Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

The food at the city gate in the early morning is fresh, and Yang Yuanzu usually buys something hot while waiting, sometimes it is cakes, sometimes it is porridge.

However, he bought porridge less frequently, because the porridge was served in bowls by the store and easily spilled. But later he gained experience and made a special cup to hold the porridge, so that if he couldn't finish it, he could take it away and it wouldn't spill easily.

Yang Yuanzu usually bought food outside in the morning when he was in a hurry and had not eaten much. If he was not full in the morning, he could still have another meal at the city gate.

However, in other situations, Yang Yuanzu would buy some food, either when he was craving for something, or just to try something new.

After Yang Yuanzu finished his roll call at the Agriculture Bureau today, he returned to his position, waiting for the person in charge to take them to measure the land.

Not long after he sat down, he saw the accountant coming over with a wooden box in his hand. This must be the glutinous rice cake he mentioned yesterday.

When the arithmetic official saw Yang Yuanzu, he ran over happily and said, "Brother Yang!" But then he felt that it was inappropriate to call him that, so he changed his address to "Yang Nongshi, this is what I promised to bring you yesterday."

Yang Yuanzu took the glutinous rice cake and heard the other party say, "Land accounting is a small matter. Today, we and a few sprinters are the only ones who will go to calculate. The head of the agricultural department has to deal with other things." Then he added, "I just met the head of the agricultural department on the road when he said this. After that, he hurried away."

Yang Yuanzu nodded to show that he understood, and then asked, "Are we leaving now?"

The arithmetic officer nodded and answered according to past experience: "We will work on the area of ​​Lihua Village in the suburbs of Beijing today. The sooner we finish, the sooner we can leave."

Yang Yuanzu was more than happy to get off work early, and he said to the accountant, "Wait for me a moment." Yang Yuanzu returned to his seat, took a water bag and a cup, said hello to his colleagues next to him, and then followed the accountant out.

Yang Yuanzu had just spent more than an hour getting into the city, and now he had to spend another hour getting out of the city. Basically, half of the morning was spent on the road.

Today's process is similar to yesterday's. In order to get off work earlier, Yang Yuanzu and the arithmetic officer decided to split up into two groups today.

They divided the fields to be measured into two areas, with each person responsible for one.

The two of them were much more efficient in executing the plan and finished work several hours earlier than yesterday.

The two of them had some rare free time and planned to find a place in the city to enjoy this rare rest time in the afternoon.

The two discussed for a while but couldn't come up with any clue.

In the restaurant, you can eat, drink and listen to books; in the theater, you can listen to operas and watch acrobatics; in the literary building, you can recite poems, paint, play chess and make couplets. In addition, there are brothels that you cannot go to and gambling buildings where you can throw dice.

Finally, after entering the city, Yang Yuanzu decided to go to the theater to watch acrobatics. Then he realized it and felt something was wrong. Why should he go out to play with a grown man?

The arithmetician originally thought that Yang Yuanzu was going to Wenlou. After all, the other party was a literati, and he knew that literati liked poetry and articles.

Seeing that the arithmetic official did not answer for a long time, Yang Yuanzu thought that the other party disagreed, so he asked: "Don't you want to go to the theater?"

The arithmetic officer came back to his senses and said directly: "I thought you were going to the Wenlou to read poetry or play chess!"

Yang Yuanzu was surprised and asked, "You want to go?"

The arithmetic officer shook his head repeatedly after hearing this, and added at the end: "I don't want to go."

He must be crazy to choose to go to Wenlou to torture himself!

Although all the literati liked to go to Wenlou, Yang Yuanzu did not like to go there.

After the two decided to go to the theater, they drove their carriage directly there.

After arriving, we chose a seat in the lobby and waited for the performance.

The private room upstairs was quite comfortable but also expensive, and neither of them was willing to spend the money.

Both of them had low salaries, and the arithmetic official’s rank was lower than Yang Yuanzu’s so his salary was even lower.

Yang Yuanzu's salary was eighty taels of silver, plus the nine taels of monthly allowance from his wife, he was considered a wealthy man with some assets in Changjing City, at least that's what he thought in his heart.

The accountant received a monthly salary of fifty taels. If he saved a little on household expenses, he would have some surplus every month and could save some money.

The family can live comfortably with this salary even if they don't have children, but if they have to raise children and send them to school, they won't be able to save any of this salary.

The cost of studying is not just tuition, but also the four treasures of the study and other miscellaneous expenses.

Studying is a money-eating beast. Take the ordinary people in Shunxing County as an example. Generally, it takes the whole family's contribution to support their children's education.

Not to mention draining all their family assets, they will definitely have to spend some money. As for how much, it depends on the closeness of the relationship.

Once one of their children passes the imperial examination, it is a happy event for the entire clan. Everyone can benefit from the honor due to their kinship, and sometimes even the neighbors or the entire village can also benefit from it.

After they sat down, they ordered a pot of green tea and a plate of melon seeds. Yang Yuanzu tasted the melon seeds and found that they were not as delicious as those made by Grandpa Yuan in the village, and they were not as big as those made by Grandpa Yuan, and the flesh was not as firm and full as those made by Grandpa Yuan.

Maybe because he was used to eating the melon seeds from Grandpa Yuan's house, Yang Yuanzu just made do with the melon seeds from the theater. However, the arithmetic official ate them with gusto. He said, "I've heard that the melon seeds from this theater are delicious. Today I finally have the opportunity to try them."

After that, he recommended the special programs here to Yang Yuanzu with an Amway look on his face. He said to Yang Yuanzu with great interest: "I just asked, there are opera performances in the morning and acrobatics in the afternoon. The performance this afternoon is the chest-breaking stone performance!"

Yang Yuanzu had seen the performance of breaking stones with chest on TV a long time ago, but those were all fake stones.

Yang Yuanzu was drinking green tea and the arithmetic official was cracking melon seeds. When they had finished half of the tea and half of the melon seeds, a few people in short clothes and painted faces finally came up on the stage.

"Dear audience, the trick we are going to show you is breaking a stone with the chest. If you are satisfied, please give us a reward. Thank you very much..."

Before the man could finish his words, Yang Yuanzu ran over to the stone slab they were using for the performance, touched the stone curiously, and then tried to lift it to see how heavy it was.

The man with the painted face was shocked for a moment, then he quickly calmed himself down and explained to everyone present that the slab was definitely made of real stone.

Yang Yuanzu knew it without any explanation. He just tried it and found that the stone costume was really made of stone, and it felt quite heavy when he picked it up.

Each stone slab was about twenty centimeters thick. A juggler was lying on a specially made long and wide stool with a stone slab placed on his chest.