Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 126 Routines
While relaxing, a new worry surfaced in Xie's mind: "Brother Yuan, in our family's situation, it may not be easy to negotiate this marriage. After all, we still owe debts, and debt collectors are chasing after them to the market." The collection is here, and it happens to be seen by the Du family."

Xu Chengyuan came back all the way, his mind was full of the beautiful image of Du Fangfei, and he had no time to think about it.Now it is really a ladle of cold water poured from head to toe, and the whole body is completely cool.

He opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but his throat seemed to be choked by something, and he couldn't speak no matter what.

He lowered his head, took a mouthful of rice in a disguised manner, and after a long while, Fang said: "Mm, I understand."

Seeing his son like this, Mrs. Xie sighed inwardly, and decided to ask the sisters of the Du family about the situation of the Du family when they set up a stall tomorrow.

From what my son said just now, the elder sister of the Du family is also fifteen or sixteen years old, so it is inevitable that she is not engaged.If there is an engagement, it will just make her son give up; but if there is no engagement, she will try to find a way to ask the Du family what they mean.After all, the son is capable, and the family's difficulties are only temporary.After Xu Chengyuan was admitted as a scholar, her eyesight improved, she was able to do embroidery, and she paid off her debts, and her life slowly began to live again.

The next day, Mrs. Xie went to the market again to sell things.Now she can't see clearly, so she can't do embroidery work; her health is not good, so she can't do physical work, so she can only grind two boards of tofu, and then collect some dry goods to sell.Even if he was humiliated by debt collection yesterday, he still has to live his life as he should.Poor people really have no way to save face.

She arrived earlier, and the Du sisters hadn't come yet.Worried that the adjacent space would be occupied by someone, Xie took something to help occupy the space.

After waiting for a while, she hadn't seen the Du family sisters yet, so she became concerned, afraid that they would not come again.If not, where would she go to inquire about the situation of the Du family?It's not good to go to Zhuangzi to inquire.She was from a fellow villager in her hometown, so if she inquired about it, someone would definitely pass the word to the Du family.If there is a misunderstanding, it will be a big disaster.

Fortunately, she was not made to wait long, Du Fangling and Du Fanghui came just after the hour.

"Here, sister of the Du family, come here." Mrs. Xie hurriedly greeted warmly.

The sisters of the Du family were not surprised by Xie's excitement.Xu Chengyuan is Du Jinning's classmate, and he went to Du's house to ask for advice yesterday. It is normal for Mrs. Xie to treat them well today.

The two sisters put down their things, and Mrs. Xie asked with concern, "Why are you here so late today?"

Du Fangling smiled and said, "I have to mow the grass to feed the sheep in the morning, so I came late."

"Your family still raises sheep? Doesn't your family help?"

"My mother and my sister have gone to the field. My younger brother is going to the academy, so it can only be done by the two of us."

"How many people are in your family? Where's your father?"

……

Du Fangling and Du Fanghui are both young and grew up in the countryside.Although life is hard, but with Chen's protection, he has not experienced any complicated things.Just chatting like this, after a while, Mrs. Xie figured out the family background.

Hearing that the Du family was poor and poor, that the house was owned by the Zhuangzi, and the land was also owned by tenants, Mrs. Xie felt confident, and asked Du Fangling, "I think you are 13 years old, right? Are you engaged?"

Du Fangling blushed, shook his head, embarrassed to speak again.

But Mrs. Xie didn't let her go, and said: "How about I tell you one? Our neighbor has a boy who is quite capable and honest. He works as a waiter in a hotel and is more than a year older than you. He The mother-in-law asked me to find a wife for him."

"No, no, no." Du Fangling blushed and shook her head violently.

"Don't refuse in a hurry? So what if you take a look? Anyway, it's not an order right away. How about I talk to your mother later?"

Du Fangling was really helpless by what she said, so she had to find an excuse to shirk: "My eldest sister is not engaged yet, I'm still early, so there's no rush."

Mrs. Xie finally got the information she wanted and was satisfied, so she stopped talking about this topic.

Du Fangling breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that people came to buy vegetables one after another, he quickly opened the bag of dried tofu that had been cut into small pieces at home, and yelled like Du Jinning did yesterday: "Dried tofu, delicious Dried tofu is cheap and delicious, it can be eaten by yourself or given as a gift."

With yesterday's word of mouth, some people have come here to buy it; new customers have tasted it, and are willing to spend a few pennies to buy some.That's it, the dried tofu that couldn't be sold for a long time yesterday was sold out in less than an hour today.

When Xie saw her, she was very envious. Seeing that Du Fangling and Du Fanghui were packing up and leaving, she quickly pulled Du Fangling over and asked in a low voice, "Sister Ling, I want to ask you something."

"Aunt Xie, tell me." After chatting for a while, she borrowed Xie's name again. Thanks to Xie's intentional friendship, Du Fangling has become very affectionate with Xie.

"Can you make more of your dried tofu every day? I want to wholesale some to you. Don't worry, I won't sell it in this market. I will go to the west of the city to sell it." Xie said.

Her dried shiitake mushrooms and dried fungus are also sold in batches from others.But it's not uncommon for grocery stores to have this thing, and she doesn't sell well.Seeing that Du's dried tofu is selling so well now, she has moved her mind.

"This..." Du Fangling had no idea about this, and thought for a while, "We sisters and I can't make up our minds about this, we have to go back and ask my mother." Actually, it was Du Jinning, but she was not easy to say, after all, Du Jinning was young , "I'll go back and discuss it with my mother, and then I can answer you?"

"Okay." Xie said with a smile, "I'll still be here tomorrow, let me know after you ask."

"Okay." Seeing that Du Fanghui had packed up his things, Du Fangling said goodbye and left.

When the two returned home, Mrs. Chen and the others were still working in the fields, and Du Jinning also went to the academy and has not come back yet.Today's business is good, the sisters are very motivated, and without taking a break to catch their breath, they started grinding beans in full swing, planning to make more dried beans and sell more tomorrow.

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In the academy, Du Jinning had just finished today's study and was about to say goodbye to Guan Lehe when Yuan Xiuzhu came in and smiled at Du Jinning: "Boy Du, the white//powder disease on my strawberries has been cured, your method very effective."

Guan Lehe looked at Du Jinning in surprise: "You really treat plants and trees?" When Du Jinning said that day, he thought it was a child who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, and bragged indiscriminately.

"Hey, this kid is amazing." Yuan Xiuzhu also looked at Du Jinning with admiration.

Du Jinning was invited to go that day, and he used his method to spray garlic oil on strawberries, and paid another 20 taels of silver. He just wanted to find a reason to help this kid. In fact, he didn't have much confidence in Du Jinning—so many famous people Even a flower carpenter can't cure a disease, what can Du Jinning do as a child?Unexpectedly, he actually cured Strawberry's disease.

"Tell me, how did you treat it?" Guan Lehe became interested.

Du Jinning recounted what happened that day.

"So that's how it is." Guan Lehe was a little disappointed when he heard that Du Jinning applied the healing method used on eggplants and other vegetables to strawberries. The method of the disease is just like curing the disease of the helpless person in the doctor.

However, Yuan Xiuzhu's confidence in Du Jinning increased greatly, and he said to her: "I came here today to ask you, when will you get the two strawberry seedlings you want; , help me see what's wrong with the tree."

When it came to our bank, Du Jinning was very excited. He nodded and said, "Okay, when will we go? As for the strawberry seedlings, there is no rush. We will wait for spring to warm up."

In fact, in the south where the weather is warm, strawberries can be transplanted in all seasons.However, Yuan Xiuzhu's strawberries were planted on the hot spring village, so if they were suddenly moved to a cold place, it would be difficult to survive.We can only wait for spring to bloom before transplanting.

It would be great if we could build a greenhouse at this time, but unfortunately there is no such thing as plastic film.Du Jinning sighed in his heart.

Yuan Xiuzhu also thought that transplanting in spring is the best, so he put aside the topic and said to Du Jinning, "Are you free now? If you are free, let's go now."

Du Jinning turned to Guan Lehe and asked, "Is there anything else, sir? If there is nothing else, I'll go."

As the head of the mountain, Guan Lehe seldom gives lectures to the students in person; the specific affairs of the academy are also taken care of by others, so if he really wants to let go, he will be very leisurely.He's fine now, so he said: "Okay, go, I'll go with you."

(End of this chapter)