in2ebook Chapter 122 Youth Travel
Chapter 122 Youth Travel
Qingming.
It’s a good time for an outing.
The pear blossoms are blowing in the wind during the Qingming Festival, and wanderers are half out of the city in search of spring.
Because they were going out of town for an outing, Lin Xiaoman kept urging Gu Changsheng to wear a mask.
She had already seen the newly made silk cover in Gu Changsheng's bag.
"I......"
Gu Changsheng felt a little embarrassed. Wearing a silk cover when going for an outing, wouldn't everyone see that he was wearing something strange?
"I advise you to wear it. We are going out for an outing. There are many trees and the wind is strong in the suburbs. Once the wind blows, pollen will be everywhere. If you want to do business with us next time..."
Before Lin Xiaoman finished speaking, Gu Changsheng had already put on a mask, "Is this okay?"
Lin Xiaoman nodded with satisfaction and followed her brother into the carriage.
The car was full of goods when it arrived, but now it is empty.
"There are little kids flying kites."
"Is there a man and a woman having a tryst?"
"Hey, are those the scholars who bought the bamboo baskets yesterday? Why are they wearing the academy's robes every day? How many sets of clothes did the academy give out?"
Lin Jingzhe was curious about everything and at this moment he was lifting the curtain and looking outside the carriage with envy.
This was his first time back in Jialin County. He wanted to remember everything he saw and tell his parents about it when he got back.
Wait until Guyu gets bigger and then tell him the story.
It would be more accurate to say he was mumbling rather than asking.
I just spoke so loudly because I was excited.
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Ruyi Tower in Dayi Town.
"Boss, I wonder if Xiaoman and the others are doing well? Did you sell the Qingming rice cakes? Did you sleep well last night? Hey!"
After selling the food, Li Taohua muttered for a long time.
Lin Dajiang was also worried. The two children were becoming more and more assertive and were so bold that they even dared to go to the county town to do business.
"Taohua, Xiaoman is a lucky child. He will definitely be able to turn any bad situation into good one. Besides, Master Gu has arranged people to follow him, so what can go wrong?"
At the beginning, because her two children had to go out, Li Taohua was worried that the breakfast shop would not be able to handle it, so she asked her brother and sister-in-law from her mother's side to help.
During the two days that Li Shi was here, he heard his younger sister repeat it countless times.
Li Shi's wife is also the mother of three children. She worries about her children even when they are thousands of miles away. She held Li Taohua's hand and advised, "Sister, Xiaoman and Jingzhe will be back today, right?"
"Yes, I don't know if the bamboo baskets have been sold. This is the first time these two children have been away from home so far, and my heart has been pounding."
"Look at those promising boys, they all travel far and wide. Our children are illiterate and have no future. I want Ziyin and Zishun to learn a few more words like Jingzhe, so they don't end up being completely in the dark."
Li Taohua stopped talking. She had eight nephews. How much money would it cost to educate all eight nephews to learn to read and write?
"Taohua, isn't Jingzhe learning to read? Do you think Master Xie will still accept students?"
Li Shi's wife was envious. Jingzhe was the only one who could read, and even Xiaoman and Guyu learned a lot from him.
She might not be able to afford to send both children to school, so she could send Ziyin over, and after Ziyin returned home, she could teach Zishun the characters he learned every day.
I don't ask Ziyin to do well in any exam, but I just want him to recognize hundreds of words and be able to distinguish right from wrong.
"You have to ask Master Xie about this. Sister-in-law, don't be impatient about this matter. I'll ask Jingzhe to find out later."
"Thank you, sister." Li Shi's wife spoke out the thoughts that had been in her heart. No matter whether it would succeed in the end, she finally felt at ease.
My parents have already said that after the autumn harvest this year, they will separate the family but not the households.
She always felt that her peach blossom life would get better and better, mainly because her brother-in-law had attended a private school for a year and knew how to read.
Now Jingzhe can also learn to read, and Taohua's family is living a more and more prosperous life.
Before she married Li Shi, there was an old scholar with a white beard in the village.
She opened a small private school. When she and her sisters were picking wild vegetables near the school, they heard an old scholar shaking his head and saying that there was a golden house in books.
She was puzzled at first.
Can a thin book contain gold?
Now she understood that reading books meant learning to read and understand etiquette. Once she was literate, she would have rules for doing anything.
Unlike them, they don't understand anything and are completely blind.
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There is a Cangjiang River that runs across the north and south in Lin'an Prefecture, and the moat outside Jialin County is connected to the Cangjiang River.
On the bank of Cangjiang River, a row of green willow branches hang down and dance in the wind.
There are dozens of peach trees in full bloom near the moat.
The spring breeze blew off a few peach petals, which fell into the crystal clear moat.
The sun is shining brightly, and the sound of flutes fills my ears.
The spring scenery of Jialin County is in full view.
The four returned in high spirits and bought some cloth and food in Jialin County.
Lin Xiaoman passed by a jewelry shop, and the dazzling array of gold and silver jewelry dazzled her eyes.
It’s flashy, and people like it, but there’s not enough money.
She saw a hollowed-out silver hairpin with apricot blossom pattern in the jewelry cabinet in the corner.
He gritted his teeth and spent three taels of silver to buy it, and then went back to give it to his mother.
My mother seemed to have no jewelry, only two red ropes that were polished to a nearly pinkish white color and a bamboo hairpin that my father had taken the time to polish himself.
What woman doesn't love beauty?
Now that she had earned money, she could not afford expensive things, so she bought an ordinary silver hairpin for her mother.
Lin Xiaoman also bought a few red ropes for Guyu and a small drum for Lidong. They were all small gadgets and didn't cost much money.
It was the gift for Lin Dajiang that stumped Lin Xiaoman.
He turned to Lin Jingzhe and asked, "Brother, what do you think we should buy for Dad?"
"Dad?" This stumped Lin Jingzhe, and he turned to seek help, "Changsheng, what are you buying for Uncle Gu?"
Gu Changsheng was worried because his father had everything he needed and the things he bought would be of no use to him.
Seeing that Xie Ci'an didn't buy anything, he asked curiously, "Ci'an, what about you? What are you buying for your uncle and aunt?"
Xie Ci'an's face was calm, "My family is short of food, I am going to buy some."
After he said this, he felt embarrassed when he saw that his companions did not show any mockery in their expressions.
Lin Jingzhe felt something was wrong, he knew Xie Ci'an was writing a storybook.
Why is the family in financial difficulty?
The cheapest book in Jixiang Bookstore costs three hundred wen, while the longer and thicker ones cost seven or eight hundred wen.
Lin Jingzhe's suspicious look was too obvious, so Xie Ci'an had to explain: "In fact, the book I wrote is not popular. Maybe it's because I'm not very talented and need to work harder."
Lin Jingzhe was obviously shocked. Xie Ci'an, with such great knowledge, wrote only mediocre books.
"Which storybook is the most popular?"
Lin Xiaoman said: "The young master of Jixiang Bookstore is right here, why not ask him?"
The three of them turned their eyes to Gu Changsheng with sharp gazes.
"I, I don't usually read storybooks." Gu Changsheng was so nervous that he stuttered.
Lin Xiaoman has never read the novels written by Xie Ci'an, but she is a frequent visitor of Rotten Tomatoes and often looks for books to read on the recommendation list.
From ancient times to the present, which novels are the most popular should be decided by readers.
"Knowing yourself and your enemy will ensure victory in every battle. The same is true for business. When you write a book, you need to know what type of storybooks sell best in the bookstore. You can't just focus on writing. Otherwise, no matter how good your writing is, no one will read it!"
"There is another situation, you write well but no one buys your book. At this time, you have to sell your own book and let people see the story you wrote." Lin Xiaoman said clearly, "Even if it is gold, it needs to be cleaned before it can shine, right?"