He saved money in ancient times to marry

Chapter 5

"Why?"

"I heard people say that they are all taking the Juren examination over there. Do you know that they are all nestled in small cubicles with the windows open. It's going to be winter now, and they're freezing to death!" Cheng Jiu said incredulously Jaw raised in the distance.

Bai Li was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Country Examination?"

"I don't know what the test is, anyway, you can be an official if you pass the test."

That is the township examination. According to the regulations of this dynasty, Juren can be a replacement official, but the probability is extremely small. Cheng Jiu didn't understand the things in it and thought that he could become an official if he won the examination. Bai Li had read a little and knew the truth. It's not that easy.

The township examination is divided into five subjects, and each subject is tested for five days. The examination is closed, and the whole person is curled up in a small room. From the first day to the fifth day, people are not allowed out until the fifth day. Freezing is indeed fatal.

Bai Li thought about it in his mind, and asked, "How many games have we played so far?"

Cheng Jiu drank the soup without looking up: "How do I know?"

The owner of the wonton stall interjected: "It's the second round, and you can only come out the morning after tomorrow. Alas, these people, who didn't rush in, who didn't come out paralyzed, I see that there are fewer people going in this time than the first round." too much."

Bai Li's eyelids twitched, and he raised his hand to slap Cheng Jiu on the back. Cheng Jiu almost sprayed soup all over the table, and was so astonished.

Bai Li was furious: "You are so stupid, someday you will get rich like this!"

Gudu Gudu drank a bowl of soup and ran away, Cheng Jiu shouted from behind: "Why are you going?"

"Make money!"

Cheng Jiu was stunned for a second, then quickly drank the bowl of soup, and quickly chased after him.

Bai Li got into the carriage and urged Cheng Jiu to hurry back. Cheng Jiu asked while driving, "What's the matter?"

Bai Li said: "The rural examination is bitter and cold. Just now, the owner of the wonton stall said that many people came out paralyzed, and many people couldn't get sick after the first exam. If they miss the next exam, we can pick up the machine and send a fortune." fiscal."

Cheng Jiu smiled and said, "Since you have thought of the idea of ​​making money, why are you still so unhappy?"

Bai Li said sadly: "The first township test has passed, the people who fell down can't earn any money!"

Cheng Jiu: "..."

After complaining silently, Cheng Jiu asked, "What is the way to make money?"

Bai Li: "It's hungry and cold inside, and the first time I come out, I need hot soup and hot water the most, and I need to replenish energy most. I want to sell milk tea!"

Cheng Jiu: "What is milk tea?"

Bai Li smiled: "It's the source of happiness for the fat man. You don't understand if I tell you, so go back quickly. We need to buy some tea and milk. I remember you have a small charcoal stove?"

"Yes, I have!"

"Borrow it."

"Not borrowing but renting."

"Then give me some charcoal."

"Should I still have to give a carriage to pick me up?"

"So I thank you in advance."

"You..." Cheng Jiu cursed with a smile, and drove Bai Li to a grocery store in the county town to buy some black tea and some white sugar.

There is a family in Shangganfang who raises cows. On weekdays, they will provide some milk to wealthy families in the county town or to pastry shops. Bai Li ordered a large jar to get it the next night.

Don't be in a hurry for milk tea, it needs to be boiled and drunk now, Bai Li bought a lot of flour, and also bought a lot of dates from Cheng Jiu, and he wanted to steam a lot of date cakes.

In addition to the ones that will be sold on the second day, some special jujube cakes are also made. This batch of jujube cakes has less brown sugar added, and the color is slightly lighter. What is more special is that the word "中" is imprinted with brown sugar in the middle of each piece.

Each piece of this kind of jujube cake is heavy, and the price is high, fifty yuan a piece, and there is no bargaining!

On the second day, Bai Li and Cheng Jiu went to sell jujube cakes and dates. On the third day, they got up early in the dark, carrying a lantern with a charcoal stove, milk, tea, sugar, etc., and a cart full of them. The jujube cake with the word "中" rushed to the outside of the township examination room.

There were a few horse-drawn carriages sporadically outside the examination room, all of which came to pick up his own candidates. Bai Li quickly opened the stall, lit the charcoal stove and started making tea.

Most of the people waiting were domestic servants, and when they saw the charcoal stove, they all came over one after another to keep warm. Bai Li made tea from a rough clay cup to warm them for free.

These people drank it warmly and felt comfortable, and asked Bai Li: "Xiao Langjun, are you going to sell tea?"

Bai Li smiled: "No, I want to sell milk tea and jujube cake."

"What is milk tea?"

Bai Li said: "Milk tea is a drink made of milk, tea and sugar. Not only is it sweet and delicious, but it can also supplement the body's needs. It is most suitable for people who are suffering from fatigue."

A boy said: "Isn't that suitable for our master?"

Bai Li: "That's right, everyone else look at my jujube cake."

Everyone saw that there was a big "中" character on the fragrant jujube cake, and the clever book boy thought about it and said, "Xiao Langjun, does this mean Zaozao high school?"

Bai Li laughed, "Exactly!"

"Then I have to buy one for my son. A cup of milk tea and a piece of cake will surely relieve his fatigue."

"I have to buy some too. Last time our master came out and drank the medicine for several days, if he can drink milk tea as soon as he comes out this time, it will definitely make him feel better."

"That's right, the tea I prepared for the young master is now warm, and there is no sugar. Madam said that one must eat something sweet to be energetic."

"..."

Everyone said something to each other, and the jujube cake was bought away for free. As the sky brightened, many people came to see this "Zaozao High School" cake. For good luck, Bai Li quickly sold a truckload of jujube cakes.

At this time, the door of the examination room opened, and the first examinee walked out like a dead stone, and a servant shouted: "Hurry up and bring me a cup of milk tea, my son has come out!"

Bai Li hurriedly mixed hot tea with milk and handed it over. The milk was boiled and sterilized in the morning, and now the mixture of cold and hot is just hot but not too hot. It's just good for warming up.

When one candidate comes out, it means that candidates will come out one after another. The boys stretch out their hands for milk tea while staring at the gate nervously.

This is the easiest way to make milk tea, and the taste is average, not too good, but it is still the best heart-warming agent when the cold is very cold in the late autumn morning.

Some examinees asked their servants to buy another cup after drinking a cup of milk tea, but they couldn't buy it at all. When Bai Li and Cheng Jiu closed the stall, there were still many young servants from the examinee's family queuing up, so they had no choice but to return disappointed.

On this day, many boys who did not buy the "Zao Zao Gao Gao" cake and milk tea were scolded and reprimanded by the host to go to the line earlier next time.

Bai Li didn't know this, but he had made a lot of money early in the morning, and he was bouncing around in the carriage with two big strings of money. Cheng Jiu wiped the sweat from his brow, and was very happy in his heart.

Bai Li counted, and he made a net profit of 3000 Wen this day. He leaned against the wall of the carriage in a daze for a while, as if he was a miser holding a lot of copper coins and dreaming and dying.

Cheng Jiu was stunned: "That's too much, Xiaobai, you can earn as much as me for a month or two in one day, all right, you're rich!"

Bai Li woke up like a dream, and said very generously: "Ninth brother, after excluding the cost, I don't want a change in the net income, I will give you 220 four coins!"

Cheng Jiu was stunned for a moment, touched by the unforgiving words in his heart, and said with a smile: "Plus a meal at noon!"

Bai Li sat up straight with a whimper, tightly guarded his purse, and glared at Cheng Jiu: "Don't even think about it!"

Cheng Jiu laughed. 220 four Wen is his income from working for a few months on weekdays, that is, the jujubes are selling well recently, and his income is more. This is still due to Bai Li's daily help. Cheng Jiu knows in his heart that he has gained a lot of glory with Bai Li , I am grateful in my heart, but my face is still unforgiving, and I like to provoke that miser boy to blow up his hair.

It was still early at this time, and the two nouveau riche suddenly felt that their waists were stiff, and decided to stroll around the city swaggeringly.

Bai Li was at ease with Cheng Jiu. If it was someone else, he wouldn't dare to let people know that he had made so much money. He put the money in the carriage, and the two of them went into the first store and then went into a coma.

It was a shop selling fabrics. Bai Li fell in love with a certain fabric and wanted to buy it back to make skirts for Bai Qing. He asked the price for one tael of silver per foot.

Nowadays, one thousand Wen is worth one or two taels of silver, and Bai Li spends all he can to buy a skirt for his sister.

Really sad.

In the end, Bai Li went to an ordinary pastry shop in Fucheng and brought Bai Qing two pieces of white cakes, which cost 52 Wen.

Back in the county town, they went to the cloth store and bought cheap cloth and some cotton. Cheng Jiu bought a bag of rough tea for his father and a piece of cloth for his mother, but he was not willing to buy anything.

Bai Li added some more ingredients, but this time the items he bought were different, Cheng Jiu asked curiously, "What did you buy this white jelly for?"

"Make marshmallows."

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Cheng Jiu didn't know what cotton candy was. In fact, the entire dynasty didn't know what cotton candy was. Bai Li only thought of it when he saw the white jelly in the grocery store.When he got home, Bai Li put down his things and found that Bai Qing was not at home, so he went to the old lady Pei's house next door, and sure enough, he saw Bai Qing.

Bai Li brought a small cup of milk to Mrs. Pei and heated it in a pot. The old lady's dinner was settled.

The old lady is too old, and her appetite is as small as a sparrow. A few days ago, she went to the river and fell her leg, and now she is even more lethargic.

It is said that old people are afraid of falling, and Bai Li privately thinks that the old lady may not be able to survive this winter, but he wants to say things to make the old lady happy.

"Grandma, I bought something good today, and I'll make candy for you tomorrow." Bai Li said.

Old Mrs. Pei smiled weakly: "You are joking, little doll, look how I still have teeth!"

Bai Li smiled: "I'll make cotton candy for you, it tastes soft and melts in your mouth."

"That's alright, you can still eat sweets when you get old, it's very good."

The siblings talked with the old lady for a while, and the old lady became a little sleepy, and the siblings left after falling asleep.

Bai Qing was a little sad: "Grandma Pei's health is getting worse day by day, I'm worried..." The following words turned into a sigh.

Bai Li helped her back home and said, "Sister, don't be sad, let's take care of her and make the old lady happy."

Bai Qing sighed: "Xiao Liu'er went to Hongshun Restaurant again today, how can he bear it at such a young age pushing four carts of slop every day?"

Bai Li: "Oh, this kid usually talks a lot and can endure hardships. It really makes people feel distressed. Let's not talk about it. Sister, I bought something for you and see if you like it."

Bai Qing snorted, then saw the fabric, she was very pleasantly surprised, picked it up carefully and stroked it, and said: "This fabric is really thin, it must be very expensive, our family can't use it, it can't be worn for work."

Bai Li laughed: "Sister, guess how much I earned today?"

Bai Qing smiled and tapped his forehead with her index finger: "You shouldn't waste as much as you earn!"

Bai Li didn't speak, and dragged her into the inner room, and showed her several strings of money on the bed.

Bai Qing: "..."

After a while, I came back to my senses and was shocked: "Why are there so many?"

Bai Li smiled and rolled on the kang, rolled into the pile of money, and said proudly: "Is your brother amazing? Are you scared? There will be more in the future!"

Bai Qing took out the jar and put away the money carefully, saying: "Don't be complacent!" But there was a joyful smile in her eyes.

Bai Li took out the white cake again, Bai Qing stared blankly, her eyes were red, she blamed Bai Li for wasting money, Bai Li just smiled and didn't speak.

During dinner, Bai Qing suddenly said: "Xiao Li, can I give my sister twenty Wen tomorrow?"

Bai Li was stunned: "Isn't all the money there? You can take it yourself."

Bai Qing's lips moved, her head scrambled to eat, Bai Li was a little puzzled, and it was only when she was about to fall asleep that she suddenly realized that in this era, women have no financial rights, and the money at home has to be handed over to their parents, and if they don't have parents, they have to be handed over to their brothers. If you get married, give it to your parents-in-law, and if you don’t have parents-in-law, you will give it to your husband.

Bai Li turned over, thinking that this was too inhuman, his sister couldn't suffer like that.