After buying everything, Mo Qianshang made all the necessary preparations and then took her three sons to Qianqiu Academy.
The academy's location is somewhat remote, a distance from the main street, and there aren't many businesses around. This is what Mo Qianshang is most satisfied with. She doesn't want the academy to be located in a bustling area, since the houses at this time are not far apart and there is hardly any soundproofing.
If this were in a busy downtown area, there would be a lot of noise outside the classroom.
The academy was located in the county town, so it wasn't very big, but it had a two-story building, a row of houses behind it, a passageway in the middle, and two vegetable gardens on either side.
Entering the academy at this hour, one can hear the students reciting their lessons aloud, which inevitably evokes some memories of Mo Qianshang's school days, filling her with emotion.
The sound of reading aloud was so comforting that she felt as if she had traveled back to the modern era, back to her childhood, sitting in a clean school building, carefree, filled with uncertainty and longing for the future.
When she was a child, her parents were away doing business, and she lived with her maternal grandparents. That's when she first learned about farming. The schoolwork in the small town was not as intense as in the city. Every day after school, she could spend half a day working in her own fields with her grandfather, and then play wildly with her classmates who lived nearby.
The slow-paced life, devoid of extravagance and glitz, is more similar to her current life.
From the time her parents brought her to the big city to study, to later joining the army, looking back now, this kind of life is something she hasn't experienced in a long time.
"Mo Qianshang?"
Seeing that she was suddenly lost in thought, her eyes filled with longing, Qin Baiyi couldn't help but speak up to remind her.
Mo Qianshang suddenly came to her senses, not expecting that she would think of the past at this time.
After all this time, she thought she no longer had many attachments to her past life. After all, the elders in her family were no longer alive, her parents had gone their separate ways, and she had been all alone for a long time.
But now that I think about it, that was the place where she lived for many years, carrying more than twenty years of her life. Whether the years were sweet or bitter, they had been integrated into her body and become an unavoidable part of her life, something she could not sever.
Moreover, it is precisely because of what she knew and learned in her previous life that she is now able to display her skills here.
After Master Feng finished his previous lesson, Mo Qianshang led his sons to pay their respects.
Master Feng looked the same as last time, neither arrogant nor impatient, exuding the air of a scholar. But apart from that, he was no different from an ordinary person in appearance, and he was somewhat thin.
His eyes were still as bright and piercing as ever, but when he looked at the children, they held a newfound kindness and gentleness, making them seem easier to get along with.
The headmaster of the academy also came out with him this time.
The dean of Qianqiu Academy was much younger, only about thirty years old, refined and handsome, with a smile always in his eyes.
Upon seeing the two, Mo Qianshang handed them the prepared items and explained the matter of the children starting school that day.
The dean had heard Master Feng mention that three children from an acquaintance's family would be studying at the school, which he assumed were the sons of this Lady Mo.
Master Feng has been teaching at the academy for some time now, and in the dean's eyes, his scholarship is first-rate, unmatched by anyone else in the academy. His words carry a lot of weight with him.
Although the three Qin brothers were a little different in age, the school at that time had students of all ages. They all studied together, and even though they were different in age, they learned about similar things, so it didn't have much of an impact.
They naturally joined Master Feng's class automatically.
Now that they have formally become Master Feng's students, Mo Qianshang has also arranged with the school that her older sister, Xiao Yaoshi, will pick them up every day so they can go home.
Qin Baiyi listened from the side, but he wasn't worried. He would arrange for people to protect their safety and make sure nothing happened to them on their way to and from school.
After leaving the academy, Mo Qianshang walked down the street and then remembered to ask Qin Baiyi, "Mr. Feng's scholarship must be very good, right? Isn't it a waste of his talents to have him here as a teacher?"
Mo Qianshang knew that Qin Baiyi must have many secrets, so she didn't ask too many questions. This Master Feng said he was an official, so he must have been arranged by Qin Baiyi through the connections of the biological fathers of his children.
Sure enough, Qin Baiyi shook his head: "It's alright. He has long since retired from officialdom. He is willing to teach and educate people here."
After finishing up here, Mo Qianchang went to the grain store.
To be honest, her potatoes haven't been selling very well lately.
The owner of the grain store was named Chang Fei. As soon as he saw Mo Qianshang, he knew what she had come to ask. He invited Mo Qianshang and Qin Baiyi into the store, served them tea, and began to talk about the potatoes.
"Sigh, because of the government's announcement, some potatoes did sell, but the buyers were mostly people from the county town. They bought them like vegetables, sometimes a few, sometimes three or five pounds, and that was it."
Mo Qianshang frowned: "This won't do. I still have a lot of potatoes that I haven't dug up yet. Even if they can be stored in the ground, they can't last until winter. I have to find a way to sell these potatoes before winter."
Chang Fei was also troubled. To be honest, when the people from the yamen and Mo Qianshang delivered the potatoes together, he was actually reluctant.
He sells grain, but this year is bad. The soaring grain prices haven't brought him any profit. On the contrary, everyone is eating bran and wild vegetables, and rice that's a little more expensive is hard to sell.
The government ordered him to sell these potatoes, but he really didn't know where to begin.
But over the past few days, he has tried it himself. He is not a short-sighted person; he knows how much this potato can change people's lives. It's simply because it's so cheap.
Moreover, although Lady Mo didn't say it, he could guess that she had a considerable stock of potatoes.
Mo Qianshang turned to look at the street outside: "How about this, I'm planning to set up a stall on this street, but I don't know if there are any rules or regulations. Boss Chang, could you help me find out?"
Chang Fei quickly said, "What's so difficult about that? You don't need to worry about it. Why don't you just set up your stall in front of my shop? Normally, you're not allowed to set up a stall in front of a shop, but it's fine here!"
Mo Qianshang came out, checked the location, and then planned to go back to make preparations. Qin Baiyi, seeing that she seemed thoughtful all the way, asked, "You have so many things to do these days, are you still planning to set up a stall?"
Mo Qianshang smiled helplessly: "If we don't come up with a solution, the potatoes will really be a disaster. I'm not worried about the ore, but potatoes are fresh and they will spoil."
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