Chapter 469 Donations
It was evening when the big ship arrived at the pier, and the group stayed in the inn next to the pier.
In the middle of the night, Qingshu woke up by a nightmare and stared blankly outside.
Wu Yian was awakened and grabbed her arm as she looked, and asked, "Qingshu, what nightmare are you having?"
Qingshu came back to his senses in pain: "I dreamed that An An became sensitive and inferior, and died of depression after getting married. Yian, you are right, I shouldn't be scruples about my grandmother and leave An An in Fuzhou."
Grandma always indulged her mother, and it is hard to guarantee that An An would be wronged for her mother, so she should take An An to rest assured.
"Well, as long as you pick her up, she will definitely be very good in the future."
Qingshu was a little surprised: "Why are you so sure?"
Wu Yian smiled and said, "With us taking care of you, how can An An be bad?"
Qingshu was really grateful that he stayed in Class 6, otherwise he would not have been able to make friends like Yi An and Xiaoyu.
On the carriage, Wu Yian asked, "Didn't you say you want to pick An An up to the capital? Why don't you write a letter to Grandma Gu?"
"When I find an private school for An An, I will write a letter. If I don't prepare anything, my grandmother will not let anyone go."
Wu Yian felt that Qingshu was very considerate.
Three days later, he returned to the capital and stood outside the city gate and sighed: "I have been away for more than four months, and I feel like I have been away for many years."
Qingshu smiled.
After entering the city, Yi'an said goodbye to Qingshu and rushed home in a panic. He had been away from home for so long and missed his family very much.
After taking a hot bath, Qingshu was about to have lunch when he heard the servant report that Feng Xiaoyu and Zhu Lanxi were here.
Feng Xiaoyu saw Qingshu and yelled: "Qingshu, why are you so thin?"
"Did you not receive my letter?"
When she left Pingzhou, she wrote a letter to Feng Xiaoyu and Zhu Lanxi.
Seeing Feng Xiaoyu shook his head, Qingshu said, "It may be because of the disaster, and the letters are not as fast as before."
Zhu Lanxi frowned and said, "Qingshu, I'll write a letter asking you to return to Beijing quickly. Why don't you listen? Do you know how worried we are about you and Yi'an?"
"My grandma insisted on staying in Pingzhou, but I was worried that she could only stay."
Feng Xiaoyu asked, "I heard that your grandmother donated all her property. Is this true?"
Qingshu corrected: "My family donated 180,000 stones of grain and medicinal materials from a warehouse."
During the disaster, donating money and donating food and medicinal materials are completely different.
After being stunned for a moment, Feng Xiaoyu asked, "How much is the 180,000-stone grain and a warehouse of medicinal materials?"
Zhu Lanxi said: "One stone of grain is 120 kilograms, and one stone of grain is more than 20 million kilograms. According to the twenty-five-one kilogram of rice in the capital, that is more than 500,000 taels of silver."
"As for medicinal materials, it is difficult to calculate, the prices of different medicinal materials are different."
Gongsun Yingxue shook her head and said, "It cannot be calculated based on the grain price in the capital, but the grain price in the south of the Yangtze River. Qingshu, how much is the grain price in Pingzhou after the disaster?"
Qingshu felt that she was worthy of being the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was very sensitive to the price changes: "After the disaster, Pingzhou rice costs 2 taels per kilogram."
Except for Gongsun Yingxue, everyone else was dumbfounded: "How is this possible for two taels of silver per kilogram of rice?"
Affected by the floods in Jiangnan, prices in the capital have also risen. Even if the government has curbed them, the grain has more than doubled. However, compared with Jiangnan, the increase is not large.
Qingshu shook his head and said, "Grain merchants have to stock up and wait for the price to rise, and the people are holding the food in stock tightly. The price of grain will be getting higher and higher, but when the sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains in the area are harvested, the price of grain will drop."
If rice wants to be reduced to the price before the flood, it must have to wait for next year. Of course, the premise is to have a bumper harvest.
Feng Xiaoyu opened his mouth and said, "If you count this way, Grandma Gu donated tens of millions of dollars to the government."
"My grandma said that saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. The lives of so many people cannot be measured by silver and money."
Zhu Lanxi exclaimed: "Grandma Gu is so noble and noble, so many times better than those famous ladies from aristocratic families."
There is something in this!
Feng Xiaoyu explained to Qingshu: "After the flood in Jiangnan, the court called on everyone to donate money, but the officials and the merchants also donated more than 160,000 taels of silver. Lan Xi and I also raised more than 20,000 taels of silver in Wenhua Hall!"
Speaking of this, Feng Xiaoyu said, "Qingshu, I donated the money you won for you."
Qingshu knew that Lu Zizhong was the top scorer in the current academic year, and his bet on that day must have won the money: "How many times has it increased?"
Feng Xiaoyu laughed: "It's fifteen times more. I've never made so much money when I grow up so old. Qingshu, you're so lucky, why don't we go to the gambling house to play a few times, and we will definitely make a fortune."
Qingshu's words made her give up her thoughts: "If you want to go to gambling, you are caught by the school, so we have to put on the bed and leave."
The four of them came over without eating, so they ate lunch with Qingshu.
After dinner, Qingshu said to everyone: "I brought a lot of seafood, and you can get it after school later."
Xia Lan chuckled and said, "How embarrassed I am to eat and take it!"
Feng Xiaoyu teased: "If you are embarrassed, just give me your share!"
Xia Lan doesn’t want to!
After chatting for a while, Zhu Lanxi said, "Qingshu, we are going back to school, we will talk later."
"Then wait, I'll change my clothes."
Feng Xiaoyu said, "You won't want to teach with us, are you?"
Seeing Qingshu looking at her, Feng Xiaoyu explained: "I mean you have fallen into such a class. You can't understand what the teacher said in class! Qingshu, it's better to wait a few days to make up for the missing classes before going to go!"
Qingshu smiled and said, "I have self-study, and I have finished all the courses for this semester."
Feng Xiaoyu screamed twice, and said with a look of grief and anger: "It seems that I'm going to make up for classes again during the winter vacation. Qingshu, why am I in the same class as you!"
It's simply too cruel.
Qingshu comforted her and said, "I have only a little understanding of reading books. I only want to pass the final exam this time."
It is easy to learn the things in the two courses of writing and miscellaneous learning, just write more and read more, but it is not acceptable to be able to learn. Qingshu plans to ask Zhu Lanxi to focus on tutoring her.
Lan Hua immediately went to class when she heard Qingshu coming back. When she saw her, she breathed a sigh of relief: "It's good to be safe."
Although the eldest princess said that Shu was safe and sound, she was always worried when she didn't see anyone.
Qingshu felt warm in his heart and bowed to Lan Hua and said, "Sir, thank you."
A smile appeared on Lan Hua's face: "Mr. Yang and I will make up for you at noon for the lessons you have with Wu Yi'anque."
Qingshu was very grateful to Lan Hua for her feelings: "No need, it's already very hard for you to take so many classes, so it's not easy to delay your rest. Lan Xi has promised that she will give me a tutoring session during this period. If you don't understand, I'll ask you again."
Chapter completed!