The Yun family's house is growing rapidly. Ever since the villagers heard that Yun Zheng said that he would teach the children in the village to read in this house, and that children from any family could come as long as they were willing to go to school and learn to read, they started to participate.
There were obviously more people building houses. In the end, almost all the idle laborers in the village had a hand. The wood for the beams and columns was not dry enough, so the beams could not be built. A few old people insisted on preparing themselves to make coffins.
Dry wood was donated and made into beams and pillars to put on the roof of the Yun family.
People who know carpentry have been working day and night to make furniture, especially the furniture designed by Yunzheng. It is not only beautiful, but also durable. The most indispensable thing in the mountains is wood. Tables made of nanmu do not need to be painted. Just dip a cloth in water.
Wipe it with tung oil a hundred times, and it will automatically turn into a bronze color, shining brightly under the sun. The natural wood grain does not require extra decoration at all.
After Yun Zheng took a look at it, he asked the old patriarch to take the carpenters to make another set of his furniture. Especially the huge table required the carpenters to make it perfect.
"What? You want to give such a set of furniture to the county magistrate?" The old patriarch looked at Yun Zheng in surprise, thinking he was talking in his sleep.
"That's right. If you don't give such good craftsmanship and such good things to the county magistrate's family first, how can you sell them at a good price? We don't have many rich families living in Doucha County, but there are many business owners and traders. This set
The furniture will be sold for a sky-high price. I estimate that as long as we can sell two sets of furniture, our village will have enough food to eat for a year."
"What? You want to do business? Baby, this can't be done. It's a cheap job. Although you make a lot of money, you won't be able to take the scientific examination. We won't do this job, we won't do it!"
The old patriarch's head shook like a wavy drum.
Yun Zheng couldn't tell the old patriarch that the status of merchants in the Northern Song Dynasty was already very high. Ma Jiliang, a tea merchant in Weishi County, married the daughter of his relative Liu Mei in order to become an official. He was awarded the title of Guanglu Temple Prime Minister and was received by the emperor. This was still
What happened in the first twenty years, as for businessmen wanting to truly enter official careers, that was something that happened after Yingzong.
Studying is a very luxurious thing in any era. Before the Song Dynasty, only the sons of scholars could become officials. In this era, the children of businessmen also have the prerequisite for becoming officials, and that is wealth. As the old saying goes,
Without his father and brother running the business in front of him, there would be no children who would become officials later. Yun Zheng had almost gone through all the troubles to get into the Tongsheng Examination, and it was definitely not easy to get a roll call at the Donghua Gate.
Yun Zheng smiled and said to the old patriarch: "How can I manage a lowly business? There are many people in our village who can do this. I just sent this set of furniture to the county magistrate's house as a thank-you gift, and the rest was done
Naturally, merchants will come to your door. As long as you insist on the price, it will be fine. The secret recipe for wiping the table with tung oil must be kept secret. In this way, even if others learn to make tables, they will not be able to achieve the same effect as ours. I heard nine
Uncle said, outsiders don't know this method."
"This is a secret recipe passed down by our ancestors. How can outsiders know about it? Since you want to make the village rich, then go ahead and do it. I will issue a silence order to the people in the village. Anyone who dares to leak out the secret recipe passed down by our ancestors will be punished."
The whole family was driven out of the village."
The old patriarch said he should do it, and that night he summoned a few people in the village who knew the secret to explain the matter clearly. Yun Zheng started to make furniture in the village and sold the furniture once. When the business road was open, he would not do it.
This matter has nothing to do with it."
Yunzheng now has a lot of time to enjoy the scenery here. As for Yun Er, he lies in the bamboo basket on the back of the bacon all day long, going back and forth between the mulberry field and the silkworm house, or holding a bamboo stick
He poked his own pig's butt and watched the pigs running around in the pig pen. The angry bacon could only drag him away from the edge of the pig pen.
Yun Er doesn't bully Yun San, he doesn't bully the house snake, and he doesn't bully bacon very much, but he is very rude to the old cows and pigs in the family. The old cow will moo whenever he sees Yun Er.
Stop, tie a rope to an old cow's ears and play with it as a rabbit's ears, that's Yun Er.
When Yunda has nothing to do, she will carry a hoe to cultivate the small piece of land owned by the two brothers. She does not expect any harvest, but only hopes that the land will not be deserted. However, the real labor force in the family is bacon, and she works extremely efficiently.
Every day, I not only have to take care of Yun Er, but also herd cattle, weed pigs, wash clothes, cook, take care of the silkworm babies in the silkworm room, and most importantly, supervise the construction progress of my house.
Yun Zheng felt that he had made a fortune after buying such a treasure from Guanwu. The legendary conch girl was nothing more than that. She was a diligent and silly girl. On March 3rd, Yun Zheng pierced her and Yun Er.
A paper kite, the two of them played with it for the first time and forgot to eat. Yun Er ran on the field holding his own swallow paper kite. Bacon held his own butterfly paper kite and was reluctant to put it into the sky. She was worried that once the butterfly flew into the sky
It can't be taken back.
This silly girl couldn't get the household registration after applying for it twice. There was no way. Liu Dutou said simply that the Bo people could not get the household registration. The county magistrate was even thinking of canceling all the household registrations of the Bo people.
The matter will never be accomplished unless Yun Zheng marries this woman.
"Look, I know you don't want to. Although your brother is young, he has great ambitions. I have never seen a scholar marry a Bo woman. If you don't want to take the exam, just marry that woman."
Yun Zheng nodded and said, "The woman I want to marry must be someone I like. Bacon is a hard-working girl. I just don't want to wrong her, so I thought of registering her household registration."
I was surprised. Bacon has black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin just like us. There is a huge difference between her and those barbarians with colorful hair. How can you tell that she is a Bo person? "
This question has been in Yun Zheng's mind for a long time, and he finally found an opportunity to ask it.
"You are still a scholar, tell me how many whirlpools are there on your top door?"
"one,"
"That's right, I am one too."
"Is it strange?"
"Not surprising, the problem is that the Bo people have two swirls on their top door."
After listening to Liu Dutou's irresponsible explanation, Yun Zheng swallowed hard and asked Liu Dutou: "Is this how you are sure that the bacon is from the Bo people? Is it because she has two whorls on her forehead?"
"Of course, this is called conclusive evidence!" Liu Du walked into the valley carrying a large bag of goods, and his business became bigger and bigger.
"Master Liu, I want to kick you, how about you don't fight back?" Yun Zheng finally controlled his body to prevent himself from being kicked, and asked Liu Dutou in a loud voice who had already burrowed into the grass.