"Listen, kid, we two have no right to cry after we come to this world. We have nothing but each other. Not only must we live strong, but we must also live better than most and not embarrass our world.
Now is just the beginning. We will encounter a lot of unlucky things in the future, more than we can imagine. You were right before. As long as we get to the city, our life will be ten times or a hundred times better than now, but we can't escape.
"Escape is cheating. I am a teacher, and what I hate most is cheating. Since fate allows us to do it again, we will do it again. A hard life is not necessarily pain, it may be wealth."
Yun Er raised his face full of tears and roared at Yun Zheng: "Can't you say something humane? At this time, you still want to deceive me? You almost died today!"
Yun Zheng sat down helplessly, looked Yun Er in the eyes and said solemnly: "I'm sorry, I'm used to talking like that, please be patient, we have no choice but to fall to this point, without fame, we run away
If you live far away, you will become a fugitive. I used to think that the Song Dynasty was a commercial society where everyone was free, but now I find that is not the case.
Unless we become robbers, nothing will be so good. Tonight I met a leopard and I chopped a hatchet on its head. Although it was less than two minutes from the beginning to the end, the danger was definitely not as bad as the outside.
humane.
But I didn’t lie to you when I said something just now, that is, we brothers must live a prosperous life. My brother and I were rejected by others for having an ugly wife in my last life. This time, I plan to marry a beautiful woman. I have a bad character.
We don’t want those who don’t know how to live.
If we want to live like this, the only way is to take the scientific examination. Otherwise, even if we brothers are rich, we will be treated like pigs and slaughtered. How can this be done? We have to join the ranks of officials no matter what. The only way to join the ranks of scholar-bureaucrats is
Only if we belong to a higher class, we brothers can live a good life and live up to our experience of coming to the Song Dynasty."
"Does your back still hurt?"
"Nonsense, why doesn't it hurt? My body is made of flesh and blood, not wood. Hurry up and wipe off the blood to see if the injury is serious." Yun Zheng patted Yun Er's little head gently.
Unbutton your clothes and let him look at your back.
"I thought you weren't in pain and still had time to cook and eat, but you were fine, so I made a big cut. It wasn't deep and it stopped bleeding. Such a wound will heal in five or six days." Yun Erzai
Yun Da wiped off the blood on his back with a clean wet linen cloth, and kept teasing him.
After Yun Zheng finished sewing, the moon had already reached his head. Seeing that Yun Er was sleeping very soundly, he yawned and got into bed. The bed was warm, and sleepiness came over like a tide, completely sweeping him away.
He was drowned.
I habitually get up when the sky has just turned white. It was still sunny last night, but why did it start to rain again in the morning? Yun Zheng is not ordinary worried. Today, he has to divide the earthwork for the laborers on the construction site. This is what Liu Dutou promised yesterday.
Yes, he couldn't regret it. When he thought of working in the cold wind and rain, he was very reluctant to leave the house.
Xanthium has come out from home. The work on the construction site is not tight these days, so the laborers can go home. They only need to work for another fifteen days, and then they can go home, and the labor is considered finished.
Yun Zheng finally understood why these people had to do labor every year. A group of stupid soldiers were modifying their city defenses according to their own idiotic ideas. It was said that the imperial court issued formation diagrams every year, and they followed the formations.
The nearby mountains have been riddled with holes, and a mudslide in spring or summer will destroy all last year's efforts.
Yunzheng can responsibly say that except for the fortress on Mount ** this year, other places will have to be dug again next year because some places are already collapsing.
The Xiangu family owns an ox cart, which can be considered a strong laborer. This strong laborer needs to be paid. The old patriarch and his family originally only had to send the ox cart up and it would be considered as a labor force, but the old patriarch was reluctant to pay twenty coins a day.
Because of the lack of wages, his strong son had to dig dirt at the construction site.
Yunzheng continued to be in a daze while sitting on the bullock cart. Xanthium was reluctant to sit in the bullock cart, so he ran barefoot on the ground. When passing by the big blue stone, Yun Zheng took a casual look and found three birds carved on the stone.
There was also a small piece of rag pressed with a stone next to it. Needless to say, Lai Ba and the others had shot three pheasants and were about to ask Yun Zheng to replace them with linen cloth. When they saw that the tail of one of the birds was drawn to be very long, Yun Zheng looked at it.
The boy was very happy, they actually caught a golden pheasant, the feathers of this thing are more valuable than the meat.
There are merchants who specialize in collecting feathers in Doushaguan. I heard that gorgeous feathers are very popular in Bianliang City, Tokyo. Some brothels use bird feathers to make colorful clothes, and are preparing to restore Yang Yuhuan's "Dance of Colorful Feather Clothes".
Performed at the Queen Mother's birthday.
This is just a piece of gossip that Yunzheng heard when he was selling pheasants a few times before. I don’t know whether it is true or not, but it is true that the feathers of golden pheasants are very expensive.
When they arrived at the construction site, Liu Dutou pulled Yun Zheng aside mysteriously, winked and said to Yun Zheng: "Boy, you are so lucky, does Yu Fuxuan know?"
"You know, the person who sells jewelry, gold and silver jewelry, does he know what we have to do with him?" Yun Zheng was very surprised. This is a big business. In fact, his jewelry is not sold to locals, but transported through caravans.
Go to Dali country and sell to Dali people. They are famous merchants in Chengdu.
"The shopkeeper of Yufuxuan in Doushaguan has taken a fancy to you. He wants to recruit you as his son-in-law. The person who pulls the strings is the old master. Shopkeeper Tian is in our Doushaguan and is one of the richest families. You just need to change your surname to Tian."
If you succeed, you can work as a clerk in Yufuxuan immediately. When you get married in a few years, you might be the shopkeeper of Yufuxuan in Bean Paste Guan. What a good thing! As long as you change your gender, your brother can still inherit the family legacy. This way
Once you’re here, all your troubles will be gone.”
Yun Zheng looked at Liu Du who was frothing at the mouth and kept silent. Liu Du felt uncomfortable all over his body. His smile slowly disappeared and he became less excited. He sighed and said, "I know you don't
I agree, we have not been together for long, and you are definitely a man of character. This is a good thing for others, but it may be an insult to you. The old master will let me talk to you, if you agree
It’s okay not to mention the rest of this marriage. Now you don’t even ask whether Shopkeeper Tian’s daughter is ugly or beautiful, so I’ll just talk about the rest.
Your affairs are done, the joint guarantee person has been found, and the scholar who recommended you to take the exam has also been found, which is the old master himself. However, the old master wants to test your talent and knowledge, and the days of hard labor are over, how about it?
I, Lao Liu, am pretty reliable in doing things, right?"
"Fortunately, you said what you said next. If you didn't say what happened next, I would have insulted my ancestors because of you. Even if I don't know your friend, Old Liu." Yun Zheng was very satisfied after hearing Liu Dutou's words.