Granny Ge's matter can be regarded as beginning with greed and ending with a lack of heart, and she spoke as she pleased.
Mei Bei couldn't stop laughing when she thought about how her grandma pushed Mrs. Ge down to the ground and the people around her didn't show any signs of fighting, and the look of embarrassment on Mrs. Ge at the end.
The funniest thing is that Mayberry also discovered that not only the temporarily created punch-in scene was successful, but the previous famous scene about clearing his reputation was also successful without knowing it.
It has to be said that this Mrs. Gerard is considered a noble person of Mayberry to a certain extent.
After another five days, Wei Meili's teaching finally ended. When Mei Bei told her this when she came back, Mei Bei still smiled brighter than Wei Meili.
It seems that after these days, funny things have fermented and new laughter has emerged.
"Oh, okay, okay." She really couldn't stand the sight of her daughter laughing non-stop, but Wei Meili still cared about her own family affairs, "Ignore them, how are you doing at home these days when I'm not at home? The chores arranged Are you all done?"
Once September passes here in Yunzhou, the weather gets colder day by day.
Mingming didn't feel much when she went to the town to teach people how to knit sweaters, but when she came back today and sat on the ox cart, Wei Meili felt what "the bleak autumn wind" means.
"You're done, mom, didn't you see the firewood on the wall in the yard? It's all the firewood my dad cut in the mountains these days. There are also chestnuts in the yard, waiting for you to come back!"
Regarding the things done by the father and daughter, Wei Meili made a spot check and passed them.
When Wei Meili came back, she didn't come back empty-handed, she brought back ten pounds of wool.
Even if there is a kang in winter, Wei Meili still feels that the quilt is still uncomfortable.
When they bought sheep before, Meiberry and the others thought that they could make sheepskin jackets or quilts by skinning them in winter.
But currently, the family's ewes are kept to feed the lambs. In winter, the only thing that can be slaughtered is the ram, and the sheepskin is not enough for their family of three.
So Wei Meili came up with an idea.
She planned to knit a woolen blanket, and when the time came, she would find linen cloth to make a quilt cover. Wouldn't that cover her body better than a quilt made of some random stuff?
Miao also followed Wei Meili's example and exchanged Xiujin for part of the wool thread.
In the past few days, in addition to teaching others to knit sweaters, she also knitted vests for Mei You and Mei Sanma to wear inside.
When I got home, apart from the quilt, all that was left was the chestnut.
After thinking about chestnuts all summer, Yunzhou is getting shorter and colder every day after September.
Wei Meili plans to go to the pier to sell fried chestnuts before the river freezes.
The weather is getting colder day by day, and there are more ships returning north and south on the pier than in previous days.
The hot and sweet stir-fried chestnuts are bigger than melon seeds. How easy are they to eat?
Buy a pack and take a boat home. Sitting on the boat, eating chestnuts and bragging to others, it’s so cool!
Wei Meimei's business went smoothly this time. She set up a pot to stir-fry, and her mother hired her to have a live eating and broadcasting session.
The roasted chestnuts don't require much effort, and they make a crunching sound when pinched with your fingers. The moment the golden chestnut meat is peeled out of the shiny and brown shell, the unique pink and waxy aroma directly attracts the guests on the pier and some runners. Ship bosses.
Coupled with the fact that Meiberry looks delicious when eating chestnuts, the business of roasting chestnuts exploded instantly.
The chestnuts Meiberry picked in the past ten days, except for a few dozen kilograms stored in her own space, were almost sold in the remaining three days.
On the last day of October, Mayberry sold the last batch of chestnuts and officially closed its stall.
The family was not in a hurry to enter or leave. Instead, a group of people went directly into the inn next to the pier.
Recently, the inn next to the pier launched a clay oven mutton pot, which is quite famous!
No, the family of three decided to eat a pot and go home.
"Hey~Brother Mei~"
When the shopkeeper saw Mei Youqian, his tone was also warm, "The fried chestnuts at your house are really delicious. I heard that they were sold on the last day today. I even asked the waiter to buy some more!"
"Hey, Shopkeeper Qin, you told me you like it earlier, just tell me, wait..."
After saying that, Mei Youqian turned around and left the inn and quickly came back in. He took out some of the chestnuts they had saved for dinner and handed them over to the other party.
Seeing this, shopkeeper Qin smiled even more affectionately and held onto Mei Youqian's hand without letting go.
"I'll ask the chef to put five ounces of meat in this clay oven mutton pot for you today!"
"Oh, I can't bear to do this. Shopkeeper, you can just charge me normally."
The relationship between the Mayberry family and the inn in front of them is not only the chestnut, but also the cashmere sheep.
Some time ago, Mei Youqian and Mei Sanma searched for the whereabouts of the male cashmere sheep at home.
The restaurants in the town cut prices too hard, and they are not ignorant about whether cashmere sheep are good or not. Mainly because of the price of cashmere sheep, the locals in the town can afford very little.
Just find a local rich man who wants to groom the sheep without giving you any wool.
Mei Youqian and the others expected to sell the mutton but keep the sheepskin!
But this inn next to the pier has a lot of guests coming from north to south. First of all, the guests know the goods and can consume a lot.
Their inn also wants to make another big profit before the frozen river, and they are about to pull off a stunt!
Isn’t this just giving me a pillow if I feel sleepy?
Mei Sanma and Mei Youqian sold him two cashmere sheep, and the inn gave them four pieces of whole sheepskins directly from elsewhere.
There are very few cashmere sheep in the local area, and the inn has a limited supply every day. There are only three taels of mutton in a pot at most.
Even so, the business in the inn has been so good recently that it makes people laugh from ear to ear.
Therefore, the attitude towards Mei Youqian has changed from a "water seller" in the summer to a "brother Mei who sells chestnuts" today.
Most of the guests who have entered this inn recently are here for the clay oven mutton pot.
The Meiberry family sat in the corner of the hall, smelling the aroma of mutton soup in the air and looking forward to the mutton soup that had not yet been served.
"Is it true? Are they all going to be executed?"
At this moment, Meiberry, who was waiting for the food, suddenly spoke to some guests at the next table, which caught her attention.
"Yes! All the candidates involved in the Jiangnan imperial examination fraud case have been put to death, including Xuanzhou and the two new capitals of Xuanzhou in the four eastern states..."
Mayberry could see clearly that the guest made a gesture of wiping his neck.
"Be good! Will this scholar cheat in the imperial examination and get his life?"
Obviously, not only the Mayberry family heard it, but also many guests around them heard it.
"Not only that, this time many officials from Jiangnan who participated in the imperial examination were sentenced to death. The better ones are said to have had their whole families exiled two thousand miles away, and were sent to Qianzhou in the south."
"Oh my god!"
"The atmosphere over there in the south of the Yangtze River..." The guest who started the conversation came back from doing business in the south. He couldn't help but shake his head and gasp.
"This is probably the largest fraud case in recent years. All four eastern states were involved, and as many as 2,000 people were implicated. Among them, more than 100 were sentenced to death, and the rest were all expelled. Exile, exile , Those who hit the board hit the board, but no one ran away!"
Hearing this, not only the Mayberry family, but also everyone around them couldn't help but scream in surprise.
"They are all scholars who have the reputation of being scholars. If they are gone, they will disappear? Isn't there any of these people..."
A young man dressed very elegantly turned pale for a moment, and he did not dare to say some words, but whoever heard his words could not understand the meaning.
But who dares to comment on this matter?
"Isn't this a verdict..."
Someone present whispered what he said, and the gentle young man just sighed and said: "The expectations of the whole family... are all ruined when they are involved in the case!"
"Oh, how miserable."
Although no one from the Meiberry family participated in the imperial examination, they couldn't help but sigh.
When Mei Bei thought about it, it was a good thing that this happened in the east. If Mei Laosi successfully passed the scholar examination, and then suddenly this happened during the provincial examination, her grandparents would go crazy?
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The location of "Jiangnan" in the article should be the eastern location, a bit like the current Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions. The "jiang" in "Jiangnan" is not the Jinlan River next to the heroine's house. It is a setting, just the "Cangling River" that I haven't written about yet.
Boats traveling south along the Jinlan River will enter the sea from the mouth of the Jinlan River, then go south along the coast and enter the eastern Cangling River~
I'll find a chance to draw a hand-drawn concept map of Dacheng Seventeen States~ and then put it in the comment area or... an Easter egg stamp?
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