Chapter 118: Make oil
Chapter 118 Making Oil
The Gu Dashan family did not know what Shang Xiucai was thinking. They just thought that Gu Jinan was not good enough, so Shang Xiucai did not accept him as his disciple. However, Shang Xiucai was willing to teach Gu Jinan, and the Gu family was very grateful.
Facing the gratitude of everyone in the Gu family, Shang Xiucai smiled and said: "Thank you, there is no need. I am a cultivator. You can discuss it and choose a day to send Brother An to my house to study."
The matter of shopkeeper Tao inviting beggars to cause trouble was the work of shopkeeper Zeng and Zou Xiancheng. It would be better for An Geer to study with him as soon as possible. In this way, the Lu family and Zou Xiancheng would be wary and not dare to cause trouble again. Recruit to deal with the Gu family.
"We will take An Ge'er to your home the day after tomorrow." Gu Dashan was very excited. He originally wanted to take An Ge'er to your house tomorrow, but thinking about the preparation of the ceremony, he postponed the time for one day.
Shang Xiucai said: "Okay, then it's settled."
After talking about Gu Jinan, Shang Xiucai left with Ah Jiu.
Gu Dashan and his family sent Shang Xiucai out of their house. They did not return to the yard until the mule cart of Shang Xiucai's family disappeared.
Nowadays, several families no longer grind spices at Gu Jinli's house. Instead, one family takes two spices and grinds them. After grinding, they bring them to Gu's house and mix them for Gu Jinli. However, the other families soon know that Gu Jinan is going to study with Shang Xiucai. thing.
The families were very happy, hoping that Gu Jinan would come up with a plan to protect them in the future.
Mrs. Chen was also very happy, but besides being happy, she was also very unwilling. She grabbed the eight-year-old Gu Dewang and beat him several times: "You are a good-for-nothing. You and An Geer were admitted to the school by Shang Xiucai. What? Shang Xiucai only accepted An Geer, but not you? Go back and grind spices for me."
Gu Dewang was afraid of Mrs. Chen, so he hunched his shoulders and ran back to grind spices. He was very dissatisfied with going to school. What's the good of going to school? The word is like an ant, which makes people dizzy. He still prefers grinding spices to make tofu.
Gu Dexing was filtering soy milk at Luo's house and heard Chen's words. He felt very uncomfortable and felt that Chen was scolding him. He was so angry that he threw down the half-filtered soy milk and ran away.
"Brother Xing, where are you going? The work is not finished yet?" Gu Dafu shouted while carrying a bucket of soy milk, but Gu Dexing seemed not to hear and ran away without looking back.
Gu Dafu sighed, knowing that Gu Dexing wanted to study, but he didn't want to accept talents, so what could he do?
Gu Dagui on the side said: "Brother, there are also private schools in the town. Let's send Brother Xing to study."
They can all see that Brother Xing wants to study. When he was in his hometown, his father had high hopes for this nephew. He was sent to a private school from the age of seven until the drought in the northwest forced him to stop studying.
But Gu Dafu knew that his son was in trouble, and he would not go to another private school to study with a scholar in front of him.
“Let’s take a look again.” Gu Dafu said and continued busy with the work at hand.
After Gu Dexing ran away, he didn't go home until dark. Fortunately, he didn't do anything stupid and was just sulking alone.
The next day, Gu Jinli did not go out to the stall, but made tofu at home, and asked Gu Dashan to take Gu Jinan to the town to buy things.
They have a lot to buy today, including gifts for Shang Xiucai, as well as pens, ink, paper and inkstones that Gu Jinan will use for school.
There are not many scholars in the town. There is a small bookstore in the back street, which sells pens, inks, paper and inkstones, as well as some common books, such as the Three-Character Classic for enlightenment, the Thousand-Character Classic, and the Analects of Confucius, the Book of Songs, and the Book of Rites. These.
Although there are few types of books and the paper is yellow, they are not cheap. An ordinary three-character classic costs one or two taels of silver.
After Gu Dashan asked about the price of the books, he wanted to buy two books for Gu Jinan, but was stopped by Gu Jinan.
Gu Jin'an said: "Dad, I don't know what I want to teach you now. Don't buy this book yet. I'll wait until I see you tomorrow." After hearing this, Gu Dashan put down the idea of buying a book and after selecting it in the bookstore , bought a pen, the cheapest inkstone, two ink sticks, ten pieces of yellow paper, then gritted his teeth and bought two pieces of white rice paper.
Shopkeeper Tang of the bookstore knew Gu Dashan. The Gu family sold tofu. Recently, he often came to their bookstore to buy yellow paper, but this time he bought white rice paper. He couldn't help but be curious and asked: "Brother Gu, what's going on this time?" I bought white rice paper, which is not cheap."
Yellow paper is the cheapest, costing fifty cents a piece. White rice paper is expensive, costing two hundred cents a piece, and is not affordable for ordinary people.
Gu Dashan said: "Brother An is going to school, so buy two pieces of rice paper to prepare. If your husband asks him to write an article, there is rice paper available." It doesn't look good if you use yellow paper.
After hearing this, shopkeeper Tang was very surprised. The Gu family had fled the country and had money to send their son to school.
"Congratulations to Brother Gu." Shopkeeper Tang smiled and said, "Which gentleman did you worship? But you came to study in a private school in the town?"
Gu Dashan said: "I worship Shang Xiucai from Shangjia Village and go to his home to study."
Shopkeeper Tang was completely shocked. He didn't expect Shang Xiucai to be willing to teach Brother An of the Gu family. This was really... He remembered the rumors in the town that a little girl from the Gu family saved the granddaughter of the county captain, and thus won the county captain's title. of care.
And the son-in-law of the county captain is a scholar, isn't he?
It seems that the rumors are true. The Gu family is really lucky and has the protection of Jiangxian Wei and Monk Xiucai.
The smile on Shopkeeper Tang's face grew brighter, and he said sincerely: "This is really a great event. Shang Xiucai has real abilities. If your brother An can be taught by Shang Xiucai, he will definitely have a future."
Shopkeeper Tang said some good things, and when the final settlement was made, he wiped out the small change for them and only collected one to two to five hundred cash. He would not accept any more.
Finally, shopkeeper Tang gave Gu Dashan a pack of dried celery wrapped in yellow paper: "You must buy the gift of Xiuzhi. This celery is indispensable. There is no fresh one now, but I have dried celery in my shop for later use. For you."
Gu Dashan was very grateful and took the dried celery.
Gu Jinan was not that stupid person. He thanked the shopkeeper with a smile and said some nice words. Then the father and son left the bookstore and went to buy other gifts.
Gu Jinli orders braised tofu and makes soybean oil at home.
Making soybean oil is not difficult, just pick the beans, break the beans, fry the beans, make the cake embryo, and then press the oil.
The beans have been ground with stones a few days ago, and now you can start frying them.
She mixed vinegar and water for Cui, and helped order six pots of tofu. Then she built a simple stove with mud bricks outside the kitchen, took out an iron pot, lit a fire and heated the pot, then put the twenty kilograms of broken pieces into the pot. Pour all the soybeans into the pot and stir-fry over low heat.
The beans are crushed and have small particles, so they are easy to fry. After two and a quarter of hours of frying, all twenty pounds of broken soybeans were cooked.
(End of this chapter)
