Chapter 289: The Norm of the Era

The idea of harmony between father-in-law and son-in-law is unlikely unless one side is overwhelmingly dominant, capable of crushing the other side—that's when a seemingly harmonious but actually discordant situation arises...

Li You, accompanied by Fa Zheng, began to issue households' registrations in advance to those scholars who were willing to become teachers. Watching them happily receiving the households' registrations and following Fa Zheng to the Library Pavilion to borrow books, Li You felt immensely gratified. To him, a scholar who became a primary teacher represented the hope of a dozen or two literate children three years later, and even more so, it represented the gradual decline of the nobility from their eternal pedestals.

"Miss Cai, Second Miss Cai," Fa Zheng greeted Cai Yan and her younger sister with a bow.