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

In the next few days, Lin Ze and Zhang Yu lived a life of early morning and late night.

Get up early in the morning to bake bread, and stay busy until late at night.

Although it is quite busy, it is actually not too tiring. The main thing is that the business has just started, and many trivial things are actually relaxed when they are on the right track.

As Lin Ze expected, the bread was quickly accepted and liked by the people in the town.

The main reason is that the bread is fresh, and the three flavors of bread basically take into account consumers of all ages. Not only children like it, but many adults can't forget it after eating it.

People in the town are richer than those in the village. Although they don't buy it every day, it's okay to buy it every two days.

And those who are more prosperous and rich have no scruples, and come to patronize them almost every day. Many ladies and ladies in the town have developed the habit of taking bread for breakfast and afternoon tea in a short period of time.

Lin Ze had expected this. After all, he was just copying the modern way of doing business in the business of bread, and he could estimate what kind of situation he would encounter.

Among the three flavors of bread, the 'jam packet' is the most sold, because it is not only delicious, but also the cutest in shape, and also the cheapest.

Compared with a piece of bread for 6 renminbi, a packet of jam for 3 renminbi is more affordable for everyone. Buying one can calm the crying children at home, so this kind of sales volume is the largest.

Lin Ze is happy to see the success, no one knows that although the jam packet is cheap, it is actually his most profitable!

Of course, there are also many people who buy the other two types, and the main consumers are those from relatively well-to-do families.

But no matter which one you like, in the end his profit is objective.

However, the family has limited staff, and Lin Ze doesn't plan to flood the streets with bread. Therefore, according to the calculation of the number of residents in the town, the number of daily sales is regulated.

A total of [-] loaves of bread are sold out, a typical modern hunger marketing technique.

After this regulation came out, the sales speed of their bread has increased significantly. In the past, they had to sell it until the afternoon to close the stall. After everyone heard that the limit was limited, they could sell it out at noon. The result is gratifying.

With 2 loaves of bread per day, after excluding the cost, there is about [-] taels of income!

Zhang Yu really wished he could spend the whole day on the street selling, no matter how tired he was, the business was really profitable.

But Lin Ze has to spare time to study, half a day a day is already very little, money is important, but the imperial examination is more important, he can't be so short-sighted.

But the income of a few taels of silver a day is also very tempting. Zhang Yu feels that it is a waste to only sell for half a day. Since Lin Ze is not free, why not just hire someone to help sell it?

In this way, Lin Ze can also read at home in the morning, as long as he is responsible for making bread.

"The idea is feasible, but let's wait until it is completely on the right track before hiring people. The time is too short. There are many small problems that we haven't noticed. Now is the time to spread the famous brand. Rare things are precious, and we must To make bread a rare commodity in the town..."

In modern times, Lin Ze has been in charge of many projects in his work. As a project manager, being thoughtful is the most basic rule.

Now setting up a stall to sell bread is only temporary, the purpose is to make signs and fame, and prepare for opening a store later.

Only with a shop will he have more and more stable income, and then he will be able to study at ease, and Ah Yu will not be so tired.

These chapters are not proficient, so naturally they will not mess around. Since Lin Ze has planned everything, then he will follow Lin Ze. He believes in Lin Ze.

Bread sales were booming, and naturally it quickly attracted the attention of other pastry sellers in the town.

Not surprisingly, copycats soon appeared in the town. This is something that cannot be avoided in modern times, and it was naturally unavoidable in ancient times.

It's just that the pastry shops in the town can only imitate the shape, because they don't know the tricks of bread, so Lin Ze's bread is still unique.

Even if the bread was researched by others, Lin Ze still has many other desserts in his hands, and the endless new flavors can definitely hold the signboard.

But Lin Ze, the oil paper cake box, has no way to prevent everyone from following along. There is no patent right here, and the folding method of the paper box is not difficult.

So in less than half a month, all dim sum shops in the town have imitated Lin Ze to pack lightweight dim sum in oiled paper boxes, and it became a fad for dim sum packaging in the town.

Fortunately, Lin Ze was well prepared and chose a name for his house early on.

No matter how you learn it, if you see the words 'love at first sight' printed on the oil paper box, you will know that it is his bread.

And precisely because of this signature name, many young people who want to confess their love to someone they like or please their sweetheart will choose to give bread from Lin Ze's family.

Not only is it delicious, but the words 'love at first sight' on the box are simply the best concealed confession, which is so necessary in the reserved ancient times!

Faintly, among young people, giving bread of "love at first sight" to someone has become a tacit expression of love.

This was something Lin Ze didn't expect. He swore that he just wanted to make his wife happy. He really didn't want to lead the trend. It can be seen that to please his wife and his partner is something that men all over the world understand without a teacher.

The unique monopoly business is the most profitable. After half a month in the bread business, Lin Ze made up for the savings he had spent before.

Every morning, I set up a stall and go home to read in the afternoon. The days are full.

The matter of teaching Zhang Yu how to read is also on the agenda, but instead of following the honest method here to teach each character one by one, he decided to adopt modern teaching methods, first teaching Zhang Yu how to learn pinyin.

In Lin Ze's view, Pinyin is definitely one of the greatest inventions in modern times, which can increase the speed of literacy several times.

This kind of thing beyond the times was very difficult for Zhang Yu, who was already in his teens, but fortunately, Zhang Yu is a hardworking person, and he also knows how beneficial literacy will be to him in the future, so he studied very seriously .

Lin Ze is very satisfied with his first student, his daughter-in-law. He is not afraid of being stupid and late in learning, but afraid of not working hard. He really likes his daughter-in-law more and more.

Every afternoon I teach Zhang Yu Pinyin, he reads for a while, and then puts Pinyin on the "Three Hundred Thousand" books. He has a lot to do.

So it was good to wait for Aniang Zhang Yu to accompany his wife to see it after returning to the village, so it was postponed.

The cloth I bought last time was also cloth for making clothes for Mrs. Zhang. They were all sent to Grandma Zhang and they hadn’t been finished yet. You can wait until the clothes are ready and then go and see them. The first time you meet your mother-in-law, you have to bring a gift to please her!

Lin Ze's flattering plan.

Zhang Yu nodded in agreement. He and his mother had lived in Zhang's family since childhood, and the Zhang family didn't want to see their mother and daughter. He and his mother couldn't get any good things.

Even if he saved money, he would not dare to make new clothes for himself. It is rare to show filial piety to his mother. Zhang Yu naturally agreed with Lin Ze's plan.

Anyway, they all lived in the same village, and after the clothes were ready, they would take them back to see his mother, and let her see with her own eyes that he was doing well now, so that his man could rest assured that his man valued him.

But what the couple didn't know was that they were not in a hurry, but Zhang Liumei, who had been waiting for news of her son's escape, was almost dying of anxiety...

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Zhang's family, eating dinner every night is unstoppable and noisy.

"Mom, I want to eat bread! Anyway, I don't care, you have to buy it for me tomorrow! I want to eat every flavor!"

"Son, let's eat it after a while. I don't know how expensive that thing is. I heard that it costs 6 yuan a piece. The family can't even open the pot recently. You can save your mother a little worry." ..."

"No, Xiaopang ate all of it yesterday. His cousin brought him back from the town. It's even more delicious than Le Xianju's cakes. You can buy them for me! I just saw you counting silver yesterday. There are several silver ingots." !"

"Hush, what are you talking about, you are not afraid of attracting thieves! The money is for your sister as a dowry, and when your future brother-in-law wins the first place in the exam, you can eat whatever you like..."

"No, no, I don't want to eat spicy food, I want to eat bread! Huh, grandma, grandpa, I want to eat bread..."

"Okay, okay, Jin Guan doesn't make trouble, grandma will decide for you..."

"Yang Guifang, you stingy bitch! Isn't it just a few pennies, what do you deduct for my grandson's food? After Yinzhu gets married, you still have to subsidize the gold official. Now you don't give the gold official a few pennies, do you?" Prefer your daughter! If you dare to detain my eldest grandson, I will not take back all the dowry of Yinzhu!"

"I don't think there is anything good about Xiucai Lang. If we don't get any benefits, we have to post a few dozen taels first. Whoever married their daughter posted it upside down. It's really..."

The above dialogue is basically staged every day in Zhang's house.

It's just a change of what Zhang's grandson wants, and the other contents remain the same.

Today, Zhang Jinguan wanted to eat bread, and there was another quarrel. Lin Ze was in the food business. People in the village knew, but what he sold, except for Li Laofu and several clan elders who were invited by Lin Ze to taste it. , other people really don't understand.

Naturally, the Zhang family didn't know about it, because of Zhang Jinguan's trigger, the family had trouble with Zhang Yinzhu's marriage.

In fact, not everyone in the Zhang family is happy with the Lin family's marriage. Lin Jianwen's future is bright, but it's all said that it hasn't come true.

Most of the country people look at the benefits in front of them. Who likes the life of eating bran and swallowing vegetables all day long?The two elders of the Zhang family happily agreed to change their marriage at the beginning. After all, getting married with Lin Ze at that time seemed like a huge pitfall.

But after waking up after a long time later, the two elders of Zhang's family felt uncomfortable. When they marry their daughters, they get dowry money. When their family is well, not only will they not get any money, but they will have to give away all their wealth, and they will not be willing to change it for anyone.

So the closer Zhang Yinzhu's wedding day was, the more unsettled the Zhang family was. In addition, there was a noisy grandson Zhang Jinguan who wanted this and that all day long, so it was no wonder that the family was quiet.

But for these, Zhang Liumei, who lives under the same roof, is not bothered or concerned at all.

Ever since her husband died and was driven back to her natal family, she has seen the face of her natal family clearly.

For her parents, she is a supplement to her elder brother's goods, and the family takes them in just to avoid being poked at the back by the village, and to let her and her elder brother stay at home as cows and horses. live.

She can bear all these, and she doesn't even hate the Zhang family, as long as the two of them have a place to live.

But she never thought that Zhang's family would go so far, they traded her brother Yu in exchange for a marriage, and pushed her brother Yu into the fire pit helplessly.

Zhang Yinzhu is important, so isn't her brother Yu important? !

Zhang Liumei is cowardly by nature, but she is strong as a mother. After the marriage change, she and Zhang's family are completely divorced.

Although they still live under the same roof with Zhang's family, they basically manage their own affairs.

She doesn't go to work in the Zhang family's fields anymore, and she doesn't eat Zhang's food. She digs wild vegetables by herself, goes up the mountain to find some mountain products, and embroiders some embroidery to support herself. Zhang's family asked her to pay for the accommodation of the house. She just handed it over, and the relationship was clearly drawn.

Now Zhang Liumei's greatest wish in life is to hope that she can see her son survive his early days, otherwise he would not be reconciled to death.

It was because she was useless that Brother Xie suffered hardships with her.

So when Zheng Xiaoluo said that Lin Ze was going to sell Zhang Yu and Zhang Yu was about to run away, Zhang Liumei didn't have to think about it at all, and immediately raised her hands to support her, and she didn't care about rules and morals at all.

The brother-in-law is about to sell her little brother, so is she still persuading her little brother to continue to abide by the law of husband and family?

She was just being bullied because of her temper, and she wasn't really stupid, so after Zheng Xiaoluo who informed the news left, she followed the one who was about to escape.

Anyway, she was left with only her elder brother, and she, a mother, would naturally follow him wherever he went, and she had nothing to miss in the village.

In the end, when she came back from borrowing money from someone she had a good relationship with in other villages, she waited and waited until Zhang Yu came back, Zhang Liumei was extremely anxious.

Although she also heard that Lin Ze has changed recently, but she also understands Lin Ze, how could he change his mind after beating and scolding her brother and despising her like that before?

Is there any accident?Otherwise, why didn't Brother Yu message her for so long?

The more Zhang Liumei thought about it, the more flustered she became, and after thinking about it, she decided to go to Lin Ze's house to have a look.

As for Zheng Xiaoluo who originally wanted to tell her to cancel the plan to run away, she didn't say anything because she was out of the village and was delayed for a few days.

Later, Zheng Xiaoluo was busy preparing for her own marriage, and seeing that Zhang Yu had a good life and relaxed her vigilance, she completely forgot about it...