[Red Chamber] Madam's wishes come true

Bai Shuang blushed instantly.

Lin Kou instantly understood what she meant: "Then do you want to get back the deed of sale and marry an ordinary family? Or marry a servant in the mansion? We don't have many servants in our family, so it's not easy for you to choose, but you I lived in the Lin family for many years before, so I should be able to marry back."

Baishuang's face was flushed red, and she was speechless for a while.

Lin Kou was helpless: "If you can't make up your mind now, go back and think about it and tell me the answer?"

Bai Shuang nodded, but the blush on her face did not fade away.

If it was according to Lin Kou's idea, she would of course hope to get back her contract of selling herself, and then she would have absolute autonomy whether she lived alone or married.

But people at this time may not necessarily have the same thoughts as her. After all, the lives of ordinary people at this time are too hard. As long as the masters who serve are not that kind of tyranny, it is generally better than living outside. In a bad New Year's Eve, there is a risk of starvation and freezing to death.

Moreover, Bai Shuang grew up in Lin's family, and Lin's family might be her real home for her.

The facts were exactly as Lin Kou expected. Although Lin Kou promised to give Bai Shuang a contract, she finally chose to marry back to the Lin family.

After all, her relatives and friends are all in the Lin family, and she is not willing to leave the life she is familiar with.

On the day of Bai Lu's wedding, Lin Kou and Bai Shuang went to the Lin family together.

Lin Kou asked Bai Shuang to bring him a wedding gift, but he turned around and went to Jia Min's yard, and told Jia Min that Bai Shuang wanted to marry back to the Lin family.

Bai Shuang originally allocated Lin Kou from Jia Min's side, and she had served Jia Min for many years, and now that Bai Shuang was willing to return to the Lin family, she certainly didn't mind arranging a good marriage for her.

only……

Jia Min looked at Lin Kou: "If Bai Shuang returns to Lin's house, you will have to find someone to serve you, right? You are used to being served by Bai Shuang, so you may not be used to the maids you bought outside, or..."

She paused for a moment, she didn't say the last sentence out of concern for each other's identities.

Lin Kou understood what Jia Min meant, and simply nodded and said, "If madam is willing to part with you, I naturally hope to take a servant girl away from you."

After all, Jia Min really knows how to fuck people, and because of the Lin family style, the maids she came out of are not only better at doing things than Qingwen Xiren and others in Dream of the Red Chamber, but they don't have the arrogance of the deputy lady. They are very clear about their identities.

Jia Min showed a smile: "Bai Xue by my side is not bad. When Bai Shuang comes back, I will let Bai Xue go back with you."

Lin Kou still has some impressions of Bai Xue. She was originally a second-class maid by Jia Min's side, but because of her young age, she was always taken by Bai Lu's side to teach her. was raised up.

She is indeed a nimble maid.

Lin Kou nodded, "Madam still loves me."

Jia Min immediately cheered up.

Lin Kou thought of one thing: "Brother Shan should have started enlightenment, right? Are you going to let him study with Daiyu's husband, or hire another teacher? Or send him directly to a private school?"

Speaking of Brother Shan, Jia Min felt a headache: "This kid is getting older and more lively, and now he makes himself muddy all day long, and the master and I can't control him. Okay. Since he was willing to listen to Yu'er, my master and I thought, let him follow Yu'er to enlightenment."

"Although Yu'er is a daughter, her knowledge is not bad. It is more than enough to enlighten a child."

"It's just that he can't sit still. He was supposed to start enlightenment at the age of three, but it was delayed until this year. Fortunately, he can finally be quiet for a while."

But Daiyu's teacher...

Jia Min frowned invisibly, thinking about who could be a good candidate.

Lin Kou didn't notice: "Children are like this, Madam should be happy. Think about the children I've seen, all the lively and naughty ones, regardless of their temperament, are they physically stronger and less sick than ordinary children? "

When Jia Min heard this, he immediately cheered up: "The old genius doctor also said the same, otherwise I wouldn't want Brother Shan to roll in the mud all day long."

Lin Kou couldn't laugh or cry: "Where is it so serious?"

Just as he was talking about Brother Shan, he heard a clear and clear child's voice from outside the house: "Mother, mother, my son has caught a rabbit! Let me show you!"

As he spoke, he saw a child running in with a pair of rabbit ears.

Lin Kou took a closer look and found that the rabbit was only the size of an adult's palm, so it should be a newborn milk rabbit.

Brother Shan ran towards Jia Min enthusiastically, but halfway saw Lin Kou who was sitting next to Jia Min. Almost instantly, the rabbit in Brother Shan's hand fell to the ground and ran away But Brother Shan himself didn't care about the little rabbit anymore, rushed to Jia Min with a few clicks, and plunged into her arms.

Lin Kou stared at the back of Brother Shan's head with a half-smile: "Brother Shan, why didn't you say hello when you saw my sister?"

Brother Shan's body trembled, and he immediately slipped out of Jia Min's embrace reluctantly, and then shyly moved in front of Lin Kou, calling "Sister" in a low voice.

Lin Kou laughed, "That's good."

Brother Shan breathed a sigh of relief, then quickly ran back to Jia Min and threw himself into her arms.

Jia Min was overjoyed: "It's so weird, you obviously didn't do anything, why is Brother Shan always terrified like a mouse seeing a cat every time he sees you."

Lin Kou knew the reason, but it was because of her experiences before and after the apocalypse that she didn't have a good impression of the little boy.

To be precise, he doesn't have a good impression of all children.

——Daiyu is a special case, not counted.

The child has a keen sense, so he must have sensed Lin Kou's resistance to react like this.

This is actually the reason why Lin Kou has never been pregnant, because if she becomes pregnant when she doesn't like children, she can't guarantee that she will love children.

Lin Kou glanced at Brother Shan, and Brother Shan's eyes rounded instantly. She couldn't help laughing: "Maybe I think I'm too fierce. Brother Shan is still young, and it's not like Daiyu is already sensible."

Jia Min patted Brother Shan's head helplessly: "I hope he will be more sensible when he grows up."

Brother Shan stared unhappily, but after touching Lin Kou, his eyes froze again——

He is not ignorant, obviously sister Kou hates me.

Brother Shan hid beside Jia Min, using her figure to completely block himself: Humph!Do not show you!

Lin Kou didn't notice Brother Shan's thoughtfulness, and continued chatting with Jia Min.

Brother Shan hid beside Jia Min and waited for a while, and finally couldn't bear the loneliness and poked his head in Lin Kou's direction.

However, Lin Kou didn't notice him at all.

Brother Shan lowered his head in disappointment.

Within a few days, Bai Shuang returned to Lin's house, and Bai Xue also came to Lin Kou's side.

Although Lin Kou's family is not as wealthy as Lin's family, Lin Kou's family also has fewer people, so Bai Xue's living standard has not decreased.

The only regret may be that Lin Kou's family didn't have many people to talk to.

But there were few people, and there were few disputes. Bai Xue quickly adapted to the life of serving Lin Kou, and was very happy and didn't think about leaving.

It was only after Zhen Fu finished the exam papers arranged by Lin Kou that she noticed that there was a change of people around Lin Kou.

But he just glanced at it, and then directly looked away: "Madam went to Lin's house before, did you ask me about the sales of the exam questions I gave before?"

This was the first time he had asked a question, and it was related to his family's income, so he was inevitably a little nervous.

Lin Kou nodded: "Of course I asked. It's just that everyone's attention was on the ancient books that the Lin family took out, and not many exam papers were sold in a short period of time."

Zhen Fu was a little disappointed: "If the business has not been good enough, we..."

Lin Kou interrupted him: "What are you thinking? Not many people pay attention to these exam questions now, but it's because there are no big exams this year, and exams like the county exam are not very eye-catching. Wait until next year's exam In the exam, and in the next year's rural exam, someone will always notice."

"If you're lucky, this year's general examination, next year's imperial examination, and the examination papers of the book shop may all be sought after."

It is a pity that most of the candidates who participated in the examination have gone through many exams, and all of them have rich experience. Before the exam, most of them will hide in their own residences and study hard, and they will not go out easily.

Cramming is one of them, and worrying about accidents when going out is the key point.

After all, the imperial examination is based on the number of people admitted, and the number of people admitted each year is basically the same. At most, a part of the number of people admitted will be increased or decreased according to the number of people who signed up for the exam that year.And the imperial court doesn't care about the level of candidates in the field at all.

If the quality of candidates is high, the court will not increase the number of admissions; if the quality of candidates is low, the court will not reduce the number of admissions.

Therefore, once you know that the quality of the candidates in the same class as yourself is too good, those candidates who have no confidence in themselves will easily go off the beaten track and do some irrational things.

Although most of these candidates who have done bad things end up badly in the end, but...

The opportunities you missed, the time you lost, and even the lives you lost will never come back.

So, it's better to be cautious.

Now that the general examination is less than half a month away, it is unlikely that the candidates of this year will be able to notice those examination papers in such a short period of time, and then make a name for the Lin family bookstore.

Zhen Fu used to do intelligence work, so he naturally knew that the circulation of news would take time.

Although I understand, I am still a little disappointed.

Lin Kou smiled and said, "Daiyu even took out the Lin family's books. Didn't it take a month for the news to spread and attract book buyers? Our test papers have only been printed for a few days? It's early."

After all, it is impossible for Jia Min to let people actually go to the streets to promote with gongs and drums.

Zhen Fu was comforted and felt much better.

Lin Kou originally thought that it would take a month, or even several months, for these test papers to be noticed, right?But what I didn't expect was that less than half a month after the exam papers were put on the shelves, the first batch of printed "Five-Year General Examination and Three-Year Palace Examination" was sold out!

Lin Kou: "..." So fast?

When I went to the Lin family to ask, I realized that the root cause was Daiyu's teacher.

Just like what Lin Kou thought before, even if Jia Min had already changed his mind to promote the bookstore, it was absolutely impossible for him to put down his posture and let people beat drums and drums to promote it.

For the Lin family, such a publicity method is very tasteless.

But Jia Min found another way and thought of another more suitable way of publicity——

Even if you invite a candidate who is going to take this session of the exam, give him a copy of "Five-Year Examination and Three-Year Palace Examination" for free, so that he can experience the difficulty of the exam questions and feel the difficulty of the exam in advance .

The reward is to help promote this book among my friends.

Coincidentally, after several years of precipitation, Daiyu's Juren teacher finally decided to take part in this year's examination.

According to Lin Ruhai, the chance of this Juren teacher passing the exam is almost 80.00%. As long as the luck is not too bad, there is basically no problem in passing the exam.

With such a future, the Lin family is not easy to stop.

——If not, Daiyu doesn't have time to read books recently, does she?

So Jia Min decided to make the best use of everything, and simply gave the other party a set of "May [-]".

During the time that Mr. Juren was in the Lin family, he naturally did the examination papers collected by the Lin family, but because he was an outsider of the Lin family and had never entered the small library building, he naturally did not know how many books and examination papers there were in the small building.If he wanted to read a book, he could only tell the boy next to him. The boy told Lin Ruhai, and Lin Ruhai would personally choose the books suitable for this candidate.

But exam papers?Basically only one copy a year.

It wasn't that Lin Ruhai was stingy, but that he hadn't thought about it at all, and the Juren teacher thought that the Lin family didn't have many exam papers, so he was embarrassed to ask for it.

When I was leaving, I received a whole set of examination papers, which contained almost a hundred sets of examination papers!

The Mr. Juren was dumbfounded.

Lin Ruhai was worried that he felt ashamed, so he hurriedly said: "My girl sorted out the test papers in the family collection, as well as some of the questions I wrote, and they got them out. They are going to sell them. I heard that recently It’s on the shelves, and you can buy it outside, you can take it back and make it, and it’s good to check for omissions and make up for vacancies.”

Teacher Juren was so moved that his eyes were red: "Thank you, Lord Lin. I really can't repay you for your care these years. If there is a chance in the future, I will definitely...

"Stop, stop!" Lin Ruhai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "It was agreed at the beginning, you teach my daughter, and I will answer your questions when I have time. You have taught my daughter very well, so I will naturally do my best, but it's just a deal. Not to mention taking care of it, you don't have to take it to heart."

"This set of questions is actually divided into ten books, one set of ten questions. What I give you is a complete set, with almost more than 100 test papers. It takes only one month. You will definitely not be able to finish it. You can pick some out of your own choice. Do."

Teacher Juren hurriedly responded: "I understand."

But when he returned to his residence, as soon as the master Juren opened the examination paper, he couldn't wait to do it.

Then for almost half a month, he kept doing the questions.

Although the efficiency is not as good as that of Zhen Fu, he did a full five sets of questions, and he really passed the exam to check out several knowledge points that he had not fully mastered.

He immediately realized the benefits of these exam papers, and without Lin Ruhai and Jia Min saying much, he told the friends he had met in the capital over the years and the old acquaintances who came from Jiangnan to take the exam.

Because Lin Ruhai said that the book store had already put this kind of test questions on the shelves, he directly told the other party the address and the title of the book, and asked them to buy it themselves.

After that, the matter was widely spread, and everyone in the capital knew about the existence of the "Five-Year General Examination and Three-Year Palace Examination" set of questions.

Although only "One" is currently on the shelf in the book store, there are ten sets of questions, which are completely enough for them to do.

For a time, the Lin family bookstore became famous.

At this time, other scholars who were not going to participate in the examination also knew about this book, and when they heard that the book was sold out, they all rushed to the Lin family bookstore.

Fortunately, the shopkeeper appeased them, and they will increase the printing volume in the future, and they will be able to replenish the goods next month.

In order to reassure these guests, the shopkeeper also registered the names of each guest and left a deposit.

The guests are all scholars, and they have many and deep feelings for books, but there must be some.

After paying the deposit, most of the guests stayed in the bookstore to wander around, and then noticed the collection of questions such as "Five-Year Rural Examination and Three-Year Court Examination", "Sprinting for Children's Life", "General Examination/Rural Examination/College Examination Key Problem Collection" and so on. .

To be honest, those who will come to buy the set of test papers of the "Five-Year General Examination and Three-Year Palace Examination" are not necessarily Juren or Gongsheng students, but some are scholars, and even scholars are not scholars.They bought this set of test questions, but because they heard about this set of test questions and at the same time the news that this set of test questions was sold out, they rushed to buy this set of questions in a moment of excitement.

After all, as long as they are prepared to keep going to the entrance examination, it is inevitable to take the general examination and palace examination.

——at least they felt it was inevitable.

Therefore, you will not suffer a loss if you buy it, and you will be unlucky if you do not buy it.

And now, they have found a test paper that is more suitable for them!

One by one, as if they had found a treasure in an instant, they rushed to the counter with the test papers in hand: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy this set of test papers!"

……

Under such circumstances, these examination papers became popular.

In just one month, the Lin family sent Lin Kou tens of thousands of taels of silver bills.

As for this, the housekeeper of the Lin family still felt that it was not enough: "The second girl said that this time she did not expect these test papers to be so popular, and the printing volume was far from enough, but please rest assured, the eldest girl, the printing of the Lin family's next month The workshop will do its best to print the examination papers and strive to meet the needs of every scholar. At that time, the dividends you receive will be more than just this little silver ticket."

Lin Kou: "...that's a lot."

At any rate, 1 taels of silver bills is an amount that ordinary people can't spend in a lifetime.

The shopkeeper only regarded her as comforting, and did not reply.

Lin Kou: "..." Fine, as long as you are happy.

Lin Kou got more than 1 silver notes, and Xue Baochai and others got thousands of dollars in profits.

When their family has not yet fallen, perhaps no one thinks that 1000 taels of silver is a lot——

Even though these girls can only get a few taels of silver per month, they are also known about their own situation, so naturally they don't take 1000 taels of silver seriously.

but……

The four major families are gone.

Not to mention thousands of taels of silver, even 100 taels would be too much for a few girls.

They were willing to get involved before, not only because they felt that this matter could prove their abilities, but also because this matter could earn some pocket money.

Yes, whether it is Xue Baochai, Sanchun or Shi Xiangyun, they don't think that these test papers will be popular after they are printed, and how much money they can make. They all have no spare money in their hands, so they want to take the opportunity Just earn a little pocket money.

Before the family's house was ransacked, each of them only had a few taels of silver per month. They helped sister Lin to do things, and they could always earn back the monthly silver in a month, right?

Who would have thought that reality would surprise them so much!

This is 1000 taels!

Sanchun and Shi Xiangyun were overjoyed, even Xue Baochai was still very happy when he suddenly had such a large sum of money.

After all, this is the Xue family's first income since they were sitting on the mountain.

The little girls came to Lin's house happily.

Daiyu made more money, but firstly, the Lin family was still rich without any accidents; Calm.

But Daiyu's emotional intelligence is not bad, so she won't spoil everyone's happiness.

Seeing a few little girls coming to the door, they simply asked the kitchen to tidy up a table of good wine and food, and then sent people to Lin Kou's house to invite Lin Kou over.

While waiting for Lin Kou, Tanchun took a careful look at Daiyu: "Sister Lin, the old lady and the others know about our money making. Although the old lady didn't ask us to hand over the money, we..."

Xiangyun said carelessly: "I'm from the Shi family. I have to spend some money living in the Jia family. After all, the Jia family is no better than before. It's just that I couldn't make money in the past. Now I've made money, so it's not good." Still as stubborn as an iron rooster."

Xichun was also a little embarrassed: "I originally belonged to Ningfu, so it's not good to live here without giving anything."

Yingchun glanced at the others, and whispered: "So, we told the old lady that half of the profits will be deposited into the public office every month from now on."

Daiyu was startled: "It's not that the Jia family has no males, how could it be reduced to..."

How many of you little girls are required to support the family?

She distributed this much money to several little sisters, not to support the family members of the Jia family, but to save dowry for the little sisters.

If the family is in trouble, it will be difficult for these little sisters to get married in the future. If they don't have any more money...

But after all, it was her ancestral home, Daiyu snorted angrily, but she couldn't really speak ill of the Jia family.

Baochai no longer had such scruples: "The Jia family still has a lot of money. Otherwise, how could Baoyu still have two servant girls by her side? You didn't live a good life in Rongguo Mansion back then. Sister Yingchun Even the servants dare to bully, and the others are fair, why are you..."

She knew she was cold-hearted, but what happened to the Jia family?

When the Rongguo Mansion was still at its peak, no one cared about the marriages of a few girls. Now that the Jia family has fallen, I'm afraid no one cares...

If you don't think about yourself at this time, who cares about them?

Baochai and Daiyu looked at each other, their eyes were full of hatred that iron can't be made into steel!