Imperial Exam Daily

After returning from the county school, Yang Ye attended another banquet. It was another full and busy day. He went back to the house and fell asleep. The next day he slept a long time, still stretched out on the bed, and Axi came in It is said that several merchants have come to the house, and they all want to attach to the Yang family.

He knew early on that there would be merchants coming to him. After all, he was the number one in the provincial examination, and he could be regarded as a fragrant steamed bun. As for coming so late, he just wanted to wait and see.

Axi quickly helped him get dressed, and confessed: "Guests, guests are already waiting for you in the banquet hall, don't look sleepy anymore, you know, you know."

Yang Ye shamelessly planted himself on Axi's shoulder, so that Axi couldn't see clearly and tied his belt. Axi twisted his waist, and Yang Ye straightened up in pain.

"Don't, stop making trouble, go quickly."

There were already two merchants sitting in the banquet hall at this time, and when they saw him passing by, they immediately got up and saluted respectfully, calling out to Yang Juren in unison.

Yang Ye couldn't help but feel that he was in the same situation when he went to the Song Mansion, but now that he returned to this small Wenyang City, it turned out that Feng Shui has turned around, and he has become a master who makes others look at him. Such a comparison, but a normal person Everyone feels a little erratic.

"All sit down."

It was two middle-aged men who came, Yang Ye knew from their clothes that they had little money, and through his introduction, one was surnamed Lu and the other was surnamed Guo.

The surname Lu is in the catering business and has a rather large shop, because he came to the county from the countryside to do business. His ancestors were all rural farmers and had nothing to rely on. When he came to the county, he was repeatedly bullied by officials. The business of the shop was good, but as a result it was exploited layer by layer and it was difficult to make ends meet, so they came here with generous gifts this morning.

As for the surname Guo, he has hundreds of acres of land in the countryside, and his family has small assets. This year, the imperial court suddenly imposed military service. Gan became a tenant farmer and attached himself to Yang Ye.

After knowing the basic situation of the two of them, it was nothing more than to see if the gift was satisfactory and which one was more sincere.

Yang Ye glanced at them, and the gifts were those things, such as tonics, bacon sausages, and accessories worn on porcelain. It took some effort, but the businessman surnamed Lu seemed a little thinner.

"I already know your intentions. If the Yang family needs help, I will definitely send someone to notify you."

Listening to the imitation of two possible answers, both of them knew whether this matter would be possible or not. After thanking him, the local rich man surnamed Guo bowed his back to Yang Ye and whispered: "Master Yang, there is a little girl in the villain's family. I am twenty-eight years old, if I can attach myself to Yang Juren, I am willing to betroth my little girl to the master as a concubine."

Yang Ye frowned slightly, and he turned his head to look at the Guo man, showing a meaningful smile, but he didn't know that the Guo man who had already touched Yang Ye's reverse scale thought that the matter was over, and immediately retreated respectfully and cupped his hands: "The villain will go back and wait for the master's news."

Looking at the Guo family man who went out, Yang Ye showed a cold look, and wanted to kick that man's ass. Right now, he is most disgusting and wants to put people around him.

The man surnamed Guo walked out of the Yang family mansion in high spirits, looked at the two small merchants standing outside, glanced at them back and forth, shook his sleeves, and said quite proudly: "It's too shameful for such a poor man to come to Yang's house." house, don’t dirty Yang Jieyuan’s bench.”

The two small merchants looked at each other, coughed in embarrassment and looked away.

After the man surnamed Guo walked away, the small merchant said: "Just one came out, but after a while, another one came out. It seems that they all have some assets. I'm afraid we are really as the man said."

Another merchant said: "The threshold for Xie Yuan is naturally high. Wenyang County has not been out of Xie Yuan for decades, so there are naturally many people who come to the door. I heard that Mr. Yang is a peaceful person, thanks to us. Only after you have seen it after you go in will you know, even if you get some supercilious looks, it’s much better than people from the court chasing after you for tax money.”

The two encouraged each other before entering the Yang family.

After a day, Yang Ye received several groups of people.

In the end, three households were selected, one with the surname Lu, and two for breakfast and teahouses.

Yang Cheng asked: "The one surnamed Guo looks pretty good, why not?"

"He's very capable, and our family might not be able to hold him down."

Axi wondered, "What, what's the matter?"

"He said that if he could attach himself to the Yang family, he would send his youngest daughter to me as a concubine. I was terrified."

Ah Xi was eating with his rice bowl, when he heard that someone wanted to send his daughter to his door, the delicious white rice suddenly became stale, he took two bites with chopsticks, but fortunately, Yang Ye refused, which made him feel at ease Not a lot.

Seeing this, Yang Ye gave Axi a dish with chopsticks: "We only need you in our family, and we won't let other people in."

Yang Cheng also laughed, and echoed: "Yes, Ah Xi entered the house when the Yang family was in the most difficult time. Now that the family conditions are better, if Ah Ye dares to let you down, neither the elder brother nor your sister-in-law will agree. .”

Axi's heart warmed up: "Thank you, brother."

"If you had a child earlier, it would be hard for others to say anything."

A Xi nodded while holding the rice bowl.

Yang Ye stroked Axi's hair, and said, "It's useless to make things difficult for him."

After a few days, Yang Ye went to the government to go through the relevant procedures for several merchants to enter the Yang family. Once the procedures were complete, the Yang family would have three more household slaves at once, and the three merchants would become their own. For the merchants, although everything in the house has become someone else's for a while, and they have to be called a master if they talk about it, but in this way, they don't have to pay taxes anymore, and their children don't have to do corvee.

Yang Ye asked them to keep their shops open, and he didn't control them too much. He only asked them to pay 40.00% of their income every month. As for the children in the family, the son asked him to work in the shop, and the daughter stayed in the house. Doing some simple housework, such as washing clothes and cooking, is for him to eat.

For a while, people kept coming and going in and out of the house, which made it much more lively.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year, and the county was full of joy. After winter, there were not many things to do. There were so many people in the family. There were really only two things that Yang Ye could worry about. When Yang Ye was tired from reading, he thought Looking for something to do, seeing the end of the year, he went to the bookstore with Axi, and the two bought some red paper and went home.

Lu Yuan, Lu's son, heard that they wanted to make lanterns by himself, so he cut a bundle of bamboo from the village and brought it to the house, and cut thin bamboo strips for the two to make lanterns.

"I see that your bamboo strips are cut evenly. Did you make lanterns before?"

Lu Yuandao: "When I was a child, before my father came to the county town to do business, the family would weave some chicken coops, and before the lantern festival, they would also weave lanterns and send them to shops selling lanterns, so as to subsidize the household."

Yang Ye nodded, this kid was only sixteen this year, he often watched him help Mrs Lu run around in the restaurant, he was willing to do all the dirty and tiring work in the restaurant, he didn't cheat or play tricks at all. Most of the children who grew up in the wild suffered a lot.

He thought about it, and now there are four teenagers, older or younger, in the family, two boys and two girls. Although the family is in business, it started late, and none of the teenagers have ever studied.

Although he is a domestic slave in their family, he does not intend to treat them harshly. He is planning to invite a master to come to teach them how to read and write. It has to be on the table, boys can also manage accounts or be a small shopkeeper in the property under the Yang family in the future. As for girls serving at home, they will meet many knowledgeable people at home, and they will be in the middle of their stomachs. It is also good to have some ink.

After Yang Ye finished the lantern, he asked Lu Yuan to send it to several shops at home, and told them to come back to the house for dinner by the way.

It must be lively at night. Yang Ye hasn't cooked for a long time, and it's still early. He stewed two pork leg bones for the family to watch the fire. After that, he went shopping with Axi. He didn't go out in a sedan chair, but went to the meat market slowly, bought a few catties of mutton, and ordered some haggis, and bought ribs and duck intestines at the meat market, except for beef and mutton, the rest were offal Well, many people in the meat market also knew Yang Ye, and they were very surprised to see that he bought these offal, and even ordered tripe, which almost no one would buy.

But people are rich masters, wealthy households, everyone dare not tell or ask, so they have to hide and watch the excitement.

After buying things from the meat market, Yang Ye asked the runners to take them home, and then went to the vegetable market with Axi to buy some lotus roots, radishes and other hot pot things.

Later, Yang Ye was in charge of stir-frying, and Axi and the two little girls were choosing and washing vegetables. Xiaoxiang watched the excitement and followed everyone in the yard, having a good time.

Several merchants heard that Yang Ye asked them to go to the house together, thinking that they were about to talk about something important, and they were all anxious. After the shop closed, they hurried back to the house, and the moment they entered the house, they smelled the fragrance coming from the kitchen. , the few people who had been busy all day swallowed involuntarily, and the three of them glanced at each other, and their hearts relaxed a little. According to this posture, it shouldn't be a big deal.

There are already hot pots in this era, and many tools are still easy to buy, such as pots and utensils. There are many people who eat hot pot in winter, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, they all like to boil a pot of thick soup and eat hot vegetables. , It’s just that clear soup hot pot is almost always eaten, and few people put chili.

Yang Ye wanted to make hot pot for a long time, but he prefers red pot, but everyone always tastes clear soup pot bottom, so he ordered the blacksmith to make a mandarin duck pot and sent it to the house. Today, he specially stewed pork bone soup, ready Make a mandarin duck pot.

When the merchant arrived, the preparations had been completed, the soup in the pot was already boiling, and all kinds of dishes were also on the table.

The Yang family was extraordinary, they hired a carpenter to make a big round table, and when there were many people, they would take it out to replace the pear wood square dining table.

At the beginning, everyone was cautious and didn't dare to eat those offal, so Yang Ye taught them how to eat duck intestines with feathery belly. Seeing that he brushed the place into the mouth-watering red soup, the duck intestines shrank instantly, and Yang Ye Ye ate it in one gulp, his expression of enjoyment did not seem to be fake.

Everyone was eager to try it, and took a sip according to Yang Ye's method. The offal that was ignored on weekdays seemed to be coated with a layer of light, and the taste was crisp and fragrant. With the dipping sauce made by Yang Ye, it really belonged to winter Then he mustered up the courage to try the beef tripe, which he had never eaten before. The taste was even crispier than duck intestines, and the people who ate it couldn't stop their mouths.

"The offal cooked in this red soup is not fishy, ​​and it tastes best when it is cooked with time."

Eating spicy food is easy to fill you up, but everyone still enjoys eating.

When digesting food after the meal, Yang Ye told the three of his plans. The three merchants couldn't wish for such a good thing, and promised to let the children study without delaying work.

After the matter was settled, Yang Ye planned to find a wife to come to the house in the beginning of spring after the new year was over. He still had to find a good one, and then let Xiao Xiang study together, and took Yun Ye over by the way.

At the end of the year, the income of the family is calculated. The pastry shop in the county has an income of nearly 200 taels. The shop in the provincial capital has just opened, but the business is booming. The money is much better than the county. In just over three months, there are nearly 100 taels In terms of income, each of the three merchants handed in their own family property when they took in the three merchants. The collection barely had 100 taels. In the past few months, they handed in a total of 20 taels.

Compared with this, the money earned by the merchants every month is nothing to the Yang family, and it is not a problem not to make money. Yang Ye is thinking that next year, he should make a good rectification, so as not to waste the family's property in vain. .

After eating hot pot, Lu Shi mentioned to him that he wanted to change the shop into a hot pot business, which hit his fancy.

But don't act rashly, everything has to be considered in the long run.

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"The Days Live with Mermaid Food"

Accidentally crossed the fishing village, and Wang Qingye, who was bound to the gourmet live broadcast system, was forced to open his business.

Facing the sea, bowls are made of shells, stoves are built with stone slabs, and seafood is uncooked.

For several days in a row, there were only a handful of viewers in the live broadcast room.

The endless blue sea, the stormy waves, rolled up the people on the reef and fell into the deep sea,

Socialist Wang Qingye couldn't do nothing but jump into the sea and drag the poor little one who fell into the water.

The "poor little boy" who was carried ashore shook his tail, his blue pupils gradually turned red,

Wang Qingye hurriedly sent the little mermaid back to the sea with shaking hands. At this time, the live broadcast room, which had been silent for several days, suddenly exploded with barrage:

"Wait, what did I see? A mermaid? Are all food anchors working so hard now?"

"Ahh! What kind of peerless beauty is this, help me up, I want to touch my tail! I can!"

"Aww! I like fancy things!!! Gifts go!"

On that day, Wang Qingye received a series of rewards such as pepper, bean paste, hot pot base, etc.

Looking at the vicious little mermaid, he suddenly felt that he was... pretty cute~