After Dressing Up As a Princess, Engaged In Infrastructure Construction

Xuzhou.

mid-February.

In the early morning, Dazhuangzi and his wife Erniang went to work in the factory.

As a rule, they have to prepare breakfast food for the children, and then let the children at home feed their grandfather breakfast food.

Dawa got up early today, and yesterday there was an arithmetic formula that he couldn't understand - he didn't understand what a quadrant was, and he couldn't imagine what it meant to be infinitely extended.

The husband said that this is a knowledge that will only be learned in high school. If he doesn't understand it, don't force himself, but the big boy thinks that he must learn it.

This time, Dad couldn't send him to study, but God bless, suddenly a boat came and needed someone to help unload the things. That night, I earned twenty cents for unloading the box.

Originally, others only had ten pennies.

Because the steward in charge of unloading said that he was very relieved to handle the boxes that Dad carried on his back - Dad had helped people in the tea processing factory pack the boxes before, so he knew the words "Handle with care."

No matter how urgent, but also to protect the box.

Just this one move made Dad different from the other unloaders, and was remembered by the manager.

The person in charge was very fond of Dad, so he asked him to pack things and gave him a lot of money.

"I like your honesty and seriousness. Don't worry, I don't have much money for me. I'll give you the goods, don't worry."

I heard that he is a worker in a tea processing factory. He cannot leave during the day. He can only go after get off work.

So I went out in the early morning, and now my father and mother can only come back late at night.

He and his second brother originally wanted to go after school, but they didn't want to be in charge. If they said that they were under fifteen years old, that would not work. When there are men, children cannot be used.

This is the biggest trouble for the eldest child and the second child. There are many things they can't do.

So I can only sit at home and read.

After taking care of Grandpa's meal, he took care of the four children below.

There are a total of five children in the family. He is the eldest and the oldest. Invisibly, Dad and Mom handed over more responsibilities to him.

The big boy sighed. Fortunately, Erwazi is only one or two years younger than him, and the three younger ones can be handed over to him. He asked if the little boy had finished eating, and he also sat in the thatched hut of the grandfather and shouted, "Er Wazi, have they finished eating?"

Erwazi replied loudly in another thatched hut, "I'm done eating."

Some eat, and everyone grabs it.

The eldest child said that he knew, and then said to the grandfather who was lying on the bed unable to move: "We have gone to school, and I will come back at noon to cook for you."

Father and mother do not come back at noon, only he comes back.

When I came back from the city, I had to run. You can also endorse while running.

He is the best at memorizing his books, and he is also the best at doing math, physics and chemistry, but every time he is tested for poetry, he is the worst. The husband sighed and said that if it were placed before, he would definitely not be a good student, but now it has caught up with the good times, because now it is not regarded as poetry.

"His Royal Highness, the crown princess, is more practical, so all of us in the Yu Kingdom are practical people. If you only know how to write poetry, I will be worried, so you should stop attacking your weaknesses and simply give up writing poetry. I will write a letter, sir, recommending that you go directly to the high school entrance examination."

That's right, although it is said that in the fourth grade, there is an exam for high school, and those who do well and those who do not have to be divided into classes. Almost from then on, life began to fork.

However, this is just a test on the surface. Privately, there are also a group of students who have already taken the high school exams before the unified exam. Once admitted, the so-called top class is formed.

Because high schools are not available in every city, but in a state, and only one is open for the time being. When it was just started, the faculty only supported one.

Therefore, outstanding students from various Chengchi primary schools will be recommended by their husbands to take the high school exam first. The big boy is. He cherished this opportunity.

Once he has the money for repairing, the eldest child will focus entirely on his studies, and the state of the class will be different.

When the husband who taught him went back to have dinner with his wife, his wife sighed, "You too, if you see him stop reading, and there is money at home, why don't you just help him? People almost dropped out of school.”

Mr. Tang is in his early thirties. He said, "It's not my turn to discover this gifted child from a rich family. What I discovered was from a poor family. However, there are so many poor families. Who can I help? It's not helping anyone, I Helped this, that one should hate me."

He handed a bowl of rice to his daughter-in-law and said, "Our family doesn't have much money, it's only enough for one person. And our children are going to study and save up. Besides, they go to high school. , don't you need money? I can't keep helping. I can't say it, I can't say it, it's just as if I didn't see it."

When he said this, he suddenly said: "Hey, you said, let's disperse Mei Xiang?"

His daughter-in-law was stunned, and said, "Why...she doesn't serve well?"

Mei Xiang is his concubine. When she was a child, she was Mrs. Tang's maid, and later married with Mrs. Tang. After two years, when Mrs. Tang gave birth to a child, Mei Xiang became his concubine.

Mrs. Tang also felt very happy. In her opinion, Mei Xiang is a girl, with a servant servant, it is better to be a concubine for her husband and serve her husband together, which is a good thing.

Mei Xiang also agreed. Now that two or three years have passed, and it is almost twenty, if you go out again, won't this kill Mei Xiang?

When Mr. Tang was told by his wife, he didn't know how to say it.

He and his wife are childhood sweethearts since childhood. Although the two families are not rich, they also use slaves. Later, the family was in trouble, and there was only one steward by his side, and only Mei Xiang by his wife's side.

If before, it would be normal for him to take the maid next to his wife as his concubine. But now, he doesn't feel like it anymore.

"I don't like her." Mr. Tang said with consideration: "Having a concubine is just doing something ordinary people do. Everyone in the world has taken a concubine, so I will take a concubine too."

He said to his confused wife, "But I adore you. We are husband and wife. Mei Xiang cannot be respected by me."

Madam Tang rejoiced and said angrily: "It's just a concubine's room, no need for friendship, not to mention other things, Mei Xiang has followed us since she was a child, and she was sent away at this time, how do you want her to deal with herself?"

Madam Tang shook her head and said, "I know Mei Xiang's temperament. If you do this, she won't say anything. If you don't want to go out, you will kill yourself with a rope."

"Although she is a maid, and now she is a concubine, but I treat her like a sister, and have been with each other for so many years. You want to send people away to a place I don't know, do I? Are you relieved?"

Mr. Tang was a little worried. The wife has been brought up by the idea of ​​three obediences and four virtues since she was a child, and she is not wrong. But he recently read a book on the relationship between husband and wife, and he felt that men and women are obviously the same individuals, so why can men have three wives and four concubines?

He sneered at first, but the more he looked at it, the more reasonable it became. A man and a woman should be united in love. If he doesn't love another woman, why should he be with her?

Then he was surprised by his shocking thought.

He didn't dare to say it, and when he hid this idea in his heart, even his wife would only dare to express it euphemistically. Sure enough, even his wife didn't understand him.

The wife is a really virtuous person.

He had to do the opposite, called Mei Xiang in, and said, "I think, there are many workshops in the city now. You are idle at home, why don't you go out and do things?"

Mei Xiang was a little stunned, but since she was a child, she had a submissive temperament, so she bowed her head and nodded, Mr. Tang breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It happens that I have a student whose father is the manager of a textile factory. I heard that there are recruiting people there. Go and report."

Mei Xiang's eyes were red with some grievances, but she didn't dare to say anything wrong, so she continued to nod her head. But Mrs. Tang became angry, pulled Mei Xiang to her side, wiped her tears in distress, and said to her husband in confusion, "You can't tolerate her so much? She grew up with us since childhood. Not to mention that he is now a master or a servant, and he did not say that he was sent out to work in a textile factory. The court also expressly forbids sending servants to the factory.”

The more she said, the more angry she became: "It's not that the family is poor and can't open the pot. Where can Meixiang do things? If you are poor and have no money, I still have a dowry, and I will sell it to fill you up."

Mr. Tang sighed and had to change his mind and said, "Let's send it over, and learn a lot of new things, and come back in the future to teach the children. I'm a big man, and I can't go to school. You need a housekeeper, too. If you can’t walk away, Mei Xiang is doing embroidery at home every day, so isn’t it appropriate to go to a textile factory?”

"That's it. Come back and tell me what you learn every day."

Only then did Mrs. Tang understand with her thinking: this is to want Mei Xiang to learn something, to steal a teacher.

She asked Mei Xiang, "Then are you willing to go? I heard that many painting reds are taught for free."

Mei Xiang nodded. As long as the master and wife didn't want her, she would.

...

Hobson followed him around the night market.

Everything he wants to buy in Xuzhou has already been bought. In a few days, he will follow Cang Miao on a boat, start to Muzhou, and then go directly to Kyoto through the newly built canal.

What he bought in Xuzhou did not follow him to Kyoto, but after meeting the Crown Princess from Kyoto, they waited for her to approve more ships before they returned to Xuzhou.

Then, it's time to start again.

So everything was done in Xuzhou, just waiting to go to Kyoto and go to the night market, it was very easy.

He came with pure appreciation.

It was mid-February at this time, and Xuzhou was still very cold. However, whether it was cold or not did not prevent them from going inside the night market shed.

Today's night market has specially built a large shed. The construction of the shed is very simple. There is a roof and a few wooden pillars on it. It is barely a big house.

Then the shed was surrounded by cloth in all directions. The cloth was rough, but it was not airtight. Although people were still cold inside the shed, it was no longer as cold as walking outside.

Therefore, everyone can still accept to go out to the night market.

Although Hobson said that he was obsessed with kang and floor heating, the night market was more attractive to him than kang.

Because the little things in this night market are really cheap!

Cang Miao explained: "This is Yiwu's small commodity economy proposed by Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess. Before this kind of economy came out, no one thought that this kind of small thing could make a lot of money."

Originally thought it was a small fight, but in the end, this wholesale market can support many people.

Hobson was even more interested in Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of Yu. He said: "There are so many wonderful people, I must meet them."

This Cang Miao couldn't agree. When he went back by himself, he would definitely see Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess, but Hobson wasn't sure.

Her Royal Highness has never liked meeting outsiders very much. So he didn't give Hobson any hope, he just said, "I'll ask you a question, but Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess may not agree."

Hobson understands.

That was the princess, he understood the meaning and said with a smile, "I hope God bless you."

As a result, just after saying this, I saw a child running over and staring at him curiously. Hobson was already familiar with this process. His appearance is really strange to these children, but in his imagination, his appearance will definitely cause everyone to panic, who knows not, they are only curious.

There are even more children, who will rush up to look at him hard.

Hobson showed a self-assured smile-he was an earl after all, but he was not close to the people before.

The child was frightened and cried.

The child's parents hurriedly came to carry the child away, and said while hugging people, "You are so cowardly, didn't the imperial court say it a year ago, there is still a place overseas where there may be people with blue eyes. "

The child cried, "Then why are there people with blue eyes?"

That pair of parents was stopped, paused, and said, "You'll know when you go to elementary school."

Cang Miao was very embarrassed when the person left. He thought the children were disrespectful.

People were ashamed, but Hobson was more forgiving. He said, "Nothing. Everyone is curious."

The child here... actually gave him a very strange feeling.

They are different from their parents and grandparents.

In their eyes, there is a unique light that is different from their parents.

So he continued shopping and bought a lot of small things before he knew it. When his companion told him that these small things cost a lot of money, Hobson was full of astonishment.

--How can it be!

Every little thing is so cheap, but after a calculation, it's true, it's not wrong.

He squatted down and muttered, "When I go back, I will also build a wholesale center in Yiwu Small Market."

This name is the password of wealth!

...

end of February.

Kyoto.

Yushan started the debate again.

This year is very proficient, and early, the mountainside below has become the world of all kinds of vendors. They shouted different snacks, loudly and loudly, hoping that someone would come to patronize them.

However, melon seeds and tea are still the best sellers.

And today, there are still people selling tea eggs, and they don’t know what the secret recipe is.

This tea egg sells very well.

But today only a small portion is used to sell on the mountainside, and most of it is used to sponsor the people in the debate area.

In the sponsoring area, there were several girls who distributed tea eggs. They were wearing light-colored clothes, and there was a red cloth made of a cover, which was hung on their bodies. On the cover, six words were written in paint: Women's Newspaper Sponsor.

Obviously, the person who made the tea eggs was from the women's newspaper.

Then, someone asked, what kind of tea egg is this, and the girls would answer: "It's Mingtong tea egg. We still have a small shop, the first one at the left turn of Yangliu Alley."

Then he added: "Our shopkeeper is called Ming Tong. This is our shop brochure. If you are interested, take a copy."

This booklet looks well-designed.

It has the pattern of a peony flower printed on it, which is the most gorgeous kind.

Then there is their shop introduction on the left. This introduction is not the same as usual, but talks about something called shop spirit and shop culture.

In the right column, the life story and road of making a fortune of the female shopkeeper are specially introduced, and the future store planning is explained.

This kind of propaganda booklet is refreshing, and many people feel that it can be imitated after reading it.

"Anyway, I think what's written here is very attractive to me. It's hard to think that this is just a shop selling tea eggs." A man in silk clothes said: "I think I will do other business soon after coming here. "

The person next to the man said: "I can manage the tea eggs well, and I don't have to worry about other things, but I really want to meet this lady."

The crowd burst into laughter, as if the person beside them was telling a joke.

The girls who distributed the tea eggs looked at each other and said nothing. One of the girls went back and took back the tea eggs that were distributed to the men. She smiled and said, "You dare to criticize human skin, We are all for people to eat."

The man became angry, and the girl went up together, "Why, can't you beat someone?"

It's not to beat people, but a man feels insulted, and he must apologize to the girl who said he was a beast. The girl was also violent, and greeted him with tea eggs, so Yushan's first time The fight started just like that.

Zhe Qing took Zong Tong to the side, exclaiming at the people who were fighting in front of him, those who persuaded them, those who took the opportunity to watch the excitement, and even a few reporters who took advantage of the chaos to interview.

"Atong, take a look, that little girl's punching skills are good."

Zong Tong didn't look at it, he just hummed lightly, very perfunctory.

Zhe Qing clicked his tongue, turned and walked towards the foot of the mountain.

Really boring.

After walking a few steps, he saw an old man who was obviously a farmer climbing up the mountain. Zhe Qing took out a tea egg from Zong Tong's arms and gave it to the old man.

"But I'm going to debate? Today's topic is express delivery and takeaway. What opinion does the old man want to make?"

She was used to going straight and straight, but it surprised the old man, but he was obviously brave, he hesitated for a moment, not wanting to miss the noble person in front of her, and asked: "Girl, the old man came up the mountain just to ask a question. , this courier, can it be delivered to our village?"

He wiped his sweat and said, "You don't know, the people in the village who helped us bring things with an accent to the city before are the believers we often say."

"Before we, trustees brought things, and they were all brought by letter customers, but now that there are express delivery and takeaway, many letter customers have done these two, and no one will bring our letters and things."

When Zhe Qing heard it, he understood.

It is true that today's takeaway and express delivery only develop in the city, and will not go to the village. Takeaway is fine, but express delivery is different.

Courier is the letter to customers, and it is the way in their hearts to contact their distant relatives.

Now that the way is broken, it is natural to be anxious.

But express delivery, most of the places to send and delivery are in big cities, how can the country people send things?

It is nothing more than a letter of peace to the distant person.

After the old man finished eating the tea eggs, he asked, "Girl, do you think there is a special courier for delivering letters?"

Zhe Qing nodded.

"Yes, it's called the post office."

...

At the same time, in the Yu Meiren Inn, several businessmen were inviting Qin Kuan to drink.

They are all here for the Six Nations Trade Organization.

It's been a year, and it's been delayed because of the severe drought. Now it's March, and at the March meeting of the people, the first members of this organization will be decided.

Everyone wants to get in, okay?

The Chu merchant who had eaten the boat merchant's bonus last year, Gongsun Shouchang really wanted more bonus.

Now he knew that as long as he followed Yu Guo, there was nothing wrong.

He had a set of logic in his heart: follow the ship merchants of the Yu Kingdom, Yu merchants eat meat, he only drinks soup, but the soup can support him to death. But if he loses money, then he only loses money for soup, and he won't be hurt by the loss of meat.

Anyway, doing business with Yu Kingdom, or just doing business in Yu Kingdom, is only profitable.

This business can do it!

So this foreign trade organization has been stared at for a year, and the relationship that should be opened has been opened up, and they have a bottom line in their hearts, but they are still worried and want to invite Qin Kuan to have a meal.

Qin Kuan invites everyone to come and eat. Her Royal Highness said that if they don't eat, they will invite others to eat.

So Qin Kuan came to eat.

He eats very modestly, with a few dishes on a plate - it's not that he's not hungry, but that he has absolutely no appetite for these dishes.

—— No matter how delicious Yu Meiren's wine and food are, if you eat it for two or three years, you won't be able to eat it, right?

Anyway, he was tired, especially after eating a lot recently, he was even more tired, to the point where he couldn't swallow.

When someone came to toast, he took it up with a smile, didn't drink it, just held it in his hand and asked him something, he didn't say anything, just said: "Oh, this depends on what the final policy looks like. , I'm just a small official, how can I interfere."

When he was gone, a businessman scolded: "This kid is young, but he has become an elite. I see, I will call him the "Slippery Autumn Soap Monster!"

He is a new businessman this year, and he is still a big businessman in Yan Kingdom. Because of his relationship with Luo Yusong's cousin Huo's family, he can invite Qin Kuan to a meal.

Because they were used to being arrogant in the state of Yan all the year round - although the Yan merchants met the official, they kept their breaths low, but they ate him a meal for nothing without revealing anything, that is, Qin Kuan, whom they saw in the state of Yu.

Gongsun Shouchang, who was invited by him to accompany him, didn't say anything after hearing this. This Yan merchant is his rival. Although they have a good relationship now, they will soon set foot in the Yan merchant business.

At that time, we have to compete for the market.

He just said, "I still have to vote for what we want, it seems that we did not vote for him."

Yanshang scolded: "It's really annoying."

But it's not good if you don't invite him to dinner. Everyone wants to hang out in Kyoto. Who would dare to miss Qin Kuan's meal now?

Someone persuaded him: "You have to think this way, Mr. Qin Kuan, he is eating on behalf of the people in Ping'an Alley. If he eats a mouthful, in fact, all the people in Ping'an Alley have eaten this meal. Think about it. , is it a good deal for so many people to eat just one meal?"

That person just thought about it, not to mention, it's really cost-effective.

But he couldn't just spend it like that, that person was cruel, and when he invited him to another inn the next day, he gave him a beauty with bare chest and legs.

Qin Kuan: "..."

No one has dared to do this for years!

He covered his eyes with his hands in horror and anger, covering them tightly, and scolded: "You dare to insult my innocence - you wait!"

He was innocent and innocent, and was insulted so unexpectedly today!