Chapter 22: Work hard
The second more
"Why?" Zeng Fan was really not familiar with his nephew, so he hurriedly put down his baby daughter and squatted down to look at the frowning little nephew. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"I'm just not happy." Zeng Gu held his head high and spoke loudly.
"It's okay, he's stupid! Let's go, let's play. The little chubby girl patted the ash on her body, pulled Zeng Gu and ran away, and then Huang Ge immediately followed. Zeng Gu looked back a little sadly, but he was pulled away by the little fat girl in a flash.
"What's wrong with them?" Zeng Fan looked at his younger brother, his son, he always knows, right?
"It's okay, it's more than a year old, what can you do, play." Zeng Yi didn't have any ideas, and waved his hand.
"Okay, let's come over for dinner, my brother and sister can specially design a menu today." Li Ping also decided that she didn't want her daughter anymore.
"Just right, I'm hungry." Zeng Fan still had a smile on his face.
"Second brother-in-law, you are really becoming more and more like my husband." Brother Hao has been observing Zeng Fan for a long time, and said with some confusion. The gentleman he said was Li Xiucai, and if it was another gentleman, he would have added a note in front of him.
"I think so too, it's really getting more and more like my father, and his temper is really getting more and more tepid, which really makes people die. I now know why my mother's temper is so bad and forced. Li Ping said deliberately.
"yes, I'm sorry." Zeng Fan smiled and took Li Ping's hand.
"It's okay, I'm used to it, I won't be like my mother." Li Ping also smiled.
Li Ping is not worried about Zeng Fan's ranking, she has been saying before that Zeng Fan is at least a Shu Jinshi, she thinks it is very good, so there is nothing to worry about. Today is just an exam, and I've been tested all the way for so many years, and I still care about such a small thing.
"It's really not cost-effective to think about it, after spending so much money, I was admitted, I can't make any money, I may spend more money, what should I do, I can't support you at all now." Zeng Fan smiled, if he lost the gamble and became a fellow jinshi, not only would his future be worrying in the future, but more importantly, how could he be worthy of his wife's efforts over the years.
Besides, even if you can enter the second list and become a jinshi, you will only be officially awarded after three years. In the past three years, he has received basic living expenses, and what Bing Jing and Tan Jing have nothing to do with him. He wants to study again, and after three years, he will wait for another test, and after passing the test, he will be considered a real official. And in the past three years, his family and his children still have to be raised by his wife! and my younger brother's family, who have really dragged down his wife for too long.
"You're really, Xiao Huang's shop is open, it's open." Li Ping emphasized, feeling that it was not interesting for him to say this. Xiaoyanagi took over the restaurant, and Huang Jun was busy going to the new shop that had been bought before, selling bacon. That's right, the bacon made by Li Ping before was very popular with the teachers in the school, and Li Ping and Lilac could only take Xiaoshan to make it at home. Huang Jun didn't think it was so difficult, he bought a few boys, set up a shop, and started a bacon business in Hunan. This is a small business, and the nobles don't look down on it, but this is small but profitable, and their business is excellent.
Huang Jun is very good at business, even if he buys a few taels and a small packet, he will do it when he goes back to fry a plate, and customers greet him at the door every day. So they could only rent a place next to the butcher on the outskirts of Beijing, make it into a workshop, and when they killed the pigs, they sent them to them. By the way, I also collect some chickens and ducks raised by farmers. Anyway, I'm idle, and in winter, I pickle everything I can and sell it slowly. In this way, you can often only do business for half a day, because there are not so many goods to sell. Pickled things are dried and then smoked, and you can't do it when it's hot.
That business made the Koyanagi family feel jealous, and they could also marinate meat, how could they not think that it could be used to sell it for money. So housewives are different from those businessmen.
So don't look at the fact that Li Ping still spends a lot of time embroidering every day, and the family's expenses are also her embroidery, but they really don't lack silver.
"I want to make my own money." Zeng Fan gently squeezed his wife's hand and sighed softly, he wanted to support his family by himself.
Li Ping smiled, it's been a year and a half, it is estimated that this is Zeng Fan's limit, think about it, "If you are admitted, do you want to discuss it with the school, you go and bring some classes." On the one hand, you can help me keep an eye on Brother Hao, and don't point out that people will give you 1,000 taels a year, but there should be one or two hundred. Now that the rent is raised, we spend almost two hundred taels a year. ”
"Okay, I'll talk to the mountain chief. Mostly I love to teach. Zeng Fan nodded, his eyes lit up.
Li Ping smiled, she knew that Zeng Fan liked to teach, and she had talked to Mrs. Jin before, there was always a shortage of Mr. in the school, no matter what Zeng Fan said, he was also a Jinshi, and it was also a good thing for the school to go back and help teach. Otherwise, how could she propose it to him.
"Yes, you must be able to do a good job, didn't the students you taught last time all excellent?" Li Ping also smiled, Zeng Yi and they said this time that Zeng Fan's ten students had very good results in the future exams, and the ten people followed Zeng Yi and them to take the college exam, five of them passed, and these ten people will go to Zeng's house for New Year's greetings in the past two years.
"It's their own excellence." Zeng Fan smiled, in the past two years, he will also write letters to these students. They didn't take the exam either, not because they wanted to study for three more years, but because as students, they felt that they couldn't take the exam with their teachers. But Shang Zeng Fan couldn't stop laughing. also smiled and said to Li Ping that if he didn't pass the exam, he would be embarrassed, thinking of this, he smiled again, "Fortunately, I finally got in, at least I didn't lose face in front of the children." ”
Of course, Li Ping knew what he was talking about, and she also pursed her lips and laughed.
This kind of sideroom between the couple and everyone else is used to it, only Brother Hao waved his hand at them, "Second sister, brother-in-law, can you take a look at us?" ”
"I've seen you, but we're talking about serious things." Zeng Fan never knew what blushing was, and looked at Brother Hao very seriously.
"Well, why do I think my brother-in-law looks like a gentleman? I'm so blind. Sister, I want to eat. Brother Hao shouted.
"Dad, have you seen the emperor?" The little monkey finally saw his parents stop, and said busily, he had been waiting to speak for a long time.
"I saw it, the emperor looked very kind." Zeng Fan hesitated, he didn't look at the emperor more, but when he heard Hu Liang's answer, he looked up at the emperor, he looked very thin, he had also heard that the emperor was very frugal and had a very gentle temperament.
"Oh, will you be able to see the emperor often in the future?"
"It shouldn't be possible, my father may have to be above the fifth grade to see the emperor often." Zeng Fan looked at his son seriously.
"Dad, you have to work hard!" The little monkey climbed on the stool and patted his father. It looked like he was encouraging.
Leidewen said
Do you think Zeng Fan will succeed? Oh, comrades, it's the New Year again, remember, the year before last, we made 600 dumplings, last year too, today, my mother made another pot of dumpling filling, and I went. If I can't update it tomorrow morning, then I'm entangled in dumpling essence.