kvmb Chapter 8 Young and Vigorous Students
Chapter 8 Young and Vigorous Students
Dazhu quickly apologized and gave Sanya a flick on the forehead: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Sanya covered her head, looking somewhat dejected: "I meant, I named the food with fillings inside steamed buns 'baozi' (包子)."
"Don't bother anymore. You've wasted so much flour just making these steamed buns." Dazhu felt a pang of regret just thinking about it. How could the steamed buns not taste good? They're made with refined flour that's been sifted eight or nine times. How many ordinary people can afford to eat that?
“Research always requires investment,” Sanya pouted, unconvinced.
Watching the brother and sister bicker, Shen Qing felt a unique warmth and couldn't help but think of his resentful older brother. He must be dead in modern times, and his brother must be very sad.
Thinking of this, his eyes dimmed slightly. He also thought that in this year's times, it was rare to find ordinary people willing to use precious wheat for their daughter's experiments. So he decided to become an angel investor.
Shen Qing smiled and said, "Reward."
Wen Ying took out a rather heavy silver ingot, and San Ya took it with a big smile. She smiled at Shen Qing and said, "What's your name, sister? I'll send you the first steamed buns I make."
Dazhu flicked Sanya on the forehead again, angrily saying, "How dare you speak to such an important person like that!"
Sanya, with a bump on her head and looking a little aggrieved, said to Shen Qing with bright eyes, "I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself. I fell in love with you the moment I saw you."
"It's alright." Shen Qing looked at the child and felt an instant connection with him; perhaps this was the law of attraction for transmigrators.
Fangyu reminded her, "Young lady, you're going to be late."
Sanya looked down at the closed car window, feeling a little disappointed, when she heard a pleasant female voice coming from inside the car.
“Shen Qingxi, from the Ministry of Personnel.”
Upon hearing this, Sanya's eyes immediately lit up as she watched the departing figure with great joy. Dazhu was also delighted to see the large silver ingots; he had never seen so much money in his entire life!
Just as I was hoping to meet more helpful people, I heard Sanya say:
"Brother, you've made so much money, can we have something nice to eat tonight?"
Of course, the sifted wheat bran couldn't be thrown away, or it would be a sin against heaven. It was used to make pancakes for their own consumption. Just thinking about how painful it was to swallow, Dazhu gritted his teeth.
"Let's have some steamed buns too!"
The carriage slowly approached the palace. Shen Qing was in a good mood. In a farming novel, he would be considered the benefactor who gave the female lead her first pot of gold.
Following the usual pattern, if Sanya wants to do big business in the future, she should come to him for support, giving her a sense of exhilaration that "I'm still a big shot even after time-traveling."
Gender aside, he was among the top tier of transmigrators.
Thinking this, the carriage had already come to a stop at the palace gate. Just as she stepped down with Fangyu and Wenying's help, she saw another carriage stopped about ten feet away. A girl in a lake-green dress leaned out and waved to her, calling out:
"cousin!"
Shen Qing was taken aback. "Beautiful lady, who are you?"
Just as Shen Qing was wondering how to react, the sound of hooves approached from afar, followed by a cloud of dust.
Shen Qing raised her hand to cover her face with her sleeve, and out of the corner of her eye, she only caught a glimpse of a girl in a tight-fitting outfit riding past on horseback.
"Cough cough~" The girl opposite, probably covered in ash from shouting earlier, waved her hand to disperse the dust and yelled angrily, "Ding Min!"
"Whoa~" The girl in the tight-fitting clothes pulled on the reins and turned around, the BMW rearing up with its hooves neighing.
So cool! But Shen Qing wasn't envious at all, because he could do it too; it was just dedication.
The girl raised an eyebrow and said, "Li Wan, what? You're not convinced?"
Li Wan said indignantly, "Soldiers' sons, nouveau riche, they don't understand the slightest bit of etiquette."
Ding Min looked down at people with her chin held high, saying, "A pretentious aristocratic woman."
Li Wan stomped her feet in anger, while Shen Qing watched the spectacle from the sidelines.
Keep tearing it apart, don't stop. If he could, he even wanted to grab a stool and eat some sunflower seeds. Whether he was watching the show or not wasn't important; he just wanted to gather more information.
Huh~ Shen Qing had seen too many strange clothes before and didn't pay attention at first, but then he realized that Ding Min's dress was not in the same style as his.
Feeling the gaze directed at her, Ding Min glared at Shen Qing: "What are you looking at!"
Wow~ This girl is like a firecracker, so flammable and explosive. I almost instinctively snapped back at her, but Shen Qing's professionalism kept him in line.
She replied gently and politely, "I just couldn't help but take a few more glances at Sister Ding's dress because of its unique style and bright colors."
Upon hearing this, Ding Min couldn't help but smile, but immediately stopped herself, pouting, "You were born a month earlier than me, don't take advantage of me."
That's what she said, but her attitude was noticeably softer. Ding Min jumped off her horse and approached Shen Qing like a proud peacock.
“You have good taste. This is the latest style from the Di Kingdom. My father sent it back from the northern border. It’s not something that ordinary people have. If you like it, I’ll send a set to your household.”
Just as he was about to reply, Li Wan, who had jogged over, pulled him a few steps to the side, glaring at him with an angry expression that seemed to say: "Weren't we the best of the best? You've changed, you heartless woman!"
Shen Qing resisted the urge to facepalm, and then she remembered that unbearable party again; there was no escaping the battlefield of chaos no matter where you went.
No problem, it's a minor incident. Shen Haiwang can handle it!
Shen Qing patted Li Wan's chubby, fair hand resting on his arm and said to Ding Min, "Thank you. It would be impolite not to reciprocate. I happen to have some ruby drop earrings given to me by the envoy from Yu Kingdom, which match Ding's sister's dress very well."
Ding Min raised an eyebrow, neither agreeing nor disagreeing, and turned to walk towards the palace gate. Shen Qing, however, still saw the elation in her eyes. What a sassy little thing.
Thanks to the original owner's elder brother, who was a diplomat at the Court of State Ceremonial, the original owner's prestige was restored.
He then turned to Li Wan and whispered, "There are distinctions between close and distant relatives, and we must be polite to outsiders." He gave her a look that said, "We are family."
Li Wan's face immediately brightened, and she pulled Shen Qing inside with a beaming smile. Shen Qing inwardly thought:
Look how affectionate you are, but Shen Qingxi doesn't care about you at all. This sisterhood is so fake.
After checking his badge and going through security, the rest of the journey went very smoothly, and Shen Qing had time to exercise his brain again.
From a small detail, we can see a lot. War is indeed an opportunity to liberate the shackles of thought. In the Great Qian Dynasty, the class system was strict, with clear distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children. At that time, illegitimate children could not enter officialdom, and those from humble backgrounds could not hold official positions above the fifth rank. Military generals were despised by scholars.
When war breaks out, the traditional social order collapses, and might makes right. Of course, due to the previous system, military power was mostly in the hands of powerful families. But chaos breeds heroes, and there were still grassroots outlaws who became regional lords.
The legitimate sons of noble families suffered too many losses in the chaotic times, which gave the illegitimate sons a chance to rise to prominence. It wasn't that the illegitimate sons were more fortunate, but rather that there were many of them. For example, the founding prime minister of the Xuan Kingdom was born out of wedlock. Both of his legitimate brothers had died, but his family had eighteen illegitimate brothers...
Of the sixteen separate regimes, five were previously tribal civilizations of different ethnic groups. The turbulent environment was conducive to the rise of talented individuals and new ideas, which began to emerge and clash. After all, the defenders of the old ways were living precarious lives and couldn't manage everything, which made it the best time for change.
Shen Qing was caught up in his passion; perhaps he could also spread some advanced new ideas!
Just as he was getting excited, his vision suddenly blurred. He was dazzled by Ding Min's gold-embroidered horse-face skirt in front of him. Wait a minute, the Di Kingdom was the regime of the Northern Rong. The Hua people there lived a miserable life. Where would they get such good craftsmanship?
A familiar sense of déjà vu... Could it be that there are time travelers in the Di Kingdom too?!