Chapter Twenty-Four: The First Talent

Xiao Yuwen did not go to the academy after separating from Yi Jiaren, but went to the official media, and he wanted to register a blind date.

As soon as he reported his family's name, the matchmaker persuaded him: "Master Xiao, you still use it for blind dates, go back quickly, don't disturb the little ones on business." ”

Most of the people in the Tianshun Dynasty who are looking for official media blind dates are ordinary people, and there are no young ladies from official eunuchs.

"Why am I bothering you on business, I have reached the age of a weak crown, but I am not married, should you be responsible for me?" Xiao Yuwen played a scoundrel.

"If you want to get married, it's not easy, beckon, don't squeeze your head out of the girls in Ning'an City."

"It's too irresponsible for you to say this, men and women pay attention to the marriage of each other, and if I have an unhappy marriage and divorce in the future, I have to come to you."

No one curses their marriage for being unhappy and divorced like this.

was so entangled by him that he couldn't do anything, and the matchmaker registered him. In the end, I didn't forget to flatter: "Then what are you looking for?" ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yuwen scratched his head: "Did you have a girl named Yi Jiaren to register?" Just arrange for me to meet her first. ”

"Oh," the matchmaker had an epiphany.

These boys are really good, chasing girls are all here.

"You're late, the girl said that she was on the first and fifteenth days of the new year, and the day after tomorrow was the first day of the new year, and we just sent her a post from a son, and made an appointment to meet the day after tomorrow."

"What is the first and fifteenth days of the new year?" Xiao Yuwen was puzzled. Isn't Yi Jiaren idle at home, resting every day.

"Oh, that girl said that she was a descendant of the Lin family before, and then she went to Yunxiang Restaurant to order Mao, and she rested on the first and fifteenth days of each month."

Hearing this, Xiao Yuwen was enlightened, no wonder Guo Xun looked like a villain during this time, but this is the case.

After thanking the matchmaker, he went to Yunxiang Restaurant.

He had no money on him, so he ordered a pot of tea, found Guo Xun's seat, sat in it for a day, and found Yi Jiaren among the veiled girls without much effort.

Yi Jiaren didn't provoke him either.

In the evening, the shopkeeper of Zhong Xiufang suddenly brought a few foreigners, two of whom were Persians who had ordered clothes in Zhong Xiufang before, and he gestured to the two Persians, asking them to sit downstairs and go up to the second floor to find a rich shopkeeper.

The rich shopkeeper has a small box on the second floor, she usually sits behind the counter, and goes to the small box to rest when she is tired.

Shopkeeper Wang knocked on the door and entered, standing with his hands down: "Rich shopkeeper, is Miss Yi here today?" There's something I want to trouble her. ”

The rich shopkeeper leaned back on the couch, his legs covered with a satin mattress, and he owed: "What is the matter with her?" ”

"Some time ago, she called for a deal with the Persians, and they came to pick up the goods today, and they wanted to order another batch, so they thought it would be troublesome for her to help greet her."

"Are people coming?"

"I'm here, I'm waiting downstairs."

"Let's go, I'll go down with you and have a look." Saying that, the rich shopkeeper got up, she also wanted to see this girl's skills, and when she went out, she told Jin Yan to find Yi Jiaren.

The three of them went downstairs, and the two Persians took off their hats and came forward to greet them, and Yi Jia also translated them in Persian.

A few people sat down, and the two Persians introduced their friends, two merchants from the Great Food Country, to Yi Jiaren.

Yi Jiaren greeted them in jerky food language, but fortunately they understood.

The two sides chatted for a long time, and Yi Jia understood that the businessmen of these two big food countries also wanted to order a batch of silk, but the amount was relatively large, and the spinning and dyeing period of Zhongxiufang was relatively long, so they wanted to reduce the price.

Yi Jiaren had a hard time translating these languages, and she had to negotiate with them, and it took a lot of brains to negotiate this business. After signing the contract, the two big eaters paid a deposit of 1,000 taels before it was finished.

Xiao Yuwen sat in the distance drinking tea, with a smile on his face.

The business was negotiated, and the rich boss also took a few high glances at Yi Jiaren, no wonder her son would fight with someone for her, and she rewarded Yi Jiaren with fifty taels of silver as a commission at the moment.

With fifty taels of silver, Yi Jiaren felt that her decision to open a translation hall was right. Today, she is going to return the silver to Guo Xun, so that her brother doesn't have to feel inferior in front of him.

When it was almost time for dinner, there were more and more customers in the store, and it was difficult to find a table, Xiao Yuwen only ordered a pot of tea, and was naturally invited out by the female junior in the store, this is not a teahouse after all.

He didn't feel ashamed, moved to the steamed cake stall opposite, asked for two steamed cakes for ten copper coins, and sat there waiting for Yi Jiaren to come out.

Nibbling on steamed cakes, blowing the northwest wind, watching Guo Xun come back from school and circle around Yi Jiaren in the store, Xiao Yuwen felt that it was good to take on a big job and earn some silver.

Finally waited for the store to close, he ran to the back door to intercept Yi Beauty, but she and Guo Xun left through the front door. Seeing them get into the carriage, Xiao Yuwen took a sip: "Cut, like a fly, staring at people." ”

In the car, Yi Jiaren took out the fifty taels of silver rewarded by the rich shopkeeper during the day and gave it to Guo Xun: "Give this back to you, and I will pay it back slowly in the future." ”

"Where did you get all this money?" Guo Xun didn't take her money, she will always owe herself a good thing.

Yi Jiaren told her about helping to translate today, but Guo Xun still refused to accept her money.

"You've helped me and my brother a lot, I don't want to owe you, if you don't take it anymore, I'm angry."

Seeing that she turned her face, as if she was really a little angry, Guo Xun took the silver: "Then I'll take it first, and tell me if you have anything in the future." ”

"Hmm." Yi Jiaren nodded, and didn't want to tell him anything in the future.

Xiao Yuwen, who hadn't been to the academy for two days, came to him as soon as he arrived at the academy: "You haven't been here for the past two days, have you done the homework you wrote for me?" ”

Xiao Yuwen lazily propped his head and handed him a pile of written articles: "Go and help me send it, take back all the silver, and don't take it on credit." ”

"Okay, Young Master Xiao." Qin Ziyu agreed, helped him send all the homework he wrote, and received thirteen taels of silver by the way.

"Why is it only thirteen taels?" Xiao Yuwen felt that it shouldn't be so little. There were more than 20 students in the academy, except for Yi Linfeng and Guo Xun, who didn't ask him to write, everyone else asked him to write.

Qin Ziyu pursed his mouth: "Oh, over there, there are a few people who asked him to write, and they are more serious than you." ”

He's talking about Yi Linfeng.

It was snowing, and the two brothers and sisters were still wearing single clothes, without a winter coat to protect them from the cold, and the old Han family did not have much charcoal, so they often burned in the first half of the night, and woke up in the second half of the night. Yi Linfeng also learned from Xiao Yuwen to earn some silver so that he could add a few pieces of charcoal to his sister's room.

Xiao Yuwen glanced over there, if it was someone else, he would have a literary competition with someone else, and decide who would do the work here, if it was Yi Linfeng, forget it, that would be the master who was more short of money than himself.

"Forget it, let him go, I don't care about these few taels of silver, you can find me some work in another academy, anything."

"You want to be tired, you write so much every day, you have to copy it for a few hours." Qin Ziyu didn't understand, he had an income of ten taels a day, and it was enough to ask those girls and ladies to listen to music and drink tea every three or five times.

"There will be a imperial examination next spring, these people have to show some real skills, I write it to them every day, isn't it a mistake?"

Although all the children of official eunuchs in Nanshan Academy are not rare, it is not uncommon to change their fate through the imperial examination, but there are still a few people who are sincere to study, and Yi Linfeng is one.