nucmednet Chapter 310 Reporting New Achievements
Chapter 310 Reporting New Achievements
The reason why Bai Jingzhou was also in the village was because the academy was going to give students a 15-day field holiday (i.e. the busy farming season holiday) in early May. Bai Jingzhou, Bai Jingshan and Gu Wenhai simply followed Gu Wenxuan and the others back to the village after the results were announced.
Of course, even if the three of them came back, they no longer had to get up early and go to work in the fields every day. In order to let them concentrate on preparing for the upcoming college entrance examinations, the relatives of the three said that they only needed to study hard, and they had already hired people to do the farm work at home.
Bai Jingzhou and the other two had no choice but to study hard during the holidays. Occasionally, when they needed to change their minds, the three of them would make an appointment to practice martial arts together.
In addition, Bai Jingzhou also sorted out the planting experience of rice, yam, watermelon, strawberry, mulberry, cherry, yellow peach and other fruit trees recorded by Gu Wenxuan some time ago.
Although she had learned all the traditional Chinese characters, when taking notes in the fields, Gu Wenxuan would still use charcoal to write simplified Chinese characters instead of traditional Chinese characters for convenience.
She had been very busy during this period and had not had time to organize the original records. When Bai Jingzhou saw it, he simply took it and sorted it out himself.
With his help in sorting it out and rewriting it using a brush and traditional Chinese characters, Gu Wenxuan simply put the matter behind her and didn't care about it anymore.
In the blink of an eye, it was the ninth day of May, the day before Gu Wenxuan's birthday. Bai Jingzhou, who had been apart from Gu Wenxuan since the beginning of the year, took her to the county town on this day.
They first went to see Magistrate Peng. After Magistrate Peng dismissed the outsiders as requested, Bai Jingzhou handed over all the samples of cotton products, as well as a booklet recording the drawings of new spinning wheels and looms, the specific methods, processes, and precautions for making cotton into cotton yarn, cotton thread, cotton cloth, gauze, etc., and the wide range of uses of cotton cloth and gauze.
County Magistrate Peng was extremely delighted. He could benefit from the emergence of a capable person like Bai Jingzhou under his jurisdiction. If nothing else, at least his performance evaluation this year would definitely be excellent.
After praising Bai Jingzhou, County Magistrate Peng immediately wrote a memorial to report the matter to the prefect.
The prefect was also very happy and immediately wrote a memorial to report.
As the good news was passed up level by level, Bai Jingzhou and his team had no way of knowing whether anyone had any ill intentions towards him, but in the end, the biggest share of the award did fall on Bai Jingzhou.
Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan were quite satisfied with the result, so they decided that when good things happened in the future, they would report it through the county government and let these people also benefit from it.
Of course, all this will happen a month later. Right now, Bai Jingzhou is still in the initial stage of testing the reactions of officials at all levels.
After handing all the things over to County Magistrate Peng, he took Gu Wenxuan out shopping.
He had already prepared the gift, and planned to give it to Gu Wenxuan on her birthday. Today, he only planned to take Gu Wenxuan out to eat, drink and shop in the county town.
Gu Wenxuan has always had a good appetite. The two of them ate from one end of the street to the other, from this street to that street. Every time, Bai Jingzhou would only take a bite or two, but Gu Wenxuan's stomach seemed to be a bottomless pit. She bought a lot of snacks, both to eat and to take with her.
Bai Jingzhou followed behind her, paying and helping to carry various oil paper bags. Occasionally, Gu Wenxuan would feed him a snack when no one was paying attention. Bai Jingzhou's happiness index soared.
The two of them strolled around the county town for most of the day and had a sumptuous lunch. Before returning, they bought two boxes of meat and vegetables at a restaurant to improve their family's meals.
However, even so, the money they spent was less than half of the money Bai Jingzhou brought.
On the way back to the village, Bai Jingzhou couldn't help but sigh that Gu Wenxuan really knew how to save money.
Gu Wenxuan didn't think she was saving money on purpose. She just had no other hobbies that required spending money except food.
She doesn't like makeup, and she rarely wears jewelry. She can't wear all the clothes, shoes and socks that the female elders in her family make for her, so there is naturally no need for her to buy more.
She had no interest in such entertaining things as storytelling novels, orchids, birds and birds, or the artistic arts of calligraphy, painting, chess and music.
She counted on her fingers, and Bai Jingzhou smiled and chatted with her. The two of them took a carriage and returned to the end of the village before dinner time.
Gu Wenxuan jumped off the carriage in front of her mother's house and carried the food box to deliver food to the Gu family. Bai Jingzhou took the portion that belonged to the Bai family back first so that the stove could heat up the cold food.
What Gu Wenxuan didn't expect was that as soon as she entered the Gu family, she ran into a middle-aged woman she didn't recognize.
Jia Guizhi politely escorted the woman out, during which time the two exchanged a few empty words about Gu Wenxuan.
Gu Wenxuan was curious. After the woman walked away, she whispered to Jia Guizhi, "Who is this?"
Jia Guizhi sighed, "Matchmaker, you are here to matchmake for your brother again."
Ever since Bai Jingzhou and his friends passed the prefectural examination, the unmarried Bai Jingshan and his three companions have become the most sought-after unmarried men in Baijia Village. Not only the Gu family, but also the other three families have matchmakers frequently visiting.
You know, Bai Lizheng's eldest grandson Bai Yaoheng and Bai family's elder's youngest son Bai Yue, both of them have already chosen their fiancées.
Even so, those matchmakers were still shameless enough to come to her house, and Gu Wenxuan was very impressed.
As for Gu Wenhai and Bai Jingshan, Bai Jingshan was in love with Jia Yuelan, and his mother and grandmother rejected all those who came to propose marriage, saying that he wanted to concentrate on his studies.
The only person who could possibly be arranged a marriage by a matchmaker is Gu Wenhai, but the question is, who are those people that the matchmakers introduced to the Gu family?
Either the girl's family has a bad family tradition, or she is very poor and the whole family is counting on marrying off their daughter to get out of poverty, or they even count on the future son-in-law to support the whole family and alleviate poverty throughout their lives; or the girl herself has one or another shortcoming that Jia Guizhi cannot accept.
Of course, the matchmaker would not honestly tell the Gu family what problems there were with the woman. Their consistent principle in matchmaking was to exaggerate the other party's advantages ten or twenty times and then speak of them, while at the same time hiding the other party's fatal flaws.
In other words, the Gu family is now extremely well-informed, and they can easily find out what kind of trap is hidden here by just asking around. Otherwise, Jia Guizhi would not know how many times these black-hearted matchmakers would try to deceive her eldest son.
Gu Wenxuan had often heard Jia Guizhi complain about these matchmakers not doing their job. When she heard Jia Guizhi sigh, she curiously asked, "What kind of person did you introduce to my brother this time?"
"She said she was a daughter of a wealthy family in the county. She boasted about how rich her family was, how much she was favored at home, and how she would definitely have a large dowry in the future. I didn't listen to her seriously at all."