The koi wife dressed as the male protagonist of the imperial examination

Chapter 206 Frustration Education
"It's not me, it's my brother and sister-in-law."

Li Xiuping's expression|expression|was very calm, but the words he said were not what he expressed: "Everyone in the world is for profit, and Li is just an ordinary person.

The main reason is that Li’s family is poor, and it’s not easy for my parents, brother and sister-in-law to support me to study together. After I was in high school, my original intention was to take my family to live in the capital together. "

"As a result——" Li Xiuping laughed at himself, "I thought highly of myself, and my meager salary could not make my family feel at ease. In order not to burden me, my brother and sister-in-law wanted to be self-reliant."

Therefore, it is better to open a shop than to work as a coolie outside.

Jing Rui, whose family background is relatively affluent and has never known what a poor life is, does not quite understand Li Xiuping's words, but the two have a good relationship, and it is easy to do a favor to a friend.

And indeed, with local people coming forward, it is much easier to inquire about the news and it will be more authentic.

There was no need for Li Xiuping to urge him. After he left his post, Jing Rui asked his servant to check on the situation, and when he came back, he directly told Li Bianzhuan.

Their residence is the courtyard of their neighbors, so it is very convenient to visit them.

Editor Jing was a good person to do it to the end. After telling Li Xiuping, he directly asked him to write a handwritten letter for the boy to deliver the letter to Li's courtyard.

On the second day after the family meeting, Li Erlang took his elder brother to several places, but did not find a more suitable shop.

Either the location is not small or the shop is too small, or the rent is too outrageous. Only by comparing can we know the difference. Now Li Dalang thinks that the shop with the rent of 55 taels is very suitable!

I simply stopped asking impatiently, as they are really easy to be bullied when they are newcomers here.

The two brothers simply go out for a walk every day to learn about the differences in the prices of vegetables and fish in different markets, and where it is more convenient to go to buy various daily necessities.

Sure enough, there is a lot of trouble in it. For example, the green vegetables that I eat every day are actually a penny apart when purchased in the East Market and the West Market.

And go to the market early, the vegetables you buy are not only fresh but also cheaper.

It's just that Shi Shi is still a little dissatisfied with the vegetables he bought.

"Such a handful of vegetables, a penny? Can't we grow them ourselves?"

Fang Qingqing took a look at the yard where they lived, maybe he could pile up a few broken urns in the corner and grow some vegetables by himself?

Before she could reply, Shi himself was the first to react: "Speaking of which, the yard is too small, let Saburo work harder. Get promoted early and live in a bigger yard, so we can live in our own yard. Plant vegetables and raise chickens."

Well, I don't know if Li Xiuping would want to vomit blood when he heard his mother's wish;

Co-author, his mother hoped that he would become a high-ranking official just so that he could live in a better courtyard and use it to grow vegetables?

Shouldn't the officials' wives keep their yards beautiful and plant some flowers and plants?
Anyway, after knowing the specific situation of various prices in the capital, Li Erlang somewhat understood the meaning of what the third child said.

It's just a bit disturbing. It is said that many rich and rich people who are officials have large gardens.

Can't you grow flowers and grow vegetables in half? If you grow more vegetables that way, it will naturally be cheaper.

Not to mention a penny for a handful of vegetables, and an egg that costs two penny or even three penny apiece, his wife wants to raise chickens in the yard.

She was dissuaded by Fang Qingqing: "Second sister-in-law, this is a rented yard, if we raise chickens, there will be chicken feces or something too dirty."

So Shi Shi sighed again, Sanlang, you should be promoted quickly;
With your own yard, you can do anything conveniently.

Looking at her mother-in-law, Fang Qingqing couldn't help but communicated with the system in front of everyone while everyone was not paying attention:

[Tongzi, tell me the truth, is the random mission to open the laboratory related to my mother-in-law? 】

The system didn't answer, but Fang Qingqing knew it, and not answering was tantamount to acquiescing.

After getting along with each other for a long time, she has gradually understood some attributes of this koi system. For example, if there are some taboos that cannot be said, she simply keeps silent.

Before Fang Qingqing thought that the system was for Li's family, but later she thought it was only for assisting Li Xiuping.

As a result, after the system gave her this special reward that was not yet available, Fang Qingqing was a little confused again.

After all, what is it for?
It is indeed a lot of pressure for Li Xiuping to support his family by himself now.

Fortunately, old man Li brought a lot of his own food and dried vegetables when he went to Beijing, so he can buy less.

It happened that they also brought a lot of beans, so Mrs. Li continued to make tofu for the family.

You know, after Mrs. Li learned how to make tofu, both tofu and bean curd and soy milk sold well.

Later, there were several dishes in the shop that used tofu as ingredients, all of which Fang Qingqing knew from other sources. After Mrs. Li learned it, it turned out to be some of the most popular home-cooked dishes in the shop.

This shows the benefits of making tofu.

Beans are cheaper than rice and wheat, and it takes time and effort to make tofu, but it is more cost-effective than other dishes.

There is no shortage of manpower in Lao Li's house, and now the big guys have nothing to do, so they make a lot of tofu.

It was also given to the neighbors and the landlord. Anyway, I will live for a year. It is very important to have a good relationship.

The first time I went to the mill on the other side of Fangshi to grind beans, and I had to pay for it myself. After gritting my teeth, old man Li and Mrs. Shi decided to buy a stone mill together and let it go.

Anyway, the stone mill will also be used when opening a shop in the future. Since Da Mao and Er Mao don't want to study anymore, let them grind the mill to make tofu every day.

You can also carry the burden and go out to sell tofu, at least one more profitable business for the family.

Yes, Da Mao and Er Mao don't go to the academy now, mainly because they didn't pass the exam that time.

And the confident Sanmao Simao, uh, barely got into the Ding class of Mingde Academy's first-year students at the end.

After the test results came out, San Mao Si Mao was very surprised and couldn't believe it.

Their level is so poor that they can only enter Class D?

What's even worse is that after knowing the result, the third aunt actually laughed at them with her hands on her hips.

"Aunt, you can't laugh at us like this." Simao complained with tears.

"Well, who made you so blindly confident, don't you know that there are people outside the world?"

Although it is said that children should be encouraged and educated, well, Fang Qingqing feels that these two bear nephews of her family should also receive setback education occasionally.

After coming back last time, he even told her in a chirping voice that she would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, and that she would be admitted to Class A.

Fang Qingqing had tears in her eyes when she heard this, did the children get the meaning of this sentence wrong?

Reality teaches them to be human.

Before there was a school in Hongqiao Village, there were not many children who could read and write, not to mention that they had studied in the school in the county for a while.

There are big hair and two hairs who don't like reading for comparison, and three hairs and four hairs think they are invincible in the world.

I don't even think about it, what kind of place is this in the capital? Generally, aristocratic families have family studies, and those with a little money also invite a husband, but they all started enlightenment at the age of five or six.

(End of this chapter)