After sending away the Chen family and his wife, and then sending away the Meng family members, Meng Yu ate the eggs his mother had peeled and began to think about what to do next.
Productivity is low, taxes and miscellaneous taxes are extremely high, and the people are working too hard to have enough food and clothing.
But in order to survive, one has to work from dawn to dusk. Just because this is their only way to survive.
Books and paper are expensive, and precious out-of-print books are in the hands of aristocratic families. Ordinary people can only buy ordinary books.
Without a backer, no guidance from a great Confucian scholar, and no useful comments and explanations, it became increasingly difficult for a farmer to become a scholar.
Even food and clothing are a problem, so why study.
Corrupt officials are rampant, books and paper are scarce, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are imposed, conscription, labor, war, hunger, and refugees are common.
These keywords kept flashing in Meng Yu's mind, each one causing a headache.
It feels so suffocating to live in such ancient times.
Even a petty official can kill a poor person walking on the street! Just because the poor people's shabby clothes don't look pleasing to the eye!
He knew that in ancient feudal slavery, people had no human rights, but the world he traveled to was even worse. It was like an uncivilized and chaotic world with no normal laws at all.
At least in the novels and histories I read before, officials did not dare to be upright. Those who killed people at will on the street in full view of the public still had their reputations in mind.
If there wasn't a space where he could save his life, where he could hide in critical moments and not have to worry about starving to death, Meng Yu would have been able to pull out a few more strands of his hair by now.
Plant the food first, and then what? Copying books? hunt? Fishing? Selling storybooks?
You can’t make much money from this! The main reason is that the money comes too slowly!
Saltpeter to make ice? Soap? Crossbow? Candle? papermaking? Dyeing cloth? gunpowder?
No, no, it's too eye-catching, and I shouldn't be caught by those hungry wolf-like officials, threatening to kill me.
For a business that is too eye-catching, it is better to wait until you have passed the Juren Examination and found a backer after escaping.
If Pei Jingzhi took refuge with the Xian King, then he would take refuge with the King of Wei. Anyway, we can't escape together, we have to stay far away from Pei Jingzhi.
First, he didn't want to sacrifice his face to please Pei Jingzhi. The two tribes were already incompatible with each other, so there was no need to lead the tribesmen to grovel.
Secondly, Meng Yu felt that Pei Jingzhi was too unlucky, otherwise how could the Pei family have done nothing wrong when they fled, while the Meng family had troubles one after another and almost wiped out the whole family!
There is nothing so evil. It feels like the good luck of the Meng family has been sucked away by the Pei family. How evil!
He has been working hard to grow food during this period. This time he will not let his grandma starve to death during the escape, and he can still take care of his clan members.
It's almost noon, and it's too late to go to the county town, so I can only buy various seeds tomorrow morning.
No, I can't just wait. I have to go for a walk in the mountains later. With my previous skills and archery skills, I can still hunt pheasants and rabbits.
I wonder if the stream can attract a big wild boar...
Old Man Meng looked at his grandson sitting at the door of the hall. He held his head in his hands and pulled his hair. He held his head in his hands and meditated. He looked at the frowning and dazed expression outside the courtyard. He was worried, and his hair became a few gray.
"What's wrong, Saburo? I have a severe headache again. There can't be something wrong that the doctor didn't detect. After all, I lost so much blood."
Meng Ping and others gathered around Old Meng and murmured in a low voice: "Why don't we go to the county town tomorrow to have a look? Sanlang is the only one who is lucky, otherwise he would not be able to wake up so quickly from such a deep wound."
"It just so happened that the Chen family gave me some money today. Let the doctor take a good look at it tomorrow. Our clan leader will also go to the clan leader Pei to ask for compensation. Tomorrow we will go to the county to cut a piece of meat and buy some polished rice and white flour to supplement my sweet grandson."
Mrs. Li has always given the best to her precious grandson. Now that she has money, she wants to buy something good for her grandson to replenish his health.
