How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

At the beginning of spring this year, Chenjia Village was obviously more desolate than in previous years. There are obviously many fewer people in the village.

I heard from the village chief Chen Qiliang that during this war, several more unlucky families were wiped out. He also said that except for one old woman who was at home in their house, all the wives and daughters at home had long been snatched away by murderous men from the north.

And they all carried the time. The soldiers who followed General Wang could return home, but those who followed other generals could only run south.

According to his estimate, those people would probably never come back in this life.

If you don't come back this time, won't you become a destitute family?

Hearing such things, Chen Feiyan couldn't help but think of the Han Yuefu poem that she had memorized when she was studying.

This poem is easy to understand and must have been written by someone who has read books.

"I joined the army at the age of fifteen and returned home at the age of eighty. When I met a fellow villager, I asked, "Who is there at home? Looking far away is Jun's house, with numerous pine and cypress tombs. Rabbits enter from the dog's sinuses, pheasants fly from the beams, valleys grow in the courtyard, and sunflowers grow in the wells. The grain is pounded for rice, and the sunflower is picked for soup. The soup and rice are cooked for a while, but I don’t know who will eat them. When I went out and looked eastward, my clothes were stained with tears. "

He went out to serve as a soldier all his life, and was only able to return home when he was about to die. However, at this time, he had no father, no mother, no children, and his relatives and friends had long since died and scattered, and the clansmen who had left the fifth service no longer recognized him.

Chen Feiyan did not have a deep understanding of that kind of loneliness and desolation in life when she was studying.

It can be said that she didn't even feel anything back then.

However, this year, when she returned to her hometown with her husband, children, and her husband's brother's family, she actually felt a sense of timidity near her hometown.

After returning to her shabby thatched hut, she felt a little unreal for nearly five days.

Chen Yixuan also felt deeply about this.

After killing people on the battlefield, he felt very sad. Later, he tried his best to save himself. After finally returning home safely, he felt like he was in another world.

It’s so difficult for a common man like him to live!

Thinking that it would be really dangerous if he continued like this, Chen Yixuan went to bed early and got up early every day, and secretly worked hard at home to study hard.

Even though he was sowing seeds in the fields with his family at the moment, he was still thinking about the articles he had memorized this morning.

Chen Yixuan has a very profound idea.

He felt that what his grandfather told him at the beginning was that everything was inferior, but only education was good. This sentence made so much sense.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, scholars are, after all, superior to others.

If he is short-sighted and is satisfied with his current situation and thinks that being a centurion-like leader in the military camp is already good enough, then he will not end up well in the future.

Because he served as a soldier and fought in the war, he would always be just cannon fodder in the eyes of the big shots.

He lives with his own head in his arms.

Originally, the treatment in the military camp was not good. There were all kinds of corruption and bribery, taking advantage of others, fishing in troubled waters, and enriching one's own pockets. My military salary was only one tael of silver a year.

With just this little money, the people above wanted him to work for them? This is impossible.

Now their family has only one solution to the problem. That is, he should obtain fame as soon as possible. Even if he only becomes a scholar in this life, his family will be able to change their class and their destiny!

With such great determination, Chen Yixuan studied crazily.

Chen Feiyan felt extremely distressed when she saw that he was studying and plowing twenty acres of land with the men in his family every day.

Doing so many things and doing so much work requires energy.

If she didn't strengthen his nutrition, how could his body hold up? She has always taken good care of the five taels of silver that Chen Yixuan gave her. She won't spend it easily until the critical moment.

Seeing that he was studying so hard, Chen Feiyan took the initiative to discuss it with him: "Master, I still hid the hundreds of salted eggs we made in our tunnel in our tunnel! After half a year, they should not be broken yet, right?" ?”

When Chen Yixuan heard this, he showed a look of surprise. "The pickled salted eggs should last for a long time if you don't move them, right?"

When their family was arrested, it really shocked them.

Neither Chen Yixuan nor Chen Feiyan expected that the people in the government would be so diligent in catching young men.

At that moment, it was still the twelfth lunar month of winter, and the snow was so deep. Both Chen Yixuan and Chen Feiyan thought that no one from the government would come.

Therefore, they couldn't bear the severe cold while hiding in the tunnel, so they had no choice but to crawl out of the tunnel and stay in the house with a heated kang.

In this winter, when the temperature is tens of degrees below zero, they have to stay in a room with a kang so that the family can stay warm and sleep well at night.

It was because of their luck that they were caught by the government in the middle of the night.

Chen Yixuan felt shuddered when he thought of the madness with which those people in the government were trying to catch young men.

According to the current national law, scholars who have achieved the title of scholar or above are not eligible to serve in corvee.

They could keep their family alive without having to do corvee labor.

Only these poor children like me have a chance to truly grow up.

"Daughter-in-law, I will go to the tunnel later and pick up all the salted eggs pickled at home."

"Also, I will carefully count how much food is hidden in the tunnel."

When Chen Feiyan heard this, she looked frustrated: "Dad, let's not take chances. I feel like most of the food in the tunnel was stolen by others. Fortunately, I dug in the ground when I hid the food. The grain was buried three meters deep. Otherwise, during the half month our family came back, we would have to spend our own money to buy it in the county town!"

Chen Feiyan felt particularly annoyed when she thought that even now, her belongings were still stolen by others.

Food is so valuable these days!

If you stutter, you can save a person's life.

Thinking of this, Chen Feiyan couldn't help but encourage Chen Yixuan. "Daddy, tell me, can you take the exam this year?"

Seeing Chen Yixuan stunned, Chen Feiyan suppressed the excitement in her heart and spoke to him.

"Dad, our family still has the five taels of silver to protect our capital. I think this money must be spent wisely."

"Look, if you take the science exam this year, if you pass it all at once and become a scholar in our county, then our family's burden will be greatly reduced in the future. After all, scholars will not have to pay the poll tax. They can save dozens of lives a year. Wen’s expenses.”

"Moreover, if you can study in the county's official academy, you can also receive a certain amount of rations every year..."

No matter how she calculated, Chen Feiyan felt that becoming a scholar would bring many benefits. The whole family can benefit.

Chen Yixuan had that idea in mind.

Now that he saw that his wife was proactive about this matter, he couldn't help but express his concerns.

"I actually have this idea too, but I'm worried that I won't pass the exam this time."

"It's very expensive to go out to take exams. First, I have to go to the county academy to find a master. Only after we become friends can he be my co-guarantor."