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

After helping Zheng He and his wife to finish the wedding banquet, Lin Ze and his wife continued to open a stall selling bread in the morning and go home to read and study in the afternoon.

The business of the dessert stand is very good now, and a delay of one day would have cost a lot. If Zheng Xiaoluo and He Xiangfeng hadn't gotten married, Zhang Yu would not have been idle. He sent Li Guangcai and his son away that day, and at night he immediately pulled Lin Ze to prepare for the next day's business.

Seeing Zhang Yu excitedly doing business, Lin Ze couldn't stop his wife's enthusiasm, so he could only follow along, and only his wife followed.

Although tired, the husband and wife did not complain at all. The business has just started, and now they can't help but relax. It will be good to save enough money to open a permanent shop in the town after a while.

Although they seem to have earned a lot recently, they also spent a lot of money.

Ingredients such as flour, eggs, and milk are all good things. For future brands, Lin Ze is determined not to use defective products to make up for it, so it makes sense for his products to be expensive.

There are also oiled paper in the packaging box, etc. Although they are all small things, it is a fortune to gather a little to make a lot.

The most important thing is sugar. Desserts are meant to be 'burned sugar'. The honey brought back from the mountain is not enough. Lin Ze has bought all the honey in He Xiangfeng's hands, but it still can't last long.

Therefore, Lin Ze has made an agreement with He Xiangfeng to buy all the honey that He Xiangfeng retrieved from the mountains before finding more affordable and high-quality sugar to replace honey. Anyway, the He family has a lot of men, mainly for hunting income, and often goes to the mountains.

Calculating the cost bills one by one, the savings in Lin Ze's hands are actually only a few dozen taels at present, which is not enough to open a shop in the town.

In this way, when Li Guangcai came to him, Lin Ze had to think about it.

"...Master, in this way, you will become a stink of money in the eyes of scholars in the future, but students with status and reputation will not associate with you."

Zhang Yu is not stupid, and when he turned around to hear Lin Ze's plan, he was a little worried.

"If you don't do business, you don't do business. I don't rely on them for the imperial examination, and I don't want to deal with those stubborn people. Besides, we are really short of money now. Although our business is good, we can use the purchase restriction strategy, and the manpower is not enough. There are only the two of us, and it will take years of the monkey to save enough money to open a shop..."

Lin Ze is also very helpless, he hasn't worried about money for a long time, every time he thinks of the deposits and real estate books in Hyundai's bank that he has not had time to enjoy, his heart bleeds.

Looking at Zhang Yu who has just raised some meat and lost weight, he feels even more distressed. For his wife to live a better life quickly, face is not a matter at all.

"Where is she thin? Xiao Luo said she was fat when she saw me yesterday."

Zhang Yu liked Lin Ze's gentle gaze and the way he always took every little thing to heart. He said this, but his heart was extremely sweet and joyful, and his face was red.

Lin Ze also likes the obedient and shy appearance very much. As long as there is no one else, he has to hold his wife in his arms and enjoy the indescribable satisfaction.

"I've already lost weight, and I can't feel the flesh when I hold it. Ah Yu, no matter what others think, I only know that a man who can't even support his own wife is a waste. To me, you are my most important right now." of……"

"I told you before that I want to take the imperial examination, but I don't plan to go too far in the official career. The officialdom is far more complicated than imagined. People like me who have no background are most likely to be used as cannon fodder and scapegoats. I don't want to go into the muddy water, my goal is to gain a reputation that can protect us."

"I decided to deal with Li Guangcai not only because of his money, but also for two reasons. One is that his son really suits my appetite, and the other is Li Guangcai's contacts in the town. If we open a shop in the town and have someone to take care of them, it will be much less trouble."

"Ah, there are no real saints in this world, and few people who climbed to high positions are clean. Those students are not high-spirited, but a group of snobs. Real saints are not tolerated by high positions. What about others? We don't care at all, when the imperial examinations are held, we will know the old saying of 30 years in the east of the river..."

After being in society for so long before time travel, Lin Ze's mentality has long been as stable as Mount Tai, and he doesn't care about other people's eyes at all, and he will be slapped in the face in the end.

Moreover, as a modern person, his views on things are fundamentally different from those of the ancients here. His thinking beyond the thousands of years of the ancients is his greatest wealth and golden finger.

So every time there is an idea in his heart, Lin Ze will explain it carefully to Zhang Yu, this is also to erase the ancient and modern distance between him and Ah Yu.

Fortunately, because Zhang Yu grew up in an environment where he was "out of the ordinary" in thinking than ordinary ancients, and had never read books and was brainwashed by the words of sages, he was surprised by some of Lin Ze's more advanced and unimaginable remarks. , but it is easy to accept.

Zhang Yu doesn't understand too many principles, he only knows that he is willing to support the person he likes unconditionally.

The days with Lin Ze made him happy. In a short time, his whole heart was coaxed away by the man in front of him, even if he was cheated, he would admit it.

"Sister, talk about other things slowly. When will you promise to accompany me back to see my mother?"

Putting aside the chores, Zhang Yu took the initiative to put his arms around Lin Ze's neck, smiling and expectantly asking about the things that had been on his mind for a long time.

He is no longer the nervous and defensive person who hid all his thoughts when he first met him, but now his best thing is to act like a baby with Lin Ze, saying what he wants and what he wants to do without any scruples.

Lin Ze is very useful for this, especially his wife's initiative, which can make him happy and obedient,

"Go shopping in the town first and then go shopping. The heavier the return ceremony, the more assured your mother will be. In the future, who in the village will dare to say that my wife is not..."

"Well, by the way, we still have to buy a cow. We can't borrow the cows in the village after the wheat is dried in two days."

"Make another carriage."

"There is a cushion to be laid inside, and the back hurts from sitting on the board."

"Then Xianggong will rub it for you."

A certain person's eyes lit up instantly, and he rushed over to do his hands up and down.

The overwhelmed Zhang Yu blushed with his clothes stripped off: "..."

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Lin Ze had already thought about making up for Zhang Yu's door ceremony to see his mother-in-law, but it was delayed because he had been busy and Grandma Zhang's clothes were not ready.

The next day after Zhang Yu finished speaking, Lin Ze went to Grandma Zhang's house to urge her. After Grandma Zhang finished the clothes for her mother-in-law overnight, the matter of making up the door was put on the agenda.

Because living in the same village avoids the trouble of traveling, Lin Ze and Zhang Yu chose a date. After selling the bread in the morning, they did not go back to the village as usual in the afternoon.

The matter of buying cattle is imminent. During this period of time, some of them are not happy about borrowing two cows from the village every day. Although they pay more for the fare, there are too many people in the village who need cattle during the busy farming season. Everyone counts on it. He saves his energy by holding the two cows in the village.

And it's not a problem to always borrow other people's cattle, so Lin Ze very much agrees with Zhang Yu's saying that buying cattle is too important for transportation, and this kind of money cannot be saved.

Cows in ancient times were big objects, as important as modern cars, if not more important.

So the price is naturally not cheap, and cattle are not sold all the time, which increases the price of livestock even more. Lin Ze is so tongue-in-cheek that it costs 18 taels to buy a cow.

The money for buying the carriages also went to 4 taels of silver. These things that seem ordinary in modern times are really valuable and big items in ancient times.

It also cost a lot to buy things for Zhang Liumei. On the surface, the polished rice, white flour and meat did not cost much, but it cost 3 taels to redeem a silver hairpin for Zhang Liumei.

This is really not too little, 3 taels of silver is enough to live in the countryside for half a year.

But if it can make Zhang Yu happy, Lin Ze doesn't care. The hairpin was given to Zhang Liumei by Zhang Yu's father when he was alive. The commemoration is of great significance. If it wasn't for his son, Zhang Liumei would never have taken such an important thing to the pawn shop. , Zhang Yu has been thinking about it in his heart.

Lin Ze didn't care about what his wife was thinking about. If he wanted the stars in the sky, he would find a way to pick them off. If he didn't spoil his wife, who would he spoil?

In addition, Lin Ze also went to the study to buy pens, inks, paper and inkstones, which are also consumables that burn money.

Such a total cost of tens of taels of silver, Lin Ze counted the savings, and could only lament that the money is not worth spending!

Zhang Jue dragged his purse and dared not go shopping with Lin Ze any more, because he was really afraid of Lin Ze's problem of "big money".

Although they buy necessities, they can buy cheaper ones. For example, don’t eat white rice and meat every meal so extravagantly...

Who knew that in Lin Ze's mind, he didn't have any sense of saving when buying things for his own home. It's not an exaggeration to say that spending money is like running water. Buy what is good, not expensive.

Therefore, Lin Ze originally wanted to go to the restaurant for consumption, but his wish to taste the ancient specialties here was temporarily defeated.

No way, the restaurant is one of the high-consumption places in the town. Zhang Yu knows that Lin Ze's "Taste" is definitely not just a matter of ordering two dishes and eating casually. According to Lin Ze's picky taste, go in and estimate them The deposit of the family has to be directly reduced to zero.

With such a "moonlight clan" husband, Zhang Yu, who is used to thrift, expressed that his mood is very complicated.

Staring at Lin Ze's resentful eyes, in the end Zhang Yu had to sacrifice his appearance, blushing and signed various unequal and shameful treaties for the couple exchange movement in the next month, in order to coax his man well.

After a lot of fuss, when everything was bought, the afternoon time was used up.

Lin Ze had no other plans, so he planned to return to the village with his newly bought ox cart, and he had to go to Zhang's house later, so it would be better to go back earlier.

As a result, as soon as he reached the entrance of the town, he was stopped by someone.

"Brother Lin, it really is you, hurry up and tell me something important."

A panting man ran up from behind and stopped the bullock cart.

The other party was wearing a slightly washed blue Confucian shirt, a scholar square scarf on his head, and a scholar's jade pendant on his waist. He looked ordinary, but his eyes were bright and his brows were upright.

Lin Ze was taken aback for a moment, then immediately searched for the memory in his mind, and recognized the person who came.

If my memory is correct, the talented scholar in green shirt and white scarf in front of me should be called Fang Shanyuan. He is one of the few good friends of the original body, and he is also a farm student from a poor family.

It's just that Yu Yu has not seen or contacted these friends for a long time since the original body got married, and the relationship has gradually become estranged. I don't know why Fang Shanyuan is looking for him right now?

Lin Ze muttered to himself, still smiling seriously, and cupped his hands,

"So it's Brother Fang, long time no see."