The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

In mid-July, grain can be harvested in the fields. Every year at this time, every family, old and young, will go to work in the fields.

There was no rain this year, and many grains of millet in the field were shriveled, so the harvest was not as good as in previous years. Apart from the taxes to be paid to the court, the family could barely make enough food and clothing.

Fortunately, their family now has other income, not just relying on the grain in the field, so this day will not be too sad.However, most of the families in the village live on a few acres of land. If the harvest in the field is not good, it means that the family will not have enough to eat in the next year. Li Wen was thinking about this matter in his heart.

Their family and the second uncle's family were separated, and the food in the field was naturally collected by each family.

Mrs. Li Wang is getting old and her legs and feet are not good. In the past years, she never went to work in the field, but stayed at home to cook for everyone.Now that Sun Yi is pregnant with a child and is getting old, it is not convenient for her to walk. Li Shanshan is reluctant to let his wife go to work in the field, so he asks her to stay at home and help Auntie cook.

"Aniang, you just stay at home. I'll take people to the fields to collect grain." There is only one Li Shanshan, and there are only three adults.

Every year at this time, the academy will have a few days of field leave, and Li Wen will go to work in the fields with his father, "Father, I will go with you."

Li Shanshan looked at his son without speaking, nodding or shaking his head.

"My dear grandson, why don't you go to the fields, you just study hard in the middle school, and let your father do the work in the field." When Li Wang heard that his grandson was going to the fields, he first No one agrees.

"Grandma, just let me go. I can't do anything my dad can do. You said I was young before, but now I'm so old." Li Wen spent a lot of effort Grandma nods without persuading him.Unexpectedly, his father helped him and said, "Mother, just go if Sambo is going, and let him come back when he gets tired from work."

Li Wangshi still frowned, after all, he didn't stop his grandson anymore.

"Hey, thank you Dad."

"Grandmother, grandma, I'm going to work with my dad." After getting the family's consent, Li Wen happily followed his dad to work in the field, and he brought a younger one behind him. Li Tong.

Li Tong has now become his little follower. This kid is a bit timid and introverted, and he doesn't say a word all day long.

But I think this is also related to his growing experience, maybe it will be better in two years.

Their family didn't have much land, and a few people worked, and they collected it in two days.

After collecting his own grain, Li Shanshan took people to help his second son's family gather grain, but this time he was not willing to let his son go there to help.Li Dahua saw her uncle and the others come to help, and said with a smile, "It's different when uncle's family buys people to do the work. If there are more people to do things, the food collection is faster than ours.

Li Dahua is used to being lazy. In the past, she could be lazy when working as a family. Now she has to do all the work after the separation. Dry and procrastinate.

Fortunately, the older girls at home were able to help with things. Li Dahua sneaked aside by himself, and beat and scolded the girls when they were slow in doing things.

Hearing this, Second Li glanced at his wife.

Li Dahua's face was embarrassing, and she didn't dare to speak.

After another two days, the food in the fields of the two families was collected.Taking advantage of the good weather, everyone quickly dried the millet and put it in the grain tank. This is the food that the family needs for a year.

As soon as the grain was collected, a torrential rain started to fall, and the people who harvested the grain later were still drying the millet. After being drenched by the rain, there was nowhere to look for it if they wanted to cry.

So this is the reason why every household rushes to collect the grain once the grain is cooked in the field. The most fearful thing is that it will rain at this time. When it rains, the millet will be wet, and they have worked hard for a year It was all for nothing.

After collecting the grain, their shop in the town was also ready to open.

Only now did the people in Lijia Village know that Li Shangu's family had rented a shop in the town and was about to open it. Seeing that their family's life was booming day by day, they first built a house and then opened a shop.

On this day, Li Shanshan picked up his mother and wife in a donkey cart and took them to the town together.Li Laoer and Li Dahua also went with them, and they took a few little girls with them. They were so big that they had never even been to the town once.

"crackling one"

A ten-foot-long firecracker was lit at the door, and Li Shanshan pulled down the red cloth hanging on the signboard, which read "Li's Cake Shop"

Four characters.

On this day, the Li family cake shop opened.

"Brother, congratulations." Boss Huang knew that Li Shanshan's bakery opened today, so he came over with a gift to congratulate him.

"Boss Huang has an invitation inside." Li Shangu invited someone to go in and do it.

The shop is not too big, there are shelves on both sides of the shop, and there are all kinds of moon cakes on it. This is also Li Wen's idea. His father hired a carpenter to make it. The furnishings in the shop are simple and clear at a glance.

The mooncakes are prepared and delivered from home. In addition to the original bean paste mooncakes, there are also lotus seed paste mooncakes and five-nut mooncakes. The five-nuts are made of several kinds of nuts that are common here.

Now several new mooncakes have been added. In addition to the original mooncakes, a mooncake with lotus paste and egg yolk has been added. There is also a new series of fruit and vegetable mooncakes. One is made with fruits, and the other is made with vegetables. Mooncakes are made from the juice wrung out of vegetables, dyed with vegetable juices, and made into mooncakes of six different colors.

This year Li Wen plans to focus on fruit and vegetable mooncakes. The main reason is that these two mooncakes taste sweet and look good. The mooncakes are printed in twelve kinds of flowers, and each kind of mooncake has a different pattern. It looks so beautiful. People are reluctant to eat.

Then change to a high-end packaging, the price has risen a few times, and it is mainly pushed to wealthy families who are not short of money.

Li Wen's abacus was crackling.

In the past, his mother-in-law took the lead in making mooncakes at home. This year, his mother's belly is so big that it is very inconvenient to do the work.I didn't expect Du Qiulan to be dexterous. It turned out that she used to work in the kitchen when she was working in a big family's house, so when he talked about it, and his mother was on the side to guide her, it took only a few days for Du Qiulan. Figured out these mooncakes.

In the past few years, their family has made mooncakes for sale before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there are also various high imitations and low imitations outside, but many regular customers still like their mooncakes.The prices of the previous mooncakes are relatively cheap, and they follow the cheap route. The new mooncakes released this year are all high-end.

A table was set up inside the shop, and a few chairs were spread out. Li Shangu invited Boss Huang to sit inside, and served some new mooncakes for people to try.As soon as Huang Wanli tasted the new mooncakes, his eyes lit up, "Well, good, delicious.,'

"I don't know what kind of pancake this is?" Huang Wanli asked.

Li Shanshan sat down and told Boss Huang about mooncakes of various flavors. He asked people to pack two boxes and said, "Boss Huang will go back later and bring two boxes for his wife and children to try too." .”

Huang Wanli pushed it politely, but finally took it down with a smile.

My son said, first of all, they have to find a way to let more people taste their mooncakes, let everyone know about their Lijia Bakery, and more people will come to buy mooncakes from them.

Li Shanshan doesn't know much about business, but he has a good son who knows everything, and he has already told him all the routines.The experience in the past few years told Li Shanshan that as long as he followed his son's words, he would be right.

The store is newly opened today, and Li Wen has embezzled Hyundai's sales promotion.

The store hired a clever guy to shout outside, "The store is newly opened, and everyone who passes by should come and have a look. Today, if you buy five mooncakes, you can get one free mooncake. If you buy ten mooncakes, you can get two free mooncakes. Buy more." More deliveries, while supplies last

There is also a free trial, where the moon cakes are cut into many small pieces, which can be tasted by passers-by outside.

"Only buy something that tastes good. If it's not good, you don't need money."

"Does it really cost money to eat?" someone asked.

"Ma'am, you can try the mooncakes from the store. If they don't taste good, you won't be charged." Li Sanbao took Siya and Li Tong outside to help attract customers.

Da Ya and Er Ya are a little bit older, and Da Ya will be talking about others in two years, so it is not easy for them to show their faces.

Women in this world have to talk to others at the age of fifteen or sixteen, get married and have children. In modern times, they are still at the age of junior high school and high school. Here, they start to get married, which is really scary!Li Wen was once again thankful that he was a son, let's talk about marriage or something!

He is rushing to help his family make money now, and only after making arrangements for his family can he rest assured that he can go to study with Dean Fu next year.

"I want five..."

"Boss, give me some..."

After tasting the taste of moon cakes, many people are willing to spend money to buy a few to go back and try.

On the first day their shop opened, many people in the town knew that they had opened the Li Family Cake Shop.

He still has the identity of a student of Anlu Academy and a scholar on his head, so he is not contaminated by these ""

Worldly things" and "the smell of money from merchants", I am afraid that my husband will ask him to drink tea, so after the shop opened, Li Wen just gave his father some advice, as for those who want to talk about business Things were left to his father, so he seldom went to the shop.

Li Wen sent the moon cakes newly released by his shop this year to the gentlemen of the academy for them to try.Li Wen didn't forget Mr. Fu Dean who was far away in Nanyang, he asked someone to send moon cakes and newly brewed wine to the dean.So it didn't take long for Dean Fu to receive mooncakes and wine from a student trustee, as well as a letter from him.

This is the first time Li Wen sent letters and things to Dean Fu.

In the letter, Li Wen expressed his greetings to his husband, wrote about his current study, and finally wished his husband good health and so on.

Fu Yihan glanced at the student's letter, and hummed twice.

As soon as he opened the wine jar, Fu Yihan knew that the taste was right, "This boy, he has a heart." After drinking the sorghum wine that Li Wen gave, President Fu felt that the taste was bland when he drank other wines. Not imported.In his heart, he was thinking about the good wine from the students, but he was a dean who couldn't ask the students for it, so this kid could be a man, so he brought the wine over before he could ask.

But what is this pancake made of?It's delicious.

After Fu Yihan ate one fruit mooncake, he couldn't help eating another...