The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 403 Related Households

Even if she is intelligent, her age is a limiting factor.

She is a little over seven years old, but not yet nine years old according to the traditional Chinese age reckoning.

Fang Molin's grand principles of serving the country and its people are unlikely to inspire enthusiasm in children of this age.

Fang Molin truly cherishes talent.

This child is even more talented than his last disciple, Gan Mingfu.

For the sake of this promising young talent, he completely disregarded his airs as a great scholar and spent several days circling around the little guy.

Yuantong: No, I'm not going!
Finally, the poor scholar had no choice but to find Gan Minglan and launch into a long lecture on the importance of cultivating talent for the country.

Gan Minglan's emphasis on education exceeded Fang Molin's expectations.

At a single command, the fifty selected outstanding students had to obediently enter Qingshan Academy.

Tuition fees, free canteen fees, and all expenses incurred in studying were still paid by the garrison.

The prizes awarded to outstanding students are the envy of everyone.

Among the fifty students, Fatty had one spot.

This kid didn't get into school based on his grades.

He was someone who got in through connections.

The chubby boy, a relative of the headmaster, harbored deep resentment towards the headmaster for forcibly opening a back door for him into the academy. He then acted coquettishly in front of his grandmother.
"Grandmother, Grandmother, I want to stay at the garrison school, exercise in the morning, and ride horses and practice boxing in the afternoon."

Two academic classes a day are within his capacity.

The child still remembers that when his uncle was studying at Qingshan Academy, he only came home once a month.

When his father was in Lezhi County, it was common for the lamp in his study to stay on until late at night.

In his memory, the imperial examination was too arduous.

Once you start suffering, you'll suffer for ten or twenty years.

He didn't want to suffer the hardships of scholars!
His mother, however, didn't want to spoil her son.
"Since you like the garrison academy, then let's put the physical training classes there, one in the morning and one in the evening, one hour each in the morning and evening."

At Qingshan Academy, there are three academic classes each in the morning and afternoon. As long as students complete their daily homework as required by the teacher, they can also attend skill and interest classes such as horseback riding and martial arts.

Kid, how about learning about holistic education?
Fatty's eyes widened as he listened to his mother's gentle words that made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave!

What?
Is body training still being implemented?
They also have to attend six academic classes a day!
The standard class time at Ganluchuan is 45 minutes!

This means that reading and practicing calligraphy will take up most of his day.

His favorite hobby, horseback riding and boxing, can only continue under certain conditions.

This was a complete shock to Fatty, a child who disliked school.

He's not stupid.

He just has a bit of a dislike for studying.

I'm tired of being asked to read an article aloud repeatedly, and to write the same words over and over again.

it's good now.

They added the part he disliked the most and greatly reduced the time for skills and interest classes.

The kid wants to cause trouble.

The kid wants to protest!

However, the protests were ineffective.

No one could refute Gan Luchuan's mother's words, and even his father's and grandmother's pleas were of no use!

Fatty had long ago figured out the family hierarchy of this family.

With a look of utter despair, he lay on the long wool blanket in the lobby, feigning pitifulness.

Yuanyuan, who had been outwitting the Rat King, looked up at her brother who was still acting, pursed her lips, and ran to her mother with her short legs to be her little darling.

"Mom, I love learning the most, Mom, teach me!"

"Oh dear, some older brothers should learn from their younger sister. Look how diligent our Yuanyuan is; she really loves learning any skills she has!"

Gan Minglan knows how to use subtle comparisons and backstabbing; she and her daughter engage in sarcastic remarks about their son's aversion to studying.

That's right.

Yuanyuan's skills are different from her brother's.

Only a mother can teach.

The little guy's supernatural ability has stabilized at level one after he consumed more than thirty low-level crystal cores in the past year.

Or perhaps it's because she's too young and her body hasn't fully developed.

Gan Minglan dared not force the seedlings to grow too fast.

Teach and guide her little by little.

Once the child is familiar with using this energy, their favorite thing to do is find flower buds that are about to bloom and then use their powers to make them open. Anyway, they've been learning this lately and it's really addictive.

Fatty: "."

His mother is his own mother, and his sister is his own sister; he can't afford to offend either of them!
Many people can't afford to offend Gan Minglan.

The Qi family was one of them.

This family certainly knows how to scheme and plot.

And so, with a double-sided embroidered Guanyin screen, she managed to curry favor with Madam Xiong of the General's Mansion.

Madam Xiong was unwilling to retire in Ganluchuan New City.

Nowhere else is as grand as the General's Mansion.

There were also many of her sons' female subordinates who would visit the general's mansion from time to time to chat with her.

The son's concubine, a woman from Hu, was fertile.

In recent years, she has been blessed with three grandsons and two granddaughters, and she is very happy to be surrounded by her grandchildren.

I overheard a general's wife talking about her newly acquainted head maid of the embroidery workshop, who possessed a craft that even wealthy and powerful families of the previous dynasty would have paid a hefty sum for.

Madam Xiong became interested.

First, take a look at the embroidery.

Ok!

This is a four-panel embroidered screen.

The design features ten thousand "Fu" characters of varying sizes and fonts, and it's double-sided embroidered!
Their skills are truly exceptional.

The business, run by a family of women, was nothing more than seeking the protection of the General's Mansion.

What's wrong with that?
What's more, the other party has promised a 30% profit.

Madam Xiong doesn't lack this little bit of interest; she's just a kind-hearted person.

Before agreeing, he even asked his son to investigate whether the family's background was clean.

The Qi family's household registration had long been moved to Shangdu.

The part about Daming Prefecture was deliberately concealed by this family.

Nowadays, there aren't that many records of people moving in and out of the household registration system. The people at the health station who are responsible for verification can only check the authenticity of the household registration.

Naturally, they can't see any problems at all!

The General's Office quickly gave the Qi family permission.

Let's open it.

Whether it's a boudoir or a textile mill, open it wherever you like.

Mother Qi was not as happy as she had expected.

Buying and selling in the boudoir is a way to make money.

She wanted to send her daughter Dongyu to the General of Guanzhong as a concubine, which would maximize her own interests.

Before meeting Madam Xiong, she had practiced her lines many times, but she hadn't found the opportunity.

The main reason was that she saw more than a dozen beautiful young women from the Hu tribe in the backyard of the general's mansion. Any one of them could easily outshine her daughter in terms of looks and figure.

No better than not knowing.

The comparison is startling.

Now we must keep all our thoughts to ourselves and focus on preparing for the sale of the embroidery shop.

Unexpectedly, during the preparation period, they encountered difficulties with the raw materials.

To create high-end embroidery, there are specific requirements for the silk and embroidery thread used.

Embroidery thread is usually made of silk, as mulberry silk has a soft luster and delicate texture.

However, on their way to Guanzhong, the Qi family was robbed countless times by refugees and bandits, and almost all of the silk and embroidery thread they brought with them were lost.

All that came to Kansai was a huge amount of silver notes.

The money shops throughout the Northwest were preserved only because of the Northwest King.

As a result, the exchange of large-denomination banknotes by merchants was not affected after they came to the Northwest.

The Qi family had no choice but to purchase new materials for the embroidery.

They searched all the garrisons in Kansai and found that there were very few merchants doing this kind of business.

The final news was that a embroidery shop run by a garrison in Ganluchuan New City sold materials that met her family's requirements.

It was also said that the silk and embroidery thread of Ganluchuan were different from those of other places, as they were made from wild silkworm silk and were extremely expensive.

Good heavens, even if I just want to run a small business in peace, I can't escape the Gan family?
(End of this chapter)