A poor family counterattacks, she is beautiful and sassy on the way to the imperial examination

Chapter 103 Chapter 103
Because An Chuxia never went to any literati gatherings, nor did she have any intention of making friends with noble people.

She seldom went out, and almost no students knew about it. It was rumored that the female Jie Yuan, who had no real talent and learning, lived there.

An Chuxia has been on Zhuangzi for a while, and began to teach An Jinchen, Runsheng and An Zixi how to grow cotton seeds.

In the winter here, rich and noble families wear fur coats and silk brocades.

Wealthy businessmen and households of the middle class would spend a fortune on inner linings made of kapok to keep them warm.

The common people can only wear more sackcloth to keep out the cold.

Kapok is also good at keeping warm, but its output is not high.

Therefore, the price of the warm clothes produced will be very expensive, and ordinary people cannot afford them at all.

Especially the army guarding the northern cities did not have good warm cotton clothes, and every winter was the most difficult time for them.

Even if the imperial court sent a large amount of linen clothes made of silk and linen to the northern military camp first, it would be just a drop in the bucket.

If she could grow cotton, some of the people and soldiers here would not get sick or freeze to death because of the cold.

There are also corn seeds, when the season is here, plant them in the soil at an appropriate distance, and manage them carefully.

An Chuxia saw that there was no one in Zhuangzi before, but now it has become much more lively.

The chickens, ducks, geese, and a dozen or so little piglets that were brought in a while ago have already made their homes in the village.

Those who bought them took good care of them.

The land was also bought by a few cows and slowly plowed over, waiting to plant grain on it.

Next to a small river, An Chuxia asked someone to dig a pond, and planned to plant lotus roots in it.

Change a few acres of land near the pond into paddy fields.

Qingshi Town, where she came from, belongs to the south of the country, where rice is also grown.

However, they did not raise seedlings and transplant rice seedlings like modern times, but directly sprinkled rice seeds in paddy fields and let them grow.

In this way, not only the weeds mixed in the middle of the rice seedlings are difficult to remove, because the seedlings are too dense and not ventilated.

When it is mature, the tall rice is easy to fall in the field, and the harvest is not high.

An Chuxia wanted to use these few acres of paddy fields to try out the technique of rice seedling raising in this dynasty.

She bought the best rice and had the plump seeds picked out of it.

I plan to go to those river ponds that have not been dug for a long time and get some old silt back.

These silts are very fat, and after the full rice seeds are soaked and germinated, they can be evenly spread on the ridged silt.

Then use the fine soil sifted through a sieve to spread a thin layer on the top.

However, there were no plastic film greenhouses in this dynasty, and the germination time and survival rate were not easy to control, so An Chuxia had no choice but to explore slowly.

After the arrangement of Zhuangzi's affairs, the day when the list will be released is coming soon.

An Chuxia yelled towards Gu Fangmiao, who was feeding chickens with a cloth wrapped around her head in the distance, "Miaomiao, we are going back."

Gu Fangmiao, who was dressed like a peasant girl, walked up to An Chuxia with an empty basin. Because the wind and cold had just happened, her face was still pale.

"Are you going back so soon?" Gu Fangmiao obviously liked the simple life in Zhuangzi.

"Yes! Little girl, go and wash your face, just like a little cat!"

An Chuxia stretched out a finger, and tapped on the ashes on her face.

Because An Jinchen had something to do in Zhuangzi, it was An Zixi who drove the carriage to take the two of them back.

The road was bumpy, and the carriage slowed down after entering the imperial city.

Gu Fangmiao lifted the curtains of the carriage and looked up the street. There were many restaurants and teahouses on both sides of the street, bustling and bustling.

Just when the carriage they were riding passed by a teahouse, they suddenly heard someone lying on the railing on the second floor, shouting loudly: "Junior Sister Gu! Junior Sister Gu..."

Gu Fangmiao looked up and saw Wang Libin stretching out his head on the second floor of the teahouse calling her.

"Stop!" Gu Fangmiao told An Zixi to stop the carriage.

An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao got out of the carriage, and asked An Zixi to drive the carriage to a place out of the way and wait.

Now that they met Senior Brother Wang, how could the two of them not go up to say hello.

As soon as the two entered the lobby of the tea house, they saw Wang Libin coming down to meet them, and Mo Ziluo and Chen Han behind him.

"Senior Brother Wang, Senior Brother Mo, Senior Brother Chen, you are all here!"

Seeing that Gu Fangmiao took good care of them, she and An Chuxia's senior brother were obviously very happy.

"Junior Sister An, Junior Sister Gu!"

Wang Libin and the others were also very happy to see An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao.

After greeting each other, Wang Libin brought An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao to the second floor of the teahouse.

This teahouse is quite large, except for the private rooms on the third floor, the first and second floors are open spaces.

At this time, most of the people who ordered a pot of tea inside and chatted around were candidates who were waiting for the results of this exam.

When the five brothers and sisters went to the teahouse, they still attracted the attention of many candidates.

They looked at An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao, not because of how good-looking they were, or because of anything special about them.

But for the convenience of working on Zhuangzi, the two wore commoner clothes, and they didn't change when they came back.

The clothes she was wearing were more or less stained with dirt and dust on the Zhuangzi, and Gu Fangmiao still had the cloth towel wrapped around her head like a village girl.

If you don't look at their fairly fair faces, then the clothes An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao are wearing at this time, they look like two village girls.

"When will the most high-end teahouse in the capital, Tianfu Tea House, even village girls come in and drink tea?"

An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao were brought to sit at their tea table by Wang Libin's three seniors, and ordered a pot of the most famous black tea soup "Caotang Piaoxue" from the teahouse to Xiaoer who followed.

At this time, among the five or six people sitting at the table diagonally opposite, there was a male student with a long face, small eyes, and a snub nose, and Ming Chao couldn't help but sneered.

An Chuxia stopped Wang Libin, who was about to stand up and get angry, and turned his head to glance at the talking male students at the table.

Then she gracefully picked up the black tea made by Xiaoer, gently stroked the foam on the tea with the lid of the cup, put it under her nose to sniff, and took a sip.

The whole process was dignified and elegant, and An Chuxia's expression and movements at this time were like a loud slap in the face of the male student who was speaking.

Wang Wenbin shook his head with a smile, and sat down again. Mo Ziluo and Chen Han quietly gave Junior Sister An a thumbs up.

Gu Fangmiao touched the cloth scarf wrapped around her head, and understood that the village girl that the male student ridiculed might be referring to her and Sister An.

Just as she was about to stare at people with her big watery and cute eyes, Chen Han pushed the pastries specially ordered for her by everyone to Gu Fangmiao.

The bookworm's expression didn't change at all, and his voice was still cute and venomous, "Junior Sister Gu, eat quickly, don't be as knowledgeable as people who don't have eyes in their heads!"

"Puchi!" Gu Fangmiao covered her mouth in time.

It still made the male student with extremely small eyes slap the table in anger and get up.

(End of this chapter)