Chapter 519: Traveling to Yizhou

The beans grown in the farmland have many uses. The beans can be used for cooking and bean rice. Of course, most of the time they are sold to grain merchants.

Beans are a very important feed, both cattle and horses love to eat them, especially horses, good forage should be mixed with some beans.

The horses raised in this way are shiny, so the old Zhou's beans were sold to grain merchants most of the time.

It's just that since Xiaoqian knew how to make tofu, the beans in the family seldom sold out. In addition, people in the village exchanged beans with them for tofu from time to time, so there were a lot of beans in the house.

In the past, it was good for them to make tofu and let Zhou Zhoulang bring it to the county town to sell business. Now that they directly open the shop to the county town, it is more convenient to make tofu. In addition, Xiaoqian knew several ways to make tofu from Manbao. With some changes, there are many dishes related to tofu, which can be regarded as a special feature of Qianji restaurant.

Beans are cheap, and making tofu is more cost-effective than other dishes except that it takes a lot of effort and time.

But what the old Zhou family lacked most now was strength and time.

After working for a while, Zhou Dalang found that the shop needed a lot of tofu and bean curd every day, so he bought a stone mill and put it in the backyard of the shop. Every morning, he and Liu Liulang could take turns pushing the stone mill Grind the beans.

Occasionally, there is not enough tofu after lunch, so I can make it again in the afternoon, which is more convenient than they had to carry beans to the mill at the end of the street to grind them, and they had to pay for them.

County magistrate Yang liked to eat their tofu, all kinds of tofu, and because of this, Qianji restaurant gradually became famous in the county.

Passenger flow gradually stabilized.

And Xiaoqian and Zhou Xi became more and more familiar with the things in the shop. When Zhou Dalang went home for the busy farming, Xiaoqian and Zhou Xi took Saturday Lang and they were able to prop up the shop.

In addition, the older children will occasionally help out when they are on vacation and bathing, so the shop is not very busy.

Seriously speaking, Mr. Zhuang and Bai Shanbao might be the busiest people in Qili Village.

Now Mr. Zhuang has to lead new students and increase Bai Shanbao's homework, so he is very busy.

Man Bao is also very busy, but her busyness is hidden. Although Mr. Zhuang still lets her take the same class as Bai Shanbao, he doesn't assign so many homework for her, so she seems to be quite relaxed on the surface. .

However, Teacher Mo assigned her a lot of homework.

In the past, when she was about to go to bed, she took more than half an hour to go to the teaching room to listen to the get out of class. During the day, it was enough to read medical books, and she could do or not do homework as she liked.

But I don't know why, Teacher Mo suddenly speeded up her progress. The teacher assigned homework, and she would feel guilty if she didn't do it.

Man Bao sighed and learned medical skills, but he was too busy.

At the end of the year, Datou Daya and Ertou Erya officially graduated from the school. They have learned abacus in the school and also learned simple accounting.

Old Zhou felt that they had learned enough, and Datou and the others felt the same way. The main reason was that their husband had mentioned to them that they had already finished studying "The Book of Songs", and they would consider learning "University" next year. The four of them looked it up The sister-in-law's textbook, and being dizzy, heard her talk about what to learn in "University", and the four of them decisively said that grandpa was right.

So the four officially graduated from the school, and there were several classmates who graduated with them at the same time. They also studied for four or five years in succession. Without taking the imperial examination, basically what they learned was enough for them.

Old Zhou called his four grandchildren together, watched them do their calculations, stroked their beards with satisfaction, and asked them to take turns to help in the shop, mainly responsible for collecting money and keeping accounts.

Especially the big head and the second head, he said: "When you are proficient in your own shop, go out and find work in the counting house. It took two years, and you have learned a craft that can make a living."

Erya asked excitedly, "Then grandpa, what about us?"

"You guys, just help your mother sort out the bills in your own house."

Man Bao, who was learning how to weave little rabbits with his second brother, immediately said, "Father, you can ask Erya to help mother settle the accounts."

Old Zhou waved his hand and said, "No, no, isn't there still you?"

"But I'm going to Yizhou in the spring. At that time, the family spent a lot of money. I'm not at home. Can mother keep the accounts clearly?"

Old Zhou Tou almost choked on the smoke, "What, are you going to Yizhou?"

"That's right," Man Bao said, "After spring begins, Mr. Shan Bao will take Shan Bao to Yizhou to take the exam."

She said happily: "Sir, he said that he would take me and Bai Er to see the world."

"Then why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"Sir, you just told me today. I originally said I would tell you guys again tonight." Man Bao changed the topic again, and said to her father, "Father, although most of the expenses will be spent after the beginning of the spring, every time the sister-in-law pays, the money will be spent." Money comes in every month, so it’s better to remember the amount so big, so let Erya help mother remember it.”

"Okay." Old Zhou didn't care too much about this. What he cared about was that his daughter was going to Yizhou. He was very worried, "Yizhou is so far away, so you don't have to go to Yizhou to see the world, right?"

Qian came out of the house, and she heard it in the house too. Hearing this, she glanced at Lao Zhou and asked Man Bao, "How long will it take?"

"I don't know. The master said that the government school exam is in April. We will set off in March. We will go to familiarize ourselves with the place early, and we will travel around afterward. It may not be necessarily autumn when we come back."

"So long? I don't worry about you going out alone."

Liu Liulang immediately raised his hand, "Dad, Dad, let me go with you."

Old Zhou Tou glared at him and said: "Be quiet, I asked you to come back to see each other. If you go out with your sister for half a year, will you still marry a wife?"

"I'm only seventeen, so I'm not in a hurry."

"Turn over the new year and you'll be eighteen!"

Saturday Lang: "...Father, my birthday is only a few days away from Man Bao's, can we count as one year without turning over the year?"

Old Zhou Tou snorted and said: "Tomorrow you will go back to the county to help my sister-in-law. Look at you, you don't know why you have such a heart. Your fifth brother knew when he was thirteen or fourteen. I have saved money to marry a wife, and you, you are almost eighteen, and you still don’t want to marry a wife..."

"Father, you just said that I was only eighteen when I passed the Chinese New Year, why am I nineteen?"

"Xu Sui, do you know what Xu Sui is?"

Saturday Lang, who has just turned seventeen and less than two months old: ...he hates false age the most.

Man Baole giggled happily.

The old Zhou looked at her, and said earnestly: "Man Bao, you are not young anymore, you can no longer run around outside like before, or you should not go to Yizhou this time."

The next chapter is around half past nine