After the two walked away, Xinghui said happily: "Sister, Shen Zhiyuan's face turned black just now, he was so angry."
Xing Nong: "What's that? If you pass the exam to become a scholar, juren, or jinshi, he will be even more angry."
Xinghui: “…”
Does his sister think too highly of him
"Sister, do you know that it costs a lot of money to take the exam for a scholar?"
Xing Nong didn't care much and asked, "How much?"
"If you want someone to write a letter of recommendation, you need to give gifts and you also need to pay for the exam. It costs at least one or two taels of silver. This is just for the scholar. The juren have to go to the provincial capital to take the exam, and the accommodation and food will cost more money."
Xing Nong: “Oh.”
Xinghui: “…”
What kind of reaction is this
If I didn't know, I would have thought that their family had a lot of silver and would not take a tael of silver seriously.
God knows that their family’s savings never exceeded five hundred coins.
Xinghui was speechless. Forget it. He should review his lessons and earn more money in the future to show his sister.
The journey was quite far and would take nearly an hour. Xinghui seized the time to finish his complicated homework, muttering to himself.
I just calculated it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.
Xing Nong: "Twenty-three pheasants, one-twelve rabbits."
Xinghui was stunned for a moment, "What?"
"Now there are pheasants and rabbits in the same cage, with thirty-five pheasants on top and ninety-four rabbits below. Question: How many pheasants and rabbits are there? The answer is twenty-three pheasants and twelve rabbits. Put thirty-five pheasants on top,..." Xingnong stated the question and algorithm he had just answered.
This is a question from Sun Zi's Mathematical Classic, which she had learned when she was four years old.
After listening to this, Xinghui checked it in his mind, and it was true!
Xinghui was extremely surprised: "Sister, how can you do this math problem?"
In the past, arithmetic was not tested in the imperial examinations of the State of Chu. However, this year the imperial court has made new rules, and starting from the spring examination next year, arithmetic will be tested in the imperial examinations.
The students in the academy had only just started learning arithmetic and no one could figure it out, so how could she
Xing Nong blinked her beautiful fox eyes and said, "I see you doing the questions on the ground outside your house every day. I will learn it after seeing it many times."
Xinghui: “… .”
Is this okay
He did teach her simple arithmetic because she sometimes went to the market to sell things and he was afraid she would be cheated.
But he didn't teach her the other things, and he didn't know how to do many of them. She just watched herself do them, and that's how she learned them
Xinghui gave Xingnong a few more arithmetic problems that he had solved before.
Xing Nong answered them all, and had the answers instantly.
Xinghui: “… .”
He thought he was very smart and could learn things quickly, but now he was beginning to doubt his life.
When Xinghui was doubting his life, Xingnong was also thinking, this child is not good at arithmetic! I will help him improve it later.
As they walked, Xingnong saw a hunchbacked old man pulling a cart of blue bricks, struggling to get from the small path to the official road.
Xingnong immediately went forward to help push the cart.
Xinghui also ran over to help.
The old man who was pulling the cart easily climbed the slope and entered the official road. He hurriedly thanked them, "Thank you. I'm fine. I still have strength. Are you going to the city to sell chickens? Go quickly. Don't worry about me. Go into the city early to get a good spot."
"No rush." Xing Nong continued pushing.
Xinghui: "Are you going into the city? We are on the way, we are not in a hurry."
"That's not right. I can do it myself." No matter what the old man said, the two of them were pushing him from behind, so he hardly had to use any strength and could only thank them repeatedly.
A gorgeous carriage made of rosewood happened to pass by and saw all this.
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Half an hour later, they arrived at the county town. Xingnong and Xinghui helped push the cart to the destination, and then parted ways with the two old people expressing their gratitude. Xinghui returned to the academy, and Xingnong went to sell chickens.
Xingnong found the largest restaurant and walked up.
This restaurant has a good reputation, even the original owner has heard of it, but she didn't dare to get close.
It was still early and there were no customers. The owner of the restaurant saw her, came up to her and asked politely, "Miss, are you here to sell old hens?"
Although the restaurant has a special farm for raising chickens, they will still accept good chickens sent by villagers, after all, the restaurant business is good.
Xing Nong nodded and said, "Could you please tell me how much this chicken can be sold for?"
"Let me see how heavy it is." The shopkeeper took out a scale and started weighing the chicken.
"This old hen looks good. It weighs 5.9 jin, 25 wen per jin. If it weighs 6 jin, how about 150 wen for you?"
25 cents is the best price. Generally, the price of an old hen is between 23 and 25 cents.
If you meet a mean person, you will only give 23 cents per pound, but this restaurant has always been fair to everyone.
"Okay." Xing Nong nodded.
The shopkeeper took out a string of money and gave half a string to Xingnong.
"Thank you, shopkeeper." Xingnong took it and put it into his pocket without counting it.
"Boss, would you like to buy recipes for the restaurant?"
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then smiled and said, "I'm sorry, our restaurant has a special chef who studies dishes. I can't afford to offend that chef! I dare not buy recipes from outside."
Xing Nong nodded: "Goodbye."
The shopkeeper didn't expect that she didn't say anything. Instead, he was very tactful and said with a smile, "Go away, young lady. If you have any old hens or other good mountain products in the future, you can bring them to sell."
"Okay." Xingnong responded.
The shopkeeper personally escorted Xing Nong out of the restaurant, and then took the chicken to the kitchen for his tigress, waiting for the master to come and stew him in soup to nourish his body. It is rare to raise an old hen for so many years.
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Xing Nong walked out of the reception building and originally planned to find a restaurant that was hiring chefs to sell recipes to make some money. However, when she passed by the study, she saw a wooden sign outside the door saying that they were purchasing a large number of various storybooks.
Seeing this, she couldn't help but walk in.
There were many people dressed like scholars in the study. When they saw her walk in with tattered clothes, they all looked at her in surprise. Some even had disgust in their eyes, and walked deeper into the room while holding their books and covering their noses.
Someone even shouted, "Boss, beggars have run into the study, why don't you send them away? They are disturbing my son's reading!"
Someone said loudly: "A guest is a guest, and scholars should be more polite!"
"Shut up, young master!"
Then no one spoke.
Poor families cannot afford to go to school, so people who come to the study are generally from wealthy families. Their clothes are all bright and beautiful, and even if they are not, they are not patched.
Xingnong was a woman, and such a person had never entered the study before.
The shopkeeper was an old man in his fifties or sixties, with a scholarly air and extraordinary bearing. He did not show any surprise on his face. He stood up and said politely, "What do you need, young lady?"
Xing Nong stood there calmly and calmly, and said, "Pointing at the sign at the door, are the scripts accepted here?"
"Yes, young lady, what kind of storybook do you have? I'll decide the price after I've read the story."
"Can I write here? There is no pen, ink, paper or inkstone at home." Xingnong said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
"Pfft." A few laughs came from the study.
I've never seen this before!
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Please follow me, young lady."
He brought Xingnong into a small study room, which was specially used for people who wrote and copied books.
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Two hours later, it was already lunch time and there were no other guests in the academy.
The shopkeeper changed from his gentle and polite demeanor to a bookish one. After warmly seeing Xing Nong off, he hurried back, holding a thick stack of storybooks. He was overjoyed and couldn't let go of them. He was excited, yet carefully flipping through them!
Wonderful!
Wonderful!
After a long time, he touched the words on it, which were unrestrained, natural and charming, and free and easy yet swaying!
Even if this calligraphy is not sold in storybooks, it will definitely sell well if it is made into a copybook!
Make a fortune!
Make a fortune!