Farming in another world to make a fortune

When Yu Zhou went back and forth with Jin Chuan and returned to the bookstore, the clerk who was sorting things behind the counter paused for a moment, then went up to meet him with a smile and asked, "Mr. Yu, what did you leave behind?"

"I forgot to buy a book just now," Yu Zhou said, "Come and buy a book again."

In the past two months, he has copied books for bookstores and sold books to bookstores, but this is the first time he wants to buy books. The clerk was stunned when he heard this, but he quickly realized, "What book do you want? I'll get it for you."

Yu Zhou said, "I want a copy of The Analects."

The man blurted out, "Why do you want this book?"

"Is there any problem?" Seeing his tone of surprise, Yu Zhou was also puzzled.

"It's like this," the guy explained with a smile, "every scholar, after giving six gifts to his husband, he will give back the "Analects of Confucius" he copied, so there are very few people who come to our bookstore to buy "The Analects of Confucius" .”

After he finished speaking, he turned around to fetch books for Yu Zhou.

Yu Zhou thought for a while, then stopped the person: "Wait, let's change to "Mencius."

"Okay." The clerk didn't say much, and changed the direction to get a copy of "Mencius" for Yu Zhou.

After the two came out of the book shop, they went to buy some other things. When they returned, there was no one else on the road, and finally Jin Chuan couldn't help asking: "Will my husband come to town every day to study with Mr.?"

"I'm not sure yet." Yu Zhou shook his head. According to what Chen Feng told the villagers, he had studied in the town for a few years, but today he heard from a buddy that whenever he pays homage to his husband, he will give him "The Analects of Confucius" In return, but his family didn't have it.

Another reason is that he has no memory of his original body, and he doesn't know the name of the husband, which direction the door opens to, and how to find it.

And even if he could find it, he wouldn't dare to go there. After all, as a gentleman, he must have seen the original body's handwriting. His current handwriting was practiced before time travel, and it is impossible to be the same as the original body. How should he explain it then?

Yu Zhou frowned and pondered for a long time, wondering if it is possible to change teachers here like transferring schools in his world.

If not, it's really a hassle.

So after half the payment, I continued: "I will go to Lizheng to discuss it after I get home."

Jin Chuan gave an 'hmm' and nodded obediently.

After Yu Zhou sorted out Mr.'s affairs, he discovered Jin Chuan's abnormality, not to mention his current expression, that is, the phrase "husband" just now, Jin Chuan rarely called that in the daytime these days.

So he laughed and joked, "Don't you want me to come to town?"

"Yes," Jin Chuan was quite honest, although he looked a little shy, but he didn't hide at all, "Our village is too far away from the town, and it takes at least an hour to go back and forth. It’s hard enough already, but it will be even more tiring if you still have to go this far.”

Yu Zhou shook his head and couldn't help laughing, he hadn't started reading yet, Jin Chuan had already used the word hard work on him.

In the afternoon, the two went to Lizheng, and when Lizheng learned that Yu Zhou was going to take the county examination in February next year, his eyes and brows were filled with joy.

Hearing Yu Zhou mentioned her husband again, she immediately said: "Your former gentleman passed away last year, you really need to find another husband."

Yu Zhou was taken aback, he was still thinking about how to change his husband, but he didn't expect to learn the news that his previous husband had passed away. Although it's not very good to say this, it did save a lot of trouble for him.

So I asked: "Is there any good candidates to recommend there?"

Li Zheng raised his eyes and stared at Yu Zhou for a while, then thought for a while and said, "There is one candidate, it just depends on whether you are willing or not?"

"Who?"

"Grandpa Wen at the east end of the village," Li Zheng said, "he was also a teacher in the academy in the town before, and his knowledge is said to be pretty good, but now that he is old, he comes back to live in the village, besides teaching his grandchildren In addition, there are two other children in the village who are also learning to read with him, and if you have one more, you should have time to teach."

"Why don't I want to?" Yu Zhou asked back. He had learned before that the official schools established and administered by the imperial court could only be entered after they had achieved the fame of a scholar. In the school, or directly worship a certain scholar as a teacher, and usually study at the teacher's house.

Now that there is someone in the village who can teach him, and Li Zheng also said that Mr. Wen's knowledge is not bad, why should he go far away, and spend two hours running around the town every day to study, and he can learn a lot.

Li Zheng said rather embarrassedly: "When you paid homage to Mr. before, your grandma thought... another scholar in the town had better knowledge, so..."

Needless to say, this other scholar is his original gentleman, Yu Zhou doubted: "According to this, we should be worried that Mr. Wen is not willing, right?"

Li Zheng said with a smile: "I know Mr. Wen quite well. He is not someone who cares about these things. We are all from the same village. If you really want to study, he will definitely nod and agree."

After a pause, he added: "If you are worried, I can ask the old man first."

"I'd better trouble you to ask first." Yu Zhou said.

Lizheng's speed was very fast, and he sent a message to Yu Zhou the next morning, saying that Mr. Wen nodded and agreed, and asked Yu Zhou to hurry to prepare Shu Xiu for his husband.

Yu Zhou had no idea what Shu Xiu was going to prepare for this era. Fortunately, Jin Chuan had heard about it before, so he didn't want to ask others.

The two of them hurried to the town to buy all the six ritual bundles, and then, accompanied by Li Zheng, they went to Mr. Wen's house.

The house of Mrs. Wen's house is similar to that of Lizheng's house. They are all in the style of a courtyard, but besides the fence, there is a row of bamboos planted at the door, which makes it look like you can't live without bamboos.

Yu Zhou stepped forward and knocked on the courtyard door.

After a while, a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy opened the door and greeted him: "Uncle Xi is here, please sit inside. Grandpa is teaching Xiaoyuan and the others how to write. It should take a while."

After he finished speaking, he nodded towards Yu Zhou.

Yu Zhou guessed that this should be Mrs. Wen's grandson Yu Wenliang.

Coincidentally, the three of them walked into the yard, and the door of the side study was opened, and a man dressed as a white-bearded scholar walked out first, followed by two little boys, one about seven or eight years old, and the other nine or ten years old. look.

The old man was undoubtedly Mr. Wen, and Yu Zhou quickly saluted.

Mr. Wen only nodded, "Let's sit in the hall first."

After speaking, he turned his head and told the two children, "You should practice more after you go home."

"Yes." The two agreed respectfully, and when they went out, they bowed to Yu Zhou. The older one called Yu Zhou uncle, while the younger one called Yu Zhou brother.

After the two of them left, Yu Zhou and Li followed Mr. Wen to the main room to take a seat, and Yu Wenliang accompanied Mr. Wen.

As soon as they sat down, Mr. Wen asked Yu Zhou: "Have you read the Four Books and Five Classics, and how much can you remember?"

"I've only read a little bit, and I can't remember much." Yu Zhou replied honestly. It is the most basic "Analects of Confucius". He has read and memorized almost all of them that appeared in Chinese textbooks when he was studying. .

But "Mencius", since he bought the book back, he has read it hastily twice.

Unsurprisingly, Mrs. Wen nodded, then turned to Yu Wenliang and said, "Go get the pen and ink."

Then he looked at Yu Zhou again: "You write a paragraph silently and remember it, and I'll see how you write."

Yu Zhou is confident in writing. After all, not only he himself thinks it is good, but also the treasurer Qian and Qin Yuqing of the book store think it is good, and they are even willing to increase the price of the books he copied.

So when Yu Wenliang brought the pen and ink over, he didn't have the slightest stage fright, but when he chose which paragraph to write silently, he chose the sentence that everyone would know.

The Master said: "Study and learn from time to time, isn't it just talking?... Isn't it also a gentleman?"

"Did you write the happy words when you got married?" Mrs. Wen asked after waiting for him to put down the pen.

"Yes."

Mrs. Wen nodded: "The handwriting is not bad, it's knowledge..." He stopped at this point, raised his eyelids and glanced at Yu Zhou, the meaning in it was very obvious.

Yu Zhou knew that he realized that he could remember very little, so he continued to smile and didn't answer.

After a while, Mrs. Wen returned to the main seat, nodded and said, "I will accept you as a student."

"Master Xie Wen." After Yu Zhou finished speaking, he handed over the bundle of six rituals brought over one by one.

A handful of celery, a packet each of lotus seeds, red beans, red dates, and dried longan, and ten pieces of dried meat.

Celery means hard work and hard work, lotus seeds mean thank you for your painstaking teaching, red beans mean great success, red dates mean early high school, and longan means consummation of merit and virtue.

The ten pieces of jerky are thanks to Shien.

These Yu Zhou and Jin Chuan were selected and bought. Just ten pieces of dried meat, each about a catty, cost more than 400 Wen.

After presenting Shuxiu, he performed the apprenticeship ceremony and served tea, so Yu Zhou changed his name to Mr.

Mr. Wen saw that he was well-prepared and his attitude was honest. After drinking a sip of tea, he asked Yu Wenliang to bring out the prepared return gift.

In addition to the "Analects" that Yu Zhou knew before, there was also a handful of celery and a handful of pureed shallots.

After giving the return gift to Yu Zhou, Mr. Wen reminded him again: "Being proficient in one's work is more about being diligent than playing. Since you have become my student, you are not allowed to be as ignorant as before."

"Students aim to take the county examination in February next year." Yu Zhou said.

Mr. Wen was stunned, then stroked his beard and nodded: "Where there is a will, there is a way. It's better if you have your own goals."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his eyes and thought for a moment before continuing: "You don't need me to teach you how to write. You also have a certain foundation in reading and literacy. You can recite the articles by yourself. From now on, it will be like this. Come every morning at Chenshi, and I will give you Explain the contents of the Four Books and Five Classics for an hour, come back in the afternoon, learn poetry for an hour, and study at home for the rest of the time, come to me if you have any doubts, and learn the strategies after you have almost memorized the Four Books and Five Classics."

This is indeed the best arrangement. After all, apart from him, Mr. Wen also has his grandson and the two students in the village to teach, and Yu Zhou's main task now is to memorize all those books.

As for things like endorsement, it won’t be of much help for the husband to be on guard all the time. As for the content or words that you don’t understand, except for the one hour every morning, anyway, the two families are in the same village, so far away. It's close, and it's convenient to run over to solve it.

After a few more chats, Mr. Wen sent Yu Zhou and Li Zheng out.

Yu Zhou held a book in one hand and a handful of green onions and celery in the other. Before he got home, he saw Jin Chuan waiting at the door from a distance.

After entering the door, Jin Chuan saw the two green ones in Yu Zhou's hands, and asked, "This is it?"

"Sir, I gave you a gift in return." Yu Zhou raised his hand, "I hope I will be diligent, studious and smart."

Jin Chuan: "Then I'll go plant the green onions in the vegetable garden."