Mingshi

Chapter 163 Worry
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Now Zhou Yu's demeanor has changed a lot. This year he didn't visit friends and travel around like before, but stayed at home and devoted himself to studying contemporary literature and art. His father's words made him feel alarmed. If both Luo Xin and Zhang Xun passed the exams in the future, but he failed the exam, there would really be no room for this face.

His background was already good. In the past year, Luo Xinyou had communicated with Lu Tingfang and Zhang Xun on Lu Tingfang's advice, which made Zhou Yu's writing and art making a qualitative leap.The elegance of the body is stronger.

Zhang Xun is now an adult and named Ziyu.

His knowledge has also made great progress, with a qualitative leap. He studied hard in the county, and regularly received advice from the county magistrate and Luo Xin's experience from Lu Tingfang. He has a strong bookish air.

Although Luo Qing was a year younger than Zhang Xun, his height had already surpassed Zhang Xun, and he was only two fingers shorter than 20-year-old Zhou Yu.He has a mixture of heroism and elegance, and he has a different kind of demeanor.This is due to his martial arts practice and reading military books and strategies.

Luo Xin is the youngest, only 11 years old, but his figure is already close to that of Zhang Xun, only a finger shorter than Zhang Xun.His temperament is different again.There is a kind of elegance and freedom in the elegant temperament.This kind of elegance and freedom comes from his insistence on practicing Taoist Tai Chi every day, and he has already started.

It's the new year, so they naturally won't study contemporary culture and art, that thing is too boring.The four brothers chatted openly, and now when Luo Qing sat with the other three brothers, it became very natural.He can already fully understand what the three brothers said, and he can also participate in it.

Of course, there were times when Luo Qing couldn't participate, such as composing poems.

However, Luo Qing no longer feels embarrassed when encountering such a situation. Luo Xin once told him that no one is omnipotent, and not being able to compose poetry is nothing.Therefore, whenever he was composing poems, he would sit there with a smile and look at the three brothers.Sometimes whoever does too badly, he also laughs.

Days pass by.

Luo Xin's homework was improving day by day, but he didn't feel the slightest joy in his heart.The days are approaching the autumn harvest day by day, and the situation this year is really not very good. The crops are in better condition than last year. According to my father, there should be [-]% of the harvest.

but……

The imperial court has resumed taxation...

If this is nothing in normal times, didn't you pay so much tax before?
But it was just hit by a disaster last year!
The people's families have no food left over, and they survived last year with great difficulty. If they pay taxes this year, they will starve again.He couldn't even live on, sold his ancestral property, and even sold himself into slavery.

Everything is for survival!
Even Luo Xin's family was gradually running out of surplus food. If Luo Xin was not confident that he could borrow food from Zhang Shu, Lu Tingfang or Zhou Tingyu, he would have panicked by now.

If there were no such means of borrowing grain, Luo Xin's family would have no choice but to sell the farm they had just started and the fertile land they had just bought, and return to their miserable life in the past.Even if the situation is better next year, Luo Xin's family will still be a poor peasant.

Luo Xin didn't want to borrow food, he always felt that he was a time traveler, if he couldn't solve this problem with his own ability, it would be a shame to the time travelers.

In addition, he also regards the food shortage at home as a test for himself. If he can even solve this food shortage by himself, then he will not be afraid to face Yan Song and Xu Jie when he becomes an official in the future.

He has the confidence that as long as he is willing to work hard, he can solve all problems!

but……

If he can't figure out a way to solve the food shortage at home, he feels that he will lose his confidence.In the future, he will definitely encounter a more difficult predicament than this one. If he can't even solve the immediate predicament, how will he face the difficult predicament in the future?
this day.

Luo Xin rode his eldest brother's horse towards the county seat alone, and it was time to study at Lu Tingfang's home.Riding on the horse, Luo Xin was a little absent-minded, thinking about ways to make money.

The surplus food at home may not last for a month with the current way of eating, so I have to figure out a way to make money within half a month.Some people in the village began to sell land and houses again.

The land seller is okay, although he has no land, as long as you have good crop work, you can do long-term work.

In fact, the life of long-term workers in ancient times was not as impoverished as later generations imagined, and they were oppressed by landlords.On the contrary, the landlord wants to treat the long-term workers well. The long-term workers are not domestic slaves. The landlord treats the long-term workers badly this year. In the second year, the long-term workers will not farm the land for this landlord, but for others.

If a landlord has a reputation of being harsh and insulting to the long-term workers, all the long-term workers will not dare to farm for him. In this way, even if the landlord has a thousand hectares of fertile land, he will live in poverty because no one will plant those lands for him. He can only be left alone.

But not only the land sellers but also the house sellers will be in a lot of misery. When they eat up the little food they get from selling the houses and land, they really have nothing to live or eat. There are only two ways for them, One is to become a refugee, and the other is to sell oneself into slavery.

Once you sign a contract and become a domestic slave of someone else's family, you will lose all your freedom, and even your life will not belong to you.Even if the master killed the slave, he would not be punished, at most he would be fined a few dollars.

Therefore, in order to avoid becoming domestic slaves and starve to death, some people sold their children and daughters.Of course, some people want to sell themselves too, but rich people don’t want it, they only want young ones.

Now in Shanglin Village, some people have started selling themselves as slaves, and people from other villages came to Shanglin Village to beg for food and sell themselves as slaves.

Now there are only three Zhuangzi in Shanglin Village. Others call it a courtyard house, and at most the courtyard house is bigger. Unlike these three Zhuangzi, which occupy a large area, you can tell that it is a big family just by looking at it from the outside.

The Dazhuangzi ranked first is the village head Zhang Shu's family, the Zhuangzi ranked second is the Zhuangzi that Lu Tingfang bought to give to Luo Xin, and the third is the current Luo Xin's family.

Luo Xin's family can't even survive their own life now, so naturally they won't buy slaves.And Lu Tingfang was even more incompetent, that Zhuangzi originally wanted to give it to Luo Xin, but now Luo Xin didn't want it, and he just sent a few servants there to manage it, what kind of slaves did he buy?
Besides, in his current situation, keeping a low profile is the way to survive.

In this way, Uncle Zhang's family with the largest Zhuangzi was left. Zhang Shu bought a few maids and domestic servants. Anyway, in this year, it doesn't cost much, or even no money. Five catties of millet can be exchanged for a big girl to be a maid.

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