The Ace Bigshot Becomes A Farmgirl

Filial piety?

Ying Xi looked at her own lady’s somewhat wicked smile and swallowed hard.

My lady, are you serious? The people you’re being ”filial” to might not be able to withstand it.

That’s what she thought, but Ying Xi was actually quite excited, cracking her knuckles and starting to get ready.

That very night, Shu Yu told the others that she was going to Ruan Family Village.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, then the old lady’s expression turned very odd, about the same as Ying Xi’s when she’d first heard it. She glanced at Madam Ruan and lowered her voice, asking, ”You’re really going there... to be filial?”

Shu Yu nodded with certainty. ”Of course.”

Everyone, ”...”

The old lady actually started to feel sorry for those few people in Ruan Family Village. Their days were going just fine, and the Lu family hadn’t kept chasing the matter from back then. So why insist on rushing over to get beaten now? What on earth is going on in their heads?

But once Shu Yu had decided on something, the others didn’t say much more.

Only when Madam Ruan went back to her room did she turn and look at Shu Yu a few times, wanting to speak but holding back.

The next day, Shu Yu took Ying Xi to the street to buy some incense, candles, and paper money. Her actions were perfectly open and aboveboard; she clearly had no intention of hiding anything.

But those who saw it were quite surprised.

This wasn’t any festival or holiday, so suddenly buying this kind of stuff could only mean someone close to her had passed away.

With County Lord Shuyu’s status there for all to see, of course people would go ask around. And when they did, they found that everyone in the Lu family was in good health. The only possible person turned out to be Old Lady Ruan.

Everyone immediately started praising Shu Yu to the skies. That Old Lady Ruan treated her like that, yet she still bore no grudge. Truly worthy of being Wen’an County Lord; her magnanimity and breadth of mind are something else.

When Shu Yu heard this, her expression was particularly complicated. Whether in Jiangyuan County or Chenggu County, why did the common folk always insist on elevating her character to such lofty heights?

Shu Yu didn’t buy much incense, candles, and paper money. It was still early, and she planned to go after noon.

Unexpectedly, the people from Ruan Family Village couldn’t wait. The cousin who’d come the day before used the excuse of entering the city to shop to come to Liufang Alley and look for Madam Ruan, asking if she’d made up her mind about whether she would go send her aunt on her final journey.

Madam Ruan only said that someone would go, and the cousin was reassured and went back on his own.

However, Madam Ruan had never said who that ”someone” would be.

Just past noon, Ying Xi hitched up the carriage. The two of them gathered their things and prepared to set off.

But just as they reached the door, they saw an officer from the courier station running over in a hurry, his face full of excitement. When he was still ten meters away and saw Shu Yu, he shouted loudly, ”County magistrate, County magistrate, good news! Young Master Meng has passed the county-level exam, and he’s the Top Scorer. This is your letter.”

Shu Yu froze. The nearby pedestrians all suddenly stopped in their tracks and turned their heads to look.

The county-level examination results for this part of Dongan Province had come out a few days earlier. Their Jiangyuan County hadn’t done too badly this time; two people passed the scholarly examination. The county town had been quite lively over it. Everyone talked about it with great interest for quite a while, and even the county magistrate had sent congratulatory gifts.

But their rankings weren’t very high. One of the scholars had taken the exam many times and was already over fifty before finally passing.

And now what had they just heard? Top Scorer? That County Lord’s fiancé, Young Master Meng, had actually become the Top Scorer?

They’d already heard before that the County Lord’s future husband was a man of exceptional learning, who on his first time taking the imperial examinations had already taken the ”small triple crown.” Many people had regretted that his household registration wasn’t here.

And now he’d taken first place in the county-level exam as well. His future prospects were simply boundless.