Liu Chenxing found that although the imperial examination was expensive, it was also a good way to make money.

In the county test, there was a 20 yuan in the county order, and in the state test, Chen Tingshi gave 100 yuan, and the elder brother was also given 20 yuan in the examination fee.

Counting the money won from the hotel bet, as well as the 120 yuan of examination funds given by the eldest aunt, they can still lose a total of 600 yuan on their trip to the state examination, excluding the expenses.

Six guan is about one tael of gold, and six hundred guan is a full one hundred taels of gold, ten gold collars!

With ten small gold bars in his arms, the regret of not being able to do his business in the state city is not worth mentioning.

What's more, their brother and sister have both successfully solved it, and they can already return to their hometown to see their mothers with honor.

It is too early to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and generally arrive in Chang'an in October to report, and leave in July, that is, you can stay at home for a month or two.

The brother and sister have never been away from home for so long, and Liu Qianli has never been separated from the Liu family for so long.

is different from being poor and white to take the exam, with a huge amount of money on the return trip, and a horse given by Xue Yuan.

Xue Yuan is also a man of action, when he said that he wanted to write a letter to ask the family to send a horse, Liu Chenxing thought it was just talking, who knew that on the fifth day after the test, the servant of the Xue family really brought a horse, which shows how favored Xue Yuan is at home.

However, the parents of the Xue family are also unconditionally favored daughters, after all, they have never seen their daughter's friends who can read very well, so they only let the servant bring an ordinary horse, and did not buy a set of harness for the horse.

At that time, up to the royal family, down to the commoners, regardless of men and women, all rode horses to the fashion, and the number of horses raised also reached the highest in all dynasties, and it was not expensive to use an ordinary horse, and a plain silk, that is, five hundred guan, can be purchased.

Although there is no merit and no Lu Yi, but there is also a gift of hospitality, Liu Chenxing saw that it was just an ordinary horse, and the servants of the Xue family brought it from afar, and she had to accept it.

It is obviously not easy to walk on foot with two legs, and it is indeed necessary to buy a means of travel for their brothers and sisters to go to Beijing to take the exam, so they plan to prepare the horses and harness before returning home.

At this time, horses are the same as modern cars, thinking that he will soon be a car owner, Liu Chenxing is quite excited, and Liu Qingshan is naturally even more so as a man.

On this day, they got up early in the morning, pushed the door out, and the two brothers and sisters just took a photo in the left and right wings, tacitly, and tacitly asked the Xue brothers and sisters to go to the hotel hall with a ready-made meal.

After hearing that the Xue brothers and sisters were fine today, Liu Chenxing made it clear that he wanted to ask them to accompany him to buy a horse and a saddle.

Xue Yuan spoke quickly, swallowed a mouthful of steamed cakes with meat filling, that is, modern buns, and preemptively responded: "You really found the right person, the previous dynasty banned industry and commerce from riding horses, and my great-great-grandfather saw that his family had finally become a good family, and directly built a horse farm, specially inviting people to raise horses!" Our brother and sister have grown up in the horse pile since they were young, and when it comes to picking horses and choosing saddles, there is no better than our brother and sister. ”

It is estimated that there was no preparation for the test at the beginning, although she was the only one who fell off the list of four people in a group of four, and she was frustrated, but she was optimistic by nature, and her brother was relieved, she could always go to Chang'an to see it when she arrived, so she had already returned to normal, and even quite interested.

Optimistic people are welcome everywhere, Liu Chenxing smiled: "That's annoying." "After about a month of intersection, we have the feeling of eating and living together, and the relationship between each other is also a thousand miles away, and it is normal to call them cordially.

Xue Yuan didn't like Liu Chenxing to call her sister, it was more convenient to call her by her name, thinking that she also asked Liu Chenxing to ask for advice, she couldn't help but be satisfied, but her thoughts were really jumping too fast, and in a blink of an eye, she sighed again, "This dynasty also prohibits business and commerce from riding horses, if it weren't for the foresight of the ancestors to change their good names, my brother and I would still have to ride donkeys to travel, then it would be a loss of face!" ”

Xue Cheng had long been accustomed to his sister's character, and he didn't comment when he heard the words, stopped eating the chopsticks with porridge, and said to Liu Qingshan: "I originally planned to go to Beijing before going to Qingyang County to find you, and then persuade you to buy a horse, but now it is better to buy it, there are two mule and horse shops in the state city, and the range of choices is larger than that of Qingyang County." ”

The children are all eating in the hotel hall, Liu Qianli naturally took the children and the Xue brothers and sisters to sit around the table and eat, and heard Xue Cheng point out that there are two mules and horses selling horses in the state city, and he couldn't help nodding and said: "Xue Da is thoughtful, and you are with you, which is very reassuring." ”

Buying a means of transportation is a big deal for their family.

But Liu Qianli thinks that Xue Cheng is reliable, and secondly, he also believes that the children who have passed the state examination, and more importantly, Chang'an is not as good as the state city, thousands of miles away, and the family's fields need to be cultivated, and he has to continue to earn money.

In addition, there are children who are only township tributes, at this time there is no township tribute can be exempt from tax policy, I heard that only the officials who have more than five grades have the privilege of tax exemption, he and Liu Qingshan are both Ding males, so the annual tax is indispensable, how can he leave home for a long time?

Naturally, I can no longer accompany my children to Beijing to catch the exam.

In the future, the children will have to come to everything by themselves, and he must let the children adapt to one or two first.

But these words are not enough to say, just reading these things, Liu Qianli added: "Later, I will have to pack my luggage and calculate the room fee with the store, so it will be different, and you four young people can be more comfortable." ”

In this way, as soon as the morning food was over, a group of four of them were directly led by Xue Cheng and headed towards the mules and horses.

As the saying goes: a good mule and a horse don't get into the business.

Of course, Liu Chenxing and Liu Qingshan, the brothers and sisters who grew up playing small cattle herding, can pick and plough cattle, but it is really impossible to see whether the horses are good or bad.

However, Liu Qingshan also has self-knowledge, he is now a family, and he does not ask for good horses worth thousands of dollars, and an ordinary horse is enough for mules and horses.

So the Xue brothers and sisters were selected and selected, and a better one was selected from a group of ordinary horses worth a plain silk.

However, horses are cheap, and harness is expensive.

First of all, in order to control the horse's walking, a halter on the horse's mouth is indispensable, so that two reins can be drawn from the horse's mouth to be held.

Next, the saddle on the horse's back, they will not settle, just plain wood texture.

In order to reduce the friction and bleeding of the skin on the horse's back in the saddle, you have to buy a thin mattress to cushion it, and then put an iron palm on the horse's four hooves.

Their brother and sister had another set, and they went to two dollars.

But before the meeting, a well-dressed brown horse, and then thought that he was dressed in a wide-sleeved white-clothed scholar's suit, which could be regarded as a long robe with wide sleeves and a wide sleeve, and he was galloping in the dust. How chic?

Liu Chenxing couldn't help laughing, she has been working in modern times for several years and still squeezes the bus and subway sooner or later, and now she is only thirteen years old, she is already a car owner!

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