Title of the book: The road to the imperial examination for poor people
Author of this book: Granny Xiao Guihua
Introduction to this book:
Lin Yuanqiu assumes the role of a five-year-old child in a small mountain village. His father is idle all day long and his mother is too busy to wash dishes and pots.
The eyes of his grandparents and uncles were astonishing, and even he and his two pretty sisters were not treated well.
His grandmother said: "Where can good bamboo shoots come from bad bamboo?"
The eldest uncle said again: "A dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a lazy couple will naturally create a litter of little lazy lads."
Lin Yuanqiu: Bah!
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Content tags: farming through time and space, urban life, imperial examination
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One sentence introduction: Lin Yuanqiu’s ancient life
Intention: If you have light in your heart, you can be brilliant
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After an unexpected sudden death in his previous life, Lin Yuanqiu passed through the body of a five-year-old boy in Da Jingchao. The father is careless, the mother loves gossip, and the family is extremely poor. Facing such a family, I feel so cold. Fortunately, what modern people lack most is the spirit of struggle, so by earning money and taking the imperial examination, Lin Yuanqiu finally gained a happy life.
The writing of this article is smooth, the style is relaxed and humorous, and the plots are interlocking. Every page can make people feel excited, as if they are witnessing the growth of the male protagonist. This article has a positive intention and is actually a wonderful and wonderful article.
Chapter 1 Persimmons are ripe
Hengxi Town, Xiaogaoshan Village.
It's only October, but the wind blowing in front of us already has the flavor of winter, making us feel chilly.
In the past few days, groups of geese can be seen from time to time in the blue sky. Sometimes they are arranged in the shape of a "one", and sometimes they are arranged in a shape of a "human", which often attracts people to stop and watch.
Wild geese are the best able to sense changes in cold and warm weather, so they all fly south before the cold winter comes.
October is also the season when fruits are fragrant, especially persimmons. After mid-month, persimmons hang heavily on the branches, like little red lanterns. Almost every household in Xiaogaoshan Village has persimmon trees planted in front of and behind their houses. Whenever the persimmons mature, the villagers will arrange for the younger members of the family to guard them to prevent them from being eaten by birds.
Old man Lin has three sons and a lot of grandchildren, so it is natural that he has no worries about people doing this job.
However, guarding the persimmon tree from morning to night was too boring. For the sake of fairness, Old Man Lin specially divided the work among his family members.
Lin Yuanqiu also knew the reason. It turned out that the people here didn't know that after picking the hard persimmons, you can use methods to make them soft and sweet, so they always have to wait until the persimmons are red and soft before removing them. Pick it from the tree, otherwise no one in the town will want the fruit, which is hard, astringent and difficult to eat.
This practice makes birds come to eat the persimmons all the time. Mr. Lin’s arrangement is that the children in several rooms of the house take turns driving away the birds to protect the persimmons and prevent them from being eaten by the birds.
This is an income of nearly one tael of silver. If we don't keep it properly, there will definitely be fewer meat dishes for the New Year.
If the persimmons are not guarded, the big chicken drumsticks on New Year's Eve will be gone. No matter how reluctant the children are, they can only hold the bamboo poles and stay in the backyard. In other words, they can only wait in the backyard after looking forward to the end of the year. You can only eat chicken legs on New Year's Eve. If you don't have any, you won't be sad.
Today it was the third room's turn to drive away birds. Lin Yuanqiu had no brother or younger brother, so after breakfast, he went to the backyard with a bench and a bamboo pole.
Also following him were Lin Yuanhuai from the first bedroom and Lin Yuanbai from the second bedroom. One was seven years old and the other was six years old.
Lin Yuanqiu is five years old this year and is the youngest among his cousins.
As soon as they arrived in the backyard, Lin Yuanhuai and Lin Yuanbai couldn't wait to raise their heads and look for the "fish that slipped through the net."
Farm children don't usually have many snacks to eat, and the persimmons on the trees have made them greedy for a long time.
It's just that the adults are counting on the money from selling persimmons to provide for household needs. How can they be willing to give more food to the children? And even if they are given, they can only be the kind whose skin has been pecked by birds. As for the good quality, These must be kept and sold for money.
Therefore, the children's idea of having a good meal with open belly was basically wasted.
So every time when the adults went out to carry their burdens, the children would gather under their own persimmon tree, going back and forth several times to look for any ripe fruits that had been missed.
"Gouzi, Gouzi, look at whether that persimmon is red!"
Lin Yuanhuai pointed at a red persimmon on the tree and shouted excitedly.
Lin Yuanbai on the side heard this and ran over quickly. After seeing clearly that the fruit was really big and red, he immediately shouted happily to Lin Yuanqiu who was not far away: "Dog, hurry up, get the bamboo pole quickly." Come here, let’s get it down and eat it!”
What a big dog you are!
Lin Yuanqiu glared at the two of them angrily.
It’s not like I don’t have a reputation, so it’s really unpleasant to have to bark like a dog.
Seeing the little cousin rolling his eyes at them, he knew that he was angry about calling him by his nickname again.
But Lin Yuanbai and Lin Yuanhuai couldn't care so much at the moment. At this time, both of them were focused on the red persimmon above their heads.
No, Lin Yuanhuai picked up the pole and reached up the tree. Lin Yuanbai, who was following closely behind, quickly lifted up the hem of his clothes, ready to catch the persimmons that his cousin had knocked down at any time.
The thin bamboo pole was about two feet long. Lin Yuanhuai raised his hands and stood on tiptoes, so that he could reach the red persimmon.
The world is big and the food is the biggest.
Thinking of the sweet persimmons, Lin Yuanqiu felt that the matter of being called Gouzi could be put aside for the time being.
He looked at Lin Yuanbai's position and felt that it was unlikely that this guy would catch the persimmon later. He was about to step forward to help, but before he could get closer, he heard a "chirp" and a bright red persimmon appeared. It brushed past the branches and fell directly to the dirt.
Along with it, Lin Yuanbai let out a distressed "Oh!"
"Why didn't you catch it!" Lin Yuanhuai was so anxious that he dropped the bamboo pole and immediately ran towards Persimmon.
When I picked it up and looked at it, fortunately, there was only a crack and it was still edible.
So, they cut off the skin and meat into three portions, and the three cousins quickly dried up all the persimmons.
The sweet persimmon is tender and smooth in the mouth, so delicious.
Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but licked the corners of his mouth.
Alas, in ancient times, not only have people become smaller, but their mouths have also become greedy.
But can you blame him? God knows, his mouth has almost faded away from a bird these days.
Lin Yuanqiu really missed the delicacies of his previous life, such as roast chicken, roast duck, braised pig's trotters, delicious sausages, etc. He wanted to eat them all.
It's a pity that there is nothing. Here, it is good to have a full stomach, so why do you dream about food?
He was lost in thought when he heard the shouts of other children in the village coming from outside the courtyard wall, "Yuanhuai Yuanbai, let's go catch bugs and play!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yuanhuai and Lin Yuanbai stopped looking for the "fish that slipped through the net" and hurriedly said to Lin Yuanqiu, "Little brother, just watch the fruits here. Brother will come over to play with you later."
After that, the two of them took their short legs and prepared to rush out.
Lin Yuanqiu held the bamboo pole in one hand and waved to the two of them with the other hand, "Go, go."
Seeing that their little cousin didn't care at all, Lin Yuanbai and Lin Yuanhuai were a little puzzled. How boring was Persimmon's job? When it was their turn two days ago, they both wished they could hide away. Why did he look so happy when he arrived at his little cousin's place?
It’s really confusing.
Lin Yuanqiu didn't care about the idiotic looks in his two cousins' eyes. At this time, he was looking forward to the two little kids in front of him to go out and play soon.
So as not to delay yourself from doing "private things".
He, Lin Yuanqiu, was not a real five-year-old child, so he did not object to the job of chasing birds. On the contrary, he was looking for it.
No, after hearing the footsteps of the two people disappearing, Lin Yuanqiu walked back and forth under the persimmon tree a few times, then raised the bamboo pole in his hand and hit the big fruits that he had already spotted.
Soon, five or six hard persimmons fell from the tree and fell to the soft mud.
Without enough time to check whether they were cracked, Lin Yuanqiu picked them up one by one and stuffed them into his arms. After checking that there was nothing missing on the ground, he covered his clothes and ran quickly to their third room.
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After several days of inquiring intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Yuanqiu finally knew that the place he came to was called the Da Jing Dynasty, a dynasty that had never been recorded in history books.
As for who the current name was, he stopped asking. He was just a common man, and the affairs of the court were too far away from him, so he didn't need to know about them.
Also, even if you ask yourself, the little brats around you will definitely not know.
Lin Yuanqiu discovered that although he had never heard of this Da Jing Dynasty, everything in front of him was familiar, such as everyone's hairstyles, men with buns, women with buns, girls with double buns, and little boys with double buns. Total angle.
He remembered the hairstyles of the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty in history, which were almost like this.
In terms of clothing, most common people wear linen short brown skirts and undershirts, while those with a little status, such as Li Zheng, whom I saw a few days ago, wear a blue shirt and straight skirt. This is consistent with the ancient times in history. Society is the same.
However, there are some differences, such as the persimmons on the trees. Lin Yuanqiu discovered that people here did not know how to ripen persimmons. People in the village waited for the persimmons to ripen naturally before picking them from the trees.
And those that are not yet red are still left on the tree, just waiting to be picked after they are ripe.
Therefore, something that could have been very simple has now become much more complicated. Otherwise, there would be no need to worry about birds stealing the fruit and having to send people to guard it every day.
Lin Yuanqiu had no intention of informing everyone about the ripening method. As an outsider, it was better to be careful in such a matter where it was easy to lose one's vest.
However, this did not prevent him from secretly hiding some persimmons to ripen them, so that in the winter, his two twin sisters would have tender and sweet persimmons to eat.
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The front yard was quiet. Except for Mr. Lin and Mr. Lin who went to town early in the morning to carry persimmons, most of the other people in the family followed Mr. Lin to the fields to collect radishes. Winter was coming soon, no matter what. If you take the radishes home, they will definitely freeze in the ground.
Lin Yuanqiu leaned against the courtyard wall and walked directly around to the back window of their third room.
When he was having lunch just now, he specially opened the window with a palm-wide crack in order to be able to do things easily at this time.
But with Lin Yuanqiu's current size, it's not easy to squeeze the persimmon into the narrow slit.
He raised his toes and reached for it several times before throwing the persimmons in one by one.
There was a large earthen kang next to the window in the room, and the kang was covered with quilts. The persimmons thrown in just fell on the quilt.
Chunyan and Chuncao were taking a nap in the house. In order not to disturb them, when he threw the persimmons in, Lin Yuanqiu deliberately avoided the position at the head of the kang. However, despite this, the thumping sound of the persimmons falling on the kang still shocked the two of them. woke up.
When the two sisters saw the sudden appearance of persimmons on the quilt and the movement outside the window, they understood that their brother was back picking persimmons again. They immediately got up, lay down on the window sill, and shouted excitedly, "Brother, brother, brother, You’re back picking persimmons again!”
"Shh, be quiet."
Lin Yuanqiu hurriedly made a gesture to silence the two of them.
After reacting, the two little girls quickly covered their mouths and smiled crookedly.
Now that the twin sisters are awake, there will be nothing wrong with them.
Lin Yuanqiu said softly to the two of them: "Brother is going back to the backyard right away. You two quickly put the persimmons in the jar."
