Chapter 180 Placement

It took half a month.

The Dafang family settled down completely in the new environment.

However, the teacher that Qin Chi had agreed to teach turned out to be the owner of a bookstore.

Song Jin looked at him with a strange look in his eyes, and half-jokingly said, "Fortunately, my husband is not the one in power. He changes his mind so quickly."

"I was thinking wrongly. Being a bookstore owner is more comfortable than being a teacher." Qin Chi said happily.

In the eyes of outsiders, being a teacher is far more respectable than being a shopkeeper.

Letting a small clerk be a shopkeeper is simply a waste of talent.

If his teacher heard this, he would probably vomit blood.

Sure enough, on the day the bookstore opened.

Meng Qingrui, Le Yan and Lu Yanji came over.

"Brother, when the headmaster heard that you were going to be the shopkeeper, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. He asked you to go to him and apologize." Meng Qingrui said gloatingly as soon as he arrived.

Qin Chi glanced at him and asked, "Did you really vomit blood?"

Meng Qingrui was about to nod.

Lu Yanji standing by laughed and said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. My uncle didn't vomit blood, but he was still angry. He scolded you for not doing your job properly."

"That's okay, it's not the first time."

Qin Chi didn't know how many times he had angered Lu Shanzhang over the years. "The old man is in good health."

Le Yan looked around the bookstore.

Maybe it was because it was newly opened, there were only a few customers, "Your business is not doing well?"

"It will get better later."

Qin Chi never thought about making a lot of money when he opened this shop.

The three of them started browsing the bookstore.

It is different from traditional bookstores. For example, the outer hall looks similar to other bookstores, but there is an inner hall which is more than twice as big as the outer hall.

There are rows of books in the inner hall.

The books are neatly arranged by category, and there are even lists of books arranged by bookshelf, which makes it easy for guests to find books. At the same time, in addition to the bookshelves and a large number of books, there are also tables and chairs, so you can sit down and read books and drink tea.

The interior of this hall is simply decorated.

There are no luxurious decorations or furnishings.

It is obviously not a place where wealthy students would come.

Meng Qingrui was the first to be surprised, "Brother, what are you trying to do?"

"If you are poor, you should take care of yourself; if you are rich, you should help the world." Qin Chi said in a calm but powerful tone, "I passed the imperial examination and have some income. It's not strange to open a shop for poor students to read and copy books for free, right?"

“Not surprising!”

Meng Qingrui gave him a thumbs up and said, "You are indeed worthy of me, brother. I am ashamed of myself for your level."

"Don't talk nonsense and don't drag others into this." Qin Chi gave him a forced smile.

Meng Qingrui immediately changed his tone, "Yes, yes, it's me who is not as good as him, it has nothing to do with other people."

"Hahaha!"

Le Yan laughed without any malice.

Lu Yanji was much more stable. He just smiled and looked at the separate inner hall in the bookstore. "This is good. It is enough to provide rare help to some students who are from poor families and cannot afford to buy books."

For some reason, when I looked at Qin Chi again, I seemed to find that there seemed to be light around him.

It's hard to open your eyes for a while.

Both Lu Yanji and Le Yan admired his character very much.

Only Meng Qingrui, after praising him, suddenly asked, "Qian came here to open a shop. Does that mean he is not planning to go to the Imperial College?"

The three of them looked at Qin Chi almost at the same time.

There was envy and incomprehension in everyone's eyes.

I envy Qin Chi because he got a place as a tribute student, which is the dream of many students, but I can't understand why Qin Chi is so slow to enroll.

Lu Yanji asked: "Qian, you don't really want to give up going to the Imperial College, do you?"

“I haven’t thought about it yet.”

What Qin Chi said is true.

Lu Yanji and the other two were speechless.

Although there is no restriction on the time of enrollment, if someone else got such a precious quota, he would have enrolled early. How could he delay for half a year like Qin Chi? You should know that generally only Juren take the examination for selecting tribute students, and only those with excellent results can get the quota for tribute students and supervisors. Last year, Qin Chi got the third place, and his results were particularly excellent, so the academic official designated him as a tribute student, and his treatment was the same as that of Juren.

Others can’t even hope for it, but some people get it and don’t cherish it.

This is really infuriating.

"Da Lang, are there any classmates here?"

Boss Qin walked out wearing new clothes, looking radiant.

The way he was dressed made him look like a bookstore manager.

Qin Chi stood up and said with a smile: "Dad, are you done with your work?"

"The books in the warehouse have been counted. A few were damaged during transportation, but the rest are fine." Boss Qin helped count the goods today.

When Qin was young, he went to a private school for education.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

There is no problem in helping to count the goods and keep the accounts.

What's more, there is Xiao Chu as an assistant.

Xiao Chu used to work at Shunan Bookstore.

Since Shopkeeper Tao couldn't come here, he asked Xiao Chu to come and help. According to Qin Chi's idea, he wanted Xiao Chu to come and help for a while and help Boss Qin get familiar with the store's procedures.

Once Boss Qin has taken control, Xiao Chu can go back.

Qin Chi made such arrangements in order to find something for Boss Qin to do.

That’s not all.

Qin Chi also rented the shop next door, planning to open a small restaurant.

Then, it was handed over to the second and third rooms to run.

It is impossible to make a lot of money from a small business, but it is enough for living expenses and there will be some surplus.

Wait until these are settled.

Talk to Song Jin about other things.

Qin Chi knew that Song Jin had recently received replies from the Song family's branches in various prefectures.

Don't be fooled by the fact that there is no change on her face.

But Qin Chi still noticed her inner irritability and anger.

At this moment, Song Jin was indeed feeling upset.

Even if you expected it, the feeling is still different when you face it with integrity.

Out of more than fifty letters, only nine were replied to.

The nine managers said they would make up for the previous two years and would divide the accounts as usual. Five of them asked about medicinal materials, because Huizhou used to provide them with a fixed amount of medicinal materials every year.

Only four asked no questions.

"Boss, how do we solve this problem?" Xing Lun also read the letter.

Only then did he realize that there was such a powerful force behind the Song family.

If this force is recovered.

Jifang can expand rapidly in a short period of time.

Song Jin raised his eyes to look at him and said seriously, "I can't run around to various prefectures to look for them. Those managers probably see this clearly, so they will ignore them. If it really doesn't work, just give up on them."

"Boss, I'm willing to go there for you."

Xing Lun stood up and bowed to Song Jin. "Some prefectures gave up too early. If someone had gone over to negotiate with them, things might have been different."

"Are you really going?"

Song Jin knew that traveling to every state capital would take at least one or two years.

"It is my honor to share the worries of the boss."

Xing Lun's attitude was very firm. "Awei can manage the affairs in Huizhou. I don't need to be in charge here."

(End of this chapter)