The scholar was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "I dare to talk nonsense like this! Do you believe that they are accusing me of slander? He actually uttered arrogant words at such a young age. How can he, a scholar like me, be slandered by a lowly businessman like me?"
Aunt Xiao and Yan Ru were furious, but they didn't dare to scold them, so they just stamped their feet angrily: "Are you really a scoundrel? A scoundrel!"
When Yingbao heard the man's accent, he couldn't help but squinted his eyes, turned around and asked Aunt Xiao: "Auntie, can he see the registration book of their hotel?"
Aunt Xiao nodded, walked into the counter with Yingbao, took out the registration book and showed it to her. "Look, they registered at the end of April and didn't pay a penny. It was already the twelfth lunar month, and they didn't want to leave."
Ying Bao didn't pay attention to the menstrual period, but carefully checked their place of origin and age.
Both of them are native to Qinchuan County, but they live in different towns.
The information about one of them is very strange, he is actually seventeen years old.
Ying Bao raised her head and looked carefully at the people walking in the lobby. Why didn't any of them look like they were seventeen years old?
Although the youngest one has shaved off his beard and has a thick layer of powder on his face, it cannot hide his age of almost thirty years old.
In addition, the man's accent was not from Zhouhe County, so Yingbao guessed that his identity was different.
They were probably scholars who came to the county to take exams under their false identities.
Ying Bao joined the register, ran to the opposite side of the two, put her hands on her waist and said: "He advised us to leave quickly! Otherwise, he will go to the county government to sue us for occupying their household registration to take the exam!"
In fact, registration examinations occur in every county and are not unusual at all, but they should not be made public, otherwise it will be against the law.
Firstly, those candidates were poor and could not afford to hire local students. Secondly, maybe they were descendants of low-income families and could not take the scientific examinations, so they spent money to occupy their household registrations.
As for families with occupied registration, if there is someone three generations away who has been selected as a Linshan scholar or a scholar, and their descendants take part in the scientific examination, they do not need to ask Linshan students to act as guarantees.
A nearby student asked to buy the household registration of that family, and take the scientific examination by pretending to be the name and household registration of his descendants, thereby saving a lot of money.
After all, not everyone can guarantee that they will pass the exam on the first try.
The two of them were startled, their faces changing expressions unpredictably.
Yingbao said again: "We have to move out of the hotel as soon as possible. If he doesn't want to leave, he will go to the county government to sue us for using their household registration!"
Then he pointed at the man with a Zhouhe County accent and said, "I'm not from Zhouhe County, but I pretended to be a Shilipu household registration. He advised us to leave early, otherwise... hum!"
The face of the man wearing powder turned even redder, and he stammered: "I, I, I, I'm talking nonsense! What are you pretending to be... He, he is not..."
Ying Bao didn't listen to his nagging, so she pulled Yan Ru and turned around to leave.
"Hey, hey, hey! Where are we going?" The man was anxious. He suddenly stood up and looked around. Seeing that there was no one else in the lobby, he even said: "They will leave then! Then leave! I don't want to go..." reported
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After saying that, he picked up the corner of his robe and ran back to the guest room to start packing his things.
Ying Bao and Yan Ru looked at each other and stood waiting at the door of the inn.
The two of them probably didn't have a good background. When one of them saw his companion packing his things, he didn't dare to leave anything behind, so he quickly packed up his luggage and left, running faster than anyone else.
Not only do they have no money, but they just want to eat and drink here. Sometimes they go to the shops to order food and drink, and they often write down the accounts at the inn and write off the accounts together.
Seeing that both of them had left, Aunt Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Yingbao, "Thank you very much, Yingbao."
The scoundrel never gave me any money before, but that was already the best thing.
As a merchant, I definitely don't dare to offend those scholars. After all, no one knows whether they will be admitted to the scholar examination or something and come back to take revenge on me.
Moreover, those scholars who live in hotels have the support of the government to deal with the aftermath, which invisibly causes trouble to the merchants.
Scholars with good character will certainly not do that, but those with bad character will take advantage of the merchants and make them suffer.
Yingbao also knew their concerns, so she didn't say anything and took Yanru home.
The next day, the Jiang family returned to their hometown with the purchased items to prepare for the wedding.
Because Jiang Cheng’s wedding must be held in the countryside.
Can we send a sedan chair from our hometown, take the bride to her hometown, hold the wedding ceremony, and then return to the county town to live after the wedding is over?
Yingbao and Erni did not go back, so the two sisters lived in the backyard of the shop, with Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan taking care of them in the shop.
Dani also wanted to stay in Dongfang for a few days, but her aunt wouldn't allow it, saying that she was already engaged and couldn't let her mind wander.
Er Ni watched Dani boarding the carriage unhappily, and whispered to Ying Bao: "He must not ask for an early engagement."
"Yes!" Ying Bao nodded heavily: "It is true that you cannot get engaged early, you are not free."
After the New Year, Erni will be eleven years old, and Dani will be fourteen. It is estimated that Dani will ask for marriage in a year or two.
She looked at Jiang Quan again.
The second cousin is also sixteen, almost as tall as the first cousin.
I saw him wearing a black gauze bun on his head, a silk flower in his ear, a black cross-collar short robe, and a blue cloth belt around his waist. On the belt was hanging the Seven Things, and there was a small money bag.
He has a pair of brand-new deerskin boots on his feet. Although his face is not as red and handsome as that of his cousin, he is still handsome and upright. His eyes are shrewd, and he is a smart and capable person at first glance.
A second cousin like that should be able to become a big businessman in the future.
Because he has a more flexible mind and courage than his elder cousin, and he is very good at getting things done.
In just over a year, he had already gotten to know many people from all walks of life in the county, and he became brothers with Detective Jin Wu and others, and they fought fiercely.
That's why Zhang Jia and his concubine's father and brother didn't dare to offend their aunt Jiang Yunniang, let alone have any bad intentions in the specialty shop.
Jiang Quan turned around, caught his little cousin's eye, and said with a smile: "Why am I staring at him? Do you think my second brother Feng Shen is so handsome that no one can match him?"
Ying Bao nodded seriously and said, "I beg you will be more handsome if you don't smile."
Jiang Quan's face twitched and he said angrily: "He just wants to laugh!" He grinned into a square shape.
Yingbao and Erni:......
"Brother Jiang Quan..." a delicate female voice sounded. "Is my chestnut cake good?"
Jiang Quan immediately calmed down his expression and turned around to look over.
I saw two girls, Tingting, aged fourteen or fifteen, walking into the shop.
Jiang Quan immediately put on a professional smile and said, "There are quite a few. I wonder how many boxes Miss Pan would like?"
The girl in green looked at him shyly and raised a finger: "One box, his mother especially likes to eat my chestnut cake."
Jiang Quan handed over a box of chestnut cakes from Nadong on the shelf: "Chenghui, four hundred Wen."
The girl in green paid the money without carrying the box, and just wandered around the shop, glancing at the cashier's room from time to time.
Jiang Cheng was walking in the accounting room, planning to settle accounts, but he had no idea that someone was spying on him.
Yingbao looked at her seriously, did she deliberately wrong her second cousin and said, "Second brother, my first cousin is getting married in a while, how many gifts am I going to give?"
Jiang Quan's eyes widened when he heard this: "Why is he asking for a gift? Grandma said that people who are not married don't have to give a gift."
