Poisonous Peasant 'Concubine'

Chapter 138 Little Baozi's Savings

Weiyuan Hou Mansion in the capital city.

"Master Liu, a letter from Cangzhou!"

Zeng Shaoqing, who hurried back to the capital from Cangzhou with a large amount of goods, finally caught up with the day when his old father and his elder brother and second elder brother went out for an expedition. There will be changes, some things are not obvious when Yan Shengrui is around, but once he disappears, the ugliness hidden under the appearance will slowly show its original shape, and the reason why there is no chaos now is entirely because the Holy Majesty personally ordered Yan Shengrui’s disappearance to be blocked According to the news of his disappearance, only his bodyguards, Marquis Zengfu, and the emperor's people are the only ones who know that he is missing. civil strife.

Therefore, Zeng Shaoqing issued several orders to his subordinates to find Yan Shengrui even if Cangzhou was turned over, but the reality is not optimistic, and no good news has been received so far.

Hearing that it was a letter from Cangzhou, Zeng Shaoqing leaned on the recliner and closed his eyes to meditate. Zeng Shaoqing stretched out his hand, and the woman in green clothes who was waiting on the side took the letter and handed it to him respectfully. Disappointment quickly flashed across his eyes. If it was Yan Shengrui's news, the sealant on the envelope must be the special seal of the palace or his personal guard.

"Hehe... this Ling Jingxuan is quite interesting."

Seeing the content of the letter clearly, Zeng Shaoqing turned over and sat up. The letter was sent by the general shopkeeper of Cangzhou, but the content was written by the shopkeeper Zhang of Datong Town. It probably meant that Ling Jingxuan provided them with a few novel menus for trial sale. It has been well received for a few days, the shopkeeper Zhang wanted to give him money to buy out the recipes, but who knows that he doesn't want money, but the lion asked him to take [-]% of the profits from all the menus he provided and the dishes he sold , and he also promised that he could give them one or two new menus every month in the future. It doesn't sound like much, but Xinyuan Restaurant is spread all over Qingguo, and there are at least hundreds of scattered branches. The monthly net profit is calculated in ten thousand gold. If his recipes It's so good, at least one million silver will be distributed in a year. When there is no other way, the chief shopkeeper of Cangzhou sent the letter from shopkeeper Zhang to Zeng Shaoqing, asking him to make a decision himself.

"Kui Ying, let someone check his details, the more detailed the better."

This time he kept a quarter of the jam and wine he brought back from Datong Town, and sent all the rest to the palace. He made more than a hundred times the profit. The emperor even rewarded him with a lot of gold, silver and jewelry. Facts have proved that Ling Jingxuan is indeed talented, he really wants to cooperate with him.

The man called Kui Ying bowed and retreated. Zeng Shaoqing lay back with the letter paper. The more he looked at the content on it, the more interest in the fox's eyes. Ling Jingxuan, the name has undoubtedly been gradually imprinted in his mind .

At this moment, he is really at ease, wondering if he can still be so calm when he finds out Ling Jingxuan's background and thus learns of Yan Shengrui's whereabouts?

Lingjia Village, Datong Town.

After handing in the jam, the family had a good rest for a day, and the next day everyone got busy again, because there was no need to catch up with the goods, Ling Jingxuan simply got lazy and handed over the work of making the jam to Ling Jingpeng, while Yan Shengrui also Instead of going up the mountain, the two of them just nestled together all day long, or simply went to Chuci's house to accompany the children to study, and lived a leisurely and undisciplined life.

"Daddy, are we really going to the county seat tomorrow? I haven't been to the county seat yet, what's there, is it the same as in the town?"

After class in the afternoon, Xiao Baozi lay on Ling Jingxuan's lap and asked curiously. Since Ling Jingxuan told them two days ago that he would take them to the county town, their emotions have been kept high, especially Xiao Baozi. He kept asking questions whenever he got the chance, as if everyone in the county town was overpowered.

"Hehe...why do you ask so many questions? Don't you know when the time comes?"

There were only a few questions he asked over and over again, and he didn't know how to answer them all.

"But I just want to know sooner."

Pouring his lips, the little bun hugged his arm and kept shaking it coquettishly. Ling Jingxuan shook his head helplessly, stretched out his hand to pat his little butt, and pouted at Yan Shengrui on the other side: "Go, ask your father. I went to the county seat when I took the entrance examination for children, how can I remember so much?"

At the end of each year, students from almost every town will gather in the county seat to hold the annual children's examination under the auspices of the county lord. In Ling Jingxuan's own understanding, a scholar is a student card issued by the imperial court to students all over the world. With it, students who study hard can participate in the triennial autumn competition. Wei, the one who won the Juren is tantamount to stepping into the officialdom with half a foot, and then Enke of Chunwei. Modern elementary school graduates, scholars graduated from middle school, juren graduated from high school, and Jinshi and above graduated from university. The original owner passed the Tongsheng examination at the age of 13. At that time, no one in Lingjia Village said that he was a Wenqu star descending to earth?But now Ling Jingxuan just scoffed at it, graduating from elementary school at the age of 13 is Wenqu star descending to earth?What about someone who went to college at the age of 12?If this is modern, let alone a little boy, even an old scholar is not a fart.

The little bun turned around sullenly and walked towards Yan Shengrui, his ears were finally clear. Ling Jingxuan was just about to say go out and walk around, when the corner of his eye accidentally caught the big bun who was swaying in the closet, only his little butt was swaying outside, his eyes couldn't help but Climb a little curiously, and walk over unconsciously.

"What are you doing? Rifling boxes and cabinets in broad daylight."

"Ah? Daddy, I'm startled. I'm looking for the piggy bank you asked Uncle Wang to make for us."

As he said that, Ling Wen really took out a piggy bank the size of a clay pot from the closet. It was made by Ling Jingxuan specially for Old Wang to bake for them. Each of the three children had a very cute image of a naive little pig with a big belly It can hold at least a few thousand copper plates. Seeing that he is struggling to hold him, he must have saved a lot of money, right?

Out of curiosity, Ling Jingxuan followed him all the way to the small tea table in the room, and saw Ling Wen carefully put down the piggy bank, unsnapped the cork underneath, and shook the piggy bank.

"Crash-"

Countless copper coins mixed with silver ingots crashed down on the coffee table, and quickly piled up into a hill, among which were a few silver bills. Ling Jingxuan roughly looked at it, except for the ones left after the initial land purchase. A silver ticket of 1000 taels, two 100 taels and a few ten taels, plus those silver ingots and copper coins, there are at least 500 taels on the tea table. For this, Ling Jingxuan felt ashamed. When did you save so much money?

"Ten taels? No, just take a few silver ingots, no, no, no, what if it's not enough? It's always good to bring more money, right?"

Not noticing the abnormality of his father at all, Ling Wen put the huge piggy bank on the chair next to him, kept rummaging through the piles of copper coins with both hands, and picked up the ten taels of silver bills for a while to have a look. After a while, he put it back in pain, repeated it several times, and seemed to be muttering something, Ling Jingxuan squatted down strangely: "Why are you turning over so much money for nothing? Didn't you say you want to fill up your savings?"

I remember when he brought back the piggy bank, the three buns all excitedly said that they would fill it up, how long has it been, how did he get out of it?This is a bit unlike the stingy style of his buns, right?

"Tomorrow I went to the county seat and I wanted to buy something, but I put all my money in it. If I don't take it from here, I will have no money."

Speaking of this, Ling Wen is also depressed in various ways. Usually, he is full of saving money, and he is reluctant to spend a penny, so that there are only three emergency copper coins in his purse. No, Dad said he was going to take them to the county seat. It was only in a hurry to turn the piggy bank out.

"Hehe... It's rare that you have something you want to buy. What do you want to buy? Tell Dad, can I buy it for you?"

It was the first time he heard that he would take the initiative to spend money to buy things. Ling Jingxuan sat down on the chair next to him with his legs crossed with great interest. Could it be that his little bun is finally learning to spend money?Is his plan to raise them into the second grandparents of dandies about to take the first step successfully?

"That's okay, I have to buy it with my own money."

Glancing at him angrily, Ling Wen looked at the piles of copper coins, silver ingots and silver notes in distress again: "Daddy, do you think I should bring ten taels of silver notes or a few silver ingots?"

The big round eyes were full of naked entanglement, if he had known about it, he would have inquired about the prices of those things first.

"That depends on what you want to buy."

It's not his style to actually use silver ingots. Ling Jingxuan couldn't help being even more excited. Who doesn't want their children to develop good habits of saving?Even among wealthy and noble families, few of them want their children and grandchildren to be extravagant, right?However, Ling Jingxuan was different, he wished that his little bun could spend money vigorously, even if he spent all his money, looking at the world today, there is probably no one else.

"Me?? I tell you that you promise not to tell anyone."

Ling Wen blushed so rarely, Ling Jingxuan raised his eyebrows, and made a gesture that you can say, just when he was about to say what he wanted to buy, Yan Chengrui walked over with the little bun in his arms: "What's the matter? Can't tell others? Can we know?"

Sitting next to Ling Jingxuan, Yan Shengrui put down the bun, and glanced curiously at the copper plates piled up on the coffee table. He came here only after hearing their conversation. To be honest, he was also very curious about what he wanted to buy.

"Brother, why did you take out the money? Didn't we agree to save money together, let's see who gets full first?"

Ling Wu's face is full of doubts, but compared to Ling Wen, he doesn't care so much about money. As for how much money he has saved, it is probably similar to Ling Wen. When Ling Wen handed over the financial power, the money in his hand The ticket Ling Jingxuan did not take it back, and later gave Ling Wu the same amount of money in front of him, to show that he had no partiality for their brothers and treated them equally. No matter which time the money was given to them, the two brothers plus Tie Wazi would be the same Yes, plus Ling Wu is not the kind of kid who spends money recklessly, so his money will definitely not be less than Ling Wen.