The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

In July, the crops in the field can be harvested.

This year is a good year, and the harvest in the field is better than in previous years.

During the busy days of farming, Li Shangu and Li Lao Er did not go to the town to do business, but returned home to help collect grain.At this time, the men in the village generally don't go to the town to do work, and go home to help collect grain.

Every household is busy harvesting grain, which is their family's grain for a year.

The academy released the Tian family for seven days, allowing the students to go home to experience farm work.

Li Wen didn't have to go to the academy to go to school these days, but when he proposed to help in the fields, his family objected and asked him to study hard at home.Reading is non-stop day and night, and occasionally you have to relax, right? He is reasoning with his grandma and acting like a baby, so the old lady let him go to the field to let the wind go.

By this time, many families were dispatched as a family, and all the old and young went to the fields to help with work.

Even if Mrs. Li Wang didn't go to the fields to collect grain, she was responsible for cooking for the family at home.

At a glance, the field is full of people working bent over. This scenery can only be seen once a year at this time.

"Sambo, it's so hot here in the field, go hide in a cool place up there." Seeing her son's sun-tanned face turned red, Sun Yi asked his son to hide in a cool place with distress. What's wrong with this child? He was disobedient and had to follow them to the field.

It's sunny..

"Auntie, I'm fine. I'll be healthy after a while." Li Wen was arguing with his aunty. He felt good even if he was serving tea and water for his aunties by the side. The whole family was busy, so he was alone He felt uncomfortable.

Their family didn't have much land, so they collected the grain in two or three days, and then dried the millet.The sun was strong this day, and the millet would be fine after two or three days in the sun. It was taken back to the cellar and stored as food for their family.

This year, people's faces are full of joy of harvest.

"This year's harvest is good, and the taxes we have to collect for the yamen are still enough for the whole family to eat."

"Isn't it? I'm just looking forward to it. If it's so good every year, it should be a lot."

Farmers depend on the weather for their food. Everyone hopes that the weather will be good and the weather will be good, and the grain in the field will be harvested every year, so that they don't have to go hungry.The most fearful thing is that God will be angry, catastrophe, and they will not be given a way to survive. People who have survived the famine year do not want to experience such a year again, and there are starvation everywhere on the road.

Hearing these words, Li Wen sighed in his heart. In this era, agriculture is the foundation, and most families make a living by farming. If there is a flood and drought, the food in the field will not be affected by the family. Waiting to starve to death?The grain that the peasants worked so hard to grow, after deducting the taxes paid, the remaining grain is barely enough to feed the family for a year. If the imperial court raises taxes one day, the peasants will also be hungry.

Therefore, the life of being a farmer is really difficult.

Let's hope, every year in the future will be like this year, a good harvest year.

The seven-day field leave passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Wen went back to the academy to study. His father and second uncle also carried burdens to the town to do business every day.

"Haha Li Wen, why are you so tanned?" Shen Zijing saw Li Wen who came back to the academy as dark as charcoal, pointed at him and laughed.

The corners of Li Wen's mouth twitched, but he didn't feel it at home because everyone was very tanned. When he went to the academy and compared it with his classmates, the difference was a bit too obvious.

"Hehe, aren't we taking a field vacation here? I'm not going back to experience farm life, helping the family harvest food or something." Li Wen never concealed the fact that he was born in a farm family in front of his classmates. His grandfather He is a farmer, and his father is also a farmer. His ancestors have been farmers for eighteen generations, so there is nothing to hide.

Li Wen's frank appearance made everyone hate him. Those classmates who looked down on him in the past have gradually changed their views on him, so if you want to make others look up to you, you still have to rely on your own efforts.

Self-esteem is something you give yourself, not someone else!

Even when the gentlemen came to class, every one of them would subconsciously look at Li Wen, the student. Obviously, he didn't expect that this student would become so black after only a few days.

Li Wen didn't take it seriously, what's wrong with being darker?A little black is manly!

Before the lectures, the gentlemen will conduct routine inspections, and those who fail to recite the articles will be punished. After checking the homework of the students, the master praised a few students and fined a few students, saying, "Next Let's move on to the lecture."

One month after their enrollment, there will be the academy's monthly exam. This is their first quiz since their enrollment, and the academy attaches great importance to it.The results of the monthly exam are arranged from high to low, and the college will post the students' results and post them outside for everyone to see.

After learning about the academy's operation, Li Wen cursed in his heart: Damn it!Is it too lifeless?

A little bit!It doesn't matter if it's at the top, isn't it to kill the bottom ones?

However, the purpose of the college's move is to enable students with poor grades to work harder next time and strive to get ahead in the exam.

After two days, their monthly exam results came out.

"Li Wen, our grades are out and posted outside, let's go and have a look too." As soon as the grade list was posted, everyone ran out to read it, and Shen Zijing dragged Li Wen to ask him to read it together.Li Wen easily pulled Lu Zhishu up, and said, "Let's go together."

He saw that the child sat in the seat for himself all day long, and he was able to sit there from morning to evening after school, which was even more stable than that of a monk chanting scriptures, admiration!

Lu Zhishu didn't refuse, got up, and walked with Li Wen, without looking at Shen Zijing who was at the side.

"Hmph!" Shen Zijing snorted at Lu Zhishu, turned away his face, he didn't want to play with Lu Zhishu, this person is too annoying.

Lu Zhishu didn't even give Shen Zijing a look, which made Shen Zijing even more angry.

These two people seem to be born at odds, every time Shen Zijing sees Lu Zhishu, he loves to trouble Lu Zhishu.However, Shen Zijing can't get cheap from Lu Zhishu, and often Lu Zhishu can make Shen Zijing jump three feet high with a single sentence.

At this time, Li Wen was caught in the middle, helping no one, so he didn't help anyone. They beat their relatives and scolded their loved ones to death. The more they fight, the better their relationship will be.

So is it true that children are like this, they will play together soon after playing?

Su Yuan held onto Shen Zijing with his soft hands, as if he was afraid that Shen Zijing would leave him and run away.

When they arrived, many people were already looking at their grades at the place where the grades were posted.

The academy also posted the papers of the top ten students for everyone to see.

The rankings are from top to bottom, No.1 is ranked first, and Li Wen saw his own name ranked first at a glance.

"Wow... Li Wen, you took No.1!" Shen Zijing saw at a glance that Li Wen was ranked first, and No.2 was taken by Lu Zhishu, and he was only ranked third.

Su Yuan's name was ranked fourth, and they basically took all the first few names.

"It's just a small test. It's nothing to worry about. We don't need to pay too much attention to it." Li Wen was not surprised that he got the first place in the test. It would be a surprise if he didn't get the first place in the test.

However, Li Wen still has a very shameful feeling in his heart. You said that he, a student who graduated from university before, came here to compare his grades with a group of primary school students who are still in their enlightenment stage?hehe……

Shameless or something, he is talking about people like him!

But it was also in this small monthly exam that Li Wen won No.1 without making a sound, which made the teachers of the academy start to notice this student.In the subsequent big and small exams, Li Wen always maintained his No.1 position and never fell behind.

His result made Lu Zhishu and Shen Zijing, who were ranked behind, study harder, but no matter how they took the test, they couldn't squeeze Li Wen down.

But that's another story.

"Lotus leaf rice, sell lotus leaf rice..."

On this day, a new stall was set up not far from the stalls set up by Li Shanshan and Li Laoer. They sold the same things as them, and the price was cheaper than theirs. .

As soon as they heard it was so cheap, many people went to buy it from them.

"Brother, what should we do? No one will come to buy things with us today, what should we do if we have so much left?" Second Li saw that everyone ran to the opposite store to buy, and there was no one in front of their stall. buying.

If at this time in normal times, their stalls are full of people shopping, and they are too busy, today they can only watch the people on the opposite side steal their business.

"Let's take a look first." Li Shanshan's mind was calmer than that of Li's second son, and he took a deep look at the opposite house.On the opposite side was a couple selling lotus leaf rice. The man had a fleshy face and looked fierce.

The man noticed that the two men from the opposite house were looking at them, and he sent a provocative look.

"Bastard!" Li Laoer was so angry that he wanted to fight with them.

Li Shanshan grabbed Li's second child and said, "Don't be impulsive."

Three pennies and two lotus leaf rice, which is half the price of the original one. After many people bought the lotus leaf rice and ate it, when they opened it, they found that the contents were small, and the taste was completely different from the original one. The same, it is not as delicious as the original one.

"Bah!" The person who took a sip spat on the ground, the rice in it was hard and not oily at all.

, It’s just a lump of rice, no wonder it’s so cheap.

The man went back to the stall, threw the things on the ground, and cursed, "Your food is so unpalatable and you still sell it. Don't you just make it clear that you are cheating money?"

There are also people who bought it, and after eating it, they feel that it is not delicious, and they feel that they have been cheated, and everyone has found it.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Did the house across the street come to trouble us? We set up a stall here to sell things, with clearly marked prices, and no deceit. How can you say that we cheat money? Let's go, let's go to the yamen Reason it out!" The man with a fleshy face jumped out immediately after hearing this.

The woman's voice was loud and she said sharply, "Yes, that is, let's meet at the Yamen, I think you are here to cheat money, we are here to do business well, what is hindering you? You want to destroy us Business."

Anyway, the husband and wife both look the same. As the saying goes, "it's not that one family doesn't enter the same family", it's about these two people, who are completely rascals and unreasonable.

"You... I can't say enough about you! Hmph! Forget it, just two pennies..."

When the man who went back to seek reasoning heard that the other party wanted to take him to the Yamen to reason, it was totally unreasonable for him to go to the Yamen because of the matter of two pennies. This would make the county lord unhappy because he had to be punished.

As soon as the onlookers saw the man's attitude, those who wanted to continue buying food would stop buying.This matter is gone after that.