Night fell over the Deng household.
Although Deng Xuehu's family was poor, strictly speaking, their circumstances were still above the average of ordinary Daxia citizens. Tianjing was, after all, a land of a hundred virtues. As locals of Tianjing, Deng's parents were willing to work hard; by setting up a breakfast stall selling noodles and the like in the morning, they could earn quite a bit of silver.
The reason the Deng family had not sent Deng Xuehu to a private school was because their eldest son was quite capable at his studies, with a solid chance of passing the xiucai examination and entering the fold of the Confucianists. As an ordinary peasant family, Deng's parents naturally wished to invest all their resources into the eldest son first. Once he passed the xiucai exam, he could then help bring his younger brothers and sister up in the world.
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