Prime Minister

Chapter 74
Zhang Yue and Guo Lin are about to enter the county school.

The day before, Guo Lin came with a big bag and a small bag. Zhang Yue thought that Guo Xueyan and his wife would come to give away something, but they didn't.

Just let Guo Lin come here with so much luggage.

Zhang Shi was a little distressed when he saw it: "Why do you take so many things? If you don't have enough clothes and bedding, you can come here to get them. The third brother has some clothes. I and you will take this as my own home. You can see that it's past winter. Now, bring your winter clothes."

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Senior brother, why are you being polite to me?"

Guo Lin smiled and said, "Thank you Dalang-Jun, Junior Brother. Actually, I've been living here for many days, and it's really disturbing."

Zhang Shi smiled and said, "You child has too many rules, but you should learn from Saburo."

Guo Lin nodded and said, "Junior disciple has a generous temperament, and I know very little in the world."

Zhang Shi shook his head again.

Yu cooked hot soup for Guo Lin, and Guo Lin immediately went downstairs to take a bath.

"With so many pickle jars, he wouldn't take this as a meal!" Zhang Shi couldn't help but say.

Zhang Yue nodded and said, "There are only [-] senior students in the county school who give rice and grain, but none of them will be given. You also need to bring your own pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

"Then what do you do with food?" Zhang Shi asked.

"Isn't there a food hall? I heard that the food in the food hall is divided into [-], [-], [-] and [-] classes. The first class has some vegetables and meat dishes, but it costs [-] yuan for a meal. The second class also offers vegetables, but no food. Meat dishes cost ten bucks a meal, as for the third class, only steamed eggplant and millet rice, no vegetables, three bucks a meal."

Zhang Shi heard the words and said silently for a moment: "Your senior brother can't eat pickles and eggplants all day."

Zhang Yue said: "It's useless, the senior brother said that he admired Fan Xianggong the most. Fan Xianggong was also a poor family back then. He divided the porridge into several points every day, and had one meal each morning and evening. His classmates gave him some good meals, but he refused to . Fan Xianggong said that if you are used to eating these, you will not be able to eat the white porridge."

Zhang Shi hesitated for a while and said: "I also prepared some money for you to eat first-class, but now your senior brother is like this, how to make it?"

Zhang Yue hurriedly said: "Brother, you won't do this! These days... how much money is left in the family?"

Zhang Shi said: "I received a lot of congratulatory money a few days ago. Since everyone knows that your second brother has returned the imperial edict and won't be awarded a jinshi, no one will send it again..."

Zhang Yue heard the words and thought, his mother is too snobbish.

Everyone said that the second brother was not as good as his nephew in this palace exam, so he refused to accept the order this time. Didn't this make the official family lose face?
Such a lifetime of career is ruined, and there will be no chance in the future.

That is to say, the second brother gave up the test this time, and the next time he took the test again, he had to start from the beginning of the test, so there was little hope.

But to Zhang Yue's relief, they finally don't have to pay attention to whether the second brother is writing.Let him go!

Zhang Shi sighed: "Fortunately, we are friends for many years, and we didn't ask us to return things. But now three hundred guans are not enough to put in the restaurant. There is still a lot of money to spend, and we have to tighten our clothes again."

Zhang Yue couldn't help but said: "Brother, these days I know that the second brother is a jinshi. You can spend a lot of money, but you don't need to return this gift or the other. Now the family has not saved any money, do you look at you?"

"Don't you know the saying 'There will always be a day to think about a day, but don't think of a time without a day'?"

Seeing that Zhang Yue, as a younger brother, dared to criticize himself as an older brother, Zhang Shi also had a temper: "Third brother, are you saying that I am not good at being a big brother?"

"Isn't that something you understand?"

"Third brother, good!"

When Zhang Yue said this, Zhang Shi walked downstairs angrily.

"Brother, remember to bring the door."

Zhang Shi walked halfway down the stairs, and when he heard the words, he went upstairs angrily and closed the door.

Not long after Zhang Yue was lying on the bed, he heard Zhang Shi say from the door: "Third brother, don't worry, when the food shop has income, our family life will be better. Now I've wronged you one or two, let's get the first-class meals. Don't eat it for now, let's make it second class!"

Zhang Yue said angrily, "Brother, I'm going to sleep, I won't talk to you anymore."

"Okay. The third brother goes to bed earlier."

There was another sound of footsteps on the stairs.

After a while, Zhang Shi came upstairs again and said, "Third brother, I will take you to the county school tomorrow."

"No, my brother and I can go by ourselves."

After a while, Zhang Shi asked again, "Third brother, are you hungry? I'll give you and senior brother a bowl of noodles."

"Brother, I'm sleeping."

Zhang Shi sighed downstairs for a while with his hips akimbo, and then counted with his fingers: "Second-class meal is ten yuan a meal, two meals a day is twenty yuan, and in January, it is 580 yuan."

"If it is changed to a first-class meal, it will cost 160 yuan, which is really unaffordable."

The next day.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin got up to wash up.

Zhang Shi pulled Zhang Yue aside and stuffed the money into his package and said, "I'll give you a piece of money every month. Sooner or later, when you're hungry, go buy some snacks. You don't have to wait until the synodic day for anything you're missing on weekdays. Come home and ask me to buy it."

Only then did Zhang Yue look relieved.

The word dim sum comes from the Song Dynasty.In the Song Dynasty, the stomach was called Xinguzui, and dim sum meant to comfort the lower Xinguzui.Generally, Song people have two meals in the morning and evening, so dim sum is often referred to. At noon, we are hungry and eat something to coax him.

A well-off family like Zhang Yue actually had three meals a day for a long time. After the second brother escaped from marriage, the family was down and only two meals a day.

As for most of the people, especially even the wealthy landlord's family, they still have two meals for the sake of diligence and thrift.Even the emperor of the Song Dynasty, the dignified official's family, and the royal kitchen did not have the term lunch, only snacks.

how to say?As far as studying is concerned, one month is still enough money, much better than when I was in Wuxi.

Zhang Yue asked, "Is Sister-in-law Xi'er enough?"

Zhang Shi smiled and said, "That's natural, but it's a little tighter right now. When our restaurant opens, we'll have more money. You can eat what you want."

Zhang Yue nodded with satisfaction.

Going to the county school that day, Zhang Yue and Guo Lin didn't let Zhang Shi send them, so the two went together.

Zhang Shi worriedly sent the two to the bridge and warned them all the way: "The third brother will take care of your senior brother in the future, and help him carry more things."

That's right, Guo Lin carried a lot of luggage for him along the way.

When the two arrived at the county school, they were first directed to pay for the meal at the restaurant.

The county school is equivalent to a public school, and there is no need to bundle repair money, so meal money is the biggest expense for the county school.

It is said that it is 580 yuan, but it is actually a hundred. In fact, it is enough to give 440 yuan.But Zhang Shi's hanging to Zhang Yue was actually a thousand dollars, which is still a lot left.

"Second class meal, Zhang Yue," the other party looked up at Zhang Yue and said with a smile, "Are you the No.1 economics student in the county school entrance examination?"

Zhang Yue smiled and said, "Exactly, it made the ministry laugh."

"It's all right! It's amazing!"

Zhang Yue was very happy, thinking that the other party knew him because of his second brother, but he didn't expect that it was because of the No.1 student in the county school entrance examination.

When they arrived at Guo Lin, the other party said, "Third-class meal, Guo Lin!"

The other party pronounced the word "third-class meal" a little heavy, then raised his head and looked Guo Lin up and down.

For a moment, Guo Linton felt ashamed.

Zhang Yue said calmly: "Minister, this is my Senior Brother Guo, and he taught me most of my studies today."

After hearing the words, the ministry suddenly said: "It's amazing, it's even more amazing!"

Ps: In this book, many of the knowledge about eating in the Song Dynasty are extracted from Mr. Li Kaizhou's "Eating in the Song Dynasty".

(End of this chapter)