Chapter 123 Drinks are complete
Everything is different with a horse. To get from Liujia Village to the county town, we no longer have to set out with torches early in the morning before dawn.
Qin Yao went out after breakfast and rode on horseback in an hour before she saw the county town gate.
After paying the city entrance fee and livestock care fee and leaving the horse in the "parking lot" at the city gate, Qin Yao glanced at the sky and saw that it was the noon break time, so she went straight to the academy to find Liu Ji.
In Liu Ji's opinion, it had not been many days since the last time they separated, but he did not expect Qin Yao to come again.
He was not in the academy. Qin Yao waited at the back door of the academy for a long time before she saw several figures coming in together, laughing.
The people walking in front were one in his early twenties and one in his thirties, both of them were accompanied by servants.
After that, it was the source of their laughter—Liu Ji.
He was still wearing the same white shirt he had worn when he left home, but it had obviously been washed and the color had become lighter. It was only because of his face that he did not look shabby compared to the two men in front of him, who were wearing cotton Confucian shirts with embroidered patterns.
Liu Ji's words, as long as they are not directed at his family members, sound very useful to outsiders.
Liu Ji seemed to sense something, and when he glanced, he met Qin Yao's gaze in the corner.
His breath suddenly stopped.
He first sent the two scholars into the academy, then slipped out from the back door, came to Qin Yao, and asked nervously:
"Madam, why are you here?"
He was glad that he had just chased away the Pipa girl who insisted on following the scholar to the restaurant. Otherwise, Liu Ji would have imagined his own tragic end.
Qin Yao looked him up and down, and a faint smell of powder wafted to her nose. She raised her hand to fan him, crossed her arms and sneered.
Before she asked, Liu Ji immediately said, "My lady, please don't misunderstand me! I swear, I didn't do anything to let you down. This was all for socializing. You don't know how tight-lipped those two scholars are. I begged them for several days, and today they finally agreed to copy the answers to the exam papers for me."
It is actually not difficult to get the imperial examination questions from previous years, as the gentlemen in the academy have collected them. What is difficult are the answers, especially the answers written by the scholars who have passed the imperial examinations.
The test papers are not made public, and only the officials in the Academic Affairs Office who mark the test papers know what is going on.
Qin Yao looked at his nervous look and said with a smile: "Why are you so nervous? I'm not going to hit you."
Liu Ji: "." But have you thought about it!
"Please help me find out something." Qin Yao waved her hand, motioned Liu Ji to come closer, and told him to go to his classmates to help find out something about the workshop.
After hearing this, Liu Ji was shocked, "You are going to build a workshop?"
Qin Yao nodded, impatient for his further questions, and raised her chin towards the academy, "Go quickly, I'll wait for you here."
After finding out clearly, she can decide whether to go to the government.
By the way, to be on the safe side, Qin Yao decided to go to the restaurant again to ask Manager Fan.
After watching Liu Ji enter the academy, Qin Yao turned around and went to the restaurant.
"You're here again. It's different here with a horse!" Shopkeeper Fan was too busy to spare any time. He only had time to point to the backyard, signaling Qin Yao to wait for him there.
It was a busy time at the restaurant, and Qin Yao waited for a long time before Manager Fan finally had time to come over.
Time was running out, so Qin Yao didn't waste any time and asked Manager Fan directly if he knew whether ordinary people who set up their own small workshops needed to register with the government and pay business taxes.
"You asked me, and you are asking the right person!"
Shopkeeper Fan laughed and said, "The new law has been much more relaxed for merchants. The government doesn't need to go to the small workshop you just mentioned. You just need to report to the head of the village and promise not to do anything illegal."
"So simple?" Qin Yao was a little dazed.
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Shopkeeper Fan nodded and said, "After years of war, Shengguo needs to rest and recuperate."
If the people want to restore vitality, the first thing to do is to relax the restrictions on business groups.
The civil administration at this time encouraged merchants to engage in activities, and the previous dynasty's strict control over the merchant class had now been completely relaxed.
In the past two years, Kaiyang County has become more and more prosperous, and small vendors have contributed largely to this.
After getting the accurate answer from Manager Fan, Qin Yao felt more confident when she arrived at the academy.
Liu Ji slipped out from the back door and told her a similar result.
But there is one more clear law, that is, the court can now exempt relevant taxes for small business activities with no more than 20 people and annual income below 500 taels.
But it is only a temporary exemption and there is no indication when it will be restored.
"Madam, do you really want to build a waterwheel factory?" Liu Ji asked excitedly.
Qin Yao knew what he was excited about. He just wanted to go home and live off his wife again.
He said coldly, "Because we want to build a factory, you must study hard and strive to gain fame as soon as possible so that you can protect our family's industry."
"I understand." Liu Ji raised his eyebrows. She was talking about our family, which meant that he had a share in the family factory!
It was time for the afternoon class. Liu Ji saw that Qin Yao had found out the situation and had no intention of leaving, so he realized something belatedly.
He asked tentatively, "Madam, you won't leave?"
"We'll go together after class. Go to class first. I'll walk around the city and pick you up later."
Qin Yao spoke naturally and arranged everything for him clearly, "Remember to ask for leave from your husband. The Ghost Festival is coming soon anyway, so you can ask for leave for both the busy farming season and the Ghost Festival. A five-day holiday is enough for us to finish harvesting the rice."
When Liu Ji heard about autumn harvest, a mask of pain was already put on his face. He wanted to go back two days later, because he wanted to finish copying the answers to the exam questions given by the two scholars in these two days.
Qin Yao shook her head. "I'm very busy now. The autumn harvest must be completed as soon as possible so that I can concentrate on running the factory. The plan has changed. I'll give you a few more days. Don't worry about asking for leave. It's my fault that I couldn't bring the reference answers home this time. I won't kill you."
"Okay!" He felt relieved after hearing her words.
Liu Ji went back to finish his afternoon class and then asked for leave from his teacher.
Qin Yao walked around the county town, bought a pound of salt and five pounds of rapeseed oil, bought a pot of sauce, and bought three pounds of meat.
The weather is hot and the meat won't keep well, so I can't buy much.
But riding a horse is very fast, and if you want to eat meat, you can go to town to buy it anytime, which is convenient.
Thinking that the upcoming autumn harvest would be very tiring, Qin Yao bought several cakes from a cake shop to reward herself.
There are mung bean cakes, glutinous rice and brown sugar dumplings, lotus seed candy, and lotus sesame cakes. All of them use seasonal ingredients and are fresh to eat.
There are also dessert shops on the street, which specialize in selling various beverages, such as sugarcane syrup, sour plum soup, mung bean water, plum wine, snow bubble spleen-shrinking drink, etc.
The richness of the variety was beyond Qin Yao's expectations.
She thought that ancient people had no drinks to drink, but she didn't expect that not only did they have them, but the variety was also very rich.
For example, she had never heard of the Snow Bubble Spleen Shrinking Drink, but it looked very high-end.
I went back to the academy and waited for Liu Ji to come out. After asking him, I found out that it was actually an iced herbal tea.