Chapter 12 - 12: Little Pepper_1
"Come on then..." Yang Ruxin suddenly threw back her head, "Kill me today and spare me from hanging myself..."
"Me too," Sanni said fearlessly, tilting her head back, "Second aunty cracks sunflower seeds without working and never gets beaten, while we work every day and still get beaten. Might as well be dead..."
Yang Ruxin glanced sideways at Yang Sanni; this girl was capable. With a little cultivation in the future, she would definitely be a firecracker, no problem standing on her own.
Feng Caie immediately felt guilty, hastily stuffing the sunflower seeds in her hand into her pocket and thinking, how did this damned girl bring her into this?
Yang Anshi had just found a rattan cane, and upon hearing these words, she wasn't sure whether or not to bring the raised cane down.
Yang Peili's face also darkened.
"Mother ah..." Feng Caie tugged at the corner of her mouth, but still stepped forward to tug on Yang Anshi's arm again, "Rusong's examination is a big deal, there will be plenty of chances to discipline this damned girl in the future." She didn't care about the lives of the members of the main house, but she couldn't ignore her eldest son's academic examinations—after all, she had aspirations of becoming the recipient of an Imperial Edict.
In this era, academic examinations were quite strict, following a family responsibility system. The contender not only needed good academic knowledge but also had to pass character assessments. To qualify for the Scholar rank, one needed a teacher's nomination and two current Scholars to jointly recommend them. Moreover, the family must not be involved in any sordid affairs. If word got out that someone from the Yang Family had hanged themselves, it would ruin the family's reputation and inevitably affect Yang Rusong.