Chapter 284 The requirements are really high

Chapter 284 The requirements are really high

"Lu Zhaozhao, you're here really early."

"It's really different being the boss."

When Gu Taohua heard that Lu Zhaozhao was in Tong Huaqiong's room, she hurriedly got dressed and washed up to see Lu Zhaozhao.

Last night, Lu Zhaozhao was so busy greeting customers that he didn't have time to chat with Gu Taohua in detail.

When they met Gu Taohua, they happily walked to a corner hand in hand and whispered to each other.

Tong Huaqiong washed and dressed herself, then went downstairs to have breakfast surrounded by her son, daughter-in-law and other women.

She saw that Liu Yue'e's eyes were red, and she couldn't help but secretly ask Gu Dashu if he had had a fight with Liu Yue'e.

"Hey, what are you arguing about? She's just jealous because I took Yaozu and Maner out to play all night. Tell me, why would she be jealous at such a grown-up level? I said a few words to her last night and she wiped away her tears." Gu Dashu said.

Tong Huaqiong said: "Your wife may not be motivated by this, you should comfort her."

Gu Dashu smiled and thought it was no big deal. His wife was just in a bad mood and it would be fine after coaxing her.

"Mom, are you going to Peach Blossom Dessert or our pesticide and seed shop today?" Gu Dashu asked when they were almost done with breakfast.

"Go to the pesticide and seed shop." Tong Huaqiong said.

After Tong Huaqiong inspected Taohua Dessert yesterday, she gave all the necessary instructions and made all the necessary preparations, and they are just waiting for the opening tomorrow.

With He Chao, Hong Xiaoxi, Master Song and others around, Tong Huaqiong doesn't need to worry.

Their own pesticide and seed shop was the first shop opened in the city, so naturally she went to take a look.

Firstly, she wanted to see how the shop was doing, and secondly, she wanted to see Gu Dashu's management ability.

If Gu Dashu didn't behave, Tong Huaqiong would not have handed the shop over to him. She would have let Gu Dashu go back to work as a clerk at Taohua Dessert in Yanzhi Lane, or go back to Qinghewan to raise pigs.

The pesticide and seed shop is in the Tougu Market, which sells pigs, cattle, sheep and poultry.

It is a rented shop from the Lu family.

The Lu family had two or three vacant shops in the city, and it was Tong Huaqiong's idea to rent them in Tougu Market.

In Tougu Market, farmers buy and sell poultry and livestock, which are the target groups of seeds and pesticides.

Ever since Tong Huaqiong formulated the pesticide to eliminate corn ear rot, her fame spread throughout Ningcheng.

But her name was not Tong Huaqiong, but Widow Tong.

Tong Huaqiong simply gave up and simply named her own pesticide and seed shop Tong Widow Seed and Pesticide Shop.

After the shop opened, people came to ask about pesticides not only for ear rot, but also for all kinds of crop problems.

After all, this era is still dominated by agriculture, and the harvest of crops is what most people care about.

In addition to the medicine for ear rot, the shop now has some other pesticides.

Of course, Tong Huaqiong and Yiwodaizhu all knew that the formulas of these pesticides were obtained by Tong Huaqiong by cheating from the space.

The terrible thing about this space is that there is no way to directly sell the pesticides inside.

Tong Huaqiong tried it, and once she did that, the space would stop opening up to her.

So Tong Huaqiong could only take the recipe and find someone to prepare it.

It has to be said that there is no shortage of talented people in any era. If you give someone a recipe, there will actually be someone who can make it.

This person was born into a family of alchemists. It was said that his grandfather and father were obsessed with alchemy, and one was blown away and the other was poisoned to death by testing the elixir.

After Tong Huaqiong learned about this strange thing from Lu Chaoyang, he quickly recruited Gu Dashu to work under his command.

This man probably didn't expect that he failed to make the elixir of immortality, but instead found another way to formulate various pesticides.

Since this man's ancestral home was burned down by the explosion of his elixir furnace when he was refining elixir, he has been living in a dilapidated temple in the city.

Gu Dashu repaired the leaking roof for him according to Tong Huaqiong's instructions, and provided him with money, rice and flour every month so that he could concentrate on chemical experiments.

Originally, Gu Dashu thought it was not easy to go to the mountains in the suburbs, so he wanted to bring the person to the shop, but was scolded by Tong Huaqiong.

Did the person come here to blow up the entire shop?

Only then did Gu Dashu completely give up the idea of ​​bringing the person to the shop.

At the entrance of the hotel, Tong Huaqiong temporarily bid farewell to Lu Zhaozhao and went to the pesticide seed shop in Tougu Market.

Lu Zhaozhao's shop is also in Pearl Lane, not far from Taohua Dessert. Tong Huaqiong plans to visit Lu Zhaozhao's rouge shop after returning from Tougu Market.

Seeing that Tong Huaqiong had a large group of people and only had one carriage, Lu Zhaozhao generously lent his carriage to Tong Huaqiong.

Tong Huaqiong was not polite either.

A group of people came to Tougu Market in a large group.

Tong Huaqiong entered her own pesticide and seed shop.

The shop now has a clerk and an accountant, and Gu Dashu is the shopkeeper and clerk.

After meeting the clerk and the accountant, Tong Huaqiong began to look through the account books.

Gu Dashu was extremely nervous.

When he was working at Taohua Dessert, he learned from He Chao how to manage a shop and how to read the account books. When he just started, Tong Huaqiong sent him to the provincial capital to open a pesticide and seed shop.

He was afraid that his accounts wouldn't add up and would anger his mother, so she stripped him of his position as shopkeeper and sent him back home to farm and raise pigs.

Tong Huaqiong frowned after flipping through the account book.

Before Gu Dashu could say anything, Liu Yue'e asked worriedly, "Mom, is there something Dashu didn't do well?"

Tong Huaqiong closed the account book and said, "There is no problem with the account."

Liu Yue'e and Gu Dashu both breathed a sigh of relief.

Gu Dashu patted his chest and said, "I was scared to death. I thought there was something wrong. Mom, I'm not trying to take credit for it. I really only sleep for a few hours a day to run the shop. I check the accounts over and over again, just in case there is any problem."

Tong Huaqiong said: "I think your handwriting is ugly. Look at your handwriting, it looks like ghost writing. Without a little strength, it is really hard to understand. It hurts my eyes to read it."

Gu Dashu smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm not your third brother taking the exam for the title of scholar. It's fine as long as what I write is readable."

Gu Dashu also learned calligraphy from Tong Dajiao, but he was not good at reading and could only recognize some daily characters, and he could not write well.

Liu Yue'e pushed Gu Dashu and said, "From today on, you must learn to read and practice calligraphy. Next time when you keep accounts, don't let me hurt your eyes. I can tell you that this is not my order, but my rule. Not only you, but Yaozu and Man'er must also learn to read. My sister-in-law and I must also learn three to five characters every day."

When Gu Dashu heard that his son was going to start school, he was extremely happy.

He thought that the Gu family only supported Gu Jingzhe's studies.

His son will also have to go to school in the future.

In this era, who doesn’t want their son to study and take the imperial examinations?

Gu Dashu is no exception.

Gu Dashu rubbed Yaozu's head and said, "Your grandma is willing to support your studies. You are lucky. You must study hard, okay? Just like your third uncle, strive to become the top scholar in the imperial examination."

The top scholar in the imperial examination, Yaozu was confused, his father’s requirements were really high.

Yaozu whispered, "I just need to pass the exam to become a scholar."

Gu Dashu said angrily, "Why are you so immature?"

Tong Huaqiong patted Gu Dashu's head and said, "Come on, you are so ashamed to say that about your son? You don't even know how many words you know, and you don't even set a good example for your son, but you ask him to take the top spot in the imperial examination. Do you think I ask this of your third brother?"

Gu Dashu thought to himself, why don’t you have any requests?

When my third brother was just starting to learn, you asked him to take the imperial examination and become a high-ranking official in the court so that he could earn an imperial decree for you.

How come you have forgotten it now?

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you and start learning to read and practice writing from tomorrow."

But Gu Dashu didn't dare to say it, for he was afraid that his mother would beat him to death as soon as he opened his mouth.

He could only agree.

However, his wife and elder sister-in-law both needed to learn to read, and it would be too shameful for him, as the man of the family, to shrink back in learning to read.

Learn, you must learn.