After the two parties agreed, the three sisters left the courtyard.

When turning around a pavilion, someone suddenly shouted in the distance, "Miss Shen? ”

Shen Xinyue turned around and saw Shi Yuanqing walking briskly.

He was wearing a light blue robe and a square scarf on his head, and he looked very clean.

"There is too much homework assigned by Mr. in the past few days, and I haven't had a chance to go home, and I haven't had time to ask, how is your business doing?"

Shen Xinyue smiled: "It's okay, after selling the things, I just took them over to take a look, and Mr. said that he could enter the academy tomorrow." ”

"Our academy is still very large, why don't I take you around and get familiar with it first?"

Shen March pulled her: "Eldest sister, it's too cold, and besides, the bare ones are all tree forks, and there's nothing to look at, let's hurry home." ”

Shi Yuanqing's face showed a hint of embarrassment, but he quickly covered it up.

"It's that I'm not thinking it through. Then when you are enrolled, if you don't understand anything, just come and ask me. ”

After Shen Xinyue thanked her, she left with the twins.

"Brother Shi, who are those three little ladies just now? Especially the big one, the long one is really good-looking. ”

The two students came over, looked at the direction the three sisters left, and said reluctantly.

"My neighbors from the same village will come to school tomorrow."

When they heard that they were going to enroll, their eyes lit up, but then they heard that only the twins were coming, and they couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"The one in the yellow shirt is the eldest sister, called Shen Xinyue, her father and mother are gone, she relies on setting up a stall in the town to support her younger sisters to study."

Shi Yuanqing originally wanted to sigh a few words about Shen Xinyue's difficulty, but who knew that after the two of them listened, their faces suddenly showed contempt.

"It's just a pity that a woman shows up, and she is still the lowest businessman."

Shi Yuanqing was stunned for a moment.

But it soon came back to his senses. These two have good family backgrounds, one is the son of a foreigner, and the other is the son of a county order, how can they look down on the declining businessmen.

"By the way, the kid surnamed Qi won the first place again this time, and even Brother Shi's talent is even better."

"He has always been a treasure in the eyes of the gentleman. The last township test made him fall into the water and get sick, which was a lesson to him, but he didn't expect it to be a long memory. ”

Shi Yuanqing listened to the conversation between the two, and wanted to defend Qi Yunshu for a few words, but the words came to his lips and swallowed back.

It's really not worth offending the two in front of you for an irrelevant person.

After coming out of the academy, Shen Xinyue took the twins to the bookstore again, bought pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and then went home with everyone.

In the evening, Mrs. Shen boiled a large pot of hot water, let the children wash well, and went to bed early.

On the second day, Shen Xinyue took her four younger sisters and Wang Liang, and after arriving at the academy, she paid a month's tuition, left a few people, and went to a relatively remote pharmacy in the north of the city alone.

"Shopkeeper, do you accept ginseng here?"

Hearing the ginseng, the guys who went up to the shopkeeper and down to the store all looked at it in unison.

Shen Xinyue's face did not change color, and took out five 'processed' ginsengs.

"Each one has fifty or sixty years of quality, and if the shopkeeper can keep it, he can pay me a fixed price of fifty yuan, or pay me silver."

Although silver is not an officially recognized currency, it is also in circulation privately.

Shen Xinyue thinks that there are too many coins and trouble, looking at this small shop, it is estimated that it is unlikely that there will be gold bars.

The reason why she chose a remote pharmacy is mainly because she will have to do business in the town in the future, and it is difficult to explain it in case she meets an acquaintance.

Now that there is a war in the west, coupled with disasters and famines in many places, the medicinal materials are not good to be transported, and ginseng is naturally a rare thing.

The shopkeeper didn't even make a counteroffer, so he gave Shen Xinyue fifty taels of silver.

After leaving the shop, Shen Xinyue saw that there was no one around, so she put the silver into the space.

Then she went back to the last trip.

Things went well, both parties signed and pledged, and after paying the money, she took the key and went to the yamen with the shopkeeper to complete the procedures for changing the name and transferring the ownership, and the two shops belonged to her completely.

As a result, just as she was about to leave, she happened to see two officials holding a piece of paper more than one meter in their hands and sticking it on the notice board at the entrance of the ya.

She couldn't help but stop and look at it twice, and the content on it made her unconsciously frown slightly.

It turned out to be a marriage reminder notice.

She didn't take it seriously when she opened her mouth wide before, but now it turns out to be true.

"This little brother, if you don't get married when you reach the age, is it okay to pay the fine?"

"How can it be so easy, if you don't get married at the age specified above, the county will let the official media come forward to help with the marriage."

"But a few of the rest are good, and I'm afraid that in the end, I will be matched with a lame fool, and then I can only admit that I am unlucky. If you refuse to carry it out, you will not only go to prison, but also your family. ”

Listening to the other party's words, Shen Xinyue's brows furrowed even tighter.

It seems that he is determined to force marriage.

"However, this kind of thing has always been a matter of policy and countermeasures, as long as the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable, there is no money to settle the matter."

Seeing that the beating was almost over, the official said something meaningfully.

As the so-called money can solve the problem, that is not a problem.

Shen Xinyue was happy again, and after saying goodbye to the two with a smile, she went home.

As soon as I arrived at home, I happened to see Shen Laoqi's daughter-in-law chatting with Mrs. Shen.

"Today, your seventh uncle was lucky, he met two pig-killing families, and the two pairs of pigs went into the water, and I quickly sent them to you."

If it's cold today, pigs don't like to grow meat, and pig farmers want to sell it at a good price before the year.

Shen Xinyue took out thirty yuan and paid it to Wang, and then said:

"Aunt Seven, I set up a shop in the town, and a few small ones were also sent to the academy, and the family is not manpowered, I want to hire two people, who are usually responsible for cleaning up the pigs and draining, wearing skewers and the like, and I am not tired of work, and I can go home when I finish it. 100 wen a month, do you want to do it? ”

Just a little bit of life has a hundred wen a month?

Wang agreed without even thinking about it.

"The other one has to trouble my aunt to help me ask the village and find someone who is as nimble as you are Aunt Seven."

Wang couldn't close his mouth when she praised him, patted his chest and promised: "This matter is on me." ”

With that, he left in a hurry and went to help Shen Xinyue find a candidate.

Seeing that the people were gone, Mrs. Shen said: "Just such a little work, I usually don't have much to do, it's a big deal to be greedy and do more, why spend money to hire people." ”

Knowing that she was distressed about money, Shen Xinyue pulled her to sit down by the kang and patiently explained: "Milk, you should be blessed at this age, your granddaughter and I have great skills, such a small amount of money can be earned back in minutes." Besides, I usually don't have time, a few small ones still need you to take care of, and it's about to enter the wax moon, and you haven't done your little sister's cotton shoes yet, right? ”

Thinking that he had only received half of the soles, Shen Lao didn't bother with money anymore, and hurriedly went to get the sewing basket.