Mingshi

Chapter 179 The Worries of Zhouzhi County
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Luo Xin glanced at Zhou Tingyu, seeing that his expression had eased a lot, he continued:

"As for the issue of identity leakage, firstly, Xin'er used a pseudonym of Huang Shiweng, and secondly, the shopkeeper has already sworn not to reveal my identity. Taking ten thousand steps back, even if my identity is exposed, it is actually not that serious. Top I am more likely to be despised by some scholars. And not necessarily all Shilin people will despise me. If there is contempt, there will be appreciation. I will use my future knowledge to make those who appreciate me appreciate me more, and those who despise me will shut down. mouth."

Zhou Tingyu closed his eyes, opened them after about ten breaths, nodded to Luo Xin and said:

"It seems that you are fully prepared. You can take this food shortage as an assessment of yourself, which is very good. And according to your plan, it will not delay your study, and you are very relieved of your self-disciplined foster father. Only this last point, if your identity is exposed to some extent, will have some impact. But it is not a fatal weakness. In this case, foster father will not stop you. But, you have to remember, I will still leave you If I am not satisfied with the homework of Shiwen Zhiyi, I will let you move here and watch you every day, and I won't let you write that stupid book again."

"Yes!" Luo Xin secretly wiped his sweat in his heart.

There was no movement in the study, Luo Xin and Zhou Yu glanced at each other, both of them showed a look of relief on their faces, and then they both looked at Zhou Tingyu, their hearts sank, and their hairs stood up again, because they saw Zhou Tingyu was still sitting there with a gloomy face, as if thinking about something.

Luo Xin and Zhou Yu didn't dare to move, they could only stand there obediently.After a while, Zhou Tingyu raised his eyes and sighed:

"sit down!"

"Yes!" Luo Xin and Zhou Yu sat down politely.

"Alas..." Zhou Tingyu sighed first, and then said: "Hao De, Xin'er, don't pass on what I said to you for my father today."

"Yes!" Zhou Yu and Luo Xin's hearts tightened.

"Although the harvest this year will be a little better than last year, the farmer's surplus has been exhausted last year, and the imperial court is not exempt from taxes. In fact, this year's life is even more difficult than last year. I am afraid there will be riots by refugees."

"Refugees riot?" Luo Xin and Zhou Yu were shocked.

"What's so strange about this?" Zhou Tingyu said with a sneer on his face: "It's not like it never happened? But it's not a climate, and it will be wiped out soon. But there are also times when the county is attacked, not to mention It's those villages. So, Xin'er, you have to be careful when you return to Shanglin Village. If it doesn't work, your family will move to the county town. It's fine if you don't want to live in your adoptive father's house. Now that food is scarce, housing prices in the county town are also low. By the way, I have a friend, as you may recognize, that is the mountain dweller. He has a garden in the county seat. Although the area is not large, it is not small. There are more than 150 houses and a pond in the backyard. He He has already left Yanglin County to live in Jinyang Mansion, and entrusted me to sell his garden. He only needs 150 taels of silver, but the garden is very dilapidated. Originally, all his family members lived in Jinyang Mansion, and he was the only one. Occasionally lives here. So he is too lazy to repair it. Now that there is a food shortage and he is short of money, he sells the coin at a reduced price. In fact, it is said to be sold at a reduced price, but he didn’t make any money when he bought it, because he wanted to renovate the garden. , [-] taels is not enough. Repairing is more expensive than buying. So no one has bought it. Besides, in the food shortage period, who would buy real estate? However, Xiner, you buy it and use it as a place to live temporarily to escape the war. .”

Luo Xin's heart moved, and now he doesn't worry about money, at worst, he will write a few volumes of "Shu Shan Biography" first, and solve the problem of money.And in the future, after he is admitted as a scholar, he will also need to buy a real estate in the county.Didn't you see that Zhang Shu's family has real estate in the county?
Dang even nodded and said, "Okay, Xin'er will buy it."

After saying that, he took out 150 taels of silver from the bag and put it on the table.Zhou Tingyu did not refuse either:

"It's getting late today, and tomorrow I will have someone complete the deed."

"Thank you foster father!"

Walking out of Zhou Tingyu's study room, he felt a little nervous when he thought that there would be a homeless riot.So he thought about buying a horse for himself and his father, and then giving himself a pass.But, that doesn't leave much money left.The horse can be abandoned first, but it is necessary to give yourself a pass first.

the next day.

Zhou Yu first accompanied Luo Xin to finish the house deed quickly, and then took Luo Xin to see the garden. Luo Xin looked at it, couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.This garden is dilapidated enough, but it is worthy of the title of mountain dweller.Instead, there is a pond in the back garden with lotus flowers growing in it and some carps.There is also a nine-curved bridge above the pond, and an octagonal pavilion in the center of the bridge, but they are all dilapidated.

Coming out of the garden, Luo Xin went to the blacksmith shop again, and asked the blacksmith to give him another knife. This time, the blacksmith immediately agreed, and even lowered the price, only charging 50 taels of silver.In this period of food shortage, how would he dare to charge more?

Then Luo Xin had to hire a car to buy food.Zhou Yu knew that the horse Luo Xin was riding belonged to Luo Qing, so he gave Luo Xin a batch of horses.Of course Luo Xin was not polite, he was worried that he would not have a horse to ride.

At this time, Luo Xin still had 100 taels of silver left on him, and the price of grain has increased sevenfold. Luo Xin spent 70 taels of silver to buy [-] catties of grain, and then hired a car to take him back to Shanglin Village.

When Luo Xin's family saw that Luo Xin brought back [-] catties of grain, their faces showed excitement.With these [-] catties of grain, their family can survive until next autumn.After everything was settled, Luo Ping asked:
"Xin'er, who did you borrow this food from?"

"I didn't borrow it, I bought it."

"Bought it?" Everyone in the room was taken aback.

"Ok!"

Luo Xin nodded, and told his parents and elder brother about the matter, and then told his parents and elder brother not to tell about his book writing, even grandpa couldn't tell.If grandpa asked, he would say it was borrowed.

Luo Ping and his wife and Luo Qing nodded one after another. Luo Qing gave a thumbs up and said, "Little brother, you are really good. You are good at reading and writing. Big brother admires you."

Luo Ping and his wife also looked at their youngest son with admiration, but Luo Xin remained silent. Being praised by his elder brother and admired by his parents, Luo Xin was naturally flattered in his heart, but kept calm on his face.But no one is more familiar with his little brother than Luo Qing. Seeing his brows upturned in satisfaction, he stretched out his hand to pat Luo Xin and said:

"Don't hold back, hurry up and smile proudly!"

"Hey..." Luo Xin couldn't help it anymore.

"Pfft..." Roche couldn't help laughing out loud.

"Hahaha..." Luo Ping also laughed heartily.

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