Chapter 31: Settlement
On the way to the county office, she has been thinking that she has lost a lot, and there is probably a little vague image in her heart, and the money spent when she bought it was at least double that of now. But who made her lack of money now, there is no way to do it.
When the two came to the county office, Director Wu happened to be there, and soon their household registration was done, all of them were good registrations, and they were done in Baihu Town, and they spent a total of thirteen taels of silver. However, when the household registration was done, Wu said that from now on, they have to pay the Ding tax every year, and now they are over 12 but not yet 16, they are not considered Ding, they can only be counted as Ding, so everyone has to pay 30 Wen Ding tax every year. So they paid a total of 120 yuan for this year and next year, and then the annual tax went to the governor of Baihu Town to pay it, and they had to ask for the time of payment, but it was probably paid in the spring.
After completing the household registration, the two went back to the inn to pack their things, and after the things were packed, she thought that they had finally come to the county seat, and they would not come again if they had nothing to do in the future; In addition, she has some money on her now, so she called Li Bokang and the two to go shopping again. However, they still went to the place where they took the car first and asked the departure time of the bus to Baihu Town, they were afraid that they would miss the bus back to the town.
When she came to the street, Yang Xue felt that everything was good and wanted to buy everything, in fact, most of the things in the county were available in the town, but some things in the county were a little cheaper than those in the town, and there were more types. But maybe it's a woman's nature to go shopping, she buys a lot of things, eats and plays. Although the price is not expensive, she can't stand the many things she bought, all kinds of cotton cloth, brown sugar, snacks, head ropes, wooden hairpins or something, I bought a lot of miscellaneous things, and I also spent a little silver or two.
On the contrary, Li Bokang didn't buy anything, she asked him what he wanted to buy, and he said no, and asked him to choose him, but he didn't choose. In fact, she also knows that she feels very sorry for her because she has spent a lot of money on household registration, but at present, she is also willing to spend money on him and is willing to spend money for him. Not to mention anything else, just for the kindness and care she felt for her in the past few months, plus maybe the warmth that he brought to her after living alone for a long time, she was willing to spend it for him. And she is also willing to believe in her vision and feelings, she feels that he will not do anything to be sorry for her in the future, he will be good to him in the future, although it is just a feeling, but she is still willing to believe.
Indeed, Li Bokang was very unhappy in his heart, he was very sorry for spending a lot of money on her, although he let go of some after her persuasion, but he was silent when he went to the pawnshop with her to make jewelry. Several times he wanted to say that he would not apply for his household registration, but he couldn't say it, because he really wanted to do it. He still wants to study and earn a career in the future, and for these he must have a household registration. And the longer a displaced person like him stays, the more difficult it will be to get a household registration, just like this time, because it will cost more money and be more troublesome, and he doesn't want to delay it for so long. So he could only silently swear in his heart that he would double the good of Sister Xue in the future, and he would work harder in the future.
Maybe his feelings for her were different from this time or earlier, but now he doesn't know, he just thinks it's guilt and gratitude in his heart.
The two of them walked around the street for a while, and all the larger things they had bought before were sent to the inn in the store, leaving only some relatively small bits and pieces to carry with them, and there was money. After all, with so much money in the inn, they are not at ease. At this time, the two came to the door of a bookstore, and when she saw the bookstore, she wanted to buy two books, and she also knew that Li Bokang had also gone to school before, and it seemed that he was learning well. I also remembered that there were still nine years of compulsory education in modern times, and now Li Bokang was only twelve years old, and he had graduated from primary school before, so she also wanted to buy him two copies. So he took Li Bokang in.
After entering, she looked at it casually, and then she found a very serious problem, that is, she basically didn't know the words in the book, and only occasionally knew a few words. She uses simplified Chinese characters in modern times, and basically never uses traditional Chinese characters, even if she knows some, it's just a simple one, two, three, four, or something like that, or it's just a few words that she knows occasionally. As a result, she has basically become an illiterate now, except for some simple and commonly used others, she doesn't know anything, even if she knows, she only knows the words, she doesn't know the words, and the words don't necessarily know her.
She had no choice but to look at Li Bokang, Li Bokang was still a little stunned at first, he didn't know that Sister Xue could read and write. However, looking at Sister Xue looking at him and reading the book, she understood a little, and then asked, "Does Brother Yang Zige want to buy a book?" What kind of do you want to buy? "Because after completing the household registration, when she returned to the inn, she changed back into men's clothes, so now Li Bokang still calls her Brother Yang Zi." Buy some basic literacy, and then you choose two more books you want to read, haven't you been to school before, buy two books and go back to read. She said as a matter of course. However, Li Bokang was really stunned when he heard her words, with undisguised surprise on his face, and subconsciously asked, "Xue...... Brother Yang, do you really want me to study? It costs a lot of money to study. He almost called Sister Chengxue, but fortunately, he reacted later and quickly changed his words.
Seeing Li Bokang's undisguised surprise, she felt understandable, but she still said as a matter of course: "What is true or false, don't you want to study?" Besides, I didn't send you to school, I just bought you two books and you read them at home. And you still have to teach me, but maybe I can send you to the school when I have money, so you have to work hard. ”
After the two finished speaking, they began to pick books, because Li Bokang had gone to school before, so basically he knew everything, so he picked a book of "The Mean", a "Book of Songs", and also a book of "Three Character Classics" and "Thousand Character Text". However, Yang Xue saw some smudgeed and worn books in the corner on the side, and asked the bookboys in the store to learn that these were much cheaper than those new books, so she called Li Bokang to pick out a few books that were still complete and clear. Among them, there is a copy of "Analects", a copy of "Mencius", and a book of "Shuowen Jie Zi", which is relatively damaged but can barely be seen clearly, and two basic "Three Character Classics" and "Kindergarten Qionglin". Because Li Bokang also chose a new "Three Character Classic" before, he put the new one back on the original shelf.
When I paid the money, I spent a total of nearly seven taels of silver, but the shopkeeper also heard what they said before, and saw that although they bought more old books, they still bought some new books, so he gave them a pile of rough-edged paper and an ordinary brush. Since the shopkeeper gave them a pen and some paper, she bought a cheap inkstone.
After buying the book, the two didn't go shopping to buy anything else, they went straight back to the inn, mainly because they didn't see the time too early for fear of missing the car back to the town. When I returned to the inn, I refunded some of the room money I had paid before, took my luggage, and asked the shopkeeper to help deliver the things sent to the inn to the place where I took the car. Fortunately, the car hadn't left when they arrived, but it was almost gone, and when Xiao Er put his things in the car, he gave him two cents and left, and they just got in the car and started leaving.