in2ebook Chapter 108 Holding
Chapter 108 Holding
Master Shen even drew out the routes that followed, and at each place representing a city, he noted the time of arrival and the number of days to stay.
This made Mrs. Hu, who wanted to persuade her to take a rest, feel embarrassed to dampen her enthusiasm. "Let's talk about everything after the Mid-Autumn Festival, okay?
You can’t spend your last Mid-Autumn Festival at your mother’s house on the road.”
"That's right. Have a good holiday and buy more things for your aunt." Shen Huai gave her and Mr. Xia ten taels each from the more than two hundred taels of silver they brought.
“Before, I thought that if I could sell it for a hundred or so taels, just like in Baozhou, I would be very satisfied.
I didn't expect you to travel to several surrounding counties. You're so tired." It can be said that apart from going into the city to find carpenters to sell bellows, the rest of the time is on the road.
"This..." Mr. Xia didn't expect to be paid so much for just a favor. When he was about to refuse, he saw Master Shen put it away and said, "Fifth Brother, remember to let me do this kind of good thing in the future."
"Of course." Shen Huai was very confident in his sister and personally sent them to the gate.
Of the remaining 180 taels of silver, another 60 taels would naturally be given to Xia Xing.
But Xia Xing didn't dare to accept it. He said that it was agreed that his family would only participate in the dividends within Shun County. Apart from one or two physical items from other places, the money was actually from the drawings drawn by the second girl. His parents had told him not to take the money before he left.
Shen Huai pondered for a moment and said, "Go find your father and I'll talk to him.
Then, you and Xianzhu go to Dahuangzhuang to bring back the pork, and give everyone a Mid-Autumn Festival holiday today."
Xia Xing went out as if he had been pardoned, and Shen Xianzhu hurriedly chased after him.
"I wonder if my uncle can come back in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Uncle, my second sister and I have to send holiday gifts to grandpa's family, right? How about we go together today? "Shen Lingzhu has been digging a greenhouse for the past ten days and hasn't even been to the village.
When my grandparents came to deliver the meat, they helped me tidy up the greenhouse.
Shen Huai and his wife exchanged a glance. They both knew that their daughter had been too restrained recently. He said, "Tomorrow, you two will go to the county town with Xian Zhu to select some festival gifts and then send them off."
"Great!" Shen Lingzhu just cheered when she saw her senior sister holding a small package brought by the teacher and said, "Uncle, we asked Nineteenth Aunt to use the money from selling the cookbook to prepare Mid-Autumn Festival gifts for you and Aunt."
She hurried forward to help open them. In one square red lacquer box was a silver bracelet in the shape of Fu Lu Shou, while in another box was a pair of glasses with a copper mirror rim, which was two crystal lenses connected by silk, an ancient version of glasses.
Uncle Shen Huai read books all year round and his eyesight was not very good. Shen Miaozhu remembered seeing him reading with a pen.
Shen Lingzhu couldn't wait to take out the silver bracelet for her aunt to wear, "When we were in the capital, we couldn't find the style that your aunt wore before.
I happened to be looking for it in Zhending. Do you think this one looks like it? "When she and her senior sister came to this world, the first white porridge they ate was bought with the only bracelet her aunt had left after pawning it.
"You guys! It would be great if you could save some money for yourself." Mrs. Hu complained but her eyes were full of joy. The fact that her two children loved her made her happier than anything else.
Shen Huai also turned his glasses and said, "It's such a waste to spend this much money. Did you spend all the money from selling the recipes?"
Although the thing in your hand may look simple, it is more valuable than a horse.
"Uncle, try it and see if the words on the book are clear." It was also the first time that Shen Lingzhu saw Gu's glasses.
When she wanted to see how to use it, Shen Huai had already taken two five-liang silver ingots from the table and gave them to her and her senior sister, "Here."
"Uncle, is this considered a return gift?" Shen Lingzhu saw that her senior sister was about to put the silver back, but she didn't want to do it herself. She felt at ease as long as she had the money in her hand.
"Hahaha..." Shen Huai and Hu couldn't help but laugh at her words and the action of covering the silver.
Who wouldn’t be happy to receive money?
This afternoon, Xia Wang and his friends came back from the Divine Power Market and sold a lot of goods.
But all the people who worked for the Shen family not only received money, but also received two to five pounds of pork each. They all had smiles on their faces.
The three siblings of the Shen family sent everyone off one by one on behalf of their parents. Because everyone lived at a different distance from home, they also set the time for them to return to work.
Many people in the village saw this group of people leaving and taking the meat home, and they all muttered about looking for Mr. Wu to do some odd jobs.
Moreover, that afternoon some tribesmen came and expressed their willingness to work together.
However, the current shipment volume of bellows in the county is decreasing, and it is impossible for Shen Huai to hire people to process them.
Because of this, some people in the Shen family were dissatisfied with Shen Huai, but they didn't say it in private, so that the Xia family could hear it and laugh at them.
Xia Tongsheng, who had been paying close attention to the Shen family, slammed a bowl of freshly brewed tea onto the table at home and said, "Shen Huai's vitality has recovered too quickly."
His son said, "Dad, you shouldn't have wanted that crappy clan school. Now you're so caught up in clan school affairs that you don't even know how many bellows the Shen family has sent to the county town time and time again.
One is one cent, and more than a thousand are one hundred taels. When there are ten thousand of them one day, the Shen family will easily get a thousand taels.
If you ask me, with the clan school holding them back, his family can’t even afford to produce a few pounds of meat right now.”
"Who has foresight?" How could Xia Tongsheng not regret it? When he actually took charge of the clan school, he found that many things in it were contrary to his own ideas.
He thought for a moment and said, "Dismiss all the students with the surname Shen from the school. I wonder how Shen Huai can be content."
Xia Tongsheng did what he said. He did not force anyone to miss classes after the holiday. He just told the school that there would be new books to teach after the holiday, and each family had to pay a sum of money to buy new books and pens and ink.
The Shen family hadn't paid tuition and writing fees for more than ten years, so they were no longer calm when they heard this.
They couldn't argue with Xia Tongsheng, and under his instigation, some confused members of the Shen family directly blocked the door at the foot of the mountain to borrow money.
However, Shen Huai and his wife happened to be at the Qixing Temple taking money to pay off their debts, so they were not at home.
The eldest brother and second sister went to the mountain to plant saplings, and Shen Lingzhu was the only one at home busy inside and outside the greenhouse.
When she heard their reasons, she laughed out loud: "When we first came back, we were almost penniless, why didn't you help us?
Now your child just needs to pay for his studies, and you come to us to pay for it. What a great honor!"
"Xiao Zhuzi, we farm all year round, so how can we save any money? If not Fifth Brother, who else can we ask for help?"
“That’s right, your grandmother once said that anyone who enters the clan school can do so for free.
That’s why we’re willing to save labor and let our children go to school.”
"If you ask me, I shouldn't have sold the clan school in the first place."
“As far as I know, after selling the clan school, Second Grandfather distributed all the proceeds to each family.
He didn't want my uncle's share, so he saved it for the orphans and widows in the clan." Shen Lingzhu said clearly:
“If you are only studying because your former clan school provided you with a meal, you can now consider whether to continue studying or not.
We still owe the Geng family in Laoquankou five hundred taels of silver, so we don’t have the money to help everyone.”
One of the tribesmen asked, "Xiao Zhuzi, you didn't deliberately send us away, did you?"