Chapter 177: Autumn Examination

Zixuan and Wenhan returned to the county again, and the Lin family, indeed following Jinghan's suggestion, mobilized people to go collect jujubes. These were very cheap, costing only four to five coins per pound. While they were intended for experimentation, they couldn't collect too little, so the Lin family recruited friends and relatives to gather them from several nearby villages.

Now, the children in the village had something to do. Even if they didn't collect much in a day, ten or eight pounds was still possible, which could at least be exchanged for forty to fifty coins. For the children, that was quite a sum.

After more than ten days, they had collected a total of five thousand pounds of jujubes. Xing family, following their own secret recipe for brewing fruit wine, processed all the jujubes. It would take nearly two months for the fermentation process, by which time they would know the outcome.