"As for what candidates should do when faced with these natural and man-made disasters, this requires life experience and practical experience accumulation. This cannot be solved in one day and must be taken slowly."
"But because natural and man-made disasters have been the same for thousands of years, there is no need to be afraid. Write down the solutions to each disaster and correspond them one-to-one with the Holy Spirit's articles. This will definitely not be wrong. Don't you think so?"
"Um...that's what it sounds like."
Zhuang Wen nodded blankly.
Seeing this, Li Qiao smiled: "This is just my rough opinion, it may not be correct."
"But I haven't found anything wrong so far." Zhuang Wen frowned and said while thinking: "I will look through the holy article later and summarize it carefully."
The last two questions made his brain numb. As Li Qiao said, they were too casual.
It was completely different from the way he had taken exams before, where he extracted a sentence from the Four Books and Five Classics and then discussed it.
Therefore, after seeing the test questions these two times, his brain numbed first, and he was already timid before he even picked up the pen.
Now Li Qiao's words seemed to light an oil lamp in his mind, not only illuminating the way forward, but it also pointed out a direction and let him know which direction he should work hard.
It also made him feel less timid about the imperial examination.
When he thought about the strange problems he would encounter in next year's college examination, he immediately began to feel weak.
Now after hearing what Li Qiao said, he was not as afraid as before.
He stood up from the chair, came to Li Qiao in two steps, and bowed to Li Qiao: "I really don't know how to thank you. Please make a request, otherwise I, as an elder brother, will always feel that I owe you. .”
Li Qiao quickly stepped away from him and said, "Brother Wen, your words are just too polite. I didn't do anything. Besides, my method may not be effective."
"Even if it really works, the banker saved me before, so this is what I should do."
"You have repaid the money that the banker lent you long ago. Moreover, it was my father who lent it to you, not me. Every yard is worth one yard."
Zhuang Wen really wanted Xie Liqiao, and his expression was quite serious.
Seeing this, Li Qiao could only ask him to confirm that this method was really effective before saying thank you.
Zhuang Wen thought for a while and agreed.
Too.
It's too early to tell.
However, Li Qiao had never been exposed to real questions before. Now he just took the real questions and flipped through them, and he immediately had ideas for solving the questions in his mind.
With Li Qiao's intelligence, he might have been admitted as a scholar before him.
"When will you come to the county to study?" he asked Li Qiao.
"It's still early." Li Qiao wasn't sure.
"Is it still early? With your intelligence, you will be able to pass the county exam next spring. When do you want to take the exam?" Zhuang Wen asked curiously.
"Brother Wen, you really think highly of me. Now I have a disdain for those books. In the past ten years, I didn't have any foundation at all."
Li Qiao smiled bitterly.
It's autumn now, and there are less than five months until next year's county exam. Five months is too hasty.
He wanted to wait until the year after next to take the exam.
Zhuang Wen saw that he was indeed unsure, so he no longer had blind confidence in him, but comforted him with words. After comforting him, he enthusiastically left him to have lunch.
Li Qiao pushed it. He still had to go to the bookstore to buy books and then return to the village.
Coming out of Zhuang Wen's small yard, Li Qiao led the oxcart to the last bookstore.
The barbecue in Wangyuelou has been selling very well recently, and he gets almost a thousand cash every day.
The three new corn dishes are also selling well.
The popularity of corn juice and corn brand has caught up with Qingtuan.
In Qingtuan terms, it’s just a snack, a snack before or after a meal.
But corn juice and corn fritters are both meals.
Corn juice in particular is delicious and warms the stomach. People here in Pingcheng usually drink noodle soup and large, small and yellow rice porridge in the morning. Now they finally have a new choice.
And the weather has been cold recently. A bowl of hot corn juice in the morning will make my whole body feel comfortable.
Therefore, these three new dishes bring Li Qiao an income of more than 3,000 yuan per day.
Coupled with the silver received from the Zheng family and their own snacks, his family's daily income is now nearly fifteen taels of silver.
Unfortunately, with a lot of input, there are also a lot of expenses.
After the house is built, the next step is to decorate it.
He built a shower room specially. There was no sewer at this time, so he went to the blacksmith shop to build an iron pipe and buried it under the shower room. It was more than two meters long. It was difficult to drill such a large iron pipe and it would cost seven or eight taels. silver.
Tao Zhu originally didn't want to spend the money, but he insisted on fighting.
If the shower room is paved with blue bricks and a sewer is built, then you can do whatever you want, and you won't have to be like now, where the floor is wet every day after you take a shower.
In addition to the sewer, in order to ensure that you can bathe happily in winter, he specially built a fire wall outside the shower room and wrapped the entire shower room.
The fire wall is like a fire pit. When the time comes to burn dry wood outside, the fire wall can heat up the entire shower room.
In addition to this small design, he also plans to pave the ground of the yard with blue bricks.
The ground in his yard is now dirt, and it becomes muddy when it rains. He doesn't want to feel the mud again.
But the new yard is very big, and if he wants to cover it all with blue bricks, it will cost him more green bricks than he used to build a new house, which will cost dozens of taels of silver.
There's not enough money to spend.
Therefore, after arriving at the bookstore, he only bought the commentaries on the four books, and he would buy the commentaries on the other books when he had money in hand.
After buying the books, he drove the bullock cart back to the village.
After having the bullock cart, going to the county seat was no longer a tiring job for him. Just like this time, he was sitting on the bullock cart, holding a whip in one hand and putting the other hand at his side, with the palm of his hand as big as a football. The water ball slowly shrank as the cart moved forward. When it shrank to the size of a grain of rice, he threw the water ball into the ditch on the roadside.
With a "bang" sound, the water balloon exploded, causing a splash of water several meters high.
He glanced at the finger-sized fish in the ditch that had suffered from the explosion of water balloons, then lowered his head and jumped off the bullock cart to fish out these small fish.
The ditches at this time were not as polluted as they were in his previous life, and the fish in the ditches were edible.
He walked along, frying fish all the way, and when he had caught enough, which was almost three kilograms of small fish, he stopped.
Sitting on the bullock cart, his thoughts wandered a little.
His understanding of this world comes from the memory of his original body.
The original person had never left the county town, and because he was a poor student and had never even been exposed to real questions, he knew almost nothing about the world outside Pingcheng.
He has no idea about the current Saint who is far away in the capital.
Whether this sage is round or flat, what his temperament is, and how he behaves are all a blur.
But today, through those few policy questions, he finally had a vague understanding of the emperor.
The first is casualness.
Such questions on the imperial examination really broke his sacred impression of the four words "imperial examination".
But also pragmatic.
Having such an emperor ruling Dasheng is better than a foolish emperor.
In fact, looking at the situation in Pingcheng, we can know that the founding emperor of Dasheng and the new emperor were both good monarchs.
The Grand Master of Pingcheng County allowed people to set up stalls at the gate of the county.
He was so obviously trying to steal Zui Xianju's business, but Shopkeeper Zhao didn't use dirty tricks to deal with him, such as finding someone to beat him up, or framing him for having problems with his dim sum.
For this reason, he specifically asked Shopkeeper Wang.
Shopkeeper Wang said that the current county magistrate had a similar case when he first came to Pingcheng to take office. The county magistrate acted vigorously and resolutely, solving the case within one day, and the sentence was quite severe, so there has been no such case since then.
Shopkeeper Zhao wanted to frame him, but he had no guts. The county magistrate was not easy to fool.
The magistrates of a county are so wise, which is enough to show that the one in the capital is a good king.
Tao Zhu said that Sanliu Village was a paradise, but now he felt that the whole Dasheng was a paradise.
When he traveled to such a world, God really showed up.
It happened to be noon when Li Qiao returned to the village with a grateful heart.
People who work in the fields go home to cook or eat, so there are many people walking on the path into the village.
When the villagers saw his oxcart and had sweet potatoes, they all put sweet potatoes on his oxcart.
I was afraid that he would reject it like corn, so I didn’t put in more. I only put two or three pieces in and let him go home and roast them.
One household would put two or three sticks, but if seven or eight families put them together, it would suddenly become twenty or thirty sticks.
In fact, in addition to sweet potatoes, the villagers also wanted to give him corn.
Everyone knows that the corn grown by his family is not mature yet, and the corn business in Wangyuelou is very prosperous. The villagers can make a lot of money from this, and everyone wants to thank him.
But he made it clear that except for the corn from Zhang Gui'e's family, he would not harvest a single grain from other families.
So everyone can only stop thinking and give sweet potatoes instead.
Sweet potatoes are more productive than corn, and they are easier to grow than corn, so every household can grow them.
No one can bear to part with these sweet potatoes. What worries everyone is the unwillingness to harvest more buckwheat.
Moreover, now everyone in the village knows that Li Qiao is concentrating on studying. Studying is a big deal. Zhuang Wen bought a yard in the county town specifically for studying.
Li Qiao couldn't buy a yard in the county town and could only study at home. So they didn't dare to speak loudly when they went to Li Qiao's house to sell things like before.
If there is no serious matter, I dare not disturb Li Qiao.
Therefore, when I met Li Qiao who was returning to the village, everyone who had sweet potatoes in their hands rushed to put them on Li Qiao's oxcart.
Li Qiao looked at the simple smiling faces of the villagers, and his love for the world grew even more. When he returned home and saw Tao Zhu's familiar and smiling face, he couldn't help but laugh too.
"Go and wash your hands and eat. Chuntao made the sweet potato pancakes you mentioned, as well as pork noodles. The braised eggs and pork are delicious."
Tao Zhu took the ox cart and said to him with a smile.
He got up early and had only drank a bowl of noodle soup and gnawed a few steamed buns so far. He was already hungry.
