Zhang Chuchu's father was Zhang Yukuan. During the Wude period, he planned affairs under Wang Xiaotong, the chief of Tongzhilang, and was appointed as a doctor of Calendar. He was an unknown small official, mainly responsible for astronomical and calendar affairs.

Zhang Yukuan was talented and mathematical. He was the handwriting of Zhang Qiujian, a great mathematician of the Jin Dynasty, and left behind by his ancestors. Zhang Yukuan had a deep study of this. He also had great achievements in astronomy and arithmetic.

Logically, officials like him who are talented will sooner or later be valued by the court, and they will never stay in a small position like Doctor of Calendar for too long. However, Zhang Yukuan has never had the chance to be promoted.

Zhang Yukuan was indifferent and was not good at making friends and flattering powerful people. He was a person who specialized in research and intellectuals. Therefore, his career was not very smooth in an era when he was born and had a relationship. After six years under Wang Xiaotong, he was still a small official with a sesame size.

Until the ninth year of Wude and after the Xuanwu Gate Incident, the prince Jiancheng was executed, and the political situation in the court suffered a major shock. Many ministers and officials were dismissed one after another. Even small officials like Zhang Yukuan were affected. Because they were found to have some connection with a former minister, they were demoted home in the first year of Zhenguan.

On the way home, Zhang Yukuan was worried and had no physical condition. In addition, his physical condition was not exercised, so they were sick when they passed by Xiaoxinzhuang, Sanyuan County. Fortunately, they were taken in and rescued by Zhang Boliang, who met the kind-hearted Zhang Boliang at that time. From then on, the father and daughter lived in the Zhang family. During the recuperation period, Zhang Yukuan saw that Zhang Chu, a boy from the Zhang family, was smart and polite, and was very compatible with his temper, so he wanted to accept disciples. One was to repay Zhang Boliang for saving his life, and the other was to leave a successor for himself. The Zhang family's arithmetic learning cannot be buried.

However, Zhang Chuwen's performance disappointed Zhang Yukuan. Although Zhang Chuwen was smart, he was not very sensitive to numbers and was even more ignorant of things like calculations and calendars. No matter how Zhang Yukuan taught, Zhang Chuwen couldn't remember the key points. Instead, Chuchu, who was playing on the side, could quickly understand it after listening to it.

After several teachings failed, Zhang Yukuan had to admit that arithmetic also requires talent. He died teaching Zhang Chuwen the mind of arithmetic. He let him specialize in literature and history and gain fame in the future, and he is worthy of Zhang Buliang's life-saving grace.

As for arithmetic, Zhang Yukuan turned his attention to Chuchu, who was only five years old at that time. Perhaps because of heredity, family background, or because of Zhang Yukuan's influence since childhood, Zhang Chuchu's ability to understand mathematics and convert in reality often made Zhang Yukuan amazed. When he taught Zhang Chuchu's arithmetic, he often said that "hate Chuchu not to be a man!"

From then on, Zhang Chuchu learned mathematics and Zhang Chuwen learned literature and history. Under the guidance of Zhang Yukuan, a talented talent who was good at poetry and calligraphy, he studied for two years.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Zhang Yukuan failed to cure his illness in mid-March because he was thirty-five years old. At that time, Zhang Chuchu was only seven years old. At the age of seven, he saw that his biological father died, and the pain can be imagined.

After helping to bury Zhang Yukuan, Zhang Puliang and his wife loved Chuchu when they were young. In the second month, they adopted her as their adopted daughter. Since then, they are siblings with Zhang Chuwen. At that time, Zhang Chuwen was ten years old and had a young talent in a private school, which was highly praised by his husband. Zhang Puliang and his wife knew that this was Zhang Yukuan's credit, and they loved Chuchu more and more, and always regarded her as their own. Zhang Chuwen also loved this sister very much. Knowing that Chuchu liked arithmetic, he often found books on the calculation of scriptures from the private school teacher for Chuchu to study.

Zhang Chuchu has always been well-behaved and has been kind to repay her kindness. She has known filial piety since she was a child. She often helps Zhang Liu raise mulberry silkworms and organizes housework. She is happy to serve the salary. She is deeply loved by Zhang Buliang and his wife. Old Zhang and his wife are even closer to her than to their own sons.

By the eighth year of Zhenguan, Zhang Chuchu had already become a beloved girl and reached the age of marriage. More and more people came to propose marriage, including many talented people from the tomb names. However, Zhang Chuchu did not have the intention to marry at that time. First, she wanted to serve the old Zhang and his wife for a few years to repay their kindness in recent years. Second, she wanted to find a husband who could inherit her father's will and pass on the Zhang family's arithmetic learning.

As a result, there was a reason for the three questions about the husband.

Most of the questions Zhang Chuchu gave were arithmetic, most of which were difficult questions in the three volumes of "Zhang Qiujian's Achievement", and few people could answer them. She also delayed the marriage again and again, for two years, and fewer people came to propose marriage. In the last year, no matchmaker was willing to propose marriage again. Zhang Boliang and his wife began to worry about her. A woman who was not married for 16 was already a difficult problem at that time. If she delayed it for a long time, how could anyone marry her again?

Zhang Chuchu and Liu fell to the ground very well. One was eighteen and the other was sixteen. Both were in trouble. So when the third aunt came to propose marriage to Zhang Chuchu, Zhang Buliang was so happy that Xuan didn't jump up. Liu Chuying had seen him, was polite, capable, and had a reasonable appearance. If his daughter could marry him, it would be a good destination.

So since the third aunt left, Zhang Boliang and Zhang Liu have been persuading Zhang Chuchu, hoping that she could give up the question, and at the very least, she should reduce the difficulty of the question. Zhang Chu felt the virtue of Liu Yi's last time and was very satisfied with Liu Yi, so he also said a lot of good things to Liu Yi, which made Zhang Chuchu feel a little curious about Liu Yi.

When Liu Laoshi brought Liu Yi to the door to propose marriage, Zhang Chuchu hid behind the curtain and watched secretly. Liu Yiyi was not very tall, but she was very steady while standing there. Looking at him made people feel a sense of peace. Zhang Chuchu had only experienced this feeling in her father when she was a child.

"Young Master Liu looks very much like my father," Zhang Chuchu sat down gently opposite Liu Yi, with beautiful eyes flowing, and looked at Liu Yi nostalgic and said: "Pure, elegant, inaction, confident, talented, but not like to reveal. Moreover, in his achievements in mathematics, Young Master Liu is even more proficient than my father."

"So, Chuchu doesn't want to deceive the young master. She is very frank about her life experience, so as not to regret it after marriage in the future."

Liu Yi kept listening and watching quietly. Zhang Chuchu's voice was very soft, and she spoke slowly, and she also sounded very comfortable. However, Liu Yi did not expect that Zhang Chuchu would have such a miserable life experience. She lost her parents and kept fostering under others' roofs. Then she would have countless pains in her heart?

Looking at the thin body in front of him, Liu Yiu couldn't help but feel pity in his heart.

He put the tea bowl on the table, looked at Zhang Chuchu deeply with his eyes, and said with a firm tone: "Miss Chuchu, although I, Liu Yi, are a farmer, are also a man of heaven and earth. What Liu said and what he did, I never have the word "regret"!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chuchu lowered her head and intertwined her hands with force. Her face was as red as a shiny cloud.

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Chapter completed!