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

"It feels like you've gone back home a little differently." Yang Yuanzu didn't seem to know the class rules that even a three-year-old knew. Lin Ting'an looked at Yang Yuanzu in confusion.

How could you hide this from someone who lives with you day and night?

Yang Yuanzu quickly used the excuse that he fell on his head and lost part of his memory. Lin Ting'an wanted to ask again when he heard this and heard a voice from outside the carriage: "Master, we are home."

Lin Ting'an arrived at the door of his house. He missed his grandmother, so he stopped discussing the fall on his head with Yang Yuanzu. Nothing was as important as seeing his grandmother now.

Yang Yuanzu got off the carriage and saw that the house in front of him was very different from what he had imagined.

The house is not built as tall and gorgeous as in the TV series. There is no majestic stone lion at the door, there are no steps under the door, and the door is not vermilion.

Walking into the gate, the inside is similar to the courtyard, except that the house occupies a slightly larger area.

Yang Yuanzu remembered that Lin Ting'an's family was in the fabric business, mainly silk, so logically he should be wealthy.

Is this also a hierarchy?

As they entered, a servant came to greet them.

Yang Yuanzu looked at the servants in front of him and fell into doubt again. Since the hierarchy is strict, how can a businessman hire servants?

Later, after many inquiries, Yang Yuanzu found out that these were slaves without identity tags. They were equivalent to items and could be killed at will. As long as merchants had money, they were naturally eligible to own them.

Servants have identity cards and cannot be killed at will if there is no right or wrong. They have some human rights, and businessmen are not qualified to have them.

An identity card is equivalent to an ID card.

But in the Ning Dynasty, merchants could hire workers as long as they paid a certain wage, but the wages were much higher than those of slave workers, and the head tax was also different.

Lin Ting'an took Yang Yuanzu to his grandmother's room to say hello.

When he walked into the room, there was no one waiting in the room. Lin Ting'an was angry and shouted loudly: "Where are the people? Where have they gone!"

At this time, two servants hurriedly ran in from outside and knelt on the ground in fear: "It was your uncle Lin Junhao who asked us not to stay here and disturb the old lady's rest. Please forgive me, Master!"

Lin Ting'an looked at her grandmother once and made sure there was nothing wrong with her before frowning and replying: "From now on, you only need to obey my orders and ignore others. Do you hear me clearly?"

Because the uncle was an elder and a man, the two slaves hesitated for a moment, then nodded and replied, "I understand."

Lin Ting'an rubbed his head helplessly and asked the two to retreat.

It was obviously a slave that he bought, but because he was just a brother, these people tended to be more inclined to their uncle's side.

Turning back to Yang Yuanzu, he said, "As you can see, I don't trust my grandmother if I leave it to someone else."

My uncle's family has been coveting the Lin family's property for a long time, but they didn't have the chance to do so because of my grandmother's filial piety when she was still alive.

Now that my grandmother is ill, my uncle's family may start to take action secretly.

They didn't dare to attack the old lady for fear of being found out later, so they sent away the servants and neglected their grandmother.

If the grandmother gets sick and something happens while she is unattended, the uncle can find a reason to shirk his responsibility.

Yang Yuanzu looked at the old man's sleepy appearance and asked, "Then what should I do?"

Lin Ting'an didn't seem to expect that Yang Yuanzu would easily agree to help him take care of the old man, because based on his understanding of Yang Yuanzu, the other party should not be willing to do this kind of job of taking care of the old woman.

Even his uncle, the grandmother's biological son, was unwilling to stay at the woman's bedside.

Although the Lin family's mistress is taken care of by Lin Ting'an most of the time, there are times when the business cannot go away. As the boss, he must personally receive her, otherwise he will be neglecting the noble lady.

I originally wanted to close the shop and focus on taking care of my mistress, but the large family relied on the shop to support the mistress, especially the mistress's food, clothing, housing, transportation and medical expenses.

What's more, if the nobles who want to buy silk summon him, he cannot refuse. If he offends those people, they will not be able to gain a foothold in the county in the future.

Lin Ting'an replied: "The servants will do the other things. You only need to look after me and supervise me for a while when I am not around."

Yang Yuanzu asked again: "How many servants are there in the family now?"

Lin Ting'an's reply: "It's still the same."

Suddenly remembering that the other party had fallen on his head, Lin Ting'an added: "There are four people in our family including Xiaofan. Xiaofan and I are running business outside. The other two are the two people just now. They are in charge of the family. There is another person who opens the door to receive that person."

Xiaofan stood aside and wondered, didn't my uncle know how many people there were in the family?

After hearing the answer, Yang Yuanzu realized that he had asked a revealing question after combining the expressions of the two.

He hurriedly explained to himself: "I was just thinking that there might be changes in the personnel in the house while I was away, so I asked no more questions."

In the next few days, Yang Yuanzu stayed in the Lin Mansion with peace of mind and worked as a salted fish, directing his servants to do whatever happened.

While he had time, he made up for some local customs and hierarchies.

During this period, Aunt Chen and Yang Huahua from Fengping Village came to Lin's house to visit him.

Yang Yuanzu accompanied the two of them to the poultry market and bought nine chickens. They spent ninety coins and used the remaining money to drive home in a carriage.

Yang Huahua held the chicks like a treasure and said that they could eat and sell eggs in the future.

Yang Yuanzu asked, "Didn't we agree to buy duck seedlings before? Why did we just buy chicken seedlings?"

Aunt Chen said that it would be easier to make a living by buying the same ones.

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Because of the silk business, Lin Ting'an was out all day dealing with officials, nobles and gentry.

In the Ning Dynasty, only the nobles were qualified to wear silk, while ordinary people could only wear clothes made of cotton, hemp, and leather.

The reason why they chose to do silk business was that silk was much more profitable than cotton, linen, etc.

Producing a piece of silk or cloth is entirely manual and takes a long time.

Moreover, cotton and linen are not as affordable as silk, so the profit margin is very low.

In comparison, expensive silk is more profitable, so they focus on silk. Of course, they also produce some ordinary fabrics, but not much.

On this day, Lin Ting'an was preparing to go out to the gentleman's house with his new tricks as usual.

The gentleman's first husband heard that they had a new silk color here, so he asked Lin Ting'an to send some materials to take a look.

The first wife or husband of a noble family was eligible to enjoy the same class treatment as her husband, such as wearing silk.

The women and brothers of the Ning Dynasty all looked forward to marrying into the noble family and enjoying happiness together.

Moreover, the rules and restrictions of the nobles will be much less, and the probability of them breaking the rules will be much less.

Lin Ting'an stepped onto the stairs and stood at the door handing a greeting card to the gatekeeper.

While waiting for a moment, he looked at the stone lion at the door. The stone lion was carved so lifelike that Lin Ting'an looked at it with envy.

The gentleman I visited today is an eighth-grade official.

Anyone who enters the official career is qualified to erect two stone lions outside the door, but these stone lions also have different sizes.

After a short while, the servant who asked for permission from the master came out and signaled that he could enter.

Lin Ting'an followed the servant who led the way to Sanjin's courtyard, where the head husband of the gentry's family was sitting in a garden waiting.

Eighth-grade officials are eligible to live in the third-level residence.

Lin Ting'an bowed to the principal husband and then presented himself with a silk sample.

The husband checked it out and was very satisfied, so he immediately ordered two horses.

Just as the business was finalized, a servant came outside and said that Boss Lin had an emergency at home, and the servant was waiting outside the door. After hearing this, Lin Ting'an resigned to the husband. The husband was not embarrassed and waved his hand to allow him to leave. Anyway, the silk was already settled, so it didn't matter if he could leave now.