Chapter 40: Outing
"What's the big devil?" An Xin glanced at the six people with a playful look in his eyes and asked even though he knew the answer.
"Haha, haha! He is always bad-mouthed. Don't bother with him, little headmaster." Liu Boxing wanted to get away with it by smiling foolishly.
Jiang Zhou was not happy about it, "You are the one who is talking..."
But just as he opened his mouth, Zhu Shijing covered his mouth and changed the subject: "Why does the little headmaster suddenly want to take a vacation?"
The brat wants to die, and they don't want to accompany him.
An Xin: "The spring is bright and beautiful, with green willows caressing the water. It is a good time to go for an outing."
“…”
Several people understood immediately that he wanted to go out and play.
An Xin thought of asking Mingyue to prepare food for the barbecue, and became even more excited about tomorrow's outing.
An Rui: "Cousin, can you take me with you?"
Liu Hanhan opened his round eyes like a Husky and looked at An Xin: "Little Shanzhang, I want to go too."
Although the others didn't say anything, the anticipation in their eyes showed that they were also interested in the outing.
The corner of An Xin's mouth twitched, this meant that he had taken advantage of her, and finally, unable to resist the longing looks from the others, she could only reluctantly say, "Let's go together."
But I'm going to have a barbecue tomorrow, so there won't be any for you. You guys should prepare your own food."
An Xin glanced at Zhu Shijing. Who isn't stingy?
"Ahhh! Little headmaster, how come you've learned to be stingy from Zhu Linse?"
“……”Everyone was speechless.
An Xin showed a slightly rogue smile and said arrogantly: "What's the matter, if you don't want to, then you can go by yourselves!"
Foodie Liu Boxing responded positively: "I want to go, I haven't eaten it yet, when is the barbecue?"
What kind of food does Xiaoshanzhang need? I'll give you ten taels of silver and you can help prepare it. Do you think it's enough?"
As the only grandson of the third-rank Huaihua general's mansion, Liu Boxing really had no idea about spending money.
"You don't need that much. Two or three taels will be enough." An Xin didn't want to let those people eat for free, but he didn't think about making money from them either.
Hearing that only two or three taels of silver were needed, the gourmet Liu Boxing immediately took out a five-tael silver ingot from his purse and handed it to An Xin, "I have spent all the small ones, and now I only have a few of this size left."
“…”
The corners of An Xin's mouth twitched. She felt that this boy was showing off to her, but she had no evidence.
"Okay, I'll return the remaining silver to you after we buy the ingredients."
For An Rui, who still had to ask his parents for pocket money, he was really afraid that it would cost ten taels of silver to buy barbecue ingredients.
When he heard that it would only cost two or three taels, he breathed a sigh of relief because he already had the money.
Li Ziyu walked over expressionlessly and put down three taels of silver ingot on the table. His meaning was obvious: he would also go for the outing with them tomorrow.
Jiang Zhou was not a man short of money, so he also put three taels of silver on the table.
Leng Xiangbai had been copying books for so many years, and he had saved dozens of taels of silver by living frugally. He walked over silently and put down three silver coins of one tael each.
An Xin looked at the miser who was holding his purse with a conflicted look on his face. He did not force him and simply collected the silver handed over by the other people and prepared to leave the school.
She also had to go back and tell Da Zhuang to go to the market early tomorrow morning to prepare fresh ingredients for them, and to stop by and pick up the barbecue utensils that she had asked the blacksmith shop to make some time ago.
"etc!"
Just as An Xin was about to walk out the door.
When she turned around, she saw Zhu Shijing, with a look of pain on his face, stuffing a small silver ingot into her hand.
"If the barbecue you said is not delicious, you have to return the money to me."
An Xin's joke.
This stingy guy has the nerve to make such a request.
I've already eaten it, but I still want her to pay me back.
Unless your brain is broken.
An Xin rolled her eyes at him, ignored the stingy guy and turned away.
"My money," Zhu Shijing wailed, covering his chest.
"..." The other five looked at him speechlessly.
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The next day, early morning.
Da Zhuang drove his horse-drawn carriage to the county town early in the morning.
When An Xin finished washing up and had breakfast.
Da Zhuang also bought the ingredients she needed.
Qingfeng Mingyue, Aunt Gu, and the two aunts in the student kitchen in the front yard quickly prepared the ingredients they needed.
Cut into small pieces as required, string them together, wrap them in oil paper, and put them into the food box prepared in advance.
After coming back and finishing his breakfast, Da Zhuang tied the barbecue utensils on the wooden board extending from the back of the carriage and waited at the door.
Seeing Mingyue coming with a food box, the two looked at each other, and Dazhuang took it with a blushing face and put it on the carriage.
This scene happened to be seen by An Xin who came out. He raised his eyebrows. It seemed that there was something going on between these two people.
Although An Xin was not like those time-traveling women who shouted "everyone is equal" to her servants every day, she would still give them the greatest respect.
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As long as the two people are truly in love with each other, An Xin, as the master, will not only give them blessings.
If they are willing, An Xin will give them the indenture as a gift for free and give them freedom.
This was all she could do for these servants at this moment.
In the ancient times when people depended entirely on luck for their livelihood, some people lived worse than these servants who sold themselves as slaves.
"Master," Mingyue and Dazhuang bowed when they saw An Xin coming out.
An Xin: "Everything is ready."
"yes!"
At this time, An Xin saw several carriages parked at the gate of the academy. Those should be the carriages from home that the few people had called back with a message yesterday.
But then again, there were only two carriages in the academy.
One is specially used for buying groceries in the backyard.
The other one is the carriage that An Xin rides in when he goes out.
If they didn't call their own carriage, there would be no room for all these people.
I heard that the scenery along the Qingshui River in the suburbs is very beautiful, and there is also a Jing'an Temple on the mountain. Every spring many people go there for an outing.
An Xin had no better place to go, so he decided to go there and take a look.
Just as she was about to get on the carriage, a quiet voice came from behind her.
"Headmaster, are you going for an outing?"
An Xin paused.
When I turned around, I saw four little kids, about eleven or twelve years old, standing there timidly, looking at me, with obvious longing in their eyes.
They were the eight students who were originally enrolled. Four of them left one after another, leaving these few children that Uncle An usually taught.
An Xin asked, "Do you want to go too?"
The four little guys nodded with sparkling eyes and said honestly, "Yes!"
An Xin looked at the chubby little guy and asked, "Your name is Jiang Hao?"
"The headmaster knows my name." The little guy was obviously very happy when An Xin called him by his name.
An Xin turned to the shorter one and said, "Your name is Ma Xiuzhu."
"His name is Zeng Xuezhi."
"And your name is Wen Yucheng."
Several children nodded. They didn't expect that the headmaster would know their names.
"You are all students of Wanhua Academy. How could I, the dean, not know your names?" An Xin said in a friendly manner with a smile.
"Everyone get on the carriage. Today, the headmaster will take you on an outing and have some delicious food."
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