Victor Cui could never have imagined that since the day he came back from Yunnan, no, since the day his second son went to Yunnan to pick him up, Ryan Cui sent people to renovate the house in Jiaxiangtun, his hometown where his ancestral tomb was located, and arranged for servants to visit Qian'an County and inform his old classmates, friends and local officials that the fourth-rank councilor who had just returned from Yunnan would return to his hometown to observe the mourning period.
He had a bad reputation among the high-ranking officials, but in the eyes of the Qian'an scholars and external officials who could not reach the core, he was still a high-ranking official worthy of making friends and currying favor with.
So Victor Cui carried his mother's coffin and returned to Jiaxiangtun with his two sons who did not want to be officials. Just after they settled down, several local gentry and lower-level officials came to visit him and praised him for his filial piety and sincerity, and for not returning to Qian'an County and wanting to live in a village next to the tomb.
He is only slightly inferior to Liu Wei, who lived in a hut in front of his mother's tomb for three years!
He is worthy of being the person who worked under Liu Ci Fu as the head of the Ministry of Revenue for so many years!
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