The scholar was stunned, then sneered: "How dare you, a yellow-mouthed boy, speak nonsense! Do you believe that we will sue you for slander? You are so young and yet you are making such outrageous statements. How can a lowly businessman like you slander a scholar like me?"
Aunt Xiao and Yan Ru were furious, but they didn't dare to scold them. They could only stamp their feet in anger: "What a scoundrel! What a scoundrel!"
When Yingbao heard the man's accent, she couldn't help but narrow her eyes and turned to ask Aunt Xiao: "Aunt, can I see their hotel registration book?"
Aunt Xiao nodded, took Yingbao to the counter, and took out the registration book to show her. "Look, they registered at the end of April, didn't pay a penny, and it's already December, and they haven't left yet."
Yingbao didn't pay attention to the date, but carefully checked their hometowns and ages.
Both of them are from Qinchuan County, but they are from different towns.
The information of one of them was very strange. He was only seventeen years old.
Yingbao looked up and carefully examined the people sitting in the lobby. It seemed that neither of them looked seventeen years old.
The youngest one, although his beard was shaved and his face was covered with thick powder, it could not hide his age of almost thirty years old.
In addition, the man spoke with an accent from Zhouhe County, so Yingbao guessed that his identity was different.
He was probably a scholar who used someone else's identity to come to our county to take the imperial examination.
Yingbao closed the registration book, ran to the other side, put her hands on her hips and said, "I advise you to leave immediately! Otherwise, I will go to the county government to sue you for occupying other people's household registration to take the exam!"
In fact, the situation of occupying land for imperial examinations exists in every county and is not surprising at all, but it cannot be made public, otherwise it would be against the law.
These candidates were either from poor families who could not afford to hire students on government stipends, or because they were descendants of low-class families and could not take the imperial examinations, so they spent money to occupy other people's household registration.
For a family whose registered permanent residence had someone who had passed the imperial examination or become a juren within three generations, their descendants would not need to ask a juren to act as a guarantor when they took the imperial examination.
Other students could save a lot of money by buying the household registration of such a family and using the names and household registration of their descendants to take the imperial examinations.
After all, not everyone can guarantee that they can pass the exam in one try.
The two were startled, and their expressions changed unpredictably.
Ying Bao added: "You are required to move out of the inn as soon as possible tomorrow. If you still refuse to leave, I will go to the county government to sue you for using someone else's household registration!"
He pointed at the man with a Zhouhe County accent and said, "You are from Zhouhe County, right? You are pretending to be from Shilipu. I advise you to leave as soon as possible, otherwise...humph!"
The powdered man turned even paler, and stammered, "You, you, you're talking nonsense! What do you mean by impersonation... I, I am..."
Yingbao ignored his nagging, pulled Yanru and turned to leave.
"Hey, hey, hey! Where are you going?" The man was anxious. He suddenly stood up and looked around. Seeing that there was no one else in the lobby, he hurriedly said, "We're leaving now! We're leaving now! Don't go..." and call the police.
After saying that, he picked up the corner of his robe and ran back to the guest room to start packing his things.
Yingbao and Yanru looked at each other and stood at the door of the inn waiting.
It was estimated that these two people were not from a good background. When one of them saw his companions packing up, he did not dare to stay and quickly packed his luggage and left, running faster than anyone else.
It’s not that they don’t have money, but they just want to eat and drink for free. Sometimes they even go to shops left and right to order food and drinks, and put the bill on the inn, saying that they will settle the bill together.
Seeing that both of them had left, Aunt Xiao breathed a sigh of relief and said to Yingbao, "Thank you, Yingbao."
The rogue didn't give the money in the end, but this was the best outcome.
As a mere merchant, he would never dare to offend these scholars. After all, no one knew whether they would pass the imperial examinations and become scholars or juren in the future and come back to take revenge on his family.
Moreover, these scholars stayed in the hotels and the government backed them up, which invisibly caused trouble for the merchants.
Of course, scholars with good character will not do this, but those with bad character will take the opportunity to 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 home with the purchased items to prepare for the wedding.
Because Jiang Cheng's wedding must be held in the countryside.
That is, a sedan chair is sent from the hometown to bring the bride to the hometown to hold the wedding. After a full month of marriage, the couple will return to the county to live.
Yingbao and Erni did not go back, so the two sisters lived in the backyard of the shop, and Jiang Cheng and Jiang Quan were still taking care of the shop.
Dani also wanted to stay and play for a few days, but her aunt-in-law wouldn't let her, saying that she was already engaged and couldn't let her heart wander.
Er Ni watched Dani get on the carriage unhappily, and whispered to Ying Bao, "I definitely don't want to get engaged too early."
"Yes!" Yingbao nodded heavily: "It's true that we can't get engaged early, and we are not free."
After the New Year, Erni was eleven years old and Dani was fourteen. It was estimated that Dani would get married in a year or two.
She turned her gaze to Jiang Quan again.
My second cousin is already sixteen years old and is almost as tall as my eldest cousin.
He was seen wearing a black gauze fu hat, a silk flower on his ear, a black cross-collared short robe, and a blue cloth belt around his waist with seven ornaments and a small purse hanging on it.
He was wearing a pair of brand new deerskin boots. Although his face was not as fair and handsome as his eldest cousin's, he was still handsome and well-proportioned. His eyes were shrewd and he looked like a smart and capable person.
A second cousin like this should be able to become a big businessman in the future.
Because he is smarter than his older cousin, braver, and more capable.
In just over a year, he had gotten to know many people from all walks of life in the county, and became close friends with Constable Jin Wu and others.
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 towards the specialty shop.
Jiang Quan turned around and met his cousin's eyes. He smiled and said, "Why are you staring at me? Do you think your second brother is so handsome that no one can compare to him?"
Yingbao nodded seriously and said, "You'd look even more handsome if you didn't smile."
Jiang Quan's face twitched and he said unhappily, "I want to laugh!" Then he stretched his mouth into a square shape.
Yingbao and Erni:…
"Brother Jiang Quan..." a delicate female voice sounded. "Do you still have any chestnut cakes?"
Jiang Quan immediately restrained his expression and turned to look over.
Two girls, about fourteen or fifteen years old, walked into the shop gracefully.
Jiang Quan immediately put on a professional smile and said, "There are still some left. I wonder how many boxes Miss Pan wants?"
The girl in green looked at him shyly and raised a finger: "One box. My mother really likes your chestnut cakes."
Jiang Quan took a box of chestnut cakes from the shelf and handed it over: "Chenghui, four hundred coins."
The girl in green paid the money but did not pick up the box. She just walked around the shop, glancing at the cashier from time to time.
Jiang Cheng was sitting in the accounting office, calculating accounts on an abacus, and had no idea that someone was peeping at him.
Yingbao saw it clearly, so she deliberately said to her second cousin: "Second brother, my eldest cousin is getting married soon, how much gift are you going to give?"
Jiang Quan's eyes widened when he heard this: "Why should I give a gift? Grandma said that people who are not married don't need to give a gift."