Otoharu

Chapter 219 County School
Before everyone left the bookstore, they bumped into the shopkeeper who was returning from a drink outside.The shopkeeper Liu saw Li Xin and his party, his face turned pale with fright after eating the wine, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute Li Xin tremblingly.

Li Xin naturally didn't give him a good look, but because he hadn't found a suitable person to replace him at the moment, he didn't get angry immediately. He just gave him a hard lesson and led Li Yan and the others to leave.

Not long after walking out of the bookstore, Li Xin said, "I made my six younger brothers and sisters laugh at me today, because the business of this bookstore is usually slow, and I didn't pay much attention to it. With such slack, it’s no wonder that the store’s business is not good. With such a shopkeeper, it’s no wonder that the business is good. When I go back today, I will ask the housekeeper to find a new shopkeeper, and I must reorganize the bookstore.”

"Third brother, you are busy with business on weekdays, and it is inevitable that the people below will be obedient and vicious. It is very remarkable that you can take care of so many shops. Like me, you only manage a soap shop and a printing workshop. It's a bit exhausting." Jiang said with a smile on the side, and passed a step to Li Xin.

"I also know the soap shop of my brother and sister. The business is really good. Your sister-in-law also often buys the soap in your shop, saying that it is different from other shops. It is very comfortable to use and the price is not expensive. I wonder if my brother and sister have thought about it. Open the shop to the state capital?" Li Xin also asked with great interest when Jiang mentioned her soap shop.

Jiang's business is just to accumulate some family property for her daughter and son, and she doesn't have too much ambition. Now hearing what Li Xin said, she quickly waved her hands and said, "The businesses I do are just small troubles. It’s okay in the small place of Zhangshui Town, but I’m afraid it’s too much to come to the state capital, and our whole family lives in Zhangshui Town, if this shop is opened in the state capital, we can’t take care of it on weekdays.”

"I just want to give you a suggestion. If you don't want to open a shop by yourself, you can also consider cooperating with me. I know that the soap shop must have a secret recipe. You can sell the secret recipe to me. I will definitely not let it go." Brother and sister, you are at a disadvantage." Li Xin said with a smile, he is indeed a person who has worked in the business field for many years, and he will not let go of any small business opportunity easily.

Hearing what he said, Mrs. Jiang hesitated a little, but it was not a trivial matter, she had to go back and think about it, so she just said: "Third brother kindness, I will go back and think about it, and I will give you an answer."

"That's fine, this matter is not in a hurry. My siblings go back and think about it." Li Xin didn't want Jiang Shi to give her an answer immediately, so he nodded with a smile.

Because Li Xin had to go to another shop, and the Jiang family also went to the county school to visit Jiang Youzhi, they parted ways on the way.

The county school in the state capital is not far from Li Xin's bookstore, and it takes about a quarter of an hour to walk there. A few people walked and strolled, and Li Meier was very excited. Looking at the shops along the street, she wanted to go to any of them.It was Mrs. Jiang who held her back and said: "Let's come over tomorrow for a stroll. Now go visit your uncle. Mother has brought a lot of things, and they are all for your uncle."

Li Meier was naturally obedient, and secretly wrote down a few interesting shops, thinking of visiting again tomorrow.

A group of people soon arrived at the county school. The first door of this county school is the school of Confucianism, which looks very grand.Standing in front of the Confucian school, Li Meier couldn't help but sigh, "Is this county school quite big?"

"Naturally, it is a big one. After all, it is a government-run school. Before the state government opened an academy, all the talented students who wanted to go to school came to this county to study." Li Yan said from the side, with some regrets in his words. His ranking in the Tongsheng Examination was not very good, and he failed to pass the entrance examination, otherwise he must have come to the county school to study.

"But I heard that the Bailu Academy in the state capital is running very well. Many scholars go directly to the academy to study, and there are only those young students and old scholars in the county school." Li Meier knows that Bailu Academy is now in the limelight. My uncle had been studying at Bailu Academy before, and after he passed the Juren examination, he had been asking the great Confucians of Bailu Academy for advice.

"There is Xu Daru in Bailu Academy, which naturally attracts students more. The county school is actually not bad, and all the students are admitted for free. It is also good for those students from poor families to study in the county school." Li Yan continued to explain. road.He also wanted to study at Bailu Academy back then, but his old mother was the only one at home, so he was really worried about leaving home for too long, and Shu Xiu of Bailu Academy also made him daunting, unless he was as talented as his brother-in-law. , so that half of the tuition fee can be exempted from the college, and you can also get a monthly scholarship. Not only do you not need to spend money, but you can also earn some money.

After listening to her father's explanation, Li Meier got a general idea, and suddenly remembered something, and said: "I heard that there is a new Qingfeng Academy in the state capital, which is specially for recruiting some elementary school students. Zhou Muyi is here now. Studying in the library."

"I've heard about that academy. It seems to be run by the Lu family." Li Yan said.

"The Lu family? Which Lu family?" Jiang frowned, recalling some bad memories.

Li Yan coughed, and said vaguely: "That's the Lu family. The head of the Qingfeng Academy is a brother of the old man of the Lu family. Because of his poor health, he retired early and returned to his hometown, so he opened this academy."

Jiang's brows immediately frowned even tighter. Because of Yu Susu's incident, she didn't have a good impression of this Lu family, but she also knew that this was one of the largest families in Yin County. Now that she heard that her family had opened an academy, she decided to A little disdainful, said, "The Lu family can't even educate their own children and grandchildren well, and they even open an academy to educate people. I think that academy is just famous."

Li Meier also said with a smile: "I think so, otherwise Zhou Muyi wouldn't have spent some money to enter that academy."

"No matter how old or young, the Zhou family boy is your elder anyway." Jiang Shi taught her daughter a lesson, feeling that she was too disrespectful to Zhou Muyi.

"He doesn't look like an elder, and he's not a few years older than me." Li Meier said indifferently, she always felt that she was older than Zhou Muyi in her heart, and she regarded him as a younger brother.

"Okay, let's talk about these gossips later, I'll go to the concierge and let them pass it on." Li Yan interrupted the conversation between the mother and daughter, and walked over to explain the situation to the concierge.

The porter only asked them to wait outside for a while, and he went inside to call them out.

The few people didn't wait too long, and Jiang Youzhi trotted out after a quarter of an hour.

(End of this chapter)