Although the New Year has passed, the weather is still surprisingly cold. The returnees have returned to the imperial capital one after another, and Zhang Chengyong and Hua Jiumo and a few boys are also busy. They do the job of introducing these outsiders, and if the boss approves of it, they can earn some hard-earned money.

In the past, Zhang Chengyong was the only one doing this work, and he was reluctant to let these younger brothers and sisters in the courtyard come out and suffer. But this year is different, after the beginning of spring, I have to send Tao Zhenzhen to study in Chongwen Academy, how can I do it without money? So, he took the older children in the yard out to work together. Hua Ruxue was not idle at home, doing some embroidery work with a few girls and selling them for money. In addition, she also opened a stall selling wontons on the side of the street, because of the good taste and filling, there are not a few customers who come every day.

The days passed like this, although they didn't earn much every day, but everyone worked together, and the daily income was not small. Anyway, before the entrance examination of Chongwen Academy, the registration fee for enrollment was collected. This year, Chongwen Academy has opened a special recruitment rule, and students from poor families can study in Chongwen Academy for free as long as their examination scores meet the standards set by the college.

I heard that this regulation was strongly promoted by His Royal Highness the King of Germany. He said that now all the official positions in the court are controlled by the big families, and the children of the poor family have never even had a way to study. So His Royal Highness King De wrote to express his feelings, and explained the benefits and disadvantages to the saint, and finally implemented such a regulation in Chongwen Academy. The news spread just after the New Year's Festival, not to mention other places, but it was the poor children in the imperial capital who couldn't scrape together the money and couldn't pay the tuition fees that blew up. It is conceivable that after the beginning of spring this year, the admissions examination of Chongwen College will be so spectacular!

Hua Ruxue has a smart brain and turns fast. Immediately seized the opportunity, let Zhang Chengyong and Hua Jiumo go to the street to purchase a large number of pen, ink, paper and inkstones, and the beautiful children who wrote a few words rushed to work day and night, and wrote dozens of "exam preparation books" by hand. Fortunately, Hua Ruxue was thirsty for learning at the beginning, and in addition to those enlightenment books, she also borrowed a lot of books from Ning Xiucai, and she could memorize them backwards.

Zhang Chengyong watched those white flowers of silver turn into rotten paper full of "Zhihu Ye", and his heart seemed to be dripping blood. These things can't be eaten! What can you do by writing down so much? Hua Ruxue just smiled mysteriously and told him that he would find out in a few days.

So, Hua Ruxue took a group of children out every day during the day, and did not come back until the sun went down. At night, I worked overtime to copy books. It has been going on and on for nearly five days. Finally, one day, a young man who looked like a scholar came to the small courtyard.

Hua Ruxue had already cleaned up the largest room, and there were a lot of small futons in it. She beckoned the young man to come in and sit down, and handed him a book. The young man seemed to have seen some rare treasure, and he held it in his hand and began to look at it.

Hua Ruxue gently retreated, and when she came out, she grabbed a small piece of broken silver in her hand. When she went out and saw Zhang Chengyong who was looking inside, Hua Ruxue chuckled lightly and threw the silver to him: "Put it away!" This is the first silver of the day, and there will be more and more in the future! ”

Zhang Chengyong saw a shiny thing flying towards him, and subconsciously took it with his hand, but when he got it, he found that it was a piece of broken silver! He was stunned for a moment, then weighed the weight, and was overjoyed! That's a full one or two! Then he didn't care whether the silver was dirty or not, so he put it in his mouth and bit it, it was really silver!

"Sister Ruxue!" Zhang Chengyong took three steps and made two steps, catching up with Hua Ruxue, "How did you do it?" Earned a silver tael so quickly! ”

Hua Ruxue pointed to her head: "Use your brain." ”

"With your brain?" Zhang Chengyong scratched his head, "What do you mean?" ”

Hua Ruxue said: "Have you heard about the regulations of Chongwen Academy this year?" If a child from a poor family wants to be admitted to Chongwen Academy, he must study and prepare for the exam! In these days, books are a precious thing, and it is already great for ordinary people to have four or five books. Not many people can afford to go to an ordinary academy. I have copied so many books in the past few days, just so that those poor children have a place to read. ”

"From now until the day of the Chongwen Academy exam, they can come here every day to read. In two or three months, it is enough to pay one tael of silver. Hua Ruxue's eyes lit up when she talked about making money, "One or two pieces of silver are not as important to them as usual." Most people can still get it. So, today is just the beginning. I expect to recruit at least fifty people to come to us to read, that is, we can earn at least fifty taels of silver. ”

"Five...... Fifty taels!! Zhang Chengyong's eyes widened and he looked at Hua Ruxue.

Hua Ruxue continued: "The further you go, the more poor students will enter the imperial capital to take the exam. Our business will get better and better. Of course, this is only the first step, and we don't care about food here. Either bring your own dry food or eat it with us. I've closed my wonton stall these days, and I'm selling Zhuangyuan cakes and porridge here. It's all excellent food. Of course, there are various supplements that come at different prices. ”

"So how do you know that someone is going to buy it? The people who come here are certainly not rich and noble, so how can they have spare money? Zhang Chengyong asked.

Hua Ruxue didn't tell him this time, but smiled mysteriously: "You can watch this then!" ”

Although Zhang Chengyong didn't ask the answer, he felt unreliable in his heart. But when Hua Ruxue's top cakes and porridge were in short supply, he deeply realized what Hua Ruxue meant by making money with her brains.

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"Master, what you asked us to inquire about has an eyebrow." Yu Ning stood in front of the bookcase and said to Nan Borong, who was handling official business.

Nan Borong stopped his pen and looked up: "How is it?" Did she make up enough for the little girl's registration fee? ”

You Ning sighed secretly in his heart, his master has completely fallen! Others don't know what the master's headache is, but he and Han Fei know it. How domineering is that the dust is empty! How could the forgotten memories caused by the medicinal effects of this golden pill be recovered so easily? If the master doesn't have a headache, there will be a ghost! It's just that what he doesn't know is that the master obviously doesn't remember what happened at that time, why is he still so concerned about Hua Ruxue? also ordered them not to tell the news that Hua Ruxue was still alive to Lord Antang.

In addition, the master didn't know where he heard the news that Hua Ruxue was going to send a little girl who lived with him to Chongwen Academy. In order to be afraid that Hua Ruxue would not be able to make up enough tuition, he wrote to the emperor to ask Chongwen Academy to reduce or exempt the tuition fees of outstanding poor children! Now it's time to ask if the registration fee is enough. It's really hopeless!