nucmednet Chapter 281 This is just an example
Chapter 281 This is just an example
Father Lin picked up a piece of stir-fried river shrimp with chopsticks and said, "This is just an example."
After a pause, he reminded his wife worriedly, "Don't teach our granddaughter the wrong criteria for choosing a son-in-law."
Mother Lin glanced at him and asked, "Wrong?"
Father Lin: "...No matter whether it's right or wrong, you definitely can't choose a son-in-law based on this standard." Don't let her be unable to get married when the time comes.
Bai Jingzhou and Gu Wenxuan in the guest house knew nothing about this. After they finished their dinner, while others rushed to wash the dishes and boil water, they snuggled up to each other and sat on the stone pier at the entrance of the yard to watch the stars.
In the intervals between looking up and down, Gu Wenxuan caught Bai Jingshan's burning gaze towards Jia Yuelan several times.
She looked surprised and asked Bai Jingzhou in a low voice, "Jingshan likes Yuelan?"
Bai Jingzhou smiled and replied in a low voice, "Even you found out, and he thought he was hiding well."
Gu Wenxuan nudged him with her elbow, gently, without much force, "What do you mean even I noticed it?"
Bai Jingzhou deliberately made a grimace of pain and said, "You are always slow to react to this kind of thing...Okay, I said the wrong thing."
Gu Wenxuan snorted and magnanimously avoided the topic, "Yuelan is determined to find a son-in-law, but it won't be that easy for Jingshan to fulfill his wish."
Bai Jingzhou advised tactfully, "It's hard to find a good son-in-law. Not everyone is as lucky as your grandmother."
Gu Wenxuan sighed, "Yes, my parents and grandparents also said so. They actually don't agree with Yuelan staying in Jia Village to marry a son-in-law."
Bai Jingzhou smiled, "Then Jingshan still has a chance."
Gu Wenxuan glanced at him and said, "Don't interfere. I want to see how Jingshan behaves. If he still hasn't fallen in love with someone else in two years, I will ask my grandmother to help persuade Yuelan to give up the idea of marrying into her family."
She would only ask Lady Jia to help persuade Jia Yuelan to give up the idea of marrying a son-in-law. She did this because she didn't want Jia Yuelan to sacrifice her own happiness and marriage out of filial piety.
As for whether Jia Yuelan should marry Bai Jingshan after giving up the idea of marrying into the family, Gu Wenxuan intends to respect Jia Yuelan's personal wishes.
If the two get along well and are willing to be together, she will happily help her cousin get married. If the two are not destined to be together, she will help Jia Yuelan find a suitable person.
After a good night's sleep, Bai Jingzhou and his colleagues began to read behind closed doors. Of course, in addition to reading, Bai Jingzhou also had to take time to continue treating his patients.
The six brothers Gu Wenxuan, Jia Yuelan and Fang Youfu, who did not need to take the imperial examination, began their happy life of shopping, eating, playing and shopping.
Huairen County is located in the southeast and has completely different customs and habits from Qingshan County. It is still very new to Gu Wenxuan and others.
Since there were many necessities to buy, Gu Wenxuan and others' first stop was Huairen County.
They bought all the daily necessities that were in short supply in the county town, and also bought some food for themselves and to feed the horses. Finally, they bought some fish, shrimp, pork, eggs, brown sugar, etc. to provide nutrition for the Lin family and Bai Jingzhou and others who were studying hard at home.
In addition to these, Gu Wenxuan and his colleagues also bought a lot of salt, cloth, and silk.
Huairen County is close to the sea, and the price of salt is much lower than that in Qingshan County. If salt could be bought and sold freely, Gu Wenxuan and his colleagues would not have to think about buying cloth, silk, glutinous rice, tea and other items. They could make their money back with just one trip of salt.
The group had a good meal in the county town at noon, and before leaving the city in the afternoon, they did not forget to take some food boxes back for Bai Jingzhou and others who stayed at Lin's house.
Gu Wenxuan ordered a portion of Haizhou's more famous dishes, including fried black fish, fish skin in milk soup, braised sand fish, steamed eel, squirrel fish, shrimp cake, Taolin roast chicken, braised pork, wind-fried goose, Wensi tofu, jelly, pancakes, and big cake.
Considering that it is difficult for northerners to eat fish, she also bought fried fish balls, sweet and sour spare ribs, braised lion's head, braised pig's head, pig's heart, pig's liver, pig's trotters, etc.
They went back on time. Just as Bai Jingzhou and his classmates finished their lessons for the day, Gu Wenxuan and others came in carrying lunch boxes.
Gu Wenche, who had just walked to the entrance of the guest house and had not yet entered the house, heard the noise and glanced at the things Gu Wenxuan and the others had bought. "Sister... did you bring a lot of silver?"
To be honest, he was scared by the speed at which his sister spent money.
Gu Wenxuan, "It's okay, what's the matter, do you need money?"
Gu Wenche shook his head. "No, I'm just worried that you don't have enough money."
Gu Wenxuan smiled, "Don't worry, I won't let you go home begging for food and shelter."
Gu Wenche couldn't help but laugh along with Gu Wenxuan, "By the way, sister, I heard that it's hard to buy farmland here. Many times you can't even buy it with money."
He kept talking, and only then did Gu Wenxuan realize that it was Lin's father who said these words.
Lin's father was a Jinshi, and his son was a Juren. They wanted to recruit students. Not only did the Lin family members want to send their children over, but the relatives of the Lin family and people from other surrounding villages also wanted to send their children over.
Although it was impossible for Father Lin to personally teach all the students who wanted to study with him and his son, he could divide the students into classes according to their level of knowledge and then arrange different teachers to teach them.
The introductory class was taught by the scholar, and the advanced class was taught by his son. The young people who wanted to give it a try this year, including his son, and Bai Jingzhou and others who came all the way to send them home, were taught in small classes by Lin's father, a Jinshi.
As soon as the school opened, Lin's father already had a lot of tuition income.
After leaving some money for daily expenses and the fees for his sons and nephews' imperial examinations, Lin's father wanted to buy some land and store the remaining money while most people were still not recovering from the years of war.
As a result, he asked Brother Lin to go to the county town and ask several brokers, but they all said that they didn't have any suitable land for sale, and if they wanted to buy it, they would have to wait for an opportunity.
In the end, it was Lin's father who asked for favors, and the family was able to buy a total of 20 acres of paddy fields in the next village.
Gu Wenche thought this was amazing, but Gu Wenxuan didn't care. She said, "The world will get better and better in the future, and the price of land and the difficulty of purchasing it will also increase."
By then, not only Haizhou where the Lin family is located will need to "wait for an opportunity", but also Xingzhou where they are. This is why she and Bai Jingzhou would rather spend more money to buy a large number of farms in Qingshan County.
She picked out the fish skin in milk soup, Taolin roast chicken, Wensi tofu, and half of the braised pork, and asked Gu Wenche to send them to the Lin family as extra dishes. She gave the rest to Gu Wenxuan and Jia Yuelan on the stone table in the yard.
Since she bought mostly meat dishes, Bai Jingzhou went into the kitchen and cooked two vegetarian dishes. He also asked Yang Wandong to wash the rice and cook it.
While waiting for the meal, Bai Jingzhou slightly heated up the somewhat cold meat dishes that Gu Wenxuan and the others had brought back, without affecting the taste and appearance of the dishes as much as possible.