Forced to marry, I picked up a young powerful official

Chapter 241 It’s hard for this child

People in the world respect teachers. Anyone who serves as a teacher is a well-educated person with extensive knowledge. No matter if he is a teacher in an academy or a tutor hired by a noble family, he is always highly regarded.

If you can really gain the reputation of a teacher, it will be a great honor to tell others about it.

What’s more, she is a female teacher.

If one is qualified to be a teacher and teach students, one's own talent, learning and etiquette must be up to standard. If one has this status, it will sound better when he is proposed to a wife in the future and it can be regarded as a virtuous name.

The ladies were also moved at this moment.

Madam Zhang beckoned Zhang Qiongsi over and asked Shen Nankui with a smile, "Madam Gu, can you please take a look and see if my Qiong'er has enough experience?"

Shen Nankui took Zhang Qiongsi's hand and said with a smile: "I have heard that sister Qiongsi is full of poetry and literature, and is quite famous in Yongzhou. I think she is qualified."

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said, "Then are you willing to accept her as your servant?"

Shen Nankui showed a happy expression, "Of course I am willing to do so. It depends on what Sister Qiong Si thinks."

Zhang Qiongsi straightened his body and bowed, "Qiongsi will follow the orders of the state's respected lady from now on."

The women's academy is still nowhere to be seen, but the girl from the Zhang family has already been chosen as a teacher. Everyone can't help but feel jealous, but they also know that given the relationship between the Gu and Zhang families, today's show is nothing more than a show for everyone.

But this scene did achieve its effect.

Everyone was not stupid, and seeing this, they all agreed, "What Madam Zhouzun said just now is very right. Everything will go smoothly if it gets off to a good start. Now that the women's college has not yet been built, Madam Zhouzun has gained a 'general'. Isn't this a victory at the beginning?"

"It's such a great thing, we all have to toast her a few more times!"

"Exactly, exactly!"

Shen Nankui smiled like a spring breeze, "My dear elders and ladies, you have honored me by coming to my humble home today and have made generous donations. If I have to toast, it should be you. When the academy is completed and opened in the future, I will definitely invite you to come and write inscriptions for the academy together."

The academy was newly opened, and the people invited to write inscriptions were all famous scholars. Everyone was able to have this honor, which was also due to Shen Nankui, and they couldn't help but have some expectations for the women's academy.

The atmosphere in the side hall became lively again.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Shen Nankui ordered his servants to serve the food. Soon, the food and wine were served and everyone started the feast.

All the ladies who were invited today have pledged to donate, and each of them has contributed a sum of money. While everyone was cheering, they all pulled Shen Nankui to drink. But Shen Nankui was the host and the person who was in charge of the fundraiser today. He owed a favor to everyone present, so he couldn't blush easily and had to accept it one by one.

After three rounds of drinks, her face had turned red and even her steps were a little weak.

Mrs. Zhang saw this and thought that it would not be good for her, as the host, to leave her guests drunk, so she secretly asked Zhang Qiongsi to block some wine for her.

It was almost afternoon when the banquet ended.

When the ladies of each family left the prefectural mansion, they were basically supported by others. After everyone had left, only the Zhang mother and daughter and Shen Nankui were left in the prefectural mansion.

Mrs. Zhang was fine. She thought that as an elder, she had to look after Shen Nankui to some extent, so she didn't drink much. But Shen Nankui and Zhang Qiongsi, one was forced to drink while the other helped to block the drinking, both of them were almost drunk and fell in their chairs talking in delirium.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhang shook her head helplessly.

He walked up to his daughter and tapped her forehead with his finger, "If your father knew that I indulged you in drinking outside, I'm afraid he would get angry."

The men had no scruples, but if a girl got drunk outside, she would be criticized. If outsiders knew about it, they would inevitably criticize her for her dissolute behavior. Fortunately, the Gu family was not a stranger, and only the ladies of various families came today, so there was no problem.

Mrs. Zhang sighed lightly, not knowing what she was thinking about.

She looked at Shen Nankui again, only to see that her face was red, like a ripe apple, and her eyes were loosely closed, as if she had fainted from alcohol.

Mrs. Zhang touched her forehead with her palm and found it was burning hot.

"Alas, it's hard for this child."

In her impression, every time she saw Shen Nankui, the latter always looked as if she would not change her expression even if the sky was falling. She was well-founded in what she said and did, making people feel like they were in spring breeze, and almost making people forget her real age.

Hehua came in with two bowls of sobering soup and gave one bowl to Gui's mother. Zhang Qiongsi was able to respond when Hongdou called him and drank the sobering soup obediently from Gui's mother's hand. However, Shen Nankui was a little bit difficult to wake up.

He Hua was anxious, "What should I do? My wife has never been drunk like this since she was a child!"

Madam Zhang comforted her, "Don't worry, your master is just drunk. He will be fine after drinking the sobering soup and going home to sleep."

She used a little force in her hands to push Shen Nankui's shoulders, "Nankui, child, wake up first!"

Shen Nankui opened his eyes dimly and said incoherently: "Hehua...send people with the list to...go to each family to get the money..."

Mrs. Zhang laughed when she heard this, "This child, even when drunk, is still thinking about serious matters."

He Hua said, "Madam, don't worry. Everything has been arranged long ago. You should drink this bowl of hangover soup quickly."

"If I don't drink...I'll have a headache."

Seeing her like this, He Hua felt distressed and coaxed her gently: "Drink the hangover soup and your headache will go away, ah."

Madam Zhang shook her head. "She's in such a state, I'm afraid she's in trouble. So, you hold her and I'll feed her the hangover soup. She rarely gets drunk, so she can't not drink it. The headache alone is enough to make her suffer for a while."

It took the combined efforts of the two to get Shen Nankui to drink half a bowl of the hangover soup.

Madam Zhang glanced at the sky outside and said, "It's getting late. I'll take Qiong'er back first. When Nan Kui wakes up, tell her."

Hehua knelt down and said, "Yes."

After the Zhang mother and daughter left, Hehua also arranged to take Shen Nankui back to the house in Deshui Lane.

In fact, the prefectural mansion had been renovated long ago, and all the servants and supplies in the mansion had been purchased. Shen Nankui was drunk, so it would be fine for her to live here. But Ah Nao was in Deshui Lane, and Hehua knew that she was worried about her children and would definitely go back, so she didn't bother Shen Nankui and took her away directly.

……

Shen Nankui didn't know how long he had slept.

I just felt that she seemed to have had a very long dream, sometimes it was in her past life, sometimes it was in this life.

In one dream, a strange man and woman appeared and claimed to be her biological parents and wanted to take her away. Shen Nankui cried and asked, since they knew they would take her away, why didn’t they want her after she was born? Did they think that just because she occupied the Shen family’s wealthy home, she would really become a wealthy person? Wouldn’t she be a puppet all her life, locked in a deep courtyard, a pawn for the Shen family to make profits, and a cover for the Marquis’ Mansion to cover up its shame? Since they came to take her today, why did they abandon her for their own selfish desires? Wouldn’t it be better to let everyone live their own lives? Even if she could only grow into a weed in the countryside, she would be free, wouldn’t she?

The scene changed and a baby's face appeared again.

Zooming out, one can see a young man holding her. He has handsome features and a smile in his eyes. He is holding a book and reading poetry to the baby in his arms.

Another young woman came over and said to him with a smile: "Child is so young, how can you understand?"

The man said: I understand, look, she is smiling.

The sun was shining brightly, and a large bamboo forest by the wall was covered with mottled green shadows. The fine rays of light that leaked through swayed gently in the wind, as if giving the three of them a layer of warm fluorescence.

"…Mom is still asleep. Let's stay with her. Be good and don't cry."

The voice became clearer and clearer in her ears. Shen Nankui suddenly felt that her fingers were entangled by something and slowly opened her eyes.