After the family finished talking about this, they began to sort out the things they bought today and tied up the six rituals with red cloth.

Among the six rites of Shu Xiu, there is a small red purse containing five taels of broken silver. This is the silver for the husband.

Third Grandpa said: "Old Doctor Wu said that the private schools in the town require five taels of silver a year for repairs. Let's just give Wen Yuan this amount of money."

They felt bad if they were given less, and if they were given too much, the scholar would not accept it, so they would follow other private schools, so that it would be easier for both families.

In my hometown, these five taels of silver would be a lot of money, but now that my family has a tofu business, I don't feel bad if I spend five taels of silver a year, and no one in the family objects.

Before dawn the next day, the family got up and prepared to go out.

Going to school was a big deal in ancient times, so Gu Dashan, Gu Jinan, and Gu Jinli all changed into new clothes. As the elders, the third grandfather also decided to go to Shang Xiucai's house.

After getting ready, they set out with Mr. and Mrs. Gu Damu and Mr. and Mrs. Gu Dagui who were leaving the stall.

Surprisingly, Gu Dexing also came. He said, "I'm going out to the stall with my second uncle and second aunt."

Everyone in the family knew that Gu Dexing wanted to be a disciple of Shang Xiucai, so when the third grandfather saw that Gu Dexing wanted to follow him to the town, he felt a little unhappy, but did not stop him. He just paid more attention to him along the way.

Gu Dexing didn't do anything. He just stood on the roadside and took a look at Shangjia Village when passing by Shangjia Village, and then followed Gu Dagui and his wife to the town to set up a stall.

Third Grandpa took Gu Dashan and the others into Shangjia Village, carrying gifts.

Mrs. Chen was carrying the load of tofu on her way, and said enviously: "Brother An is really lucky. He has become a scholar of Shang Xiucai, and he will become a scholar no matter what in the future. This is a matter of honoring the ancestors. Our family can do it anytime." It will be great if you become a scholar."

When Gu Dexing heard what Chen said, he looked very unhappy. He lowered his head, picked up his burden, and walked quickly towards the town.

Gu Dagui glared at Mrs. Chen and scolded her in a low voice: "You bitch, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute."

Don’t you know what Brother Xing is thinking? He keeps talking about it, isn’t this a stab at Brother Xing’s heart?

Mrs. Chen didn't think so, but felt that Brother Xing was a petty person, so if he didn't want to accept Shang Xiu, then he wouldn't accept him. It's not like Shang Xiu was the only one who could teach in Qingfu Town. Brother Xing could have been taught by other teachers, but he could still study.

Although she thought so, Chen never said anything to make Gu Dexing unhappy.

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Shang Xiucai knew that the Gu family was coming to visit today, so he asked Ah Jiu to wait at the door early in the morning.

As soon as Third Grandpa and the others entered Shangjia Village, Ah Jiu saw them and greeted them with a smile: "Old man of the Gu family, Uncle Gu, Brother An, Xiaoyu, I asked the younger one to pick you up. Come with me, the master is at home. Waiting."

Third Grandpa smiled and said, "Thank you, little brother, for leading the way."

A group of four people followed Ah Jiu to Shang Xiucai's house.

Shangjia Village is very large, and because it is close to the town, it is very wealthy.

Along the way, most of the houses we saw were mud and tile houses, and there were quite a few blue brick houses. As for the mud and thatched houses, there were only a dozen or so.

Unlike their Dafeng Village, most of them are mud thatched houses.

Shang Xiucai's house is located at the end of the village. It is a five-entry courtyard with white walls and black tiles, surrounded by a lotus pond and running water. There is also a Xiangfei bamboo planted outside the yard. It looks poetic and picturesque, and it doesn't look like a house in the countryside at all.

Third Grandpa and others knew that Shang Xiucai's family was a landlord, but they were still shocked when they saw Shang Xiucai's family entering the courtyard. No wonder the old doctor Wu said that Shang Xiucai would not recruit students for the sake of cultivating students, and Dare's family was not short of money at all. .

"Mr. Gu, Uncle Gu, let's go this way." Ah Jiu brought the third grandfather and the others into Shang's house.

Shang Xiucai was already waiting in the front yard. When he saw Grandpa San and the others, he stood up to greet them: "Uncle Gu, Brother Gu, you are here."

Then he turned to Gu Jinli and said, "Xiaoyu is here too."

"Uncle Shang." Gu Jinli greeted Shang Xiucai with a smile.

Gu Jinan bowed his hands and shouted: "Sir."

Shang Xiucai looked at Gu Jinan, who was wearing new clothes and had a figure as straight as bamboo, and nodded with satisfaction: "Come in."

After the group entered the main room in the front yard, a maid came in to serve tea.

After the maid left, Gu Dashan immediately handed the gift of repair to Gu Jinan and asked him to give it to Shang Xiucai.

Shang Xiucai didn't pay any attention to anything and directly accepted the gift of repair and said: "The rules here are not strict. I just want to say, don't do anything harmful to heaven and earth. If you do bad karma, I will not tolerate it here and you will be kicked out." They are all light.”

Gu Jinan immediately said: "Sir, don't worry, I will not dare to do anything that goes against the laws of nature. I will concentrate on my studies in order to achieve success."

Hearing this, Shang Xiucai didn't say much. He just told the teaching time: "I have class at six o'clock every day, and I finish my classes at noon and go home."

All in all, Gu Jinan only had two hours of classes a day, which was not a long time.

Shang Xiucai specially set this time for Gu Jinan. He knew that the Gu family was busy with work and Gu Jinan had a lot of work to do at home every day, so he was only allowed to attend classes for two hours every day so that he could have time to help. Doing work around the house.

Gu Jinan knew Shang Xiucai's hard work and said gratefully: "Thank you, sir."

In this way, he can study and work at home at the same time, and he will feel less guilty.

Grandpa San and Gu Dashan respected scholars very much, especially Shang Xiucai. They felt that he was a knowledgeable person and naturally he would do whatever he said without saying anything.

After talking about Gu Jinan, Gu Jinli took out a jar of soybean oil from the basket and said to Shang Xiucai: "Uncle Shang, this is the soybean oil I made."

Shang Xiucai was shocked when he heard this: "Soybean oil? Have you really made it?"

Gu Jinli nodded, opened the lid of the jar, took out a wooden bowl from the basket, poured the soybean oil in the jar into the wooden bowl, and said to Shang Xiucai: "Uncle Shang, look, this is soybean oil."

Shang Xiucai walked over quickly and looked at the amber-colored liquid in the wooden bowl. He couldn't hide the excitement on his face. He took the wooden bowl, dipped his fingers into the soybean oil inside, twisted it, and said in surprise: " It’s indeed oil.”

He leaned close to the wooden bowl and smelled it. There was a bean aroma in the oil, so it seemed to be soybean oil.

Shang Xiucai was so excited that he immediately called Ah Jiu: "Ah Jiu, go and take this soybean oil to the kitchen and use it to make a few dishes. Let's cook it now. Hurry up."

Ah Jiu looked at her master's excitement and was a little confused, but he still took the jar and went to the kitchen to cook with the soybean oil.

Shang Xiucai asked Gu Jinli some things about soybean oil.

Gu Jinli focused on the oil yield: "Twenty pounds of soybeans can produce four pounds and two ounces of oil."
Chapter completed!