[Comprehensive martial arts] With the martial arts protagonist

After dinner in the evening, the uncle went to Ayu’s house again and brought the land deeds of each family. In just one day, the whole village became Ayu’s tenants, and those fields became Ayu’s land again legally. It's just in name, everyone knows what's going on, Ayu smiled, didn't say anything, just put it in a special box, although doing so harmed the national interests and caused insufficient national taxation, but this He didn't do this alone, besides, in a few decades, when Yongzheng came to the throne, it would be time for the implementation of the per capita income, and it would not be his turn to be this villain.

Seeing that Ayu had put away his things, the uncle felt joy for a while. He only felt that this nephew was becoming more and more stable. After all, he was a master of Juren. Son, thinking about what Da Lang said, the uncle couldn't help asking:

"Ayu, I heard that you don't want to go to the capital for the exam?"

The uncle’s idea was different from Dalang’s guess. He wanted his nephew to go to the capital to try, but if Ayu really said he couldn’t take the exam, he wouldn’t say anything. It wasn’t about whether Ayu passed or failed the exam. He always thinks that Ayu is very powerful, and if he can be admitted to Juren so easily, is it possible that he can't be admitted to Jinshi?Look at those scholars who have been stuck in books all their lives, Tong Sheng, if you want him to be proud and proud, his nephew is definitely a born smart person, a scholar, he is destined to be a master, but besides the exam, he has another problem on his mind , he thought about the question that Ayu would leave Qinjia Village if he passed the exam.

No matter how ignorant he is, he has lived in a big city like Yangzhou for so many years, and he can see many things very clearly and know a lot. Those who are awarded Jinshi and become officials usually go to other places to become officials, and they will not stay in their hometown. That’s right, he knows that many officials have never returned home since they became officials. Only Ding You and Zhi Shi can return to their hometowns. Uncle and Ayu have been dependent on each other for so long. If he left, maybe he would not be able to live to see Ayu come back.

So when Da Lang said that Ayu would not go to the capital, he felt relieved for some reason, but he still wanted to come here to confirm and listen to Ayu himself.

What can I say?Ayu didn't know how to explain it to his uncle, so he could only say:

"Uncle, sometimes I don't even think that this exam will go so smoothly, but this luck will never follow me forever! I feel very satisfied to be able to become a Juren. If I think about the pie in the sky, it will make God It’s not pleasing to the eye, it’s too greedy! I just want An Sheng to teach students here, open a pharmacy, and live a stable life. With the status of Juren, this life is very secure, the county I also have a status, no one can bully me to the top, and as for being an official? People like me, who have no background, no background, and nothing, even if they become an official, I am afraid that it will not be peaceful. Anyone can step on it. Isn't this just asking for guilt? It's not easy to get involved in any grievances. It's hard to say when you lose this person. Think about the previous prefects of Yangzhou, how many have a good end .We don’t want to suffer this worst, uncle, don’t you think so?”

Uncle couldn't help nodding his head when he heard what Ayu said. His other officials didn't know about it, but the Yangzhou magistrate did. He heard that the position of the Yangzhou magistrate was a pile of gold, and the salt merchants praised him, but he didn't know why. Every time a certain time comes, there will be some corruption in this yamen, either demoting officials or arresting people, and few people are promoted. It's better to just be a juren and live a happy life.

Thinking of this, the uncle also had some concerns in his heart, so he changed the subject, knocked on the table, and asked:

"If this is the case, then you have been back for several days, should you let the children continue to go to school?"

Ayu's school, during the days when he went to the scientific examination, let Sanlang take the children to read the book several times a day, so as not to forget what he taught before, and the rest did not continue. Now that he is back, the uncle will naturally Ask, after all, although the main house was given to Ayu, the position of the village chief has not been handed over to Ayu, and this is something he should take care of.

Ayu nodded hurriedly, and said with a smile:

"That's right. I'm planning to resume classes tomorrow. It's still the old rules. Every morning for two hours, no afternoon. Four days of study and one day off. Uncle, don't forget to let Shitou go to school tomorrow. This kid has a good brain. If you work harder, you will have no problem with childbirth in the future."

When the uncle heard this, he immediately grinned. It is better for a son to be successful than anything else, and he doesn't expect his son to be as successful as his nephew, but just like Ayu said, he is satisfied with being a child student, so he doesn't say goodbye Yes, it is also a good skill to be a teacher in Ayu's school in the future.Now there are about fifty students in the village. If there are more people, I am afraid that the three schools will not be enough, and Ayu will not be able to teach alone by then. Wouldn't her son have a chance?

Thinking that his kid is only six years old, he has already arranged a way out, so happy in his heart!If you are in a hurry, don't go home and urge your son to study.It was Ayu who shouted from behind:

"Uncle, don't forget, let someone tell everyone, don't miss the time."

"I know, I know, I just want to go back and ask Dalang and the others to talk to the families in the village. We have a lot of respect and love, so we can go to several houses by one person to ensure that the children will come to school tomorrow."

Ayu also laughed when she heard it, thinking about what else to prepare, went out in a while, went to the room next to the gate of the enclosure to find Lao Xiang, and asked him to knock on the school gong tomorrow morning.By the way, I also informed Lao Xiang's grandson that tomorrow he will start going to school.It's no longer an endorsement, but you can't be lazy.

Speaking of Lao Xiang, it was picked up by my uncle. It was when the Qinjia Village was first expanded. Because the village is surrounded by houses, the door is opened in the morning and closed at night, in order to prevent people from coming in and out at night, or someone shouting after closing the door. , the village specially arranged people to take turns to watch the night. Of course, the night watch can’t just be done standing. So on both sides of the gate, the livestock sheds that had been built across the north and south were set back three meters, and there was a pavilion on one side. There is a well in the middle of the pavilion, which not only provides the village with a convenient place to fetch water, but also provides a place for those who line up to fetch water to sit and rest. It is specially used for those who are on duty at night to rest, and it can also be regarded as a common concierge in a village.

One day when the uncle married and sold leather in the town, he met a pair of grandparents and grandchildren who were about to starve to death after failing to meet relatives. Couldn't bear it, so he brought it back, and simply asked Lao Xiang to work as a porter in the village to save the villagers from this job. The house of the porter house was twelve or three square meters, and the grandparent and grandson used it as a living room plus a bedroom. Datong Room is enough, Lao Xiang is a diligent person, in addition to opening and closing the door every day, he also takes the initiative to take up the work of cleaning the village, and even Ye Xianglang's work later.

Early in the morning, the door opened at four or five o'clock, and then the donkey was pulled out from the livestock shed of Ayu's house, put on the cart, and wandered around the village for a while, sending all the night incense collected to the dung pile beside the field outside the village. When I come back, I will continue to clean the streets of the village, collect the garbage in front of each house, and send it to a mountain outside the village. At this time, the garbage is basically decomposable. As long as it is piled up and buried, it will be natural after a few decades. become the nourishment of the ground.In the afternoon, Lao Xiang went out, learning how every family went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, and was busy until the evening when the door closed.

The uncle saw that Lao Xiang was quick and hardworking, so he simply negotiated with each family, and each family paid ten cents a month as Lao Xiang's wages, which was equivalent to today's property fees. The work of sweeping the streets and collecting night incense It is calculated that it officially belongs to him, and the room next to the door, as long as Xiang Xiang is doing this job, will always belong to him.

Originally, there were more than 30 households in the village, and that month was more than 300 Wen, which could buy forty to fifty catties of yellow rice, which was enough for their grandparents to eat two meals a day. When eating meat, you can also taste a meaty smell.Now that the village has been expanded again, there are more than 50 households in the village. Although Lao Xiang has more jobs, the salary has naturally increased, and it has become more than 500 Wen. This salary is really not low, enough for their grandparents to live. On a day when he is full and warm, when his grandson grows up, he can still go up the mountain with the brothers of the Qin family to get some prey, or learn to gather herbs to increase his income.Lao Xiang is a visionary. Seeing that the children in the village are all reading, he is also moved. At that time, when their grandparents and grandchildren were just able to eat enough, they became cruel and did not let their grandsons delay their studies for digging wild vegetables. The grandson followed suit with reading and writing, and always begged Ah Yu to do chores for the school, to pay for his grandson's tuition, to play gongs during and after class, to tidy up the classroom after class, to scrub the tables and chairs, to sweep the floor, and even to help Ah Yu clean up belongings. The barn of their family seems to have become a long-term worker of Ayu's family in disguise.

Seeing this 50-[-]-year-old man working hard for his grandson, Ayu always felt a little unbearable, but as I said earlier, this world always suffers from inequality, and he can't do anything just because he can't bear it. Don't let him do it, otherwise what will other people who paid Shuxiu say?Isn't it creating conflicts? Maybe their grandparents will be excluded by other people in the village.

So Ayu acquiesced to what Lao Xiang did, and only helped some from other places. For example, because the house where Lao Xiang lived was only for people to watch at night, it was just such a simple house, without a kitchen, stove, Lao Xiang always cooks in the open area north of the house, making him look like a beggar, so Ayu simply took advantage of the further expansion of the village to help build another six or seven-pin rice house, which is on the same level as the south side of the cattle shed. In Ping, the newly built house was newly built with a kang, which became a hut, and a stove was built in the original house, which saved them the trouble of cooking in rainy and snowy weather.

Looking at his new house, Lao Xiang was so happy that he didn't know what to say. Although it was close to the barn, it smelled a little in summer, but it was a brick house. The most important thing was that the hut and the stove were built by him a long time ago. What he wants to do is not for anything else, but for his grandson. Now he is 11 years old. He has long been thinking about his grandson finding a wife in the future. If there is no house for a family, how can he find a wife?It's not like he didn't think about it, tossing around in the open space, but he didn't dare!After all, this place is not his own, it belongs to the village. He is afraid that if he overdoes it and the villagers drive him out, then he will end up living on the street again.

It's all right now, although the house is a bit smaller, but it is there after all, my grandson can still read, as long as the requirements are not high, it is still possible to find a girl from a poor family.When I get old and die, this house can be used by my grandson's family, and as long as I don't lose my job, I can live in it forever.Until my family can earn some money and buy a house in the village.

Calculating his annual income of five or six taels a year, plus the income from his grandson's hunting and collecting herbs from time to time, he was full of hope. He thought that if he could save some money, he would be able to scrape together enough to buy a house if he had to spend ten years. of silver.He understood that this was Ayu's care for him, and he became more and more concerned about his errands. He was thoughtful of him, and he couldn't help but know the seriousness. In order to repay Ayu and the villagers, he always went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables every afternoon. Sometimes when I come back with some stones, I will knock on the door alone, pack them into stone strips and stones, and slowly spread them along the streets of the village, hoping to give them to the village. Pave the stone road.

Lao Xiang's spontaneous behavior won the favor of the whole village, and also aroused everyone's enthusiasm for large-scale construction. At this time, the roads, whether in the village or outside the village, are all dirt roads. When it rains, the muddy roads make people fall. With Lao Xiang's action, everyone immediately thought of the benefits of the stone road, and everyone took action. Almost as long as someone went to the mountain, they would bring the stone down the mountain. At the same time, everyone knew that Lao Xiang It turned out to be a stonemason.

Although masons don't attract much attention, they are not incapable of getting work. Stone pounding, stone milling, and even building a pier by the river are all needed, not to mention the paving of stone roads that everyone is doing now. .A few families with good families even pooled [-] cash to give to Lao Xiang as wages, and asked him to build a pier by the river in a while. As for the road paving, the whole village has to contribute, so no wages will be paid. , All the young and old in the village work together.This is to treat Lao Xiangzheng as a villager. If Lao Xiang doesn't want to, his little old face will bloom.

The fire of everyone picking up materials is high, and within two or three months, the roads in the village have changed. The two-meter-wide roads have now become neat streets. After thinking about it, I simply prepared it for each family. The house number makes the village more orderly.

When the village was first built, Ayu's house was the most central location, and now Ayu's house is still on the central axis from the east and west sides, but from the north to the south, there are many more in the south, and Ayu's house is just the first in all the yards a row.Fortunately, building a sect in this village doesn't need to be too complicated, as long as it has the right name.So it’s very simple. Ayu’s house is the center. There are two straight north-south streets on the left and right. They are called East [-]st Street, East [-]nd Street, West [-]st Street, and West [-]nd Street. When the house was built, the left and right small courtyard gates They are all opened toward the middle, so they are very neat, and it is also convenient to send sects nowadays. For example, the first three courtyards on the east end belong to the old Liu’s family, that is, East Second Street A, B, C, and the west side From the uncle's house to Sanlang's house, that is the four houses A, B, C, and D on West Second Street. Of course, there are exceptions, that is, Ayu's row of houses. Except for Ayu's house, the doors of the next three words are all opened by the first one. Facing the north gate, there are two at the back, one is east and the other is west. C, the third household is Zhengxiding, the first household in the third category is Zhengsanwu, and so on, it is clear, at least it is absolutely no problem to make a map.

There are more than 50 families, and it is no longer the original village of ten or so people. Although Ayu can recognize everyone in the village clearly, because many people have similar names, overlap, or have the same surname, sometimes I can also call out people. Now that I do it like this, I immediately understand a lot. For example, there is a Liu family on East Second Street, and there is also a Liu family on West First Street.Of course, Ayu is also thinking about the future. When the village expands in the future, the names of the streets will also increase accordingly, so there is no need to worry.

Ayu went out and arrived at the door of Lao Xiang's house. What he saw was Lao Xiang and his 13-year-old grandson knocking stones there. No need to ask, it must be made for his own family. Juren, he will make stone houses and stone steps for himself, the master Juren's house can't be shabby.

"Master Qin is here."

As soon as Lao Xiang saw Ayu, he immediately stood up and saluted respectfully. Ayu frowned a little. Ever since he won the Juren, the village immediately changed their names when they saw him. Looking at his master, he really didn't like it, but he also knew that this was an unspoken rule in society, and he also understood that these villagers were afraid of fame and respect, but it was not easy for them to change their words, so they simply ignored it, anyway, listen Get used to it.

Ayu nodded, without talking nonsense, and said directly:

"Old Uncle Xiang, we will resume school tomorrow, and then you can play the gong. I'm not here these days, I'm afraid these monkeys are about to go to heaven."

Having said that, Ayu turned to Xiang Shizhu again and said:

"Now that I'm free, I have time to work hard with you. If what you said last time is true and you still want to take the exam, hurry up and study hard. Let me be honest. Your school time Not long, and lacking in talent, but hard work can make up for one's weakness. If you really can make a difference, you won't be admitted as a scholar, but you will be admitted as a child student. I will tear down the three-room shed behind your house and give it to you If you expand the house, even if you can’t make a yard, it can still be twice as big as you are now. Together, after planning, you can make two bedrooms and one main room, which is enough for you to get married. Moreover, I also prepared this deed for you, what do you think?"

Ayu's words were like a big cake, she threw Xiang Shizhu with stares in her eyes, looked at Ayu brightly, and asked excitedly:

"Sir, is it really a house? Does that mean we won't have to spend money to buy a house in the future, and won't be driven away?"

After living in Qinjia Village for so many years, just because the house is not their own, the grandparents of the Xiang family have always been uneasy, for fear that their stable life is just a dream, and that day they will lose their jobs and start wandering again. Such a promise, how can it not be tempting, they have traveled a lot of places, so they naturally know that Qin's Village is probably the safest and wealthiest village in the surrounding area.If you settle down here, then your family will surely become richer and better gradually.

Ayu looked at Xiang Shizhu's surprised look, and nodded with a smile.

"Not much, you don't need to spend money to buy it, and you won't be kicked out. As long as you pass the Tongsheng exam, the house will be fixed for you. You can live here for the rest of your life, and you can get married and have children, which will be passed on from generation to generation. Of course, if you don't pass the exam , it’s not that you don’t have a chance, but it’s probably going to be slow. If you want to expand your house and get the deed, you have to save at least five taels of silver. If you want to survive, you have to continue to do your grandfather’s work. Are you Ye Xianglang? Or have you always been a stonemason?"

Xiang Shizhu's eyes were almost red, he stood up and said loudly:

"No, I want a good life and let grandpa live a good life."

Ayu nodded in satisfaction, then thought of what he had said to Dalang, so he added,

"Remember, your opportunities are not endless. The maximum is up to you. If you still can't pass the exam, then don't take the exam. An Sheng works and eats, relies on craftsmanship, survives diligently, and carries on the family line for you. You have to know , the exam is a very expensive thing, you can't always rely on your grandfather to survive, a man is a man, if you have the opportunity, you have to fight hard, but if you try your best and you can't fight, then you have to learn to accept the reality, live a good life, you can't Let your family suffer for your own selfishness, do you understand?"

Ah Yu is a teacher. A teacher not only teaches knowledge, but also teaches students the principles of life and conduct.Seeing Xiang Shizhu nodding his head fiercely, he was very satisfied. This kid's aptitude is not good, not smart enough, but his character is really good, filial, and sensible. The coming family brings status, and at the same time, I hope he will not abandon his simple nature.In a person's life, there is nothing more worth learning than the word inch.