The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

As soon as the [-]th day of August passed, the dew air became colder at night, and frost began to fall.

Every year around this time, there are fewer and fewer cargo ships traveling between the north and the south, and fewer and fewer bakeries are shipped from the bakery. Li Shanshan dismissed some of the people in the workshop, leaving only a few people with good craftsmanship and good people. Come down and do things diligently.The rest of the people settled their wages and asked everyone to go home first.

Those who were dismissed must have complained in their hearts, but Li Shanshan said this in advance. After September, the workshop will not need so many people to work, and the workshop will be closed later.

Li Shanshan explained clearly to everyone patiently, and only said that after the spring of next year, the shop will be fully booked, and then invite everyone to come back to do things.

Not all the people in the village are foolish people. After all, they understand in their hearts. They know that the owner doesn't need so many people to do things, and they don't want to stay.The few men who were left behind to work all laughed in their hearts, it seems that it is right to be diligent at ordinary times.

"Father, let's do what we can. Don't take too much burden on your heart. We have the ability to bear as much burden as possible." Li Wen comforted his father when he saw that his father was in a low mood.

"Father you said understands in his heart." After half a year of experience, Li Shanshan's whole body has been reborn.

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If this man used to only care about this small family, his wife and son, now he also began to think about his family and the villagers in their entire Li family village.

Li Wen was actually thinking about this in his heart, a small shop in their family was at most to make their lives better, and it was impossible to support a village with their bakery shop.The biggest reason for this is that the transportation in this world is inconvenient. It takes too long for the goods to travel from one place to another, and it takes too long. In addition, the food may be improperly preserved during transportation, and it is likely to be on the way A metamorphosis has occurred.

This place is different from the modern society. The transportation and food storage in modern society are already perfect. Those who run food enterprises can feed hundreds of people casually without any problem.

But here they have more issues to consider, and now that the temperature has dropped, the cakes from their shop can only be transported to other places. If things deteriorate within a few days in summer, they will definitely not be able to be shipped out. .

So this question really needs to be thought about carefully, what is the best thing that is easy to transport, low cost, high profit, can make more money, if you want to drive a village, or even the entire industry of Qingping Town The kind that is possible, in fact, Li Wen has a few ideas in his mind, and he can try it next year.

The two of them sat in the living room for a while, neither of them spoke.

Sun Yi looked at the two of them and couldn't help laughing.

Seeing that his mother was smiling, Li Wen turned his head and gave his father a blinding look, and said, "Father, let's not be in a hurry, take your time, and we will talk about it in the spring of next year."

As soon as he heard his son's words, Li Shanguan knew that his son must have an idea in his heart.

The father and son looked at each other, and Li Wen looked at his father without saying anything.

The weather is getting colder every day, and people's clothes are getting thicker and thicker. Fortunately, the new house built by the family can't blow the cold wind inside.

The days of studying in winter are the most difficult. Every morning, you have to get up from the warm bed, which is an extreme test of your willpower.He has already graduated, why should he live such a hard life of studying?Sometimes Li Wen really wanted to go on strike and quit reading.

But there is no way, he still has to get up early every morning to go out and go to the academy to study.

On a cold night, it snowed quietly outside. When people woke up the next day and opened the door, they saw a piece of silver outside, and then they knew that it snowed last night.Similar to previous years, it began to snow in October.

At this time, the fireplace at home comes in handy. The family members don’t know what the stove is for. When the stove is lit and the whole house is warmed up, everyone knows that the stove has such a purpose. Everyone feels very happy. surprise.

The only one who was not surprised was Li Wen.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law was not quite right these few days, Li Shanguan heard his mother say that her daughter-in-law might be about to give birth. This careful man went to the town and invited the midwife Wen to come and live at home. When it will be born, there is no need to go outside to find Mrs. Wen.

"Hey..." Today's stomachache is a bit different, Sun Yi hastily stretched out her hand to support the wall, maybe she is going to give birth.

"Ma'am, are you going to have a baby?" Fortunately, there are people at home. As soon as Du Qiulan entered the door from the outside, she knew that she might be going to give birth when she saw the young lady, so she hurriedly shouted. Help the person into the house with his hands.

"Hurry up, go to the town and call the master back." Du Qiulan went out and asked the man to call the master back.

Li Tian let out a oh, and ran outside. It was still snowing outside at the moment, and this man didn't know it was cold, so he lowered his head and ran to the town.

On the way back, Li Shanshan saw Li Tian who was rushing to the town. After asking, he found out that his wife was about to give birth, and the two of them were busy rushing back home.

''Wow……,'

There was a loud cry of a baby.

"Is this... born?" Li Shanshan just stepped into the house when he heard the cry of the baby.

asked.

"Yes, yes, my lord, this is my wife's birth."

When Li Wang came out of the house, Li Shanshan stepped forward and asked, "Aniang, did Xiao Yi give birth?"

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"Yes, yes, it was born, it was born, a big fat grandson was born." Li Wangshi smiled, and when he saw his son, he was about to rush in, and he pulled him back in a hurry, and said, "You just now Come back from the outside, you are covered in cold air, you go to the stove to warm up, and there are still dirty things in the house that have not been cleaned up, you will go in later."

"Oh, aunt, I know." The tall man suddenly smiled like a fool, Li Shanshan spun around in front of the door of the house, and ran to the stove to warm up.Seeing that the fire was not strong enough, he threw several pieces of firewood into it, and the house became warmer immediately.

At this time, Li Wen was still studying in the academy, so he didn't know that his aunt had given birth.

In winter, the academy ends early at the end of Shenshi, and his father came to pick him up after school. His father told him that his mother had given birth, and Li Wen only knew that his mother had given birth to a little brother for him, "Hey hey hey ..."

The appearance of the father and son smirking is a bit similar.

When he got home, Li Wen knew that he ran to the fireplace to warm himself up before going to his mother's room.Sun Yi was waking up at this moment, the child was full and fell asleep on the bed, the childbirth went smoothly, and the child was born not long after a stomachache.

"Aniang." Li Wen went into his aunt's room, saw his aunt, and also saw the little brother beside his aunt.

''Sambo is back from school. Seeing her son coming in, Sun Yi waved to him and said, "Come and see my brother."What Sanbao said was right, Aniang had a little brother in her stomach, and Aniang gave birth to a little brother for Sanbao. "

"Auntie." Li Wen was feeling a little scared at this moment, but also a little expectant. This was the first time he saw his younger brother.He smirked and went to his aunt's bed, and saw the little baby wrapped in a small quilt sleeping next to his aunt, with thick black hair and red skin, just like a little monkey.

Brother doesn't seem very good-looking?

"What's so ugly about my younger brother? Didn't you also look like this when you were a child?" Sun Yi said a little dumbfounded when she heard her son's words.

Oops, I accidentally said what was in my heart, and let his mother hear it.

Li Wen covered his mouth, chuckled, and said, "Mother, I was obviously prettier than him when I was young."

In fact, if you look closely at his younger brother, he isn't very ugly. From his facial features, he looks a bit like his father?

"When you were born when you were a child, you were skinny, so you didn't look good 3" Sun Yi couldn't help tearing down her son's stage. It was indeed when the eldest son was born. At that time, life at home was hard and there was nothing to eat. To work, but also tired.I still remember that she was about to give birth at that time, and she still went to work in the field.

When the eldest son was born at that time, she had a stomachache from the evening of the previous day, and the pain continued until the next morning before giving birth to the child, and she almost died.Fortunately, the son was born smoothly and raised so much. Thinking of those things in the past, Sun Yi felt a little emotional.

Seeing his son wanting to reach out to touch his younger brother but not daring, Sun Yi took his son's hand to touch the younger son, and said, "Come on, Sambo touches my younger brother."

"Hey..." Li Wen touched his younger brother's small face, and then shook his little hand, "Aniang, my brother is so small

It's really small, it's the first time he's seen such a small child, like a kitten.

"You were like this when you were young, and you will grow up if you are raised. You see that you are so old now." This stupid son, Sun Yi didn't stop loving the older one just because she said that the younger one was born. The older son was in her heart. It will never be the same.

When he came back, Li Wen stayed with his aunt in the room for a while, and also looked at his younger brother. When Aunt Du brought soup and rice into the room for his aunt, Sun Yi sat by the bed to eat.Li Wen crouched by the bed and looked at his younger brother for a while, the little guy's mouth wriggled a few times and then began to hum.

"Mother, mother..." Li Wen panicked when he saw the little guy woke up, and looked at his mother eagerly.

, asking what to do.

"Eldest young master, young master is hungry." Du Qiulan, who was at the side, laughed when she saw this, and hugged the young master by her waist.Sun Yi took the youngest son and said to the eldest son, "My brother is hungry and needs to breastfeed." It seemed that he was about to open his clothes and prepare to feed the youngest son.

"Oh, mother, you can breastfeed my brother, I'll go out first." Seeing this, Li Wen hurriedly escaped from his mother's room.

Even his own mother, Li Wen was embarrassed to watch his mother nurse his younger brother in front of him, no wonder he was embarrassed.Knowing that his sister-in-law gave birth to another big fat boy for his brother, Li's second son asked his wife to catch two old hens from the house.Li Dahua was muttering in her heart, if it is born, it will be born, why should I catch two chickens and give them to their family? !Despite her reluctance, Li Dahua was a little afraid of her man now, so she brought two chickens to the door of her uncle's house and sent them over.

The daughter-in-law gave birth to another fat boy, which was the happiest thing for Li Wang. She had been looking forward to it for so many years before her daughter-in-law gave birth to another fat grandson.

It was a joyous event for everyone in their family to welcome a new baby into their family.For his father and mother, they had an extra son, his grandmother had an extra grandson, and for Li Wen, since then, he had an extra little brother.

No.80—Chapter Year

It has been snowing heavily for a few days, and the world outside is silvery white, covered in silver, and the branches are covered with snow.

After the twelfth lunar month, the academy also began to have a long vacation at this time every year.

It is a very happy thing for Li Wen to be able to stay in bed for a while in this cold weather without having to go out to the academy to study early in the morning!Now his daily task is to tease the baby besides reading.

The little baby who landed is always in the wind, and looks different every day. From being so small, it has grown into the fat baby it is today. It looks like the Fuwa in the New Year pictures. It is so cute that anyone who sees it wants to hug it.

After giving birth to the youngest son in this birth, Sun Yi raised her body in the house for a full month.

Now the life at home is good, the food is good, and I drink good soup and water every day. After giving birth, Sun Yi has gained a lot of weight, her complexion is rosy, and her complexion looks better than before.After the birth of this baby, she had enough milk, and the baby she fed was fat and white, with cut arms and thighs.

The child was too young to see the wind, and Sun Yi took the child out of the house to play in the hall outside after the child's full moon.It's too cold outside the house to take the children out, they always stay at home.

As soon as the firewood was lit in the fireplace at home, the whole house was warmed up, and they didn't need to wear too many clothes in the house and were not afraid of the cold.

Now at home on vacation, Li Wen helps his mother take care of his younger brother every day.

"Li Haopeng, give me a smile." Smelling the scent of milk on the little milk baby, Li Wen likes to hold his brother's little hand or nibble on his little foot.He held the little baby's feet and put them next to his face, rubbed them with his cheeks, and gnawed a couple of bites when he was done, making the baby giggle.

The name Li Haopeng was chosen by his own brother, and his own father even left him the matter of naming, so the boy was named Li Haopeng.

Seeing the elder son getting tired of spending time with the younger son after reading every day, Sun Yi had a happy smile on her face, and she was sewing small clothes with a needle and thread in her hand.Chinese New Year is coming soon, and she wants to make new clothes for her two children and the man at home every day.

"Aniang, why don't you take a break, Aniang, look at how cute my brother is when he smiles." Li Wen saw that his Aunt hadn't put down the needle and thread, so he asked her to take a rest.

Brother is so cute, why can't you bear to look at him?

"Aniang, this is almost finished. I'll just sew this point later. Aniang saw that Xiaopeng has a brother like you to play with, so I don't need Aniang anymore." Sun Yi still stretched her head over to look Glancing at the youngest son, seeing that the youngest son likes to play with his elder brother, his little body trembles when he laughs, she finds it funny again.

Thinking of the moment when the eldest son was thinking, Sun Yi said with a smile, "Sambao, you were very good when you were young, and you only grunted and told Aniang when you were hungry or peed. Our life at that time was not as good as it is now. Well, A Niang's health is not very good, and there is no milk for you to eat, you frown and don't cry when you are hungry, A Niang still remembers the grievance."

Comparing the two sons, the eldest son was so easy to take care of when he was young, he just had to eat enough all day long, and he didn't cry or make noise when he was put on the small bed.

It's not like the little son is very spoiled, crying when no one hugs him, crying when he's hungry, crying after peeing, his little voice is so loud, the whole roof will come down when he howls.

Now after the youngest son is born, the whole family revolves around this kid.

Li Wen lowered his head and rubbed his nose, thinking of the days when he was a baby, he simply didn't want to think about it...

This year's winter seems to have more snow than in previous years. Although it is said that "auspicious snow heralds a good year", this winter is too cold. For some poor people, they don't even have clothes to keep out the cold. This winter I'm afraid it will be very difficult.

After the cold weather, everyone stays indoors, and no one goes out outside.

It had been snowing for a few days and finally stopped today. Taking advantage of the snow, Li Shanshan took a donkey cart to the town to deliver goods.

During the period of years ago, there were quite a few people coming to the cake shop to find the mountain gate. It turned out that some people wanted to order pancakes in their New Year's house, so they asked them to order pancakes from Li's bakery.

The bean sprouts of their family are also very good. At this time of the year, there are not many fresh fruits and vegetables to eat. Their bean sprouts are very popular as soon as they come out. All the restaurants in the town, large and small, order from them.The batch of bean sprouts planted earlier can be produced, and Li Shanshan will send the bean sprouts to various restaurants by the way, and move the extra bean sprouts to the town to sell, and he can sell as many as he has.

Years ago, there was a lot of work, and Li Shanshan hired a few more guys to do things. Those who are not afraid of hard work and are willing to work, and who are not afraid of hard work and work with him, can also earn a little more money for the new year.

Although life is hard, but there is hope, so no matter how hard it is, it is worth it.

The snow in the past few days was too heavy, the road to the town was not smooth, and there was a lot of snow, the road was difficult to walk.Li Shanshan pulled the donkey in front, and several men pushed the cart behind, and it took a long time to deliver the goods to the town.

When the goods arrived in the town, there were still shop assistants watching the shop. They first went to the shop to order the goods, and then delivered the goods to restaurants and various houses one by one.

Everyone was busy all day, and when it was getting dark in the afternoon, a group of people walked back to the village on the snow.

"It's cold outside, you're back, come here to warm up by the fire and drink a bowl of hot water." Sun Yi saw the man back home, and hurriedly poured hot water for others to drink.Li Shanshan took off his outer coat, stood in front of the fire to warm his hands, took the bowl from his wife, blew on it, and drank slowly.

After drinking a bowl of hot water, the whole body warmed up.

"Father, are the goods out today?" Li Wen hugged his brother in his arms, the boy was warm and soft, better than any hand warmer, he couldn't put it down even if he hugged his brother.

"It's over, I still owe some, and I will send it over again tomorrow.

"Does Xiaobao want to be a father?" Li Shanshan stretched out his hand to bring the youngest son over after not seeing him for a whole day, holding his neck with one hand and his buttocks with the other, lifting him up.The boy was hugged in his father's hand, staring at his calf, and kicking very vigorously.

"You two are here for dinner."

"Just come."

Now the dinner was ready at home, Sun Yi went to the kitchen to help bring the dishes, and the family sat down to eat together.

Li Tian's family can't eat at the same table with the host's family. The three of them eat at the low table in the kitchen. They can eat something oily and watery with whatever the host's family eats, and they can eat three meals a day to fill their stomachs.

Seeing that their son's body is getting better, and his little face is becoming fleshy day by day, now he can be a book boy for the young master, and he can read and write by his side, this is something they never dared to imagine before .Both the husband and wife know that they are following a good master, so they are more attentive in doing things, and remind their son from time to time to do things with the eldest and young master's heart.

After eating, it was dark outside.

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In the small year, worship the Kitchen God, sweep the dust, and clean the courtyard.

Once the new year is over, it will be the new year. One year goes by so quickly, and it will be another year in the blink of an eye.

The New Year is a big festival for them. Every year on the day of the New Year, every family will take out the best dishes in the house, cook them, and cook them together. The whole family will eat together around the pot, and the whole family can eat A full meal.For children, Chinese New Year means that there is food to eat, and children have joyful smiles on their faces.

The old year is gone, and the new year is coming. The adults all hope that the new year will be smooth and rainy, and the harvest in the field will be good, so that their lives will be better.

This year, the pig butchers in the village killed a pig and sold it at the head of the village. Many people in the village went to buy a piece of meat with copper coins.During the Chinese New Year this year, many people in Lijia Village put meat on the dining table. Years ago, they worked in the workshop and got wages. They will also have a good year this year.

During the Chinese New Year, Li's family went to the uncle's house to cook, and early in the morning, Li's family took his mother-in-law and a few maids to help.

Now without the discipline of her mother-in-law, Li Dahua became more and more lazy, and left everything at home to a few maids on weekdays.But when she came to her uncle now, she didn't dare to act in front of her mother-in-law, she just worked honestly.

Girls in the village start talking about each other when they are fifteen or sixteen years old, and Li Daya is one year older after the new year, and Li Daya will also talk about her in two years.Li Wang knows in her heart that Li Dahua is an unreliable mother. After all, this is also the eldest granddaughter of their Li family.

The previous one was agreed, and it was a good start, so the girls in the back could find a good husband's family.Mrs. Li brought up the matter of her eldest granddaughter talking about her marriage, and said, "After the new year, you are not too young. In two years, you will talk about someone else. Let's see if there is any good family first. I won't be in a hurry when I tell Da Ya about other people in two years.

"Aunt said it." Sun Yi nodded, agreeing with what her mother-in-law said, but after all, the eldest daughter is the daughter of the second uncle's family, and it is not her turn to intervene as a sister-in-law.Let the mother-in-law handle these matters, or else there is the second uncle, and her sister-in-law should just watch over such things.

Hearing grandma mentioning her marriage, Li Daya lowered her head shyly, not daring to speak out.

"Grandmother, isn't my uncle running a shop in the town now, and knows a lot of bosses and people in the town, why don't we let my uncle go and look around and find a big family for Da Ya, and marry her and become a young mistress. "As soon as Li Dahua heard her mother-in-law mentioned Da Ya's marriage, she rolled her eyes and said to her mother-in-law.

"You mother thinks about these nonsense all day long. If you want to teach a few girls to be careful, I will deal with you." Li Wang's face immediately pulled down, and she reprimanded Li Dahua.

Li Dahua shrugged her shoulders, still didn't feel that she was wrong, and whispered there, "You can't be a young mistress, but you can also be a side wife. If you marry well, you can help your natal family. We are parents Live well in the future.”

Li Wang was so angry that he almost threw something at Li Dahua, but Sun Yi quickly stopped her mother-in-law, and frowned at Second Aunt.

In the past, Sun Yi thought that the second aunt was unreliable, but she didn't know that she still had this idea.

"Li Dahua, I'm here today to tell you that although you gave birth to the girls, my mother-in-law is still alive. In the future, you, the mother, will not be able to make decisions about the marriages of the girls. Give me all your thoughts Put it away." It was originally a happy day, but Li Wang lost his temper quite a lot.

Li's second son heard voices outside, and only found out what was going on when he entered the house. He looked back at his mother-in-law with a bad look, and growled, "What are you talking nonsense all day long? Are you still standing there?" What are you doing here, don’t go to work in the kitchen soon.”

Seeing that his man was angry, Li Dahua hurried to the kitchen to work.

Li Wen, who also knew about this matter, was speechless. Seeing his grandma angry, Li Wen coaxed the old lady, "With grandma here to check, the eldest sister will definitely say that she is a good family."

"Why don't we worry about it now, Grandma? Let's make a decision on Eldest Sister's marriage at a later date. This is what Eldest Sister wants to spend with others. When the time comes, let's ask Eldest Sister what she means?"

Li Wen thinks that they don't have to be so anxious to say goodbye to Da Ya. How old is Da Ya? If you put it in modern times or at the age of junior high school, wouldn't it be too young?Also, when talking about marriage to the parties, isn't it necessary to first ask the parties what they mean?Maybe Da Ya has someone she likes in her heart.

He did a lot of ideological work for his grandma, so that the old lady temporarily stopped thinking of seeing her for his elder sister.When he turns back, he will ask his elder sister what she means, at least he must know what his elder sister thinks.

After working for half a day, the food in the kitchen was ready. This year's Chinese New Year meal was cooked by Sun Yi.

When the dinner was ready and served on the table, there were several meat dishes on the table, a large bowl of meat, it was real, and the two families sat down to eat the New Year's Eve dinner together.This is the best year their family has had in so many years, and the most sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner they have eaten.

"You eat, Aunt." Li Wen picked a piece of meat for his Aunt, and Li Xiaoliu fell asleep at the moment, sleeping on the bed in the house, and adults didn't care, they were eating their meal outside.

Sun Yi saw the extra meat in the bowl with a smile on her face, she also put meat in her son's bowl.

Naturally, Li Wen didn't forget about his grandma, and put vegetables in his grandma's bowl.

"Good grandson eat." With his grandson by his side, Li Wangshi finally had a little smile on his face, one good grandson at a time.

The relationship between grandma and grandson is as good as ever, which is enviable.

Li Siya raised her head and stared at her third brother. After moving here from her uncle's house, she saw her third brother less often.Li Siya felt that her relationship with her third brother was not as good as before, which made her a little sad.

What are you looking at me for?Don't eat fast yet.Li Wen noticed that Si Ya was staring at him, and he asked with his eyes.

The New Year's Eve dinner was finished in peace and harmony.

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