Mud legs?
Mrs. Zhao felt that her sister's words were a bit unpleasant and she said unconvinced, "Why are you so stupid? Mr. Lin is now a member of the imperial examination. Your brother-in-law said that Mr. Lin has a good understanding. There is a high probability that he will win the exam next time. , if this marriage can come true, my niece will be the official wife by then."
Little Zhao didn't take it seriously, shook her head and said, "So what if you pass the imperial examination, what if you become the wife of a Shangguan official, have you ever thought about how you will live in the future with a family like Mr. Lin's? You can't be unclear, eldest sister." The salary of an official, including the regular salary, additional expenses, salary, grain, clothing gifts, plus salary, is only more than 200 taels of silver per year. This is still the salary of an official with an upper-middle position. If he is a new official, At least one of the three shares must be subtracted. You said that with such a small salary, how can you support a family, let alone a big family in the country who are eager for this money. Sister, tell me, sister, I have it. How stupid to agree to this marriage."
What Xiao Zhao also wants to say is that her daughter is a lady from an official family, and she is really not worth mentioning. Why should she find a poor family with no permanent property to live the hard life of not being able to make ends meet.
Although their natal family can indeed make some supplements for the dowry, the natal family's dowry is used as the icing on the cake, not to support the husband's family.
After hearing Xiao Zhao's words, Zhao felt a little regretful. She regretted that she shouldn't have come today. Originally, she wanted to keep the wealth from going to outsiders, so she told her niece such a good young talent, but in the end, her sister Putting it this way, it seemed as if she, the aunt, was specifically trying to make her niece live a hard life.
That's all, in the future, you should do less things like keeping a matchmaker and pulling your hair, so as not to make you feel idle.
Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhao stood up and left, and the two sisters parted on bad terms.
After returning home, Ms. Zhao didn't mention the matter again. She knew how much the master valued his two students. If she knew that his precious students were disliked, she would definitely be very angry. So it was better for her not to say anything.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Zhao wanted to hide this matter, but her brother-in-law came to her door the next day, just to talk about the marriage.
It turns out that after Mrs. Zhao told her husband about this matter yesterday, her husband had other ideas, that is, if a legitimate daughter is not good enough, there are still concubines in our house.
It is said that it is not appropriate for a concubine from an official family to be married to a son from a peasant family. If in the future the peasant son really succeeds in the Jinshi examination as his brother-in-law said, marrying a concubine from an official family as his wife will not be considered an insult to him.
Thinking of this, Qin Yu's brother-in-law, Huang Youzhong, the young minister of Taipu Temple, took advantage of Xiu Mu to come directly to his door.
Originally, Qin Yu was wondering why his brother-in-law came to the door, but after he heard what was going on, he immediately refused with a serious face.
Qin Yuxin said that if he really wanted to find a concubine for Yuan Qiu, why wait until now?
When he first accepted a disciple last year, a colleague mentioned in front of him that he wanted to tell Yuan Qiu about his concubine, but he declined at that time.
Qin Yu did not take in concubines, nor did he have a married woman. The children in his family were all the children of his old wife.
Although he didn't know much about concubines and concubines, Qin Yu still knew that most concubines and concubines had a petty temperament, not to mention that the concubines of the Huang family were better than concubines, so they had much insight.
Among the officials in the capital who married concubines, Qin Yu had heard a lot about the unrest at home. So whenever he thought about his students from Zhilan Yushu, they might also join their ranks in the future. How could Qin Yu do that? Have a good look.
Huang Youzhong took a look and thought, okay, my uncle is showing off to him, so he left angrily.
Qin Yu's face became even more ugly when he saw his brother-in-law who had been offended by him.
Lin Yuanqiu naturally didn't know about his family background, and in the eyes of others, he was only worthy of a concubine.
At this moment, he was a little confused. Wasn't the teacher nice just now? Why did he come back with a face after going out for a while?
Xu Shi's surprised expression was too obvious, and Qin Yu's eyes were quickly attracted to his student.
When he saw Lin Yuanqiu's stunned look on his face, Qin Yu had the urge to go up and kick him.
What kind of students should I accept? Not only do I have to teach them, but I also have to worry about their wives. Oh, I really have endless worries.
Also, what are you doing here in a daze? You've finished reading all the texts you were asked to read?
Qin Yu took the ruler, held it in his hand and said, "Yuan Qiu, recite the text you just read to me."
back?
Zhou Zixu was petrified on the spot. He and Brother Lin had only read this text for a while, how could they memorize it?
Lin Yuanqiu was even more puzzled. Why did he feel that the teacher was deliberately finding an excuse to punish him?
Without any time to think about it, Lin Yuanqiu stood up and memorized the text: "Next winter, when the emperor is in the suburbs, he will discuss it: Today, the emperor will visit Yong in the suburbs, and then there will be no sacrifices in the land, so the courtesy will not be answered. There are Si, Tai Shigong, and ancestral officials. Kuan Shu and others have discussed that heaven and earth sacrifice horns, cocoons and chestnuts. Today, Your Majesty personally worships the Hou Tu. It is suitable for the Hou Tu to be built into five altars on the circular mound in the middle of the lake. The altar... the altar... the altar..."
This is the chapter "The Benji of Xiaowu" in the Historical Records.
After hearing that Brother Lin said "tan" several times but no "tan" came out, Zhou Zixu was a little anxious and hurriedly stretched out a finger to Lin Yuanqiu secretly to indicate that the next step was the word "one".
Lin Yuanqiu reacted quickly and understood immediately, but when he was about to recite the sentence "The altar is too strong for a yellow calf", his teacher's ruler arrived.
Even Zhou Zixu, the "helper" standing by, was not spared.
There were only two "pops", and then Qin Yu's deep voice said, "I'll stand at the door!"
The two of them looked like a "misfortune from heaven", holding their buttocks in disbelief.
This, this, why did you get spanked?
Also, when the teacher saw them coming today, he was obviously quite friendly. Why was he suddenly punished now?
Zhou Zixu quietly took a step to the side, then stretched his neck to look into the study.
"What are you doing?"
Lin Yuanqiu wanted to say it, but he was careful enough to get hit by the ruler again.
Zhou Zixu retracted his body and said softly, "Brother Lin, did you hear the cheerful tone when the teacher just drove us out?"
Very cheerful tone?
Lin Yuanqiu thought about it carefully, and it seemed that it was quite a bit.
So, the boy who was hiding under the plane tree to enjoy the coolness soon saw Mr. Lin and Mr. Zhou who were "facing the wall and thinking about their faults". They tiptoed to the door together, and then they both stretched out their necks to look into the study.
Seeing this kind of behavior that was really inconsistent with their elegant demeanor, the young man was stunned for a moment.
At this moment, Lin Yuanqiu and Zhou Zixu, who stretched their necks, really saw the teacher who was in a good mood in the room.
I saw him dragging the plate with snacks with one hand, then picking up a policy article with the other hand, and then eating mung bean cake while reading the article. The way the corners of his mouth turned up showed how good his mood was at the moment.
Zhou Zixu and Lin Yuanqiu couldn't help but twitch their lips. So, did the teacher deal with them on purpose just now?
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Except for Zhang Gui and the others, Lin Yuanqiu did not tell anyone else about the house purchase.
It's not that I want to hide it deliberately, but the whole house is a mess now, and I have to clean it up first.
Although the repairs have not started yet, whenever he has free time these days, Lin Yuanqiu will go to his yard to backfill the earth pit.
It is said that a Buddha needs gold and a man needs clothes, and the same is true for a house. No, in just a few days, the first two courtyards have been neatly tidied up.
Lao Zhangtou and his wife also moved into the house, and they have helped clean up the yard these days.
To be honest, Lao Zhangtou and his wife were very happy to see such a big yard.
What they want now and in this life is naturally for their master's family to get better and better, because only when the master's family gets better, can their slaves live a good life.
Therefore, when cleaning up the house, the couple worked extra hard. After filling in all the soil in the yard, they pulled up the grass again.
Because it has been vacant for too long, a lot of weeds have grown around the yard, and the roots have grown too deep, so weeding is not an easy task.
But Lin Yuanqiu had his own method. Before pulling the weeds, he took a wooden bucket, quickly hoisted more than a dozen buckets of water from the well in the yard, and then poured it on the ground, waiting for the mud to absorb enough water before pulling out the weeds. It is much easier to pick up weeds.
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Chapter 130 Wooden Box
The hot summer passed quickly, but the power of the autumn tiger was not very obvious in the capital city located to the north of Dajing Dynasty.
By the end of September, I have to put on another layer over my single clothes in the morning and evening.
The beans planted in July were now ready to be harvested. The day before yesterday, Lao Zhangtou and his wife volunteered to go to Zhuangzi to help harvest the beans. Lin Yuanqiu did not refuse.
It is said that there is strength in numbers. If we don't pick the beans all over the hillside quickly, the shells will burst, and the whole work will be in vain.
Since a batch of persimmon trees were planted at the beginning of the year, there are now more than 400 persimmon trees in the entire village.
These trees are all concentrated in the west of Zhuangzi, leaving two large slopes close to the house. Lin Yuanqiu plans to save them for future planning. Anyway, the trees will definitely not be planted again, otherwise the entire Zhuangzi will be crowded and lost. The meaning of Zhuangzi.
Besides, if you want to make persimmons in the future, you will definitely need a place to dry them, so it is very necessary to have some space.
I thought that the cleared hillsides were already covered with saplings, and Xu Laoshi would definitely not plant any more beans this year.
Unexpectedly, they learned how to interplant crops and planted bean seeds next to the persimmon trees.
The persimmon saplings are still small, and the branches and leaves are naturally not full, so there is no need to worry about blocking the sun above, so the beans planted are still full.
When it was time to plant beans, Lao Zhangtou and his wife also participated. Now that it was time to harvest the beans, they naturally didn't want to be left behind.
So today, Lin Yuanqiu was the only one in the entire mansion.
At this moment, he was walking around the courtyard with a pen and paper and a small porcelain bottle filled with ink. The purpose was to make a tally of the areas that needed to be repaired in the courtyard, so that when he negotiated the wages with the masons, he would feel confident in his mind. There will be a number.
He hasn't saved enough money to repair the house, but Lin Yuanqiu has prepared to go from courtyard to courtyard, so that he doesn't have to buy a lot of materials at once, and he doesn't have to worry about not having enough money.
In addition to the front yard and main yard, the Dongkua Yard was also severely damaged by confiscation.
At this moment, Lin Yuanqiu was standing in the east wing of the courtyard. Now there is only a piece of wall that has not collapsed. The rest are broken bricks and old beams all over the floor.
I really don’t understand why the demolition of the house would be carried out when the house was searched. Could it be that all the money that this family was greedy for was hidden in this wing?
After buying this house, Lin Yuanqiu specifically asked Li Yaqi to find out what the residents had done.
The result was the same as what I had guessed before. It was indeed corruption and perversion of the law. I heard that a total of more than 200,000 taels of stolen silver was found in this house at that time, so the Holy Father did not hesitate to sentence the principal culprit to death, and the rest of the people were all Exiled to the northwest, never allowed to enter Beijing.
So why do you want so much money? Not only do you risk your own life, but you also harm your family.
After arriving in the capital, Lin Yuanqiu had heard a lot of similar things, so he often warned himself in his heart that if he became an official in the future, he must not do such things that harm others and himself.
The money in this world can only be used if you earn it with your own hands.
In short, you must never take money that is not your own.
Perhaps God wanted to test Lin Yuanqiu, and after a moment, he asked him to face "money that is not his own".
Because when Lin Yuanqiu walked around the remaining wall of the wing and was about to go to the pavilion in the courtyard to sort out what he had written, he discovered an unusual place.
This time, Lin Yuanqiu took the shortcut and went around the wall for the first time. Otherwise, he would not have happened to see a dark red streak in the cracks in the brick wall. Generally, except for the mahogany box, Lin Yuanqiu would not make any other guesses about this color.
Could it be dirty money that has not been found?
Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqiu's heart was pounding.
He looked at the opening of the crack. There wasn't much dust accumulated, and it seemed that it had not cracked in the past few years.
So it's normal that no one discovered it.
Thinking of this, Lin Yuanqiu looked inside through the crack a finger wide. The wood grain was obvious, so it should be a wooden product.
As for whether it is a wooden box or not, we have to take it out to find out.
But how to take it out?
