The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 73

After the small caravan set off, He Tao began to think about the packaging of the hot sauce.

Since it is to be sold as a luxury item, it is natural that it cannot continue to be packed in clay pots.In the absence of plastic and glass, porcelain jars are the most suitable for pasty objects.

On the second day after Fu Shi and the others set off, He Tao planned to go to the town to choose a suitable porcelain jar.Because she didn't trust He Lian's three children to take care of the twins, she sent He Lian and the twins to the second room of Fu's family, and asked Tang Wenmei and her sister-in-law to take care of them.

The owner of the grocery store, surnamed Shi, is middle-aged and rich. He always smiles with half-closed eyes, and there is a smell of "harmony makes money" all over his body.As soon as He Tao and Wu Shi entered the door, he quickly greeted them and let them look at them freely.Because the hot sauce is red, He Tao wanted to find a white porcelain jar to pack it in, which would make the hot sauce more colorful.There are quite a lot of utensils in the grocery store, but most of them are earthenware products. After looking around, He Tao couldn't find any suitable ones.

"Shopkeeper, is there a better jar, the white one, this big one is fine..." He Tao gestured.

Shopkeeper Shi was overjoyed when he heard He Tao's question. He had met a big buyer, so he nodded hurriedly and said, "Yes! Yes! That's a precious thing, how can it be placed outside! Just wait, I'll get it to you take out!"

After finishing speaking, he sneaked into the backyard at a speed that was completely disproportionate to his size, and after a while, he walked up to He Tao with a small pot in his arms: "Little lady, do you think this will work?"

"Well, that's it, how much is it?" He Tao nodded.The size of this jar is just right, it can probably hold a catty of hot sauce, the surface is smooth and the whole body is white, it is many times better than clay pots.

"One tael of silver each!"

"What?!" He Tao almost bit his tongue.

In He Tao's view, this kind of porcelain pot could be bought even in a ten yuan shop on the street in her previous life, and she is sure that it will not be worse than this one at all!Leaving aside the previous life, the celadon tea set with twined branch lotuses used in Dahuangdi now is only a set of six teacups per pot.
Five hundred words, compared to this, it's just a bit rough on the surface, let alone beautiful patterns!

"Boss, you're kidding me, aren't you?"

Shopkeeper Shi stared with his chubby belly: "What am I coaxing you to do?!"

"Why is it so expensive?"

"White porcelain is certainly not cheap! Look at the color, touch it, it's smooth and smooth, how delicate it is, and look at the workmanship, how meticulous it is, look at the connection between the bottom of the tank and the body of the tank, it's perfect!" Shi The shopkeeper held up the jar and put it in front of He Tao's eyes for her to look carefully.

He Tao really couldn't see how good this thing was, so he stared at him.

Shopkeeper Shi put the jar on the counter, sighed in frustration, and muttered, "Hey, it's really not easy to sell. Fortunately, I only bought two, otherwise I will lose a lot of money." ..."

Although he couldn't find a suitable jar in the grocery store, He Tao also figured out one thing, the white porcelain here is more expensive than celadon, and it's much more expensive!Although she intends to bring hot sauce into the high-end market, the packaging of one tael of silver is really too high, almost catching up with the return of pearls in the box.

If I use celadon, I feel that the color does not match, it is not as good as clay pots!Anyway, hot sauce is also a local specialty, and it is actually consistent in style when paired with simple earthenware pots.It's just that this clay pot must not use the kind that is available everywhere in the market. It must have an exclusive logo, and there must be a product name and manufacturer on it.There are many craftsmen in Willow Town, as long as she can make the pattern, she will definitely be able to find the right person to fire it.

When it comes to writing, I have to go to my great-uncle He Daliang!
He Tao, who found nothing in Liushu Town, went directly to his uncle's house after returning to Rongshu Village.When I went there, I happened to meet the private school after school, and a group of boys ran out yelling and scrambling to be the first, while the great uncle stood in the yard with a cane and looked at it with a smile.

"Great uncle!"

"Peach girl is here! What's the matter today?"

"I would like to ask Grand Uncle to write a few words for me. There is no one in ten villages or eight miles who can write better than you!" He Tao smiled and made his request, and flattered her blatantly.

Grand Uncle raised his hand to signal her to follow into the house.

"Tell me, what do you write?"

"Just write the seven characters 'secret sauce red agate', spaced a little in between, and each is about this big..." He Tao gestured as he spoke.

"Secret chili sauce red agate? Are you planning to do the business of sauce?" Grand-uncle Tai asked with a smile, then picked up a pen and wrote it on the paper. After looking at it himself, he handed it to He Tao who was standing in front of the desk. : "Like this?"

I have to say that scholars are different!The size of the characters is the same, and the standard is almost the same as that of print, but it does not lose its own style.He Tao looked at it and nodded repeatedly: "Yeah, that's it, Grand Uncle's handwriting is really good!"

The great uncle smiled and stroked his beard.

"Uncle, I have something to ask you. Do you recruit older students?" He Tao asked hesitantly.

"Older students? How old are you?" Grand Uncle frowned. Although the main purpose of his opening and teaching was not to cultivate talents for imperial examinations, he never relaxed the standards, and he didn't accept everyone.

He Tao pointed to himself: "Do you think I will succeed?"

"This is not good, Tao girl, private schools do not accept female students, regardless of their age."

Uncle Tai refused without even thinking about it. The rules of thousands of years are not broken just to be broken.

He Tao sighed, hung his head and said nothing.

"Why do you want to go to school all of a sudden? I never saw you come to school with Youdong Arita and the others when you were a child!" Grand-uncle asked puzzled.

"It's not for the kids!"

Seeing the twins grow up day by day, she also began to worry about education.

Although there is no requirement for women's education in this era, and there is even a saying that "a woman who has no talent is a virtue", she still hopes that Dongzhi and Dongye can read and write since childhood.She doesn't say that knowledge can change fate, nor does she say what to do to be a talented woman, she just hopes that girls can read and understand.Reading history makes people wise, and reading history makes people smart. There is still a big difference between educated people and illiterate people, which she feels very much.

She herself has no problem with literacy and numeracy, but after all, she has not received the traditional education of this world. If she teaches her children according to her experience, it is estimated that they will only be taught in a nondescript way, or even out of place.

The private school here does not accept female students, so she made up her mind to come to learn first, and then go back to teach the children.These thoughts are also recent. Since she came back after leaving the twins for a few days, she felt that she was getting closer and closer to a qualified mother, and she couldn't help being moved.

Grand Uncle laughed when he heard this, stroked his beard and thought for a while and said, "Well, isn't there a six-year-old boy in your family? It's a good age for Kaimeng. You let him go to school, and you can go back to school when you go back." Let him teach you, or let him teach Fuyueda and Fuyuba in the future, didn't you just follow Arita and the others to learn how to read?"

The fact that Dahuangdi adopted two boys, one big and one small, has long been known to everyone, even the great-uncle, who only wants to teach sage books, knows about it.

He Tao's eyes lit up, and he raised his head suddenly: "Oh, why didn't I think of that! Great Uncle, I'll let Nian Zong come to school tomorrow. If there is anything I don't understand, I can write it down on paper and let Nian Zong take it with me." Here you go, do you think it will work?"

"Okay, it's good for you to be self-motivated."

In this way, little Tao Nianzong got the chance to go to school by accident.

"Nian Zong, you will go to school tomorrow!" He Tao couldn't wait to announce the news when he returned home.

Nian Zong looked at He Tao blankly, still not understanding what it meant to go to school.

On the contrary, Nianzu was very excited, bowing and kowtowing to He Tao, reading is a great thing!
He Tao hurriedly made a schoolbag for Nian Zong, because the decision was sudden, and she had no time to buy new brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, so she packed the ones she used at home for Nian Zong.

Apprenticeship is a very serious matter in this era. In the memory of the original owner, even if members of the He clan do not need to attend school, they still need to prepare the six rites of apprenticeship.

The six rites of apprenticeship are: dried meat, celery, lotus seeds, red dates, longan, and red beans, each of which has a different symbolic meaning. Dried meat represents gratitude to the teacher, celery means hard work and studious, lotus seeds represent painstaking education, red dates taste early in high school, and longan For the completion of merits and virtues, red beans are a sign of good fortune.

The reason why the original owner remembered it so clearly was because none of the six rituals was cheap except celery!
Among them, the five kinds of expensive wild lands are all ready-made, but because of the lack of celery, He Lian went back to trot errands and went to acquaintances in the village to ask for a handful, and only then did they make up the six gifts.

The private school of the grand uncle’s family only needs one hundred cash per month. The school is closed for half a month during the busy farming season in summer and autumn, and for one month during the Spring Festival.

He Tao thought that because of his family's special situation, the grand uncle not only wanted to teach Nianzong, but also was responsible for He Tao's confusion. I pay two taels of silver every year, and I also specially select order hens that have always been fat and fat to be included in the apprenticeship ceremony.

Early the next morning, He Tao took Nian Zong in one hand and came to Grand Uncle's house with the ceremony of apprenticeship in the other.

Uncle Tai sat in front of the hall dressed in various academic uniforms. After accepting the teacher's ceremony, he received Nianzong's gift of kneeling down three times and bowing down nine times, and then returned the gift - a copy of "The Analects of Confucius", a handful of green onions and celery. In Nianzong's hand, he finally picked up the ruler and tapped lightly on Nianzong's head, shoulders and body, and said: "Entering Confucius, taking benevolence as one's own responsibility, is not too important! It is not too far away after death! There is no need to be Hongyi, but there is a long way to go! Do you know?"

"Student understands!" Nian Zong kowtowed after answering.

Grand Uncle nodded to He Tao who was standing at the door and said, "I will accept this student, you can go about your own business!"

He Tao nodded to express his understanding: "Then I will trouble Grand Uncle!"

Leaving the classroom, He Tao found his cousin He Youzhi in the yard who helped his great-uncle manage the private school, and handed Shu Xiu to him.

In the past, He Youzhi and He Youtian were the two with the best academic qualifications in the He family since the great uncle. The great uncle placed great expectations on them. All the hard work was poured into He Youzhi.He Youzhi lived up to expectations, and now he is preparing to take the next year's entrance examination for children, and it is said that he has a great chance of passing the examination.

Seeing that the number was wrong, He Youzhi asked with some doubts: "Cousin A Tao, are you a Shu Xiu who has paid for two years at a time?"

He Tao had no choice but to explain the situation, and He Youzhi showed his white teeth and asked, "Do you want to buy books and copybooks? Our private school has manuscripts of various enlightenment books, as well as various copybooks drawn by our great-grandfather. It’s the same, but the price is less than half of the bookstore’s price!”

He Tao choked up for a moment—this kid really doesn't look like a scholar, but he has the potential of a businessman, and he really knows how to find sales opportunities!
"The "Three Character Classic", "Disciple Regulations" and so on will definitely be used. It is better to buy it early than to buy it later!" He Youzhi continued to sell.

He Tao said with a mournful face: "I don't have any money with me today, you can give the book to Nianzong first, and I will ask him to bring you the money tomorrow."

"Okay!" He Youzhi showed his big white teeth again.

Just as he was talking about a schoolboy coming, he greeted He Youzhi respectfully, "Morning, little sir". After one came, another student in twos and threes came one after another. He Youzhi started to get busy, and He Tao took the opportunity to leave .

(End of this chapter)