Chapter 229: Dog Catching Mouse
The county magistrate's wife laughed and said, "That's because she hasn't been exposed to good things."
When Old Lady Ye and Mrs. Du heard this, they became more excited.
Old Lady Ye asked, "What do you mean?"
The county magistrate's wife held the tea and said, "You are all in the village, and the people you are looking for are all rough men in the village. Even a poor scholar can be praised to the sky. What good can it be?"
Mrs. Du laughed when she heard this: "That's right. That's the case with Li Zhiyuan. He used to sound very powerful, but now that I've seen more, I know he's nothing."
The county magistrate's wife continued, "And the matchmakers in your town can only meet a few good families. The best ones are just some wealthy men or small merchants in the town."
Old Lady Ye nodded: "That's true. But Caiping still has to give the nod herself."
"How can you say that, old lady?" The county magistrate's wife laughed, "She is comfortable now, but in a few years, when you are old and your daughter gets married, what will she do in the future?"
Mrs. Du: "We are here! And Xuan'er, Yong'er, and Peng'er."
The county magistrate's wife was startled: "You guys... want your nephews to eat up her family?"
Mrs. Du choked: "No... that's not what I meant... it's just..."
She couldn't explain it clearly. She didn't have that intention, but it seemed like whatever she said was wrong.
After thinking for a while, he said, "In the future, Jin'er or Huan'er will be looking for a son-in-law, and then we can get a live-in son-in-law."
"Wouldn't that mean her son-in-law would eat her up and wipe out her entire family?"
Mrs. Du and Old Lady Ye remained silent, as if it were really the case.
The county magistrate's wife said, "Old lady, you can't let her be willful. It's okay now, but if you don't have a son, you will always be bullied. While you are still young, you should find a good family to marry and have a son. This is the right thing to do. Otherwise, you will have a hard time in your later years."
Old Lady Ye smiled and said, "Thank you for your kindness and reminder, Madam, but she still has to make the decision herself. I will persuade her later."
"However, I will go back and look for her and find her a good family."
Old Lady Ye hesitated: "This..."
The county magistrate's wife laughed: "Old lady, you don't have to be so cautious. I can be a matchmaker for her. If she doesn't agree, I can't force her, right? It's just giving her another choice."
Old Lady Ye thought about it and realized that this was the truth. She smiled and said, "That's right. I'll trouble you, Madam."
The three of them chatted for a while, and then Ye Caiping and his group came back.
After lunch, the county magistrate and his wife left with the yamen runners.
Ye Caiping breathed a sigh of relief as she watched the convoy go away. Old Lady Ye and Mrs. Du pulled Ye Caiping into the main hall and told her that the county magistrate's wife wanted to arrange a match for her.
Ye Caiping frowned: "No."
Old Lady Ye said, "Let's see who this family is first. Besides, she's the county magistrate's wife, so it would be embarrassing if we refuse, right?"
Ye Caiping was furious.
Originally, she got along well with the county magistrate and his wife, and they worked together quite happily. Now they want to act as a matchmaker for her. This is really like a dog trying to catch a rat!
She had to find a chance to refuse.
Ever since County Magistrate Lu came that day, not only the people in Qinghe Village, but also several nearby villages knew that the County Magistrate had a close relationship with Ye Caiping.
Lee Family——
Zhang Shuiniang has been acting like a good wife and mother these past two days, and Li Zhiyuan is in a very good mood.
But this afternoon, Mrs. Zhao came again!
The news came that Ye Xuanzhong, a young scholar, and the county magistrate were coming to Ye Caiping's house!
Li Zhiyuan was so angry that his face almost twisted.
How come Ye Xuan could pass the imperial examination? It has been delayed for so many years!
And Ye Xuan is only seventeen years old!
When Li Zhiyuan passed the imperial examination, he was already twenty-five years old! Ye Xuan was actually eight years ahead of him!
envy! Jealous beyond recognition.
What’s even more infuriating is that Li Zimo actually failed the exam!
That person was his personal disciple whom he spent a lot of time cultivating and who had received his true teachings, but he failed the exam!
…
After the results of the provincial examination came out, the county school sent a servant to deliver an invitation to Ye Xuan the next morning.
Ye Xuan refused directly. He had his own teacher and didn’t need to go to the county school.
Another day passed, and the county school officially held the entrance examination.
Ye Peng was rushed by Wei to take the exam.
The results came out on April 30th, and unsurprisingly, Ye Peng was not selected.
Wei also gave up completely and no longer allowed Ye Peng to go to school.
Starting from May, Ye Peng started delivering goods for his family's Hu La Tang business, and his wages were the same as Liu Dali's. When I have free time, I do farm work and cut grass for pigs, and I am quite happy with it.
Yinhua breathed a sigh of relief. She was finally not so busy anymore.
At this time, Ye Caiping had just distributed the monthly allowance to her family and was chatting with Old Lady Ye: "Let's see who has puppies and bring a few back."
"Who wants puppies?" Mrs. Du walked in with a smile, "I heard from Liu Dali that he has a few puppies at home, and they are already one month old."
Ye Caiping's eyes lit up: "There are several, I want all of them."
Mrs. Du said, "It seems to be five or six."
"Let's go and take a look." Ye Caiping said with a smile. After the cassava theft incident, Ye Caiping decided to get a dog.
"Wait, I'll give you the money first." Mrs. Du said as she took out 10 taels of silver.
"What do you do?" Ye Caiping was stunned. She used to live here and was given 5 taels of rice for food every month. Now that she has moved out, why should she pay it back? And it’s 10 taels.
Mrs. Du said, "We are a furniture workshop partner, aren't we? You lent us 200 taels, and we promised to pay you back when we get dividends. But if we do that, we will be making money out of nothing. So we decided to pay you 10 taels every month."
Ye Caiping nodded: "Okay, I'll keep it."
After collecting the money, Ye Caiping took Old Lady Ye, Jin'er, Huan'er and Xiaoyan, and went to see the puppy with Mrs. Du.
The female dog in Liu Dali's family gave birth to six puppies in total. It was time for them to eat, and Liu Dali was worried about who to send them to.
Coincidentally, Ye Caiping wanted to have a dog.
Ye Caiping's heart melted when she looked at the chubby and tender puppies.
The dog was an ordinary little local dog, but everyone in the Ye family liked it very much.
Finally, he decided to take all six puppies and gave them 100 coins.
Liu Dali was so happy that his eyes were full of smiles. If he gave the puppy away as a gift, he would only accept a red envelope of 10 or 8 cents. Only Ye Caiping was generous and gave him 100 cents.
Six people, each holding a puppy, walked home happily amid the cries of the puppies.
Old Lady Ye said, "We can just buy one or two, why buy so many?"
Ye Caiping said: "Two at home, two in the workshop, and two in the furniture workshop in the future."
"That makes sense. Dogs should be released at home or in the workshop."
Mrs. Du said, "You make me want to keep one. I'll go to the market tomorrow and bring one back."
Mrs. Du returned home and told Ye Daquan that Ye Caiping had brought back a litter of puppies, and said that she would buy some for her family the next day.
Ye Daquan immediately quit and ran to Ye Caiping's house, insisting on taking the two puppies back home.
"It will take at least a month for the furniture workshop to be built, so we can go to town to buy some then. Let me keep these two first."
Ye Caiping asked: "Why? Can't you buy it yourself?"
Ye Daquan said aggrievedly: "No...these two are from the same litter as your dog..."
Ye Caiping: “…”
Ye Daquan snatched the two puppies home.
At the same time, the furniture workshop also started work on a suitable day. Thirty strong laborers were recruited, and the wage was 25 cents a day. They had lunch at Ye Daquan's house.
There are also some carpentry tools that need to be made and purchased.
There are twenty or thirty kinds of tools, including planes, chisels, bevels, angle squares, ink fountains of various sizes, and I buy dozens of sets at a time.
All these were left to Wang Shuantou and his son.
Ye Caiping goes to the Hu La Tang workshop in the morning and draws furniture blueprints in the afternoon.
While painting, Ye Caiping sighed with emotion. She thought that she would no longer need her professional knowledge after graduating from university, but she never expected that it would come in handy after traveling through time.
In her previous life, she majored in painting.
But after graduation she found that she could not make money from painting, so she could only paint while setting up a stall.
Unexpectedly, her paintings didn’t make her famous, but her spicy soup became popular. In the end, he plunged into the business district and refused to come out.
"Hahaha, Madam Ye is not here?" A loud laugh was heard outside.
"Yes, I'm going out. If Matchmaker Jia has anything to say, just tell me the same thing." said Old Mrs. Ye.
"Mrs. Ye is not young anymore, I will tell her about a family. I know you look down on ordinary families, and it's true, Mrs. Ye is beautiful and can make money. But I'm not talking about an ordinary family."
"That's Mr. Ma from the town. You know Mr. Ma, right? He has five rice shops and hundreds of acres of fertile land."
Old Lady Ye got angry when she heard this: "Isn't Mr. Ma fifty years old? He can be Caiping's father!"
"Oh... Although he is a little old, he has the title of scholar and his family has a lot of property."
Old Mrs. Ye was angry. She said four or five more words and then asked the matchmaker Jia to leave.
Although Ye Caiping didn't go out, she was annoyed by what she heard.
Old Lady Ye walked in: "Did I disturb you?"
Ye Caiping sighed softly, "From now on, no matter what kind of matchmaker you are, don't let any of them in."
Old Lady Ye said, "Don't worry, I won't let them in. I originally thought that since the boys and girls in my family are not young anymore, I didn't dare to offend the matchmakers. But these two are talking about what kind of family they are. It's too insulting."
Unexpectedly, two days later, another matchmaker named Chen came and introduced Ye Caiping to a family in the county. There are two other options, one is to become the second wife of an old official, and the other is to become a concubine to a wealthy businessman in his thirties who is blind in one eye.
Ye Caiping's face darkened. She felt that she was being plotted against and targeted by someone.
Otherwise, matchmakers wouldn’t come in so many places, and the people they talk about would be more despicable than each other.
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