"Oriental News! Come and buy it! The "Oriental News" that has just been printed is still hot! Come and buy it!! ”

In the streets and alleys of Quang Jong, there are constantly newsboys in uniform running around, carrying uniform school bags with bundles of bundles of newspapers.

It's time for the new issue of the Oriental News to come out again.

Due to the growing maturity of newspapers, the previous monthly newspapers and ten-month newspapers have been unable to meet the market demand for newspapers, especially during the previous war with Yuan Jun, Lin Zhi boldly used the telegraph to transmit the newspaper's short messages on a daily basis, and finally pushed the newspaper to the point of publishing every other day, so the newspaper was renamed the more concise "Oriental News".

Although Lin Zhi is young, she is indeed much more courageous than Zhang Zhen and other old people, and she has already tried to set up branch newspapers in various counties under Ma Qiang's order, and then exchange news through telegrams, so as to increase the content of the newspaper and allow businessmen to place advertisements, which is really a lot of money.

"How much does it cost?" A man who was walking stopped and asked.

The newsboy looked at this man and frowned slightly, for this man was dressed in a very coarse linen garment, with two patches on his sleeves, his hair tied with a piece of hemp rope, and his shoes were straw sandals, and he was obviously a poor man.

"New newspaper, three dollars a piece, this gentleman, do you want one?"

"Three money?" The poor man touched his sleeve, and it took a while to find two pennies, he looked at the impatient newsboy, and said apologetically, "The money is not enough today, maybe I will give it to you in two days?" ”

"Sir, this newspaper is not mine, we have collected the money to give to the newspaper, if you don't have any money, please get out of the way, sell the newspaper!" Sell newspapers!! ”

"I want it all!"

The poor man suddenly smelled a faint scent of sandalwood, looked for a sound, and saw a man in a brocade dress waving a folding fan, and said to a few family members on the side, "Go, bring them all." ”

The newsboy nodded excitedly, which helped him a lot.

"There are twenty-seven more copies, eighty-one dollars."

These newsboys are selling these days, and nothing else, and the mouth is very fast.

"Send me all these newspapers and let them read them for me, maybe in a few days the exam questions will cover these current events!"

I don't know where the news came from, saying that the policy of this imperial examination was based on current affairs, which caused the sales of the newspaper to soar, looking at Lin Zhi's smiling eyes were gone, many people in the newspaper secretly guessed that this rumor was broken by their editor-in-chief Lin Da.

The poor man sighed, touched his two pennies and continued to walk forward.

The poor man's name is Mu He, a native of Hejian, he was originally a son of a poor family, but unfortunately his father died early, and there were no other uncles to take care of, and his life has always been very poor, but fortunately, his father left him a lot of books, and his mother is also from a famous family and knows how to write and ink, which gave him the opportunity to participate in this imperial examination.

He has already passed the county examination, and this time he is coming to Guangzong to participate in the examination.

He didn't have money to stay in a hostel, so he was ready to go to his sister, which was much better than sleeping on the streets.

Mu He inquired all the way, and finally found his sister's residence, and he knocked on the door.

"Who!!" A thick shout came from inside, the door was opened, and a smell of sweat suddenly hit his nose, and Mu couldn't help frowning.

The door was opened by a big man wearing the clothes of Nei Wuwei, and I saw that he was covered in sweat, and he didn't know what he was doing just now.

"Who are you looking for?"

"Mu Bing in the lower river, I wonder if Mu Bing lives here?" Home

"Brother?" An exclamation came from inside the door, and a woman dressed in frugal clothes came out to see that it was indeed her younger brother, and said happily, "Sure enough, it's you, you're finally here, come in, come in!" ”

Mu Bing pulled Mu into the compound in surprise, and then introduced, "This is your brother-in-law, Deng Tong, who is on an errand in the internal martial arts, this is my younger brother, he is a scholar, and he has passed the county exam, but unlike you, he has no interest in practicing martial arts every day!" ”

"Hello brother, hehe, you are a nobleman, come in and sit."

came to the county test, the youngest was also a county official, but Deng Tong, who was the lowest errand in the internal military guard, naturally did not dare to underestimate Mu He, and diligently let Mu He enter the house, and then said that there was something wrong with the yamen and went out.

"Let me take a good look, well, skinny! Why are you still wearing straw sandals, the cloth shoes I asked you to carry? Mu Bing looked at his younger brother wearing straw sandals and couldn't help but wonder.

"If you don't get enough of it on the road, you sell it."

"Hey... You wait, I'll bring you the shoes of the master to wear, anyway, they have shoes in the guard. With that, Mu Bing asked Mu He to sit in the courtyard and ran out by himself.

Looking at the shoes that his sister handed him, Mu He took them gratefully, but did not change them, but put them aside and asked, "What about the child?" ”

"I went to the school, we are blessed to live in Guangzong, Guangzong has now opened a primary school like Qingzhou, and the tuition fee is also low, your brother-in-law can afford it, so let the child go."

"It's good to be able to read."

"That's, aren't you just an example, when you get the top prize and get the official position, our father's spirit in the sky can rest in peace." As she spoke, Mu Bing couldn't help crying.

When their father died, Mu was still ignorant, but Mu Bing had already to help her mother take on the responsibility of supporting the family, and when they thought of the bitter things in the past, the two sisters and brothers felt very sad.

"Okay, don't talk about this, you sit, I'll go and prepare food for you, study well when you're full, and be sure to fight for our Mu family!"

Mu Heyan answered, opened the package and took out the books he was carrying to take out the temperature carefully, and after a while, a fragrance came to his nose.

This is... Chicken taste!

Mu He also forgot how long he hadn't smelled this smell, the price of a chicken was terrible now, but looking at the furnishings of this house, it was not rich.

The door suddenly opened, and a child's voice said, "Mother, I'm hungry, what does this smell like?" ”

After a while, Mu He faintly heard a cry.

"Wow~~~Wow~~~ I want to eat chicken!!"

"This chicken is for your uncle to eat, when you grow up, you will take the imperial examination, and my mother will also make it for you to eat, is it okay, now we don't eat it, don't cry, Bao'er is good."

"I don't~~I want to eat~~I want to eat~~"

Mu He couldn't help but have a sour nose when he heard this, and only felt that his arrival had brought a lot of pressure to this not wealthy family, so he silently put the books in the package and left, and left quietly without saying hello.

Not long after Mu He left, Deng Tong came in with a bag of food and shouted, "Brother Mu He, I bought dried tofu and a tael of fruit wine, and we will take a sip later!"

Mu and brothers? Mu and brothers? Lady, where is your brother? ”

Mu Bing came out with a crying child who was almost out of breath, and found that his younger brother was gone, and shouted, "It must have been when Bao'er was crying about to eat chicken just now, he heard it, you go and find it!" He has no money on him! ”

"Hey! I'll go! ”