This book is a biography, in this case, we have to pick up the protagonist's household register.

Speaking of who this Fan Li (the hero of this book) is, what is his origin? His family was the landlord at that time!

According to the impression of the landlord in our minds for many years, then this Fan Li is the rich second generation, usually it must be a big fish and meat, and then there must be all kinds of maids, long-term workers, and servants at home. By the way, Fan Li is still the eldest grandson of his generation, and he is the boss.

You said that he is a young master, but that's not today, I think this little girl is very good, come, accompany the young master to study. That little maid is also very good, come, give the young master a massage or something.

Is this the case? It's called bullying men and women, fish and meat in the country, right! Although Fan Li may not be such a person, he has such conditions, which does not prevent him from doing such a thing.

When we talk about such landlords, as an ordinary person, the first thing we think in our hearts: one is envy, who doesn't envy such a life! Second, jealousy, how can they be waste people like this kind of young master and young grandmother, but I can't be it! The third is hatred, why can hating such people do such hurtful things, why do they want to do it but don't have that condition! In short, it is envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Is Fan Li such a rich second generation? Of course not, the landlord of Fan Li's family is actually quite miserable, when he was born, how much money the family had, I can't calculate.

But there are about 100 acres of land, a family of eight, and 12 and a half acres of land per capita. It was not a good time, but there was a characteristic of those days: low cultivation yields and general poverty, and a low quality of life.

Why? It can be seen from the local specialties of the folk that they are generally called fried and dried, boiled, blood sausage, offal and the like, and few things are on the table, which is still in a relatively prosperous big city!

If this is placed in the countryside of Fan Li, the ordinary people's usual life is even more miserable, and it is normal to eat the last meal without the next meal.

And a rural landlord like Fan Li's family is only limited to eating three meals a day, and it's not easy for you to say that you can eat some meat!

Moreover, the small landlord of Fan Li's family is not ancestral, it is Fan Li's grandfathers who have worked hard for generations all their lives, and they have saved it little by little: I work, earn some money, buy land, save no food, save no clothing, save some money, and then buy land. Roll little by little, roll around, and this family business will be rolled bigger!

This kind of thing is as difficult as saying that I buy an egg and come back and hatch it into a chick, and then the chick grows up and lays eggs, and then hatches into a chick, and so the chicken lays the egg, and the egg lays the chicken...... And then there's a farm.

So it's really not easy for this landlord of Fan Li's family, if it's easy, then everyone else can also become a landlord!

So even if you don't know how much money Fan Li's family has, then Fan Li must have been educated by his parents since he was a child, and his life must be relatively frugal.

In this case, such a small landlord family can barely solve the problem of food and clothing, and it stands to reason that Fan Li should inherit the legacy of his ancestors: work, save money, buy land, and then work, save money, and buy land......

However, when it came to Grandpa Fan Li's generation, the old man knew very well in his heart: the landlord of the Fan family was saved from generation to generation, my son also saved, and his grandson continued to save...... If you save from generation to generation, sooner or later the Fan family will become a big landlord from a small landlord!

But this old man's special foresight is: If there is no famous person in the family, no matter how rich you are, you will be a rich man, you will not be able to get on the stage at all, you will not be expensive, as the saying goes, rich, rich. You're rich, but you're not expensive! This family of yours will never have a place.

So Fan Li's grandfather took on a lot of labor by himself, and then created opportunities for his son, that is, Fan Li's father, to go to school.

As a result, Fan Li's father, as the only intellectual in the family, wanted to make him famous very difficult, because no one in the country told him how to learn?

Everything is groping, and the teacher he invited is not a very good teacher, and he can't afford to hire a teacher who is too good, so his father worked hard and studied for decades, and when he was middle-aged, he barely won a show.

But this is an important step for the Fan family, because in the past two or three hundred years, they have never heard of anyone being talented.

But it's not enough to just show talent, and there is still no fame, so Fan Li, as the eldest son, has become the only hope for the next generation of the Fan family, so Fan Li's grandfather and father have tried their best to let Fan Li study, and give Fan Li as much time as possible to study hard and gain fame as soon as possible!

But despite this, Fan Li's reading is not like our children today, the family is like a graduate student, a doctorate, you don't have to do anything, you just study!

Fan Li's study, he belongs to part-time work and study, this "work" is not the meaning of work-study, but the meaning of work, in his spare time, Fan Li still has to herd cattle for the family, chop wood, pick up cow dung, go to the market to sell his own small handicrafts, help people move bricks to earn some living subsidies for the family, these things have to be done, but they do less than their younger brothers.

But despite this, even if Fan Liang studied so hard, he didn't read well, and his results in the imperial examination were average, and like his father, he barely won a show, and he failed to take the Jinshi exam several times.

In those days, you were not a jinshi, just like today when you graduated from college, you didn't have enough credits or failed the exam, and the school didn't issue you a graduation certificate, although you can find a job to support yourself when you come out, but you definitely can't be a national civil servant. You see, today's civil servants do not have academic requirements, at least a bachelor's degree or above.

So at that time, Fan Liang worked hard to take the Jinshi exam, worked hard and worked hard, took the exam several times, and he couldn't pass the general exam, and he didn't want to take the exam after the exam, because this Jinshi was not like the test Xiucai, he was going to Beijing to catch the exam, you said that you went once, the family is not going to raise some money for you, so poor that you can't afford to sit in a carriage, then you always want to eat and drink on the road!

But Fan Liang never failed the exam, and his family really had no money after the exam, so he had to raise money and borrow money from relatives and friends.

In the first few days, relatives and friends were also willing to give a little, but if this Fan Liang really won the Jinshi, he would become a big official in the future, and he could forget about the villagers who raised money for him to enter Beijing to take the exam, then the money was worth it, and it was worth it!

Besides, if we in this poor and remote country can really become a big official, it will be a great event! Our poor relatives and friends also have a light on their faces, don't they?

However, Fan Liang didn't get admitted for several years, you always went to relatives and friends to raise money, and in the end there was no money at all, because everyone is also a villager and knows each other, and it is not clear who has a lot of money!

You said Fan Li, you can't pass the old exam, you can't pass the old exam, forget the first few times, give more or less money, but you can't stand it every time you come to borrow it, we poor people also have to live!

So in the end, I really can't raise money, so I just give up, this life is like this, show off your talents, and you can also be a teacher in the countryside for ten miles to support your family!

But Fan Li's uncle disagreed, and strongly demanded that Fan Li must insist on taking the exam, and even sold the only important labor force in his family, a calf, and sold a few taels of silver to Fan Li, saying: You can take this money to catch the exam!

Here we have to say, in the era of widespread hunger in ancient times, what did a cow mean to a family? The weight of this cow is definitely no less than the labor of two or three adults.

Let's take an analogy, you are pushing a small cart to sell Malatang, one day you sell the small cart, you sell all the tools to support your family, how will you live in the future!

However, Fan Li's uncle is powerful, he insisted on stuffing the silver to Fan Li, and said a lot of comforting words, otherwise Fan Li will always be unhappy in his heart, if people are always thinking about this in their hearts, and they have distracting thoughts, the exam will definitely not be able to play the original level!