The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 55 Third Uncle Wants to Have a Career of His Own!
"Second dad, from now on, you will mainly live in a shop on the street to take care of your business. Let my grandfather arrange the beancurd sticks at home, and then send them to the shop on the street. After my second aunt passes by in October, she will also help in the shop, helping to look after the retail counter business. Your side is mainly dealing with wholesale buyers and sellers. By the way, you have to inquire quickly to find a better accountant these days, otherwise the shop will have a lot of bills, and you can rely on your memory. Can't stop." After the supporters drank tea for a while and dispersed, Song Yingkui explained to his second uncle how to manage the shop in the future.

"I need to hire an accountant, otherwise I won't be able to remember the accounts. But it's really hard to find a trustworthy accountant. We don't have anyone who can read in the house, so we can't keep track of the accounts." The second uncle has been setting up a stall on the street for more than a year. In fact, it is difficult for him to do small accounts. The main reason is that he is illiterate and unable to keep accounts and bills.

"It's enough to find out if it's reliable. For the specific accounts, ask him to make a copy for me in half a month. I can look at it to see if there is any problem." The purpose of finding the accounting room is for the convenience of keeping the accounts.

"Kui Wa, you are illiterate, can you keep an eye on the ledger?" Song Xueyong was a little distrustful of his nephew's abilities.

"I can read a little bit now, and I can probably read a lot of characters, but I almost miss the upper part. Besides, there is a little tiger in my shop who can help me read. The doll is a serious person who has studied in school for several years." It is not appropriate for a dignified undergraduate to be regarded as illiterate in ancient times?

The characters of this era, Song Yingkui has read, are traditional Chinese in real history. Some characters may be slightly different, but generally speaking, they can still be recognized.However, for Song Yingkui who is used to simplified Chinese characters, writing traditional characters is a bit difficult. In addition, he is not used to writing with a brush, and the written characters are like dogs crawling.So Song Yingkui is a fake scholar who can read half a word.

"That's fine. Recently, I've been worrying about opening such a big shop at home. I don't have anyone who can read and write to manage it. I'm afraid there will be problems." Song Xueyong is now a businessman, so he naturally knows the importance of literacy to business.Illiterate, at most he is a peddler, and he really can't do big business.

"Speaking of this, I just remembered that there is still something I didn't say. Second father, you go to the school on the street to ask the master these few days. I think that in October, I will send the second and third children to the school to study! At that time, the two of them will live in the backyard of the shop, and they can help with some work in the shop after school." Now it is not a problem for the family to support two people. At first glance, there were only half literate people, and they became a proper illiterate family.

"Aren't Kuiwa and Ying Fang too old to go to school?" The grandfather who was sitting on the table listening to gossip, heard that Song Yingkui wanted to send his two grandsons to study, so he interrupted quickly.Now that the family conditions are better, he has no objection to letting his grandson go to school, but he thinks it is a bit late for Song Yingfang to go to school after he is [-] or [-], and it looks like a waste of money.

"Grandpa, we don't want Ying Fang and Ying Quan to go to school to test their merits. Our goal is to let the two learn the characters first, and then have someone who can count on to take care of the family business. The second child has studied for a year or two, and when he has no future, he will go to the house to manage the accounts. The third child will pay for it for a few years. "

I really convinced my grandpa, I don’t look at the long-term problem at all, is now the time to spend more money for one more person to study?The business at home is getting bigger and bigger. If we don't lay a solid foundation quickly, we can't just rely on a few illiterates to run the business, right?
"Oh, why did I think so shallowly! Fangwa and Quanwa really need to study some books, otherwise our family's family business would not be managed by someone they can trust. Speaking of it, our family will lose money to you, Kuiwa. With your spirituality of learning everything quickly, if you can afford to study, not to mention a lot, it won't take much to be a scholar." Song Tianshun realized that there was something wrong with his thinking, and quickly changed his mouth.He really felt that among his sons and grandchildren, Song Yingkui was the only one who could study seriously, but the family was too poor at that time to let the eldest grandson go to school, otherwise he would at least be the grandfather of a scholar.

If you have the opportunity to study, can you be admitted as a scholar?Song Yingkui thought it was unlikely.Outsiders see him learning things, but they don't know that he is a time traveler.In order to test for talent, the things brought over from time travel are not enough.In ancient times, being admitted to a scholar was at least equivalent to being admitted to a 985 university in later generations, which is quite a valuable existence.Can you pass the exam without going through the systematic study of the eight classics?
Staying in the shop until late at night, Song Yingkui and grandpa returned on their mules.At the fork in Yanchuanzi, Grandpa rode his mule home, and Song Yingkui went straight back to the Yanchuan shop.

When they arrived at the Yanchuan shop, Uncle San and Ding Huanyi had finished their work and were helping the younger sister with cooking.On the side of Yanchuan, the men working in the shop have the habit of helping with the cooking under the lead of Song Yingkui.Unlike other men in this era, they hide away when they see cooking, thinking that cooking is a woman's job and has nothing to do with men.

The atmosphere here is also very good for the big guys to work together. Like Ding Huanyi, he originally wanted to go home at night, but now this guy won't go home unless he can. The reason is that it takes too much time to go back and forth.In fact, he felt that it would be more comfortable for a few young people to stay together, make some meals he likes to eat, drink some wine every now and then, how good would it be for everyone to brag?

"Kui Wa, the shop is open today, how is the business?" After dinner, Song Xueliang came over to chat with Song Yingkui alone to inquire about the opening of the shop at home. He didn't go to the shop to attend the opening ceremony today.

"Our shop is not a retailer, what kind of business can we have today! We have to take it slow!"

"Ao, Kuiwa, I want to discuss something with you. You see, your second father is in charge of a shop on the street now. If you don't care about our Yanchuanzi shop, you can't move around. I'm going to be engaged to the Guo family in the twelfth lunar month. You have a lot of ideas, can you think of a way for me to set up a business by myself? Otherwise, the Guo family may ask me to work in their big shop in the county, so I will become an unnamed son-in-law."

The third uncle expressed his thoughts coyly, obviously he was stimulated by the fact that his family opened a shop on the street.Thinking back, there are three small houses in the family, the old man has this shop owned by Song Yingkui, and the second elder brother is in the yuba business and now manages a shop on the street. It seems that I don't have an independent business yet.

(End of this chapter)