Chapter 15: A Life of Affluence
The sky is overcast, the rain has finally stopped, Yun Zheng has a lot of things today, half a bag of copper coins, three buckets of rice, plus a pot of pigs in the water, it can be regarded as a full load, and the flat burden is heavy on his shoulders, which makes Yun Zheng full of a sense of achievement.
I haven't seen what the silver coin looks like, and now I have three ingots in my sleeve, if this thing has no fame, it is a lot of trouble to use, only the official family uses this thing, and the so-called official silver refers to this thing.
Ordinary people are not qualified to use it, and if they want to use it, they can only go to the money store to exchange it for copper, otherwise they will be locked up by merchants as big thieves.
Yun Zheng resisted the desire to peek, and hurriedly walked home with his burden, and when he passed by the big bluestone, he saw a small mark there, yes, tomorrow's deal has been settled.
The straw sandals made strange noises when they stepped on the mud, and the delicate mud came up from between the toes, and the feet were full of mud, and they couldn't shake it off, and after a while, the two feet were like wearing a pair of mud boots.
Cang'er and they can't go home, so they can only spend the night in the rotten grass shed, what Yun Zheng can do is to help him dry the blanket every day, so that when he sleeps, he can cover it to be somewhat warmer.
The village was deserted, but the small building of the Yun family was very lively, the old patriarch had already taken some old people in the village to burn the fire pond prosperously, Yun Er sat in the arms of the old patriarch, listening to them talk about some things in the past, as for Yun San, he had already been lying on the stairs and looking forward to Yun Da coming back, because only Yun Da came back to have something to eat.
No one asked where the rice and grain that Yun Zheng picked came from, as long as the man who can bring the grain home is a good man, this is the consensus in the village.
With the help of an old man, Yun Zheng hung the cauldron on the fire, and took out a wine gourd from the basket, this is real wine, it is a good wine that has passed the sieve, not too much, but it is very precious.
The countrymen are not so particular, Yun Zheng scalded the wine in the hot water, and first held the wine syrup in a large clay pot to the old patriarch, the old patriarch's laughter couldn't help but be much louder, he raised his neck and took a sip, and handed it to the old man next to him.
The meat pot was boiled, the brown rice was cooked, Yun San was about to lean forward with his ears, but was kicked away mercilessly by an old man, Yun Zheng took out the cooked pig lungs from the basket, cut it with a small knife, and put it in a clay pot with a large piece missing and gave it to Yun San.
"This kid is just messing with good things, how can he feed the dog so much good meat." An old man had half a intestine in his mouth, a piece of chopsticks, and kung fu to watch Yun Zheng feed the dog.
"Your old man is laughing, and the kid is reluctant, but there are three lives for us in the family, I call it Yunsan, and I raise it like a younger brother, and I am also a member of the family."
Yun Zheng found a piece of belly in Yun Er's small bowl and put it in his arms, let him grab it with his hand and eat it, and didn't forget to tell him: "Eat less, if you eat it, your stomach will be in trouble." ”
Yun Er immediately followed the kindness, ate a little, and poured the remaining stomach in the small bowl into the old patriarch's big bowl, and the old patriarch immediately hugged Yun Er, who was desperately resisting, and kissed it big.
The old patriarch looked at the bottom of the pot where there was not even soup left, and said with a wry smile: "They are all those who have never seen the world, and they are closer to the meat than they have seen their own mothers and sons, children, you are an insightful child, I went to the construction site to see Cang'er, and he told me that only these people you are responsible for on the construction site can still eat and drink, and there is chicken soup to drink, do you know, most of these people you are responsible for are people in our village, and there have been no accidents so far, and they are all well taken care of."
Grandpa doesn't ask you where the extra food came from, why do you still have food to take home, only know that you didn't withhold the rations of the laborers, and you didn't steal to rob it, that's enough, the means of making money and food in the men's family are all secrets, this taboo grandpa knows, I only ask if you forgot to study? ”
The old patriarch's eyes became fierce when he said this, in his opinion, as long as Yun Zheng coped with errands every day, he needed to keep reading, he asked Cang'er, but he didn't find that Yun Zheng was studying on the construction site, thinking that he had forgotten his most important task.
Yun Zheng took out the books given by the patriarch, put them in front of the patriarch and said, "The junior has finished reading these books. After speaking, he took out a stack of papers from the side and pushed it in front of the patriarch and said, "This is a book that I wrote down silently, and the younger generation has checked it, and there are still nine omissions, which have now been completed." In this way, there are two sets of books in our clan, and there is no problem with these books to take the county exam, but if you want to pass the guò government exam, it is impossible to take the college exam.
Grandpa the patriarch, these things are big troubles, the number of our whole clan is too small, and I am the only one who participates in the children's exam, not to mention where do you find a show to recommend the younger generation to take the exam? ”
Yun Zheng's series of words made the patriarch dumbfounded, just now he was still happy that Yun Zheng had finished reading his book, and when he heard the tedious examination process, he suddenly fell from the clouds into the abyss.
"Patriarch Grandpa, these things are not difficult to say, the younger generation made a bet with Liu Dutou, he came up with the question, I will answer, but he lost, so he is looking for Xiucai to be guaranteed, looking for a boy's joint examination, these things are done by him, as for the books, there are in the county school, I heard that there are only three students in our county, and you need to be a child before you can go in. The kid didn't think there was a problem. ”
After listening to Yun Zheng's words, the old patriarch took a long breath and complained to Yun Zheng: "You stinky boy, can't you finish the words in one go?" Look at my sweat. ”
The old man looked at Yun Zheng, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and he couldn't help but patted Yun Zheng's head affectionately, and said proudly: "This is the first child in our village." After speaking, he looked at Yun Er, who was sitting in his arms, and patted his head happily and said, "This is the second one, God, you must let the old man live to see the two children get famous, if you just talk about it when you burn paper?" J panicked, who did the old man show off? ”
The old man chattered for a while before he went home with his books, leaving the ones that Yun Zheng wrote silently, and he insisted that Yun Er still needed these books.
The old man went out, Yun Da, Yun Er quickly began to clean up the mess, scalded the dishes and chopsticks with boiling water, Yun Er dragged Yun Da's clothes to be delicious, just hinted that not to eat those pig intestines means that Yun Da still keeps better things for himself.
Yun Zheng found a piece of freshly cut bamboo, cut it into two pieces and poured out the bamboo drain in the bamboo joint, filled it with polished rice, took out a cooked pig's heart from the bamboo basket, mixed it with a little vegetable oil, stuffed it into the bamboo tube, tied the bamboo tube with straw rope, and threw it into the pot of boiling water to cook.
Finally, he broke a piece of pork liver and handed it to Yun Er and said, "The pork liver is all for you, and when you are hungry, you can break a piece and eat it as a steamed bun." “