I feel so good after dressing up as a peasant girl - Chapter 381 Return to Baijia Village

The carriage that Gu Wenxuan and his companions were riding in was naturally not as fast as the fast horses sent by the court, so before they returned home, the government offices in Xingzhou and Qingshan County, as well as the people in Baijia Village, had all received the news that Bai Jingzhou and others had passed the imperial examinations.

The people in Baijia Village were almost going crazy with joy. Their village had four successful Jinshi scholars, Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan, Bai Yaoheng, and Gu Wenhai, as well as a county lady, Gu Wenxuan, who had made great contributions in saving the emperor.

Su Yunzhan and Li Fan, who do not belong to their village, one is Bai Jingxin's husband and the other is a teacher in their village school. They also have certain connections with their village.

Others cannot envy people like Gu Wenxuan, but the path to the imperial examination has always been there.

Even though they knew that Li Fan would not continue to teach in the academy after passing the imperial examination, they were still crazy about sending their child to Baijia Village Academy.

Bai Lizheng is so busy every day dealing with waves of visitors who want to settle down in Baijia Village and send their children to study in Baijia Village School that he is like a spinning top. But the old man does not feel tired at all.

The old man, along with Bai Rong, who had taken over most of his work, enthusiastically entertained the guests.

As for the four families whose families have produced Jinshi, including Bai Lizheng's family, they have been crowded with guests and carriages and horses in recent days.

With the experience of Bai Jingzhou and others when they passed the imperial examination, the people left behind in the four families would not be unable to cope with the messengers who came to report the good news, or the wealthy families and gentry who came to congratulate them.

As before, they gave the runners a generous amount of wedding money, and then received all the wealthy families and gentry politely and courteously, but they returned all the gifts worth more than 100 taels of silver that the guests had brought unopened.

In order not to offend anyone, while returning the expensive gifts, they also prepared a well-balanced return gift for the other party. "We appreciate the kindness, but my family dare not accept expensive gifts."

Those families who sent valuable gifts did so because they had something to ask of them. Now they were politely rejected by the objects of their flattery. Even if they were dissatisfied in their hearts because their plans had been dashed, they dared not say or do anything to the family who had just produced a Jinshi.

As time was tight, the four families discussed and arranged a date and completed the dinner party as quickly as possible.

After that, it becomes a question of who to take to the post, who to stay at home, and what to do with the family property.

None of Bai Jingzhou and his three friends had evil father-in-law or mother-in-law in their families, so naturally they would not do such an immoral thing as letting them take concubines to take up their posts and leaving their wives and children at home to take care of the elderly.

Even those wealthy families and gentry who had sent beauties to their children and grandchildren as concubines, would personally deal with the situation and directly return the beauties, without causing any embarrassment to their children and grandchildren's wives.

The same goes for Gu Wenhai and Bai Jingshan's families. Their respective wives and sons will accompany them to Beijing, while the rest of their family members will continue to live and make money in Baijia Village as usual.

Of course, since Gu Wenhai and Bai Jingshan did not have a house in the capital, they and their wives and children needed to temporarily rent a small house to settle down after arriving in Beijing.

Su Yunzhan is in a similar situation. He will bring Bai Jingxin and the children to Beijing, but his grandparents and parents have already separated the family for him and his older brother, so he doesn't have the choice of who to take with him and who not.

Needless to say, Li Fan must bring his mother, wife and children with him.

For the above considerations, he left his wife and children in Baijia Village and temporarily lived with the Bai Lizheng couple.

Jiang Yuheng made the same choice as him. Tao Chang, like Bai Jingzhou and his friends, brought his wife and children with him. His grandparents and parents, like Bai Chong and his friends, chose to stay at home and manage the business.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to family members, entourage, and guards, Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan also brought the Fang brothers.

Over the years, under the deliberate training of Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou, the Fang brothers have already grown up and become capable of standing on their own.

Now that Bai Jingzhou has entered the Hanlin Academy, perhaps they can do more to help Gu Wenxuan deal with property matters. But when Bai Jingzhou is sent to other government offices in the capital in the future, or enters other government offices, they will most likely be able to help Bai Jingzhou with government affairs.

Compared to the guards and stewards hired from outside whose backgrounds were unknown, Gu Wenxuan and Bai Jingzhou trusted the Fang brothers, who knew them well and had good character, as well as the orphans and a small number of servants they had carefully trained over the years.

Four banquets were held in succession with great fanfare, and all the guests who had brought gifts, close relatives and neighbors were invited to the buffet. Then, on a chosen day, they offered sacrifices to their ancestors. Then, Bai Jingzhou and his three companions led the team to Xingzhou.

Before going to their respective government offices to take up their posts, they had to go back to the academy to thank the teachers who had taught them.

The same was true for Su Yunzhan, Tao Chang and others. They all took the time to thank their teachers.

After presenting generous thank-you gifts to the teachers and a large number of books donated to the academy, and chatting with the principal and teachers for a long time, Bai Jingzhou and others said goodbye and left, heading towards their brighter prospects and future.

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