Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 84 Emerging clues

The next day, Fang Shi still got up early, made breakfast, did not go to the field for the first time, but stayed at home to tidy up, and glanced at Luo Baisu's small room from time to time.

Luo Baisu was probably really exhausted, and he slept until it was three o'clock in the morning before waking up, seeing a family of three all fully dressed, waiting for his own meal, with an embarrassed expression on his face.

Luo Tian felt that the failure of the exam in his family was too much. If it was so easy to take the exam, it would be impossible for such a big Qiushui town to not have a juren in the past 20 years.

After eating, Luo Baisu picked up the bowl consciously, then changed his clothes, and went to help Fang in the field.

Mrs. Fang quickly stopped him: "You just came back, it's good to rest for two days, the work in the field is almost done, just waiting for the firewood to be brought back, and it will take a long time to plant cloud sprouts."

Luo Tiandu decided to stay at home all day today, to be a caring and good daughter, so as to enlighten Luo Baisu once, so that he would not be too confused.

Luo Baisu went out for more than a month, and he missed his two children very much. Seeing that Mrs. Fang was busy, he hugged Luo Tiandu, put him on his lap, and teased her, "Does Xiaodu miss Daddy?" ?”

Luo Tian has black lines all over her face. Being a child has both advantages and disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that she is often hugged like this, which makes her very uncomfortable.She twisted twice and failed to get it off, so she had to give up and replied: "Of course I want to, Dad, tell me about your going to take the Juren examination."

When the matter of rushing for the exam was mentioned, Luo Baisu's eyes darkened, and after a long silence, he reluctantly said: "Father failed the exam, and Xiaodu was disappointed."

Luo Tiandu still had a smile on his face, and said nonchalantly: "Then continue the exam next time, and one day you will pass the exam." The students of later generations have studied hard for more than ten years just to cope with a college entrance examination, and there are still many failures of it.

Luo Baisu was amused by her childish words, and felt that he was not as optimistic as a child, so he said with a smile, "Xiaodu is right, I failed this time, let's come back next time, and one day I will pass the exam."

"Father, please tell my eldest sister and me more about the things in the provincial capital. Is the street lively? Are there many shops? What are they selling? Dad stayed there for more than ten days, did you encounter anything interesting?" Luo Tian instantly turned into a hundred thousand whys, wishing that Luo Baisu could show her everything in the provincial capital like a movie, to see if it could inspire her to come up with some new money-making ideas.

For Luo Tiandu's small request, Luo Baisu was naturally willing to meet it, and immediately described what he saw and heard in the provincial capital vividly, but he only stayed in the provincial capital for ten days or so. , Nine days of which he was locked up in the Gongyuan for exams, and for the rest of the days he stayed in the Taoist temple in the suburbs to save money. He actually didn't look too carefully at the bustle and bustle of the provincial capital.

However, when it comes to interesting things, it's really one thing. It's not interesting to say, but rather weird.

This time the chief examiner is Master Zuo Qingzhi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy.This Lord Zuo was a student of the late great Confucian Gu Ziqian, and his knowledge is unrivaled in the world. The number of candidates in each exam supervised by him has always been [-]% lower than that of other places.Moreover, this Zuo University scholar seems to be very interested in being the chief examiner of Qiu Wei for the past ten years. The second department is in Qiyang, the third department is in Fengyao, and the fourth department is in Huaxi Mansion.This is a pain for the students in the Northland. Originally, they were inferior to the literati in the south of the Yangtze River in terms of learning, and Zuo Qingzhi, a giant Buddha, sits in the town. In the past ten years, the number of literati in the Northland who have passed the scientific examination and entered the court as officials has become sharper than ten years ago. The reduction is nearly one-fifth, which has also caused the situation of the civil servants in the south and the military in the north to become more and more serious, especially the number of civil servants in the north who are above the fourth rank, and it has to be said that there is a lot of Mr. Zuo credit.

It was really bad luck that Luo Baisu ran into his hand the first time he participated in Qiuwei.

The strange thing is that Zuo Qingzhi Zuo lord, after killing Luo Baisu's article, actually avoided the eyes and ears, and secretly invited him to meet him at the posthouse where he was. It's a great honor, although the meeting time was only an hour, and the content of the conversation was mostly Zuo Qingzhi's criticism of his articles as not new, his diction was dry, and he even criticized his handwriting for lack of style.

Luo Baisu didn't know what Master Zuo's actions meant. He didn't want his wife and daughter to worry too much, so he kept this detail under wraps.

Being able to be summoned privately by Mr. Zuo, even if it's just criticism, doesn't seem like a bad thing!

Luo Baisu was a restless person, and he had a conversation with Luo Tiandu and his sister, feeling relieved that he hadn't seen the child for more than a month, so he still rolled up his sleeves and went to the field to help Fang.

Luo Tian saw that his expression became much more cheerful, and that his goal had been achieved, so he let him go, and went to the room by himself, took out the account book and began to write and draw.

Luo Mingdu looked at it curiously, and felt that the little girl is getting better and better now, she can still recognize some of the ledger written in front of her head, but today she can't even read it.

Luo Tian was sullen, and listed the flowers for the next few months of this year. Now the family has enough food, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar don't cost much. He also bought farm cattle. The only big head is Luo Baisu. The cost of studying.

She plans to send Luo Baisu to study in the county in the coming year. Since the whole family is determined to make Luo Baisu pass the examination, the money that should be spent will still have to be spent. If possible, she even hopes to send Luo Baisu Going to the provincial capital to study, without a famous teacher to teach, shutting up at home every day, thinking about it by myself, I can't think of anything famous, the efficiency is too low.

However, in this way, the family's annual expenditure will increase by dozens of taels, which is not a small amount.

So she was worried again, not knowing where to get the money.

Fortunately, the matter of making money has to be done slowly, there is no rush, so Luo Tiandu had no choice but to put this issue aside for the time being.

People in the village knew about Luo Baisu's brother's failure in the scientific examination, and most of them could understand. When I was rushing for the exam, I made great fanfare and looked like I was bound to go to high school, but now I can come back disheartened and chew my tongue for a while.

Of course, Luo Tian didn't take these rumors to heart at all, but it was Fang who sulked twice at home.

Luo Tiandu comforted her and said: "Mouths grow on other people's bodies. They talk except for eating. Let them talk as they like. Can we still restrict them from talking? Let's live a prosperous life first. Fire is the order of the day."

Fang thought about it carefully, and felt that it made some sense: "No, after all, I still live my life, and no one else knows."

In order to save money, Luo Baisu was reluctant to eat and use food in the provincial capital, and he lost a lot of weight when he came back. Luo Tian thought about making up for him, or if he waited for a few days, it would be time to grow rapeseed again. Still have to work hard for a while.

Her family harvested more than 1000 catties of rice, and there was no shortage of food. Luo Tian was already tired of eating coarse grains, and Fang's grinder picked a load of millet to pound the rice.

Because there is no rice thresher, the oldest manual way to remove the chaff is to put the millet in a wooden barrel, and people hold the rice pounding pestle and smash the millet in the barrel to separate the chaff from the rice grains.Pounding rice in this way is not only hard work, but also inefficient, and most of the rice grains that have been hulled are broken rice.

Fang Shi pounded a load of rice, and was too tired to lift his hands. His whole body was drenched in sweat, as if he had been fished out of the water.Luo Tian looked distressed but there was nothing he could do. She couldn't conjure up a rice threshing machine, so she had to turn her head away and gritted her teeth as if she didn't see it.

After putting the broken rice into the vat, Luo Tian frowned looking at the remaining chaff and rice bran, and asked Fang, "Mother, what should we do with the rice bran? How about we buy two piglets to raise?" "Rice bran is prone to damp and mold after being stored for a long time, so it is more cost-effective to dispose of it as soon as possible.

Mrs. Fang also quite agreed: "I am also thinking about buying two piglets to raise, and now our family is not short of food, not to mention anything else, there is a lot of rice bran left over every time the rice is pounded. It is suitable for raising pigs." This rice bran is a good thing, and it can be used as a serious ration in times of famine.

"Where are the piglets caught?" Luo Tiandu asked again.

Raising pigs requires a pigpen, and now that a cowpen has been built in the Luo family’s yard, there is no longer room for a pigpen.Yao shi's pigsty is empty, but he also knows that Yao shi will never be so generous to let them use his own pigsty.

Fang also frowned: "Why don't I ask your grandfather to see if his family still raises pigs this year? If not, we can borrow them and share an extra piece of meat with them when the pigs are slaughtered." That's it."

Luo Tian thought about it, and felt that this was the only way to go now, although she really didn't want to have anything to do with Yao Shi.

well!It is really inconvenient not to have my own house, and there is no place to raise anything even if I want to.

Luo Tian secretly thought, no matter what, next year he must save some money and build a house.

Mrs. Fang went to ask Mr. Luo about raising pigs. Mr. Luo didn't care about these matters, so Mrs. Fang asked Mrs. Yao to go to Mrs. Yao.

In order to make money for Luo Baihan, Mrs. Yao had already wiped out all of her family's money, and even sold two acres of land. Now, how could she have any extra money to buy piglets? Feeling that Fang Shi was showing off a mockery in front of her, his face turned dark immediately, and he only reasoned that he wanted to use the pigsty himself, and refused to lend it to Fang Shi.

Old man Luo listened to them talking for a long time, and seeing that Mrs. Yao said he wanted to raise pigs, he said, "How many pigs do you want to raise?"

Mrs. Yao originally said that raising pigs was just to get rid of Mrs. Fang, and had no real plan to raise them. He suddenly heard old man Luo ask, and said, "One head." Feeding pigs requires a lot of grain, so how can we feed many pigs.

(End of this chapter)