The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

Xiao Fuzi, who had originally said she would come later, did not see him until curfew.

When the curfew came, people were not allowed to move around in the city, so Lin Zhi closed the gate and stopped waiting for him.

With Li Chong and his wife, their family no longer has to wash dishes in the dark.

When we get home, we take turns to wash up, and then start counting money?(?′0`?)?.

In the past, Lin Zhi had hardly ever seen money. Money was just a string of virtual numbers in his mobile phone.

I don’t feel much when I make money, and I feel even less when I spend money.

It’s not like now, holding copper coins, the sense of reality and satisfaction is incomparable to virtual numbers.

Dalang and Erlang were responsible for counting, while Linzhi and Daya were responsible for stringing them together.

A string of coins is worth one thousand coins, and one thousand coins is one tael of silver.

"It's actually five taels!"

Everyone was surprised that there was one or two more coins than yesterday.

However, the corresponding purchase amount is also much higher than yesterday.

"Five taels a day, that would be one hundred and fifty taels a month!" Dalang was shocked.

When he was still in the capital, he had the opportunity to learn accounting from his father. His father had a shop among his private property, and his normal monthly income, after deducting expenses, was only about seven or eight taels.

That was the capital city where every inch of land was valuable and prices were extremely high.

"This is just the estimated income. We have to consider the costs by then. As I said, if you want to know how much you can earn, it will take at least a month to get a rough idea." Lin Zhi divided the money.

It is not distributed to them for their use, but distributed to them to help them save.

Keep the money at home separately, so that even if it is lost, there will always be a portion preserved.

It's all cash, and we don't have anything like a safe, so this is the only way to share the risk.

When she earns more money in the future, she will exchange it for silver notes.

Today we hired some workers, so we didn't feel tired, and we finished work much earlier. The four of us didn't sleep.

Under Lin Zhi's coercion, Dalang and Erlang lit four oil lamps, and then began to copy books under the bright light.

With everyone's help, they made much faster progress in copying the borrowed books. In two or three days, they would be able to copy all the books.

Daya and Linzhi were picking beans by the light.

I was so busy today that I forgot to pick the beans to soak for making tofu.

"You have to remind me tomorrow, and I will let Uncle Li and the others choose." Lin Zhi said to Daya.

She recruited people back to free her hands.

Daya replied with a "OK", but she was afraid that she would forget, so she repeated it silently in her heart several times.

It was late at night, Lin Zhi yawned and urged them to go back to their room to sleep.

"Mom, we've only picked out a few beans, isn't that enough?" Daya felt that she could still hold on a little longer.

Compared to making money, sleeping can be put aside for now.

"That's enough." Lin Zhi yawned again: "Tomorrow we will only make tofu for Fu Man Lou. We won't sell it ourselves. So you don't have to get up so early."

Compared with braised food, tofu sales are not high. Lin Zhi decided not to sell tofu tomorrow, but to sell egg pancakes instead.

Day two.

Before daybreak, the three little ones got up in the dark and started making tofu. Lin Zhi followed closely behind them and made breakfast for them.

Lin Zhi likes to eat delicious food and also likes to cook delicious food, but she is not happy when she is asked to cook every day as if it is a task to be completed.

"Hey, you two."

The three little ones turned to look at Lin Zhi.

Lin Zhi didn't even look at them: "When will you two be able to pass the imperial examinations?"

Daya: Oh, it’s none of my business.

"I'll do it as soon as possible." Dalang didn't know what Lin Zhi was thinking, but he just thought the sooner the better.

Before his biological father's identity was revealed, he gave up the imperial examination for the sake of his grandmother.

Although his grandfather was a marquis, his grandmother was not the marquis's wife, but a favored concubine of the marquis.

She is also a concubine who only wants to get to the top but has no brains.

At that time, his father thought she was his biological mother. After she committed suicide many times, he made a deal with the wife of the Marquis in order to save her life.

The content of the deal was that his father could never take the imperial examination in his lifetime and could only serve the Marquis's legitimate son.

Thinking about the past, he felt sorry for his father. If his father had not cared about the life and death of the marquis and his aunt at that time, with his father's talent, he might have entered the officialdom long ago.

If his father had entered the officialdom, he would not have abandoned his father directly when the Marquis' Mansion found out that his father was not his biological son.

"Me too." Jiro replied.

This answer sounds a bit perfunctory.

"How fast is as soon as possible?" Lin Zhi got to the bottom of the matter.

"Mom, what happened?" Dalang did not answer directly. He thought something had happened and the family urgently needed a supporter.

How soon is as soon as possible? This is a question that cannot be guaranteed.

He can take the exam next year, but he can't guarantee whether he can get success.

Even the students in Class A cannot guarantee that they will pass the exam.

"I want to buy a servant to cook for me." Lin Zhi began to resent himself for cooking every day, and the desire to buy someone to cook became stronger and stronger.

Buying a person is something you can do if you have money, but it is not legal.

Although wealthy families all have servants, the law stipulates that common people are not allowed to have servants. Only families with official titles are allowed to have servants.

Servants in families without any official title would claim to the outside world that they were just farmhands.

"Mom, why don't the three of us take turns cooking from now on, and you can just give us guidance." Daya suggested.

The three of them can only cook the rice well, but they can't say it's delicious. Otherwise, Lin Zhi wouldn't always cook by himself.

Lin Zhi: "You three already have very little free time, and if you add cooking, you really don't have any time at all."

Daya: "I have no use for my free time!"

Lin Zhi glanced at her sideways.

Is this girl destined to be a hard worker?

"Don't tell me for now. Dalang and Erlang must have enough time to study."

Dalang opened his mouth, but was unable to refute Lin Zhi's words.

Erlang lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

"A bunch of people above us want to pick a fight with us, and they wish our whole family would disappear. If we pass the imperial examinations sooner, we will have more time to resist."

When at the Yang family, not all of what Lin Zhi said to Old Master Yang were false.

Daya shut up completely.

Who made it so that the person who came to pick a fight with their family was her own father?

"The people in the capital are still far away from us, so we still have time and room for the time being. But now it's not just a problem in the capital..."

"Any other questions?" Dalang interrupted her and asked immediately.

He said that something must have happened, otherwise why would his mother suddenly ask them to pass the imperial examination as soon as possible.