Take the farm down to earth

Chapter 13 Seize the opportunity
There are also potted plants that definitely look like tomatoes and peppers, which are sold as ornamental plants.

Thinking of scrambled eggs with tomatoes and fried pork with peppers, Shi Zhongkui's throat twitched after eating plain noodles for two days.

I only bought a little of each kind of melon, fruit and vegetable, enough to make seeds.

Then I bought hundreds of eggs and ten catties of meat and went home. For two and a half dollars, I only spent a few tens of pennies.

Go home and reward your stomach well, exercise your body early in the next day, and practice the art of divine movement.

Recite the Four Books in the morning, and practice calligraphy in the afternoon by practicing drawing talisman seals.

In a flash, 5 days passed.

I sold another 10 catties of preserved fruit in exchange for 500 taels of silver, and went out to buy some paper, pens and ink. I also handed in [-] Wen to the private school two days ago, and got a letter of recommendation from the private school teacher.

This morning, Shi Zhongkui brought twenty pieces. The "evil-breaking talisman" and "vajra talisman" he had drawn in the past five days seemed to be walking, but he used magic skills. It seemed slow but was actually a trotting speed. He went to the Daxing county government office to exchange for Certificate of county examination.

By the way, he pretended to be helplessly entangled by Jia Quan, and talked nonsense about going back to the Daxing County clan, trying to see if he could bring back some preserved fruits.

He only brought 30 kilograms of preserved fruit, and then told Jia Quan with regret and reluctance that the preserved fruit had been bought by merchants and shipped to the grassland.

Then I promise that next year I will go back to the family early and prepare more preserved fruits.

Seeing this, Jia Quan could only leave 3 taels of silver and leave with 30 catties of preserved fruit.

He has stayed at home since then.

Except for one peach tree, all the vegetables, melons and fruits bought were planted in the other 19 space farmlands.

It's a pity that there is no sign of any changes or upgrades in the space farm except that each plot still produces 10 catties of melons, fruits and vegetables.

After excluding money, multiple plants, and multiple harvests, in these novels, the methods that can upgrade the space all the year round.

What Shi Zhongkui could think of now was only antiques, luck, aura and merit.

Antiques are easy to understand, with a literary or historical atmosphere.

But he tried his own ancient fan, but nothing happened.

Merit and virtue are nothing more than good deeds, such as saving people, helping others, discovering something that is beneficial to human beings, and so on.

It stands to reason that Jia Quan's family has made a lot of money on preserved fruit, so there should be some response, but now it seems that this kind of merit is too small to work on the space farm, or the changes that have occurred are so small that they have not noticed it .

Then it's just luck.

The luck of the dynasty, the increase in luck associated with being an official, and even influencing a certain person to change his fate is also a kind of luck.

Even stealing someone's chance, etc., may be called luck.

In this way, it only depends on whether there will be any changes in the space farm when he is admitted as a scholar.

As for the aura, the space has skyrocketed from 1 cubic meter to 10 by 10 by 10 meters because of Wuqu Xingjun's immortal spirit.

In other words, if you want to expand the space with your own aura, maybe it won't be able to match Wuqu Xingjun's fairy aura in ten years.

After all, the level difference is not known how many times.

After that, he also tried whether the things produced by the space, even the well water from that well, could improve his memory and physical fitness.

It's a pity, maybe the space level is still too low, and the things produced are ordinary things except that the taste is much stronger than the outside ones.

If this is changed to modern society, the straightforward description is: the space produces fairy peaches, delicious +1, sweetness +1, and taste +1.

Then it is easy for others to sell it at a few percent more expensive.

In the next 40 days, except for going out occasionally to buy some meat.

He took the article he wrote and went to a private school to ask the old scholar for advice.

Shi Zhongkui has been shutting himself at home to study hard and practice calligraphy.

I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, and I have been exercising. Not only do I have obvious muscles on my body, but I also seem to have grown by 2 or 3 centimeters.

With a 19-year-old body and malnutrition in the past, it is not surprising that he grows a little taller.

To his surprise, when the year was approaching, he finally broke through to the first level of Qi training.

The power of the Evil Breaking, Vajra, and Magical Talismans drawn again was directly doubled.

After a lonely year, Shi Zhongkui drank the wine of this era alone with some helplessness after offering incense and worship to his parents.

For the first time, I feel regretful.

There are indeed many benefits of ancient society and cultivation, but no matter what age, life alone will not be easy.

Hearing the sound of firecrackers outside, Shi Zhongkui remembered the dozen or so bamboo poles that Jia Quan had sent for him.

Rich people use fireworks and firecrackers for the new year, but poor people can only follow a more long-term method, light a fire, throw bamboo poles into the fire, and listen to it.

The only consolation for him is that he has memorized the Four Books and Five Classics by heart.

The handwriting was also praised by the old scholar that he was really enlightened, and as for the magic movement, he was even faster than a horse.

At this time, Shi Zhongkui was really at ease.

It's a big deal to leave the capital, but when I think of the world of Red Mansions, I have basically never heard of ghosts.

It is not easy to subdue demons and eliminate demons, and the chances of earning merit in this way are even less.

After Chinese New Year, I tried to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics backwards in my spare time, and after only a few days of practice, I was able to memorize them word for word.

And in order to buy these books, there is a relatively large amount of paper used, and the cost of buying meat and eggs these days, only 13 taels of 6 taels of silver are left.

Fortunately, the Shuxiu given to Mr. Private School can be replaced with whole wheat semolina.

Calculated in one month, there are only a hundred letters.

In comparison, the old scholar's income is indeed only enough to support the whole family.

On this day, Shi Zhongkui went to Xiucai's house again with a 50-jin bag of whole wheat coarse noodles.

First, the old guy uncharacteristically asked about knowledge for more than an hour, seeing Shi Zhongkui's fluent answers, his face suddenly showed joy.

And before leaving, he dragged him to say some vague words.

Shi Zhongkui didn't understand at first, but after thinking about it carefully after returning home, he guessed that the old man was asking for money from the students, probably because he wanted to use the money to find a job in the Daxing County Government.

A scholar cannot be an official, but it is fine to be a scribe or a teacher.

And being a master can take the imperial examination again.

That is to say, the old thing is indeed related to the county magistrate, and the relationship should be pretty good, otherwise, not everyone can be a master.

Wait, Shi Zhongkui looked overjoyed, and suddenly wanted to understand the meaning of what the old scholar said.
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On the tenth day of February, even Shi Zhongkui felt exhausted after five consecutive exams, let alone other scholars.

The first thing she did when she got home was to boil the water. Meimei took a shower and cooked hot meals with her own hands.

Then fall to bed and sleep.

A few days later, I rushed to the Daxing County Government Office early in the morning, and the results of the county examination came out.

Seeing that his name was ranked first on the imperial list, Shi Zhongkui not only heaved a sigh of relief, but also happily followed the yamen servant into the backyard of the county yamen to meet the county magistrate, who was regarded as his benefactor.

It's a pity that after the county magistrate waved his hand to let the yamen servant leave, he said a few polite words and words of encouragement to learn.

Sitting and drinking tea with a tea bowl in hand, neither talking nor putting down the tea bowl, but holding the tea lid and sliding the tea leaves floating in the tea bowl.

(End of this chapter)