The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

It was a sunny day in May.

The fields around Lijia Village are planted with crops. The village is surrounded by mountains, and there are mountain springs flowing down from the mountains. They later diverted the mountain spring water from the mountains with bamboo rafts. In addition to supplying the villagers in the village, there are drains around The canals can also be used to irrigate the land, so the crops in the fields around Lijia Village are growing very well, and at a glance, there is an endless blue sea.

When they left the village, the donkey led the way. Li Wen and Zhao Xiangyi sat on horseback, and the horse followed the donkey ahead.

Li Wen pointed to a place and said to Zhao Xiangyi, "There is a big rock over there. When I was young, I often took the cows to graze there. At that time, I often let the cows graze there by myself, so I climbed to that big rock. go to sleep on a rock

The old cow in their family is very obedient, and will not run around grazing there. When he wakes up from sleep, the cow is still there.

Zhao Xiangyi's gaze followed the direction Li Liuyuan pointed, and it was hard to imagine that Xiao Liuyuan had to herd cattle when he was young.

"You don't believe I still had to herd cattle when I was young, right? Haha..." Li Wen couldn't help laughing, and he was quite happy. He said, "Actually, now that I think about it, the days when I went to herd cattle That’s when I’m happiest and carefree.”

Although the family was poor at that time and there were many people eating at home, his second uncle's family had four children, his second uncle's family had six members, his family had three members, and his grandma had ten mouths to eat, so at that time they It is often not enough to eat.

But at that time, he was still by his parents' side, loved by his parents, and his grandma also loved him as a grandson, so thinking about it now, Li Wen felt that his childhood was very happy.Of course, although he felt that the days he lived at that time were happy, he just missed them and didn't want to go back to the past.

"You didn't let the cows go when you were young, right?" Li Wen looked back at Zhao Xiangyi and saw the man shaking his head.Li Wen talked about some things when he was a child, from when he and Li Siya went to herd cattle, to how they met his master, he said, "My master is a hunter at the foot of the mountain, and he raised a big black dog. I practice martial arts, and I followed him to the mountains to hunt, and my master taught me archery."

It's just that he doesn't know where his master came from, and where he is now.

Zhao Xiangyi held the rein with one hand and listened to the young man sitting in front of him talking. He found it very interesting to hear these things.He always thought that Li Liuyuan was a child prodigy who could study at the age of three and compose poetry at the age of five. He never thought that Li Liuyuan would help his family herd cattle when he was young.

The Li family is just an ordinary peasant family, but they raised their first six-yuan talent.Escorting Li Liuyuan back to his hometown, Zhao Xiangyi saw that every family in this village lived in green brick and tile houses, and every family in the village had a house to live in and food to eat.Li Liuyuan's family is harmonious, his parents love their children, and his brothers are friendly. It is just such an ordinary family who gave birth to a number one scholar.

There was a thatched house not far ahead, and they arrived here soon.

"We're here." Li Wen said.

Getting off the horse, Li Wen touched Shiwu who had come over, and walked into the yard.In the following years, Li Wen asked his father to arrange people to come and repair the house here every year, so that his master would return to this place one day, and this small courtyard is still here.

Every time he came back, he would come here to take a look, but every time he was disappointed, his master hadn't been back here for so many years, and he didn't know if he would come back.In Li Wen's heart, he had always been looking forward to that one day when he came here, he could see his master chopping firewood in the small courtyard.

Zhao Xiangyi went in behind the boy, and looked around the small courtyard. Judging from the things at the door, it could be judged that this was once a place where a hunter lived.

The house has been unoccupied for a long time, and a thick layer of ash has accumulated inside, which can bury people in it.

"Ahem..." Li Wen pushed open the door and took a look, coughed by the dust, and closed the door.Looking back at the man following behind him, and meeting the man's eyes, Li Wen explained, "Oh, my master, the old man, has gone to travel in the clouds."

"I know where the things are buried, but we want to dig up the wine buried by my master when he is not around." They are here today to dig up the good wine buried by his master, and the wine is Li Wen and his master. It was buried, Li Wen roughly determined the location, found a handy tool in the yard, and started digging.

Let you go for so long and never come back, hum!From now on, every time I come back, I will dig up your two jars of wine until there are no more!

Hearing that there was wine, Zhao Xiangyi's eyes lit up, but the man concealed it very well, seeing the boy holding something in his hands

Digging the soil, Zhao Xiangyi said, "I'll do it."

"No, I'll do it. I've got my head in hand. If you break the jar, you'll lose money." The wine buried below is quite old, and if you accidentally break the jar, it will hurt your heart. Li Wen was cautious. He dug the soil carefully, for fear of accidentally breaking the jar.

But he didn't dig too deep, and he saw the wine jar buried below.

"I knew the wine was still there." If his master didn't come back, the things would definitely be here, and only he and his master knew about the wine buried here.Li Wen threw down the hoe in his hand, pulled away the soil on it, brought out a jar of wine, threw the wine to Zhao Xiangyi, and shouted, "Catch it."

Zhao Xiangyi stretched out his hand, caught the wine jar accurately, and weighed it.

"Is one jar enough?" They buried a total of ten jars of wine here, Li Wen asked Zhao Xiangyi with a glance.

Certainly not enough!

Zhao Xiangyi saw that there were quite a few more below, and said in a rare way, "Two more jars?"

"Hehe... no, at most two jars, I'll give you another jar." Li Wen couldn't help laughing, and brought up an extra jar of wine from below, gave the wine jar to Zhao Xiangyi, and then buried the soil back. Said, "Keep these, and we will dig them next time we come."

Zhao Xiangyi held two jars of wine in his arms, and looked at the other wine jars below with his deep eyes.

"Okay, let's go." After burying the soil back, Li Wen patted the soil on his hands, saving the rest for next time.Zhao Xiangyi blew a whistle, and the horse grazing not far away ran over as soon as he heard the sound.

Seeing the horse running, the donkey also ran over.

"Fifteen, lead the way ahead, we're going back."

The two sat on the horseback, followed the donkey, and went back along the way they had come.

Junshi Xie, who brought someone back from the outside, saw the two wine jars on the table at a glance, and remembered that Li Liuyuan said that there was better wine yesterday, his eyes lit up, and he strode over.

Xie Yunfei was about to reach out to touch the wine jars, when a big hand stretched out and took the two wine jars away.

"Is this the good wine that Little Liuyuan said?" Xie Yunfei asked with a shy expression on his face.

Seeing that Zhao Xiangyi didn't speak, Xie Yunfei didn't care, at the moment he pretended that these two jars of good wine didn't matter if he was shameless, and said, "Boss, this good thing, open it for us to smell it? "

"Yes, Boss, let us smell it." Zhang Mingyu followed Military Adviser Xie, with a flattering smile, and said, "Let's just smell it... We, we won't drink it."

"..." Xie Yunfei wished he could kick this idiot out, just smelling it would be useful!

Zhao Xiangyi glanced at Xie Yunfei, the two had known each other for so many years, he could tell what the other was thinking with just one look, and he waited for the fish to take the bait. "It's not impossible for you to smell it." Zhao Xiangyi said, and opened the cover of a jar, and a mellow wine scent floated out from the jar.

The more the wine is brewed, the more mellow the taste.

These wines have been buried in the ground for nearly ten years. The longer they are stored, the more fragrant and better the taste will be. It is definitely the best wine among good wines.

"Hmm... smells good!" Xie Yunfei took a deep breath, the smell is really amazing.

Zhao Xiangyi sealed the lid back to prevent the smell from wafting out, leaving a faint scent of wine in the air.Xie Yunfei opened his eyes, looked at the wine jar with enthusiasm, and asked, "Just take a sip?"

Let him taste this wine, and he will die without regret!

"Boss, my life is yours." When he came back to his senses, Zhang Mingyu wanted to cry, the wine tasted so fragrant, he thought the wine they drank last night was already the best Yes, I didn't expect there to be better.

"Heh." Zhao Xiangyi looked at these subordinates coldly, sneered, and remained silent.

"You all, go out and wait outside first." Xie Yunfei waved Zhang Mingyu and the others to go out. With these people holding back, it was impossible for him to have a sip of good wine.Zhang Mingyu and the others were still unwilling to go out, Xie Yunfei grimaced and said, "You don't even believe me?"

"I promise you, if you have a bite from me, you will definitely have a bite from you."

With Xie Junshi's words, Zhang Mingyu and the others thought about it, and knew that they were useless here, so they all went outside.

Xie Yunfei followed behind and closed the two doors.Zhao Xiangyi watched as Xie Yunfei flicked him out, and there were two wine jars beside him. Anyone who wanted to get these two wine jars had to step over his corpse.

The door of the room was closed, and no one outside knew what the two said inside.

When Xie Yunfei went out, he actually hugged a wine jar in his arms, and a group of soldiers outside the door all surrounded him and divided up the wine in the jar one by one.Zhao Xiangyi, who was in the room, looked at the remaining wine jar, the corner of the man's mouth curled up, he couldn't believe it...

Li Liuyuan, who was talking to the village head and the patriarchs outside, didn't know that someone was counting on the few jars of wine left by his master.

three days later

The Lu family held a grand banquet to thank teachers. The Lu family had three Jinshi scholars, and the young master of the Lu family was No. 3 in the high school palace examination.The Lu Mansion hosted a grand thank-you banquet for the young master in the family, and invited the county magistrate Mrs. Xue, famous people in the town, as well as the gentlemen of the academy, relatives and friends to go.

As Lu Zhishu's friends, Li Wen, Shen Zijing, and Su Yuan were all invited, and they came to the Lu residence together.

This is not Li Wen's first visit to Lu's residence. He had been a guest in Lu's residence many years ago when Mrs. Lu was celebrating her birthday.It's just that it's completely different from the treatment they received the first time they went to the Lu Mansion. This time, the butler who greeted the guests in front of the Lu Mansion warmly welcomed them in.

"Li Zhuangyuan to One"

"Master Shen to one, Master Su to one"

As soon as they entered, the three of them attracted the attention of many people. Whether they knew it or not, many people came forward to say hello to them.Li Wen responded to the others one by one. After they greeted the host, Lu Zhishu happened to see them and brought them inside.

There were not many people inside, and a few of them sat down and drank tea.

Li Wen asked Shen Zijing, "What did you think about what I said last time?"

"I went back and thought about it, but I think it would be a good place to go to your place temporarily." After returning that day, Shen Zijing settled the matter with Su Yuanshang.Su Yuan threw the question to him, saying that if he wanted to go, they would go, if he didn't want to go, they would study at home, or find a clean Zhuangzi to study.

Shen Zijing felt that it was better to be a teacher in Lijia Village than to be at home all day with his parents staring at him while studying.There are also many tedious things at home, his mother wants him to get married as soon as possible, Shen Zijing is very annoyed about getting married.

He also considered becoming a teacher in the academy before, but after all, there are too many things in the academy, which may affect their studies, and his parents at home don't want him to be a teacher in the academy, so let's let it go up.Shen Zijing had been to Lijia Village, and he quite liked that village. If he went to Lijia Village to become a husband, Shen Zijing began to think about it, and finally thought it was pretty good.

"But we have to agree in advance. Three years later, A Yuan and I will go to Beijing to take part in the examination. At that time, you may have to invite another gentleman." They will not stay in Li Mr. Jiacundang, Shen Zijing said.

"Okay, I know about this. You go to work for a while first, and if you find a good teacher in the future, you don't want to be teachers in Lijiacun, you can change to another teacher." Li Wen knew that it was impossible for Shen Zijing and Su Yuan to stay together. They are all working as a small teacher in Lijia Village, that would be too embarrassing for talents.

It's just that they want to study now, and the environment in Lijia Village will be relatively quiet. It is to go to study with them and take care of being a teacher.

"If Zijing is going, what about Su Yuan and you? Let's go together?" Li Wen asked while looking at Su Yuan.

"Mmm 3" Su Yuan smiled and nodded, if Shen Zijing went, he would definitely go with him.

"Haha, that's good. On behalf of the village head and the villagers of Lijia Village, I would like to extend a warm welcome to you. Lijia Village welcomes you." Li Wen was very happy to invite two good gentlemen at once. They were good friends who had met in school together, and he knew Shen Zijing and Su Yuan as people.

Teaching and educating people is not only about the knowledge of the teacher, but also about moral education.

Being able to invite these two good friends, Li Wen knew that they were definitely looking at his face.But he knew that Shen Zijing and Su Yuan had to prepare for the exam three years later, so he invited them to be teachers in Lijiacun. They must provide a good study environment for each other, without affecting their studies. , Ask them to be teachers in the past.

So they decided to go to Lijia Village to become a husband.