struggle in ancient times

"What have I changed? I just bought you with a few chickens." Liao Tingyu thumped in his heart, but said calmly on the surface.

"It's really changed a lot. You didn't know how to teach me before. Although my mother would let you teach me, you always say that I'm stupid, that I can't do this, that's wrong." Liao Shi didn't even realize it. slight resentment.

Liao Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled, "Aren't you stupid? Let's just talk about recognizing characters. The master taught me four characters only three times, and then let us recognize them by ourselves. I taught you to say a word several times. But you still forget it the next day, and you are almost asked to write, either missing arms or legs, if you go to school, it will be strange if you don’t get slapped in the palm of your hand.”

Liao Shi thought so too, he was indeed not very smart by birth.On the contrary, the younger brother is quite smart. He was at the village chief's house, followed the village chief's son and listened to him read, and he was able to recognize a few words with a sweet mouth.

And he always knows nothing, but he doesn't think so. After all, there are very few people as smart as Liao Tingyu. At the beginning, the serious master said that his second brother is extremely smart. A scholar.

And they went to the town to do those easy jobs, all thanks to the help of his second brother.

Thinking about it this way, I felt nothing.Then he let go of the doubts in his heart and said triumphantly: "I made a trap today, and you watched it, and I think I learned it quite quickly. I'll come and see it tomorrow. If I can make a better one, Let's have another good meal. I haven't eaten enough today." Liao Shi felt aggrieved as he rubbed his stomach.

"Do you think I've had enough? Originally, I asked my sister-in-law to cook all three chickens, but who knew that my mother would let me keep the two? The pheasant can't be sold for a few dollars, so it's better It's a good deal for us to eat." Liao Tingyu nodded in agreement. "Hope you catch some bigger game tomorrow. Are you going to work tomorrow?"

"We still have to go. It might be earlier tomorrow. We have almost cleaned up the silt in the pond today. We just need to wash it again tomorrow." Liao Shi suddenly thought of something. "Let me tell you, there are two children in that big landlord's house, and they seem to be looking for a master. I heard them say by chance last time that their current master seems to be replaced. If you pass the exam Then you can go to those rich people's homes to teach those children. I heard that the master eats very well, and the money given by the landlord is tens of taels a month, and there is no need to do anything every day. , just to teach children to read and write.”

"Is he a merchant? The landlord." Liao Tingyu asked.

"Oh, it seems to be. But he has a lot of land. In our village, there are more than 30 mu of land belonging to his family." Liao Shi suddenly realized that if he was a merchant, it is no wonder that the master's salary is so high. In the eyes of scholars, merchants have much less status than those who run around in their land.

It was only a few years ago that I heard that the children of merchants had to pay several hundred taels before they could go to the examination for fame.

Many scholars and even some farmers look down on them.Thinking about myself, this topic is pretty bad.Showing a simple and honest smile, he said with a laugh: "I just said casually that you don't care too much, brother is not interesting."

"It's okay, I don't know much about what you said, but I don't mean to discriminate against merchants. There are also merchants' children who study in our school. To be honest, they are much better than us who look at the sky and eat."

In fact, Liao Tingyu didn't have any special thoughts in his heart, he just said so in passing.He thinks that merchants are nothing, look at the merchants who are not rich now?The country's economy is basically developed by doing business.

Liao Shi nodded in agreement, "Yes, if someone does well, he can be called a brother and brother with the official. Just say that the family I work for has servants to serve him.". . . . . . . . . .

The next day, Liao Shi went to check the trap, and he was lucky enough to catch a rabbit. Deng smiled until his eyes were slit, and he held the rabbit tightly with his hand to weigh it. "There should be two or three taels of this fat one. You should buy him tomorrow, old man, and you should be able to buy a lot of money." After that, I didn't have such good luck. After Shi learned how to make traps, their family's life became much better. It can't be said that there is meat every day, but they can always see some meat or something in a few days.And Liao Tingyu also started his own little plan.

He gave himself a nice pseudonym, combined the stories he saw and heard in the past with his own imagination and wrote them into books, and sold them in his study. The contents of the book had never appeared before. , attracting many readers.

Because the sales were quite good, he signed a sharing contract with the owner of the study.

In less than three months, I have already saved 60 taels. After all, even a small business requires capital, and the business of scholars is the best.

Speaking of the protagonists in other farming novels, it is not difficult for him to sell some recipes and do some small handicrafts.

He has those novel ideas, but who can guarantee that they will be well accepted by the market, and each restaurant has its own unique recipes. He has eaten it a few times, and the taste is not the feeling brought by modern technology. The taste is still endless aftertaste .

He couldn't think of anything he could sell. As a physics student and a single man who could only cook home-cooked food, many of his things existed on paper.