Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 227 News
The most suitable season for planting tea trees is between November and March of the second year.In ancient times, the lunar calendar was used. Although it is the beginning of February, it is equivalent to March in the Gregorian calendar.If this season is passed, the survival rate of tea trees will be affected.

So although Du Jinning hadn't got his new tea garden yet, he still decided to pick the branches back and cut them in the yard to make a living. After getting them from the tea garden and sorting them out, he decided to transplant them into the tea garden.

Dong Dacheng is tall and strong, and he is a good hand at work.When he arrived under the wild tea tree, he put down his things and climbed up the tree. Under Du Jinning's command, he broke off some branches and threw them on the ground. Du Jinning picked them up and put them in bamboo baskets.

The two tea trees are quite tall. If you break some branches, when spring comes, side branches will sprout and grow more luxuriantly.So Du Jinning was not polite, he urged the tree with his hands, and filled the two bamboo baskets until Dong Dacheng was done.

Dong Dacheng came down from the tree to see that last year's new treetops had been plucked by himself. His lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Du Jinning knew what he was thinking, and said with a smile: "Does Uncle Dong know why those tea trees are picked every season, but they still grow luxuriantly, and there are many fat buds that can be picked?"

Dong Dacheng shook his head: "I've never planted tea trees, so I really don't know."

"The melon and fruit seedlings need to be topped, so that more melons and fruits will grow. Does Uncle Dong know this truth?"

Dong Dacheng understood at this moment, and nodded repeatedly: "I must know that. Whether it is loofah, pumpkin, or even eggplant, it has to be topped to a certain extent before it will grow many side vines. The more side vines , the more melons and fruits."

After saying this, he himself reflected: "You mean, this tea tree needs to be topped before it can have more new buds?"

"Yes." Du Jinning said.

Dong Dacheng's own tea is picked from these two wild tea trees every year.Just now I was depressed because I didn't have tea today, but now I am happy.

"You have also drank the tea I made. Then I will make all the tea for you, and you will be able to drink good tea." Du Jinning said again.

Dong Dacheng became more and more happy: "Then thank you, Young Master Du."

After getting the branches back, Du Jinning trimmed them again, and then put the branches one by one into the seedling bags she had made with oil paper.

Seeing her fiddling with this, Mrs. Chen said distressedly: "It's hard to take a rest for a day, not to mention a good rest, I have to go up the mountain, and I got these branches to stick in." Then said, "What are you going to do, tell me We, we will help you."

Only then did Du Jinning tell Mrs. Chen about the tea garden.

Mrs. Chen was stunned for a long time, and said in disbelief, "You mean, you used this tea making method to change a tea garden?"

"The tea made by this tea-making method can be sold at a high price. The profits created by this method in the academy can earn more than a thousand taels of silver a year, let alone every year in the future. So they gave me A tea garden is not a loss. But this is also the kindness of the head of the mountain. I am a student of the academy, and he is my mentor. Even if he doesn't give me a penny, I can't do anything." Du Jinning said.

It was only then that Mrs. Chen believed that the third house of the Du family, who had no tiles above and no land to stand on, actually had a piece of land of her own.

Her lips trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes: "This is really... really great."

"Mother, our property will increase in the future." Du Jinning walked over and said, stroking her shoulder.

Mrs. Chen nodded vigorously and sniffed: "Mother believes, mother believes. With Brother Ning in our family, we will have everything."

After a while, she calmed down and asked Du Jinning, "Where is the tea garden? Should we move there?"

Although this Zhuangzi is good, it is still someone else's house and field.Since they have their own piece of land, it is natural to build the house on top of their own land.Besides, shouldn't the tea garden be guarded?They live there, so feel at ease.

Du Jinning shook his head: "No. We will live here."

Seeing that Mrs. Chen was puzzled, she explained: "Do you think why grandparents, uncles, and second uncles didn't dare to trouble us? At the beginning, Yan Cen didn't dare to come to the door of the house because of the big sister's idea? Is it because we live in the house?" On Chuang Tzu. They are here to find trouble, they are looking for trouble in the academy. Living here, our safety is guaranteed. The tea garden mountain master hasn’t given it to me yet, so I don’t know where it is, but it will definitely be outside the city. In the wilderness, It’s not safe to live with just us women and children. Besides, living here is close to the city, isn’t it? It’s convenient for you to go to the street, it’s convenient for the teahouse to deliver goods, and it’s even more convenient for me to go to school.”

"Then let's just live here and not buy a house?" Chen asked again.

Worried that Du Jinning didn't understand, she reminded: "When our household registration is moved here, we will belong to the tenants of the academy. Although it doesn't affect you much, it doesn't sound so good. We have to have a house, and we have to move out the household registration." .”

Although the tenant farmers did not sell themselves to the landlord, they were still inferior to the common people and the villagers. After all, this meant that they had no permanent property.At that time, because of Du Fangfei's marriage, Mrs. Chen wanted to move out of here and buy a house in the city.

People in this era have the feeling of a house, because the household registration follows the house, and wherever there are real estate and fields, the household registration belongs to that place.Therefore, with the house and the fields, there are roots under the feet, and there is no longer a sense of wandering.During this time, Mrs. Chen counted the money she earned from selling dried tofu and tea eggs every day, just to buy a house.It was only because there was still a huge amount of money short that she kept silent.

Now hearing Du Jinning's meaning, it seems that she will live in Zhuangzi in the future and will not move, so she is anxious in her heart.

"With money in hand, when can't I buy a house? Before my business is confirmed, let's not move out and live here." Du Jinning directly dismissed Chen's idea.

She is now constantly writing scripts for teahouses, and the two newly opened teahouses have to pay cash for her scripts.In addition to the dividends from the teahouse, she now has more than 100 taels of silver on hand, which is enough to buy a house like Xu Chengyuan's in the city.Back then, when Du Yunyi wanted to change to a big house, it cost less than 200 taels of silver.

But Du Jinning didn't want to move out.Safety is the most important thing, and she is eager to expand her business now, and the money on hand is for investment, and she is unwilling to use it to buy a house.Housing prices in ancient times have been the same for decades, and there is no investment value.

"Mother, you heard me right." She said again, "When I pass the examination as a scholar, it will make no difference whether we are tenant farmers or ordinary people."

Chen was taken aback: "Are you really going to take the imperial examination?"

(End of this chapter)