Nongmen Space: Farming lady is not easy to mess with

Chapter 140 But do good deeds, don't pass others

Shu Yingtong looked down at the mooncake that Zhu Yu stuffed for her, a fried food shaped like a full moon, with soybeans floating evenly on the surface of the cake.

Not interested in.

"I didn't expect that a lady who is a scholar would also carry a basket to sell food." Zhu Yu gnawed at the moon cake in his hand and glanced at the young woman who was putting on a rope for a little boy.

"The talented lady in our village is not as good-tempered as her. Everyone raises their chins high. There is a baby born in the village who comes to ask for a name. If there is no two catties of meat, she won't let it in."

Shu Yingtong put the moon cock in her hand back in front of her, "But do good deeds, and don't win over others."

Zhu Yu chewed the crispy soybeans in a daze, "What do you mean?"

"You say you are lenient." Jing Yunyan reached out and picked up the piece of moon cake and took a bite. "Not everyone is willing to be a good person. You can't force it. You just need to take care of yourself."

"Not bad, five flavors, fragrant and crunchy." Breaking off a small piece and feeding it into Shu Yingtong's mouth, "Try it."

"Oh, it makes sense." Zhu Yu frowned and thought for a while, then pinched Shu Yingtong's arm in distress, "Then I still want to deal with something that is too much."

Si Yao sneered, picked a piece of South Suanzao Paste from the basket and bit a corner, "Think about yourself first, if you can offend me, just let it go, and if you can't offend it, just be honest. But, with your uncle here, Basically can be messed with."

What kind of shocking big shot can come to this broken place, this idiot is stupid, but he is not some kind of dog who wants to meddle in other people's affairs.

Jing Yunyan nodded with a smile, expressing that the word uncle was very useful.

Shu Yingtong silently chewed the food in his mouth, not intending to express any opinions.

Zhu Yu is reckless, but her three views are fairly upright.It is natural to love to fight against injustice, and she is still young now, so she will grow up slowly.

"Xiao Er, come here." Zhu Yu waved to Xiao Er.

"What's your order, officer?" Mung bean-eyed Xiao Er hurried over, nodding and smiling.

"It's so cold on a rainy day, why did the lady of Xiucai take a baby out to make a living, and the life of Xiucai's family is not easy?"

It was the first time for Zhu Yu to see such an amiable scholar lady, and she was both curious and sad for her.

Xiao Er let out a sigh, and looked around at the guests at each table. He was not busy at the moment, and it would not waste time to talk to them about the Cheng family.

The towns and villages of Yuan County are extremely poor, so living in the county town is better.

There is a county school in the county seat, with many scholars and scholars.

Most of them are from well-to-do families, some have saved their family property from their ancestors, and some have parents who do business for their children to study.

Those peasant households with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky donated not many scholars.

Pens, inks, papers, inkstones, books, book repairs, making friends with classmates, sophistication of the world, which ones do not cost money?A village can produce one or two scholars is considered the sky, and the promotion of Jinshi is even rarer.

The Cheng family moved from the village to the county seat.

Cheng Xiucai had two older sisters and two older brothers, and originally had two younger brothers, one of whom died in infancy, and the other almost never survived.

The old couple of the Cheng family make a living selling tofu.There are three hardships in life, punting a boat to grind tofu.The bitterness of grinding tofu is reflected in the word "grinding".

I have to get up early in the morning to grind the soybeans soaked the day before, and take advantage of the light to take them to the town to sell them early in the morning, and buy fresh tofu.

After returning, I have to go to the fields to tend the crops, raise the children, and be filial to the parents, all day long.

The couple are hard-working people, and they make good tofu handcrafted by their ancestors. They saved some money and thought that they should pay for a scholar to honor their family.

Cheng Xiucai's two older brothers had never studied, and the family was suffering at that time, and they couldn't afford to study even if they wanted to.

Later, she married two older sisters and got some dowry. The two older brothers also loved Cheng Xiucai, the younger brother.One apprenticed to a teacher to become a pig butcher, and the other took some capital to start collecting wild goods and reselling them to the county.

The whole family twisted into one rope just to support Cheng Xiucai to study.

Cheng Xiu knows that she is not a genius, she can only work harder than others, and never leaves her books and chores.The level of teachers in the village school is limited. From the first time I was 15 years old, I didn't pass the exam until I was 19 years old.

During this period, the two elder brothers married their daughter-in-law and gave birth to a child.With their own Xiaojia and Wazi, the two sister-in-laws have more complaints.

Guangzong Yaozu and others couldn't think so far. The hard-earned money earned by their man was handed over to the public, basically filling the bottomless pit of the uncle.

The big family is reluctant to cut even two new clothes a year, and the meat dishes they eat are mostly stinky pig offal.In addition, I also gave birth to a son, so I naturally wanted to save money to leave to my son.

After failing in the exams one after another, the two sisters-in-law made up their minds, and hurriedly asked the in-laws to tell the uncle about a marriage, and when he got married, they started to split up.

If you want to study, you can, and your parents-in-law are willing to contribute, but don’t let them just pay money and see nothing in return.

The old couple of the Cheng family naturally disagreed, without the help of their two families, how could the fifth child concentrate on learning?
The two sisters-in-law had a big fight, and in the end Cheng Xiucai and his wife persuaded each other to separate voluntarily.

The couple moved to the county with the old couple and the younger brother-in-law and rented a small yard to make a living, and Cheng Xiucai no longer kept his ears to the outside world.During the day, he set up a stall to write letters for others, and at night he went back to do the copying work brought by the bookstore.

Mrs. Cheng didn't want her parents-in-law to suffer anymore, and she had some brains and skills, so she took her parents-in-law to start a small snack business.

I go into the mountains to pick up mountain goods, and collect some when there are fairs in the surrounding towns, plus the rice noodles and condiments bought in the shop, and make food for my parents-in-law to keep a small stall in Dongshi during the day.

Cheng Xiucai passed the exam the year before last, and people from the village came to him begging to entrust their fields under his name for tax exemption, and to give him [-]% of the harvest.

As long as the number of fields is not too much, the officials will turn a blind eye.

Seeing that the days were going to be prosperous, the old couple fell ill again, and most of the family's savings were gone.

Life can go on, but when the famine comes, the family can only barely live.

Cheng Xiucai's second brother's mountain goods business is doing well, and his small life is quite prosperous.Prosperity is eye-catching, Yuan County is so big, he earns more, others earn less.

Being set up to suffer a big loss, the boat capsized in the gutter, and Cheng Xiucai sued the other party to the county government with a piece of paper.

The former magistrate was not an upright official, and the other party secretly stuffed people and things to manage things.Not only did the Cheng family fail to win the lawsuit, they were punished and sent to prison.

The whole family emptied the family property before they were fished out. Cheng Xiucai was interrupted by a few drunks one night and could no longer hold a pen in his right hand.

This is tantamount to a catastrophe for scholars, if it weren't for the family to stop them, they would hardly think about it.Without the hope of the imperial examination, I live like a walking dead every day.

After An Xingzhou took office, the case was retried. Unfortunately, the other party also capsized in the hands of others, and the matter of compensation disappeared.

He personally went to Cheng's house to condolences, and had a long talk with Cheng Xiucai.Seeing that he has done a good job in learning, he cherishes his talents.He also donated the books he brought to him, and encouraged him to practice writing with his left hand, so that he could compete in the examination room next year.

　Thank you for the monthly pass of the blue sky!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)