Walked out of Wang's house. Li Ling was in a very depressed mood, he didn't expect that even decades of world friends would not help the Li family at the time of crisis, and now there are internal and external troubles, not only Ma and others are staring at them deadly, and there will be chaos on the side of the salt farm if there is no order for a long time.

After calming his mind, he began to lobby the other salt merchants again, but the gang spoke in unison, as if they had discussed it, and rejected all of his requests for help.

They only had one reason, that is, Governor Liu had already given an order, and they didn't dare to go to the Li family's salt field to pick up salt at all.

There are many icing on the cake, and there are few people who send charcoal in the snow, at this moment he finally realized the taste of rebellion and separation, the county leader of this county, the grandmaster of Ying Tianfu, these titles are like mountains, not only crushing the sympathy of those salt merchants, but also oppressing Li Ling heavily.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to get ahead, if you want to not be bullied, there is no other way than the imperial examination.

Unconsciously, he came to the vicinity of the county school, and he couldn't help but laugh at himself a little in his heart, he hadn't been to the county school for many days.

At first, in order to hide from the situation, some of the children were people with a lot of money, and they made the county school a miasma all day long, and the master turned a blind eye and turned away those who really wanted to learn.

Li Ling didn't want to come to this place, but after thinking about it, he had another idea, he should also add some pen and ink, the family has always only prepared one, and his family is also a talented girl, so he should prepare another one.

"Isn't this Brother Li? Haven't you always disdained to be in the company of those of us? The Li family is now in dire straits, why did Li Daxiu come to the county to study again, didn't he come to ask us for help? ”。

When Li Ling hesitated, he heard a lazy voice, and then saw Liu Fu's villainous face.

The last time this guy saw Li Ling's waist hanging a sign, he thought that the other party was a person from Jinyiwei, so he was scared that he hibernated at home for a few days, and then the Li family offended Ma Xiancheng and the grandmaster, and the two families unanimously dealt with the Li family, but Li Ling only had patience.

Liu Fucai felt that something was wrong, he spent a lot of money to ask someone to Nanjing Jinyiwei to inquire, only to know that he had been fooled, Li Xiucai had nothing to do with Jinyiwei at all, and he was completely clever and guessing.

He instigated his father to start targeting the Li family, threatening the salt merchants in the past year, making them give up buying salt from the Li family, which made the Li family completely fall into passivity.

This kid is not even a child, it stands to reason that he is not qualified to enter the county school, but he has helped the Ma family so much, people naturally want to reciprocate, Ma Xiancheng personally came to the master to say peace to the county Cheng, so that he could have the opportunity to enter the county school to "review his homework" and prepare for the next year's scientific examination.

"The villain has a will!". Li Ling replied in a low voice, and quickly entered the "Wenbao Zhai" next to the county school.

Although the sale of salt is regulated by the government, it belongs to the "planned economy". However, he could not convince the local salt merchants to buy their own salt, as long as it took a long time, the strong price law would automatically send the salt merchants over, but before they would suffer huge losses.

The Li family has not yet reached the point of life and death, and he doesn't need to beg others, even Ma Xiancheng and the clan lord Li Xiucai disdain this, let alone a little Liu Fu?

"Haha, our son-in-law Qian's donkey skills are exhausted!". Liu Fu laughed uncontrollably, showing his extraordinaryness to several classmates next to him,

This feeling of superiority made him breathe a sigh of relief, although he was not even a child, he could make a show talent dare not face himself.

"Little girl, this is a complete set of utensils, and each one is famous, take the lake pen as an example, each of the pen has a sharp hair, that is in countless thickness, length, soft and hard, straight, round and flat wool selected out, with sharp round Qi Jian, fine out of the edge, pure and durable hair advantages. The full set of all adds up to thirty taels of silver, which is not much at all! ”。

As soon as Li Ling entered Wenbaozhai, he saw the boss holding a complete set of booksets and selling to a customer, and he knew at a casual glance that this was the standard equipment of their county school. Except for the good lake pen, the others are all general goods, and they usually sell for a dozen taels of silver, but I didn't expect the boss to ask for thirty taels as soon as he opened his mouth, which is simply a lion's mouth.

"Uncle, can you be cheaper? I didn't bring that much money! ”。

A soft voice came, and Li Ling realized that the slaughtered customer was just a little girl, fourteen or fifteen years old, looking like a dusty servant, and there was a little dust on her clothes.

The woman begged the shopkeeper of the store, but the old fellow was perhaps sure that she would buy her own bookware, and he did not waver, allowing a woman to plead bitterly.

is another poor kid, in Li Xiucai's eyes, he just wants to buy a scholar's utensils for his brother or lover.

In the poor world, how many talents have fallen on money, and they have to give up their studies for their own livelihood. Perhaps, the scholar behind this girl is silently persisting like himself, hoping that once he enrolls in the department, his family and friends can also live a good life!

"I said shopkeeper, you're fooling outsiders again!" Li Ling quietly came to the counter and carefully discerned it. After confirming that the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on it were indeed ordinary goods, he spoke for the girl.

"It turned out to be Master Li, how could you have time to come to our shop today. Ah, since you opened your mouth and didn't say it, I can give her an affordable price, just ten taels, what do you think? ”。

The shopkeeper couldn't help but smile when he looked up and saw Li Ling, this is a person who knows the roots, Wen Bao Zhai is located near the county school, but he only deals in some bookware, and his income is limited.

They were able to gain a foothold in this place because the lake pens in the store were of good quality and the price was not much more expensive than others.

The reason why Wen Bao Zhai was able to do this was only because there was a group of salt merchants who helped them bring goods from the origin belt, and these people were introduced to him by the Li family.

Originally, the shopkeeper could give away this set of booksets for nothing, but it was seen that this woman didn't know Li Xiucai at all, and she had her own costs, so he was a little hesitant for a while.

"The shopkeeper misunderstood what I meant, I just didn't bring so much cash, I plan to give away this set of bookmarks, I don't know if there is a better one, I can leave this hairpin here first, and I will send someone to send you money within a day or two!".

When Li Ling pressed this set of booksets to ten taels of silver, the woman not only did not appreciate it, but took a green hairpin from her hair and gave it directly to the shopkeeper of Wen Bao Zhai.

This hairpin is green all over, and at a glance you know that it is made of precious jade, although you don't know what the specific price is, but at least dozens of taels of silver are still available.

The shopkeeper fell into embarrassment for a while, if he didn't have Li Ling by his side, he could have sold it to this girl at a high price with a set of general top-grade products, anyway, she was a gift, and others would never tell him how much it was worth when they received a gift.

Now in front of Li Xiucai, he definitely can't do such a thing, Li Ling is also an expert, how can he not know the specific value? It was clear that he was biased towards the little girl.

"This girl, a set of such booksets is already good, if the person you send it to is not a famous person, it should be used!". Li Ling was also very helpless when she saw that the girl insisted on changing a good set of booksets, which were already very luxurious for ordinary readers.

The woman smiled slightly to express her apologies, and her father had told her that her fiancé had won the show this spring, and it was when she was working hard that she wanted to prepare a set of books for the other party to express her heart.

This set of booksets is already good, the girl took back the hairpin from the hands of the shopkeeper of Wen Bao Zhai, and then slowly took out a few pieces of loose silver from the purse she carried, a total of ten taels, and handed over the silver to the shopkeeper and received this set of four treasures of the study.

Before leaving, the woman smiled at them and said, "I don't know how the salt merchant Li family goes?" Can you show me the way? “。

The woman looks better when she is shy, her face is red, and although her body has not yet grown, she knows that she will be a beauty in the future-

"Salt merchant, Li family!". Li Ling's head buzzed after hearing these words, he finally understood who the girl in front of him was, where he didn't meet in life, Li Xiucai didn't expect to be able to see her here.

Wen Baozhai's shopkeeper saw her inquire about the address of the Li family, and wanted to find out Li Xiucai's identity to the other party, but he saw that the protagonist looked like he had entered the magic barrier and swallowed back what he was going to say, and honestly pointed out the way for the little girl.

"How could it be her?". Li Xiucai didn't buy the four treasures of the study anymore, he had doubts in his heart, and returned home in a panic, and when he saw more than a dozen carriages parked in front of his house, he finally understood everything completely.

"It seems that Uncle Yang is here!". He couldn't help but touch the waist card on his waist and remembered its origin.

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