Jin Niang glared at Changping when she heard this.

This kid, as soon as he ran out, was like a wild horse on the loose, and he couldn't remember any useful information, so it was time to fix it.

Jin Niang looked at Chang'an, Chang'an touched her nose in a daze, and replied, "I can't remember clearly, but Su Xuan and Su Zheng don't seem to have told us about it in my memory." Otherwise, he should have some impressions, but now he can't think of the slightest thing related to the monthly examination of Yingtian Academy, so Su Xuan and Su Zheng forgot to say it.

What else can Jin Niang say? She couldn't say anything.

She doesn't trust Changping, the Ma Daha, but she trusts and recognizes Chang'an, the eldest son and grandson, very much, so Chang'an's words have a high weight in her, and she will not easily question the truth or falsehood. Besides, Chang'an has a good memory, although it can't be called a word that he can't forget, it's almost somewhere. Since he said that he was not impressed, it could only be that Su Xuan and Su Zheng really forgot about it and did not mention it to them.

But if you don't say it, it's not a big deal, anyway, when the two of them go to the academy, they will know sooner or later.

It's okay to know in advance now, at least I can urge the two of them to work hard. Otherwise, if you really spend two or three years in the T-shaped class, no matter how good your talent is, it will be in vain.

Jin Niang encouraged the two and said, "You two strive to be admitted to Class C during the tenth exam, so that you can participate in the next children's exam, and then you will come back with your uncle to take the exam." ”

Qing'er has not yet been selected for talent.

Originally, when Father Lin was preparing to participate in the Autumn Festival three years ago, he felt that Qing'er's time had come, so he asked him to participate in the children's exam the following year. It's a pity that the sky didn't fulfill people's wishes, and on the day of the exam, Qing'er didn't know whether she ate the wrong thing or got a cold, or she was nervous about the exam, and she couldn't get up from vomiting and diarrhea, so she missed the exam. Therefore, he is still a white body.

However, it is okay not to refer to it for a while, after all, knowledge is focused on accumulation and precipitation.

Qing'er can sharpen for a few more years, and he can also suppress his temperament, which is not a good thing for him. Besides, now that he has Father Lin, the Jinshi father, he has taught him, and it is almost a sure thing that he will win the first place in the next boys' examination. I can't say that Qing'er will be vigorous at that time, even Qiuyu has participated, and if she comes back with a meritorious reputation, then the Lin family will really be beautiful.

As soon as Jin Niang said this, Chang'an and Changping's expressions became solemn. Chang'an said, "Changping and I don't dare to compare our talents with my little uncle, and we don't dare to promise that we will be better than my little uncle before I raise people and jinshi, after all, my little uncle is a few years older than us, and he must be better than us in terms of learning." But we also have ambitions, and we don't dare to lag behind our uncle too much. Even if we don't get fame as much as my uncle in the future, we will rise to the challenge in the future and strive to get a name for ourselves as soon as possible. ”

This is to give a promise that it will definitely come out, Jin Niang was very relieved when she heard this, and said a few good words.

Jin Niang was in confinement, and she didn't have to worry too much, so after talking to a few little people, she went back to the house to rest.

Pianpian, Changle, and Xiaoyuer don't know if they were stimulated by Chang'an Changping to go to the academy to study, and the three little girls also worked hard to learn to read and write. They don't rely on Master Qian's leniency and preferential treatment of them, they make small moves in class, and they all listen to lectures and ask questions energetically, and they are full of energy to learn.

This incident also surprised Master Qian, and he thought that where the three little girls were, because they were ridiculed because of their lack of knowledge, so they worked hard to study. When he turned around, he also worriedly talked to Gui Niangzi, and asked Gui Niangzi to inquire about Jinniang.

Gui Niangzi loves the three little girls, and she also treats this matter as a serious matter, so she solemnly finds Jin Niang and listens to it.

Jin Niang couldn't cry or laugh after hearing the news, and later told Gui Niangzi about her guess, and both of them held their stomachs and laughed.

Gui Niangzi laughed and sighed, "It's a pity that Daqi doesn't have a female school, otherwise if these three girls are sent to a women's school, sooner or later they will have to spread their reputation." ”

Jin Niang agreed with Gui Niangzi's words of praising the child, the three little girls didn't look competitive, but they all had a reluctance in their bones, they really had to make up their minds to do something, and they were determined to do it.

She felt that Gui Niangzi was right, but she said modestly, "Gui Niangzi, don't praise them, it's all three minutes of heat, after these ten days and a half months, there is no external force to stimulate their progress, and those three little bastards have to be beaten back to their original shape." Gui Niangzi don't praise them, otherwise they know that they should be ashamed. ”

Gui Niangzi said, "Come on, what are you still modest in front of me?" I live under the same roof with you, and I know the character and temperament of the girls. Don't bury them, I think they're all right. He added, "If you think they are bastard and annoy you, you give them to me, and I will take good care of them." Don't say it's three, if you come to ten or eight, I can raise you well. ”

"That's not going to work. It's all my heart and liver, and I can't sleep at night when you take it away. ”

Both laughed again.

Gui Niangzi was busy, and there were still many medicinal herbs drying in the yard waiting to be processed, so she routinely gave Jinniang acupuncture massage and squeezed the lochia, and then left.

Not long after Gui Niangzi left, Pian Pian and Changle ran over with Xiao Yu'er happily.

Pian Pian also held a rouge box in her hand, which was the most ordinary kind of wooden box, with a twig pattern carved on it. This box is very inferior, you can buy five for a penny. The rouge in the box is not very good, when Jin Niang was still in the Lin family, due to the embarrassment of the family, the rouge gouache used was not very good. This rouge sells cheaply, less than ten cents in total, and she really used it. To this day, Jin Niang still remembers that the unused box of rouge was placed in the box on the top of the dresser.

At that time, I thought that rouge was good, and I was reluctant to use it, but later I married into the Xu family and saw a better rouge gouache, and the box of rouge was abandoned by her, and it has never been used again.

Even the things she disdains to use, but Pian Pian holds them in her hands, which is unreasonable.

Jin Niang looked at Pian Pian, and when she spoke, Pian Pian and a few people saluted Jin Niang, so they smiled and came to her, "Sister-in-law, take a look, hehehe, this is the rouge I made with Changle, sister-in-law, can you try it." ”

"You ...... Do rouge? ”

"Well, I made it with Changle, we think it's very good, fragrant, the fat powder inside is also very delicate, and the taste is good, if you sell this fat powder, sister-in-law, do you think you can make money?"

Jin Niang opened the box and looked at it, and tried her best to laugh. With such a large particle and such a pungent fragrance, no one may buy low-quality rouge gouache in Binh Duong, let alone in Kyoto, where the items are more exquisite and extravagant. If you throw this thing on the street, no one will necessarily pick it up.

gave this rouge a big X in her heart, but Jin Niang didn't show her disgust.

She was just right, and asked Pianpian and Changle very curiously, "Why did you two think of making rouge gouache?" Is it boring? ”

Pian Pian sighed with a face of vicissitudes, "It's so boring there, we do rouge obviously to make money!" Alas, if you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, sister-in-law, you don't know, after our family came to Beijing, it took less than a year to spend three thousand taels of silver. With so much money, if it were in Pingyang, it would be enough for our family to eat and drink for five or six years, but in the capital, it wouldn't even last a year. Alas, spending money is like flowing water, and this money is really unspent. ”

Pian Pian sighed with a sigh, Jin Niang also has relatives, how else to say that it is not easy to live in the capital?

Living in the capital is really expensive, seven things to go out, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, everything costs a lot, not to mention, it costs a lot to feed so many maids and servants in the house.

But this is still a small head, and the real big part of the cost is a congratulatory gift given out on holidays. In addition, Xu Erlang is now an official, and he can't spend money on officialdom? If the boss and colleagues have concubines and daughters, do they have to spend money to move their grandchildren?

I haven't met the emperor's holy birthday festival, the queen mother's Qianqiu Festival, and the whole birthday of the officials of the Hanlin Academy, otherwise it would be shabby to spend a few hundred taels on a gift.

All in all, it seems that it cost three thousand taels of silver in less than a year, which is really not much.

Besides, although the cost is large, if there is joy in the family, the income is also very large.

Don't say anything else, just say that Brother Rong received the gift when he washed the third day, and the odds and bits add up to thousands of taels. That's not counting the ruby gold collar specially sent by the Pingxi Hou Mansion, as well as the cloth silk Luo sent by Li Hehui and the lady of the Hanlin Academy.

These three households are not bad for money, and the things they give out are also decent and valuable. Let's just say that the few Ayaluo horses that Li Hehui sent to him are said to be tributes to the palace. was rewarded by the Queen Mother to the princess of the old county, and the princess of the old county was given to her beloved second grandson. This thing is priceless and priceless, and it will definitely attract the envy and jealousy of the noble lady of the capital, and it will be a dowry or dowry for her children in the future, which is also a rare good thing.

Can you estimate the value of these things with money?

No!

Anyway, after coming to the capital, the family situation is getting better and better, and in the future, Brother Rong will have a full moon banquet, a 100-day banquet, and a first birthday banquet...... If you change to a greedy one, give birth to a child and hold four banquets, and make a lot of money, this is simply the fastest way to make a fortune.

It's a pity that Xu Erlang wants to be a low-key person, and he is only going to give his son a grand third and first birthday. As for the full moon and the 100-day banquet, only prepare the family to be happy, otherwise, think about the mountains of gold and silver that will be surging at that time...... No, I can't think about it, the more I think about it, the more it hurts.

That's all for now, and then let's get back to business.

Jin Niang looked at Pian Pian and Changle with a sad look, so she said to them, "Although we spend a lot of money after we go to Beijing, Brother Rong has also earned a lot back after washing three banquets, not to mention other valuables, only saying that some can be converted into silver taels, and after being converted, it is not less than 5,000 yuan." In this way, we have made money, and the silver taels in our hands are also rich, we should be happy, why are you still worried? ”

With a look of "sister-in-law, you don't understand", Pian Pian sat down and said carefully to Jinniang, "Earning is only for a while, and there will be times when you can't get in and out in the future." Sister-in-law, let's not talk about far, only about the affairs of Pingxi Hou Mansion. After that, the old lady of Pingxi Hou Mansion will have a sixty full birthday, and the father of Jieyu Niangniang in the palace is said to have the possibility of promotion, and the fourth young master of Pingxi Hou Mansion, Xu Wenqing, will also be decided, the wedding date is preliminarily set in Layue, and there is still a girl from Pingxi Hou Mansion who is going out of the cabinet, and the lady of the second room of Pingxi Hou Mansion is about to give birth...... Sister-in-law, there are many people and events in Pingxi Hou Mansion, just celebrating the happy events in their mansion can empty our family. ”

This time, I have a relationship with Jinniang.

For a while, she couldn't help but feel sad, worried about why there were so many things in the Xihou Mansion. I want to celebrate my birthday today, I want to congratulate me tomorrow, and I want to add makeup the day after tomorrow.

At this time, Jin Niang can understand Pianpin's eagerness to make money.

But, child, if your second brother only has a few superficial assets, then it is not your second brother.

After your second brother became an official, he also received some congratulatory gifts, and then all of them were converted into silver money, so that Mohe went to a remote state capital to buy a field. In addition, your second brother is now also the backer of several merchants, and he routinely takes the shares of filial piety to dividends, so now the family is really not short of money, and your second brother earns much more than our whole family.

It's just that it's not easy to tell the little girl, making a lot of money or something in a muffled voice, the most important thing is the word "muffled"!

Speaking of making money, the little girl has a sense of money, and Jin Niang feels that this is a good thing worth celebrating, at least it means that her own girl will not become a fairy character like her mother-in-law who regards money as dung and does not eat fireworks in the world, but will become a vulgar person.

Ordinary people are good, they will like the fireworks of the world, they will long for the warmth of the family, they will hope that the husband and wife will love, relatives and friends will be happy, they will be worried about the future of their children, and they will also worry about what they eat and drink every day.

The child's idea is good, and Jin Niang also decided to support it, but this rouge does need to be improved, so Jin Niang gently suggested, "This particle is a little too big, and the color is uneven, if you apply it on the face, I am afraid that the makeup effect is not very good." In addition, the aroma is somewhat pungent. Nowadays, girls are elegant, and the rouge gouache used on the face only needs a light and pleasant aroma. After all, rouge gouache is different from sachets, it does not require a long-lasting aroma, and the most important thing is to look at the makeup effect, so you two will go back and study it carefully. ”

The finished product was beaten back, and Pian Pian and Changle looked depressed. Even Xiao Yu'er, obviously this matter has nothing to do with her, she was pulled by her sister and little aunt to make up the numbers, but it was as if she had also been hit, and she drooped her head with her aunt and sister, looking loveless.

Jin Niang laughed when she saw this, "One failure doesn't mean anything, you go to Suzaku Street to see, who hasn't experienced dozens or hundreds of failures in business now?" You've only failed once, and you're discouraged, so can you still do this business? ”