Looking at his mother's eyes full of hope, Zeng Zigu smiled, pointed to the money bag on the table and said, "When I came back, I went to Jiaozi Shop to exchange Zhang Jiaozi for five copper coins and came back," as he said, he handed the remaining fifteen Jiaozi to Zhu Cuo, "You have collected these Jiaozi coins and the copper coins that were exchanged." ”

Zhu's face showed joy, and he still asked uneasily: "You went to ask?" Nothing, right? ”

"Mother rest assured, I went to the shop, and the lady in charge of the shop, not only did not regret it, but also praised Qi Niang and Eight Niang for their good life."

"That's good, that's good," Zhu looked at Zeng Budo, seeing that he was pretending to be indifferent but couldn't hide the joy in the corners of his eyes, he said angrily, "Look, I'll just say that our Qi Niang and Ba Niang are not the ones who don't know the severity, right?" Besides, she is as big as the two of them, and with the shrewdness of others who are used to doing business, how can they be deceived by these two girls? ”

I completely forgot that when I saw so much money, I was afraid that the two children would get into trouble.

Zeng Budo was not only worried that her two girls had deceived people, but also worried that she was a little girl at a young age, and she was deceived by others and would cause trouble again. At this time, the worry in his heart disappeared, and he glared at Zhu fiercely: "Lunch is ready?" Don't delay, Erlang will go to the school in the afternoon. ”

"Okay, okay, come up right away, you wash your hands and face first." Seeing his glare, Zhu didn't dare to offend the dignity of his head of the family anymore, and happily took Jiaozi, Zeng Zigu helped her carry the bag of copper coins, and went to the house to put it in the box.

Qi Niang finished cooking, went back to the house and said goodbye, and went to the backyard to find a few small ones.

From time to time, he led Banniang, Jiulang, Shiniang and Jue'er Gong'er back to the main house together, and the family began to eat.

While eating, Zhu said: "The eldest daughter-in-law should come back in a few days, and I don't know if I will bring a letter back in advance, tell the exact date, and go out of the city to pick it up on the dock." ”

Zeng Zigu said: "Mother don't worry, the eldest brother knows that the grandmother of my sister-in-law's mother's family in Nancheng County celebrated her seventieth birthday a few days ago, and he happened to pass through Nancheng County when he came back this time, so he must have stopped by to visit and come back with his sister-in-law." ”

Zhu said again: "Speaking of birthdays, your grandmother will also celebrate her ninetieth birthday next spring." ”

"Well," Zeng Zigu replied, "Father and mother don't have to worry about this, when the eldest brother comes back, I will discuss with the eldest brother and set a beautiful birthday banquet for my grandmother." so that her old man may be happy. ”

Life is rare for seventy years, not to mention that the old grandmother is already ninety years old, if you don't hold a grand one, invite relatives to come over and have a good life, it will definitely cause gossip.

At that time, in addition to the relatives in the clan, that is, her aunt of the Jinxi Wu family, and the in-laws of the Linchuan Wang family, they all wanted to be invited, so the expenses were really amazing, and the Zhu family became more and more worried when they thought about it.

Erlang said that he and the boss tried to find a way, but it was just to relieve her heart.

What can be done now? I just hope that at the beginning of the spring of the new year, Erlang's Shu Xiu can collect more, and the small businesses that Da Lang goes out to do can also be smoother, plus these eighty times to save money, maybe it can avoid the cost of holding a birthday banquet.

Zhu glanced at Erlang with guilt, this child was twenty years old because he was appreciated by the prime minister of the dynasty, so he entered the Taixue in Beijing, but before he stayed for two years, he took a break from school and returned home due to the serious illness of his master, helping to manage the livelihood of this family, and his life delayed his future.

Next year, it's time for spring, and after the autumn of this year, I will go to Beijing with the boss to prepare for the exam, but these two brothers, one is busy with business, and the other is busy with teaching, and now with these eighty times, the travel expenses and expenses in the capital are there, but I am afraid that thinking about the situation at home, the two brothers probably will not agree to go.

Zhu sighed.

After lunch, Qi Niang helped Zhu clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and Ba Niang was responsible for taking care of Shi Niang, and Zeng did not doubt lead Jiu Lang Jue'er and Gong'er to the study to give lectures to the three children.

Banniang hugged Shi Niang and smiled at Zeng Zigu: "Second brother, you go to rest for a while, it's easy to be sleepy in spring, or you will be sleepy in the afternoon, but it's uncomfortable, when the time comes, I will call you, and I can't delay your class." ”

"Don't be tired, you can play with the tenth sister, I'll go to the study to find a book to read."

Banniang smiled: "That's fine." By the way, the second brother, I found a copy of "Liutao" from the book yesterday, there are some things I don't understand in it, and when the second brother is free at night, explain it to me, okay? ”

Zeng Zigu raised his eyebrows, Banniang is really different from other sisters, she has never loved those poems and songs, but is very interested in wild history miscellaneous records and military history books, but he can't understand how an eleven or twelve-year-old girl likes to read books like "Liutao", "Three Strategies", "Hundred Battles", "Jiang Yuan" and "Guiguzi".

Seeing Banniang looking at him with an eager expression, Zeng Zigu replied "Okay", and Banniang was satisfied and hugged Shi Niang back to the house in the backyard.

Xu is influenced by his grandfather in his previous life, Banniang loves military books very much, his grandfather once said, soldiers, tricks, the way of business, focusing on strategy, ancient history books and military books, gathering thousands of years of wisdom of the predecessors of the elite, worthy of learning for a lifetime, the grandfather of the previous life was an archaeologist, for the classical books are also like a number of treasures, in the family study, Linlin's total book, Banniang is still Zeng Yunshan in the previous life, and he was immersed in it.

But in the past, it was just that, and now there is a second brother who can be a first-class erudite Confucian who can be put into today's Shilin, wouldn't it be better to explain the meaning of the classics? How can Banniang let it go?

Banniang hugged Shi Niang and went back to the backyard happily, thinking that she had earned the first pot of gold today, and she was also very proud.

After she woke up, due to a serious illness, she recuperated for more than a month before she could go to the ground, and she also took care of her all day from Qi Niang's mouth to set out some general things about this time and space, and later she was able to walk, and found that there was a large library at home, which contained tens of thousands of books.

You must know that in this era of expensive paper, the price of a book is not cheap, especially those lonely classics, which are difficult to find, but there are a lot of them in this study. This is the Zeng family of the past generations of people to collect, especially in this generation, the second brother is a book lover of the obsessed person, he reads any book, so the books at home are also strange, mixed very, in addition to all kinds of scriptures and history subsets, there are also some strange Buddhist scriptures and Taoism, only the gold and stone burning, there are nearly 500 volumes, the number is so large, the classification is miscellaneous, that is, the people who often visited the bookstore in the previous life of Ba Niang, are also deeply impressed.

However, after reading the history books, Banniang knew that this time and space, the history of the previous life did not exist, and after the five dynasties and ten kingdoms in the late Tang Dynasty, it was Chai Rong who won the unification, not only did this guy die of illness, but also conquered the world in one fell swoop, so there was nothing to do with the two brothers of the Zhao family later.

However, because Zhao Boss won the favor of Emperor Taizong Chai Rong, Zhao Boss was later named Dingnan Hou, in order to exempt him from the world of firewood, and hit half of the rivers and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, although the emperor is Chai Rong, this dynasty is also called the Great Song Dynasty, which is very consistent with history. And the social system and atmosphere, as well as geography, are also very close to the Northern Song Dynasty of the Zhao royal family. If it weren't for the fact that when he heard his father and second brother mention it, he felt that there was something different, and he quietly checked the history books, Zeng Yunshan still thought that he was wearing the Northern Song Dynasty of the Zhao Dynasty that later generations yearn for.

And all the dynasties in history are similar, the Great Song Dynasty is a big agricultural country, up to the royal family, down to the lowest county-level officials, all attach great importance to agriculture, their own father and brother, although they have lived in the county for a long time, but also attach importance to the development of agriculture, every time they talk about it, they all say that the head is the Tao, for planting water conservancy and other issues, the second brother still has some research.

Banniang thought that if there is money in the future, you should buy some land in the countryside, whether it is your own farming, or tenant to others, it is always a stable income, besides, although her father has resigned and returned to his hometown, but the uncles of the Zeng family have not been separated, and the uncles who are officials outside the country do not have to pay taxes, that is, if there is something in the future, the family also has a place to eat.

However, now the family only has this eighty yuan of cash, and they still have to eat. Nowadays, one acre of high-quality fertile land is worth about two or three acres of land, and the eighty acres are used by the Ministry to buy land, but it is only twenty or thirty acres of land.

The most important thing now is to fight for money. With money, there is a good life.

When Emperor Taizong was down, he adopted his aunt and uncle, but his uncle's family was not wealthy, so Emperor Taizong went out to do business and did some tea business to support his family before he followed his father-in-law and uncle from Rong. A period of business experience, so that he is well versed in the merchants are not easy, but also know the circulation of goods, the importance of the entire social structure, so later after becoming the emperor, the merchants of the Great Song Kingdom, very generous, light business tax, encourage commercial development, in this regard, it is really than Zeng Banniang's previous life of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Mazi, I don't know how many times stronger.

Emperor Taizong was originally a man of great talent, under his wise leadership, at the beginning of the founding of the country, he established and improved various social systems, and unlike the Zhao Song Dynasty, the Chai family and the Song family did not despise the martial arts, which also made Zeng Banniang very admired, at least as far as the current situation is concerned, the shame of Jingkang in the late Northern Song Dynasty in the previous life is very unlikely to happen.

If the old Chai family also let their own emperor become the lamp oil of the Mongols, it would be a tragedy.

Today's Great Song Kingdom, although it is not more open than the folk customs of the Tang Dynasty, and the control and suppression of women in living habits are stricter than those of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, women are wrapped but not allowed to go out, and they are completely reduced to male subordinates, and they do not have an independent personality at all and have no property rights. Zeng Banniang was secretly glad that she didn't wear it to a bitter dynasty like the Yuan Dynasty.

Not to mention the gossip, and said that Zeng Banniang thought that she would gain something by trying the knife today, and couldn't help but be ambitious, while coaxing Shi Niang, while thinking about the 87 version of the "Dream of Red Mansions" TV series painted by her grandmother in her previous life, Feng Lazi and a few girls appeared in the set of headdress sketches, and decided to take the time to draw them one by one these days, and then modify them slightly according to the aesthetics of this era, I think it can be used.

Since Wu Sanniang bought her pattern, she must make it into a real thing and take it to the store to buy, if it sells well, she will definitely come to the door.

In the next few days, Zeng Banniang asked Zhu for some copper coins, and went to the pen and ink shop to buy some gouache ink, in addition to helping Zhu and Qi Niang do some housework, they nested in the room, and they were dedicated to designing jewelry, and they didn't even go to the study, which caused Zeng's father and Zeng's second brother to be very curious.