It's getting hotter every day. In the afternoon, the sun shines on people and it burns them.
Instead of wasting time on pointless activities, you might as well learn more characters!
Although Shen Yejun had considered this possibility, he was still somewhat disappointed to hear it from Chi Mu.
“When you separated from the family, your mother gave you fifteen taels of silver.”
If we don't have any income, we'll just be sitting around and running out of money.
My lord, I think this is inappropriate.
Or, while you're studying, you can do some housework in your spare time, and I can focus on my embroidery.
Anyway, we'll earn whatever we can.
Besides, when my elder brother goes to take the imperial examination, I want him to bring more travel expenses.
They say a poor family should travel with plenty of money, so how about we lend my brother a few taels of silver when the time comes?"
Chi Mu had never considered letting his wife support the family. Hearing this, he couldn't help but reach out and pat her head.
"We won't just sit around and do nothing, you can rest assured."
You can do the embroidery if you want, or it's okay if you don't.
As for my elder brother going to the prefectural city to take the imperial examination, as his brother-in-law, we should do something to show our appreciation.
But our family's money is limited; we only have so much.
No one knows what will happen in the future, so we should always keep some money on hand for emergencies.
This is for the travel expenses to take the exam. How about we give you two taels, brother?
It's not a loan; we're directly sponsoring him. He doesn't need to repay the money.
If he passes the imperial examination, he will have more money for his future trips to the capital for the final exams.
When we have more money on hand, we can give you more.
If we're short on funds, we can still give you what's left, right?
Otherwise, if others ask how much our family contributed to our elder brother's trip to the capital for the imperial examinations.
Then everyone found out that we had only given a few hundred coins or a tael or two, which didn't make sense.
But if it's five or eight ounces, that's a different story.
Xiao Jun, what do you think?
From a young age, every penny that Shen Yejun earned was sewn by her own hand, stitch by stitch.
She knew how hard it was to earn money.
Having been scolded by her older brother before, she knew that Chi Mu's attitude was already a great favor to her.
She didn't think the amount given was too little, and she had no intention of asking the other party to borrow money from her aunt.
After nodding, she asked, "Husband, why are you so sure that we won't just sit around and do nothing?"
In these times of year, you're telling me I don't want to do embroidery anymore, while you yourself want to study.
"Then where did this silver come from?"
"Have you forgotten? Didn't I just tell you that Dad went to the backyard to plant potatoes?"
That's a high-yield crop, and it tastes amazing.
After we grow them, we keep the ones for our own family to grow, and the rest can be sold to others at a high price for seed production.
My parents had told my brothers and me before that everything my aunt gave us was of the highest quality.
Currently, apart from the government office, only our Chi family in the entire Great Chu Kingdom possesses this property.
I think that even if it sells for tens or hundreds of coins per pound, there will still be people willing to buy it.
We don't need to worry about anything, just follow our aunt's instructions.
Your elder brother is a scholar, and he doesn't have to pay taxes on any amount of land he owns.
I think if he doesn't buy land to farm, then when the harvest is a little better and we are better off, we can buy land around the county town.
We'll buy it and register it under my older brother's name. We'll use it to grow the potatoes and sweet potatoes my aunt gave us.
The entire Great Chu Kingdom is so vast; I believe that in the first three years, it should fetch a high price.
We earn money without paying taxes, so we have a lot of money.
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