind as a dog."

"Damn it, you actually cursed me?" Qin Xiao was drunk and unforgiving.

"Hey, who am I talking about?" The man was from Shayuan Prison. After recognizing Qin Xiao, he immediately curled his lips. "I heard that when the third eldest son of the Qin family was twelve years old, he lifted a three hundred kilogram stone lion and turned it around.

If you don't change your expression, then you are a famous man. Look at your coward, you are a bastard, and you still learn how to visit brothels?"

"I'll beat you to death." Qin Xiao immediately became anxious. Although Qin Chong was his younger brother, he couldn't explain how much he envied and hated him. The difference between a legitimate concubine and a concubine was something that stuck in Qin Xiao's heart.

of thorn.

Qin Xiao yelled, rushed forward and started fighting. But he was so thin and his hands were weak, so how could he be an opponent? He was punched hard several times and was knocked to the ground.

At this moment, Hu Lala broke into several strong men and surrounded Qin Xiao. Behind the strong men, a man slowly stood up. He was dressed in gorgeous brocade clothes, holding a folding fan, and looked like a rich man. But this man

He was short in stature and had a dark face, especially his buck teeth, which completely ruined his image.

This man is well-known in Dali County and everyone knows him. He is Qiu Min, the second son of salt merchant Qiu Shide.

"Throw these people out," Qiu Min said as if there was no one around.

Regardless of the servant going to chase him away, Qiu Min walked up to Qin Xiao with a smile, looked up and down, and clicked his tongue. Qin Xiao's whole body became hairy as he looked at it, thinking that he had offended this demon king.

At this moment, there was chaos in the building. The strong men chased people away arrogantly, causing a lot of yelling. Soon, the yelling and screaming were thrown out of the door, and the entire hall fell silent instantly.

"Second Master Qiu, Second Master Qiu." The old bustard was dressed in red and had hairpins all over his head. At this moment, he ran out of nowhere. He was half surprised, but half happy. "Please show mercy.

"

"Old Madam, you're here just in time." Qiu Min looked away from Qin Xiao, put his hands behind his back, and walked straight to the second floor. As he walked, he said, "I am hosting a banquet for Dalang Qin today. Everyone else should get out of here."

"Sir, isn't it good to drive away so many guests?" the madam said pitifully.

Without looking back, Qiu Min touched it in his arms, raised his hand and threw it back. The golden light was dazzling, and the madam rushed forward in a hurry, catching it firmly with both hands. When he looked closely, he saw that it was a gold leaf.

The old bustard's face sank and he shouted loudly: "Clear the place."

Qin Xiao was injured on his leg and was helped up to the second floor. Until now, he was confused and couldn't figure out why Qiu Min wanted to entertain him. He had carefully thought about it several times and confirmed that he had nothing to do with Qiu Min.
To be continued...