After wearing the book, I farmed and raised children and became the emperor

Seeing that the children liked to eat, Shao Qingyi showed a smile on the corner of her mouth.

After a while, the two children who had made an appointment with Shao Qingyi also came.

They didn't expect to come here to get anything good, but curiosity and the excitement of getting paid drove them here.

They were both stunned when they looked at the three big pots filled with fried fish pieces.

And after trying it tentatively, they became even more crazy.

Crispy fish skin, firm and delicious fish meat, and fish bones that can be bitten off directly, with one bite, the delicious taste lingers in the mouth and cannot be dissipated for a long time.

This is too delicious!This is a hundred times better than their usual fire-roasted ones!Thinking of how much fish they had wasted in the past, both of them couldn't help but show heartbroken expressions.

Looking at the expressions of the two older children, Shao Qingyi felt a little funny. While filling the plates they brought with fried fish, he asked them their names and ages.

"My name is Gao Hu, and I'm seven years old this year." The taller boy in brown shorts replied while feasting.

"My name is Wang Zhao, and I'm seven years old like Gao Hu." The boy named Wang Zhao wore a blue short jacket, and his food was a little more refined than Gao Hu's.

Shao Qingyi remembered that her cheap younger brother Shao Qingcheng was eight years old this year, but had been in school for several years, so she asked suspiciously, "Why didn't you go to school?"

"I learned blacksmithing from my father, and I don't have time to go to the school." The strong and strong Gao Hu said nonchalantly, "Besides, what is taught in the school is useless, and I don't plan to go out of the village to earn a living and learn the blacksmithing skills passed down from my ancestors." Technology is enough for me to eat and drink for a lifetime."

Wang Zhao's answer was similar to Gao Hu's.His family is a brewer, and he has already spent a lot of time learning the ancestral wine-making skills. He has no energy and no need to go to school.

Most of the group of friends who played with them were in a similar situation to them.They don't go to school, but they actually have to learn a lot every day.

It was also rare to be free today, so I played under the leadership of "big brother" Gao Hu.Originally, they were going to catch fish for barbecue and play house games, but they didn't expect to see Shao Qingyi, and then what happened just now.

What Gao Hu and Wang Zhao said sounds a bit like "reading is useless" at first glance, but it's actually not the case.The social form of this world is different from that of modern society. Situations like Gao Hu's and the others are not common here, but they are also normal.

Shao Qingyi remembered that the author of the original book had mentioned that the social background of this book was superficial. In this country called Liang Guo, the social classes from high to low were the royal family, the aristocratic family, and the common people.

In terms of occupational social status, unlike the traditional scholars, farmers, businessmen, and craftsmen, this country respects craftsmen very much, but the status of scholars is not high.

The most important reason for this is that the aristocratic family is in power and the mobility of social classes is very weak.

Scholars need to overcome all difficulties before they have a very small chance of becoming an official. Most scholars can only waste their family's resources in vain, dreaming of being an official, and being farmers all their lives.

Ten years ago, the talent selection mechanism in this country was still a single recommendation system.At that time, only the aristocratic clan had the right to learn how to govern the world, and only the aristocratic clan could be an official.

Ten years ago, under the promotion of the first emperor, the talent selection mechanism was changed from a single recommendation system to a recommendation system, and the imperial examination system coexisted. Common people could go to private schools and academies to learn the ways of governing the world and other knowledge, and obtain official positions through imperial examinations. , At that time, it was the highlight moment for scholars all over the world.

But this grand situation changed after the death of the first emperor. The current emperor preferred the aristocratic family. Although the imperial examination was still held every year, very few commoners could successfully win the favor of the emperor.

Commoner students have few learning resources, and the input-output ratio of reading is so low, so ten years later, there are still a few people who are willing to spend a lot of money and energy to send their children to school.

Artisans, on the other hand, have the skills to earn a living because of the inheritance from their ancestors, and their status is higher than that of ordinary farmers and scholars.

The industry barriers in this era are very high. The craftsmanship of the craftsmen is passed on to the eldest son in the form of family blood, and the ancestors are passed down from generation to generation.

Therefore, the number of artisans in this country accounted for a very small proportion of the total population. Shao Qingyi roughly estimated that the proportion of artisans in Liang State should not exceed one percent.

But this small Shuiwan Village is an interesting exception.

During the conversation with Gao Hu and Wang Zhao, Shao Qingyi got to know another Shuiwan Village.

This village is a rare village with different surnames in this era. There are only more than fifty families in the village, but there are more than 30 surnames.Among the fifty households, more than twenty households have livelihoods other than farming. For example, Gao Hu's family can forge iron, Wang Zhao's family can make wine, and there are also weavers, tailors, tinsmiths, and carpenters...

A small Shuiwan village covers most of the occupations in this era, with such a complete industrial chain, no wonder the village can live well even if it does not communicate with the outside world.

But even though they all have other crafts, these villagers still focus on farming.After all, the villagers in Shuiwan Village don't like to communicate with the outside world, and they don't bother to realize their craftsmanship. Farming is their main way of obtaining food.

Accidentally learned the information about Shuiwan Village from these two children, which gave Shao Qingyi more plans for her trip to the county seat.

However, this plan is only a prototype, and he needs to obtain more information before he can form a more complete plan.

Asking Gao Hu and Wang Zhao to bring home a plate full of fried fish pieces, Shao Qingyi filled another plate and sent it to the neighbor's Aunt Huang, Uncle Huang, as a token of gratitude.

Aunt Huang was very surprised when she received Shao Qingyi's fried fish nuggets.

As if she had known Shao Qingyi for the first time, she looked him up and down for a long time, and finally took the plate of fried fish nuggets, and gave him some homegrown vegetables as a return gift.

Shao Qingyi didn't refuse, and went home with the vegetables that Aunt Huang gave her.

The fried fish pieces can be stored for a long time. Shao Qingyi took out a plate as a lunch dish, and hung up the rest in a basket.

Today's staple food is still pancakes, but they are not scallion pancakes, but ordinary white flour pancakes.

Shao Qingyi skillfully kneaded the noodles, cut into pieces, and spread the cakes in a dry pan. When the aroma of wheat was overflowing and the crusts were slightly yellow, they were out of the pan.

After spreading out enough pancakes, Shao Qingyi started to cook fish soup.

Cooking fish soup with fried fish pieces is very simple. Put a few pieces of fried fish, cover them with water, simmer on high heat, and then just boil the fried fish pieces until they are soft and rotten.

The fire in the stove will not be extinguished for a while, and Shao Qingyi doesn't need to guard it. He simply walked out of the kitchen to see what the two children who hadn't moved for a long time were doing.

Seeing this, Shao Qingyi was surprised.

The two children actually took a book and read it?

Shao Qingyi walked over and took a closer look. It was really a book with densely written square characters that he didn't know, yet Cheng Ping Chengan could understand it and discuss the contents with each other?

This discovery made Shao Qingyi both surprised and suspicious: "Chengping Chengan, can you understand characters?"

Cheng Ping Chengan nodded: "Yes."

"Who taught you?" Shao Qingyi continued to ask.

"It was taught by Dad~" Cheng Ping Chengan replied softly.

Shao Qingyi had already guessed, but after confirming the news, he was still taken aback.

He also pretended that He Changji didn't care about the children's growth. In fact, he had already taught two five-year-old children how to read!

All his knowledge of He Changji comes from novels.But in this novel, He Changji and Shao Qingyi are not the protagonists, and what he sees is only the tip of the iceberg.

That's right, as a living person, how could He Changji be just as flat as shown in the novel?

Shao Qingyi realized that she had to scrutinize He Changji carefully, and also had to think carefully about how to build a good relationship with him in the future.

But at the moment, what Shao Qingyi wants to do more is——

"Good boy, can you teach Father Mu to read?" Shao Qingyi cheekily asked the two children and said pitifully, "Father Mu has never had the opportunity to go to school since he was a child, and when he grows up, he can't read all the characters."

"Huh? Is Mu's father illiterate?" Previously, the two children were afraid of Mu's father, so they were not close to him.

After hearing what Shao Qingyi said, they realized that their mother's father didn't even know the words!

If you are illiterate, can't you even read story books?

Father Mu is so pitiful, no wonder he was always fierce when he saw them reading books before, it was because he couldn't understand himself!

"Okay, okay, Father Mu, we will teach you!" Cheng Ping and Cheng An, who had a lot of imagination, immediately agreed.

The two children are very happy to have this opportunity to be teachers.

They put away the story book, took out another book with fewer words, and taught Shao Qingyi decently: "Learning to read starts with tracing red. Father Mu, you should practice strokes first!"

Shao Qingyi really didn't expect that she would have to learn how to draw red like a kindergarten child one day when she grew up so old.

The characters in this world are all square characters like Chinese characters, but the strokes and structure are slightly different. He really has to start with tracing red and learn to decompose the strokes of each character before he can truly understand the meaning of each character.

While Shao Qingyi was studying seriously, Gao Hu and Wang Zhao went home with fried fish pieces.

"Hey, what are you holding?" Gao Hu's father Gao Yue and Gao Hu's facial features are very similar, and his body is taller and stronger. He just came out of the blacksmith room, wearing a leather apron with his arms full It's sweat.

"This is fried fish." Gao Hu replied, "It's delicious!"

"Oh? Fried fish? Where did it come from?" Gao Yue asked casually.

"It was given by Mrs. He's family." Gao Hu replied.

"The He family? Which He family?" Gao Yue was taken aback when he heard the words, "Boss He?"

"No, it's that... the one that everyone says is a slob!" Gao Hu explained.

"He Lao Er's family?" Gao Yue looked at Gao Hu suspiciously, "Isn't it? That lazy guy? Wait, isn't this thing poisonous?"

Gao Hu blushed when he heard the words: "It's not poisonous, it's really delicious! I've tasted it just now!"

In order to increase credibility, Gao Hu explained the origin of the fried fish nuggets to his father in detail.

Hearing that his son was throwing stones at people, Gao Yue gave him a slap in the face for no apparent reason: "My boy, your wings are so hard, you actually came up with such a bad idea! It's thanks to his generosity, otherwise you would have It's a disaster!"

Gao Hu let out a "wow" in pain, and then said aggrievedly: "I know I was wrong..."

"Okay, let me taste this fried fish nugget, is it as delicious as you said?" Gao Yue took a piece of fried fish nugget from the plate Gao Hu was holding to taste it.

On the other side, Shao Qingyi was still earnestly learning from the two children.

He found that the two children Cheng Ping and Cheng An were really smart, with high IQs, and they could even be said to be little geniuses.

From their descriptions, he knew that He Changji didn't actually teach them very carefully, he just randomly gave a tracing red book and a small book similar to a dictionary for the two children to learn by themselves.

They learned by themselves, discussed with each other if they didn't understand, and asked Dad if they didn't understand, and they recognized all the words as if they were having fun.

And Shao Qingyi obviously doesn't have such a strong learning ability as the two babies.

It's not that he can't learn it, it's just that he still has too much knowledge from his previous life in his mind, and many concepts and ideas can't be converted immediately.

Language is the key to civilization, and each civilization has its own unique and brilliant part, which may be shared with other parts or may conflict.

And Shao Qingyi has encountered many conflicts now.

Therefore, his learning progress will inevitably be slower.

Fortunately, his two little teachers didn't care. For them, teaching Shao Qingyi to read was like playing house.It's rare to be able to play this kind of game with Mu's father, and they are very happy in their hearts, and they don't feel that the students are too stupid to teach them.

Shao Qingyi remembered the fish soup in the kitchen. Although he still wanted to continue to swim in the ocean of knowledge, he still finished this study first and agreed to "play" with the children in the evening.

After a long time of cooking, the fish soup turns into a thick milky white color, and the fried fish is full of soup and becomes very soft.

Shao Qingyi took out the fish and filled it into a large bowl, then filled three small bowls of fish soup, and finally put it on the dining table together with the cake.

As soon as the fish soup came out, the two children never took their eyes off it.

They swallowed involuntarily.

But they still remembered that this fish soup was for Dad, so they reminded Shao Qingyi: "Father Mu, I have to leave some for Dad!"

Shao Qingyi smiled: "There's still a lot in the pot."

Hearing what Shao Qingyi said, they felt relieved and started to eat this delicious lunch with peace of mind.

Soon the eyes of the two children started to shine again. The boiled fish soup tasted better than fried fish nuggets!

"Eat slowly, be careful of the fishbone." Seeing the two babies eating happily, Shao Qingyi's mood also rose. While reminding him aloud, he tore a piece of cake and soaked it in the fish soup.

Seeing Shao Qingyi making cakes with fish soup, the two children also learned how to make cakes and started eating.