Yin Lan smiled.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper stroked his beard, waiting for the extremely beautiful village woman to agree.

"Not for sale," Yin Lan said coldly.

"Shopkeeper, don't raise the price any further. Even if it's increased to six thousand taels, we still won't sell it."

The shopkeeper was surprised, then his face turned ugly. Several thousand taels? How could that be! He looked at the two of them coldly.

Chen Yourun pushed the person away.

The shopkeeper was so angry his face turned red. "Hey, are you even a man? You listen to this woman about something like this? Can't you make your own decisions? Six hundred taels, that's six hundred taels! You wouldn't earn that much money in your whole life!"

When Chen Yourun pushed the person away, he glanced at him coldly. His gaze startled the shopkeeper, but he was confident that no man could tolerate such humiliation.

As a result, Chen Yourun seemed not to hear him at all. Only when he kept shouting that he was not a man did Chen Yourun turn around, annoyed, and say, "This formula belongs to my wife. She's the one who earns money in our family. If I don't listen to her, am I supposed to listen to you? Are you going to support me?"

The shopkeeper: .....

Yin Lan almost burst out laughing.

Even in the world she transmigrated to, no man could justify his being a kept man so confidently and righteously.

Chen Yourun protected her as they left.

The shopkeeper still couldn't believe it. "If you miss this opportunity, you'll never have another one. You spineless man, relying on women, how can you be so useless?"

Chen Yourun turned back and said, "I told you I'm not selling, you don't understand."

He quickly grabbed the hand that was flailing towards him, and without much effort, the shopkeeper's fat face contorted in pain, crying out, "Ouch, ouch, ouch..."

"If I'm spineless, then what are you?" Chen Yourun scoffed and led his men away.

The shopkeeper was so angry that his face turned pale. The accountant behind him rushed over and looked down to see that his shopkeeper's wrist was covered with a bruise.

Looking up again at the departing figures of the two men, I saw a tall, strong man with great strength.

"Shopkeeper, what should we do? Should we send someone to beat them up?"

The shopkeeper's eyes gradually filled with malice, and he raised his hand to stop him.

"Not selling? Humph, I'll make them beg me to buy this stuff."

The accountant smiled knowingly. He naturally knew the manager's methods. Wasn't it just that he had snatched the Silver Crane Tower from others before? As for a small recipe, what difficulty would it be to get it?

Chen Yourun pulled Yin Lan by the waist and put her on the oxcart. Yin Lan blushed and slapped his hand away. Fortunately, Zhao Dashan and his wife on the other side did not see it.

Yin Lan glared at him fiercely, and Chen Yourun went to catch the carriage.

The group then bought ten more cakes and three calligraphy brushes before heading back.

Zhao Dashan's wife was still basking in the memory of her eighty coins when she was completely stunned by the enormous sum of eight taels of silver.

Actually, she herself didn't realize that she had forgotten about the pig offal she sent to Jiqinglou. That also generated income, so Yin Lan actually earned more than eight taels of silver a day, almost ten taels.

So, ten days is one hundred taels, a month is three hundred taels, and two months is six hundred taels. And the cost of these things is not high. In three months, you can easily earn six hundred taels of silver. The manager of Silver Crane Tower is taking advantage of their ignorance and actually dares to think that he can buy the recipe for six hundred taels of silver.

What's even more ridiculous is that after buying it, Yin Lan forbade anyone from using the recipe to make things to sell. Not only was she asking for an exorbitant price, but she was also a heartless and unscrupulous merchant.

Chen Yourun was a little uneasy. "This person is no pushover. He doesn't seem like he'll just let it go like this. I'll keep a close eye on him these next few days. I'll leave once this matter is resolved," he said.

Yin Lan didn't want to delay his business, but this shopkeeper did need to be dealt with. However, he had been entrenched in the county town for many years, and they couldn't disregard the law. Even if they threatened him or made him suffer some losses, they couldn't guard against thieves like they did the day before.

For a moment, she couldn't think of a good solution, so she just nodded.

And so, swaying and rocking in the oxcart, they returned to the village.

In the past, when Yin Lan returned, the villagers would all stare at her. Later, everyone gradually got used to it and were too embarrassed to stare, but they would still secretly watch the oxcart return to the village. But today's Tiejian Village is quite different.

First, a large group of children, upon seeing the oxcart, immediately surrounded it like hungry chicks, chattering incessantly.

"Aunt Yin, Chen Yiqi got first place."

"I'm second, I'm second."

Yin Lan sorted it out before she roughly understood that it was a test from the academy, and the list of those who could go to the county academy to compete based on the results had been released.

Unsurprisingly, the eldest child came in first.

As for the other children, the second place was surprisingly Xiao Xi, a girl, which made Yin Lan very happy. The third place was Da Hu, and the second child was ninth. Yin Lan glanced at him, but the second child didn't think he had done anything wrong. He was actually quite proud of himself for completing the task and was plowing the wasteland with Tian Youwei.

Yin Lan also asked Tian Youwei a question, because Tian Youwei was currently confined to the village and was not going out to mingle with people from other villages.

I heard that Tian Youwei and Widow Ye had a big fight at home. Later, Widow Ye came and gave him some grain. Although it wasn't much, it was enough to encourage Tian Youwei to study.

Judging from the fact that Erwa and Tian Youwei are hanging out together, it's clear that neither of them has much interest in studying.

Yin Lan was quite troubled.

After buying everything, Yin Lan had someone deliver the calligraphy brushes and meat pies to Master Liu so he could distribute them.

Later that evening, Master Liu specially chose a small open space in the village to announce the children's rankings one by one and then distribute the rewards. The eldest child who received the calligraphy brush pursed his lips, his face expressionless. Yin Lan looked at him with a smile, her little hands clearly trembling with joy and excitement, but she just didn't show it.

The villagers were quite surprised when Xiao Xi took the stage.

"What? How could a girl with no parents get second place?"

"My iron pillar actually lost to a little girl?"

Several children were severely reprimanded by their parents, who scolded them on the spot, saying that they were boys and how could they not even be as good as girls. They must not have tried hard enough. If they couldn't beat them next time, they shouldn't come home.

Yin Lan was speechless.

Why can't the girl compare?

The reason they couldn't compete in the past was because girls had no opportunity to study. Even in the schools in the county town, there wasn't a single girl. Girls weren't given the chance to learn, but then they would say that girls were inherently stupid and incapable. How absurd!

Even in Yin Lan's previous world, although girls there also faced a lot of injustice, the only advantage was that some girls began to have the opportunity to receive equal education. And the fact is that girls are indeed more capable in their studies.