"Master, my son is not eating again." The maid at home came to Lord Liang's study and said.

"What's he doing?" Lord Liang asked impatiently.

"Because there is no meat in the dish, I am losing my temper with my wife." The maid whispered.

Liang Wensheng can be said to be proud of the spring breeze in officialdom recently, but he is worried about the affairs of his son at home.

Liang Wensheng has a son, a daughter and two children. His son Liang Yuesong is 17 years old this year, and he was only admitted to the middle school last year and is still unmarried. Daughter Liang Yueshi, thirteen years old this year, is still waiting to be written.

One day shortly after the Spring Festival this year, when I heard the news that my father was about to be promoted, I was so happy that I went out to drink with my classmates, but I was so drunk that I lay in bed and slept for two days and two nights before I woke up.

Since then, his temperament has changed greatly, and he complains every day that this is not good or that is not good at home, especially when eating, he always says that the dishes made by the cook are not delicious. Originally, he planned to let him go back to his hometown in Chaoyi, Shaanxi Province to get married, study in his hometown county, and take the township examination next year. But he disagreed, saying that he had never seen that girl, and that he wanted to fall in love freely. He didn't care about the order of his parents and the etiquette of the matchmaker's words. He also boasted about Haikou, saying that he didn't have to go back to his hometown to study, and he would definitely go to high school in the autumn of next year, and he would definitely go to high school for the palace exam the year after next. Mr. and Mrs. Liang Wensheng once suspected that the drinking had ruined their brains.

How did Liang Wensheng know that now Liang Yuesong is no longer the original Liang Yuesong. He is the combination of the two souls of Sun Hongyuan and Liang Yuesong, and he has long been a traverser. When he first found out that he had crossed over to a family in the county, he was really happy for a while. He thought that he would be a veritable second-generation official in the future, at least he could run rampant in the county and call for wind and rain. But later he found out that it was not the case at all, his parents were very strict with him, and they did not let him go out casually, and he was only allowed to study hard at home. What made him even more unacceptable was that his family lived a very hard life, and he hardly saw any meat for a month. This is the life that the second generation of officials should have, which is worse than the poor households five hundred years later!

In the east wing of the inner hall, Liang Yuesong looked at the green vegetables and radishes on the table with a sad face, and said to Mrs. Liang: "It's been so many days since I came to Juzhou, why are I still green vegetables and radishes?" I can't see any meat at all, is our family so poor? ”

"Son, you used to be picky about food, what's wrong with you lately? Why do you always want to eat meat? Mrs. Liang looked at her son's sad face and said in wonder. I was wondering what happened to my son, I didn't like to eat meat before, is this still the original son?

Actually, it's really not!

Liang Yuesong twisted her body with some long flesh and said, "Mother, isn't it time for me to grow my body now?" Recently, the amount of food has been much larger. The son of a county order family is malnourished due to lack of food, isn't it a joke when it is spread out? ”

"How can a husband be so picky about eating and drinking!?" Liang Wensheng heard his son's words outside the door, and came to the house angrily.

Liang Yueshi saw her father coming, and hurriedly complained to her father: "Father, my brother said that he wouldn't eat if he didn't have meat. ”

Liang Yuesong secretly grimaced at her sister and secretly raised her fist. But the younger sister was not afraid, but made a grimace at him, snorted and continued to eat.

But he was too scared to speak loudly, and he was really a little afraid of this cheap dad. muttered in a low voice: "That can't be a green vegetable every day." You raised me like a free child. ”

"It's good to have vegetables to eat, you go outside the city to see, those victims can drink half a bowl of thin and weak, thank you for being here!" Liang Wensheng looked at this uncompetitive son and was a little angry.

"I want to go out of the city, but you won't let me go out of this courtyard!" Liang Yuesong complained.

"You have to study hard now, and then you will be in the autumn exam next year! Don't think about anything else! ”

"Dad, I promised you that I will be lifted in the middle of next year and enter the soil in the middle of the year after that. Why don't you believe it? ”

"Do you think Jinshi is so easy to test!?" Liang Wensheng asked rhetorically.

"I know it's not easy to take the test, otherwise why wouldn't my father fail the test five times in a row......"

This is Liang Wensheng's lifelong regret and a lifelong pain point, he was furious when he heard it, and shouted: "Get out!" You rebel! ”

Liang Yuesong saw that his father was really angry, and he knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he didn't eat anymore, so he quickly ran away.

Mrs. Liang persuaded her with kind words for a long time before Liang Wensheng calmed down her anger.

After that, he said tentatively: "Master, I can't complain about Song'er." Our family is indeed bitter, the rice in this rice jar is about to bottom, and there is still half a month before the day of receiving rice next month. I originally expected you to be promoted to the next level, and you will have more money, and the future will be better, but you know that you will be more constrained than before. You see that our family is doing well, and it is not as good as the officials of the yamen. The master's official reputation is important, but a large family also has to live. Can't you think of a way to get more money to subsidize your family? ”

"What do you know about women? I am a person from a high background, and I am fortunate to be appreciated by someone in the court, I will not take the opportunity to make political achievements, and then rise two levels to pave the way for Song'er. How can we learn from those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who are corrupt and pervert the law for bribes? That's self-destructive! Liang Wensheng said righteously.

"But there is no rice now, what should I do?"

Liang Wensheng heard his wife say this, sighed, and stopped talking. After a long while, he said: "The dozen or so pieces of soap sent by He Lichang last time have a strong fragrance, which is rare in the world. It must be worth a lot of silver, you take it out and let Wen Hui find a store to sell it, exchange it for some silver. ”

"Most of the shops in this city know Wen Hui, let him come forward, if this spreads...... Mrs. Liang said worriedly.

"Oh, why are you so stupid. Won't he be asked to find a shop in Yishui County to sell? ”

Before the maid could call Liang Wenhui, he knocked on the door and came in. He already knew about the shortage of rice at home, and after coming in, he asked Lord Liang to send people away. Then he said to Lord Liang: "My lord, I didn't touch a tael of the money I earned last time I went to Qi Hongfu's house to do things, so let's make up for my lord's family." ”

"Didn't I ask you to hand it over?" Liang Wensheng asked angrily.

"My lord, why are you so serious? But I earned it by doing things. It is completely legitimate income, and it is by no means stolen money. Just take it with confidence. Liang Wenhui explained.

"That's not going to work, you went to his house to do things, I instructed you. It's to investigate the case, it's a business matter. According to the Da Ming Law, this income must be handed over. ”

"My lord, Qi Hongfu only knows that it was Daoist Wenhui who reported him, and he still doesn't know the truth. You only need to make a slight change in the file you report to the Criminal Department, and who will know about it? ”

Liang Wensheng hesitated, a thousand taels of silver, to say that he was not tempted was false. But if this is discovered, it will be a ruined future.

At this time, Liang Fu said: "Master, what Wen Hui said is right, as long as you don't say it, Wen Hui doesn't say it, no one will know about it." ”

After their unanimous persuasion and repeated hesitation, Liang Wensheng still accepted the silver ticket.

As everyone knows, a few years later, it was this silver ticket that almost ruined his career.

After Liang Yuesong was driven away by his father, he didn't eat, so he went to his study. He lay on the bed in the study, silently reminiscing. It seems that this family is really poor, and his cheap dad is bent on performing well, getting appreciated by his boss, and having a chance to climb up. The mind was not set on making money.

In fact, he also knew that the Ming Dynasty was the dynasty that treated officials the worst in all dynasties. This is related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who grew up in bitter water, Zhu Yuanzhang hates those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it is good to be able to give you official work and power, and he still thinks about high treatment, but there is no door! Just work hard, if you dare to embezzle, you will be skinned! According to historical records, in the Hongwu Dynasty, there were tens of thousands of corrupt officials killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, which shows that Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless to corrupt officials.

But the more such things happen, the more corrupt officials become. By the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as inflation became more and more serious, and the treatment of officials did not improve accordingly, officials were almost all blatant corruption.

Like Liang Wensheng, a six-grade Zhizhou, the monthly income is eight stone rice. These eight stone rice have to maintain the life of a family of four, two maids, two servants, a long-term follower, a scholar, and a housekeeper, of course, it will be stretched.

When it comes to earning money, I can't count on my father, so I have to rely on myself. But how to earn money needs to be carefully considered. He used to study liberal arts, and he didn't know anything but writing articles. But when it comes to writing articles, the scholars of the Ming Dynasty are better than him if they pull out any of them. The most important thing is that he can't go anywhere now, and his father is too strict to have a chance to go out.

Although it is not good to write articles, I am afraid that no one in the Ming Dynasty can compare to him. In his previous life, he read too many novels in college, and after memory strengthening, these novels can be memorized backwards. And the current Ming Dynasty is the era when vernacular novels began to prevail, and at this time, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" have become popular. Reading novels has become the main pastime for readers after dinner, and various theaters have staged various operas adapted from novels, and some teahouse storytellers have widely disseminated novels as a storytelling theme.

As a result, writing books has become the main means of making money for readers, and only when they have rich imagination and old pen power, they can write novels and negotiate the price and share with the boss of the bookstore, and then they can be published and printed as books.

Thinking of this, Liang Yuesong decided to write the novel in his head silently. So he called the scholar and said, "Go and say hello to the old lady, from today onwards, this young master will change his mind, hang the beam, study seriously at home, and no one should disturb me." ”

After the scholar left, he spread out the manuscript paper, picked up the brush, dipped his ink and wrote on the manuscript paper the five big characters "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then wrote the four small characters "February Song" next to it.

Since then, Liang Yuesong's happy code word life has begun.