"Yes, brother Tianhua, it is not appropriate for a man and a woman to give such expensive gifts to each other. You may not understand this aspect, but you will gradually understand it in the future... Well, you feel a little sorry for this,

Please sell me this orb for two hundred days."

As she said that, Chen Qimei took out two banknotes from her body, and they were official banknotes, each worth one hundred yuan in silver dollars.

Although Chen Tianhua is not a historian, he was familiar with ancient bank notes after being exposed to a transnational bank note fraud case in later generations.

The two banknotes in Chen Qimei's hand are official banknotes issued by the Ministry of Accounts of the Qing government, which are called official banknotes. They are different from credit banknotes issued by private banks, which are called private banknotes.

This kind of banknote is divided into copper dollar ticket, silver dollar ticket and silver dollar ticket, and these two hundred yuan tickets are silver dollar tickets.

Chen Qimei's motive is the most obvious. He bought this orb from Chen Tianhua and then gave it to Liu Yufang, which was like a love token to win the favor of the beautiful woman.

What makes Chen Tianhua particularly frustrated is that Liu Yufang does not seem to object to Chen Qimei's behavior of borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha. It can be seen that she is secretly happy.

"It may not be appropriate for me to give this pearl to Sister Yufang. How about this, Brother Yingshi, I will give it to you. This should be appropriate, but I will never accept the banknote."

At this moment, Chen Tianhua is relieved. The most important thing for liking her is to make the other person happy. Since there is no love between men and women, they should maintain the friendship between brother and sister.

But Chen Tianhua's helpless statement shocked both Chen Qimei and Liu Yufang, causing a completely different chemical reaction.

I didn't expect that a young farm boy who was heavily in debt would show such magnanimity and chivalry in the face of huge amounts of money, which made people moved.

"This won't work, Tianhua. Your family still has so many debts to repay. You have to accept this money and treat it as selling it to a jewelry store." Upon seeing this, Liu Yufang quickly persuaded.

"Yes, brother Tianhua, Wen Xiong has told me about your family's affairs, you must accept this money." Chen Qimei's attitude was also very sincere.

"No, I got this pearl from Guazi Lake. I don't want to sell it. If I can repay the debt, I still have dozens of pearls at home."

This pearl was not the king of pearls, but the second largest. Originally, he was planning to give it to Liu Yufang.

Now it seems that the famous woman has a master, and her own conditions in all aspects are indeed incomparable with Chen Qimei, a young master from a wealthy family. If she insists on her own opinion, it will be a bit unrequited love.

Since Liu Yufang likes it, let's grant it to them and treat it as a gift.

"Then thank Brother Tianhua first, Brother Yu will repay you someday." Seeing that this was the point, Chen Qimei stopped being polite.

"Hey Tianhua, if you still have pearls at home, take them and sell them to Yingshi's second uncle. His second uncle is a famous jeweler in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He has branches in Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Zhuji and other places, and also has

There is a special jewelry workshop." Liu Yufang said.

"Yes, my second uncle has been in Zhuji recently. He has a jewelry processing workshop there. The products are sold well in Southeast Asia and overseas countries. I heard that he will come to Shaoxing tomorrow. Tianhua, you go back today and bring the pearls up tomorrow.

I promise that the price I will give you is absolutely fair." Chen Qimei further encouraged her from the side.

"Well, tomorrow is too hasty. Let's go to the day after tomorrow. I will bring the pearls to you early the day after tomorrow."

Chen Tianhua replied cheerfully.

He was also very happy after hearing this. There was a reliable acquaintance in this world who recommended it. Both the buyer and the seller had basic trust, so the price would not be outrageous.

"Okay...this is great." Chen Qimei almost jumped up with joy. This is a beautiful thing that kills two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, he helped Tianhua sell his pearls in exchange for money, so that he could pay off his debts easily; on the other hand, he also helped his second uncle get a wonderful jewelry business, wouldn't it be nice?

"Oh, it's almost twelve o'clock. Mr. Heqing and Qianhua should be waiting in the small room of the cafeteria." Liu Yufang took out a gold case and pearl fan-shaped pocket watch, took a look at it and exclaimed.

"Then let's go quickly." Chen Qimei wrapped the chicken blood red pearl in flannel again and put it in her pocket.

Chen Tianhua followed them towards the cafeteria of Jingming Academy.

The cafeteria of Jingming Academy is very similar to the staff cafeteria of later generations. There are more teachers and students eating here at noon, and maybe less at night.

But there are many residential students here in the school.

In addition to this city, there are also towns a little further away, which are more than ten or twenty miles away. In an era when there are no bicycles nowadays, it is considered a long distance.

To be able to study in this Chinese and Western school, your family must be rich or expensive, because the tuition and miscellaneous fees will certainly not be low, and the threshold is also high.

The salary of teachers here is quite high. I heard from Liu Yufang that it is divided into several grades. The monthly salary is between NT$60 and NT$150. Foreign teachers are hired to teach English. There are also many Japanese teaching nature and mathematics here.

Supervisor is considered an official position, an eighth-grade yamen, with a monthly salary of 180 yuan, which can be converted into silver salary and rice, which is equivalent to the monthly salary of the county magistrate.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it can be seen that all walks of life, from the imperial court to all prefectures and counties, attached great importance to education.

But the most important thing is that the education in the late Qing Dynasty was only an elite education. It trained only the children of a very small number of noble families. Ordinary people had no ability and were not qualified to attend such Chinese and Western schools.

At best, it is a private school, which belongs to the literacy stage and cannot teach science and technology.

The gentle autumn wind passed by the corridor, making the gradually turning yellow branches and leaves tremble slightly, making people walking in the courtyard feel that the chill of late autumn has arrived.

When Chen Tianhua followed Liu Yufang and Chen Qimei to the dining room in the cafeteria, Li Shuzhen was the only one there.

"Hey Qianhua, why are you alone, where is Mr. Heqing?" Liu Yufang asked.

"Mr. Heqing, he has something else to do and said he would be there soon." Li Shuzhen replied.

"Ahem...I'm right behind you."

Following two dry coughs, there was a sound of light footsteps outside the lounge, and then a man who looked like a scholar walked in.

He was wearing a light blue gown and a Western-style hat on his long braided head, which made him look a bit unusual.

He is of medium height, thin and humanoid, about thirty-three or four years old, with a mustache, wearing a pair of round gold-rimmed glasses of the same style as Chen Qimei, and has sharp eyesight.

Seeing this person entering the door, Liu Yufang and others stepped forward and bowed very respectfully.

"Fumio meets you sir!"

"The British scholar pays homage to Mr. Heqing!"

"Qianhua greets you sir!"

This very respectful etiquette seems to contain the meaning of master and disciple.

"Okay...please take a seat without being polite."

Sure enough, Mr. Heqing waved his hand as a teacher and asked everyone to sit down, while Li Shuzhen went out to ask the cook to serve the food.

"Tianhua, come here and pay a visit to Mr. Cai Yuan Pei Cai Heqing, the most talented and learned educator in Shaoxing and a famous educator at that time."

As soon as she sat down, Liu Yufang immediately introduced Chen Tianhua, who was watching with cold eyes.

What?
Chapter completed!