Take the space supermarket to farm

Chapter 223 Invitation

As newcomers to Jixiang County, the Xia family is the fastest to adapt to Jixiang County. The Hu family and Zhao family are slightly behind, but not bad either.

However, from the beginning of the New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there has always been a faint sadness, hidden under the surface of the whole family gathering together to celebrate the New Year.

Mr. Xia and Mr. Zhou would occasionally lie awake, tossing and turning, wondering whether their original decision to move was a mistake or a bit rash.

This sentiment was most intense when officials from Jixiang County came to collect taxes.

They had already paid the autumn tax once in Beiguan Town, but when they arrived in Jixiang County, they had to pay the same tax again.

Fortunately, there are many people in Jixiang County, and many people flow in every year. Things such as collecting and collecting corvee services can be completely replaced by money, and there is no need to compete for the quota of paying for the service.

Moreover, Jixiang County is indeed a prosperous place.

On weekdays, there is a steady flow of people, busy traffic, numerous shops, and prosperous commerce.

Even when you wake up in the morning and want to fetch water to wash your face, there are vendors who look neat and tidy, carrying a load with ease and familiarity, selling boiled hot water and delivering it to your door.

A basin of hot water only requires a copper plate, which saves you the trouble of lighting a stove.

Many people are willing to give up a penny and be lazy.

Every morning, the hawker selling hot water would go to the alley and walk around the alleys. After selling two large buckets of hot water, he could easily earn dozens of copper coins.

If you are lucky, you can catch up with the rewards and earn more.

It is said that this style was spread from Kyoto.

Several counties around Kyoto are all following the same example. As the big shots in Kyoto enjoy, the little guys in the surrounding suburban counties can also imitate the cats and the tigers.

Also because it is close to Kyoto, Jixiang County sets off grand fireworks on New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Colorful and colorful.

The sky is full of fiery trees and silver flowers.

After the Xia family feasted their eyes on the feast, they also relaxed a lot from their uneasiness.

People in Jixiang County live such a good life. Although they need money everywhere, they are still more comfortable than in the bitter and cold border areas where wars happen every now and then.

After the Lantern Festival, Xia Daohua's "Daohuaxiang" reopened, but it was no longer as grand as it was a year ago.

There are not many customers every day, so we can only sell candies, snacks, drinks, side dishes and the like here and there.

Even if the turnover is large, it usually does not exceed thirty taels. The least one time was that it was not open for a whole day. The second smallest one was only a small pack of snacks sold.

In fact, this income is not bad at all.

It's just that the people who purchased New Year's gifts on a large scale in the past have developed a habit for Xia Daohua, so that now she is a little indifferent when she sees less than ten taels of silver, and her emotions are not affected at all.

In the last few days of the first lunar month, "Daohuaxiang" welcomed another wave of customers.

They were also buying gifts, focusing mostly on snacks, candies, and drinks. When Xia Daohua asked, it turned out that they were gifts for February 2nd.

In her mind, the custom on February 2nd was to eat pig heads... So Xia Daohua urgently ordered a new batch of braised pig heads and pig ears. The sales volume was actually very good.

The days are passing by, Jixiang County is much warmer than Beiguan Town, and it will soon enter the spring season.

Both Xia Dalang and Wulang have started school.

Xia Dalang entered Ping'an Academy, a government-run academy in Jixiang County.

Wulang entered a private school called Enlightenment School.

The gentleman was a man in his fifties with a long gray beard, his surname was Mo, and he had been an official for several years. Later, he really couldn't adapt to the unspoken rules of officialdom, so he simply opened a private school in Jixiang County and started teaching.

Come sir.

The Enlightenment School is not big, with only two classes in it.

One is a junior class with no age limit for admission, mainly young people like Wu Lang. However, there are also four- and five-year-old Meng children, and freshmen aged 17 and 18 who started school later.

The other is for students who are above the age of 15 when entering school, have a certain foundation, and aim to be a scholar.

Xia Dalang was already a scholar, so the level of Enlightenment Academy could not meet his needs. If he wanted to pass the examination, he could only go to Ping'an Academy.

On the first day of school, Xia Daohua prepared a bookcase for Xia Dalang and Wulang each, made of antique rattan. There were partitions inside for books, pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and wheels, pull rods, straps, and handles on the outside.

You can carry it, carry it, or pull it along as you wish.

Apart from the different colors and the different books inside, the two book boxes also have the same pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Hu pen, Hui ink, rice paper, Duan inkstone.

After receiving this gift, Xia Dalang was stunned for a moment, and his eyes were a little wet. But he quickly blinked away the wetness:

"Sister Daohua, you've taken the trouble."

"We are all one family, brother, there is no need to be polite."

Xia Dalang didn't say anything more, but kept this friendship in his heart. He already somewhat understood why Erlang's face was particularly gentle when facing Daohua.

The three sisters, Lihua, Dahua, and Linghua, personally delivered Wulang to the entrance of the Enlightenment School. They stood quietly outside and watched him enter the school before turning around and leaving.

With the appearance of three beauties of different ages, Xia Wulang suddenly became the most popular new student in the Enlightenment Academy.

Lihua's size has grown again, her slender figure has begun to develop, and she has become somewhat graceful.

Even though she did have a solemn and inviolable dignity when she kept a straight face, she still couldn't stop the eyes of those who couldn't help but secretly follow her.

The appearance of Xia Daohua is actually quite beautiful.

But in front of pear blossoms, ordinary beauty will inevitably become green leaves.

Linghua is still a child. Because she is greedy and loves to eat, Xia Daohua often cannot help but feed her extra. Recently, she has become more and more plump.

But her facial features are a bit childish, and the rounder her face is, the cuter she is.

When this baby grows up, she will definitely be a plump beauty.

The three little beauties standing together are naturally very eye-catching.

However, the temperament of the three people is very special, each has its own strengths, which makes people feel amazing, but it is difficult to think of blasphemy.

The young boys in the Enlightenment School all eagerly approached Wulang. Even if they had no thoughts, they inexplicably wanted to get acquainted with him first.

Wulang always had a calm temperament, and he accepted other people's overtures generously. He soon established friendship with his enthusiastic classmates.

Xia Daohua took Pear Blossom and Linghua back to "Daohuaxiang".

There was no one in the store. There were two clerks standing solemnly at the reception desk, and the other two clerks were cleaning the floor spontaneously.

When the three sisters walked into the store, Xia Daohua found that she often sat and looked at the location of the store, and there was an invitation on the table.

Asking for votes!

(End of chapter)