Doctor Li suddenly looked at the little girl's adaptability with new eyes.
He said with relief: "It is a great honor to admit your mistakes and make improvements. This is very good. Where is Yingbao?"
Chen Tiantian twisted her fingers and said, "Inside the house, she said she would not come back. Grandpa Li, you must not let her go."
Not coming back
Doctor Li frowned, walked towards Yingbao's room with his hands behind his back, and called out from outside the door, "Yingbao."
Yingbao came out of the house and said, "Grandpa Li, I was just about to tell you that I have already identified all the herbs in the pharmacy. Now I want to read classics quietly at home, and then go out to identify herbs in the wild when I have time, so I won't come to the pharmacy anymore."
Then she bowed deeply to Doctor Li and said, "I am very grateful to Grandpa Li for his guidance during this period of time."
Doctor Li was silent for a long time, and he really had no reason to keep her any longer, so he couldn't help but sigh and said, "In that case, you can go back. If you encounter anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me."
Suddenly Chen Tiantian ran over, looking sad: "Sister Yingbao, this is all my fault. I just moved your medicine box out of curiosity. I won't do it again. Please forgive me this time and don't leave, okay?"
Yingbao was shocked by her performance, and veins on his forehead were throbbing.
At this time Li Xihua also came out, holding Yingbao's hand with tears in her eyes: "Yingbao, you really won't come back?" She really didn't want Yingbao to leave.
Yingbao: "I will come to see you when I have time, and bring you dried persimmons and roasted chestnuts."
Her orchard had a bumper harvest of chestnuts, and all the persimmons had been picked by A-niang and the others. Second aunt Yan Ru taught everyone how to peel the persimmons and make them into cakes, which they then strung together with thin hemp ropes and hung under the eaves to dry.
Li Xihua wiped her tears and nodded: "Then don't forget it."
"I won't forget."
In the afternoon, Jiang Sanlang came to pick up Yingbao as expected.
I was a little surprised when my daughter said she would not be an apprentice anymore. "Why did you suddenly decide not to come?"
Yingbao: "The gourds at home have grown up. I want to go to the county town to sell them to make money."
Jiang Sanlang laughed: "Well, I'll let Jiang Quan take you to the county town later. Xiaojie is also on vacation, so you two can have a good reunion."
After loading his daughter's things into the car, Jiang Sanlang said goodbye to Doctor Li: "I'm sorry to have troubled you these days. I'm going to take Yingbao back now."
Doctor Li waved his hand and said, "This child is very self-disciplined. I'm not worried about her. Let her read more books when she gets home."
He gave Yingbao a few medical classics and asked her to read them and return them so that he could take a random test on them.
The carriage passed by the market, and we saw many families drying clothes and quilts along the way. Men, women, old and young, all wore dogwood and twigs on their heads.
When he got home, Jiang Sanlang took down his daughter's bag and medicine box and brought them into the house.
Jiang Quan had been waiting in the yard for a long time. When he saw his little cousin, she kept shouting, "Yingbao, our gourds are selling like hot cakes. Hehe, each can be sold for ten taels of silver."
"How much did you sell?" Yingbao was curious about why her gourds were selling so well.
Jiang Quan stretched out his hand: "Five! I sold five gourds in one day!"
"So how much did you sell in total?" Yingbao asked.
Jiang Quan: “Five.”
Sakura:...
I only sold five of them.
Jiang Quan said excitedly: "I brought five last time, but they were sold out in one day. I will bring ten tomorrow."
In fact, he wanted to take more with him, but unfortunately the carriage couldn't hold it.
"Besides selling gourds, how is the other business of the shop?" Yingbao interrupted her second cousin's chattering.
Jiang Quan scratched his head: "Not very good."
The fruits at home were basically sold out, and no one came to visit after that. Fortunately, he brought a few gourds with him, so the shop was not so deserted.
"What about the preserved fruits?"
"I sell some occasionally, but not much." Otherwise, Jiang Quan wouldn't be so anxious.
Yingbao thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go to the county town with you tomorrow."
"All right."
Jiang Quan: "Oh, by the way, let's bring more chestnuts when we go to the county town. People in Washe really like to eat boiled chestnuts. I want to boil some and sell them."
Variety shows and puppet shows were performed in the brothels, and there was a constant flow of people every day. Jiang Quan went to take a look once and saw many vendors carrying baskets selling food by the brothels. Business was very brisk.
At that time, he had the urge to take the preserved fruits in the shop and sell them.
Yingbao nodded: "Your idea is good, but there are a lot of hooligans there. If they see a strange vendor, they will definitely give you trouble."
Jiang Quan was stunned.
Why does my little cousin know everything
Yingbao: "So it's better for you to stay in the shop. We are doing big business, and that place has good business but you can't make money."
She didn't want her second cousin to end up as a peddler roaming around brothels.
Businessmen in the county are also divided into different classes. Although my family is not rich, I must have a long-term vision. Otherwise, it would be better to grow golden ears at home. At least I can be considered a farmer among the scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans.
After spending a lot of money to switch from farming to business, I ended up being a street vendor, which is not worth it.
However, her second cousin's words gave her a wake-up call.
My shop sells local specialties. If I promote it properly and package it nicely, I won’t have to worry about losing business.
However, the preserved fruits they make are sold in individual pieces, which is not very presentable and does not reflect the value of the specialty.
So, she had to customize a batch of packaging boxes to pack all the preserved fruits together, and the packaging paper had to write "specialty of a certain county and a certain township".
Also, the county school is opposite the shop, and not all students there are from the county town. Most of them come from various towns and villages, and some are even from other counties.
When they return home, they will definitely bring some local specialties back for their families to try.
Therefore, auspicious words such as "carp leaping over the dragon gate", "name on the gold list", "winning the imperial examination", and "five sons passing the imperial examinations" are written on the packaging box.
Jiang Quan curled his lips and sighed: "Okay, I'll listen to you."
What the cousin said was right. There were indeed many thugs in the brothels. He saw with his own eyes that they extorted money from a street vendor and even made the man's nose bleed.
In the evening, the Jiang family came back from the cotton field carrying large baskets of cotton and sat together to eat.
Erni quietly told Yingbao: "Chuchu is going to marry Master Zhang Meng."
Yingbao blinked, not surprised at all.
Erni added: "Chu Chu's father disagreed at first, but later Master Zhang Meng gave him thirty taels of betrothal gifts, and he agreed."
"When will Chuchu get married?" Yingbao asked.
Erni sipped her porridge and said, "It seems to be scheduled for the twelfth month. Chuchu said she will go home to get married after helping our family harvest cotton."
Yingbao looked around: "Where is she now?"
Aren’t you helping to harvest cotton for your family? Why didn’t you come to eat
Erni chuckled and whispered, "She said she was going to cook for Master Zhang Meng. But I saw that Master Zhang Meng had already prepared the meal and was waiting for her to come back and eat."
Yingbao lowered her head to eat, but was thinking in her heart.
In the storyline in my mind, Zhang Meng and Xu Kun seemed to have both become officials, but Zhang Meng's wife was not Chu Chu.
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