Winter goes to spring and time passes without a sound.
After the Spring Festival, Chen Xiaocai clamored to return to Liuzhen to prepare for opening.
Lin Zhen's shop has been open all the time, and when the New Year is approaching, the sales are extremely hot, and Chen Xiaocai's eyes are extremely hot.
During the Chinese New Year, Chen Xiaomi called Chen Xiaocai into the house and told Chen Xiaocai that the shops in Lin Town and Liu Town were all their own, and there was no big boss behind them.
At first, Lu Lin felt that Chen Xiaocai was too young, so he didn't dare to tell Chen Xiaocai about it. However, Chen Xiaomi felt that his younger brother was already engaged and had been the shopkeeper for so long. Let me tell you about the side dishes.
Chen Xiaocai also vaguely guessed something, but after the guess was confirmed, she was still a little dizzy.
Chen Xiaomi told Chen Xiaocai that after two years, he and Shen Chi would officially get married, and they would transfer Liuzhen's house and shop to them.
Chen Xiaocai didn't expect her elder brother to mention this suddenly, she couldn't help but blushed, and repeatedly declined.
Chen Xiaocai also came from hard times, and he has a sense of urgency to make money. The same is true for Shen Chi. Shen Chi spent this winter with his mother-in-law in the town. The conditions in the town are much better. It's easy to sit and eat while eating rice, Chen Xiaocai said that he would open the shop earlier, which coincided with Shen Chi's idea.
Knowing that Chen Xiaocai was going to leave, Chen Xiaomi was a little bit reluctant, but she let her go.
When Chen Xiaolai arrived at the shop in Liu Town, he was very busy.
Shen Chi looked at Chen Xiaocai, and said with some doubts: "Xiaocai, are you happy?"
Looking at Chen Xiaocai's expression, Shen Chi always felt that Chen Xiaocai looked inexplicably excited.
Chen Xiaocai smiled, and said: "It's nothing, I just feel that it will be reopened soon, and I'm making money, so I'm a little happy."
Chen Xiaocai originally thought that the store belonged to others, and they were just helping others with their work, and they worked very hard. Now that she knew that the store was her own, her mood was different.
As the shopkeeper of the store, Chen Xiaocai naturally knew how much income was in the store. Chen Xiaocai made a rough estimate. The elder brother had hundreds of taels of silver in his hand, which always felt unreal.
Shen Chi nodded, and said: "Yes, open the business early and make money early."
During the New Year, Lu Lin made a lot of delicious food. Shen Chi felt that he shouldn't eat too much good food because he didn't work. However, the food that Big Brother Lu made was so delicious, especially the hot pot. When I first started eating, my mouth felt like it was on fire, but the more I ate, the more I wanted to eat it. If I was not careful, my stomach would always turn round.
Shen Chi often thinks about eating less for his next meal, but he can't control it.
Eating hot pot around the stove in winter, sweating, is really comfortable, Shen Chi vaguely felt that he seemed to be fat.
Thinking of grandma's worried expression, Shen Chi felt a little embarrassed.
Shen Chi scratched his head, thinking to himself: Let's eat less recently, if you eat too much fat, it won't be good.
Chen Xiaocai glanced at the wandering Shen Chi, and said, "A Chi, what are you thinking?"
Shen Chi blushed, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing."
As soon as Chen Xiaolai's store was opened, it ushered in a wave of enthusiasm. Linzhen's store has been open, so the business in the store has been relatively stable. Liuzhen is different. Chen Xiaocai closed the store. People here want to buy things but there is nowhere to buy them. When the shop opens, customers flock to it.
Chen Xiaocai didn't expect such a good thing to happen as soon as it opened, and couldn't help being excited. The two of them worked hard all day, and it wasn't until evening that fewer people came to buy dolls.
Lu family.
Tang Shi looked at the girl Li Fangyue was holding in her arms, and said unhappily, "Why is this girl crying all the time?"
"I can't eat enough, so I'm crying."
Tang looked at Li Fangyue unhappily, and said: "Eat so many good things, and don't give birth to milk, it really ate into the dog's stomach.
Li Fangyue was annoyed by Tang's scolding, and she didn't know what was going on, but she couldn't breastfeed, so she could only starve the girl. Lin Xiu'er should be able to help with the milk, but every time she opened her mouth, she was blocked back, saying that she still had to feed her son, and his son didn't have enough to eat.
Li Fangyue could only carry her out, begging others to feed her, and occasionally secretly cook some millet porridge to deal with it. That's it. Every time the old lady saw her, she would always say that she was a waste, scolded her for giving birth to a girl, and was coquettish.
Shuang'er has no milk. After some twins have babies, they can only take them out and ask other nannies to help feed them. Tang Shi is also very curious about how Chen Xiaomi takes care of the baby.
From the people who often went to the town, Tang found out that Chen Xiaomi hired a nanny, but this was not enough, so he bought three ewes at once.
This ewe will pay back a few hundred cash, and the three ewes will cost at least one or two taels of silver.
Tang felt that Chen Xiaomi was too arrogant. Even if Chen Xiaomi had saved the life of the owner of the house in the town, but he raised sheep and took in a group of strange people in the house. It must be going crazy.
After the beginning of spring, the Lu family got busy. Tang urged Li Fangyue to take a walk around. Li Fangyue couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
His father also approached his elder sister and asked her to help her, but the elder sister said that the imperial court was very strict about the imperial examination, and that if this favoritism and fraud were caught, they would be beheaded. It is useless for the people above to come down to invigilate the exam, even if they have the connections of the county magistrate, not to mention that the brother-in-law is just a master.
There are so many rich sons in the town, if they really want to get acquainted with each other, it will not be Lu Chengyu's turn. The Lu family is not bad in the countryside, but it is too far behind the families in the town.
However, Li Fangyue thought so in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out. The Lu family spent a lot of money to marry her just for Lu Chengyu's fame. In the current situation, if people know that she is useless, I don't know how to live in the future. Li Fangyue can only hope that Lu Chengyu has the ability to pass the examination as a scholar.
Li Fangyue's heart was full of regrets. Back then, she only saw that Lu Chengyu was willing to pay the dowry and got married because of her good looks, but she didn't expect her life to be like this after marriage.
The old lady is domineering, and her mother-in-law is not a good person, and her uncle and aunt give her eye drops everywhere.
After the beginning of spring, there were more shops selling dolls in the town, but Lu Lin's shop had the most types of dolls, the most novel styles, and the best things to sell.
Although Lu Lin has always felt that the store should take a high-end route, but from time to time, he will also conduct some discount promotions, so that the business in the store will be even better.
After a winter, Yuan Bao can already swing his arms and legs.
Lu Lin always felt that his baby was stronger than children of the same age, especially when swinging his legs and feet.
Yuan Bao doesn't know how to crawl yet, but occasionally when he's on his stomach, he can raise his head up for a little while. Lu Lin feels that his son's eyes are very sharp when he raises his head up, which means that his eyes are like lightning, but because he is wearing a diaper No matter how sharp the eyes are, there is no deterrent effect.
The business in Lu Lin's store has been very stable since it got on the right track.
Unknowingly, Lu Lin and Chen Xiaomi's net worth gradually increased to 1,300 taels. Lu Lin finally realized the benefits of being an "intellectual".
Chen Xiaomi carefully stored the money, "The money is still a little short."
Lu Lin held his chin and said, "Yes! It's still a little bit worse to buy an official." Although it is possible to buy an official in this era, most of them are in some barbarian lands. You can buy it in a chaotic place, and you need a lot of money. Otherwise, it will be messed up. If the officials can buy it casually, it will put the face of the students.
Chen Xiaomi glanced at Lu Lin and found that Lu Lin was still very persistent in buying an official.
"The matter of buying an official still needs a long-term plan."
Lu Lin nodded, thinking to himself: Take your time, he and Chen Xiaomi are not very old, and there is still plenty of time. In his previous life, he was at this age and was still dawdling in school. But now, at this age, he already has a wife, a son, a house, and a shop. He can be regarded as the Ying family for half of his life. Lu Lin is still very satisfied with his current life.
After the weather warmed up, the town became lively and the school reopened.
The matter of the spring examination has once again become a hot topic in the streets and alleys.
Lu Lin also launched a rooster doll in the store. There are many dolls in Lu Lin's store, but the rooster doll is the one that came to mind recently.
As the saying goes, when the rooster sings, the world will be bright, the rooster will crow, and the light will come. The rooster symbolizes the imperial examination high school.
Although Lu Lin thought it was weird that the people here regarded the rooster as the mascot of high school, he still made a lot of dolls. As soon as the doll was released, it was sold out.
Many students and their families like to buy a rooster doll to offer at home. Lu Lin once again experienced the madness of the ancients for imperial examinations.
Yang Hengzhi went to Lu Lin and said, "Young Master Lin, the business is good!"
Lu Lin hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "TOEFL TOEFL."
"Young Master Lin, this brain is useless!"
However, there are some people who feel that it is a bit of a joke to pin their high school hopes on a doll. However, as far as Yang Hengzhi knows, some people look down on the rooster doll on the surface, but secretly let their family members come to buy it.
The popularity of the rooster doll in the store was beyond Lu Lin's expectations. This doll is so popular that Lu Lin has recently considered replacing the treasure of the shop with a big rooster. The female worker started to do it.
"This imperial examination is a major event, and it has to keep pace with the times."
Yang Hengzhi smiled and said, "Young Master Lu has a heart."
The treasure of the store, the big rooster, was spotted by several veterans as soon as it appeared.
On the day the big rooster doll was put out, there was an outsider who offered to buy it for thirty taels.
The treasure of the shop in the store, not long after it opened, sold one for thirty taels.
Afterwards, some people also fell in love with the treasures of the shop displayed in the store. However, the people who fell in love usually bid only a dozen or so taels. Before, a big tiger doll was paid for three dollars by a tiger-loving staff member. Shiliang bought it, but the doll had been hanging out for more than half a month before it was bought.
The rooster doll is different, as soon as it was posted, someone immediately expressed their desire to buy it.
In addition to the few members who came over after hearing the wind, there was also a bidding situation.
Lu Lin can only sigh, pity the hearts of the parents in the world, the son and grandson of this family are going to be assessed, and the old man can't help much, so he can only go some sideways.
After the big rooster appeared in the store, its value continued to rise, and it was finally bought by a rich and powerful veteran for fifty taels of silver.
Lu Lin couldn't help being a little excited to get fifty taels of silver all at once.
"It's strange that there are rich people!" Chen Xiaomi held fifty taels of silver, and he couldn't understand the thoughts of these people in the town.
Lu Lin smiled and said, "It doesn't matter what they think, as long as they are willing to spend money, that's enough."
Chen Xiaomi: "..." In this way, it seems correct.
"Lu Chengyu, it's time for another science test!" Chen Xiaomi said
Lu Lin nodded and said, "Yes!"
Chen Xiaomi curled her lips and said, "Chen Jing can't pass the exam, but with Lu Chengyu, it's still possible."
Lu Lin rolled his eyes and said, "That's not good."
Yang Hengzhi, the young master of the Yang family, was admitted as a scholar only two years ago. Yang Hengzhi was only a few years old, and the family invited a private school teacher to teach him.
Chen Xiaomi held her chin and said, "Last year, Tang made a guarantee that Lu Chengyu would win this year. If he doesn't win, Li's girl will have a hard time."
Lu Lin rolled his eyes. He had asked Yang Hengzhi recently, and Yang Hengzhi told Lu Lin that the relationship between the chief registrar and the county magistrate was mediocre, and it was impossible for the registrar to influence the imperial examination because of the registrar's face. Even if the relationship between the chief registrar and the county magistrate is good, it is impossible to influence the imperial examination. It seems that people from the Futai came to arrange the imperial examination.