Chapter 595: The Imperial Examination Family-Prospering System (4)

However, seeing the points required for the potion to treat leg and waist injuries, a bitter smile rose in Song Yanqing's heart.

Completing the daily reading Task rewards 20 points; transcribing books like the Four Books and Five Classics or the Hundred Schools of Thought rewards between 50 and 100 points; there are also corresponding rewards for placing in the Imperial Examination.

These points can be used to redeem every Prop needed for the Imperial Examination, as well as daily necessities like rice, flour, grain, oil, fabric, jewelry, medicinal herbs, and potions.

But even the cheapest healing medicine costs 2000 points, and its efficacy is the same as in reality; it takes a hundred days to recover from a bone or tendon injury. If one wants that Advanced Potion that cures illness instantly, the points required are as high as...

He cannot wait!

Although he is unconscious, his consciousness is very clear.

Their third branch was separated by their grandmother; apart from this Ear Room for shelter, they were given only one mu of poor land, a few bundles of firewood, and one earthenware pot. They have no grain and no money.

His father's waist injury is getting worse by the day, his mother has been exhausted from caring for his father these past few years and her health is far worse than before, and his younger sister is still small. He was the one they could rely on, but now, as misfortune never comes singly, he has broken his leg...

Song Yanqing swallowed a heavy sigh, pursed his dry, chapped lips, and called out, "Mother."

This hoarse, low call finally broke the eerie silence of the moment—

"Yanqing!"

"Brother!"

"Son, you're finally awake! That's wonderful! Sob sob sob..."

"Father, did you see? Brother is awake! Father, don't do anything foolish ever again! Sob sob sob..."

Song Yanqing looked at his family with a smile, then let his gaze fall upon Xie Yang.

"Many thanks, Miss! May I ask where you live? Once my... leg injury is healed, I will certainly come to your door to thank you."

Xie Yang met his clear, deep gaze.

In those eyes, there was gratitude, curiosity, and a touch of confusion that could not be sorted out, but there was absolutely no disdain or aversion.

She smiled with satisfaction.

If she had seen even a tiny bit of aversion toward her in his eyes, even if this person were very much to her liking, she would never have proposed the following plan—

"My name is Xie Yang, and the butcher Xie Rong in town is my father. I came today to ask you, are you willing to marry... no, are you willing to take me as your wife? My dowry is very simple: it is to heal the injuries of you and your father, to make your leg recover as it was, and to ensure your father's waist injury never recurs."

"!!!"

"Son, are we really going to agree to this marriage?"

Lin Shi was both happy and apprehensive.

She was happy that her son had woken up, that a good family had come to propose, and that they were willing to spend money and effort to treat her son's and her husband's injuries. Judging by the girl's tone, it seemed she could hire a formidable doctor who could guarantee the healing of her son's and husband's injuries.

She was apprehensive because this marriage looked mismatched no matter how she saw it.

It wasn't that she looked down on the other party, but... how should she put it! That girl... that girl's build was wide enough to be two of her son put together.

Of course she knew of the Xie Family who slaughtered and sold Pork in town; there were only two butchers in Guixiang Town in total, and it was said they were fellow disciples, only they had fallen out and their relationship was very stiff. However, because Guixiang Town was not small, one opened a meat shop at the entrance of the town and the other set up a meat stall at the end of the town, so they kept out of each other's way.

She also knew that Zhurong at the town entrance had three sons and three daughters; the three sons were all strong and powerful, able to lift a full-grown fat pig with one hand; as for the three daughters, besides the youngest who was still unmarried and rarely heard of, the two married daughters were each more fierce than the last.

A family like that—she never would have imagined they would marry into her family, but now...

"Yanqing, it is Father who has dragged this family down."

Song Zhisheng lay on the bed, and the feeling of powerlessness at this moment even surpassed the pain caused by his waist injury.

If only he hadn't been injured!

Even if his son had broken his leg, he could have carried him to the town clinic, begged the doctor to treat him, and then gone up the mountain to hunt and sell furs and game; he would have found a way to scrape together the consultation fee to heal his son's leg.

Unlike now, where he was like a useless person, struggling even to get out of bed!

Furthermore, when he heard the Xie girl propose that Yanqing marry her, even though he felt this match was not well-suited, he still could not say a word of refusal.

"Father, please don't say that. My decision to accept Miss Xie's proposal was made after careful consideration; I do not feel forced."

Recalling the moment their eyes met just now, a strange feeling rose in Song Yanqing's heart.

He could not clearly say what that feeling was, but it certainly was not being forced.

Moreover, her eyes were clear and lively, and looking at him made him feel inexplicably at ease.

It was this sense of ease that made him agree to her proposal without a second thought.

Besides, what did he have to lose?

Her proposal could solve his family's urgent crisis, which was also what he most desperately needed at the moment—he did not want to miss this year's Imperial Examination again. This family could not wait even a single day.

As for what his mother was worried about—whether this mismatched marriage would wrong him...

What is considered a match?

He was not so shallow as to only focus on the other person's figure and appearance.

Are women with beautiful exteriors necessarily kind-hearted and interesting in their souls?

Compared to the external, he trusted his own sensory intuition more.

What's more, he was just a poor scholar with a broken leg; even his own grandmother was unwilling to support him and had kicked his family out while he was unconscious, and most of the villagers avoided his house for fear that his mother would come to borrow money or grain. Yet she had come to his house under the scorching sun of the "autumn tiger," and he felt only gratitude in his heart.

Thinking of this, Song Yanqing no longer hesitated: "Father, Mother, let's settle it this way; don't keep her waiting too long."

After dropping that earth-shattering statement, Xie Yang did not leave, but patiently waited outside the house, giving their family plenty of time to discuss.

After all, in this era, travel is slow; if things aren't settled face-to-face, it would take forever to send a message back and forth, which is too inefficient.

She stood under the soapberry tree beside the house, blowing in the cool cross-breeze, and looked over the courtyard.

Song Jinzhi brought her a low stool and a bowl of water.

"Sister Xie, drink some water! My mother boiled this and let it cool; Brother says drinking raw water will give you worms in your stomach. But only our family boils water to drink; my grandma doesn't believe in these things and complains that we are making extra trouble."

The little girl was not only talkative but also very diligent; while sitting in the courtyard with Xie Yang, she took a handful of wheat straw and began to weave a straw hat.

"Sister Xie, thank you for just now. If it weren't for you, Mother and I wouldn't have had the strength to move Father onto the bed."

Xie Yang smiled and said, "You're welcome, I have a lot of strength, it wasn't any effort at all."

Upon hearing this, Song Jinzhi looked up, gazing at her with a face full of admiration: "Sister Xie, is your strength naturally this great?"

"Of course not."

However, after rummaging through her memories and reviewing the siblings of the Xie Family, she discovered that apart from the original owner of the body, her three older brothers and two older sisters indeed all possessed great strength.

The older brothers all had muscular builds, likely developed from childhood by following their father in raising, slaughtering, and selling pigs; the two older sisters also had fierce styles—one had once hoisted her drunken husband up at their wedding banquet and strode into the bridal chamber, while the other could swing a heavy Butcher Knife with a whistling wind.

It seemed only the original owner grew fat without gaining strength, commonly known as "flabby."

But now that it had become her, the word "flabby" could have the "flabby" part removed for now, and she would focus on fitness and weight loss after the most important matter at hand was settled.