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

Beets, popularly known as beet heads or beet heads, look like carrots, except for the leaves, the whole body is red.

The taste is sweet and refreshing. Not only can pickled vegetables be used to make soup, but also can be mixed with other fruits and squeezed to drink. The taste is very good.

But this is not the reason why Lin Ze is excited. What he is excited about is...beet is a very important source of sugar besides sugarcane. In other words, beet can be extracted to extract sucrose!

In modern times, most people basically only know that sugar cane can be squeezed out of sucrose, but those who know a little bit know that sugar beets have the same status.

Lin Ze likes food. Although he was a sales project manager before time travel, the company mainly deals in food. Since he wants to sell to others and discuss business, how can he not understand his own products?

Therefore, every time he talks about a project, he will first have a detailed understanding of the company's products from raw materials, to production, and to the final product, so that it will be convenient to fool around in the end, oh no, it is to discuss cooperation.

So Lin Ze is very excited when he sees beets, because he knows how to make sucrose from beets!

Although it is currently impossible to produce in large quantities, his mother-in-law planted a few acres of sugar beets, and the sugar she made was enough for his small business, which saved a lot of money compared to going out to buy sugar.

"Mother, I'm sorry, your red cabbage is a good thing, I lost my temper a little..."

After the excitement, Lin Ze saw Zhang Liumei's blinded expression, and quickly put down Zhang Yu, but he didn't let go of his hand.

Zhang Yu is used to Lin Ze's almost paranoid possessiveness, holding hands is better than being kissed in front of his mother!If Lin Ze is so out of tune, he will almost lose face.

But Zhang Liumei looked at Blind and Blind, but when she noticed Lin Ze looking at her son, she felt relieved again.

No matter how you hear from Luo Geer that her son is doing well, it is not as true as seeing it with her own eyes. Now she really believes that Lin Ze has changed his mind, and she is relieved of her brother Yu.

"Isn't there something good about a wild vegetable? If you like, you can just ask Brother Yu to dig it on the hillside. It's getting late, so go home and rest. Mother's side is fine, so don't worry about it..."

Zhang Liumei was full of relief.

"Okay, mother, you also rest, and we will go home."

Lin Ze nodded. Don't rush to talk about the beets. It's inconvenient now. There are still a group of restless and kind eyes staring at the yard on the left of Zhang's house.

Besides, what Shanyuan said in the upper town today, he had to say hello to Lin Sangui, since they were all out anyway, he would go home after making arrangements.

I don’t know how much the test questions Zhu Hongchang sells, but if you think about it with your toes, it will definitely not be cheap. Where does Lin Jianwen want to buy money?It's not the old man who gnawed on Lin Sangui and sucked Lin Sangui's blood.

So he is not in a hurry to solve Lin Jianwen's matter, but he has to remind Father Lin quickly.

Zhang Yu also very much agrees that cheating in the imperial examination is not a trivial matter, and Lin Ze may be implicated even if he breaks off his marriage.

Although I had dinner at Zhang's house, but now in summer, it gets dark late, and when Lin Ze arrived at Lin's house, the sky was only getting dark side by side.

The Lin family has just finished dinner and is cleaning up. It is Lin Sangui and Lin Xiaolian who are doing the work.

The two elders have poor eyesight and become useless in the dark, and Chen Shuju is usually lazy. In the past, Zhang Jue helped with these tasks. Now that Zhang Jue is gone, the main labor force outside the house has become Lin Sangui and Lin Xiaolian.

"Big brother! Big husband!"

When Lin Xiaolian saw Lin Ze coming to the door, her expression was more excited than Lin Sangui's. She was the first to shout out in surprise, dropped the rag and ran up. People who didn't know thought she had a good relationship with Lin Ze before.

In fact, she and Lin Ze used to have the kind of brother-sister relationship where you don’t care about me and I don’t care about you. They are a little better than strangers. After all, they were not born of the same mother, and Chen Shuju doesn’t like Lin Ze’s relationship with her children too much. .

So Lin Ze's eyelids jumped when he was frightened by the girl's enthusiasm, and his first reaction was whether Lin Xiaolian was out of her mind.

However, it was obvious that Lin Xiaolian was not out of her mind, and the reason why she saw him so excited and enthusiastic was all forced by Chen Shuju.

In the past, although Lin Xiaolian felt that her mother favored her second brother, she was still kind to her. After all, she was born by her mother, but she never thought that Lin Ze was even more unpopular than her. In contrast to my big brother, there are chapters to do the dirty work.

Ever since Lin Ze broke up and left with Zhang Yu, she has fully realized her mother's eccentricity. Chen Shuju sent all the grievances she received from Lin Ze to her.

Except for her father, who is capable and diligent, the whole family is useless. The second brother is the best in the family because the salary for studying remains the same. The grandparents are old and want them to work, but they can't do much.

Her mother is purely lazy. Once Lin Zezhangyu left and Lin Sangui went out to work in the fields, all the work in the family, big and small, fell on her. Chen Shuju was just treating the girl like a kid.

What's even worse is that her mother still dislikes her for working less and eating more, and took her second brother's ten taels of silver as a dowry. Recently, she is thinking of finding someone with a high dowry to throw her out, and she doesn't care whether she is willing or not!

If it wasn't for her father's presence, Lin Xiaolian reckoned that it would be possible for her mother to marry her to the old man.

Thinking about it now, she used to hear her mother say that big brother is not good, that she can't kiss big brother, that her father will sell her to subsidize big brother in the future, and she has to guard against big brother, it's all bullshit!What she should guard against is her mother.

In the past, she didn't get close to her eldest brother, and his eldest brother would bring her back any food and fun, but what did her mother and second brother do?From childhood to sophomore year, she could only watch her second brother eat and use well.

The most important thing is that now that Lin Ze cheers up, he is not afraid of her mother anymore. He even dares to frighten her mother with a knife if he disagrees with him. He pleases his elder brother, and with the support of his elder brother and father, see if her mother dares to marry her casually. up.

Lin Xiaolian is a smart and flexible little girl, and because of Chen Shuju's eccentricity, she has never been close to her mother, so she rebelled very quickly after she figured it out.

Before Lin Ze entered the door, the little girl greeted happily again, actively poured water and served stools, and even showed enthusiasm for Zhang Yu that was unbearable.

Chen Shuju next to her was so angry that she gritted her teeth and scolded 'the girl is not familiar with it'!

As a result, Lin Xiaolian is not a soft persimmon, she has [-]% inherited her pungentness, and now that she has someone to support her, why don't she hurry up and get back the grievances she usually suffered, and avenge her revenge.

"I'm just not familiar with you, so I won't kiss you. I will kiss my father and my elder brother. When I get married, I will pay back the bride price to my father and my elder brother. I won't give you and my second brother a single cent!"

Lin Xiaolian sticks out her tongue with her hips on her hips, deliberately taunting, and expressing her loyalty to Lin Ze.

"Dead girl!"

Chen Shuju was so angry that she almost swallowed her breath.

Lin Ze was dumbfounded, didn't they all say that ancient women were reserved, why did he look at each other better than the other?Or is it because Chen Shuju's own genes are too strong?

Lin Sangui is obviously used to this kind of farce, and his nerves have been trained to be extremely thick.

Unaffected at all, he directly put down his things and pulled Lin Ze and his wife into the main room, then closed the door to isolate Chen Shuju's sharp voice, looked at his boss happily, and counted with his fingers how much time it would take for him to stay at the eldest son's house next time. God.

No wonder Lin Sangui is looking forward to living in Lin Ze's house so much, Lin Ze's house is really clean, and he met Grandma Wang from the village on the road the day before yesterday, and Grandma Wang said that his son bought a lot of fabrics to make clothes and made one for Brother Yu and his wife. He also has one, but he hasn't finished it yet.

Lin Sangui was looking forward to his son making new clothes for himself, with a bright smile on his face.

Lin Ze couldn't help laughing, it was too early and he stopped talking nonsense, looked at the eavesdropping outside the door, lowered his voice to Lin Sangui's ear, and first told the news that Lin Jianwen wanted to buy test questions.

"Father, I'm still inquiring about the specific situation. Fraud in the imperial examination is not a trivial matter. Once it is exposed to the government and find out, our family will not be able to eat good fruit. Even if the county grandpa and brother-in-law cheated people under the guise, the money lost is not a small family like us. A poor family can afford it, you should be prepared and pay attention to the movement at home..."

Lin Ze didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but sitting in ancient times was more troublesome than modern times, so he had to spend a little more time.

But Lin Sangui's expression was so ugly that he looked stupid, he never thought that his second son would dare to take such a crooked path.

He worked so hard to study, but only hoped that his son would be promising and not be like him, a muddy leg facing the loess and back to the sky. He didn't necessarily require the child to get a good grade in the exam. How could the second child have the courage to do such a wicked thing!

In addition to being angry, Lin Sangui also has a deep frustration. He is also a child raised under the nose, why is the eldest and second child completely different? Lin Sangui has been an honest person all his life.

Lin Sangui obviously didn't know that besides his father, his mother also had to account for half of his genetic genes. He just felt uncomfortable and panicked. How could a good family live like this.

"Father, just watch and pay attention to this matter. Don't make a fuss. If you have any problems, just come to me and I'll inquire again."

It is useless for Lin Jianwen to worry about this matter, the most important thing is to find a way to prevent and solve it.

After telling Lin Sangui to appease Lin Sangui, Lin Ze went out of the main room. Chen Shuju's yelling in the yard was full of smoke, and it was still comfortable to stay at home.

Before leaving, he saw Lin Xiaolian's anxious expression and Chen Shuju's angry expression.

Lin Ze raised the corners of his lips, adding fuel to the fire very unscrupulously,

"Little sister, if I'm not at home, look at Dad. Dad is old enough to work outside during the day and let him rest more at night. We just can't afford lazy people in the farm. If you don't want to work, don't eat, even though I'm not at home. , but I am still the eldest son of the Lin family, the eldest brother is like a father, except for my father, I am the one who has the final say in the Lin family, and if there is a grievance, I will come to the eldest brother's house, and whoever is not convinced will let her speak in front of me."

The last sentence obviously meant something, and Chen Shuju's face turned livid as she was short of naming names.

But no one cared about her expression, Lin Xiaolian was very upbeat, and immediately nodded excitedly,

"Understood, brother, I must take good care of my mother and not let her be lazy!"

Chen Shuju gushed old blood to her throat.

Lin Ze smiled brightly, nodded and dragged Zhang Yu away from Lin's house.