The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Anlu Academy's Shu Xiu costs six taels of silver a year, and ordinary people only earn two taels of silver a year. These few taels of silver can only be saved by their families over many years.Their family's life was already difficult, and their health has not been very good since their daughter-in-law gave birth to the three treasures. These years, they spent a lot of money on hiring a doctor to buy medicines.

The little silver in his hand is probably his mother's daily frugality, the family is reluctant to eat and wear, and the little money that has been saved for most of her life is now given to him to use for his children's education.

As long as he thought that his son would be a promising student if he entered Anlu Academy in the future, Li Shanshan gritted his teeth and gave his son a year's training.

"Father, do our family still have money?" The father and son came out of the academy, Li Wen asked his father with his face up.

"There will be." Li Shanshan touched the child's small face. He didn't know about other people's children, but his own children were sensible since they were young.

Today I took my child to Anlu Academy, and saw that so many rich families wanted to send their children to Anlu Academy. Not everyone accepted Anlu Academy, but his child was smart enough to be admitted to Anlu Academy, so he No matter how hard you work, you have to send your child to study, and you can't let this child be like his father, who will be worthless in the future.

Li Wen knew that their family must have little money, and his father held his hand very tightly, so he grabbed his father's hand with his backhand, and the father and son walked on the street.

It was still early in the morning when they came, and there were no people on the street. When they came out of the academy, there were more stalls on the street outside, and many people came and went on the street.

This was the first time he had come to town since he grew up, and Li Wen looked around with curiosity in his eyes.In his previous life, he had only watched such scenes on TV, but there was a big gap between reality and what he had seen on TV before.

People who come to Qingping Town are from several nearby villages. The people on the road are dressed plainly and their mental outlook is not very good. From this, it can be seen that the lives of most ordinary people in this world are still relatively difficult. Everyone looks malnourished.

"Father, I have never been to the town before, I want to walk around the town before going back, is that okay?" Walking on the street, Li Wen said to his father.

"If Sanbao wants to go for a walk, Dad will take you around. In the future, you will come to the town to study, and you will gradually become familiar with it." Today, because he wants to send his children to the academy, Li Shanshan specially asked for a day off If I didn't go to work, I thought it would take a long time at the academy, but I didn't expect it to be finished in less than half a day.

His son was successfully admitted to Anlu Academy. Thinking of this, Li Shanshan felt proud of his son.No matter how happy this man is in his heart, he rarely shows it on his face. He is a restrained person.

The father and son started shopping on the street. There were various small stalls on the street, selling cattle, sheep and livestock. Some people would take their leftovers to the town to sell for a few dollars, and some would make some. Small things are for sale. In short, there are a variety of things sold on the stalls on the street.

Passing by a stall selling candied haws, Li Shanshan stopped in his footsteps, lowered his head and asked his son, "Sambo, do you want to eat candied haws, dad will buy them for you."

The son walked with him all the way, without saying a word to ask his father to buy something to eat.

"Ah?" Li Wen was still a little dazed. He walked and watched, thinking in his heart, if he wanted to do business here, what could he sell?What can they sell at home.After realizing that his father asked him if he wanted to eat candied haws, Li Wen said, "No, father doesn't need it."

"Father, I'll buy you a bunch." Li Shanguan took his son's slowness as his son wanted to eat, and took out two copper coins to buy a bunch of candied haws for the child.

A bunch of big red candied haws was placed in front of him.

"..." Li asked, he reached out to take it, and said, "Thank you, Dad."

"Eat it. You don't need to thank Dad. Dad deserves to be nice to you." Li Shanshan held his son's hand, and had a special affection for this son who was not as tall as his waist.

All parents in the world are the same, as long as it is what the child wants, as long as he has it, he wants to give it.

"Well, it's delicious." Li Wen remembered that his father bought him candied haws once when he was young. His father loved him very much. When he was working in the town, he would occasionally secretly bring him a piece. Go back and give him some sweets and snacks.

His second uncle would never buy any food for Si Ya and the others.

"Father, you eat one too." Li Wen ate one and asked his father to eat one too.

Li Shanshan couldn't hold back his son, so he had to eat one too.

"Father, is it delicious?" Li Shanshan saw that his father ate one and asked.

"Well, it's delicious." Li Shanshan lost his father when he was young, and his mother raised them up. When he was young, he couldn't even eat enough to eat, let alone eat things like candied haws.After he married his wife and had children, this man was even more kind to his wife and children, and wanted to make up for his children what he didn't have back then.

Hearing that his father said he would still eat it, Li Wen bared his teeth and grinned. He was not willing to eat the rest, and said, "Father, I will take the rest home and give one to A Niang and A Nai."

Li Shanshan touched his son's head and said nothing.

The town is not very big, they walked around the town, Li Wen memorized the way while walking, and saw the restaurants and shops, the stalls on the street, and what the peddlers were selling. I have a general understanding of the commodities in this world.

They just passed by a bookstore, thinking that their son would go to an academy to study in the future, so they couldn't even have pens, inks, papers and inkstones, "Sambo, there is an academy over there, let's go there and see if you want to buy something." He brought his son to the bookstore. He was a rough man who had never been to this kind of place before, but today he brought his son.

Pens, inks, papers and inkstones were to be bought, and the father and son stood at the door discussing.

The shopkeeper saw a father and son standing in front of the shop, and asked, "What do you two want to buy?"

"Hi Uncle, do you have pens, inks, papers and inkstones here? I want to see them." Li Wen was not afraid of strangers, he was not taller than the cabinet in front, he tiptoed to the shopkeeper inside and said.

"Oh, yes, the young master is going to study, right? Come in and have a look." The shopkeeper smiled when he saw the business coming, and introduced several kinds of brushes and paper to him. .

Hearing the price, Li Wen felt a toothache!

Ma Dan, isn't it a little too expensive? I think their family is reluctant to eat pork once a month, which is enough for them to eat as many meals!

Li Shanshan also felt that it was too expensive when he heard it, but such things must be indispensable for children to go to school in the future.One year's repairs for a child cost six taels of silver, plus pen, ink and paper, I'm afraid it would cost seven or eight taels of silver a year.

It was not easy for my son to be admitted to Anlu Academy to study, and he can't give up halfway, he always has to persevere, so even if he is reluctant to part with it, he still has to pay.

Li Shanshan gritted his teeth and said to the child, "Take whatever you want from the three treasures, and Dad will buy them for you."

"Father, I'll just buy something to make do with it. I don't need very good brushes and paper right now." Ma Dan, when he goes back, he must find a way to make money. I don't know how much I spent today. up.Li Wen turned back a pair of dead fish eyes, secretly thinking about the urgent need to make money.

If they don't want to make money any more, their little family fortune will be emptied by him alone.

You can't let the whole family eat dirt just to let him study, right? !

No wonder there was only one Li Xiulin in the village who came to the town to study, and the rest of the families were reluctant to send their children to study. I don't know how many people were discouraged when they heard this large sum of money.And he will continue to study in the future, study and take exams, and he doesn't know how much money he will need to go on this journey. This large sum of money is really not something an ordinary farmer can afford.

But even so, Li Wen does not regret that he chose the path of studying, because he knows that in this era, studying is the best way out for him.Presumably, this time without him, Professor Li and Ms. Song whipping him behind with a whip, he must have studied hard!

Picking and picking, Li Wen found a writing brush that was more convenient and relatively affordable in price. There must be better brushes, but the price must be more expensive. Now that their family has no money, Li Wen dare not mess around spent money.

The paper he wants is also relatively cheap, and it is also the most inferior.

"Shopkeeper, I just want these." Li Wen gave the selected brush and paper to the boss, and Li Wen had already calculated how much it would cost in his mind.

After he had run out of good words, he asked the boss to give him a change.

"You kid is really good at talking, okay, I'll give it to you at a lower price. I haven't even made any money from you." The store owner is a person who is used to doing business. He visits the store every day and sees all kinds of people. It's just that this is the first time he's seen a baby who can talk like this at such a young age.

Knowing that this is a little baby who has just been sent to study for enlightenment, the shopkeeper also said a few words of encouragement to let the little baby study hard.

"Thank you Uncle, I wish your store a prosperous business." Li Wen sent a big smiling face to the boss, anyway, it doesn't cost money to be cute.

After shopping, the father and son came out of the bookstore.

"Father, don't you usually work at the pier? Is it far from here? Let's go to the pier and have a look." Li Wen wanted to go to the pier to have a look. He knew that his father usually worked at the pier. After coming out, he said to his father.

At the very least, you have to visit the whole town first, and only after you have a basic understanding of this place can you plan what to do next.

"Why does Sanbao want to go to the pier? There's nothing to see at the pier." That being said, Li Shanshan still took the child to the pier to have a look, "If you want to see it, Dad will take you there. We're going back."

"Okay." Li Wen nodded.

Li Shanshan held onto the child's hand tightly along the way. There were many people passing by on the road, and he was afraid that the child might get lost.

They arrived at the pier, where ships were docked, goods were coming and going, and shirtless men carried the goods onto the ships.

There were also people who caught fish and sold them here, and some people who looked like managers were picking and choosing. They thought it was an inn or someone from the mansion, and they went out to buy things.

Li Wen looked at the shirtless man carrying goods, and thought of his father's work here on weekdays carrying goods, earning hard-earned hard-earned money.Although it is not easy to make money no matter in modern times or in this world, in this world, making money to support a family is even harder.

"Father, thank you for your hard work." Li Wen looked up at his father and said.

"Father is not bitter, it is enough to have you and your mother." Hearing what his son said, the tall man smiled and said.

To say that Qingping Town is not big, it took about an hour to walk from the beginning to the end, plus they walked and looked at it.Pity his short legs, after walking so far in the morning, and after walking around the town, Li Wen found that the soles of his feet were hurting.

"Is Sanbao tired? Why don't daddy carry you on his back?" Li Shanshan asked carefully, noticing that the child might be tired from walking.

"No dad, I will come to the town to study in the future, I can't ask you to carry me every day, I can walk by myself." Li Wen's face is serious, not only he will be tired, but his dad will still be tired every day. If he had to go to work and carry him back and forth every day, he would definitely be more tired. He didn't want to add too much burden to Dad.

Li Sanbao clenched his small fists and said to his father, "Father, I will walk by myself in the future, and you don't need to carry it on my back."

"Hehe, no one opened their eyes this morning, and fell asleep on Dad's back." Li Shanshan couldn't help laughing when he saw his son's clenched fist, and joked.

"..." Daddy, can you stop exposing others' ugliness? Li Wen rolled his eyes and looked up at the sky, and said, "It won't happen in the future. I will get up and walk by myself in the future, so I don't want Daddy to memorize it." .”

He will definitely do what he says!

But I don't know who the little boy who is always carried by my father will be in the future, it must not be Li Sanbao!

"Father, let's go somewhere to sit for a while, and then go home after a rest." Li Wen said to his father.

The father and son found a place to rest on the side of the road and sat down.

In the morning they still had unfinished steamed stuffed buns, and Li Wen was eating with one in his hand, and let his father eat the remaining one, but his father didn't want it.Li Wen said to his father, "Father, if you don't want to eat it, wouldn't it be more wasteful to throw it away if I can't finish it?"

"Yeah." Li Shanshan touched the child's head, he couldn't finish eating one bun, and knowing it was the child's kindness, he had to eat the last bun.

A carriage passed by on the street. Lu Zhishu, who was sitting in the carriage, raised the curtain and looked outside. He happened to see the father and son sitting on the side of the road eating. Students who enter the exam.

The reason why Lu Zhishu remembered the other party was probably because the other party looked unhurried in front of the husband, and he was also one of the people who stayed with him in the end.

The carriage passed by, and the father and son fell behind. Lu Zhishu lowered the curtain, sat in the carriage, and went home.

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