Especially his hesitant deanor, was repeatedly acted out in her dreams.
Perhaps, he still had sothing to say to her, but was burdened by various concerns and never got to it in the end.
Thinking of Qin Ru’s visit to Huangjue Temple, Su Pan’er naturally stopped worrying about Qin Ru’s dical treatnt and refocused on caring for Little Yanyan.
Little Yanyan seed to be growing cheerier by the day, gradually learning to express herself through her eyes. At a glance, her eyebrows, eyes, nose, and cheeks were all similar to Qin Yi’s. Aside from her facial features being softer and gentler than Qin Yi’s, she looked just like a miniature version of him. This made Su Pan’er dote on her even more and she could hardly put Little Yanyan down.
However, one person still managed to outmatch her!
These days, Ke’er spent his ti loitering around Su Pan’er’s courtyard and took every opportunity to pinch Little Yanyan’s face. For this, he got his hand smacked by Pan’er quite a few tis.
"Fourth sister, fourth sister look! Yanyan is grabbing my hand! She’s grabbing my hand, look, look quick!"
With a loud voice full of excitent as if he had made a new discovery, Su Ke startled Little Yanyan who was lying on her chaise lounge into thinking that Ke’er was talking to her. She laughed heartily, kicking up her legs vigorously.
"Is that right! Ah, good girl, Yanyan!"
Su Pan’er put down the little quilt she was preparing and saw that Little Yanyan was full of delight. She couldn’t help but reach out to hold her, only to have Ke’er get there first.
"Fourth sister, we promised that I would play with Yanyan for a while, why aren’t you keeping your word? Are you still my fourth sister?"
"What do you an by ’play for a while’? Yanyan is my daughter, and not sothing for you to toy with. Give her to now!"
Su Pan’er reached out to take her.
"No, I won’t give her to you! Fourth Sister doesn’t keep her word, hmph! If you dare to snatch her away, I won’t keep my word in the future!"
Ke’er’s words carried a threat, which made Su Pan’er stop her outstretched hand in mid-air.
She squinted a little, "Did you complete the howork assigned by the two teachers yesterday?"
"Hehehe, of course I did, fourth sister. Don’t worry! Ke’er won’t let you down. Isn’t that right, Little Yanyan!"
Ke’er started to play with Little Yanyan’s little hand again, swinging her fine little arm around, causing her to giggle.
"What about the assignnt given by Big Brother Jun? Have you completed it too?"
After the New Year, Ke’er resud his studies under the guidance of two tutors.
However, Qin Yi had already expressed his wishes for Ke’er to get an education in a school.
Right now, The Great Zhou Dynasty had six major academies: Dangu Academy, Yingtian Academy, Yuelu Academy, Bailudong Academy, Longn Academy, and Culai Academy. These six esteed academies were all extrely strict in their admission policies. Among them, the Yingtian Academy in Yingtian Prefecture was the most prestigious, with the strictest admission rules.
After the New Year, Qin Yi made ti to submit an application for Ke’er to Yingtian Academy. Now, Ke’er was just waiting for the unified spring entrance exams of Yingtian Prefecture.
Because of this, Su Pan’er had asked the two tutors to focus on teaching Ke’er the subjects that would be included in the exams.
In addition, she sought help from Jun Ruochen, who had once graduated from Yingtian Academy.
When Su Pan’er asked for his help, Jun Ruochen willingly agreed.
He even copied the exam questions from when he had entered Yingtian Academy and gave them to Ke’er for practice. Apart from that, he also took half a day every three days to tutor Ke’er.
"I’ve completed the assignnt from Big Brother Jun too, Fourth Sister! Hehe, I knew you would make up an excuse, so I finished my howork early!"
Ke’er wore a smug, I-knew-it-all-along expression that left Su Pan’er feeling helplessly amused.
"Fine, you can hold her a little longer."
Turning to Aunt Xiao, she gave an order, "Get the maidservants to add more charcoal to make the room warr. We can’t let the children catch a cold. That’d be terrible."
"Ma’am, the room is warm enough already. If we make it any hotter, I’m afraid it’ll cause excessive internal heat in both adults and children, which isn’t good."
"You’re right. That’s more thoughtful."
Su Pan’er thought for a mont and agreed. She shook her head and apologized, "I was just thinking of making it warr, but I forgot about the excessive heat. In that case, you can have water basins placed at the four corners of the room to prevent it from getting too dry."
"Alright, Ma’am."
Aunt Xiao hurriedly passed on the orders.
Watching Aunt Xiao bustling about, Su Pan’er suddenly rembered sothing, "Aunt Xiao, isn’t Little Xiao Liu getting on in years?"
This question caught Aunt Xiao off guard, and a mont later she couldn’t help but get excited!
She forcefully suppressed her excitent, then carefully answered Su Pan’er, "Little Liu turned eighteen this year. I’ve been thinking, once Ma’am has so spare ti, I planned on asking you for a favor - to find a suitable match for this boy. He’s always been a well-behaved boy, always dutifully doing his work and hardly saying a word. This can’t go on like this."
"Eighteen already, indeed, it’s ti for him to settle down and start his own family."
Su Pan’er nodded, "Right now, since the Qin Family’s Mansion isn’t very old, it doesn’t have as many household retainers compared to other wealthy households that have been established for hundreds of years. Although there are quite a few maidservants here, we could do with more. Aunt Xiao, just keep an eye out and see if there’s anyone you find suitable. If you find soone who ets your approval, you can let know."
This was her chance to pick a daughter-in-law on her own!
Aunt Xiao was trembling with excitent. She quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Su Pan’er, "I will rember Ma’am’s kindness towards Little Liu in my heart. Once we have a definite prospect, I’ll certainly have Little Liu co and bow to you, Ma’am."
"Aunt Xiao, get up. After all, you’ve been with us for a long ti. Little Liu, Little Qi, and Xiao Min are all kids that I’ve watched grow up. During our most difficult tis, you were all loyal to us, serving us diligently. This is what you all deserve!"
"But all this is what we should be doing. It’s Ma’am’s kindness that allows all this."
Aunt Xiao was looking extrely pleased. In her heart, she started to consider which maidservant she could select to beco her daughter-in-law.
anwhile, Su Pan’er was pleased with the prospect of developing trusted aides.
Little Liu and Little Qi were both loyal children. Although they were still young, they would grow to be capable in the future.
Marrying a maidservant from their own house would an that future children would be considered born of the family.
Especially since Little Qi was currently serving Ke’er, once Ke’er left for the academy, he would need a reliable aide. Marrying off Little Liu to a maidservant from the mansion would ensure that there would be no fear of betrayal, and it would be more reassuring to have them around.
Speaking of going to the academy, during their last conversation, Jun Ruochen ntioned that one needed to pass a vocal music exam to get in. Ke’er had no previous exposure to that and it looked like that module would be a challenge.
Just as she was thinking about Jun Ruochen, he unexpectedly made another visit! He also brought along several musical instrunts for Ke’er to choose from.
"Younger Sister Pan’er, tomorrow is the first day of the lunar month, my mother and Younger Sister Xue’er are planning to go to Huangjue Temple to offer incense and pray. I don’t know if you’ll be free Pan’er, would you like to co along?"
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