On the tenth day, the top ten poems and essays were selected, and paintings were given in public, and the top fifty were given pens, ink, paper and inkstones were given, and the grand event ended successfully.

The account was calculated in front of Pei Rong, and the 150,000 taels of bidding for ten paintings were counted, and the expenses were counted, leaving 50,000 taels.

Looking at the last number falling on the abacus, Pei Rong couldn't help but applaud: "I admire you!"

She cleverly used the mentality that no scholars could accept each other, and generally regarded the Yaji as the imperial examination. She wanted to compete for the top ten, which was far beyond her thoughts of painting.

The top ten are posted every day, which further inspires the scholar's fighting spirit.

"But in fact, for Nanmozhai, this is just the beginning, and the road ahead is still difficult to walk." Liu Yunxiang said.

Pei Rong nodded, "Even if he has a good start, there are many people who are declining behind him."

"So, I want to work with Boss Pei."

Pei Rong raised his eyebrows, "Cooperate?"

"We jointly operate Nanmozhai and finally make a profit of six and four."

"But there is already Qingxiangzhai below."

"If we cooperate with me, Nanmozhai will definitely surpass Qingxiangzhai. Of course, we can also cooperate with other study rooms. At that time, the ones who press the Qingxiangzhai on the end will not be their own family."

Pei Rong lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then looked up: "I'm afraid this is not Boss Liu's ultimate goal, right?"

Liu Yunxiang nodded, "Nanhonglou, I also want to cooperate with Boss Pei. I have Yunjin, you have channels, I have signatures, you have connections."

When doing business, you must have both profitable things to do. It depends on whether her conditions are attractive enough that he is willing to offend An Hong.

Pei Rong looked at Liu Yunxiang: "To be honest, at the beginning, Boss Liu said he wanted to do business with Xiaoxia. The first thing he was worried about was Boss Liu's ability. Now Boss Liu eliminated his worries, just..."

Liu Yunxiang interrupted Pei Rong's words, "Boss Pei, let's consider it first."

Pei Rong thought for a moment, "Okay, then let's consider it for a few days."

After leaving Tianxianglou, Liu Yunxiang returned to Nanmozhai. There were many guests inside and they were all wearing plain robes, so a woman wearing a brown cotton skirt in front of the counter was very conspicuous.

"Madam, what do you think of this inkstone?" The guy pushed a Su inkstone to the woman, "This inkstone is a good Duan inkstone, but the style is simple and not very eye-catching. If you like it, you will give you some cheaper, five taels of silver."

Generally, Duan inkstone costs at least ten taels of silver, but five taels are indeed very cheap.

Liu Yunxiang didn't care much, so she walked behind and called Chen Chong in front of her, "Tomorrow, you will follow the shopkeeper of Qingxiangzhai to pick up the goods. He will introduce you to some workshop managers. You will take them to find a restaurant and negotiate the purchase while drinking."

Pei Rong did not agree to cooperate with her, but shared Qingxiangzhai’s purchase channels with her, solving the first problem facing Nanmozhai.

"That's great. Goods are easy to buy, but it's difficult to get good quality and affordable prices. The little one is worried about this!" Chen Chong said happily.

Liu Yunxiang nodded. Just as he was about to leave, a gang came over and asked, "The boss, shopkeeper Chen, the lady is only 40 to 30 cents, and asks us if we sell this inkstone."

Chen Chong frowned, "When we took it from Qingxiangzhai, we only had five taels. If we didn't earn a penny, how could we lose money to sell it?"

Liu Yunxiang looked at the woman and saw that she was weak and looked not very good. She coughed while counting the money in the veil. At the end, her brows became deeper.

"Sell it to her." Liu Yunxiang said.

The man responded, took the money, wrapped the inkstone and gave it to the woman. The woman showed joy on her face and kept thanking her.

The guy pointed at Liu Yunxiang at the woman, probably saying that she was their boss and the boss asked him to sell it to.

The woman turned her head and looked at her side. Liu Yunxiang was slightly shocked. She nodded to her gratefully, and Liu Yunxiang also nodded to her.

Watching the woman leave, Liu Yunxiang breathed a breath slightly. The woman had a scar on her left face, which should be hot.

Liu Yunxiang came out of Nanmozhai to the Jingzhao Mansion Prison. She brought clothes and food to Manager Hu and stuffed a ingot of silver to the guards. He was willing to send these things in.

After coming out of the prison, Liu Yunxiang walked towards Jingchuanyuan. When she passed by the market, she saw the woman again. The woman was selling rice cakes. Someone shouted twice when she passed by, but maybe she was sick and her voice was hoarse.

Next to her was an old woman wearing a brown cotton dress with a blue forehead wrapped in her forehead. Her eyes could not be closed and the whites of her eyes were exposed, so she should be blind.

"How many are left?" asked the old woman.

The woman coughed first and said, "There are a lot left."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the old woman slapped her on the back, "You have long legs, you have squinted eyes, and you run around and can't sell these. Don't eat tonight!"

The woman coughed again, "Why do I take you back first?"

"This time, everyone has disappeared and they don't have brains every day!"

"Ahem!"

"It's not that you were asked to get medicine. Did you drink medicine or not? It seems that our Xi family abused you!"

"Mom, I drank it."

The woman spoke very softly. Even when she was beaten and scolded by the old woman, she still had a soft smile on her face and her eyes were moist. She was a gentle woman as gentle as water.

It was late, and the pedestrians at the market had already begun to disperse. The woman comforted the old woman and her face was filled with sorrow.

Liu Yunxiang walked forward and said, "I want all these rice cakes."

The woman was happy first, looked up and saw Liu Yunxiang, hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's you!"

Liu Yunxiang looked at the woman, smiled and nodded at her, "Well, what a coincidence."

"There are still a lot left, you want it all? Can you finish eating?"

Liu Yunxiang was about to answer, but the woman quickly hit the woman's hand and reached her chest, "If you want to buy it, you should quickly decorate it for the house and ask so much about it."

The woman was very weak, but the old woman was very strong, so she was swayed back after being stuck.

Liu Yunxiang frowned, "Who is this?"

The woman said awkwardly: "She is my mother-in-law."

"It's my mother-in-law."

At first glance, I must be a bad mother-in-law!

After eating enough, Liu Yunxiang felt a little sympathy for the woman.

The woman wrapped the rice cake with oil paper, wrapped five large bags, then tied it with a rope, and handed it to Liu Yunxiang.

Liu Yunxiang gave her a piece of silver, and the woman looked at her in embarrassment.

"I can't find it."

Liu Yunxiang gave her, "No need to find it."

"How can that be? You bought so much of me at once and took good care of me, absolutely not..."

Before the woman finished speaking, the old woman interrupted, "This lady doesn't care about this little money, she just thinks it's troublesome, so hurry up and stop talking nonsense."

The woman shook her head and pushed it back firmly.

Liu Yunxiang smiled, "The rest of you can turn it into rice cakes and send it to Nanmozhai tomorrow."

"But you have bought so many..."

“We have many families.”

The woman then took the broken silver and thanked her repeatedly.

Liu Yunxiang left and walked more than a dozen steps into the yard. She looked back and saw the woman carrying a basket and holding the blind mother-in-law. She was as thin as willow branches, as if the wind could blow away.

She sighed. There were too many suffering people in the world, and her little suffering was probably nothing.

Thinking of this, she became much more careless and headed towards Jingchuanyuan.

But as soon as she arrived in the backyard, she saw a eunuch and several guards coming out of the Chuhuamen Gate, so she hurriedly hid.
Chapter completed!