The heavens from Bailuyuan

Chapter 22 Anti-Book
The dissatisfaction with the Lu brothers quickly spread from the mouths of the Lu brothers to the ears of the two masters of the Lu family.

The winter sun is warm.

Grandpa Lu Taiheng was sitting on a deck chair basking in the sun, with some snacks placed on a small stool to his left. He squinted his eyes and listened to the words of his two grandchildren, pointed his lips at the chimney of the hookah, and puffed. Blow out the soot.

He knocked against the soft satin shoes with layered soles, and the movement was skillful.

He slowly twirled the soft yellow shredded tobacco and put it into the chimney, blew on the paper with a puff, two puffs of thick smoke came out of his nostrils, and said: "This is the result of Mr. Xu's enlightenment. You see, I didn't know etiquette before." My dear son, you can do so well without your teacher's instruction, you will bring two boxes of high-quality snacks, gifts, and some money to send to Xu Xiucai in the ancestral hall."

"Father? What are you talking about, snacks are nothing more than money?"

Lu Zilin was a little reluctant.

He couldn't get out of one tael and two taels, so if he gave money to Mr. Xu, it would cost at least seven or eight taels.Besides, a box of dim sum costs a few quid, but now, ten liang of silver is in vain.

The rich family's money is not wasted like this.

"Huh? What do you know!"

Lu Taiheng snorted, and his cloudy eyes revealed an unquestionable expression. He waved his hands to let the two grandchildren back down, and then said slowly: "Giving gifts to Mr. Xu is to show the benevolence and righteousness of our Lu family! After inquiring, The son of the long-term worker of our Lu family studied with Xu Xiucai, and after the long-term worker resigned, not only did he not quarrel with the master, but he became friends..."

"What does this mean? The teacher is good at teaching, and our Lu family is also benevolent! And the friendship of the children who borrowed books..."

"That's it!"

Lu Zilin also realized something.

Giving gifts to Mr. Xu, this matter has become world-famous, and it has created a name for Mr. Xu. Similarly, it has also created a name for his Lu family and two sons. With this name of benevolence and righteousness, others will look at it highly .

Bai Jiaxuan proposed to build ancestral halls, run schools, and subsidize the sons of long-term workers to go to school. These things are spread all over the country, and even the parents of the county town, Guan Gu, the county magistrate, heard it. , this reputation was immediately held high.

Although he followed Bai Jiaxuan and also donated money and food, but when he left Bailu Village, who knew he was Lu Zilin?
Just like the No. [-] pick, the first one is well known to everyone, but the second one is just picking on others!

Now he is giving gifts to Xu Xiucai, thanking Xu Xiucai for his enlightenment. As soon as this matter is publicized, everyone knows that Bailu Village was taught by Xu Xiucai, and it is a village of benevolence and righteousness. When the matter is publicized, the Lu family will also be mentioned... …

"In this way, the forehead can hold Bai Jiaxuan's head!"

Lu Zilin was a little happy, Buddhas fought for a stick of incense, and people fought for their breath.Bai Jiaxuan's lineage has always been the patriarch of Bailu Village. The previous patriarch was Bai Jiaxuan's father Bai Bingde, and the next one was Bai Bingde's father. It has never been the turn of the Lu family...

Bailu Village is divided into two families, Bailu. When the surname of Hu was changed at first, the big family took the Bai surname and the small family took the Lu surname.

It has been nearly a hundred years since the Lu family made a fortune.

He is richer than the Bai family, but his status in the village is not as good as the Bai family.

"Scary! It's not just this! You have to know that the county examination is well-known. A good reputation has spread to the county magistrate. Do you think the county magistrate will look at it when he judges the papers?"

Lu Taiheng exhaled smoke rings and sneered.

He also participated in the imperial examination, and he is very familiar with the traps of the county examination.During the county examination, an admission quota was secretly opened up to 50 taels of silver, but in order to show fairness, the county magistrate often designated a small number of bribes, less than ten people.

The quota of these ten people cannot be assigned to the Lu family.

However, there are only so many candidates for the Zishui County Examination. With the same test papers, the well-known candidates must be at the top, while the lesser-known candidates are at the bottom...

"Besides, do you want Zhaopeng and Zhaohai to be inferior to the Bai family brothers for the rest of their lives?"

Lu Taiheng said quietly.

"Dad, let's get ready!"

Mentioning this, Lu Zilin immediately regained his energy. He wanted to overwhelm Bai Jiaxuan all his life, but it was difficult. After a long time, he lost the spirit of being competitive.

But if you want your two sons to be inferior to the Bai brothers, that's impossible!

Mr. Lu mentioned the county examination just now, which reminded him of Mr. Zhu. Mr. Zhu is the head of Bailu Academy in the county and Bai Jiaxuan's brother-in-law.

Although Mr. Zhu does not seem to be a person who would favor favoritism, this is not certain.

Even if you don't try hard on the county magistrate, but the county magistrate looks at Mr. Zhu's face, as long as the article is not bad, the county test will basically be passed.

……

Several days have passed.

Bai Gui and Bai Youde also moved to a new house, an old house at the east end of the village.

Bai Youde was not a tenant or long-term worker at the beginning.

From the 11th year of Tongzhi to the 12th year of Tongzhi, there was a severe drought in the north. The drought affected most of Jin, Lu, Henan, and Qin provinces. Almost the entire Yellow River Basin suffered from drought, and it even spread to the Yangtze River Basin.In the fifth year of Guangxu, according to statistics, more than 300 million victims died of hunger this time.

Bai Youde's father couldn't bear the hunger, so he sold a few acres of dry sloping land and three-thirds of the paddy fields to the Lu family, and signed a contract with the Lu family.The Lu family agreed to the contract because they were greedy for the Bai family's three-point water field. This is a good crop land, which can be connected with the Lu family's more than 40 mu of water field along the river.

Long-term workers are semi-restricted personal relationships. Some masters are good, and the food is much better than that of self-employed farmers.

However, Grandpa Baigui at that time was not an unworthy descendant who completely sold the land.

Instead, most of the land sold to the Lu family adopted the permanent tenancy system.

The so-called perpetual tenancy system means that one field has two owners, and land ownership and use rights are permanently separated.The land is divided into two parts: the bottom of the field and the surface of the field. The landlord who owns the bottom of the field has the right to collect rent from the tenants, and the tenant who owns the surface of the field has the right to use the land permanently.

Sold the land, but not completely sold...

While the meal was heating up on the stove, Zhou Yuan saw no one around, closed the door, mysteriously took out a few books from his arms, and said to Bai Gui with an excited face: "Brother Bai, how many books are there?" I went back from vacation a few days ago, and specially asked my servants to collect some new current events in Chang'an City, you see..."

After being told by Bai Gui about the great changes unseen in 3000 years, Zhou Yuan felt deeply that he had little knowledge, so after the wolf disaster subsided for a while, Xiang Wu returned home from vacation and entrusted his servants to collect some current affairs articles.

"is it?"

Bai Gui held a Wowotou, which was made with sugar and some lard. It was much more delicious than the previous Wowotou, fragrant and sweet.

After moving to a new home, he didn't want to wrong himself.

He walked up to Zhou Yuan and flipped through them casually. Most of these so-called current affairs articles were collected and compiled into volumes by newspapers in the south. "Shanghai Affairs News", "Current Affairs News" and so on.

This kind of newspapers organized together and sold in booklets is rare in later generations.

But now the north and the south are almost two worlds. The information in the north is blocked, and the Qing government deliberately curbed it to prevent people from changing their minds. Therefore, there are very few newspapers in the north, and there are very few first-hand news materials.It is profitable to compile the news into books, and selling it is also a matter of course.

"Wait, is this "Half-Crying, Half-Laughing Lou Poetry Grass"?"

Bai Gui flipped through it, and when he saw a collection of poems, he was shocked. This is a proper anti-poetry, and the author signed it as the half-crying half-laughing landlord.

This is different from Li Shoumin, the owner of Huanzhu who wrote fairy tales.

Very few people know the author's real name, but Bai Gui has just heard of it, because the calligraphy of this later generation is really famous, and the "Don't urinate anywhere" written in the toilet was exposed as a treasure.He is a big brother of the Tongmenghui and a native of Sanyuan in Qin Province. His original name was Yu Boxun, also known as Yu Youren. Later, he rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and changed his name to "Micro Guan Zhong, my generation wears the left lapel", and took the Chinese clothes as the right lapel. Since then, he changed his name.

(End of this chapter)