What did they hear?

Xu Huaiqian is going to take the imperial examination?

The method of burning charcoal was also thought up by Xu Huaiqian?

The villagers were still shocked that Xu Huaiqian had grown up to be so handsome and didn’t look like a country bumpkin at all. Suddenly, the two bombs thrown by Chen Liejiu made their heads buzz.

How is this possible?

Xu Huaiqian has only been studying in the academy for a short time and he is going to take the imperial examination. Can he pass?

And the method of burning charcoal. He is a sickly person who probably hasn’t even been to the kitchen to know what charcoal looks like? How can he come up with this method of burning charcoal?

 They rubbed their ears, suspecting that they had misheard, and asked Chen Liejiu for confirmation: “Liejiu ger, you just said that Mr. Xu is going to take the imperial examination? The method of burning charcoal was also thought up by Mr. Xu, right?”

“We will leave for the capital in two days, can I still lie to you?” Seeing their shocked, unbelievable, and completely confused expressions, Chen Liejiu curled his lips complacently, “As for the method of burning charcoal, how can I, a country ger, have this ability?”

“Only my husband, who has read books and has a smart head, can think of these ways to make money.”

Don’t think that he doesn’t hang around in the village for a day that he doesn’t know what gossip is circulating in the village?

They say that his husband is stupid and can’t study; that he is spineless and lives off his wife; that he is sick and ugly, and he will be disliked by him, etc.

 It was so funny. He could talk about Xu Huaiqian’s goodness and intelligence for three days. How could he possibly dislike him?

If he had to dislike someone, he should have been the one to do it.

However, his vision was too good. Not only did he pick a man who was one in a million, but this man was also obsessed with him, a bully.

If Xu Huaiqian hadn’t been studying in the academy, Chen Liejiu would have wanted to bring Xu Huaiqian to the village to show off.

He was not what they said he was.

Oh my God!

The charcoal burning method was really thought up by Xu Huaiqian!

The villagers were not very interested in Xu Huaiqian’s imperial examination. Studying was too far away from them. They were more concerned about who came up with the charcoal burning method. After hearing Chen Liejiu admit that it was Xu Huaiqian who came up with it, they were completely shocked by the news.

 Chen Liejiu has been escorting outside for many years. His knowledge and courage are different from those of the villagers. Although people scold him, they never deny his ability.

Who is Xu Huaiqian?

Except for studying in the school for a few years, he was too sick to go out on weekdays. Only when he passed the examination for Tongsheng did they feel surprised. It seems that he has no other talents.

Suddenly, he can hatch chicks and burn charcoal. Ways to make money come one after another. Why do they feel it is so unreal?

Especially Ma Cuifen, who often came into contact with Xu Huaiqian in the past, felt this unreality particularly strongly. She would never believe that Xu Huaiqian, a sickly boy, had such ability.

 She looked at Xu Huaiqian’s face, which was completely different from the Xu Huaiqian in her memory, and said with a complicated expression: “You have these skills, why didn’t you show them when your parents were still alive?”

As the old saying goes, you can tell a person’s future from his childhood. Xu Huaiqian was a delicate and sickly child when he was young. He was always sick. His family spent money like water to buy medicine for him, but he didn’t make any contribution to the family.

How come he can do this and that as soon as his parents passed away? Wouldn’t her second brother and his wife die with regret?

She’s seen people being slapped in the face!

She’s never seen people being slapped in the face for trying to get ahead!

Ma Cuifen’s voice attracted Xu Huaiqian’s attention. He still had the last bit of memory of the original owner. As soon as he saw Ma Cuifen’s face, he recognized her as the original owner’s aunt.

 After the original owner was kidnapped by Chen Liejiu, the sharp-tongued woman personally went to the original owner and said to him: “Your parents are dead, and you are a burden to us. Since Chen Liejiu likes you, you can follow him. It’s just right for your parents’ funeral. We also paid ten taels for you. You can consider it as paying back our silver.”

After hearing this, the original owner lost his temper. While the two men guarding him were not paying attention, he walked to the river and dived into it.

Although it was not cold in April, the water in the river was still icy. He was weak and died immediately. Then Xu Huaiqian came through. Chen Liejiu, who came after hearing the news, pulled him out of the water, gave him artificial respiration, and rescued him. He invited a doctor to treat him. Fearing that he would still want to commit suicide after waking up, he invited the matchmaker Hong to persuade him.

 His original words were to ask the matchmaker to persuade him not to commit suicide, because death is worse than a miserable life, but the matchmaker misunderstood the point and said that marrying into his family would be better than dying.

Xu Huaiqian and Chen Liejiu didn’t know about the following events. Anyway, when Xu Huaiqian saw Ma Cuifen, he thought of the scene where the original owner resolutely jumped into the river after hearing her words.

Just now, his wife didn’t hesitate to call him stupid in order to clear his name, and now Ma Cuifen jumped out to question him again. If Xu Huaiqian didn’t slap her face, he would be sorry for the original owner and his wife.

 He smiled bitterly at everyone: “To be honest, before my parents passed away, I really didn’t think about generating income for the family. I only focused on my studies, thinking that passing the imperial examination would bring honor to the family and reduce the burden on my parents.”

He paused here, his eyes reddened, as if he was about to cry: “But fate is so cruel, I never thought that my parents would die so suddenly. If I had known this, I would rather not study and not take the imperial examination.”

“But it has happened, what can I do? I can only think about it day and night, if my family had money, my parents would not go up the mountain to collect firewood and be killed by that hungry wolf…”

Xu Huaiqian said this, and a crystal tear fell from his right eye.

 It is said that men do not shed tears easily, but they do so when they are sad. Those with shallow tear glands were immediately moved to tears by him. What a sensible and obedient child he was. After his parents passed away, he lived in self-blame despite his poor health, coughing up blood while thinking about ways to make money.

… they feel so pitiful just thinking about it.

“One day I figured out a method of hatching chicks and burning charcoal from a book, and took eggs and charcoal to my uncle’s house to discuss it, thinking that he was my only relative. Who else could I rely on if not him, but I didn’t expect to be…”

Xu Huaiqian couldn’t say any more, so he stopped talking.

What else do they not understand after hearing this? This is what Xu Huaiqian worked hard to come up with. Ma Cuifen has done too many evil things, and always thinks the worst of people.

Now it’s good, she has reaped the consequences.

If she didn’t take her nephew out to pay off the debt, wouldn’t the method of hatching chicks and burning charcoal belong to her family…

When everyone thought about it, they didn’t know whether to say Ma Cuifen was pitiful or hateful.

 Ma Cuifen didn’t know what others thought. She recalled over and over again that Xu Huaiqian seemed to have brought something to the door on the day he was grabbed by Chen Liejiu. As for what he brought, she couldn’t remember clearly. At that time, the whole family was busy arguing with Chen Liejiu, so how could they remember anything else?

If Xu Huaiqian really came to his uncle’s house to discuss the method of burning charcoal and hatching chicks, then she and her son pushed him to become a married in husband to pay off the debt, wouldn’t it be pushing the God of Wealth out of the door…

Ma Cuifen thought that the method of hatching chicks alone could earn several taels a month, not to mention the charcoal burning method that was as valuable as a mountain of silver.

She gave them all away.

Instantly, she choked on a mouthful of old blood in her heart. She couldn’t swallow it, and she couldn’t spit it out. She felt uncomfortable.

As the saying goes, killing someone cuts the heart.

 Xu Huaiqian was trying to kill the heart of the eldest wife of the Xu family. That day, the original owner did take some things to the eldest wife of the Xu family to thank the eldest uncle’s family for handling the funeral for his parents, and wanted to ask the eldest uncle tactfully what he should do in the future?

He didn’t have the idea of ​​asking his uncle to support him, but he was a 17-year-old who had been weak since childhood and had never been exposed to the outside world. He didn’t know how to deal with such a big change, and wanted his uncle to show him a way out.

Unexpectedly, he was given to Chen Liejiu by the eldest uncle’s family…

In fact, the things the original owner took were not eggs and coal, but people’s hearts would always be suspicious, especially those who had a confused memory of that day. After Xu Huaiqian deepened their memory, they would always recall the events of that day with suspicion, and thus become more certain.

 As expected, after he finished speaking, Ma Cuifen’s face turned into a darker and darker color than before…

No one cared about her. After listening to Xu Huaiqian’s words, someone noticed that Xu Huaiqian said that the methods of hatching chicks and burning charcoal were all from a book, and asked curiously: “Is that book so magical? The method of hatching chicks by burning charcoal is in it?”

“Yes!” Xu Huaiqian did not expect that his performance would attract several people who were curious about reading. They nodded immediately, “This book not only teaches people to study, but also teaches people to cook, cure diseases, farm, and other various ways to make money. As long as you have read books and know how to read, you can buy it and study it yourself.”

This world is not only has books for imperial examinations, there are also recipes, medical books, etc., as long as you look carefully in the bookstore, you can always find them.

Looking at Xinghua Village, he is the only one who went to school to study. You will know that the knowledge of the masses here is extremely low. It’s not that everyone can’t afford to send their children to school, but that they don’t have the idea of ​​sending their children to school. 

Now that he has broken this idea, the villagers are dumbfounded. They only knew that studying is good before, but they didn’t know what is good about it.

It’s called taking the imperial examination, but how many people in the world can pass the imperial examination? How can they, the country kids, be so smart to take the imperial examination?

Now when they heard Xu Huaiqian say this, they suddenly thought that if they let their children go to school and learn to read, they could buy a recipe book or a medical book that Xu Huaiqian mentioned and think about it. Can they also do some business like Xu Huaiqian, such as hatching chicks and burning charcoal, to benefit their family?

No wonder the tuition fees for studying in the academy are much higher than those for studying in the school, and Chen Liejiu sent Xu Huaiqian to study without blinking an eye.

Now they understand that if there is a scholar in his family who can find this way to make money from books like Xu Huaiqian, they will support him to continue studying no matter how much money it costs.

 At this moment, the villagers envied Xu Huaiqian for marrying into Chen Liejiu’s family and envied Chen Liejiu for finding Xu Huaiqian as his husband.

Fortunately, they also have a boy in their family, and it seems not too late to go back to the head of the family to discuss it.

When everyone came to their senses and wanted to go home to discuss it, they found that there was actually a person lying on the ground. It was Ma Cuifen who had fainted at some point, and they shouted.

“Oh, how did Fugui faint!”

Xu Huaiqian, who was sitting on the ox cart and had not walked far away, curled his lips when he heard this.

What’s the point of being angry with others? Being angry with yourself is the most annoying! With what he said today, as long as he takes the original owner’s body and gets better, the more Ma Cuifen will recall his words, and the more painful it will be.

“Ah Qian.”

“Mm.” Xu Huaiqian was thinking, and Chen Liejiu suddenly called him. He turned his head and responded.

 Chen Liejiu reached out and wiped his right face, where there was still a trace of tears.

He said: “Don’t cry, you still have me.”

Did he think that what he just said was true?

Xu Huaiqian was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: “Mm.” He really only had Chen Liejiu.

Because the smoke and dust from burning charcoal was large, it had to be kept secret. The production method of the kiln was also simple and could be seen through at a glance. In a few days, everyone knew about it. How could they make money?

Therefore, when choosing a site, Chen Liejiu and the people of the Chen clan chose the West Mountain, which was far away from the village. This was the entrance to the village. People who were on guard on the mountain could see clearly, which was very helpful for them to keep secrets.

But there were also disadvantages, that is, it was a bit far from the village, even for Chen Liejiu. After all, Xu Huaiqian was not at home, and he was too lazy to go home. He lived directly on the mountain, and it didn’t matter whether it was far or not.

Due to the need to deliver charcoal, the road into the mountain had long been trampled by ox carts. When Xu Huaiqian entered the mountain in the ox cart driven by Chen Liejiu, he did not feel it was very bumpy.

But when he jumped off the ox cart and looked at the entire busy super-large charcoal kiln group, he was surprised: “Is this the charcoal kiln you made? So big? So many?”

“Yes.” Chen Liejiu did not take Xu Huaiqian closer, fearing that he could not breathe such a strong smell of smoke and dust. He stood there, looking at the thick smoke on the smoke duct of the wood kiln from a distance, and said to Xu Huaiqian proudly, “I found that it takes not long to burn a kiln of charcoal, but it takes a long time to cool a kiln of charcoal, so I just made more bigger kilns.”

It would take them a long time to sell charcoal, then wouldn’t they make no money all year round? It would be better to dig more kilns and stagger the cooling and forming time one by one. Wouldn’t it be guaranteed that there would be charcoal out of the kiln every day?

 Anyway, the Chen clan has been rooted here for so many years. There is nothing else, but there are plenty of mountains. What is there to be afraid of?

Charcoal is a consumable. It is not like you will not use it after you buy it. No matter how much you have, you can sell it all!

“My Ah Jiu is so smart!” Xu Huaiqian did not hesitate to praise his wife, but he looked around and saw that the place where the smoke was thick was bare and only the wood piles after the wood was cut down were left.

His damn occupational disease of paying attention to environmental pollution and afforestation came back again. He couldn’t help but say to Chen Liejiu: “But you can’t just cut down trees without planting. There are many trees in the mountains now, but your kiln is not small. If you cut them down without restraint, there will be no trees to cut in a few years.”

Even if there are no stable tree roots on the mountain, it is very likely that there will be landslides. Here, it is said that it is far from the mountain, but once a landslide occurs, the surrounding villages will be finished.

 Chen Liejiu, who had just raised his lips after being praised by Xu Huaiqian again, thought about it for a while, and nodded in agreement, saying, “You make sense. I will go to the elders of the tribe later and ask them to organize people to replant new saplings in the places where the trees have been cut down.”

Xu Huaiqian saw that he had listened to him, so he said no more. He took two steps forward and wanted to get closer to see the charcoal kiln, but was stopped by Chen Liejiu: “The charcoal kiln has a lot of smoke. You are weak, so just watch from a distance. Don’t get close.”

As he said this, he thought that Xu Huaiqian was only seventeen years old this year. He was detained at home every day before and had never been anywhere. Even if he knew many new methods, they were all from books or his own thinking. He had not seen many new things himself.

 He took his hand and led him to the path beside: “Don’t go to the big kiln to suffer. I can take you to the small kiln to have fun.”

“Okay.” Xu Huaiqian let Chen Liejiu lead his hand to the forest path, smiling happily. Why did he feel like he was being dragged by his wife to go on a date.

The two of them went to the small kiln. The so-called small kiln was actually not small. It could burn about one or two thousand kilograms at a time. It couldn’t be compared with the big kiln, but it was not bad.

When Xu Huaiqian arrived, several people were taking coal out of the kiln.. When they saw Chen Liejiu coming, they stopped their work and shouted, “Boss!”

Although many of them looked bigger than Chen Liejiu, it didn’t stop them from calling Chen Liejiu the boss.

There was no other way. Chen Liejiu was too capable. He said he would let them make money, so he let them make money. Looking at the charcoal in the kilns, they were as happy as looking at bags of silver.

 Not to mention asking them to call Chen Liejiu “Boss”, they would be willing to call him “Dad”!

This father who gave them silver was better than their biological father!

After all, their biological father didn’t have much ability, otherwise he wouldn’t have let them keep wandering in the fields and being poor for generations.

“Mm,” in front of outsiders, Chen Liejiu was not as relaxed as in front of Xu Huaiqian. He responded lightly, pulled Xu Huaiqian in front of them, and introduced him without any embarrassment: “My husband, you can just call him second brother!”

“Hello, second brother!” Everyone called Xu Huaiqian and looked at him with curiosity.

Everyone knew that Chen Liejiu had taken a sickly boy home as a husband, but no one knew what this sickly boy looked like. After all, the Chen clan circled around several villages, and they were not all nesting in Xinghua Village.

They thought, as sickly person, he must be sick and have a sad face, full of hatred and bitterness. There was nothing good to look at.

But the Xu Huaiqian they saw at this moment was very different from the Xu Huaiqian they thought of in their hearts.

How could he be a sickly person?

He was clearly a sick beauty!

He was a little thin, but his temperament looked different from people like them who came from the farmland, not to mention that his face was really handsome.

If he was a young lady, they didn’t know how gorgeous he would be.

It’s no wonder that Chen Liejiu went to collect the debt and took the person back after taking a look. If they were Chen Liejiu, they would also want to take such a sick beauty home to raise.

It’s delicious to look at!

“Hello!” He was called and looked at by a group of burly men but Xu Huaiqian didn’t rush. They were all men, so what if they asked him to look at them twice?

 Besides, he is their big brother’s man!

As the big brother’s man, he cannot bring shame to the big brother!

Sure enough, he was so calm that everyone who looked at him nodded secretly. He was still a man.

Xu Huaiqian visited their charcoal kiln and saw that the carts pulling ox carts were all filled with black charcoal. He asked casually, “Don’t you burn white charcoal?”

He remembered that white charcoal was more durable than black charcoal and more valuable.

Hearing this, Chen Liejiu turned his head and looked at him blankly, “What is white charcoal?”

“It is charcoal that is a little grayer than black charcoal. It’s more durable and smokeless.” Xu Huaiqian explained.

 Chen Liejiu shook his head: “Never heard of it.”

It’s not that he hadn’t heard of it, but this kind of charcoal was generally only supplied to the palace or wealthy families in the capital. There was very little circulation on the market, and only medical clinics had some for use as medicine. Of course, a small place like Mishan County would not have it, and even if it did, no one could afford it.

“Why don’t we burn some of this charcoal and try it out?” Xu Huaiqian suggested to Chen Liejiu.

He knew less about this world than Chen Liejiu. He didn’t know whether this world didn’t have this kind of charcoal, or whether it did, but it was not circulated in small places.

Thinking that the family would need charcoal in winter anyway, it would be better to burn a kiln of this kind of charcoal for their own use.

Using good charcoal is safer than using inferior charcoal. The family is not short of money now, so why should he wrong himself to save money.

Besides, he just said in front of the villagers that this method of burning charcoal was his idea. Although Chen Liejiu also said that it was his idea, he felt that he just made a suggestion, and the credit still belonged to Chen Liejiu. He always felt that he had made up his mind.

“Okay.” When Chen Liejiu heard Xu Huaiqian say that white charcoal was better than black charcoal, he agreed without thinking. Since this kind of charcoal is good, it is the same if it can’t be sold after burning it and kept for Xu Huaiqian to use in winter.

 Chen Liejiu, who slept with Xu Huaiqian in his arms every night, knew that Xu Huaiqian was very cold. He might not feel anything in the summer because of the heat, but in the winter, he didn’t know how much pain his illness would torture him.

He suddenly lowered his eyes when he thought of this.

But in just a moment, he raised his eyes again, called the people guarding the kiln over, and ordered: “Build another kiln according to your second brother’s new method.”

The conversation between Chen Liejiu and Xu Huaiqian just now was not hidden from them, but they had never heard of white charcoal, and had never even seen it.

Can this be burned?

 “Just do it when I tell you to,” Chen Liejiu kicked them impatiently, “This kiln is my own account. Even if it doesn’t burn out, it won’t hinder you from making money.”

“Besides, the method of burning charcoal was given by your second brother,” Chen Liejiu said to clear Xu Huaiqian’s name, “Are you afraid that he can’t burn new charcoal?”

Chen Liejiu trusted Xu Huaiqian very much. He knew that Xu Huaiqian was not the kind of person who liked to brag, nor was he as bold as him, daring to do things without confidence.

Since he said this, he must have been sure that it would burn out.

Chen Liejiu guessed right. Xu Huaiqian was really sure. The years of poverty alleviation were not in vain. He had seen many different ways to get rich in the countryside.

He was also sent by the unit to travel all over the country to observe and learn from some special poverty alleviation counties.

 One of the characteristic poor counties have is that they become rich by burning charcoal. They are famous for using the gimmick of white charcoal made by ancient methods.

When they went to observe and learn, the local leaders enthusiastically invited them to participate in the process of burning charcoal in person.

Xu Huaiqian didn’t remember the principle very clearly, but he still remembered the steps of how to burn white charcoal clearly.

So he patiently explained it to the people who burned the kiln.

“What?” Many people suspected that they had heard it wrong. “You want us to open the kiln when the charcoal is the hottest?”

“But in this way, all the charcoal will be burned as soon as it comes out, and the remaining charcoal will be worthless like the stove charcoal.”

They have been burning charcoal for so long, and they also know that the charcoal must be slowly cooled down in the sealed kiln, so that the charcoal left will be heavy and durable.

If the kiln is opened at the hottest time, the wind will burn all the charcoal into ash, and there will be no charcoal at all, or some charcoal left will be like the ash, and it will break when pinched.

 “I want the kind of charcoal that breaks when you pinch it.” When someone hit the point, Xu Huaiqian made a final decision. He wanted this kind.

Although this kind of charcoal is not as heavy as black charcoal and looks like the ash of burnt black charcoal, its temperature is twice as high as black charcoal. Only a little bit can make the whole house warm, which is much more useful than black charcoal.

Everyone saw that Xu Huaiqian would not listen, and Chen Liejiu also supported it, so they had no choice but to burn it.

Anyway, there is plenty of firewood in the mountains. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t burn out. Just treat it as playing with the boss to coax the young husband.

Other people have beacon fires to play with the princes, so what’s wrong with their boss wanting coal to play with the husband!

Burning charcoal can’t be done in a day or two. After Xu Huaiqian arranged for people to burn charcoal, he started to prepare for the imperial examination in the capital.

Originally, the five friends should have gone to the capital to take the imperial examination together. Unfortunately, although the five of them were from the same academy, but in fact they were not from the same county.

 Every family has its own family members. They can’t just wait for them to pick them up one by one. There are only three days in total. When will they be picked up?

It’s better for each family to pack up their own things and then gather in the city.

When Chen Liejiu was an escort, he went to the city the most. He was familiar with this road.

He first went to the carriage and horse shop in the county to find a good carriage, and then packed the whole family to the city!

Yes, he planned to take Xiaomei and Wanwan to the city to play.

It just so happened that he had made a lot of money recently. His younger sister’s chickens had just been released from the pen, and they hadn’t started to collect eggs to hatch a new batch of chickens. His family didn’t have much land, so the autumn harvest had nothing to do with them.

It’s better to let Chen Zhu next door help them look after the house, and their whole family go to the city to cheer for Xu Huaiqian.

After all, this was Xu Huaiqian’s first imperial examination since he came to his family. If they made it more grand, it would not only show their appreciation for him, but also reduce his pressure.

 Don’t think of yourself as going to the imperial examination, just think of yourself as accompanying your family to have fun and taking the imperial examination by the way.

The journey was long, and Chen Liejiu was afraid that Xu Huaiqian would not be able to hold on, so he laid two layers of mattresses in the carriage and drove into Yong’an Prefecture without delay.

Yong’an Prefecture is located in the south of Changnan. There is a canal that connects in all directions. Yong’an Prefecture is quite prosperous thanks to this canal.

As soon as their carriage drove into the city, merchants from all over the city were shoulder to shoulder, and the shops lined up one after another were full of guests.

The streets were full of small vendors hawking their wares.

Xu Huaiqian, who had slept in the carriage for a day and a night, endured the discomfort, opened the carriage window and looked at the prosperous scene outside. He took out ten taels of silver from the purse he brought and handed it to Wang Wanwan: “This city is much more prosperous than Mishan County. When we get to the inn later, you can take Xiaomei to take a look. Don’t think about saving money.”

Recently, the family has been well-off, and Xu Huaiqian has begun to loosen up.

Wang Wanwan was surprised to see that Xu Huaiqian, who had always been thrifty, was so generous. She looked at him and was about to say that this was too much, and she would just take one or two taels.

Xu Huaiqian looked at her again and added: “Go to a few more rouge and powder shops to see if there are better rouge, powder and face cream, and buy more.” Why use cheap goods when you have money?

And girls should dress up more.

Chen Xiaomei is careless. She doesn’t apply face cream, and like Chen Liejiu. He usually deals with men every day, and he doesn’t want his wife to dress up for other men.

He and Wang Wanwan are the only two people in the family who are a little more refined, but he thinks Wang Wanwan has too few skin care products.

 In his previous life, his female colleagues would bring a suitcase full of bottles and jars every time they went on a business trip, but she only had a box of facial cream that was almost used up. This was so unfeminine.

His original intention was to ask Wang Wanwan to buy more things for her and not be reluctant to spend money, but Wang Wanwan understood what he meant and took the money instantly.

She wondered why her second brother was willing to give her such a large sum of money, and it turned out that he wanted to buy rouge and powder.

Then she had to show her second brother a good look.

She had to buy good things, otherwise if she chose the wrong things, her second brother would have acne on his face and would have to wear a mask again.

She didn’t know if second brother would wear rouge or powder?

If her second brother liked to wear rouge and powder, she would have to buy him some rouge and powder.

She remembered that there were scholars in the previous dynasty who liked to draw eyebrows and eyes, wear flowers in their hair and dot their lips. .

Maybe her second brother would like them too.

 Xu Huaiqian saw that Wang Wanwan understood and took the money when he asked her to buy rouge and powder, and was very satisfied. Look, he said that there is no girl who doesn’t like to be coquettish.

Chen Xiaomei saw that Xu Huaiqian had given money to Wang Wanwan. She sat in the corner with her eyes wide open and looked at Xu Huaiqian expectantly, waiting for him to give her money.

 Xu Huaiqian tightened his purse again, and she couldn’t wait for Xu Huaiqian to give her money. She looked at Xu Huaiqian in disbelief: “Second brother, where is mine?”

“Your what?” Xu Huaiqian didn’t notice her little thoughts at all.

Chen Xiaomei pointed to his purse: “I want it too!”

“Don’t you have money?” He remembered that their chicken seedlings made a total of 16 taels, and Chen Xiaomei gave him 8 taels as a bonus, and she still had 8 taels for herself.

This money was enough for her to spend for a long time.

 “That’s different,” Chen Xiaomei refused, “You gave it sister-in-law so you can’t not give it to me.”

In Chen Xiaomei’s view, the money she earned was her own, and the money given by her second brother was given by her second brother, which was different. Since Xu Huaiqian gave it to Wang Wanwan, he should also give it to him.

“Okay.” Xu Huaiqian thought about it and it made sense. He took out a string of copper coins from his purse and handed it to her, “Here, here you go.”

Chen Xiaomei was so angry when she saw the string of copper coins handed over by Xu Huaiqian: “Why did you give sister-in-law ten taels of silver, but only one strings of copper coin for me!”

Chen Xiaomei, who is now much more fluent in counting, can still tell the difference between ten thousand copper coins and one hundred copper coins.

 “Rouge and powder are expensive, so I have to give more,” Xu Huaiqian said without thinking, “You are a child who doesn’t need to wear rouge and powder, and you don’t need to buy other things. What do you need so much money for?”

When he went out, he saw that Chen Xiaomei had put all her belongings on her body. She already had eight taels of silver on her body. If he gave her ten more taels, wouldn’t it be like a golden baby parading through the streets, waiting for others to snatch her away?

But Chen Xiaomei didn’t understand his painstaking efforts. She thought Xu Huaiqian was biased, so she pulled Chen Liejiu, the driver in front, to complain: “Brother, brother, second brother is targeting me. He gave sister-in-law ten taels of silver and gave me one hundred coins.”

The prefecture is not like the county. Chen Liejiu, who had to keep an eye on all directions while driving the car, couldn’t spare the heart to help her argue. He perfunctorily said: “Isn’t it given to you? It’s not that he didn’t give it to you. Why is it targeting you?”

Wow!

Chen Xiaomei couldn’t believe what she heard? ! Her eldest brother actually said such words to her! 

Chen Xiaomei was immediately angry: “You are targeting me too!” She yelled. Then she squatted in the corner of the carriage angrily, and looking Xu Huaiqian in the eye.

“Okay, don’t be angry anymore.” Xu Huaiqian knew that Chen Liejiu would be on his side, so he pinched her little nose and coaxed her, “I’ll buy you two strings of candied haws later. We won’t eat them, it’s just for you, okay?”

After being together for so long, Xu Huaiqian knew that she was actually very easy to coax.

Sure enough.

Hearing this, Chen Xiaomei immediately stretched out three fingers angrily: “Three strings!”

“Okay,” Xu Huaiqian agreed readily, “Three strings is three strings!”

“That’s about right,” Chen Xiaomei pouted, “I barely forgive you.”

Then she stretched out his hand to Xu Huaiqian: “Give it to me.”

Xu Huaiqian hurriedly put the string of money in her hand.

 “Hehehe.” Chen Xiaomei, who got the money, immediately smiled and lowered her head to count the copper coins.

The copper coins strung with hemp ropes are supposed to be worth one hundred coins, but sometimes people would count them wrongly and put one or two more.

She had to count them, just in case there was one more, then she would make a profit.

Xu Huaiqian was speechless about Chen Xiaomei’s behavior. How could there be more copper coins when he strung it himself?

Sure enough, after she counted, there were only one hundred, and she was discouraged. Why did she never get more money from her second brother?

Did the eldest brother give more money before? !

Before she could figure it out, they arrived.

They were staying at the Xiangyunju Inn.

Because the imperial examination was approaching, the surrounding inns were full. Fortunately, Xu Huaiqian decided to take the imperial examination two months in advance, and the five of them sent people to Xiangyunju, which was very close to the examination hall, to book a room early.

For one penny a night, this money is really easy to make.

After Chen Liejiu agreed with the shopkeeper, he drove the carriage to the back door to park. Xu Huaiqian took Chen Xiaomei and the others to the inn to settle down first.

After everyone was settled in the inn, he found the other five people who were also staying in the inn.

Pei Wangshu looked around and didn’t see anyone next to Xu Huaiqian, so he asked, “Where is your husband?”

He remembered that when booking the inn, Xu Huaiqian said that his husband was coming, and they even urged him to book an extra room, lest he fail to resist the temptation of his husband and miss the imperial examination.

It was precisely because of these two extra rooms that Wang Wanwan and Chen Xiaomei had a place to stay.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to book a room at this time. They wouldn’t feel at ease if they put the two girls in another inn.

“I hid him and won’t show him to you.” Xu Huaiqian knew that he was very curious about his Chen Liejiu, but he didn’t want to show it to him.

“If you don’t want to show it, then don’t show it. Maybe he’s just plain-looking.” Pei Wangshu just wanted to see what Xu Huaiqian said, “the most beautiful ger in the world he has ever seen,” looked like.

 Seeing Xu Huaiqian being so evasive, he felt that he must have guessed correctly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Now this beauty is almost gone.

“Okay, okay, stop it.” Duan Youyan saw them arguing over such a small matter and immediately came out to stop them. “The imperial examination is tomorrow. Let’s go to the examination hall to register first. The teachers may be waiting for us.”

Generally, students for imperial examinations like this have to come in advance. Duan Youyan and his friends came a few days in advance, but Xu Huaiqian was not in a hurry and came on the last day before the exam. He didn’t know if his body can withstand the three-day exam without coming to recuperate in advance?

Xu Huaiqian looked at Duan Youyan and saw that there was no one around him. He asked in confusion: “Where is your husband? You didn’t bring him?”

Pei Wangshu and Zhang Bingwen looked at Duan Youyan curiously at the same time: “You married a husband too?”

Why have they never heard him say that?

 Duan Youyan didn’t expect Xu Huaiqian to suddenly talk about him. His usually serious face suddenly became unnatural, and he said “mm” shyly.

“Why are you all looking for gers?” Pei Wangshu looked at Xu Huaiqian and Duan Youyan strangely.

The main thing is Duan Youyan. Xu Huaiqian likes gers. He never thought that such a serious Duan Youyan would marry a ger?

“Just marry him if you want.” Xu Huaiqian saw Duan Youyan’s uncomfortable expression. He felt that he had said something wrong, and hurriedly made up for him.

“Okay, let’s go to the examination hall.” The atmosphere that was quite harmonious just now  became a little awkward because of Duan Youyan. Meng Fangxun, who only wanted to take the imperial examination, hurriedly took them all to the examination hall.

 After going to the examiner with the teacher who was waiting for them in the examination hall to certify their relationship, they came back and did not allow them to joke around anymore. They were driven back to their rooms to read.

The examination was approaching, so it was better to be serious.

Even if someone suggested going out for a walk, Meng Fangxun sternly rejected it. He thought it was better not to make trouble at this time of year.

What can’t be done after the examination?

The next day went smoothly.

After Xu Huaiqian got up and packed, he took his small bag and prepared to go to the examination hall for the examination.

 Chen Liejiu stopped him: “Do you want me to take you there?”

Xu Huaiqian thought of the annoying Pei Wangshu, who didn’t know how to yell when he saw Chen Liejiu. He gave him the purse he brought: “No, you can take Wanwan and the others to go shopping, I’ll go by myself.”

He was about to go out, but after thinking about it, he turned back and grabbed Chen Liejiu’s hand: “I will take the exam in the examination hall for three days. I will teach you three words when I come back.”

Recently, Xu Huaiqian was teaching Chen Xiaomei and the others to read. He found that Chen Liejiu’s literacy rate was not high. He didn’t know many polyphonic characters and characters with more strokes, so he taught him as well.

Chen Liejiu was curious: “What three words?”

He saw Xu Huaiqian carefully write the three words Chen Liejiu on his palm, and his lips curled up immediately.

He knew that his young husband couldn’t bear to part with him.

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