Ah Jiu heard Gu Dexing's words, and replied directly: "Brother Gu Jiaxing, the words and articles you wrote yesterday have already been read by the master. ”

When Gu Dexing heard this, the whole person became excited, and asked Ah Jiu: "What does Shang Xiucai say?" Isn't it, isn't it ......" that he thinks his articles are well written and wants to take him as an apprentice?

Ah Jiu smiled and said, "The master didn't say anything, just asked the little one to hand over the three letters to you." Oh, it's yours, and Brother Wang's. ”

Ah Jiu took out three letters from the cloth bag around his waist and handed two of them to Gu Dexing.

Gu Dexing took it, he didn't have time to thank Ah Jiu, he rushed out of the Gu family's courtyard directly, and as soon as he left the Gu family's courtyard, he couldn't wait to open the letter with his name written on it.

But seeing the content of the letter, Gu Dexing's whole heart cooled, and the letter only said two sentences, one was an evaluation of his knowledge, saying that if he wanted to study, he could go to the private school in the town for ten years, and maybe he could be admitted to the fame.

The last sentence is a clear statement that he will not accept disciples.

Gu Dexing couldn't believe that the article he wrote was so good, Shang Xiucai didn't accept him?

He couldn't believe that this was true, and opened the letter with Gu Dewang's name written on it, and only one sentence was written on the letter: You can find Xu Tongsheng enlightenment in Songzigou.

obviously looked down on Gu Dewang's knowledge, and he was not even willing to enlighten him.

Gu Dexing's heart was finally balanced, but he was still unwilling, why didn't Shang Xiucai accept him as an apprentice?

If he can worship Shang Xiucai as a teacher, then he can establish a relationship with Jiang County Lieutenant, and their family will be able to benefit from it.

But after all, Gu Dexing was only a seventeen-year-old boy, and he was a country child, with limited knowledge, and he couldn't think of a better way for Shang Xiucai to take him as an apprentice for a while, so he could only go home in despair.

Seeing that Gu Dexing was not entangled, Ah Jiu breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Gu Jinan next to him, and handed him a letter: "Brother An, this is a letter from the master to you." ”

Gu Jinan took it nervously, thanked him, and went back to his room with Brother Cheng, opened the envelope, and looked at the letter on it.

There were only two words written on the letter: Ask Zhi.

Gu Jin'an frowned, but he quickly understood what Shang Xiucai meant, and Shang Xiucai was asking about his ambitions.

Gu Jinan immediately took out a pen and paper and wrote a sentence on the yellow paper: The ambition of this life is to protect the family and ask for the people's life.

After writing it, he looked at this sentence and became apprehensive again, he wrote the family in front of him, indicating that the first thing he wanted to protect was his family, and the second was to ask for the people's lives.

If Shang Xiucai read this answer, would he think that he was a selfish person, so he would not accept him?

Gu Jinan hesitated, but he still didn't change the answer, and after the ink dried, he folded the yellow paper, put it into a simple envelope made of yellow paper, and handed it to Ah Jiu: "This is my reply to Uncle Shang, please ask Brother Jiu to help deliver it to Uncle Shang." ”

Ah Jiu took the letter and said with a smile: "Brother An'er, don't worry, the little one will definitely bring the letter." "His master is also waiting.

Ah Jiu didn't stay at the Gu family for long, and after delivering the things, he took the bean dregs cake given by the Gu family, and then took a return gift prepared by the Cui family, and drove back to the Shang family with Lao Luo.

Gu Jinan stood in the courtyard for a while, then returned to the kitchen to make tofu.

Gu Jinli looked very nervous when he saw him, and didn't ask him what he wrote to Shang Xiucai? Instead, he took out a bag of soybeans and began to pick beans to prepare for soybean oil.

It took more than an hour to pick out twenty catties of soybeans.

She took the soybeans to the small stone mill outside the kitchen, and began to grind the beans with the stone, and was busy for more than an hour before grinding the twenty catties of beans.

After grinding the beans and getting dark, Gu Jinli cleaned up and went to cook.

She is willing to put oil in cooking, which is more delicious, so as long as she is at home, she will cook, although Cui's feels sorry for oil, but Cui's is even more distressed about the child, so Gu Jinli tosses.

Dinner was fragrant sweet potato aged rice, leftover fried crispy pork from yesterday, fried tofu, scrambled eggs, fried bean sprouts, and cabbage and pork foam tofu soup.

The third grandmother complained: "This is too good to eat, don't make eggs if you have crispy meat, and this rice, just drink porridge, no need to cook dry rice." "But seeing that a few children are no longer as thin as before, I feel that it is worth it.

After dinner, several families came to Gu Jinli's house and routinely counted the money and divided the money.

Their business is now very good, and they can sell 350 catties of tofu and 200 catties of bean dregs every day, as well as hundreds of bags of seasoning spices.

After everyone counted the money, Gu Jinan began to report: "After deducting the reserved capital, today's net profit is ten two three hundred and sixty yuan. ”

His family could get 4,244 wen, while the other six families could each get 1,2036 wen.

Aunt Tian covered her heart and said, "You can get one or two pieces of silver a day, ouch, this is really too much." ”

When they first made tofu for a living, each of them could get a few hundred wen a day, but today they can get more than one or two, which is really something they never dreamed of.

Chen looked at Aunt Tian's appearance, and said with some disdain, "That's a lot?" There will be more in the future. Nowadays, the people in the town, that is every household eats our tofu, and today there are many food shops to ask our stalls, if they want to make our fried spiced tofu, they are dreaming, this is our life, how can they follow it? ”

Speaking of this, the Chen family is very proud, because of the tofu business, many people in the town come to scold her, wanting to set up this tofu practice, but who is she? Can you tell them?

After happily dividing the money, the families went home.

The next day, it was the turn of the Luo family and the Tian family to go out of the stall, and Gu Jinli and Qin Sanlang also followed.

She also brought her family's household registration, and after coming to the town, she helped open a stall, so she went to the iron shop with Qin Sanlang, and ordered ten plate-sized discus and two three-pound hammers.

The blacksmith was very curious about what she was making, and asked, "This hammer is still useful, what do you make discs for?" "I can't eat it.

Gu Jinli smiled, and casually thought of a reason to fool the blacksmith: "My family wants to make a fresh meal, and they want to use this discus to make it, so I came to order the discus." ”

Now the Gu family's tofu sells well, everyone in the town knows it, and the blacksmith master also knows, hearing her say this, he didn't ask much, and after seeing her household registration, he said: "Now the iron is expensive, a pound of pig iron costs a piece of silver, you make ten discus, each of which weighs one pound, and then make two three-pound hammers, these things will cost twenty taels of silver." ”

It's pretty cheap.

"If you do, leave a deposit of five taels of silver, and you can come and get it tomorrow afternoon."

This thing is easy to make, so it's a little more troublesome to hammer, so what kind of discus is just a few knocks.

Gu Jinli still had some silver money given by Qi Yi in his hand, and he happily gave a deposit of five taels of silver, and left the iron shop with Qin Sanlang.