Yan Huaiwen allowed his younger brother to postpone his studies at the county school until after the autumn harvest.
"Dad, if you can delay it for a day, you can go ahead." Yan Yu laughed, just watching her father's joke.
Yan Laoer's eyes widened: "Can I go? Don't say I can't memorize it. Even if I can memorize it, if you ask me what I mean, how can I say it? Lao Yan doesn't know what's going on with me, and you still don't know.
Well, go and go, if you can’t help, don’t cause trouble.”
"After the autumn harvest, the time is a bit tight, I'm afraid it won't work." Yan Yu suppressed her smile and said seriously: "If I can really give you a year to study hard, and use the energy I had in my senior year of high school, I might not be able to give it a try.
"
Yan Laoer looked at her in horror: "What do you mean? You really want me to take the imperial examination?"
"Dad, what are you thinking about? I mean, in one year, I should be able to catch up with Yan Laoer's original level."
"What's Yan Laoer's level?"
"Not as good as uncle, not as good as eldest brother, not as good as Uncle Liang... about the same level as Fengnian." Yan Yu made a very fair assessment.
She really felt that the former Yan Laoer should be in this rank.
Turn grief and anger into strength!
Yan Laoer carried bucket after bucket of water into the ground.
Aunt Rong came before dawn to continue the work she had not finished last night, separating the pulp and core.
Once this batch of fruit cores are planted, even if their replanting is completed, the number will only be much larger.
They are currently in ten acres of land near the village.
The work is very simple. Use oxcarts to transport water, sprinkle water on the ground, and then after a whole day of sun and wind, in the evening, the humidity of the soil will be very suitable for seeds to germinate.
Even if Sanbao couldn't complete this step by himself, they would still have a much easier time with the help of the bullock cart.
Except for the father and daughter, everyone else went to the land near the mountain in the north.
"Daughter, where do you think our new seeds should be planted?" Yan Laoer wanted to hear her daughter's opinion.
"The five acres on the north side of the mountain." Yan Yu didn't even think about it.
"Why?"
Yan Yu: "That piece of land is the most remote. It is said to be five acres, but it is actually larger than five acres. It is just right for planting our new seeds."
The new seeds they talk about are vegetable seeds bought from the platform.
Aunt Rong has already seen that ten acres of land is not enough for farming, and five acres of land is much more.
Yan Yu doesn't know how to farm, but she can count.
"The land at the back of the mountain is more than five acres. We will sprinkle some of the rest on the land where we plant saplings. Aunt Rong has written it down. There will be a lot more to transplant when the seedlings are thinned out. When the time comes, we will first focus on the saplings in our backyard.
Plant in the vegetable garden, and if there are any leftovers, divide them elsewhere.
We have four pieces of land, the one by the river and near the village. There are too many people around, so we will just farm the same land as everyone else. The two pieces of land near the mountain and the forest are our family's private land. I want to toss it in the future.
Whatever you order, just bring these two pieces."
Yan Yu said again: "Dad! In fact, what uncle said makes sense if you think about it carefully. If you go to the county school to study and can't read the book, you can still become familiar with the old man. Haven't you been practicing your calligraphy?
After you master calligraphy in the future, it will be quite easy to find a clerk's job in the yamen.
If you go to Yongning City this time, you will encounter household registration checks. In the future, if our family still wants to do business in Yongning City, the issue of road guidance cannot be avoided unless..."
Yan Laoer had been working silently, his mind following his daughter's words. When he heard this, he subconsciously asked: "Unless what?"
"If uncle is in Yongning City, can't we use the excuse of visiting relatives to travel between Huju and Yongning? In fact, dad, instead of worrying about going to the county school in Huju City, you might as well ask around when the provincial examination will be held in Yongning. I remember it is
It’s once every three years, but I don’t know how many years or months it will take until the next provincial examination..."
Yan Laoer's eyes lit up and he started to think along her train of thought.
"If your uncle wins the imperial examination, he should prepare to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Hahaha, by then he won't have time to keep an eye on me."
Yan Yu also nodded excitedly, "Yes, yes! If my uncle goes to Beijing to take the exam, can we follow him? The capital city! Dad, we have to go and see everything!"
The capital of a country is coveted.
Travel must be arranged.
"The time given by your uncle is too tight, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time." Yan Laoer was not dazzled by the bright future. The top priority was to focus on the present.
"We still need to make more preparations. There are less than three months left before the autumn harvest. During this period, I want to expand our charcoal business to Huju, Yongning, and Gufeng... I don't believe it. My family is so big.
Regarding the business, your uncle can still interrupt our family's livelihood and force me to go to school."
Yan Laoer got angry and decided to start his career.
When the time comes, a lot of money will be dumped on Lao Yan's face... No, forget about the face, this action of throwing it away is not good, so I will gently pile it up like a pile of city walls, and show Lao Yan that it is not just reading that can make you good.
reflect his value.
"It's not just charcoal, hehe!" Yan Yu winked at her father: "Don't forget we also have a lot of bamboo slips."
When Yan Laoer heard it, he was right!
He asked anxiously: "Have you read it? What are they?"
Yan Yu deliberately coughed a few times to whet her father's appetite.
Yan Laoer was so anxious that he wanted to go back and read it for himself.
"One of them says about sugar production." Yan Yu whispered.
Yan Laoer said oh, thinking that this would be okay. Candy is quite expensive.
"There are also shampoo and tooth powder."
Yan Laoer:......
It’s okay, they are all for cleaning and are considered daily needs.
I don't know if it will sell well or not.
"The last one is making paper."
Yan Laoer immediately laughed and said: "This is good, this is good, paper is really not cheap. If we can make it ourselves, we can save a lot of money, and we also have paper for other things, hahaha!"
Yan Yu's eyes turned into crescent moons as she smiled: "I also think this is good, so my mother and I plan to study this book first."
"We just bought these four bamboo slips, right?" Yan Laoer asked.
"Yes, the rest are all hand-copied books, from Volume 1 to Volume 10 at the front, and from Volume 22 to Volume 25 at the back, a total of thirteen books."
Yan Yu was speechless and said: "These thirteen handwritten books plus four bamboo slips are worth 28,000. Plus we clear the shelves, it will be more than 30,000."
She continued to review: "Actually, there are some products that you really shouldn't buy, such as those hemp shoes..."
Yan Yu's face twitched with distress at the mention of this.
“A pair of hemp shoes 67!
!I actually bought three pairs!
!What’s the use of it? I already have straw sandals and cloth shoes, why should I buy it!”
Yan Laoer also comforted her: "Don't get angry. No one has ever suffered a loss or been deceived. Tuition fees have to be paid. There is a cost to trial and error. If you don't buy it back, how will we know what it looks like? Look, it's still the same."
They look pretty." Yan Laoer showed off the shoes on his feet.
puff!
Yan Yu was not comforted.
I just feel like I've been stabbed...
This chapter has been completed!