Peasant Woman's Decreed Life as a Wife

Chapter 2149: Chapter 2146: Underhanded Tricks

Ye Muyu gave up the lucrative business of the rouge shop and could only find other ways to earn money.

Of course, this was also because Chu Heng was slowly gaining a foothold now.

After all, this was ancient times, a feudal dynasty; without background, no amount of silver could be kept safe. Naturally, she would take her time. Money was endless to earn.

"Ah Heng, you’re really amazing." Ye Muyu kissed his cheek, very pleased.

Chu Heng ruffled her hair, "So happy with just a little silver?"

"Of course, earning makes me happy, otherwise how could Jingyuan be renovated?" Ye Muyu loved to earn, and of course also loved to spend.

For the renovation of Jingyuan, the original purpose was to open a shop, but once it got underway, her standards rose, naturally requiring more taels of silver. Earning two thousand taels was enough to buy top-quality green slate.

In any case, Ye Muyu never felt she had too much money.

Because there were many places to spend money.

Moreover, money was for spending, otherwise, what was the joy?

Just as Chu Heng had said.

When the first official newspaper was released, many officials in the capital who wanted to get the news, and even gentry and merchants, all flocked to buy newspapers outside the official newspaper office.

No matter when, even commoners paid great attention to imperial court news.

And academics dared not miss it even more.

In recent days, court officials from noble families argued with the Emperor over the contents of Chu Heng’s storybooks, debating the issue of talent selection, in short, neither side giving in.

Emperor Xuanming in the court sneered several times, in an extremely bad mood.

But Minister Qi and other officials were also uneasy.

Because Emperor Xuanming’s actions were, in essence, undermining the noble families’ authority, these people naturally panicked, banding together in the court to strive for benefits.

But after just a few days, the noble family officials grew somewhat weakened.

This matter all started with Imperial Censor Zhang.

Imperial Censor Zhang accused Chu Heng, and was humiliated by the follow-up content.

Chu Heng had already counted on this, openly facing off with the other party in the court every day, neither able to do anything to the other.

But there was no guarding against the little cleverness of Imperial Censor Zhang’s son, Zhang Lin.

Zhang Lin wasn’t very good at studying, could only be described as mediocre, but happened to have a bit of cleverness. On the day the storybook’s follow-up content humiliated them, he returned home frightened, asking Imperial Censor Zhang if Chu Heng’s actions were the Emperor’s intentions.

After all, he was a scholar intending to take the imperial examination, how could he let the Emperor have a bad impression of him now? That would be a huge loss for him.

Imperial Censor Zhang was also pushed out by Minister Qi, already standing at the forefront of the storm.

The father and son, seeing the situation was not right, one of them made a ruthless decision to do something significant.

Zhang Lin targeted the fact that the storybook was written by Ye Muyu, dragging the conversation into the realm of gender. He claimed the contents of the storybook were all nonsense spouted by a woman and shouldn’t exist at all.

When this matter blew up.

Some disgruntled scholars quickly stood up, lambasting Ye Muyu, elevating it to a matter of female status.

At that time, the social background was that women didn’t have as high a status as men.

There were many pedantic scholars too.

This matter blew up.

These days, there was a constant stream of scholars jointly reporting the author of the storybook.

Ye Muyu had the guard Chu Heng assigned to her, completely unaffected. Of course, this was also because of her good mindset, having been well-prepared.

More than half of the scholars in the capital criticized The Imperial Examination Path, considering it nonsense. Since it was compiled by a woman, it was immediately labeled as inferior even to miscellaneous books, as if reading this book would bring shame, be disgraceful, and not suitable for their identity.