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

Chapter 55 Chapter 55
On the way back, An Jinchen and Runsheng took the raw pork ordered at the butcher's house, and the ducks and geese raised by several families back to stew tomorrow.

After returning home, because it was getting late, Gu Fangmiao was stayed by An Chuxia for one night, and she would be sent back tomorrow.

Mu Tan next door saw them coming back so late, so he stuck his head out from the courtyard wall between the two houses and said that he had steamed a pot of steamed buns so that they would not be the staple food.

An Chuxia saw that her brother and Runsheng didn't have any surprises on their faces, so she accepted it naturally.

It shows that this is not the first time that such a partnership has a meal.

Thinking of the stewed goose left by Runsheng earlier, it also proved the fact that several men often did this.

The wooden sandalwood stir-fry dishes are often not well controlled and the dishes are burnt. An Jinchen and Runsheng come back from a busy day and have no time to cook.

It's quite reasonable to think of several people together.

The dinner was very sumptuous. After returning, An Jinchen killed a chicken and fried a large plate.

Picked fresh vegetables from the garden, cut a piece of pork, fried beans, and several other dishes with meat and vegetables.

Mu Tan brought over a pot of steamed buns, and five people sat around the table to start eating.

An Jinchen and Runsheng were already hungry after a day of exhaustion, An Chuxia and Gu Fangmiao didn't eat well after a day's boat ride, instead, Mu Tan sat there and ate food slowly.

Mu Tan looked at An Chuxia who had gone out for more than half a month, and frowned on his obviously thinned cheeks. He unconsciously held a piece of chicken thigh with his chopsticks and wanted to pass it over.

After a long pause, it was finally placed in An Jinchen's bowl.

An Jinchen raised his head and looked at Mutan suspiciously.

An Chuxia didn't even raise her eyes, pretending she didn't see the direction in which the chopsticks were moving.

Gu Fangmiao next to her was struggling to eat the chicken thigh that An Chuxia had picked up for her. Except for the wooden sandalwood on this table, Gu Fangmiao had only seen it once.

An Jinchen and Runsheng were already acquainted with Runsong's place during the last county examination, and they were not so attached to each other when they were eating.

Returning to An Chuxia's room after eating, Gu Fangmiao rubbed her swollen stomach indecently, and rolled onto the soft big bed after washing her face and feet.

Sighing at life, he said: "If only I could sleep in late every day!"

An Chuxia gave her a blank look, "Then you will be reincarnated as a pig, and you will be able to sleep every day."

Gu Fangmiao made a grimace at An Chuxia, and a sly light flashed in her eyes, "It's fine to be reincarnated as a pig, as long as you have Sister An by your side, you can be anything!"

An Chuxia picked up the pillow on the chair next to the desk by the window, smashed it on Gu Fangmiao's face, and uttered a word, "Get lost!"

An Jinchen, who loves his sister, often doesn't have time to dry the bedding in his house. An Chuxia's younger sister's room is cleaned by him, and the bedding is full of sunshine.

Walking out of the room, An Chuxia came to An Jinchen's door, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

When An Chuxia opened the door and came in, she saw An Jinchen sitting there, counting the copper plates and some silver coins scattered on the table.

"Xia Xia, come and sit down, I have something to do with my brother at such a late hour."

An Chuxia walked over to help An Jinchen count the copper plates into a hundred and thread them into a string.

While wearing copper coins, he was talking to his brother An Jinchen about what he had seen and heard all the way to Songjiang Mansion.

As for what happened in Quyou Hall, An Chuxia didn't say anything.

The brothers and sisters quickly counted the income from selling stewed meat today and threaded them into strings. An Jinchen dragged out a heavy wooden box under her bed, put the threaded copper coins into it, and put the silver coins into another small box. jar.

An Chuxia looked at the wooden box that was almost full of copper coins, and asked suspiciously: "Brother, why don't you take so many copper coins to the bank in the town and exchange them for silver ingots or silver notes."

An Jinchen pushed the nearly full copper money box and the jar of silver horns back to the bottom of the bed, then stood up and replied: "The silver bank in the town is too dark, and I need [-] copper coins." I only exchange it for one or two taels of silver, which I am willing to do."

After dusting off the dust from his body, An Jinchen continued: "In a few days, I'll find time to take it to the county town to exchange, where [-] Wen can be exchanged for one tael of silver."

An Chuxia rested her chin and looked at the busy An Jinchen, thinking that this brother is really hardworking, and she is also very lucky to be reborn as his younger sister.

"Brother! This is for you!"

An Jinchen stared at the peach blossom eyes similar to An Chuxia, and looked at the bank note she handed him in surprise.

"Didn't you go to Songjiang Mansion this time to listen to the lectures of Confucianism? Why did you change to robbery?!"

He took the bank notes and counted them and looked at An Chuxia, obviously asking her to clarify where the bank notes came from.

An Chuxia narrowed her peach blossom eyes and raised the corners of her pale pink lips, preparing to make up a bedtime story for An Jinchen.

"Brother, I want to say that these banknotes are dye recipes recorded in an ancient book by me unintentionally. Brother Runsong sold them to the county Jiang's cloth dyeing workshop in exchange, do you believe it?!"

An Jinchen rolled his eyes at his sister, "You've said it so clearly, I can't believe it."

An Chuxia's throat choked, so she had prepared several versions of the story, so it would be useless.

An Jinchen accepted the 2000 taels of banknotes, and handed the remaining 400 taels to An Chuxia, "I'm going to take an exam in the provincial capital after a while, and you keep these in your hands for use."

After An Jinchen finished speaking, he went out and brought in a hoe, turned around and closed the door, walked over to remove the closet, and used the hoe to pry open a paved floor tile.

Take out a small round jar from inside and move it to the table.

An Chuxia watched as An Jinchen took out two silver ingots of 50 taels each, and more than a dozen silver ingots of ten taels.

He took out two oil-paper bags from the altar, and when he opened them, they were all silver notes.

Among them, Chu Xia knew that the 5 taels was compensation given to his brother by others.

The other four hundred taels and one 50 taels wrapped in oil paper, together with the more than 200 taels of silver, should be all the savings of the family selling lo mei over the past year.

"Brother, you don't need to rely on me to obtain fame, but you can live a life of being a servant.

Otherwise, I will not take the imperial examination, and I will hang out with my brother and you in the future. It is also very good to live a leisurely rural life here! "

An Chuxia looked at An Jinchen with half truth and half lie and said.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, seeing An Jinchen's expression changed.

An Chuxia narrowed her peach blossom eyes, and hurriedly said with a smile: "It's better to take the imperial examination, I also want to be a female champion!"

An Chuxia felt that she shouldn't die.

Knowing that An Jinchen took the words of his parents who died young and asked him to help his younger sister study as an imperial decree.

This is the persistence in the heart of this brother An Jinchen, and it is even a curse.

Only after An Chuxia was truly admitted to the No. [-] Jinshi Scholar and became famous, could An Jinchen's own shackles be released.

An Jinchen took a deep look at An Chuxia, and said in a deep voice: "Don't scare brother by saying this in the future.

Either...or...humph! "

Facing An Chuxia's bright eyes, An Jinchen didn't say anything cruel in the end, and could only hum to express his dissatisfaction.

Continue to count how much money the family has now.

(End of this chapter)