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Chapter Fourteen: Ambition in the Bathtub

In the next few days, Jia Gongqiu was unintentional in doing things. Whether it was practicing kung fu, piano, or reading and calligraphy, he had no intention.

There were not many quarrels at home. After the Sixth Master decided, the board of directors quickly agreed. The servants at home left one after another. The outer yard was soon empty, and a doorman, a chef and a coachman were left at home, and a girl was left in each room. Two servants were left in the whole yard, and the rest were all dismissed.

When the decision was announced at home, the servants and the girls reacted very much, and a few were even more intense. Jia Kuanyuan suppressed it as a district leader. Sui'er quietly told Jia Gongqiu that in fact, these servants and girls were unwilling to leave. The work in the Jia family was much easier and the wages were higher than that of the workshop workers.

"Sixth Master, grandma, there is nothing we can do, everyone can only accept it."

Sui'er's tone was regretful, lucky, and there was also a hint of worry. Jia Gongqiu was the only girl who was by her side, and no one was fighting with her. Besides, Grandpa Six and Jia Gongqiu were also quite satisfied with her, so she could stay.

But what to do in the future? As a rural girl, her family is very poor and she doesn’t know a few words. What can she do in Yanjing City? Where can she go after leaving the Jia Mansion?

"What's wrong with you these two days?" Wu Feng soon found that Jia Gongqiu was uneasy. He had already made him angry several times when he was stomping on his horse. After getting angry, he regretted it a little.

When he first started teaching, he could not resist the request of Master Liu and Grandma and taught some ideas that he would finish it. But after contacting him, he found that Jia Gongqiu was very serious and could endure hardships. He completed the training every day seriously. After several months, it made great progress. The stability of the lower plate was significantly improved. This was already rare for a five-year-old child.

But in the past two days, Wu Feng found that Jia Gongqiu was obviously worried. He was distracted from doing things and practicing martial arts. Sometimes he was muttering something in his mouth, which made him strange and angry.

"Oh, I'm so worried." Jia Gongqiu couldn't help singing a lyrics, but his little face couldn't contact me anyway. Sui'er laughed at the side, and Wu Feng couldn't help but smile.

"Teacher, why do you need a joint venture? Did my dad get confused by...?" Jia Gongqiu almost said that he was kicked by a donkey, and then changed his words when he said something.

"Don't be confused?" Wu Feng smiled faintly and patted him on the head twice: "Sixth Master is not confused. In the future, you want him to be half capable, and you will leave the world."

"Ah!" Jia Gongqiu's eyes widened. This cheap dad was so powerful. Even a tough guy like Wu Feng admired him so much.

Although Wu Feng had only taught him for a few months, Jia Gongqiu fully understood his pros and cons. With one palm, a wooden stick as thick as a bowl could be split in half, and he could climb a cliff a hundred meters high with bare hands. The gunshot technique was within a hundred meters, and he was vaguely mentioned when the two were seduced by Jia Gongqiu, but once Jia Gongqiu asked deeply, Wu Feng would never mention it.

"I can't see it." Jia Gongqiu muttered in a low voice, but Wu Feng still heard it. He couldn't help but shake his head: "If you, a five-year-old child, can see it, you will die many times. He has experienced many storms in his life. He will scare you to death if he says it. Such a big man, what are you thinking about? Do what you should do."

"Teacher, can my dad beat you?"

"The real interests never take action." Wu Feng responded lightly.

Although Jia Gongqiu did not completely believe Wu Feng's words, the cheap dad actually made such a powerful martial arts skills and so arrogant Wu Feng admired him, so he was still somewhat worthwhile.

Could it be that you are pretending to be B, and pretending to be B will be denied?

Wu Feng didn't hear it clearly this time. He looked helplessly at Jia Gongqiu walking out with a shaking head. Sui'er followed him with a low smile. After a few steps, he turned around and hurriedly saluted Wu Feng, and then took off Wu Feng's clothes that were taken off, and then he quickly chased Jia Gongqiu.

Wu Feng shook his head helplessly. He said many times that he would wash his clothes by himself, but Sui'er firmly disagreed. He went to his room every day to clean up the room, and took them away if there were any changes. After washing, he took them back.

Gradually, Wu Feng got used to this and became more used to staying in the Jia family and almost never went back to another home.

There are few people in the family now, and the whole yard is deserted. Almost everyone feels the desertedness. On the dining table, everyone is speechless for a long time, leaving only the sound of chewing and swallowing food.

Jia Kuanyuan went home more often, but now he was in a public outrage to the whole family. Except for Liu Ye and Zhu Xiu, almost everyone ignored him. After a few times, he was too lazy to mediate the atmosphere.

Jia Gongqiu still did the same thing as before. After dinner, he threw down the bowl and slid back to his yard. After taking a nap, he got up and started practicing piano. After practicing piano, he practiced calligraphy again. After all this, he was about to have supper. After dinner, he could play for an hour, and then he stole horses.

Apart from practicing kung fu, it takes almost no time for anything else. On the piano, there is a foundation in the past life. Now it is just a review. With the famous teacher Fang Jingyi, his progress can be expressed by speed. Fang Jingyi began to teach Bach's two creative songs.

The water vapor has a strong smell of medicine. After a few months, Jia Gongqiu has become accustomed to this smell. After stance every day, he jumped into the bathtub. The water in the bathtub is not a simple bath water, but is made of five or six kinds of medicines. However, this is not provided by Wu Feng, but made by Liu Ye. Jia Gongqiu asked Liu Ye what the effect of this water was, but Liu Ye didn't say it, just told him to soak for an hour every night.

"Oh, is it really a secret?" Jia Gongqiu murmured in his heart, with a towel covering his little face.

"Is it hot?" Sui'er asked every time, and she looked at the steaming bath water, and she was worried in her eyes.

"Sister Sui'er, what are you going to do in the future?"

"What do you do? What else can I do?" Sui'er was a little confused. The changes at home made her feel a little worried about her future, but she didn't know what to do.

"Sister Sui'er, your household registration is in Yanjing, right?"

"Well, when I registered my household registration last time, I had already registered. Master, what's the use? I'll still have to go back to the countryside in the future."

"This thing is useful, you will know in the future."

Jia Gongqiu recently learned that Yanjing registered his household registration two years ago, and all the servants and girls who left the Jia family had already registered their household registration in Yanjing. This made him a little curious. In his previous life, it was almost difficult for a commoner like Suier to go to the sky.

"Future," Sui'er sighed softly, Jia Gongqiu smiled gently, lifted the towel, lay down to the edge of the bathtub, and looked at Sui'er: "Sister, what are you worried about? No matter what you care about in the future, I will protect you."

Sui'er smiled comfortably and felt sweet, as if her hard work in the past few years had been rewarded. Although she called her young master, in her heart, Jia Gongqiu was undoubtedly a villain like her younger brother. She said that she had been away from home for so many years, and she rarely went home. She also knew the situation at home. With the money she sent home, both younger brothers went to school. The eldest brother should go to junior high school this year, and the younger brother and sister also went to elementary school.

In the countryside, it is difficult for girls to go to school, but Suier's parents still let her sister go to school. Suier certainly didn't know that this was because she threatened that if she didn't let her sister study, she would no longer send money to go home.

Of course, Sui'er didn't know that this threat was not her, but Jia Gongqiu. Sui'er was illiterate. Every letter she wrote in the past year was written by Jia Gongqiu, and every reply was read to her by Jia Gongqiu.

"Sister, you'd better read some books and recognize some words."

"I am a girl, what's the use of reading and literacy?"

"Why is it useless? Look at Teacher Fang, Dai'er, and my mother. Don't they all know literacy? Sister, I will teach you in the future." Jia Gongqiu's favorite is Sui'er's gentleness, who feels her inferiority complex, and her love suddenly floods, and she can't stop her, and she takes on everything.

"How can I compare with my wife? I am just a poor girl in the countryside." Sui'er touched the water temperature and felt a little cold. She picked up the water scoop and scooped out some of the water, then picked up the bucket next to her and poured the hot water in.

"Poor girl?" Jia Gongqiu smiled: "Do you know what our ancestors of the Jia family do?"

Sui'er was busy lifting water from outside. She had just scooped the water from the big pot into the bucket when she heard something moving at the door. She looked up and saw Zhu Xiu and Liu Ye sneaking in. Zhu Xiu raised a finger to her mouth.

"The ancestors of our Jia family are actually just paupers, walking around the streets and alleys, wiping bells to practice medicine, and they are just poor doctors who travel around the world. But this poor doctor who relies on his own knowledge to lay the foundation of the Jia family for hundreds of years;

Sister, do you know why so many poor doctors who roam the bells and practice medicine, only our Jia family’s ancestors have built such a country? In fact, the reason is very simple. It boils down to one sentence: knowledge is power.

Where does knowledge come from books?

Therefore, it is not scary to be poor, but what is scary is that you have no knowledge. So, sister, you have to study, and only by having knowledge can you change your destiny.

There is a saying that you are not afraid of hooligans, you are afraid of hooligans being educated."

Jia Gongqiu closed his eyes and talked casually, without noticing that there were two more people outside the curtain. Zhu Xiu signaled Sui'er to continue adding water to it. Sui'er's face turned pale. She wanted to remind the young master, but she didn't dare and could only move mechanically.

"Who is the most admired person in this world? Sister, I tell you, those who fight the world with bare hands and reach the top of the world from grassroots. No matter where they are placed, they are admirable.

Let’s talk about the old man. In the clan, why? The most important thing is that the old man beat Jinan with bare hands and empty hand, rather than relying on the little things left by his ancestors.

Let’s talk about my mom, Kuanguang said that my mom was born as a girl, but he knew that people like him were not worthy of carrying shoes to my mom. They were just a second-generation ancestor. They didn’t even have the ability to be a playboy. They were purely useless. They would cry in the future.

Sister, are you interested? In the future, Kuanguang is your servant. Don’t give him a too high position. If you don’t have it, you can’t. With this guy’s character, you can also put the door in. This waste, except for eating, seems to know nothing. My master doesn’t know where to place him. Forget it, just raise him as a pig.”

Jia Gongqiu was incoherent and Suier's face turned pale. When he heard Kuanguang's comments, he wanted to laugh but didn't dare. He took advantage of the time he was carrying water to secretly look at Liu Ye and Zhu Xiu. Liu Ye was smiling, but Zhu Xiu's expression was a little unpleasant.

"Oh, by the way, sister, is it an hour since my dad is mysterious in everything he does? What's the use of soaking this potion? He also has to soak it into roast duck every time. Damn, it's red-skinned."

Sui'er came in with a bucket of water and thought to herself, Master, please stop talking nonsense. The master and wife are just outside. She poured the water into the bucket and reached out to touch it: "Is the temperature enough?"

"Enough, enough, if you burn it, you will become red-skinned roast duck."

It was very lonely and sad to take this kind of bath. Jia Gongqiu always pulled Sui'er and talked nonsense. Sui'er was used to his nonsense. But today it was heard by Liu Ye and Zhu Xiu. What was even more unlucky is that this young master was still unrestrained. Not only did he comment on the people in the mansion, but also commented on Liu Ye and Zhu Xiu. It was really...

The white woven lamp was a little dim, and the inner room that covered the curtain became even darker. Jia Gongqiu turned his back to the outside room, not knowing the situation outside at all. Two buckets of steaming potion came down, and the water temperature in the bucket was much higher. Sui'er deliberately poured the hot water near his body, and it became even hotter. A layer of water mist rose, and the smell of medicine in the air became even stronger.

"Boy, you have great ambitions."

Jia Gongqiu's body was a little stiff, and he slowly turned around. When he looked at the Sixth Master Zhu Xiu who came in with the curtain, he had already smiled brightly: "Dad, mom, why are you here?"

"If we don't come, how can we know that you have such great ambitions?" Sixth Master's eyes were a little joking: "Do you want to raise Kuanguang as a pig?"

"Hehe, dad, mom, who can treat our eldest nephew as a pig? It's absolutely not possible? Hehe, dad, have you heard it wrong? Sister Sui'er, have I said this?"

Sui'er smiled, without answering, and went out with the bucket. Zhu Xiu brought the stool to Master Liu. Master Liu sat down and stared at Jia Gongqiu from a high place. Jia Gongqiu felt a little scared. He didn't have that feeling before, but today he suddenly realized that Master Liu's eyes were sharp, as if he wanted to see through his inner world.

"Dad, don't look at me like this. My heart is so thumping, and my blood pressure is already very high."

Zhu Xiu could no longer hold back and laughed out loud. Sixth Master also smiled. Zhu Xiu said angrily: "At a young age, there are so many messy thoughts."

"Mom, it's not my fault for precocious maturity." Jia Gongqiu threw out a grievance and charming look.

Jia Gongqiu was actually very nervous. He didn't know what Liu Ye and Zhu Xiu heard, and forgot what he said. He was trying his best to cover up his panic. Fortunately, this was already his habit, at least no one noticed it yet.

"Son, having ambition is not a bad thing, but having ambition is not enough, and you also need to have means. Do you have such means?" asked Master Liu.

Jia Gongqiu felt a little relaxed, and he still smiled sweetly, but his eyes were rolling around: "Can Dad teach me?"

Sixth Master lowered his head and thought. Jia Gongqiu didn't know what he was thinking. He felt his smile a little stiff. Zhu Xiu asked lightly: "What do you know from that?"

Jia Gongqiu understood what she was referring to after a little effort. He smiled innocently again: "I heard what Kuanguang and the others said, Mom, our ancestors really roamed the bells and practiced medicine."

Zhu Xiu glared at him fiercely, feeling extremely hated. He was born in a humble origin and controlled the entire Jia family. These young masters and ladies were convinced and dissatisfied. They used this to make fun of it every now and then, and vented their dissatisfaction. It was better for their own sons. Don’t be too young and had knowledge, and they were much better than those young masters and ladies.

"There is a saying that you say well, knowledge is power," Master Liu said lightly: "Since you know this, why have you never seen you go up to Ruyi Tower?"

Ruyi Tower is the library of the Jia Mansion, which is three floors high. After all, the Jia Mansion is a medical family, and its collection of books is not as good as those of the scholarly families. However, even so, it has accumulated a lot over the past few hundred years.

The ancestors of the Jia family did not want all the descendants of the Jia family to study medicine, and also hoped that the descendants of the Jia family could produce several top scholars and Jinshi, but it was strange that over the past few hundred years, the Jia family had produced several talents in medicine, and they could even be said to be geniuses, but they didn't even have a single Jinshi, at most they were Juren.

Ruyi Tower is now the least valued area of ​​the Jia family. Among the grandsons of the Kuan generation, Jia Kuanyuan was born. No one else likes reading. Jia Yun likes reading and often holds this collection of poems in her hand. But Ruyi Tower is full of classics, history, and literature collections, and Xu Zhimo is not qualified yet.

Jia Gongqiu frowned slightly and showed a bitter face: "Dad, okay, okay, I'm only five years old, I'm just a bud of my motherland. I'm so old, and I'm all enjoying the sunshine outside. I'm not like your son. I can't even go out of the door or go between two doors. I don't know what the outside world looks like, like a young lady."

"Hmph, I want to run out again. Didn't I tell you that you are too young now. You can go out after a few years." Zhu Xiu immediately interrupted, cutting off his little thoughts.

It’s a tragedy. After five years of rebirth, Zhu Xiu never allowed him to take a step out of the Jia Mansion. Before he was five years old, he was not allowed to leave the two doors. Even if he left the room in the deep mansion, Sui'er had to keep pace with him.

At first, Jia Gongqiu didn't know his mother's intention, but later he gradually understood. However, he understood, but he felt that his mother was too full of weapons. With the ability and courage of his elder brother and nephews, he could not act like he was trying to kill money.

Jia Gongqiu showed disappointment without any concealment. Master Liu laughed: "You can't become a tiger in the yard. If you don't travel all over the world, you don't know how big the world is. If you want to go out, go out." Master Liu stood up and said: "If you have time to go upstairs and take a look, it will be good for you. Don't think about it. It's not your turn to be the head of this family."

"I understand, dad." Jia Gongqiu's answer was loud and powerful, and he began to wonder what his dad meant.

"Don't run far away, Sui'er, you have to follow." Zhu Xiu immediately added that since Master Six made a decision, she would not object as usual.

After striving for several times, today I finally got what I wanted. Jia Gongqiu proudly hummed and lit the lantern. Sui'er added hot water to him twice before letting him come out and jumped into the bucket of water next to him.

After leaving the yard, Master Liu suddenly smiled and said to Zhu Xiu, "Your son is not bad, not bad."

Before Zhu Xiu could answer, the Sixth Master left with a smile. The reason why they came here today was that Wu Feng told them that Jia Gongqiu was uneasy recently. They knew that it might be a recent change at home, so they came to take a look. Unexpectedly, they heard such words.

"Oh, this child is really uneasy." Zhu Xiu sighed, but the Sixth Master said: "No, Xiu, your son is better than the justice of the public servant in the future."

After hearing what Liu Ye said, Zhu Xiu felt relieved. After sending Liu Ye back to the room, she turned around and called Sui'er to Baicao Garden for severe interrogation.

Facing Zhu Xiu who was furious, Sui'er was very scared and stammered that when Jia Gongqiu was playing in the yard a few days ago, she met Kuanguang and Kuanmin and others complaining, saying that his wife encouraged Liu Ye to accept the joint venture, and scolded some ugly words there. Jia Gongqiu heard it at that time and went over to ask, and she hurried over to take him away.

"Madam, the young master said I shouldn't take him away. In fact, he is looking for an opportunity to deal with Kuan Guang Kuanmin, but the young master is too young, and I am worried that he will suffer a loss." Sui'er was very worried that Zhu Xiu would drive her out of the Jia Mansion in anger, and her eyes were already dim at this time.

Based on Jia Gongqiu's words just now, Zhu Xiu could conclude that Sui'er had no responsibility, either because she was telling her or because she deliberately took Jia Gongqiu there. She felt a little relieved. If Sui'er had a little bit of a slight ties, she would definitely not let her stay by her son.

"Don't make that pitiful look. Humph, if you have such a thing in the future, tell me not to gossip behind my back."

Zhu Xiu didn't completely believe these girls. She knew very well that these people were choreographing their masters behind their backs, and could do anything that would add fuel to the fire and fan the flames.

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