A Petty Official Chapter 10

The early morning sunlight shone through the bamboo leaves into the house, casting mottled shadows. The sound of sandalwood boards rang out eight times not far away.

Emma Yun turned over and sat up, wiping her eyes. After being in a daze for a while, she got up and saw Xiaobao still sleeping beside her. Then she put on her clothes and went to the kitchen to cook the noodles.

At this time, it was already the fifth year since Ethan Yun traveled through time, and he was almost eight years old.

Grace Zheng had already gone to the children's residence to take care of them and provided them with meals.

Emma Yun came back with three bowls of noodle soup with egg drops and a few slices of vegetables, and brought them to the living room. She then knocked on Chloe Shuang's door. When she heard Chloe Shuang's response, she went back to her room, woke Xiao Bao up, and helped him put on his clothes.

Xiaobao had put on his clothes, but he was still not fully conscious, so he hung on Emma Yun and went out.

The three of them washed up side by side near the water tank, and then went to the table to eat noodle soup.

Chloe Shuang ate two bites and suddenly thought of something. He said to Emma Yun, "Brother Yan, my coat was torn yesterday. Can you help me mend it?"

"...Take it easy. Will your clothes look good with so many patches?" Ethan Yun answered helplessly.

Chloe Shuang agreed with a red face.

Ethan Yun wanted to cry but had no tears. How did the shy little girl become like this... Oh no, she was still shy, but she looked a little strange. In the past two years, Grace Zheng could cut new clothes, but Emma Yun came back to do the mending work.

As Chloe Shuang spent more time learning kesi and embroidery, everyone discovered that Chloe Shuang had no talent for it. Not only could she not learn kesi and embroidery, but even ordinary sewing was done very badly by her. She was also very stupid when cooking.

It was as if she was born in the wrong body. She was better at wielding swords and guns, and spent all day learning from the monks in the temple.

Ethan Yun had no choice but to share this part of the housework herself. There was no other way, as they were worried about asking Chloe Shuang to help with sewing and cooking.

After breakfast, Emma Yun went back to wash the dishes with Xiao Bao.

Chloe Shuang went to feed the chickens.

They fenced off the bamboo forest outside the house and raised chickens inside. It was Ethan Yun's idea. They were responsible for the daily operations and sales, and kept the money they earned for pocket money.

Chloe Shuang uses bamboo poles to pick up feed for the chickens, and the chickens have long been accustomed to it, flapping their wings to eat the feed. In this way, exercising like this every day and eating insects in the bamboo forest, the meat of these free-range chickens will be particularly delicious.

It was just feeding the chickens, but Chloe Shuang was still restless and poking them with the bamboo pole, as if he was wielding a gun or a stick. He really did not forget to practice martial arts all the time.

Over there, after Ethan Yun and Xiao Bao finished washing the dishes, they took their pen, ink, paper and inkstone to practice calligraphy.

Ethan Yun was first taught by Grace Zheng, and later Grace Zheng also spent money to send him to study with a teacher. However, after Ethan Yun studied for a year and understood the imperial examination, he no longer wanted to pursue this path.

Ethan Yun originally thought that it would be better to have a title or avoid taxes, but he found that he had studied for so many years and his grades were pretty good, but when he started studying ancient culture, he began to doubt his life. It was too difficult!

Studying is difficult, and passing the imperial examination is even more difficult. It may take decades before you pass. Ethan Yun feels that he is really helpless when it comes to the ancient classics, and he is not as hardworking as the ancient people.

So, Ethan Yun asked to drop out of school, and his teachers were very surprised because Ethan Yun was the student with the fastest learning progress among the same age.

Little did he know that this was because Ethan Yun was an adult, and certainly stronger than a child, but he himself understood in advance the lessons he would face in the future.

Ethan Yun thought so. With his fixed thinking and values, what's the point of spending all his time and barely getting a good name? Who can he compare with? This is the Song Dynasty, dear. There are Tang poems and Song lyrics. In history, there is absolutely no shortage of talented people in the Tang and Song dynasties!

Poets are everywhere and talented people are as numerous as dogs.

Besides, after traveling through time for a thousand years, is it just to study? I should just live a free life!

Ethan Yun spent a lot of time convincing Grace Zheng that she could drop out of school successfully. Fortunately, Grace Zheng was not obsessed with fame and fortune. She even thought that Ethan Yun might have inherited her late husband's hobby and was more interested in business.

After Emma Yun dropped out of school, she would still buy books to read, but she would only buy books that interested her, orthodox books, but she no longer had any pressure to study.

Later, when Xiaobao reached a certain age, Grace Zheng also taught him how to read and write, and then Ethan Yun took him to learn to read and write.

Xiaobao also went to study with the father and son that Ethan Yun followed. He persisted a little longer than Ethan Yun, for two years, and then he refused to study anymore and came back to study on his own with Ethan Yun.

Grace Zheng had also asked, Xiaobao didn't want to do business or anything like that, but because he had been close to Adrian in recent years, he wanted to learn medical skills from Adrian. So now he often went to Adrian to learn medicine.

Ethan Yun agrees with Xiaobao very much. He believes that dropping out of school does not mean stopping learning. On the contrary, in order to grow, he will have to learn more in his future medical studies.

Ethan Yun finished practicing calligraphy and told Xiaobao to continue watching by himself, then went out with a small bag.

...

Today happens to be the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and it is also the day for the Daxiangguo Temple's Wanxing Temple Fair.

Ethan Yun greeted the monks and merchants he met along the way, and walked around the temple with familiarity. Having lived here for several years, this place was very familiar to him, and he was also very familiar with it.

When seeing the monk Ethan Yun, those who were more familiar with him would not only greet him, but also half-seriously make a joke: "Brother Yan, when will you convert?"

Everyone in Daxiangguo Temple knew that this was the disciple that Zen Master Adrian favored, and they had been "pursuing" him diligently and treated him as one of their own.

Ethan Yun could only cover his face silently. Over the years, if he hadn't been determined, everyone would have regarded him as a real little monk, okay? Even so, some people still think that he is also a reserve monk now.

Arriving at the front gate, Emma Yun looked back at the crowd and found his target, a Hu merchant.

This Hu merchant came here half a month ago. He has been setting up a stall for half a month and has almost sold out the goods he brought. In other words, he is about to return. Before leaving, he will also wholesale some Central Plains goods.

Ethan Yun stood in front of his stall, and Hu Shangyong asked in Mandarin with an accent: "Young man, what do you want?"

"I don't want anything. I just want to ask you, boss, if you are interested in kesi?" Ethan Yun asked in a low voice.

Hu Shang's eyes flickered. The price of kesi in Bianliang has been getting higher and higher in recent years, especially for excellent works. Not to mention that in his country, the exquisite embroidery from Bianliang is very popular and can often be sold at a high price.

However, because kesi is extremely labor-intensive to make, it is in very short supply even in Bianliang, and is not enough to supply even its own people.

Ethan Yun opened the bag a little and showed it to Hu Shang.

Hu Shang's eyes lit up immediately, and he excitedly raised his finger, "Sell it to me!!"

...

Emma Yun counted the silver and money and put it in her arms.

In recent years, Grace Zheng has been slowly making some kesi silk in addition to her formal work. Although her progress is slow, she always produces one piece of work a year, which is enough to supplement her rent at Daxiangguo Temple and her daily life, and she can also save some money.

Because of the blockade by her mother's family, she could not sell her products in Bianliang, so she thought of a way to secretly sell them to the Hu merchants who were leaving Bianliang. Moreover, she did not even rent a stall to sell them, so as not to be discovered doing this business.

Ethan Yun walked calmly in the temple fair with money in his pocket. It was not because he had too much trust in the morals of people these days, but because he had been hanging around here for the past few years. With his many years of experience in modern times, he knew how to interact with people.

The teacher who brought Emma Yun back was once in charge of public opinion in the government propaganda department. What he did most often was to get acquainted with media from all over the country, with whom he had never met before, in the shortest possible time when an incident occurred, and then start work.

Ethan Yun learned a lot from him. Although Ethan Yun is still young, he is always with Le Ran, so it is easy for him to gain people's trust here. It can be said that even if an ignorant outsider steals money, he will be guaranteed to return it before leaving Daxiangguo Temple.

When Emma Yun walked back to the "Pet Market" in Dasanmen, she caught a glimpse of an animal in a cage and was stunned. It took her a while to wipe her eyes to make sure she was not seeing things.

He walked a few steps to the cage and stared at the black and white fur ball in astonishment. "This, this is not..."