Making money, taking exams, and raising a family in rural imperial examinations

Zhang Yu didn't know that Zheng Xiaoluo's action was so strong, and they went to inform his mother immediately after discussing it.

After finishing talking with the He family, he rushed home before dark.

There is no way, who made Lin Ze look gentle on the outside, but a beast on the inside, and an unscrupulous hooligan when there are no outsiders, Zhang Yu really can't help him to tease.

Lin Ze didn't dare to go too far, even if his mouth is a little bit broken, he still lives peacefully at night, at most he just sleeps with his arms around him.

Prepare everything you need to enter the mountain at night, and have a good night's dream.

The next day, Lin Ze and Zhang Yu woke up early.

Although there were no mobile phones or alarm clocks in ancient times, there were roosters in the village. When the time came, the roosters in every household would crow together. It was impossible not to wake up, unless it was too late at night.

He Xiangfeng got up earlier, and Lin Ze had just finished making breakfast in the kitchen when he came to the door.

Zheng Xiaoluo also came with him. He couldn't let go after breaking up with Zhang Yu yesterday. He still doesn't believe that Lin Ze let go of Zhang Yinzhu so quickly and changed his mind.

Knowing that Zhang Yu was going into the mountains with Lin Ze today, he followed.

As for telling Zhang Liumei that brother won't leave again, let's talk about it later, now he just wants to say that the aunt is not in the village either.

Although the younger brother's physical fitness is not as good as that of the real men here, he is much better than the girls. In poor families, the younger brother is considered to be more than half of the labor force, so it is no problem to follow into the mountains.

"It's still early, let's go to the mountain after dinner. I just made a lot of fresh pancakes as dry food. Let's sit down and eat some."

Lin Ze greeted warmly.

Occupational diseases for many years, he used to be in the customer development department of the project, and he was used to dealing with people in a smooth manner when he saw people. It is easy to talk about things when we have a good relationship.

Zheng He and his wife are not immune to common customs, and everyone likes enthusiastic people.

Thinking that Lin Ze's cooking skills are good, they are not polite and ready to eat more, but when they saw what Lin Ze brought out, the two really hesitated to talk.

Fill pancakes with oily white noodles and eggs, can this be called dry food?I haven't eaten such a good Chinese New Year!

And look at the big bowl of steamed eggs with minced meat in front of Zhang Yu... Zheng Xiaoluo and He Xiangfeng really regretted sending white flour and polished rice back in the first place, and gave Zhang Yu the bad idea of ​​leaving the package in disguise.

According to Lin Ze's way of eating, does Brother Xi still have an excuse to sell food to subsidize the family and take the opportunity to sneak away?

The meal left Zheng Xiaoluo and He Xiangfeng bleeding for Lin Ze.

When they set off, they saw that Lin Ze had prepared more than a dozen boiled eggs in addition to white flour and egg-filled biscuits. Mrs. Zheng He had only one thought in her mind: I can't live a life!

"I don't know how many days I'm going to stay in the mountains, so I only prepared three days' worth. My brother is not in good health and needs to make up for it. Two eggs a day can't be less."

Lin Ze also knew that the way he ate food was like a 'local tyrant' in the village, but as a modern person, he really couldn't do it like a villager who ate hard black corn buns and vegetable paste.

Unless you have to, but now the money you have just separated is enough to buffer for a few months, so don't be afraid.

In this way, Zheng Xiaoluo and He Xiangfeng are satisfied or not. Brother Yu has suffered a lot and was beaten and scolded before, so he should make up for it. It is rare for Lin Ze to think of this, and it seems that he really has figured it out.

Zhang Yu pursed his lips and smiled, and his heart was full of sweetness. Although this man was not serious, his heart was really good.

But soon Lin Ze's next sentence made people want to beat him up.

"Also, I have to make up for it. They say that it is necessary to eat to make up for the body. Ah Yu and I have four eggs a day, and twelve eggs are just right for three days..."

Lin Ze is full of beautiful expectations and fantasies about the future, no matter how he looks on his face, he deserves to be beaten.

The two little brothers looked ignorant, trying to complement the shape?egg? ? ?

"Let's go up the mountain quickly."

The sensible man He Xiangfeng couldn't listen anymore, so he grabbed Zheng Xiaoluo and left first.

With a rippling smile, Lin Ze grabbed his wife and followed, and the two couples went into the mountain together.

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The geographical location of Heba Village is not too remote.

However, in ancient times, any mountain was chosen at will, and the undeveloped degree was very large. Therefore, the mountain behind Heba Village can definitely be described as a deep mountain and an old forest. It is still very dangerous to be haunted by ferocious beasts.

However, with He Xiangfeng, an old hunter who has been running in the mountains all year round, leading the way, as long as he doesn't run around, it is safe to walk in familiar terrain.

He Xiangfeng didn't dare to provoke the real prey because he brought two younger brothers and a "sour scholar" Lin Ze. He set up a few traps after entering the mountain, and took everyone wandering in the mountain to collect wild fruits at other times. Mushrooms or something.

Rather than going into the mountains, it is better to say that you are here for an outing.

Zhang Jue and Zheng Xiaoluo are very busy picking fruits and mushrooms. There are some on the hillside behind these villages, but there are many villagers who go there, and each household can't collect much after sharing.

Like wild fruits, the sweet ones are picked up early, and the ones left are all sour and almost no one wants them.

There are few people coming from the mountain, and there are many leftovers, and the appearance is good. It is very good to pick it up and eat it by yourself and sell it for money.

Even Lin Ze followed suit, picked several baskets of delicious wild fruits, and collected a lot of wild walnuts, pine nuts and other nuts. I really wish I could have a legendary portable space to store them in!

However, these wild fruits and walnuts are just Lin Ze's random thoughts. His most important purpose in this trip to the mountains is to find honey.

"Just looking for honey?"

He Xiangfeng was a little surprised when he heard it. He thought that Lin Ze went to the mountains to find some precious medicinal materials, but he didn't expect that he was just looking for honey.

If this is the case, there is no need to go to the mountains at all. Honey can also be found on the hillside, and it is too dangerous to enter the mountain.

Zhang Yu helped to explain, "Sanggong wants to find honey to do dim sum business..."

"dessert!"

Zheng He and his wife were surprised when they heard this, and they looked at Lin Ze in disbelief that he even knew this skill.

You must know that the real dim sum is not the white sugar cakes or sugar cakes that are often said in the village. The craftsmanship of dim sum is very complicated, and those who can open dim sum shops are accumulated and passed down from generation to generation. Signature dim sum shop.

Although Lin Ze doesn't open a shop as soon as he comes here, even if he sets up a small stall, it must taste really good.

After all, sweets are expensive, and the taste is not good enough. Why do people buy them at your small stall? What a good dim sum shop.

Lin Ze naturally knows this, but unfortunately, he can not only cook, but also make desserts.

In the modern age of information explosion, there is no need to study these things specially. There are a lot of teaching materials on the Internet, and he likes to eat. How can he not read and study these things.

"Dim sum recipes I wrote down a few when I was reading miscellaneous books before. They are all dim sum that we don't have here. I plan to make some and buy them in the town. I won't make it big for the time being. I can just have a small stall to make ends meet. You know I have been studying for many years, and I am not very good at farming, so I have to make a living in the future..."

"It takes a lot of sugar to make snacks, and the price of sugar is expensive. I don't have enough capital now, so I can only find another way. Honey is just right. There are few people coming from the mountains, and there is a lot of wild honey. Even if making snacks doesn't make money, it can be sold. Earn a lot."

"I know how to track and find a hive, and if we're not too unlucky, we're sure to find a lot of wild honey."

In fact, Lin Ze is not worried at all that the dim sum he made cannot be sold, and these words are just to appease everyone.

Because sugar is expensive, people here are very rare sweets, as long as they are not too unpalatable, they will not worry about selling them. A new and delicious dessert will definitely be welcomed.

Lin Ze also thought carefully about coming up with this small business.

He has to prepare for the provincial examination three years later, and he needs a lot of time to review, and doing other business is too energy-intensive and time-consuming.

But it would be much easier to sell snacks, as long as he and Zhang Yu can sell them in the town at home, he doesn't need to be there all the time, and he can spare time to study and review.

If the small business is on the right track, it would be even better to open a dessert shop if you have money.

"The most important thing is that what happened to me in the private school made me unable to find a job in the town now. If I don't do a small business and only rely on a few acres of land, I'm afraid that Brother Yu and I will not be able to live in the future..."

In the end, Lin Ze was quite helpless.

Otherwise, with the knowledge of the original owner, Xiucai Lang, at least he could find an accountant or do enlightenment work for the young master of Yuanwai, which is easy and expensive.

"That's right, then go back and make some, and we will try and check for you."

He Xiangfeng and the others sound very reasonable and powerful, but they just don't know how Lin Ze's craftsmanship is, so they can't comment.

It's just that Lin Ze had only read books before and did not do any practical work. Now everything he said was just on paper. Even if it was for Zhang Yu, they had to take a good look at Lin Ze.

"Okay, I'll invite you to try it when it's finished, and you can give me a comment so I can improve it. Now let's find honey first."

Lin Ze is not disappointed with everyone's reaction. Without specific products, it is natural that he cannot convince people, which is normal.

Moreover, vegetables and radishes have their own preferences, and he thinks others are not necessarily good, so he still needs to choose which ones to sell according to the tastes of the people here in order to make money.

Now that there is a goal, the action is clear.

Under the guidance of He Xiangfeng, the people first found a forest with more flowers, and then looked for the bee droppings left on the leaves and weeds, and the direction in which the bees were flying to find the hive.

It’s easy to say, but not easy to do, but fortunately, Lin Ze has some experience. When he was talking about the project, he went to a honey breeding base and heard a lot of knowledge from the old beekeepers.

Everyone worked together, Lin Ze and others stayed in the mountains for five days, and they almost ran all over a big mountain before stopping.

Not to mention, they were lucky enough to collect more than 200 catties of wild honey!

This is really thanks to the fact that there are few people coming from the mountains, and Lin Ze learned a little bit about tracking and finding honey from old beekeepers in modern times, otherwise it would be impossible to find so much.

Honey is a good thing, especially in ancient times when sugar making skills were not mature enough, sweet things were rare.

Wild honey is more nutritious than farmed honey. The price of a catty of ordinary honey in the town is 25 renminbi, but wild honey can be sold for at least [-] renminbi.

After a rough calculation, the honey in their hands can earn at least four taels!

It doesn't sound like much, but the bride price for a wife in the village usually only costs about two taels. By comparison, you can know the value of four taels of silver.

"Get rich, get rich..."

Zhang Yu and Zheng Xiaoluo were very happy. To have four taels of silver all of a sudden is a fortune for them.

Even the calm He Xiangfeng couldn't hold back his smile. The harvest of honey from this trip to Shanguang is enough to run several times before.

Of course, the price everyone paid was not small, and everyone basically got stung all over their faces and hands.

Fortunately, all they found were ordinary bee hives. If they encounter wasps, well, tell them all to go west here.

Now that the thing he was looking for was found, it would not be safe to stay in the mountains for a long time. Several people in Lin Ze discussed it and unanimously decided to go back.

Otherwise, they won't be able to take anything they find, except for the honey and the wild walnuts and pine nuts they collected earlier, He Xiangfeng also caught a few pheasants and mountain rabbits in the trap set by He Xiangfeng.

Looking around at the things in the forest, except for the exclamation, Lin Ze is really relying on the mountain to eat the mountain. After expressing his regret and coming back, he can only give up.

But looking at a pile of honey packed in bamboo tubes, the smiles on everyone's faces were very bright.

Pack up your things and set off to go back the same way. Now Lin Ze will lead the way, Zhang Yu and his two brothers will walk in the middle, and He Xiangfeng will break the back.

Just after walking towards the loop for a while, Lin Ze felt an indescribable bad feeling in his heart.

"Wait a minute, something seems to be coming our way."

He Xiangfeng is an old hunter with a much stronger sense of danger, so he immediately signaled everyone to be vigilant.