Jiang Wu's eyes widened immediately: "So it was Master Zhou you found, Dad. I thought..."
I thought Master Zhou became a general and led troops to rescue Jingzhou.
Jiang Sanlang poked his son's forehead and said unhappily, "Master Zhou didn't know you were in Jingzhou yet. After hearing what I said, he immediately chartered a large ship and rushed over."
As for how Master Zhou gathered the army, he didn't know, but he must have used a lot of his connections.
The next day, Yingbao went to the deer park alone and released Youyou.
The red color on Yoyo's body has faded a little, making her look even weirder.
Yingbao touched its head apologetically, patted its butt, and let Youyou go to the deer herd.
The little master groaned and walked towards the deer herd with vigorous steps.
The deer were stunned at first, but finally recognized their leader and started eating the weeds on the ground.
Yingbao looked for a while, then turned to find Chuchu and handed her the things Chu Yan brought.
Niu Niu is already three years old and is older than Dali, the son of my eldest cousin.
"Niuniu, do you still recognize me?" Yingbao put the backpack on the ground and teased the little baby who was covered in mud.
Niuniu blinked her big eyes and suddenly called out, "Sister."
Yingbao laughed: "Call me auntie, little auntie!"
Niuniu called out obediently, "Auntie."
"Yes, I'm your aunt." Yingbao picked her up and took out a handkerchief to wipe her face.
I was too busy yesterday and didn't have time to see her. Today I happened to bring Chu Yan's things and bought two boxes of pastries for Niu Niu.
Not seeing Chuchu around, Yingbao asked, "Niuniu, why are you home alone? Where are your mother and brother?"
"Mom took my brother to do laundry." Niu Niu spoke clearly, her big eyes fixed on Yingbao.
Yingbao put her down and took her to wash her hands.
This Chuchu is really something. The little girl is so dirty, but he doesn’t even let her wash.
Soon the whole basin of water was washed black by Niu Niu, but her little hands were still not clean.
After using two basins of water, Niu Niu's little face and hands were finally clean. Yingbao put a piece of dessert in her hand and sat beside her to watch her eat.
Niu Niu ate very carefully and even imitated Yingbao by sitting on a small stool.
Yingbao said: "Niuniu can't play on the ground anymore, or she will get bugs in her stomach."
"Yeah!" Niu Niu nodded.
Yingbao picked up the Kongming lock from the ground and taught Niuniu how to disassemble it.
Niu Niu was very smart and learned it in no time. She stuffed the last bit of bean cake into her mouth and started to take it apart just like Yingbao did.
At this time, Chuchu came back carrying Heidan. She was very happy to see Yingbao. She put down the basket in her hand, hugged Yingbao, and started to hang clothes.
Yingbao also picked up the wet clothes, wrung them out, and hung them on the bamboo rack. "Sister Chuchu, I met Chu Yan, and he asked me to bring something to you."
Chu Chu paused and asked hurriedly: "What is Chu Yan doing now? Why doesn't he write to me?"
"He's not convenient." Yingbao hung up some clothes and pointed to a basket of things and said, "He asked me to give this to you."
In the basket there were cloth, two pairs of gold locks for children, two pairs of gold bracelets for children, two gold hairpins, a pair of large gold bracelets, and two hundred taels of silver.
Chuchu cried while holding her things. "No matter how inconvenient it is for him, he should at least let me know that he is safe. It's been several years, and he didn't say anything."
Chu Chu became furious when she remembered that Chu Yan went out with her husband's brother.
After crying for a while, she saw Heidan behind her start to howl, so she quickly put him down and held him to feed him.
Yingbao's face twitched when she saw Chuchu now looked like an unkempt country woman, sitting on a bench with her clothes lifted up to breastfeed her baby.
I don’t want children in the future and I won’t feed them milk.
Baby dolls and the like are so scary.
After leaving Chuchu's house, Niu Niu kept chasing after him, crying loudly.
Yingbao had no choice but to take her hand and take her with her.
Chuchu was busy with endless housework all day long, doing laundry, cooking, breastfeeding, and taking care of the vegetable garden. She also had to carry Heidan with her, so she neglected Niu Niu.
So most of the time Niu Niu plays alone.
Today, she finally met a young lady who was willing to play with her...her aunt, and she naturally became close to her.
Yingbao took Niuniu to the market outside the village and saw Chen Zhao as she wished.
She and her elder sister Chen Wan opened a food stall together, selling fried sugar cakes and pork wontons.
The wontons are filled with plenty of black pepper, vinegar and coriander, and the aroma spreads from miles away.
Chen Zhao was very happy to see Yingbao and waved to her, "Yingbao, come quickly! Try the wontons I made."
Yingbao took Niuniu over and sat down at the small table.
Looking around, I saw that after not seeing it for a month or two, there were several more stalls in the market, including a butcher's stall and a saddlery shop.
More and more people settled and built houses on the south slope, gradually spreading far away, and the market here was more lively than that in the town.
Apart from the drugstores, cloth shops and inns run by a few wealthy families in the town, there are a lot of stalls in the market here, selling all kinds of things.
There were also girls and wives from neighboring villages carrying baskets and selling embroidery on the roadside. They also brought small stools and embroidery frames and sat on the roadside to embroider on the spot.
"The wontons are ready." Chen Zhao brought a bowl of hot wontons to Yingbao and also brought a small bowl to Niu Niu.
Yingbao picked up the spoon and slowly stirred it to cool down. She asked Chen Zhao, "How is business?"
"Of course. My elder sister and I can earn 500 coins a day." Chen Zhao wiped his hands with his apron and said proudly, "If there is a market on the third, sixth, or ninth day, we can earn two coins a day."
Yingbao stirred the wontons in the small bowl until they cooled down before putting the spoon in Niu Niu's hand.
"Do your grandparents agree that you should continue doing business?"
"What can we do if she doesn't agree?" Chen Zhao snorted, "We don't give too much to the family."
After thinking about it, she complained to Yingbao: "Dad's expenses for studying in the county are getting higher and higher. I don't know where he spent all the money?"
After looking around to see if there were any outsiders around, Chen Zhao lowered his voice and asked, "Yingbao, tell me, how much does it cost per month to study in the county school?"
"I don't know." Yingbao started eating wontons and feeding Niu Niu at the same time.
Chen Zhao stared and said, "Isn't your brother Jiang Jie also studying in the county school? How could you not know?"
"Oh, you mean Jiang Jie. He doesn't spend much money. He can't even spend 500 Wen a month." Ying Bao told the truth.
My younger brother lived in the backyard of the shop and ate meals prepared by my aunt every day. Occasionally, he would go out to eat with his classmates, but the meal would never cost more than thirty cents.
As for pens, ink, paper and inkstone, they cost at most two or three hundred coins a month.
Of course, that was because he had wholesaled a lot of high-quality rice paper and pens and ink from the provincial capital, enough for Jiang Jie to use for several years.
"Oh! I told you, he took that woman to the county town, he's not a good student!" Chen Zhao wiped the table with a sackcloth angrily, "He spent ten taels a month. We worked hard to earn some money, but he spent it all on buying rouge and powder for his woman."
"Ah Zhao." Chen Wan glared at her sister disapprovingly: "Don't talk nonsense."
How can I tell outsiders about family matters, especially when the person I’m talking about is my own father
Chen Zhao said nonchalantly: "What nonsense am I talking about? Yingbao is not an outsider."
Yingbao fed Niu Niu a bite and ate a bite herself, and soon finished the wontons.
Putting down the wonton money, Ying Bao said, "My brother never had to take money from home to study. He was a student on government stipend, and he could receive four strings of cash a month, plus rice, vegetables, pork and mutton."
Chen Changping was just a fifth-class student and was not even qualified to take the provincial examination.
Not all students studying in the county school could take the imperial examination. Every three years, those who took the provincial examination were all students on government stipends.
Occasionally, there are students who take the exam, but they also need the approval of the county teacher. If the teacher thinks that your academic performance is not good enough, he will not issue you a certificate for the provincial examination.
Without the certificate, the county government will not allow you to register for the exam, nor will it provide travel expenses.
Therefore, if Chen Changping wants to enter the official career in this life, he will most likely have to find another way.
So, which daughter would he sacrifice to pave the way for him