The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

After Li's Cake Shop opened, the business of the shop behind it is getting better and better.

Li Wen knew that Ruyi Restaurant, the largest restaurant in the town, was owned by the Lu family, but he didn't use his status as Lu Zhishu's classmate to establish a relationship with the Lu family. Go to the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant to negotiate a deal.

As long as the shopkeepers of Ruyi Restaurant are not stupid, they all know that selling mooncakes from them is a sure-fire business.

There are also businessmen coming and going at the wharf. If they get online with these businessmen and can make a few big orders, they don't have to worry about eating for the next year.

"Sambo reminded Dad, let Dad handle this matter." Li Shanshan had been doing business at the pier before, and he was familiar with the people and things there. Once his son reminded him, he would know what to do. up.

For a while, the supply of mooncakes in Lijia Bakery was in short supply, and more people needed to work.

Li Shanshan took the gift and went to the door of the village chief's house, and talked to the village chief about recruiting people to work in the village, "The village chief must know better than me, so I will trouble the village chief to help with this matter." .”

"I need ten people here first, and I will continue to recruit people when I need more people later. It's best to be an honest and down-to-earth person. If you want to come here to be lazy and dare not work, people who want to make cakes in my family will find out. Get them all out."

"Okay, I will definitely handle this matter well. The person I found for you must be honest and hardworking. If you dare to make up your mind, don't say you disagree, I, the village head, will deal with him first." As soon as the village head Li Mao heard this, he immediately knew the benefits. This year's harvest in the fields is not good. Once the food tax is paid, some people's food may not be enough for the whole family.

If people in the village can have an extra income, and the family can have a little income, many families in the village will not have to go hungry.

The village head immediately summoned the people in the village, and ordered ten men who are usually down-to-earth and hard-working people in the village.

Working in the village, you can get thirty copper coins a day, and you don’t have to travel that far. This is more than going to the town to earn more money, and it doesn’t take so much hard work, so the village chief chose ten copper coins. The whole family is very happy.

"Don't worry if you are not selected. When the Gu family needs someone later, you should look for them in our village." The village chief reassured everyone.

"Village chief, if you need someone, you must inform us."

"Okay, go back and work hard, and the important person must notify everyone."

It took half a day, and the village head helped to find all the people.

When their house was built, they set up a small workshop on the side, and now this workshop just comes in handy.The recipe for making cakes is in their own hands. They are responsible for making the main parts in the front, and making cakes in molds and baking moon cakes can be handed over to the invited people.

In the following half a month, the people in the small workshop were busy from morning to night, and the newly made moon cakes were sent out from the village, sent to various prefectures and shipped to various places for sale.

Fortunately, autumn is gradually coming after August. The weather is not as hot as before, and the mooncakes can be kept longer.However, to be on the safe side, Li Wen still spent a little time dealing with this anti-corrosion problem, reducing various factors such as the deterioration of the mooncakes during transportation.

In fact, the best thing is to wait until their Yang Family Bakery grows bigger and can open their shops in various places in Dacheng.

This year, before the mid-autumn day on August [-]th, the mooncakes at Yang's Cake Shop became very popular.

As soon as August is over, it will be Mid-Autumn Festival in a blink of an eye.

The Li family's workshop has been busy until the afternoon of this day, and the fire in the stove is gradually extinguished, and there is still a wisp of white smoke slowly rising from the chimney.

Today's Li Shanshan is no longer the farmer who could only bury his head in the fields three years ago, but has become the owner of Li's Bakery Shop, opened a bakery shop in the town, and opened a workshop in the village when he came back. , Many people from the village were invited to work.

In addition to the ten men hired in the front, the workshop has hired more than a dozen people to do things one after another due to lack of manpower. Li Shanshan manages all these people in an orderly manner by himself.

As soon as the freshly made mooncakes come out of the oven every day, Li Shanshan will arrange for someone to deliver them to the shop in the town. The business in the shop has always been good, except for the ones reserved for sale in the shop, the rest are orders from various companies.

The mooncakes were delivered to the shop, then distributed from the shop to various houses, and delivered to the pier for shipment. These trivial matters had to be arranged by Li GuGu alone.But no matter how busy he is every day, this man has to send his son to the academy in person, and then pick him up when he's done. In Li Shanshan's heart, saving money is ranked behind his son.

Until the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the last batch of mooncakes was finished, Li Shanshan came over to pay the men who worked, "For more than half a month, everyone has worked hard. There is no need to ship today, and we will leave work early today." , Let everyone go home for the festival."

"After a while, everyone will go to the workshop to collect wages, and each will take two mooncakes home for the festival."

Today is the last batch of deliveries in a hurry, and it happens to be off work for everyone to go back for the holidays, but the people who delivered the goods to the town can't come back until later.

Hearing Li Shanshan's words, everyone became happy and said that the boss is a good person.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I just don’t know if the workshop still makes moon cakes. Someone asked about this moon cake worriedly, “Master, I want to ask, will we still make moon cakes tomorrow? We all still use it.” Don't use it for work?"

"Do it, everyone will go to work as usual tomorrow morning. Let's change the pancakes tomorrow. The workshop here may not be closed until next month, and I will notify everyone in advance when the time comes." Li Shanshan remembered I forgot to tell everyone about this. Before the fifteenth day, they made moon cakes, but after fifteenth they made other pancakes.

When the river freezes in October, there will be no boats on this river, and the goods cannot be transported out. At that time, the workshop may have to close, and it will not open for business until next year. I will have to talk to my son about this matter later. Speaking of which, Li Shanshan was a little uncertain in his heart, this man is now used to discussing everything with his son.

"Okay, we will definitely come early tomorrow."

“We must come over 0”

Everyone is very worried that after the fifteenth day, the workshop will stop making pancakes, and then they will not be able to come to work, and if they don't work, they will not be paid.Now they come to work for thirty copper coins a day, and if they work for a full month, it will be almost one tael of silver.

You must know that most people’s family’s income is only two taels of silver a year, and if they work here for two months, it is worth the family’s income for a year.

So I heard that there are still jobs in the future, and I can do another month of work next month, so everyone is very happy.

The academy had a two-day holiday for the festival, and Li Wen was at home today, just in time to help his father calculate the wages of the workers and help his father pay the wages to the workers.Seeing the little brother who came to collect the wages, Li Wen smiled and said, "Brother Sanming, are you counting the wages, right? If there is no problem, put your fingerprint here."

Most of the people in the village have never read a book, and they can't even sign their own names, so every time they are paid their wages, they get their fingerprints stamped directly.

"Don't count, don't count, it's definitely true." Li Sanming took the money for half a month's work, put it in his arms, stamped a handprint on the paper, and left cheerfully.

The people behind lined up one by one to get their wages and get their fingerprints stamped.

After receiving half a month's wages, each of them returned with two mooncakes in their hands, five mooncakes for one, ten pancakes for two.With such a big pancake, a whole family can have a mouthful if one is broken open.

The boss is generous and righteous, and the people they follow to work can also have a bite to eat, so those who are selected by the village to work know that they are lucky, which is easier than them going to the dock to do coolies. Take more money.

As for the families that were not selected, you can only envy them. There are still a few families that are not very popular in the village. Don’t you know who you are?

Li Laoer works with his eldest brother's family. He works hard here, but a group of people behind him drag him down. It's just that he is working at his own family. If it was another family, he would have been invited away by his boss.

Li Dahua's natal family is in the same village, and the village chief did not choose Li Dahua's natal brothers to work in the workshop.For this matter, Li Dahua's mother came to the workshop to make trouble, and wanted her son to work in the workshop so that he could get paid. See what kind of person Li Dahua is, her mother and brothers are not much better than her. People who are greedy and insufficient.

In the end, Mrs. Li came out with a few words and rushed away, and everyone in the village laughed in their hearts.

On August [-]th, all the workers in the workshop received their wages and went home to celebrate the festival with the moon cakes they had distributed.Li Wen checked the accounts, only a few people who hadn't come back yet came to collect their wages, so he told his father about it.

"Father knows about this, just let them come to collect their wages when they come back." After everyone left, Li Shanshan closed the door of the workshop and brought his son back home.

The woman sitting in front of the hall was embroidering little shoes with her head bowed, and there was still a finished little hat in the basket.When Li Wen and his father came home, they saw his mother sewing small shoes here. He picked up the hat and compared it on the top of his head, smiling.

Said, "Aniang, this is for my brother, right?"

"Well, yes, this is my brother's. Auntie of the three treasures is ready, and it is in Auntie's room. You can get it yourself and try to see if you can wear it." Sun Yi saw her son holding a small hat Playing, laughing.

It's going to be cold today, and the child is much longer than last year. The clothes and hats worn by the child in the previous year are all smaller this year.Now there is not much work for her to do at home, and while she is still a little free at this time, she rushes to make some clothes for the child.

"Don't worry, what A Niang did is definitely right." Li Wen put his brother's hat back on the basket, and greeted his brother through his A Niang's belly.

I don't know if the little guy in his mother's stomach remembered his voice, every time he heard his voice, he was very excited, and he could feel his brother rolling in his mother's stomach through his belly, Playing around with his brother.

"Aniang, you see, my brother knows that I am an elder brother."

"Yes, my brother knows that Sambo is my elder brother." Sun Yi put the little shoes back in the basket and put them away, then reached out and touched her stomach. The child in her stomach is more active than when she was pregnant with Sambo. This must be a kid

Li Sanbao immediately smiled as if he had picked up gold, and he stopped teasing his younger brother after calling him twice, and had fun with his younger brother after he was born.

In the kitchen, Du Qiulan was cooking. Since their family came, Sun Yi almost didn't need to do the housework. Du Qiulan cleaned up everything inside and out, and he cooked the daily meals.

"Little Tong, you are at home. I will go out for a while and come back." Taking advantage of the time, Li Wen went to his master and let Li Tong play at home.

After pulling the little donkey, Li Wen got on the little donkey and went out.

Li Tong stood behind, looking at the little master who had left, not knowing what he was going to do.

The little donkey has been walking this road often, and the little donkey knows the way, and he is familiar with the road and leads him to his master.Li Wen brought moon cakes and meat for his master, knowing that his master didn't like to go to the village, so he stayed here with his master for a while before going home.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, meat appeared on the tables of many people in Lijia Village. The men who worked in the workshop even brought moon cakes home. With a laugh.

Today is the holiday, Li Lao Er took his mother-in-law and a few maids to his elder brother's house for dinner.

The woman who cooked the rice put the cooked rice on the table, Li Dahua couldn't help swallowing when she saw the meat on the table, "I said that the dishes at Uncle's house will be good today, if not, it will be fine, this is chicken and meat. It’s pork, how can we have such a good dish at home.”

As soon as Li Dahua's words came out, no one in the room spoke to her. Li Dahua's face was embarrassing, and this person didn't care if he was thick-skinned.

"Everyone, sit down and eat." Mrs. Li now dislikes seeing the mother-in-law of the second child's family more and more, and feels bad when seeing people.Now the two sons live and eat separately, and she lives with the old family, and she can't control the second child's house.

Today is the holiday and the two sons' families have a meal together. Li Wang doesn't want to make everyone unhappy, so he doesn't care about this woman.

Two families sit together to eat, and people sit down at a large table.

Li Wen still sat between his grandma and grandma, opposite him was his second uncle's family.As soon as Li Dahua sat down and grabbed the chopsticks, he went to the plate of chicken, picked up a large piece and put it in his mouth, and picked up the second piece with his hands, as if he wanted to starve to death.

"Elder sister, I want to eat meat." Li Wuya couldn't hold it with short hands, so she pulled the elder sister to let the meat be picked up.

"Well, let's eat, slow down" Li Wuya felt ashamed when she saw her mother's appearance, the older girls were sensible, and the sisters lowered their heads and ate their food quietly meal.Except for Li Wuya, the youngest at the dinner table, who asked her sister to bring food from time to time, the sisters did not speak.

There is a lot of food on the table today, even if you don't grab it, everyone will have enough to eat.

Seeing how her second aunt was eating, Sun Yi frowned inwardly. The mother didn't speak, and she couldn't say anything as a sister-in-law, she put a piece of meat in her son's bowl.Li Wen asked her mother to eat his food instead of adding food for him, "What do you want to eat with the three treasures, you can just pick up the three treasures yourself, mother, you can eat yours."

He is so old, and he is not a child, and he has to be served for a meal.

No matter how old the child is, she will always be a child in A Niang's heart.Sun Yi saw that the child could get food by himself, so he ate it by himself.

Li Shanshan took out a jar of wine and had a drink with Li's second brother.

After a few glasses of wine, Li Laoer was a little drunk, talking drunk, "Big brother, you will always be my big brother

"Well, I know." Li Shanshan understood in his heart, and he personally sent Li's second child home when it was over.

After Li Dahua finished eating, she still wanted to take something back from her uncle's house, but she just met her mother-in-law's eyes, she didn't dare to do so, and took a few maids to follow the man home with a displeased face.

Seeing the person leaving, Li Wangshi sighed.

In Dacheng, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the moon god in mid-autumn. When the moon comes out at night, many families place fruits and kneel to the moon outside.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival has passed...