Chapter 26: Big Business
I saw a man standing on the top of five or six steps, the man was thin and dressed in Confucian clothes, but he looked cowardly, his little head was wearing a hat, which was very funny, and he was holding a book in his hand, and he spoke in a condescending tone.
Yes, this is really Shen Qingqing's bad luck, and the person he met turned out to be Lin Nan, the person the original owner had been pestering!
Not to mention that Shen Qingqing has forgotten this stubble matter, although Lin Nan is in his twenties, he has been studying in the master's school, and it is not uncommon to meet him.
Shen Qingqing took Xiao Douding's hand and just wanted to speak, but saw Lin Nan's expression was already very tired: "You shrew, I don't agree to be nice to you, you just make trouble at home, you actually came to the sage land that insulted the scholars in the school, you really don't have a face." β
Although Lin Nan is a scholar, he is not elegant at all when he speaks.
Shen Qingqing could only explain: "You misunderstood, I came today to send Haohao to school." β
"Going to school?" Lin Nan snorted coldly, completely pedantic. "I don't know your mind yet, it's just pestering me in the name of going to school, Shen Qingqing, Shen Qingqing, you don't want to take a good look at your appearance, I, Lin Nan, won't take a fancy to you even if I'm blind."
This sentence made Shen Qingqing angry: "You claim to be a scholar, why do you keep saying that you judge people by their appearance, is this only what this Confucian Sage taught you?" β
"You ......" When Lin Nan just wanted to speak, a person about fifty years old came out from behind, who was lean and gentle. Lin Nan, why make a noise here? β
"Master." Lin Nan immediately became respectful.
So this is the Master?
Shen Qingqing pulled Xiao Douding and hurriedly saluted: "Master, we are here to go to school with a bundle." β
"Enrollment?" The master glanced at Shen Qingqing and then at Xiao Douding, and before he could speak, Lin Nan spoke beside him. "Madam, don't listen to this shrew's nonsense, this is Shen Qingqing I asked you to mention before, I'm afraid that she will harass me because of her name as an admission."
Shen Qingqing was completely laughed at angrily, this Lin Nan was the proud protΓ©gΓ© of the master, and when he heard this, he just waved his hand: "You go, don't come and bother." β
"Master, you ......" When Shen Qingqing was about to say something, the master had already closed the door.
Shen Qingqing hadn't felt that what the original owner had done had brought him any trouble before, but today he really saw it.
Helpless, she could only lead Xiaodouding down the mountain, tossed for an afternoon, and the two of them were also hungry, so they bought two bowls of wontons on the side of the road to eat.
The wonton shop didn't have much business at this time, and looking at Shen Qingqing with a bundle in his hand, he couldn't help but gossip: "Sister, are you taking your child to school?" β
"Yes." Shen Qingqing nodded. "But the master won't accept it."
The boss skillfully wiped the table, very enthusiastic: "That husband has a strange temper, and it is normal not to accept it, you can find out if there is a gentleman near the village." β
"That's right!" This sentence mentioned Shen Qingqing, there is a master in the village, just a Xiucai, because he has no money to take the exam, he became a master, Shen Qingqing had spoken to him twice before, and Xiucai's knowledge is very high.
After the two of them finished eating the wontons, Shen Qingqing gave a few copper plates and took Xiaodouding to Xiucai's house.
Naxiucai is a fence wall, the yard is large, planted with all kinds of flowers, clean and tidy.
At this time, all the students had already left the class, and only the husband was alone in the courtyard studying.
"Hello sir." Shen Qingqing counted in place and spoke.
The gentleman knew what he meant as soon as he saw the bundle in her hand, and put the book down: "It's for the children to come to school, right?" β
"Yes." Shen Qingqing nodded. "Please take it, sir."
Xiao Douding also hurriedly bowed: "I've seen Mr." β
"Good!" The gentleman smiled and stroked his beard. "Then I'll test you."
As he spoke, he looked around, and suddenly pointed to a moon flower: "If this flower withers, what will happen?" β
This is Mr.'s exam question, and Shen Qingqing also happens to want to know how Xiao Douding answers.
Xiao Douding looked at the flower, thought for a while, and then said: "Since this flower is withered, then you need to fertilize and catch insects, but you can also draw the flower so that it will not wither." β
"Huh?" The Master laughed. "This kid has a spiritual root, I'll take it."
"Hao Hao is awesome." Shen Qingqing touched Xiao Douding's head, this kid really has a wisdom root, such an answer can be said, presumably he will be a talent in the future.
This solves the problem of Xiaodouding going to school, and it can be regarded as solving Shen Qingqing's heart, the two of them returned home, ate dinner and sat in the courtyard to enjoy the cool, Shen Qingqing has never felt that life is so comfortable.
The next day, Xiaodouding got up early, went to the school after breakfast, Shen Qingqing was not idle, since he had taken the big business of Zhen Qian, he had to prepare more glutinous rice at home.
Thinking about it, Shen Qingqing got on an ox cart and went to the shop where he bought glutinous rice before.
Because of the glutinous rice bought last time, Shen Qingqing hasn't been here for a long time, and the boss smiled like a flower when he saw Shen Qingqing: "Yo, sister, you're here, do you still buy glutinous rice this time?" β
"Yes." Shen Qingqing nodded and touched the glutinous rice. "Boss, how much glutinous rice do you have here?"
"Here's twenty pounds, all for you?" When the boss said it, he was very diligent in holding the kraft paper and wanted to put it up for Shen Qingqing.
Shen Qingqing waved his hand: "What I want is not these, but everything in your store." β
The boss thought he had misheard: "Sister, there are still six or seven bags of glutinous rice in my store, do you want them all?" β
Shen Qingqing nodded: "Yes, I want them all." β
She also figured it out, there are still more places to use the glutinous rice in the future, and it's not cheap to buy it, so just buy more, anyway, the glutinous rice won't be bad at home.
The boss was stunned for a long time before he reacted, and he jumped and jumped when he walked: "Okay, there are too many glutinous rice, and you can't take it away, so I'll let someone send it to your home." β
This boss is refreshing, and Shen Qingqing is happy: "Yes." β
This price is naturally a lot cheaper, and after buying it, Shen Qingqing thought of something again: "Boss, do you have any glutinous rice seeds to sell to me?" β
Wouldn't it be cost-effective to grow glutinous rice by yourself?
No one bought this glutinous rice in the first place, the boss almost lost everything, he planned to throw away this glutinous rice seeds, and he won't plant them again next season, since Shen Qingqing said this, the boss also has to be a favor: "Sister, if you want it, I'll give it to you for free, and I'll send it to you together." β
This is good, Shen Qingqing gave the silver tael, and bought some sugar in the bazaar before going home.
But when she just walked to the door, she saw that the courtyard was very lively.
The owner of this rice shop acted quickly, and sent the glutinous rice back before Shen Qingqing went home, and several sacks of glutinous rice could not be put in the house at all, and they were all piled up in the yard, which provoked many people in the village to come and see.
"This Qingqing is really rich, and he can buy so much rice." The mother-in-law held melon seeds in her hand and said, her eyes were red in her words.
The sack was sealed, and it was impossible to tell what kind of rice was inside, and everyone thought it was rice.
When another woman spoke, her eyes were full of envy: "This Qingqing doesn't know where to get rich, but he bought so much rice, it seems that he is really developed." β
Shen Qingqing, these broken-mouthed mothers-in-law, never wanted to deal with them, so she just smiled and catered to a few words, and then helped move the rice.
But the mother-in-law, who had a lot of things in the middle, was very curious, and finally stepped forward and grabbed the glutinous rice bag: "Qingqing, I'll help you." β
He said he was here to help, but he grabbed the mouth of the sack with his hand directly, and his eyes went straight inside, and after seeing the contents clearly, he gasped.
When the woman in the back was about to say something, she hurriedly patted the arm and lowered her voice: "Oh, don't say it, this is all rice, not rice." β
The woman didn't know that it was glutinous rice, but she just called it the second rice, and she wouldn't eat it unless she was poor and couldn't open the pot.
In this way, people's wind direction has changed: "This Qingqing is too bad at living, and it is not a waste to buy so many times rice that no one eats." β
"That's it, spending all this unjust money in vain."
The mouth of this broken-mouthed woman couldn't be blocked, and Shen Qingqing didn't bother to explain to them, but fortunately, after talking for a while, the village women felt bored and dispersed.
After the guys put down the glutinous rice and left, Shen Qingqing thanked him vigorously.
Back in the house, Shen Qingqing looked at the house and just wanted to change his clothes, when he suddenly heard a fluttering sound from the inner room.
Shen Qingqing picked up the rolling pin and walked into the inner room, and when he walked to the door, he didn't dare to go in directly, and looked left and right before catching up with him.
But when Shen Qingqing saw what it was, he smiled.
It turned out that the thatched house was old and in disrepair, and a large area of things fell down to make such a movement.
The guy he had just bought was very new, but the house was extremely dilapidated, like an eighty-year-old woman wearing new red embroidered shoes.
Shen Qingqing put the remaining silver taels under the bed board and hid them properly, thinking that this house was too broken, and the thief couldn't come in if he didn't want to come in, and the house would have to be built when he made some more silver taels.
While Xiaodouding had not yet gotten out of school, Shen Qingqing used the newly bought donkey to grind some glutinous rice flour.
Not to mention, this beast grinds things faster than people.
I made some glutinous rice dumplings and put them in the bucket, and the sky was getting late, and the autumn sunset was beautiful with desolation, like rouge dyeing a large area of the sky, and Anning Village was quiet again.