"Misfortunes are caused by bad things and good fortune is celebrated~"
"A piece of jade is not a treasure, an inch of yin is a treasure~"
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In the afternoon of autumn, the clear voice of children reciting came from the thatched cottage in Wuyuan Village backed by a hillside. When the sun was about to set, a young man carrying a small green bamboo bag on his back and wearing a coarse cloth jacket came from the path on the side of the hillside.
He walked out quickly.
After a few steps, he walked to the fence gate of the thatched cottage. The boy's complexion was yellow, but his facial features were straight. He looked about twelve years old. He took off the bamboo basket and put it on the ground. He walked aside, leaned against the wall with his arms folded, and looked at
Looking towards the hillside, a pair of black and white eyes were revealed.
Watching the orange-red sunset gradually approaching the top of the hillside, the young man's lips moved, his voice was almost inaudible, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The boy's name is Wang Li, a child of an ordinary farmer in Wuyuan Village, but in fact his body contains the soul of another world.
He experienced a whole life in that world, and had to work hard to raise his parents. He went to school in that world, and then by chance, he became a bounty hunter wandering on the edge of life and death abroad. Later, he bravely returned to his hometown to marry.
A wife gave birth to a son, and the family was full of children. The time was long, but he also died of old age in peace, but the moment he closed his eyes, he was reborn in this world.
When Wang Li was five years old, his father first took him and his mother to split the family with his grandfather. Then he took all the family assets and said he wanted to go out and start a career, leaving his mother and Wang Li at home to wait for the good news.
In addition, his father also borrowed the coffin book of his grandfather who had worked as an accountant for the village chief for ten years. Strictly speaking, he did not borrow it from his grandfather, but his father tricked his grandmother into playing the emotional card. When the time comes,
When I get rich, I will return the principal to grandpa with interest.
Wang Li felt that it was unreliable at that time, and sure enough, there was no news about his father after he left. After that, Wang Li's family no longer had Ansheng.
As he grew up, Wang Li also wanted to use his knowledge from his previous life to benefit his family, but he faced an embarrassing reality the day he could clearly observe the world with his eyes.
First of all, he didn't know the words in this world, and secondly, he found that the useful knowledge he had mastered in his previous life could only remain at the theoretical level, and he had returned many things to his teacher in his previous life.
If this is considered time travel, then Wang Li has really embarrassed the time travellers. After all, he has heard that in many novels, as long as a time traveler is not making great inventions, he is extremely talented.
Not only could Wang Li not be able to burn glass, but he could not even recite a few well-known poems from his previous life.
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A quarter of an hour later, Wang Li suddenly closed his eyes and silenced his voice, pursed his lips into a thin line, and then there was a louder sound of playing in the thatched cottage than when he was reciting just now.
Wuyuan Village belongs to Chuanling County and is a small village in the western mountains of Yuanqi State. There are countless villages like this here. Children in the village will go to this thatched cottage to study and learn literacy when they reach the age of elementary school.
The exception was Wang Li, because he had already mastered the knowledge learned in this thatched cottage through other means.
This thatched cottage was opened last year by a Mr. Wu. It is said that this Mr. Wu is a man of real talents. He once served as a high-ranking official in the imperial capital, and was also a relative of the county magistrate. However, he got into great trouble later.
After offending a powerful person, one of his legs was broken. In order to avoid disaster and save his life, he hid in the ravine of Wuyuan Village.
"It's time for school! It's time for school!"
"Hehehe...Run! Run!"
A group of children rushed out from the entrance of the thatched cottage and ran towards the path that Wang Li had come from before. They quickly disappeared. After a while, two young men in gorgeous brocade robes slowly walked towards the entrance of the thatched cottage.
They were so thin that they each held a few books in their hands.
"Cousin, hurry up! We will definitely not be able to buy the biggest paper kite if we walk so slowly!"
The thin young man muttered, walked to the door and threw the book in his hand into the bamboo basket that Wang Li had placed on the ground.
"Don't be anxious, cousin, have you forgotten that we already placed a deposit in advance yesterday? Besides, the biggest is not necessarily the best."
The slightly fat young man smiled, squatted down and put the book in his hand into the bamboo basket.
Different from the thin boy, this fat boy arranged his and his cousin's books neatly when putting away the books. After arranging the books, he stood up and took out a fist-sized bag from his waist and took out twenty
A copper plate.
The eyes of the thin young man on the side immediately widened, he glanced at Wang Li who did not open his eyes, and whispered close to him: "Cousin, according to the rules, shouldn't I give him sixteen coins?"
"Usually it's indeed sixteen cents."
The fat boy looked at Wang Li, who had not opened his eyes, and continued, "But today, the teacher has given us two more homework assignments for our brothers."
"Who in the entire Chuanling County doesn't know that our Qin family is the most disciplined, so we have to pay more."
"But this way my pocket money won't be enough to buy little girl a candy figure tomorrow. She won't pay attention to me if I don't buy a candy figure."
The skinny young man had a bitter look on his face and clasped his fingers with a distressed expression. Seeing Wang Li still there with his eyes closed and concentrating, he rolled his eyes, crossed his cousin in two steps, and reached out to meet him as if he was familiar with it.
He touched Wang Li's shoulder and said with a wink, "Brother Li, do you think there is some discussion on this business today?"
Wang Li opened his eyes, turned his head, stared at the thin boy with his dark eyes, looked at him several times, suddenly smiled and said: "Okay, actually I also have something to discuss with you two. Thanks to the two of you in the past six months,
The young masters are willing to take care of my business. As long as the two young masters are willing to do me a small favor, I can give them a discount for their homework reference before this year's provincial examination."
The smile on the thin boy's face disappeared instantly. He let go and retreated behind his cousin, closing his mouth tightly as if he didn't want to speak anymore.
The fat boy shook his head slightly. He weighed the copper plate in his hand with his chubby hands, making a series of dinging sounds, and said nonchalantly: "I wonder what kind of difficulty brother Li has encountered?"
The fat boy's name is Qin Hong, the eldest son of the county magistrate of Chuanling County. The one next to him is Wu Yu, the nephew of the county magistrate. The two are cousins.
Wang Li was sure that there was something wrong with the two brothers being sent to study in a thatched cottage in this remote mountain village. He had been in business for half a year, and he had made many insinuations, but the brothers' mouths seemed to be welded shut, and they did not reveal any information.
I just said that my family felt that Mr. Wu in the thatched cottage was more capable than the men in the county. He had been a high official in the imperial capital and was Wu Yu's uncle. We were all relatives, so we felt more at ease in teaching him.
There is nothing special about the young man named Wu Yu, but Qin Hong, a fat little man, is very organized and has a mature attitude.
In his own words, the Qin family is very disciplined in doing things.
"It's not a problem."
Wang Li's smile remained unchanged. He looked at Qin Hong and said, "I would like to ask Mr. Qin to help me find out about my father within his ability."
"Your father?"
Qin Hong's eyes moved slightly. He had heard about Wang Li's family.
After Wang Li lost contact with his father, his mother Wang went to the town to report to the government, but after a series of analyses, the town government politely asked Wang to prepare to be a widow.
When he and his cousin first came to Wuyuan Village, they became interested in Wang Li. They couldn't help but be interested because Wang Li, a guy who had never been in a thatched cottage, actually opened a business called a cram school in the village.
Later, he felt that Wang Li was powerful.
Qin Hong asked Mr. Wu that when he was ten years old, this guy used a few pieces of pork to get the opportunity to study literature and literacy as a companion to two poor scholars. A month later, he was tutoring for a fee in the village.
In the name of starting school, I started giving extra lessons to young children who had just started school, and the teaching turned out to be quite good. In the end, I started doing business directly in front of the thatched cottage.
The fees are fair and no one is being bullied.
Why do you say this? Qin Hong heard that Wang Li's first tutoring partner was an old butcher in the village who wanted to go to a Taoist temple to practice in another place. In the end, the butcher actually sent a letter home and actually passed the Taoist temple's interpretation test.
Later, by chance, he discovered that his always lazy cousin could actually submit the homework assigned by his teacher on time. When he questioned him, his cousin hesitated and said that he had also asked Wang Li to give him tutoring.
At first, he thought that his cousin would study hard, but when he saw his cousin copying on a piece of paper with "Homework Reference" written on it, he realized the trick.
At that time, Qin Hong's first reaction was that his cousin had been deceived, but he immediately overturned his conclusion because every time his cousin submitted homework, he passed the test with his husband.
He carefully read those "homework references" and found that they were indeed the correct answers. Moreover, unlike his teacher's subtle explanations, all the answers were written in a very easy-to-understand manner.
Qin Hong asked Mr. Wu what he thought of Wang Li, but Mr. Wu only said to let him go.
So he also joined Wang Li's cram school.
After thinking for a moment, Qin Hong evenly took out four copper plates from his hand and put them into the brocade bag. In front of Wang Li, he placed sixteen copper plates in the bamboo house and said, "This is indeed a small favor. I will follow you when I have time."
Father, please mention it."
Wang Li smiled and cupped his hands, saying, "Thank you two young masters."