"It's a bit of a delay." She did not tell the old lady what had happened in the town, lest she should be worried.

"I'm hungry, hurry up and eat inside, I'll be waiting for you." The old lady knew that she was going to talk about business, and it was normal to delay, but she didn't think too much about it.

"In the future, if I come back late, you don't have to wait for me to eat first."

"I didn't wait long, not anymore." The old lady is now Bu Linglong, and she will never refute half a sentence.

"Dabao, are you ready? Tomorrow we will go to the next village, Master Zhong. "Dabao's going to the academy has to be put on the agenda.

"Tomorrow?" Dabao was a little nervous.

"yes, are you ready?" Bu Linglong asked while eating.

"Well, it's ready." Dabao nodded solemnly.

"Alright, we'll go tomorrow. Rest early today to recharge your batteries. ”

"Okay."

"Mother, what about us, what about us?" Erbao and Sanbao blinked their big eyes and looked at Bu Linglong with a look of hope.

"You two are too young, when Dabao gets out of school, I will come back and teach you. Or my mother will teach you when she has time. Bu Linglong touched the heads of the second and third treasures and said with a smile.

"Uh-huh." The two little ones nodded excitedly.

After eating, Bu Linglong took the three children for a walk, led them to take a bath and went to bed.

The children are asleep, and Bu Linglong has to prepare for the apprenticeship ceremony tomorrow.

Respect for teachers, no matter where it is, is very solemn.

There are a total of six ceremonies for apprenticeship: one celery, which means diligent and studious, good at work; Two lotus seeds, lotus seeds are hard, meaning painstaking education; Three red beans, meaning good luck; Four red dates, meaning early high school; Five longan, meaning the completion of merit; Six strips of dried lean pork to express the hearts of the disciples.

Five of them were ready-made on her side, but she didn't have lean strips, so she had to make them quickly.

"Linglong, it's so late, why don't you sleep." Mrs. Lin heard a noise in the kitchen, put on a coat and walked out, and asked when she saw the figure in the kitchen.

"Mother, go to sleep, I'll make the meat strips for tomorrow's apprenticeship." She originally planned to send Dabao to the school in the town, but after inquiring, she learned that Master Zhong's talent even wanted to invite the school in the town, but he gave up for his wife and opened a family in the village.

"I'll help you, it'll be quicker." Mrs. Lin put on her clothes and went into the kitchen to help.

"Okay." Bu Linglong saw the old lady come in, and she swallowed her refusal, if she didn't let her help, she probably had to think about it again.

The action of the two people is fast, and after a while, the meat strips are ready, just wait for them to dry and pack them tomorrow.

The next morning, it was the same as before, and after exercising and washing, Bu Linglong took Dabao and drove the carriage to Wangjia Village next door with the things of the apprenticeship.

As soon as the carriage entered the boundary of Wangjia Village, the children were the first to find that they all ran over and walked around the carriage, looking at the carriage curiously.

The older children were also more courageous, and they were not afraid of life, so they shouted at Bu Linglong: "Who are you?" Who to come to? ”

There were many children, and the speed of the carriage slowed down a little, Bu Linglong stopped the carriage and looked at the slightly older child and said, "Little guy, how to get to Master Zhong's house?" Can you help lead the way, this is for you to eat. ”

Bu Linglong was like a trick, her hand stretched out and spread out, and there were several candies lying quietly inside.

"You don't need this, you take it back, I know where Master Zhong's house is, I'll take you over." The child obviously couldn't leave the candy in Bu Linglong's hand, but he still shook his head and refused, and he didn't go to get the candy and still promised to lead Bu Linglong in the way.

"This was originally for you, so take it and share it." Bu Linglong's eyebrows are all smiling, it seems that the education in Wang's village is very good, although the children are greedy, but none of them are not polite.

"Thank you." Seeing that Bu Linglong insisted, the boy took the candy on behalf of all the children and distributed one to everyone present, "Auntie, I'll take you to Master Zhong's house." The boy put the candy away and led the way.

"You come up, it's quicker." Bu Linglong called out to the boy who was about to go forward and let him get into the car.

"It's okay, it's not very far, it's there in a while." The boy did not get into the carriage and insisted on walking on his own.

As he said, not long after walking, he stopped in front of a house, one of the few brick houses in the village.

"Uncle, uncle, someone is looking for you." The boy shouted twice into the yard, and after shouting, he ran away, and Bu Linglong didn't have time to stop the person, and in the blink of an eye, the figure of the little guy ran away without a trace.

Mr. Zhong was teaching the children, but Mrs. Zhong Fuzi heard the voice and walked out and replied, "Wait a minute." ”

The door opened, and Mrs. Zhong looked at Bu Linglong outside the door and blinked, and asked, "I don't know what happened to Madame?" ”

"Presumably you are Mrs. Zhong, I am from Sujia Village, I brought my son to the door to apprentice today, may I ask if Master Zhong is there?" Bu Linglong owed to Mrs. Zhong and explained her intentions.

Dabao stood aside and waited for Bu Linglong to finish speaking, and then politely greeted Mrs. Zhong: "Hello, madam." ”

Mrs. Zhong listened to her words with a sudden expression, and immediately invited Bu Linglong and her son in, "Please come in, please come in." ”

"You sit down for a while, and I'll call my father-in-law to come over." Nowadays, their school is about to be closed, and there are still many people in the village who come to school, but now the situation makes many people unable to afford the restraints, and now there are only three children left, and if this continues, they are really going to close.

After Mrs. Zhong left, Bu Linglong had time to look at the Zhong family, and the status of the people was different.

They didn't have to wait long for Master Zhong to appear in the hall, about forty years old, he was a handsome middle-aged uncle, and it could be seen that this uncle must have looked good when he was young.

Glancing at Master Zhong, Bu Linglong took Dabao and got up to greet him.

"I don't know what to call this lady?" When Master Zhong entered the door, he looked at the mother and son vaguely, and nodded secretly in his heart, although this lady was dressed very plainly, she couldn't hide her temperament, and her appearance was also first-class, it was rare to have such a look in the countryside.

"My husband's surname is Su, Master Zhong can call me Mrs. Su, this is my son, nicknamed Dabao, Daming Su Congnan, six years old this year." Bu Linglong bowed to Master Zhong and introduced her son to him by the way.

"Come, come and let me see." The child has also seen it just now, and his eyes are shrewd and translucent, so he doesn't know if he has been enlightened.

"Yes, Master." Dabao hugged his fists, and then stepped forward and asked the master to take a closer look.

"I ask you, are you literate?" Master Zhong asked with a smile.

"If you learn a little, you will be able to memorize the three-character scripture." The three characters were taught by his father when he was there, and he didn't know the rest.

"I've learned the Three Character Scripture, it's good, it's good."

"Master, can my son study with you?" Bu Linglong doesn't know how Master Zhong accepts students, some places have to have an entrance exam, and only if they pass can they study in the school, but they can only go home and come again next year.

"I don't have any requirements for this, but once you take a class on my side, you have to listen carefully, you must not desert, and you must be disciplined in class."

"Don't worry, Master, I will." Dabao nodded solemnly at Master Zhong.

"Master, may I ask how much is a year's shackles?" Bu Linglong saw Master Zhong's satisfied attitude, and interjected at the right time.

"Two taels a year, if you eat here, add another five hundred wen."

"He brought his own but needs to be heated here, I wonder how much it costs?" She doesn't feel at ease eating here, she prepares a nutritious meal by herself, which is specially made for Dabao.

"If you bring your own, it only costs 100 Wen."

"I wonder when I can come to school?"

"Tomorrow."

"Thanks, I'll send him over tomorrow morning. In the future, I will have to trouble the master a lot. Bu Linglong said with a smile, and at the same time handed over the bundle.

Leaving the apprenticeship ceremony, Bu Linglong took Dabao home, and she asked the old lady to prepare the schoolbag and other needed supplies for school in the morning, and she could just use it tomorrow.

"How? Collect? "Mrs. Lin walked around the yard in the morning, she was not in a state of doing anything, she was poked by a needle several times, and finally she was strongly stopped by Erbao and Sanbao so she did not continue embroidering.

"Yes, you can go to school tomorrow." She used her ability to investigate just now, there are only three students in the entire Zhong family, there are not many people, how can Master Zhong not accept it, their family lives on the shackles of students.

"Okay, okay." When Mrs. Lin laughed, the folds came out. "Dabao, you have to study hard and become a big official in the future."

"Mother, don't put so much pressure on Dabao, he's still young, let's just let things be." There is nothing good about being an official.

"This~~~ Dabao, listen to your mother, don't be pressured, you are still young, as long as you study hard."

"Mother, milk, I must study hard, become a big official in the future, and let you enjoy happiness." Dabao patted his chest and reassured.

"Being a big official, you think it's so easy to be a big official, you, as long as you read the book well, if you can go all the way up, that's the best, it doesn't matter if you can't, it's better than not knowing a word, being a mud leg is better, at least you will have more choices in the future." I don't know a single big word, and I have to help people count the money when I am sold, or I have to be a mud leg for a lifetime, not that I have no interest when I am a mud leg, but here, life is really very hard, absolutely rely on the sky to eat, and the life of the common people is the most difficult and difficult.

"yes, I see."

"Mother, I still have to go to the town to deliver things, so don't wait for me at noon."

"Hey, okay, be careful on your way." Mrs. Lin didn't forget to tell her a few words.

"Go back, I'm leaving." Bu Linglong drove the carriage out of Sujia Village, and after walking a distance, she parked the carriage aside, put the month's amount of seasoning into the carriage, and started the carriage again and set off towards the town.

As soon as the carriage arrived at the door of Yuelai Building, the shopkeeper greeted him.

"Oh, Mrs. Su, you are here."

"Huh?" Bu Linglong looked at him confused, didn't she just come last year, how did she make it seem like she hadn't been here for a long time.

"Mrs. Su is like this, didn't you teach our chef to make braised pork yesterday, it was a bit much, and the owner asked us to give the braised pork to the guests who came to dine, and told us that there were only twenty servings a day, which was booked as soon as it opened this morning."

"If you don't come today, we'll all have to invite you in person."

Bu Linglong looked at the shopkeeper with a black line, were they too anxious, they didn't ask anything, they didn't say anything, if she couldn't come up with so many spices, how should they deal with it, "You guys are too anxious, have you asked me how much spices I can make?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said, "The owner said, since you dare to do this business, you must have inventory in your hands." ”

"He knows a lot." Bu Linglong raised her eyebrows.

"Naturally, I have to know more about my partner, otherwise how dare I take the risk of cooperating with my wife." Bai Ziqing walked out from behind with a fan.

Bu Linglong glanced at him lightly, and took a bamboo basket from the carriage, "There are more than 20,000 points here, a total of a month's amount, considering that you may have special guests for a banquet, give an extra hundred servings." ”