Even if it's just a great Confucian who comes to study, as soon as he hears about it, the master will find a way to take the students there or let the students find connections to listen to the great Confucian's lessons!
Not to mention that a great Confucian was running the school. No matter how ignorant the Master was, it was impossible for him to be so ignorant that he didn't know about it for several months. It was more likely that he didn't want his students to know about it.
Zhang Xiaoying felt that the master's problem was too big.
"Ancestor, what's wrong?" Wang Ren saw Zhang Xiaoying deep in thought and interrupted her thoughts in a low voice, "Do you want your children and grandchildren to enter the academy? I'm afraid that's not possible now. The academy only accepts new students after the Chinese New Year, and exams are also required.
That’s fine, it’ll be next year.”
"Then the minimum requirement to take the exam is to be a child or a scholar?"
"No, I heard someone say before that the test questions are all given by Mr. Zhou, and those who can get into the academy may not necessarily do well in their essays."
"Tell me more specifically?"
Wang Ren scratched his head, "Then my ancestors have made things difficult for me. I'm a scoundrel. How can I understand the scholar's test questions? How about I ask you about it?"
"Okay." Zhang Xiaoying nodded, "It's best to let me find out the situation in the academy."
"No problem." Wang Ren responded immediately, "Feng Yue is here, let's go in?"
While they were talking, the two of them had already arrived at the back door of the restaurant.
Zhang Xiaoying followed Wang Ren in. The steward in charge of purchasing in the restaurant happened to have nothing to do and came over quickly.
Seeing Zhang Xiaoying's age, the manager was a little surprised.
"Xiao Wang, is this sister-in-law your aunt?" the steward asked Wang Ren.
Wang Ren smiled and said: "Yes, Mr. Liao, she went to the medical clinic just now to help. She picked those mushrooms from the mountain yesterday."
"Well, that's right." Manager Liao nodded, "But we can't collect the mushrooms every day. If there are still more, it's best to send them in the next day, so as not to keep them for a long time and not be fresh enough. Of course, if you have other wild mushrooms,
, you can also send it to us first."
"Master Liao, are mushrooms too expensive for customers to eat, or are they unable to sell so many in one day?" Zhang Xiaoying asked in return.
"Of course it's too expensive and not many people are willing to eat it. Besides, there are only a few dishes made with this mushroom. No matter how much you like it, you won't eat it every day."
"Master Liao, can you tell me how you make mushrooms?"
Manager Liao took a deep look at Zhang Xiaoying, "Could it be that my sister-in-law has other suggestions? It's just soup, vegetarian stir-fry or stir-fried pork slices."
"There are too few dishes." Zhang Xiaoying shook her head, "You will definitely get tired of eating too much. Hasn't the chef tried other methods?"
"Oh, what else can I do?" Manager Liao asked slyly.
Zhang Xiaoying knew as soon as she heard this that Manager Liao was hiding something.
But this is normal. When cooking, the dishes are very important. Who doesn’t stick to the recipes?
Zhang Xiaoying would not think that she would just sell a recipe to other restaurants. The chefs all have many years of experience in cooking. Once they mention the name of the dish, they can figure it out in a few days.
It's better to sell it well, since it's just home-cooked food anyway.
"Master Liao, if you don't tell secrets, I do know how many ways to eat this mushroom. However, the word 'profit' is always important in doing business, so you can't rest assured if I give it to you for free, right?"
"What do you want? I can make the decision on some small things, but the boss has the final say on big things, but he is currently out of town."
The implication is that the lion will be spared if he opens his mouth.
Zhang Xiaoying smiled: "It's very simple, we just need to exchange. I only need a pot, a set of steamers, and fifteen pairs of bowls and chopsticks. In addition, help me find some medicinal materials. The medicinal materials are paid for. What do you think, Mr. Liao?"
She really didn't want to complain about the Xu family's pot and bowls and chopsticks.
Iron is regulated. To buy a new pot, you have to wait for the iron shop to make it, which is too troublesome.
"Then I have to see how the things you gave me are doing."
"When is it convenient for me to go to the kitchen?"
It was dinner time and the kitchen was busy. If I asked to go to the kitchen at this time, I would probably have Manager Liao kick me out.
After all, no restaurant would allow outsiders to approach the kitchen easily.
"What do you want from the kitchen?"
"I want to show Mr. Liao how the dishes I mentioned are like."
"do it yourself?"
"Well, you can let the chef watch from the side."
A glint flashed in Guanshi Liao's eyes.
Zhang Xiaoying pretended not to see it.
"Okay, if you have other things to do, go and do your work first and come back later. Or you can sit under the tree and wait. It's already full outside and there's nothing you can do about it."
"I'll come back later."
Zhang Xiaoying originally wanted to finish this matter quickly, but she didn't expect to be delayed again. She had better go get Xu Yunfei's medicine first.
She didn't want him to spend his whole life lying in bed and being waited on.
"I want to do other things. You go find your friend first. Come and wait for me here later." Zhang Xiaoying said to Wang Ren, and then took out ten coins from her wallet and gave it to him. "I don't have anything with me now."
For money, I’ll treat you to some rice noodles first.”
"No, no, I have it myself." Wang Ren quickly refused.
Just kidding, he wants to hug his ancestors, what money does he need now?
Zhang Xiaoying forced it on him and left immediately.
Zhang Xiaoying visited several pharmacies and found that two medicines were very expensive. Even after spending all her money, she couldn't buy enough of them.
She was quite helpless.
Even if these two medicines are available on the mountain, they cannot be used directly.
Zhang Xiaoying suddenly remembered that she once rescued an ordinary girl. She had no other supplies and gave her a lot of gold, silver and jewelry as a reward. But at the time, these things were not worth as much as a piece of ham. After Zhang Xiaoying accepted it, she forgot about it.
.
She dug around in the space and found the jewelry she had put in the corner.
Darling, most of them are jade and gold jewelry!
Zhang Xiaoying feels happy about getting rich overnight.
These things are much more valuable in this era.
She picked an ordinary round jade pendant. Although she didn't know much about jade, the girl told her that if it were a peaceful world, it could be used as a family heirloom. It should be of good quality.
Zhang Xiaoying had already visited the county town. She first went to the silver shop to see the price of jade jewelry, and then went to the largest pawn shop.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaoying was an ordinary peasant woman, the shopkeeper was not very enthusiastic: "What do you want to be?"
Zhang Xiaoying took out the jade pendant and asked, "How much can this cost?"
Zhang Xiaoying did not ignore the change in the shopkeeper's eyes the moment he saw the jade pendant, although he quickly returned to normal.
"Live or die?" the shopkeeper asked calmly, playing with the jade pendant, "Live for five taels, die for twelve."
Zhang Xiaoying: "..."
Do you really think she was taken advantage of?
She snatched the jade pendant back and said, "The shopkeeper doesn't think I can use this thing, so I won't use it."
A good jade pendant like hers would cost more than fifty taels if there was no water in the silver building.
The pawn shop really eats people without spitting out their bones, it’s so dark!
"Hey, wait a minute, sister, we can discuss it easily!" The shopkeeper quickly asked Zhang Xiaoying to stay, "I haven't seen the water head clearly yet, how about I take a look again?"
