On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, the snow fluttered down.

The prices of various commodities in the market have risen again, and the buyers are cursing and paying at the same time.

The employees of the shops and the traders paid the wages today, and they took it and took it for a holiday.

I couldn't go back from home, so I took the money and looked at the snow outside in a daze, and I didn't seem to know where to go for a while.

In the library, homesick students secretly wiped their tears, and the wealthy students who lived in the nearby state capital had already gone home, and the rest was to celebrate the New Year in Nanjing.

"Brother Sixi, did you cook the wrong dish today?" At noon in the box restaurant, there are still people who come to eat, and I have to work for a day today.

Tomorrow morning, if there is work to be done, then work another morning, and stay home after noon.

"It won't open tomorrow, but on the last day of the year, I'll make a good meal for everyone and make everyone happy." The head chef here, Zhu Sixi, responded with a smile.

Today's dishes are mushu pork, fish-flavored shredded pork without chili peppers, pot-wrapped pork, stir-fried pork with yuba, and carp soup.

All three cents, no five cents, eat as you like.

"Is this a meal to get all the money you earned from us back?"

"Xiaqiu Village sells boxed lunches, just to take care of us."

"Shimooka Village is benevolent."

"I heard others say that the head of Xiaqiu Village has three memorial arches given by the imperial court of loyalty, benevolence and righteousness, and goodness."

"And the pillars of the Ming Dynasty given by the Holy God!"

"The dried pickles sold in Jubiqi's shop are cheaper than making them at home."

The people who ate talked about the things in Xiaqiu Village, all kinds of praises, and none of them said badly.

After a long period of contact, they have learned about the business in Xiaqiu Village.

Taking out any one is more profitable than selling boxed lunches, including the library, where rich students need to use things, they usually buy them in the library.

When I went back for the Chinese New Year, I heard that many scholars bought several sets of hardcover books.

There are also beer, Jubiqi, vegetables, drunken crab, soup stock sold to Fuhua Lou, oyster sauce, and cooking wine.

Only the boxed lunch is three and five wen, and even vegetarian dishes are fried in oil.

"Sixi, will you still sell boxed lunches next year?" Some people are worried that people want to rest, so what do they eat?

"Sell, recruit workers next year, bring apprentices, and then the apprentices cook, we will have other things."

Zhu Sixi told everyone that the village did arrange it like this, bringing a group of apprentices to teach them simple dishes.

After two years of work, you can leave the school and open your own shop outside. You are not allowed to leave for two years, otherwise you will make up the training fee.

Of course, I don't teach how to hang broth, make cooking wine, or make oyster sauce, nor do I teach sauces, marinades, and fried meat sauce for rolling noodles.

The noodle making teachings, including how to make tarp ash, go outside to open a shop, and you can come to Master to buy meat sauce.

"It's good to bring apprentices, teach more apprentices."

"Is my second child okay? I know the rules, just take care of the accommodation. ”

"I have a nephew ......"

Everyone began to talk about the apprentices of the box restaurant again, according to the rules, no money will be given during the apprenticeship, and after the completion of the study, the master will work for free for two years.

It's a craft to make a living, and it's impossible to teach it casually.

……

"It's time to eat, it's time to cook." Library, Wang Shu greeted the students.

The student who is homesick leaves his home behind in an instant and comes to receive the meal with his own plate.

Today's food here is the same as that of the box restaurant, and other students who have booked in advance also come over, if you don't come, you can't come, you don't have to come, you won't have it in the future, if you throw it away, you will be driven out directly, and you will not be allowed to enter the library again, and you will be blacked!

So far, none of the students have been blacked, and the key is that the food in Xiaqiu Village is delicious.

"There is a lot of meat today, and there are two dishes that I have never seen before."

"Tomorrow thirty, can they still give us food?"

"It should be given, where are we going to buy food for the New Year? The Fuhua Building is open, and there is no money. ”

"Firecrackers are set off in the imperial city on Chinese New Year's Eve, and we can see fireworks."

"What should I do if I don't get admitted after the New Year? Just go home? ”

"Alas! If you don't have the face to go back, do you live in the library all the time? I guess they'll find a reason to persuade us to get out! ”

As soon as the topic changed, everyone felt that the food was not fragrant anymore, and they were full of sadness.

……

Outside the Donghua Gate, in the tent area of Xiaqiu Village, Prince Zhu Biao and King Zhu Feng of Qin are gone, and it is almost Chinese New Year's Eve, and there are many things in their mansion.

The villagers relaxed and no longer had to cooperate with Han Han's performance.

"Hanhan drinks rice wine?" The chief brought over a jar of rice wine.

"Drink!" Zhu Wentian took it, opened the mud seal, and poured it into the vessel of warm wine to heat, this is bought, more than ten years old.

The children were in charge of the skewers, and the pregnant women and the old and too young had already finished their meals and went into the tents to warm up.

On one side of the tent, the cloth was unwrapped and rolled up, and a wooden shelf was placed on it, and the glass was installed on it, and the hall looked much brighter.

"Next year, scholars, who do you think will pass the exam?" Take a lamb skewer.

"There is no one, those people who were admitted this year make Your Majesty very uncomfortable, and when you ask about the current affairs next year, Your Majesty will be angry, and you won't want it from now on."

Zhu Wentian said the situation in history, and now he feels that Zhu Yuanzhang is even more angry, because there are superior people.

The children in Xiaqiu Village are learning well, but they are not in a hurry to take the imperial examination at all, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao are waiting.

Lieutenant: "......"

"In that case, what do we care about what they do? If you can't pass the exam, your majesty will say that you won't be admitted, they can't live forever, right? ”

"We don't care about the others, two hundred and sixty people, we can use them, put them in the department store, and the bridge and road from Xiaqiu Village to Nanjing.

We make more money, so we can learn from them and start from the basics. Isn't that the children of our village like that!

After the New Year, I taught them the Da Ming Law, and I haven't done it yet, but ...... I can guess some. ”

Zhu Wentian has already arranged a good path for those students, and they can't waste their work, learning while doing and increasing their knowledge.

"Good! So good! What is the current policy? The lieutenant chief approved of Hanhan's arrangement and asked for the noun again.

"Ask, what is the choice of the people of Beiping in the cold winter?"

"Of course, we have to manage it well, we must develop it, and we have to go to the north of the Yuan, which is right next to the canal, and you can enter the sea, and further north, it is loess and grassland, which is not suitable for normal farming life.

Don't be afraid of cold, cold can burn coal, coal ...... Hanhan! Is there coal there? It is really not possible to transport coal from Henan, there is the Yellow River.

When it is not frozen, go through the canal from the Yellow River and send it to the local area to be burned. There are many medicinal herbs in the local area, but not in the south.

In winter, isn't this still carrying ice! As long as there is a basis for survival and there is a circulation of goods, everything else is easy to do. ”

The lieutenant chief answered this question, and Beiping must not give up, and it must be strengthened in turn.

"When you say that, Your Majesty likes to hear it, and thinks that you can be admitted, but those students can't, they won't."

Zhu Wentian affirmed, knowing this, and then considering the format of the text.

"What's so hard about that? It's clearly a simple thing in front of me, and I don't need to think about it at all, because I usually ......"

The chief paused as he spoke, and turned his head to look around, and everyone in Xiaqiu Village looked at him with such eyes, including the children of the skewers.

"Alas~!" He sighed, "I see! It is no wonder that people who used to be big officials have easy children in their families to take the imperial examination. ”

Without today, the brothers and sisters who have monthly passes and recommended votes vote voted, and the farmer bowed! Thank you!

(End of chapter)