Because it was still raining outside, breakfast was placed on the old Eight Immortals table in the main hall. Aunt Gui said that she had eaten it in the kitchen, and she also praised the words "Rui Cai pickled white radish is crispy and delicious."

Ma Ma and Xiaoxiao three girls sat around the Eight Immortals table, with steaming big white steamed buns on the table, small pickles with sesame oil, five-spice tea eggs that smelled fragrant, and four large bowls of thick two-rice porridge.

"It's a blessing to be able to drink such steaming rice porridge in a foreign land!" A thin layer of rice oil had been formed on the porridge noodles. Xiaoxiao first ate the most nutritious layer before starting to tea eggs: "We cooked a large pot of tea eggs, and now it's simmering." Seeing that the egg white is already braised and brown, it's a bite, and it has a q-bulb like a peeled egg. "This afternoon, you can sell it with meat buns."

Xizi nodded: "We are not greedy either. We can collect two of three cents, and each one can sell them for two cents." As he said that, he praised Aunt Gui's steamed buns: "It's better than the steamed noodles cooks in our house, and it's especially chewy!"

"Your family has a pastry cook? What does that make? It's specially steamed buns?" Aunt Gui was shocked when she heard this.

"It mainly makes snacks and pasta." Seeing Xiaoxiao blinking at him, Xizi didn't explain too much.

Ma Ma cleared her throat: "The school rules that no one is allowed to talk about family affairs with the villagers."

However, Aunt Gui looked at Xizi with wide eyes: "I have heard of those rich gentry and gentry's family with servants and cooks. Could it be that your family is also a big rich man?" Aunt Gui used to think that these students were children of ordinary families in Kyoto, and she didn't think too much about him.

Xizi didn't know how to answer for a moment. She just buried her head in the spoon and stirred the porridge in the bowl. Xiaoxiao explained: "We are just the daughters of small vendors. If there are any weddings and weddings at home, we have to invite the chefs who help us. My aunt thought too much. Who can use the chefs all year round?"

Youqing remembered the show of the Wen family's rose banquet. There were probably hundreds of chefs that day. For a moment, she felt that Xizi was pretending to be stupid and funny, so she added: "Stop talking about the big rich man, even the little rich man dared not claim to be a rash."

Aunt Gui was still curious: "Let's tell me what business do you do?" As she asked, she patted Ma Ma's shoulder: "It's just a chore, what a foul!"

Ma Ma didn't say anything, ate a bite of spicy pickled vegetables, and listened to the three female students' answers with her ears.

Xizi: "My family sells flowers."

Aunt Gui: "Pushing a large cart to sell a lot of potted flowers at the market? That won't make a lot of money. It's not easy for your parents, so you have to be filial to them."

Xizi: "Hey, what my aunt said."

It was Xiaoxiao's turn: "My father sells cloth."

Aunt Gui: "Selling floral cloth or old cloth?"

Xiaoxiao: "Everyone sells it, and those needles and threads are also sold."

Aunt Gui: "Then you won't have to worry about dowry in the future! Then let your mother prepare more quilts and clothes for you, especially cloth! You will know when you have children in the future. You will have to make a new one in one or two years! That monkey and children are growing fast!"

Xiaoxiao: "...Hey."

It's time to clear up: "My father is a carpenter."

Aunt Gui: "That's how to make a living by craftsmanship! Are you doing cabinets, tables and chairs?"

Youqing: "It is specially designed for people to set windows and lattices."

Aunt Gui: "That's not easy to do. A window frame can last a lifetime. Who can't change it all day long? But you have many people in the city, many houses, and many people who use windows! Is the business good?"

Youqing: "I can barely make a living."

...Several girls hurriedly ended their breakfast amid the lies.

Ma Ma was very satisfied with this answer and didn't say anything else.

Aunt Gui had already served noodles early in the morning and was now waiting to ferment slowly. Today is the day for butcher Liu Huzi to kill pigs. Xiaoxiao and his friends waited for a while to buy fresh meat.

"The rain has not stopped, and I don't know if other students have gone to the market." Xiaoxiao stood at the door and looked at the courtyard in the rain. Fortunately, she paved a road with stone slabs, otherwise it would be muddy on the ground and there would be nowhere to get down.

"Most half of them didn't go." Ma Ma's son drove the bus for the school. "It was said that several students came over in the rain early in the morning to refund the deposit. Some said that the rain was heavy and the road was slippery, but they were snatching back the few children they paid."

Ma Ma was a little indignant when she mentioned this. She thought her son could make some extra money in the countryside, but she didn't know that when these students arrived in the countryside, they would sting like an iron rooster, and a penny would be bigger than the sky!

"Reasonably, the deposit should not be returned." Youqing said to Ma Ma.

"That's to say! There are only 30 cents in total. What kind of flowers can you save by saving just? Can you still have a baby if you keep it?" Ma Ma looked at the rain outside, and probably would have nothing to do on this day, so she thought of asking the nanny in another yard to gamble for wine. "The girls have any instructions, and if they can do it, they will definitely help the girls."

Xiaoxiao and Xizi brushed the bowl, took a basket in their hands and returned to the main hall. The basket contained two large white steamed buns, a bowl of pickled vegetables, and two five-spice tea eggs: "I don't know if the eldest brother of the nanny's family had eaten breakfast, driving the car is a hard work. Unfortunately, we have nothing to do here, and there is only these steamed buns and tea eggs. Don't dislike them."

Ma Ma smiled and said, "Why do girls be so polite? You are having trouble."

"Since you live under the same roof, you should help each other." Xiaoxiao said, putting the basket in the maid's hand and whispered: "I asked Aunt Gui to make a pot of wine for the maid, and it was placed inside."

"What is this? The girl is so polite. I can't afford it." Ma Ma couldn't hide her smile. This time she was really happy. "What can I do with my mother? The girl just asks me."

Xiaoxiao personally handed the umbrella to Ma Ma: "I'm also troubled Ma Ma to walk a few more yards in the morning and touch the bottom of others."

Ma Ma understood and sighed in her savvy girl in front of her: "A few mothers gathered together to play cards, and you can figure out what others think with each word! Girl just don't worry." As she said that, she put on a basket, walked out of the door, held an umbrella, and walked into the rain.

It is difficult to accurately understand the situation of each group by relying on a few people in the group to sell food to other yards. Instead, it is better to know more about the situation of each group than Ma Ma and other women who gathered together to play cards and chat.

The departure of Ma Ma and Aunt Gui made the room much quieter.

"Aunt Gui is so brave. Going to kill pigs is like going to see a show." Youqing wiped the Eight Immortals Table again.

Xizi sat down and stared blankly: "Yes, killing pigs..." As he said that, he scratched his scalp again, feeling a little itchy: "When can we take a good shower?"

"If you want to take a good bath, you can only go back to your Mingzhu Pavilion." Xiaoxiao burst out and took out the notebook of notes on the table: "Let's hold a small meeting before working!"

When the two of them heard this, they sat upright and looked at him and smiled.

"These are summarized last night," Xiaoxiao put out the pictures on the notebook for the two of them to see. "By everyone's observation last night, we have a rough understanding of the situation of these 54 yards."

Xizi and his two slept early last night. After the terrible round-fly tiger was "invited" by Nishiki, the two of them were implicated and scared and fell asleep quickly. When the others slept, they discussed what they had, but they didn't know at all.

"In the 54 yards of the whole school, all the girls who had escaped from one yard have escaped, there are still 53 left now." Xiaoxiao did not use polite words to the girls who left. All the people who could not hold on for the past three days were deserters.

Perhaps the word "escape" is too harsh, which makes Xizi and Youqing take a deep breath at the same time, as if they are secretly cheering themselves up. No matter how tormented the next three days, they must not be deserters.

Youqing still asked unwillingly: "Are we the first day today? Then what is yesterday?"

Xizi nodded helplessly. Yesterday was a long day, and he didn't count it!

"Yesterday was considered warm-up." Xiaoxiao replied, and continued to point to the book and said, "There are three yards in these 53 yards, which means that the number of people in these three yards is insufficient."

Only a small part of the escape was a small part, and most of them gritted their teeth and persevered.

"Among the remaining people, from what they learned last night, about 27 yards are united, and the remaining 26 yards are more or less conflicting."

If a team is not united internally, it is basically equivalent to self-destruction. Xiaoxiao continued: "Of course, this is just the result I saw last night. This data will definitely change. Some people who were still harmonious yesterday might have conflicts today, and some people who ignored each other yesterday might have made up again today."

Xizi nodded: "Those yards that are both powerful and united must not be underestimated."

Youqing asked: "Is there such a yard? Except for our No. 9 Courtyard."

"At present, our most powerful competitor is probably Courtyard No. 21. These people are friends themselves, and they are all backbone of the poetry club, and they all have good knowledge..."

Xizi interrupted and smiled unconsciously: "What are you talking about is the yard where you want to open a private school?"

Xiaoxiao nodded, and heard from Aunt Gui that there was no private school in the village. When the boys were seven or eight years old, they were sent to a village more than ten miles away to study, and they all had food and accommodation. Many families felt that the road was long and could not bear the bush of money, so they simply stopped sending their children out to study. As long as the children of farmers could plant the crops well.

The yard No. 21 went to Ni Festival yesterday and said that the yard was full of fruits, pears and peaches, all sent by the children's parents, and the children were shaking their heads and following a few female students to recite it.

Youqing sighed: "Teaching children to study, they really dare to think and do. However, after these three days of learning, everyone will be back to the city. Who can stay here to teach for the rest of their lives?"
Chapter completed!