struggle in ancient times

After getting married, Liao Tingyu lived like a fish in water, and the husband and wife played harmoniously.

Huang Zilan's tenderness and understanding gave Liao Tingyu a sense of belonging.

Looking at the exquisite garden and exquisite people, Liao Tingyu wanted to steal half a day's leisure for the first time.

"Tingyu, why are you in a daze, come over to eat." Huang Zilan approached and saw Liao Tingyu staring at the flower and said in a daze.

Liao Tingyu twisted the flowers and stuck them on Huang Zilan's head, "This flower is not as beautiful as yours."

Huang Zilan blushed when he looked at Liao Tingyu who suddenly said love words, really, he kept saying these inexplicable words.

Deng looked at the eldest grandson who was already one year old.

It's time to organize the Sunday banquet. Liao Tingyu's wedding made her very popular.

This time, it must be done well.

However, we should discuss with Liao Ming about holding the banquet. Should we do it at home, or in a hotel in the town?

Of course she prefers to do it in a hotel.

And Liao Ming wanted to go back to the countryside, so that he could name his grandson and enter the family tree so as not to make another trip.

Mrs. Deng was right when she heard it. Now that they basically settled down in the town, the time to go back to their hometown is very limited.

And I think that when she was a girl, those landlords were the ones she envied the most.

She counted the money in her hand, and wanted to buy a few acres of land in the countryside and rent it out.

To her, the money is the lifeline, and the land is more important than life. In troubled times, their family can still use the land to survive.

Liao Ming also agreed with this idea.

They sat together and discussed how many acres to buy. After all, the money to buy the land was not a small sum.

Their current family income is only a dozen taels of silver, including Liao Shi's.

A dozen taels of silver seemed to be a lot in the past, and it was not even possible to earn so much throughout the year.

It's good that there are so many in just two or three months now.

Mrs. Deng is still not very satisfied. You must know that the study opened by Liao Tingyu sold several hundred taels on the first day.

Scholar's money!

More importantly, they still owe their second son dozens of taels of silver, even though the couple didn't care at all.

And even if she used all her current money to buy it, it was only two acres of dry land and three acres of paddy fields.

Liao Ming wanted to bring his second son in, and buy some fields, preferably in pieces. Although it is true that the officials are different, in his eyes, this land can make people full. It can make people eat meat, the officials and the money are all fake.

Liao Tingyu and Huang Zilan thought it was a good idea when they heard what Deng said when they went to deliver things.

After all, no amount of real estate is enough. He said that he is an official in the town, but it is of no great use, and it has no good effect. It may have been hundreds of years, and he is still in this position.

The only thing that can be used is that every time the villagers are about to get married, they say that there is an official in our Liaojia Village, who is in the town.

And he heard it with his own ears. It was so embarrassing at that time!

Only in this position, he finally understood why Mr. Chen was in such a hurry. He was grateful for letting him do this position. He really had nothing to do for a year, so he could only get some salary from the court. After being complimented by others, the days passed in such a muddle.

He also thought about getting some better things himself to present to the court, but the good things didn't come just by saying.

Moreover, limited by the times, people nowadays are actually very smart, but they are quite superstitious, and they are very restrained by strange phenomena.

He had heard a case to the contrary, which was mentioned by Master Li while chatting with him.

It was in Beijun, a son of an official family was obviously a dude, but he never thought that he would go to the battlefield and become a general. Everyone complimented him.

And the other was the same prodigal son in the previous dynasty, without a high-ranking status, but when he turned around, his husband actually thought that he was possessed by a ghost and drowned alive.

Therefore, only when you become an official can you control people's hearts. People see others wearing filters. If you are a high official, you will naturally feel awe and dare not think wildly.

If he wants to be promoted and go up, he must take the imperial examination. These days, he has been studying hard. For this reason, he went to ask for leave and bought several books for the imperial examination in the county.

After so much time dealing with the people above, Liao Tingyu found that there is a big difference between here and modern times.

In modern times, as long as your length of service is sufficient to achieve some political achievements during your tenure, you will be considered when there are vacancies above.

And here, it doesn't matter to the top, just stay there.

But the good thing is that the county magistrate here is basically equivalent to the emperor.

In addition to reporting work to the higher authorities at a fixed time, he is the largest in the entire county at other times.

To show off his talents, he doesn't need to be a big official, he just needs to step forward.

Huang Zilan looked at the window, comforted her husband who was sitting in front of the window looking at the tree in a daze, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You have been in a daze more and more frequently recently. Are you thinking about our family's money?" , Don’t worry, our family still has a lot of money, enough to buy hundreds of acres of land.”

Liao Tingyu shook his head, hugged his fragrant and soft daughter-in-law and said, "I was just wondering why there is such a big gap between reality and imagination?"

Huang Zilan was puzzled, he looked at Liao Tingyu puzzled.

Liao Tingyu said to himself: "Look at our village. Although we are not very rich and not so poorly dressed, the uncles often eat brown rice. They eat twice a day and don't see each other for a month. They have to eat as much meat as they want. But they still live happily, and nothing bad happened in winter. This is a peaceful and prosperous world.

The theory says that I should be content, but I still can't be satisfied. I think I hope that people in the village can be like us. When I want to eat meat, I can buy some meat. I don't have to watch it when I get married during the New Year and festivals like before. Can see a trace of oily smell. "

"It's good that you have this kind of retribution." Huang Zilan thought it was nothing, in fact, Liao Tingyu's village should also be regarded as a well-known wealthy village.

"But my position is like a wealthy idler. I'm not as comfortable as a member of the countryside. Now I don't know what I want and what I need to do. I feel that my life is very slim." Liao Tingyu looked at the tree The flowers on the sky are not flowers.

What surged in my heart was the sorrow and sorrow that I once thought would never appear.

"But you have been doing it! Tingyu, haven't you been teaching children in the town? This is also your job. I think those students care about you. And you are also helping people in the village. They come to Our library borrows books for free, and the deposit has never been collected!"

"You're also lending them money and helping them out."

Huang Zilan wondered why her husband felt like he was doing nothing.

He now has a high reputation among students and rich people, and every time he goes out, he will always be respected and loved by many rich people.

"Zilan, you don't understand what I want to do. Do you know? I used to imagine that I could do a lot of great things, and even be a rich man, but now I feel that the gap between reality and imagination is too big , My thoughts and thoughts were imprisoned, and I didn’t know how to move forward.”

Liao Tingyu thought that as a modern person, he wanted to be like those in those novels, not seeking to dominate one side, but as long as he could use his knowledge to change this backward society.

But what can I do now?

I don't know if life is going too smoothly, but he actually came up with these hypocritical thoughts.

He laughed at his ridiculous appearance now, looking at the locust tree by the window, the weather in March is a bit cold, and it is not a blow to the cold spring.

But the locust tree is in full bloom, with a strong fragrance, and the flowers falling with the wind are very beautiful, but extremely sad.

Huang Zilan looked at the people beside him, he didn't know where to start his words with that incompatible temperament, and he didn't know where to comfort him.

Maybe you can think about it. It might be better to have a child as the mother-in-law said. He touched his belly, hoping that he would be more confident. It has been almost two months since he married in, and there has been no sound.

Obviously worked hard.

"I saw that the Sophora japonica is quite long, so why not make some Sophora japonica cake." Huang Zilan wanted to bring people back to reality, so that he would not become immortal in the blink of an eye.

Seeing how lush the Sophora japonica is growing, why not make some Sophora japonica cakes to eat.

With delicious Tingyu, his mood will improve.

Looking at the busy figure, Liao Tingyu returned to reality, he felt that he was simply a white lotus, delicate and artificial, he was disgusted by himself.

Yesterday he went to the school to consult with his master and the dean about his next year's examination.

These days his progress is quite obvious.

The master thinks that it is not a big problem for him to take the exam, and it is no problem to work hard for Jinshi. Liao Tingyu's mentality in the exam is one in a million.

However, due to the abundance of talents in the court, the policy has changed this year. Originally, a person can be an official after being inspected. Now it is stricter, and he has no one in the court. It may be difficult to assign a good position.

So the master and the dean planned to let him take the Jinshi examination, but there was no hope for the top three, after all, there was a shortcoming in poetry, so the dean often called him a wooden fish bump.

After all, it was rare to meet such a desirable student, so the dean went to find his former favorite student to find out the current direction of the court.

Liao Tingyu knew about Jinshi when he was a student, and he knew how difficult it was to pass the Jinshi exam. Although the master and the dean said there was no problem, it was a huge army crossing a single-plank bridge, which inevitably made him a little distrustful of himself.

He knows that there are more talents than himself, and the only thing he can show is the culture accumulated over thousands of years.

But as an upright gentleman with a conscience, he will not steal other people's things by himself, even though that person does not exist in this era.