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

After the dinner party, Yang Yuanzu returned to his dormitory, took out the good things he found today like a treasure, and asked Suning to find plant ash and a wooden basin.

Suning was excited and confused when she saw Yang Yuanzu holding a few light yellow lumps. After hearing Yang Yuanzu's instructions, he immediately got up and went to look for things.

What Yang Yuanzu was holding was a potato. He bought it from a foreign merchant when he went out on the street today. The potato was wrapped in the soil and had a few sprouts. Many passers-by looked at it. The hard pimple turned a blind eye.

People here generally believe that only green vegetable leaves are edible. Naturally, they don't like to deal with the hard lumps when they see them.

Some people boldly try to eat it, but they also suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea due to accidentally eating sprouted potatoes. Severe cases of dizziness and fainting eventually lead to death.

Since then, rumors have spread that the potatoes are poisonous and cannot be eaten. In addition, people only like to eat green vegetables that grow on the ground, so this potato is even more unpopular.

The foreign businessmen also called it a stone. When Yang Yuanzu came to buy it, they thought he was buying it for collection.

In the next few days, because of the potatoes and bamboo shoots, Yang Yuanzu stayed in the dormitory for a few days and did not wander around.

When he was bored before, he took Suning to visit the Shenghua Academy. Most of them were gardens with a quiet environment. Yang Yuanzu didn't like visiting gardens, and he would only go for a walk after dinner.

But there was no night light in the garden at night, and the mosquitoes were fierce at night. Yang Yuanzu gave up after persisting for a few days.

After tinkering with the planting for several days, Yang Yuanzu's test results came out. He thought he had done well but not bad, with a middling score in Class A, but he found out that his overall score was the last.

Except for A-level grades in literature and mathematics, everything else was passed, and there were even two failings in riding and archery.

He was the leader of mathematics. What surprised him was that the leader of medicine was Luo Mingshi. He didn't expect that Luo Mingshi would be so reliable. Then he thought about it. The medical test was easy, and Luo Mingshi's family was a doctor. It’s not surprising that aristocratic family can win the first place.

After the results came out, they naturally had to be re-divided into classes. Although Yang Yuanzu was ranked last in Class A in terms of overall score, he was a candidate for the imperial examination, which was mainly based on liberal arts scores, so they were divided into classes based on liberal arts scores.

As expected, Yang Yuanzu stayed in Class A. As for his riding and shooting results, Cavalry and Archery Kofzi arranged double training for him after class.

At this point, Yang Yuanzu said goodbye to his laziness, because his riding and shooting training was arranged in the morning, and he was also training with martial arts students.

Students taking martial arts must get up early in the morning to exercise.

Other liberal arts students also choose to read in the morning. They believe that morning is the most conducive time for learning in the day.

Yang Yuanzu believes that the best time to sleep is in the morning, but he can't sleep well now.

Ever since Yang Yuanzu's overall score became the last one, people often teased him. Because Feng Qingyang was the top scorer in Class A, it was natural for two top students to be in the same dormitory.

In particular, some students who did not like Yang Yuanzu's former identity as a farmer often used this incident to ridicule Yang Yuanzu.

‘Sure enough, he was born with a low level of education. He doesn’t understand etiquette, music, riding, or shooting. A vulgar person will never be able to achieve elegance! ’

Etiquette, music, riding and archery are compulsory subjects for children of big families. They will naturally understand more if they have been exposed to them since childhood.

Not only did this remark offend Yang Yuanzu, but also the other peasants in the school were offended. The atmosphere between the two parties was tense all day long, except for Yang Yuanzu, the person who stirred up the trouble.

He started to get busy again. In addition to mathematics, there were many more tasks for other subjects. Even Su Fuzi, who was far away in Shunxing County, sent several sets of liberal arts test papers that he had collected.

Yang Yuanzu has been so busy lately that he cannot pay attention to the tense situation. In addition to these things, Yang Yuanzu's mind is planting potatoes, roasting potatoes with dried chili noodles, cold wolf-tooth potatoes, stewed beef brisket with potatoes... and finally researching raw materials for weapons.

Recently, the students in the college were often arguing and quarreling. Dean Jian was quite troubled. After some questioning to find out the reason, he severely criticized several people, and then the two sides stopped working together for a few days before rekindling.

The weather has warmed up, and the spring banquet poetry competition between colleges is about to start again. Dean Jian wants to take this opportunity to unite everyone.

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Yang Yuanzu was polishing his bracelets in his dormitory. This was also the last gem he bought from a foreign merchant.

He originally planned to buy gems, but he found an unexpected surprise: potatoes.

On the desk were not only a few gems, but also the iron tools he found and the steel he made himself. Although iron tools are strictly controlled now, everyone has a share, especially farmers.

Most farm tools were made of iron, so the restrictions on farmers in the Daning Dynasty were much more relaxed than on other people. They could get new shares of iron tools every few years.

As long as you have money, you can get iron on the black market. After Yang Yuanzu got acquainted with him in Fucheng, he asked someone to buy him some iron materials on the black market.

Yang Yuanzu was worried about being discovered, so he bought a small share every time. In addition, he also bought some shares in Fengping Village, so Yang Yuanzu had no shortage of iron materials so far.

After getting the raw materials, Yang Yuanzu then began to study how to make iron into steel and look for raw materials for gunpowder.

The first thing he tried was the oldest method, which was to continuously quench and beat until he got the shape he wanted.

Then there is the cutting, shaping and polishing. These look simple but are not easy to do. Yang Yuanzu spent a lot of time on it.

In order not to disturb Feng Qingyang's reading, he specially found a remote and deserted abandoned house to do this.

Yang Yuanzu's dormitory was filled with cutting, hollowing and polishing tools used by craftsmen, which were hidden when not in use.

Feng Qingyang was out again today, and the sound of polishing gems could not be heard next door, so Yang Yuanzu simply tinkered with it in his dormitory.

When he was doing this, he had habitually closed the door of the study room, and Suning could not disturb him.

Yang Yuanzu also improved his study in order to soundproof it. Not only did he add walls but also a layer of cotton wool around it.

In the past, the study room was separated by several screens, which could only serve as a shield but not soundproof.

After the study was renovated, it was not easy for the outside world to hear Yang Yuanzu's knocking sounds. However, when he was forging iron, he usually chose to go to his secret base because the noise was too loud and a fire was required.

As soon as Yang Yuanzu polished a gemstone, Luo Mingshi's voice came from outside. Yang Yuanzu guessed that something must have happened in the academy, so Luo Mingshi came to him excitedly to share it.

After hiding all the things, Yang Yuanzu left the study. Luo Mingshi was sitting at the round table drinking water. When he saw Yang Yuanzu coming out, he put down his water glass and said excitedly: "Brother Yang, our academy is going to attend the Spring Poetry Collection Banquet tomorrow. Not only will we You don’t have to go to class and you can go out and have fun!”

Luo Mingshi was happier than Yang Yuanzu to be able to go out. If it were before, Yang Yuanzu would be even happier than Luo Mingshi, because he often needs to go out to buy things.

However, he recently discovered a passage that allowed him to get out. Buying iron and steel in private was a big or small matter. To be on the safe side, Yang Yuanzu hid his whereabouts from everyone around him, including this passage.