The Road to the Imperial Examinations of Farmers in Ancient Times

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Wen got up and began to bathe and burn incense, and then went to the ancestral hall with his parents and grandmother, his younger brother Li Haopeng, and his second uncle's family. The patriarchs and elders of the Li family were already waiting there here.

Today, the family will open the ancestral hall for him again, offer incense to the ancestors, and tell the ancestors that he is the number one scholar in high school.After he was selected as a scholar, he would open an ancestral hall every few years to burn incense for his ancestors, and told his ancestors that he had passed high school XX, so this was not the first time Li Wen came to offer incense to his ancestors. no stranger.

"...I hope that the ancestors will know from the spring, and bless the Li family to be more and more prosperous, with many descendants, children and grandchildren, everyone is good at reading, and talents will emerge in large numbers from generation to generation." After the lengthy prose, the patriarch informed Li's family There was news of a number one scholar in our family. Finally, I prayed that the ancestors would bless their Li family to prosper and prosper, and there would be a few more scholars.

Standing in front, Li Wen lowered his head, half closed his eyes, and listened to the patriarch's prose read for half an hour, which made him drowsy.

The patriarch raised his voice and shouted, "Next, Li Wen, the eighth-generation descendant of the Li family, will come forward to offer incense to the ancestors."

Hearing the patriarch call his name, Li Wen gave a jolt and woke up. He didn't know if he fell asleep just now, and he didn't know what the patriarch was reading.Seeing his son's appearance, Li Shanshan suspected that his son was about to fall asleep standing up, so he reached out to touch his son.

"Yes." Li Wen took the incense from the patriarch's hand, stepped forward to offer incense to the ancestors with a solemn face, put the incense in the incense burner, and retreated to his position just now.After he finished offering incense, the patriarch behind him read the names one by one, and those who read the names went forward to offer incense to the ancestors.

After they finished offering incense and offering sacrifices to their ancestors, the gate of the ancestral hall was closed again.

After opening the ancestral hall and paying homage to the ancestors, Li Wen and his father helped his grandmother, his mother's brother, and his second uncle's family to go up the mountain together to burn incense for his dead grandfather.

"...Our grandson has won the first prize. If you know it underground, you will be happy too. Our grandson will go to the capital to be an official in the future. You, a grandfather, know it underground. You must bless our grandson with a successful official career in the future and step by step." Li Mrs. Wang became a widow when she was young, and she lived a miserable life for the first half of her life. It was not until after she was born that life at home got better day by day.

The grandson passed the examination all the way from a scholar to the champion, and the old lady was delighted that the grandson was the champion in high school.

The old lady reached out to touch the tombstone standing in front of the grave, tears glistened in the old man's eyes.

"Grandma, don't worry, grandpa will be very happy if he knows from below." Li Wen stepped forward and held the old lady's hand, comforting the old lady silently, he didn't want the old lady to always be there for the dead grandpa And feel sad.

Li Shanshan and Li's second brother went up to offer incense.

My father was gone when they were very young, and his mother took their brothers to live. Li Shanshan was the eldest of the family. After his father died, he helped his mother bear the burden of the family.In the past, he helped A Niang to take care of his younger brothers and sisters, until the younger brothers and younger sisters grew up and married one by one, he himself married a wife and had children, and then became responsible for taking care of his wife and children.

Now that their life is getting better, Li Shanguan knows that it is all thanks to his elder son, who has been giving advice to the family since he was five years old. Their family started a small business, and later it grew bigger. , and pulled more people to do it together.

The three workshops they have now opened in Lijia Village support the entire Lijia Village. It can be said that the life of the entire Lijia Village is so good because of his son.Li Shanshan always felt that his child must be the reincarnation of a lucky star, so that he would bring good luck to their family, their entire family, and the entire Li family village.

After the two of them finished offering incense to the old man, they went down from the mountain.

In the yard of their home, pigs and sheep were being slaughtered early in the morning. The villagers from the entire Lijia Village came to help with work. The women were busy in the kitchen, and the men brought tables and benches from their homes, one by one. The food is set up outside, the children help with the dishes, everyone can find their own things to do.

If someone in the village holds a banquet, no one in the village will cook, and the whole family will go to that family's house to have dinner together

The Li Family Courtyard held a banquet every few years. The first time Li Sanbao was selected as a scholar, then he was selected as a Juren, and finally he was awarded the No. [-] Scholar in high school.There were smiles and joy on everyone's faces. There was a champion in their Lijia Village. As people in Lijia Village, they all followed suit.

"Brother Zhao, if you feel bored staying in the courtyard, why don't you go to the mountains to play?" There are so many people in the family today, it is unrealistic to keep these soldiers in the small courtyard at the back, so Li Wen asked Zhao Xiangyi Do they want to go to the mountains to play.

They are surrounded by mountains, and hunting up the mountains is also a good pastime. With the skills of these soldiers, as long as they don't go deep into the mountains and encounter ferocious beasts, they can hunt roe, deer, rabbits and pheasants at will.

Looking at the mountains not far away, Zhao Xiangyi felt that Li Liuyuan's proposal was good.

"I'm busy at home today, so I won't go up to play with you for the time being. After a few days, when my home is not so busy, I will go up the mountain with you." Li Wen asked someone to send a message to Academician Qu and Mr. Cai of the academy, inviting the gentlemen to come over for dinner, presumably there may be many guests coming to the door today.

"See how much prey you can bring back today. Let's add more food tonight. But don't bring back too many, we just need to eat enough. The weather is hot, and the meat will stink if left for a long time."

It's not like winter now, if you hunt more prey and save it, you can eat it all winter.But it is summer now, and the prey will stink the next day when they are brought back, unless they are alive and can be raised, and the dead ones must be disposed of on the same day.

Zhao Xiangyi nodded. When they were at the border, the army was short of food, so they often went to the nearby mountains to hunt for some prey for tooth sacrifice.When the soldiers in the yard heard that their little general was going to take them to hunt in the nearby mountains, they all became excited immediately.

Li Wen asked people to prepare a lot of bows and arrows, but they were all ordinary bows. They were definitely not as good as Zhao Xiangyi's dark black bow. Come on, let’s get you something nice.”

"What good things?" Xie Yunfei was curious about what good things Li Liuyuan would give them.

"Secret." Li Wen only gave Xie Yunfei two words, but didn't tell him.

Zhao Xiangyi didn't ask any questions, but looked at Li Liuyuan with his eyes.

When Zhao Xiangyi and Xie Yunfei went hunting with a group of soldiers, Li Wen went outside to help his father receive the guests at home.The school in their village had been built long ago, but they couldn't find a suitable teacher. A good teacher didn't want to come to the school in such a small village. This matter has been delayed until now.

The school has been built, but the children in the village still have no way to go to school without a teacher.

Hearing the village chief mention the matter of their village school, and after listening to everyone's words, Li Wen had two good candidates in his mind, but he didn't know if they would like to come to their village to be a little teacher, he said , "I have two suitable candidates here, but I don't know if they are willing to come to our village to be teachers. I will ask them later. If they are willing, invite them to come to our village to be teachers and teach children to read." Literacy must be possible.”

"Okay, okay, I knew Sanbao would have an idea." The village head laughed happily when he heard this.

When I went to the ancestral hall today, Li Wen also saw the stone tablet standing at the entrance of the ancestral hall. He read the family and village rules on it one by one, and there were rules on the village rules.

In fact, the above rules are basically in line with the ideas of people in this world, but for some punishments, Li Wen felt that they were not humane enough, so he put forward his own views, "The state owns the state law, and every family has family rules. , Every family should have their rules, but our village rules and family rules cannot go beyond the national law, because once it goes beyond the national law, we are committing a crime.”

In fact, the rules listed above are very detailed, but there are some violations of village rules and family rules, and the punishment endangers personal life, which violates the national law.Rules should be established, but they should also abide by the laws of the country.

Dacheng State has the national law of Dacheng State, but the national law of Dacheng State is not very sound and comprehensive. When Li Wen read the Dacheng Law, he found many problems.Of course, in essence, the existence of national laws is to restrain and regulate the people and protect the interests of the rulers, so there are naturally many unfair phenomena in Dacheng's national laws.

Of course, even in modern times, modern laws and regulations are not very sound and comprehensive, and there are many unfairness.

Now he can't change Dacheng's national laws, but Li Wen put forward his different views on the village rules of Lijia Village and the family rules of their Li family. Discuss with the elders and the elders of the clan, and come up with reasons that convince and agree with them.

Just came back the day before yesterday, Li Wen didn't have time to sit down with the village head and the patriarchs to talk, just today they are free, Li Wen sat with everyone for a long time, to understand the situation of their village, and knew that during his absence Inside, great changes have taken place in their Li family village.Of course, all of this is not due to his credit, but the efforts of everyone in this village to have their Lijia Village today.

After listening to Li Wen's words, the village chief and the patriarch discussed with the elders of the clan, the village chief said,

"I have written down what you said, Sanbao, and I will find a craftsman to re-engrav the two steles later."

The elders in the village still call Li Wen "Three Treasures" affectionately as before.

Li Wen was more used to being called by his nickname by his grandfathers and uncles in the village than others calling him by his nickname. When he returned to Lijia Village, there was no such thing as Mr. Li, only him, Li Sanbao.As for the younger ones, they should be called his elder brother, and those whose seniority is lower than him should be called according to their seniority, according to the rules of the village.

Hearing what the village chief said, knowing that they had listened to his suggestion, Li Wen nodded.