Li Qingzhi and Jin Xiaoye bought two shops together.
Jin Xiaoye wanted to buy a few more, but shops were in great demand in the provincial capital, and people who owned shops would not sell them without special circumstances. If it weren't for Zhu Qian's help, she wouldn't have been able to buy even two.
Both shops are very small, but fortunately you don’t need a big shop to sell braised food, a small shop is enough!
Jin Xiaoye had already talked to the owners of the two shops, so she and Li Qingzhi spent just one day to buy the shops and even went to the government office to register them.
After completing this matter, Jin Xiaoye breathed a sigh of relief. The next day, she took her two children and returned to Chongcheng County with Zhu Qian.
Li Qingzhi and Zhu Xunmiao still stayed in the provincial capital. While communicating with the literati in the provincial capital, Li Qingzhi tidied up the two shops.
In addition to choosing a shop some time ago, Jin Xiaoye also hired two young people through an introduction to help sell braised food.
From then on, Jueweizhai would send a shipload of braised food to the provincial capital every day, which would be sold by these two young men, and Jin Xiaoshu would go to the provincial capital once every two weeks to settle accounts with them and get the money.
Jin Xiaoye will sell the braised food to them at a higher price, and the shipping cost and shop rent are all included in the price of the braised food. They can then sell the braised food at a slightly higher price, and the money earned is theirs.
These two young men were introduced by someone Zhu Qian knew in the provincial capital. One of them had studied for a few years but stopped studying because he had no talent. The other used to be a waiter in a restaurant, but didn't want to continue working as a waiter, so he volunteered to help look after the shop.
Li Qingzhi met both of these people and chatted with them. He found that the former was quite down-to-earth and the latter was a little cunning, but neither of them was a bad person and could be trusted.
Anyway, if they don't do business well one day, they can just replace them.
While Li Qingzhi was busy, Cheng Xuezheng and the examiners of the college examination were looking at the candidates' papers.
Those papers with poorly written articles and bad handwriting were picked out and put aside at the beginning, and everyone started to look at those papers that were relatively good.
Among all the papers, there was one that was recognized by almost everyone.
“This is a good article.”
"An essay like this would pass even the provincial examination!"
“This is really outstanding!”
“I can’t even write words like this!”
…
After everyone had praised it, they asked Principal Zhou, "Is this Li Zixiao's paper?"
Director Zhou was very proud: "This is his paper!" Although the name was blurred, there was no way he could not recognize Li Qingzhi's handwriting!
And this article by Li Qingzhi... It’s really well written!
Li Qingzhi's progress seemed too fast to Zhou Shanchang. A few months ago, he wrote
The article is still some distance away from being included in the "Anjiang Collection", but now... the articles he wrote during the college entrance examination can all be included in the "Anjiang Collection"!
"Someone actually said before that you were a ghostwriter for him. That's nonsense." someone said.
They all know Mr. Zhou and are aware of his abilities, but Mr. Zhou may not be able to write such an article!
And this character... Mr. Zhou's handwriting is pretty good, but a little worse than Li Qingzhi's.
This article not only has beautiful handwriting, but there is no mistake or omission in the entire article. Each word is arranged just right, and it is particularly pleasing to the eye.