After saying that, Hua Xiyu turned around and left, leaving Zhang Dandan shrugged helplessly, "How stupid!"
When the day agreed with Manager Hua arrived, Zhang Dandan greeted Song Yuehua in advance.
The person that Shopkeeper Hua brought was a girl who was about 13 years old.
The little girl has a beautiful face and gentle eyes. She wears a white jade butterfly hairpin in her hair and a gold-thread earring inlaid with jade on each ear.
She was wearing a light purple silk chest-length skirt with a layer of moon-white gauze on the outside. The skirt was embroidered with a large cluster of wisteria flowers and she had an emerald green jade pendant on her waist. She looked noble and elegant, with an extraordinary temperament.
Shopkeeper Hua introduced to everyone, "This is my niece, Guan Xiaodie. She is not very good at embroidery, so today she came to learn from me."
After saying that, Guan Xiaodie took out her embroidery and handed it to Madam Nie with both hands.
Madam Nie, as before, looked at the embroidery quietly and carefully. Everyone in the study was silent and the atmosphere was a little tense.
The time spent watching was not as long as last time. Madam Nie said softly, "You can stay."
The people in the house breathed a sigh of relief at this moment.
Shopkeeper Hua bowed to Madam Nie and said, "I have heard that the instructors at Qingyun Embroidery Workshop all have a jade token in their hands. I have heard about this for a long time. I wonder if Madam Nie can help me broaden my horizons?"
Song Yuehua: "..." Is there such a thing?
Madam Nie nodded slightly, took out a small jade token from her bosom and handed it over.
The man standing next to Shopkeeper Hua hurried over and took it with both hands.
After taking a closer look, he handed the jade token to Shopkeeper Hua. The two looked at each other and the man nodded.
Shopkeeper Hua understood what was going on, and finally put aside the last bit of worry in his heart. After taking a look at the jade token, he personally handed it back, "I made a willful request, thank you for your tolerance, madam."
Song Yuehua took a glance and saw the word "Nie" engraved on the jade token.
If Guan Xiaodie wanted to stay in the academy, she had to pay 80 taels of silver to Nie Niangzi, as well as the cost of food and accommodation, plus 5 taels of silver as a reward, a total of 97 taels of silver.
Song Yuehua got 27 taels and Zhang Dandan got 13 taels.
In addition to the 8 taels of silver given to him by Shopkeeper Hua and General Song Yuehua as a reward for his hard work, Madam Nie also gave him 5 taels of silver.
Zhang Dandan counted out four taels of silver and gave it to Song Yuehua, "Sister Song, I know that the school's board and lodging costs 12 taels of silver a year. I didn't pay the tuition, nor did I buy any writing materials or books. I ate and lodged for free all day. I made a little money this time, although it's not enough, but I promise that I will make up for it later."
Seeing his serious look, Song Yuehua was still very relieved.
Accepting Guan Xiaodie had no conflict of interest with her, and she got some money for free, so everyone was happy.
After getting the silver, she still thought of paying part of the money for food and lodging, which at least proved that the person she accepted it from was not an ungrateful person.
Living in the school, she earned one tael of silver a month, which was profitable for her because the two girls from the Hua family, plus Guan Xiaodie, were all wealthy ladies.
The rice she eats every day is delivered by her family, so she earns more.
"You don't have to count it with them," Song Yuehua said, "I'll take this four taels and treat it as a year's food and lodging expenses."
Zhang Dandan hurriedly thanked them, collected the silver, and went out to Dongshan to find Ji Ming and Gao Wazi. He divided the silver into three parts, one for each person.
"Boss, with this money we can go to the county town and rent a small courtyard. We can invite Dasha and Tangyuan and the others to come with us. We don't have to live in a dilapidated temple anymore. We can dress more decently and do some small business, which will be enough to support ourselves." Zhang Dandan said with anticipation.
Ji Ming shook his head and said, "Let's not talk about whether my business is over yet. We are doing some speculative things here because no one will bother you. If you go to the county town, you can be a beggar, but if you want to do any decent business, anyone can crush us to death."
"Have you forgotten that we sold charcoal in Jiuqu Alley a few years ago, and that we delivered meals to Ben Zui Xiang Fang last year? We couldn't protect it before, and we can't protect it now."
"Let's save some money, find a backer, plan well, and do something stable."
"Study hard. There must be at least one person among the three of us who can read and do the math. As for the big fool and Tang Yuan, we can ask someone to send some copper coins to them someday. We can't keep too many."
"All I have to do is listen to the boss." Zhang Dandan said with a smile.
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