Gu Changan had already rolled up his sleeves: "Okay, let's go together."

Xiao Ran suppressed her heartache. This girl was indeed her father's daughter. No matter how hard life was, she could still find fun.

The Xiao family and the Ning family were busy in the milk tea shop, and did not notice the passage of time. All the exams passed without knowing it. During this period, everyone did not miss anything, and they also exchanged feelings by the way, and became more and more familiar with each other.

While waiting for the release of the results, Xiaoxiao took her parents to see the empire she had built - walking past the mountains she bought, seeing the fruit trees she planted, and passing by the ponds she dug or encouraged others to dig. Zhu sighed: "Are you very busy?"

Xiaoxiao scratched his head in embarrassment: "It's okay."

She told her parents about her business experience, from fresh fruit and preserved fruit wine to lotus seeds, lotus root and lotus root powder. Xiao Ran raised her hands and applauded: "Your father and I don't have this talent for business. It seems that you are better than us." We are strong."

What she was thinking was that if she could live up to her expectations, if nothing else, at least the brothers on the border could live a better life.

At this time, Xiaoxiao asked with a smile: "Ahem, since I am so strong, are my parents interested in cooperating with me?"

cooperate?

Gu Changan wiped the flour off his face and looked at his daughter with his wife: "I would like to hear the details."

Xiaoxiao ran into the house again and brought out a plain-looking cloth bag and pushed it in front of them: "This is it."

The two opened the bag and were not surprised to see a whole bag of dehydrated vegetables lying inside.

Xiaoxiao said: "I made this before I came to Beijing. It has been more than a month now. It is midsummer and food is most likely to spoil, but they seem to be fine."

To prove this, they prepared boiling water and soaked the vegetables in it.

The originally crispy dried vegetables quickly stretched out after being soaked in boiling water. The green color did not fade at all, but seemed to become more vivid. Even though they had seen it before, Gu Changan and Xiao Ran were still amazed: "You are planning to do this?" Door-to-door business?"

Xiaoxiao nodded: "Actually, it's not mainly about doing business."

"I heard that the climate at the border is weird. It's extremely hot in summer and extremely cold in winter. The land there can't grow food and vegetables, so both the soldiers and the people have a very difficult life. If they can be sent there, it will surely make everyone live better." a little better."

"But I haven't thought about how I can benefit the people at the border without being used for their own selfish purposes. Why are you looking at me like this?"

Xiao Ran and Gu Changan looked at each other and smiled: "Nothing, just keep talking." They were just happy, happy to have such a daughter.

They can see the value of dehydrated vegetables, and those who value profit will not ignore it.

Xiaoxiao didn't take out the dehydrated vegetables too quickly because she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to save them.

It would be a small thing to lose the formula at that time. If it affects the family, the gain outweighs the loss. After all, in order to protect their own interests, the people who get the formula may get rid of all other people who know about it. How can they resist the oppression of power as a farmer?

"It's different now. With General Xiao's reputation, who dares to covet this formula?"

"Dad, let's start doing it today."

The earlier they are mass-produced, the earlier they can be sent to the border.

Based on the understanding Xiaoxiao had accumulated over the past few days about Gu Changan, she thought that her father would immediately get into the kitchen as eagerly as she did. Unexpectedly, when she turned her head, she saw him with a complicated expression: "Xiaoxiao, you don't seem to know much about me yet. .”

"Have you heard of the Gu family in Beijing?"

Xiaoxiao shook her head honestly. As a girl who grew up in a farm family, the original owner naturally didn't know anything, and she, well... the capital copy had not been updated yet.

Gu Changan sighed and pulled his daughter over to sit down: "If your grandfather knew that you only knew Dean Lu but not him, I'm afraid he would be so angry that he would go to Bowen Academy to kick him out."

Everyone knows that Dean Lu was personally named the number one scholar at a young age decades ago. He also knows that there were actually two number one scholars that the late emperor favored that year. They were equally matched in knowledge and had different strategies. The officials in charge of marking the exams at the time had a hard time making a decision, and almost wanted to make a unique move of "double champions".

Among the two people who were equally optimistic, one was Dean Lu Chenlu, who was later personally appointed as a editor of the Hanlin Academy by the late emperor. Now he was indifferent to fame and fortune and came to open an academy in Xijiang County as the dean.

The other person is the current left prime minister, Gu Yuezhi, the head of the Gu family, Gu Changan's father, and Xiaoxiao's grandfather.

Xiaoxiao asked curiously: "Then how was the title of No. 1 Scholar determined? Was it drawn by lots?"

Gu Changan gently knocked on his daughter's little head: "How can it be such a child's play?" But after saying that, he also laughed: "It's just for looks."

He coughed softly: "Actually, the top three in the imperial examination are not much different in terms of knowledge. According to tradition, talented people get the title of number one scholar, but good-looking people are required to be the number one scholar, cough. Well, your grandfather was a famous and handsome man in the capital at that time, so..."

Xiaoxiao couldn't help laughing: "No wonder dad and I are so good-looking. It turns out we look like our grandfather."

In the past, Gu Changan didn't like people saying he was good-looking. For this reason, he even made up lies about how he was "big and thick" when he was a child. But when these words came out of his daughter's mouth, they seemed quite cute.

Gu Changan looked at his daughter's big dark eyes and couldn't help but let out a "secret": "Actually, it was your grandfather who took the initiative to retire to study for flowers, because at that time, envoys from other countries were visiting, and the number one scholar wanted to be the champion. To entertain guests, he is too lazy to quarrel with those foreign roughnecks."

Xiaoxiao really wants to applaud. Did his grandfather have such a personality?

"The No. 1 pick must have the best knowledge, and the No. 1 pick must be good-looking. So wouldn't it mean that the No. 2 pick back then was pretty boring?" It sounds a bit miserable.

No, the weak gleam of the second-place finisher back then was completely suppressed by the top pick and third overall pick, and people would not hesitate to mention it after dinner.

Xiaoxiao asked curiously: "What happened to the second-place finisher?"

Gu Changan looked into the distance: "He is the current right prime minister, strict and honest."

Oh, from the Yan family, Xiaoxiao asked: "Is the relationship between our family and the Yan family not very good?"

Gu Changan was surprised: "How did you know?"

Xiaoxiao acted enigmatic: "I guess."

Xiao Ran heard Rong Yan mention that Xiaoxiao was very smart many times, and she also knew that Xiaoxiao was destined to be involved in court battles in the future, so she said to Xiaoxiao with a straight face: "Good girl, be careful when meeting the Yan family in the future. As you said, the Yan family not only has a normal relationship with your father's Gu family, but also has some gaps with our Xiao family."

After pondering for a moment, she said directly: "When your grandfather and the others were still alive, the Yan family tried to win over them, but your grandfather was an upright man and hated those who fought for power, so he did not accept the olive branch offered by the Yan family. "

At this time, Gu Changan, who had always been good-tempered, snorted coldly: "They want to eat swan meat, so they propose marriage to the Xiao family."

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