Chapter 223 Invitation
As strangers who have just arrived, the Xia family has adapted to Jixiang County the fastest.The Hu family and the Zhao family are slightly inferior, but not bad.

However, from the beginning of the new year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there has been a slight sadness, hidden under the appearance of the whole family getting together to celebrate the new year.

Mrs. Xia and Mrs. Zhou sometimes couldn't sleep, tossed and turned, wondering whether their decision to relocate was wrong or rash.

This kind of emotion was most violent when the officials in 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 a lot of people in Jixiang County, and many people come in every year. Things like the collection of corvee can be replaced with money, and there is no need to compete for the places to pay for the service.

Moreover, Jixiang County is indeed a prosperous place.

On weekdays, there are a lot of people, traffic, shops, and business prosperity.

Even when you get up in the morning and want to get water to wash your face, there are neat and tidy hawkers who pick up the load with ease and sell hot water that has been boiled and delivered to your door.

A basin of hot water only needs a copper plate, which saves the trouble of starting a stove.

Many people are willing to give up a penny to steal this laziness.

Every morning, the hawker who sells hot water yells and walks through the streets and alleys in the alley, and sells out two large buckets of hot water, and can easily earn dozens of copper coins.

If you are lucky, if you catch up with the tipping, you can earn more.

It is said that this style of pie was passed down from Kyoto.

Several counties around Kyoto learned from each other.The enjoyment of the big people in Kyoto, and the little people in the surrounding counties can also do like cats and tigers.

Also because of the proximity to Kyoto, Jixiang County had a grand fireworks display on New Year's Eve and the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month.

Colorful and colorful.

Fire trees and silver flowers never go night.

While the Xia family feasted their eyes, they also relaxed a lot from the uneasiness in their hearts.

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

After the Lantern Festival, Xia Daohua's "Daohuaxiang" reopened, but it was never the same as before.

There are not many customers every day, so we can sell some candies, snacks, drinks, side dishes and so on.

Even if the turnover is more, it will generally not exceed 30 taels.At least once, it didn't open for a whole day.The second least, only a small package of snacks was sold.

In fact, this income is not too bad.

It's just that those people who purchased the New Year's gifts on a large scale before made it a habit for Xia Daohua, so that now she is a little indifferent when she sees silver worth less than ten taels, and there is no emotion in the slightest.

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

It is also for buying gifts, and the focus is mostly on snacks, candies, and drinks.When Xia Daohua asked, it turned out that it was a gift for February [-].

In her impression, the custom on February [-]nd seemed to be eating pig heads... So Xia Daohua urgently ordered a new batch of stewed pork heads and ears in sauce.Sales turned out to be pretty good.

As the days slip by, Jixiang County is much warmer than Beiguan Town, and it will soon enter the season of spring and flowers blooming.

Both Xia Dalang and Goro have started school.

Xia Dalang entered the government-run academy in Jixiang County: Ping'an Academy.

Goro entered a private school called Enlightenment Academy.

The gentleman is a juren in his fifties with a long gray beard, his surname is Mo, and he has been an official for several years.Later, I really couldn't adapt to the various unspoken rules of the officialdom, so I simply opened a private school in this Jixiang County and became a teacher.

The Enlightenment Academy is not big, there are only two classes in it.

One is a junior class with no age limit, mainly for young people as old as Goro.But there are also Mongolian children who are four or five years old, and new students who are seventeen or eight years old but start their education later.

The other is students who are over 15 years old, have a certain foundation, and aim to be a scholar.

Xia Dalang is already a scholar, and the level of the Enlightenment Academy naturally cannot meet his needs.If he wanted to take the exam, he could only go to Ping An Academy.

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

You can carry, carry, and pull along with your own mind.

In addition to the different colors, the two bookcases contain different books, and even the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are the same.

Lake brush, Hui ink, Xuan paper, Duan inkstone.

After receiving this gift, Xia Dalang was stunned for a moment, his eyes flooded a bit.But he blinked quickly, and the wetness of the idea was blinked away:
"Sister Daohua is bothering you."

"It's all a family, you don't have to be polite, brother."

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

The three sisters, Lihua, Daohua, and Linghua personally sent Goro to the gate of the Enlightenment Academy, and stood quietly outside, watching him enter the school, before turning around and leaving.

With the appearance of three beauties of different ages, Xia Wulang immediately became the most popular freshman in the Enlightenment Academy.

Pear Blossom's height has grown again, and her slender figure has also begun to develop, which already has a somewhat graceful meaning.

Even though she did carry an awe-inspiring majesty when she kept a straight face, she still couldn't stop those eyes who couldn't help but follow her secretly.

Xia Daohua's appearance can actually be considered handsome.

But in front of pear blossoms, ordinary beauty will inevitably be reduced to green leaves.

Linghua is still a child, because she loves to eat because of her greedy mouth, and Xia Daohua can't help feeding it extra. Recently, it has become more and more round.

But her facial features are somewhat juvenile, the rounder her face, the cuter it is.

When this baby grows up in the future, she must be a plump beauty.

The three little beauties stood together, naturally very attractive.

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 Academy eagerly approached Goro.Even though she didn't have any fancy thoughts, she somehow wanted to get acquainted with him first.

Goro has always had a calm disposition, and he followed others' initiative to show his kindness generously.Soon, friendship was established with enthusiastic classmates.

Xia Daohua returned to "Daohuaxiang" with pear blossoms and Linghua.

There was no one in the store, there were two guys standing solemnly at the reception area, and the other two guys 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 card on the table.

 Ask for a ticket!
  
 
(End of this chapter)

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