Chapter 3 The Helpless Situation

Since he had accepted the facts, Fan Ming did not stay in bed anymore, and began to train his body every day, because he did not get out of bed for a long time, coupled with the fact that his nutrition could not keep up, Fan Ming's body was as weak as a straw, and even swayed from side to side when the wind blew.

However, it seems that the foundation of this body is not bad, plus the nourishment of chicken soup, after about half a month, Fan Ming can walk freely.

It was also during this time that he also figured out the dynasty and geographical environment he was in, no one in this simple mountain village would care about these, but the blind mother of this body seemed to know a lot, and now it was in the first year of the Great Song Xining, and the king of Tokyo was just appreciated by the official family.

Knowing this made Fan Ming feel a lot more relieved, because he was fortunate to come to this era of technological, cultural, and economic blowouts, which means that he came to this most dynamic and prosperous era.

His current location is a village under the jurisdiction of Chuqiu County, Yingtianfu, Jingxi Road, according to later generations, it should be Jingxi Province, Yingtian City, Chuqiu County, Qinghe Township, Qinghe Village, Yingtianfu is today's Shangqiu, Henan, but in this era belongs to the Hebei area, Jingxi Road is equivalent to today's half of Hebei Province.

and then to the family he was reincarnated, but there is a bit of a mysterious taste, from the old woman's chatter Fan Ming heard a lot of things, the three of them moved to Qinghe Village for only about a year, this is the ancestral land of their Fan family abandoned for a long time, the original family is also a solid small family, in addition to the premature death of the second brother, he also has two married sisters and an elder brother, and it can be regarded as a prosperous person.

However, a sudden disaster struck, and my father was drawn into an officialdom.

It was in a short period of time two years ago that a lot of changes happened, his father was imprisoned, and the fourth brother died violently, and the original solid family was instantly shattered, as for the specific reason, he didn't dare to ask carefully, I believe that what should be said will naturally be said.

He now has to face the cruel situation of this fragile family, even though his body is not yet fifteen years old.

I heard the old woman say that when her house was raided, she relied on the dowry brought by her sister-in-law from her mother's family to maintain a life, and she barely survived, but due to his sudden illness, he pawned all the remaining property in the family and became embarrassed.

Poor, extremely poor, the family had a simple old loom, which was rented from the owner of the town, and there was no tenant land, and there was no labor, which was the only means of sustaining the family, and the only income of the family was the sister-in-law who went to the weaving yard in the town to work as a maid and the blind old woman to spin the yarn at home to earn some wages.

Fan Ming secretly checked the 'family property' in the entire house, and the only thing that was worth it was probably the iron pot, and there were also brown wheat and millet stones, which were about more than 100 catties, and there was not much oil and water, which was only enough for three people to have more than a month's rations, which means that the reality was that it was difficult for the family to maintain even a basic life.

After figuring out the current situation, Fan Ming had a strong sense of crisis, and Fan Ming thought about it in his heart for a few days, how to save this dilapidated family.

The first thing he thought of was to see if he could find some business to do, after all, this is his old business, in the impression that the commodity economy in this era of the Song Dynasty has been very developed, even more than several times the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, but after thinking about it, he shook his head, no capital, coupled with unfamiliar situation and inconvenient transportation, all this is empty talk.

In the past half a month, after figuring out all this, Fan Ming planned to familiarize himself with the surrounding environment first, and the blind old woman said: "Mother, I want to go to the county seat, by the way, see if there is any work!" "After so many days, although I am still a little unaccustomed to calling my mother, I can barely speak smoothly.

Early the next morning, in the old woman's relieved smile, Fan Ming set foot on the road to the county seat, before leaving, the old woman groped out a jade bracelet from under the bed and twenty copper coins and stuffed them into his hand, Fan Ming felt a trace of emotion in his heart, he knew that this was already all the belongings in this family.

Qinghe Village is not too far from the county seat, about 20 miles away from the two mountains, of course, he has no plan to do anything, just want to get familiar with the surrounding environment, understand the specific livelihood of this era, so that he can quickly integrate into the current society.

The distance of twenty miles is long and short, and Fan Ming came to the so-called county seat in less than a morning, not to mention disappointment, but there is still a trace of resentment, this Ying Tianfu subordinate Qi County is far from being as prosperous as imagined, but overall it still has the appearance of a county seat, all walks of life seem to be complete, and the streets are full of people.

Fan Ming measured himself, and kept calculating in his heart where he should start, any career start is very important, sometimes a person's start determines the fate of a person's life.

However, he found himself seriously ignoring one problem, and that was his age.

Although the age of more than fourteen is not too young, it is a fatal flaw for applying for some good positions, although he can barely write calligraphy, but it is not his turn to touch the very professional positions of accounting and clerical work.

The only occupation that can adapt to him is apprenticeship, running hall and other positions, but after carefully considering the working conditions and income of apprentices and running halls, Fan Ming immediately denied this idea, instead of making such a small amount of money and wasting time here, it is better to buy coolies, but to have more money, and to subsidize the home environment.

At the noodle stall at the city gate, Fan Ming asked for a bowl of shaved noodles for three cents, rubbed his sore knees, and drank the hot soup to put a bowl of noodles into his stomach, he had never found that a bowl of clear soup noodles could be so delicious before.

After eating, he wandered around the city for a while, and after making sure that he had not found any more opportunities, he set out on the road home disappointed.

After polishing in the society for so long, he never believed that anything could be obtained casually, and only by laying a good foundation in a down-to-earth manner could he complete the primitive accumulation of capital and make achievements.

Looking at the sky, it was still early, but Fan Ming was not as anxious as in the morning along the way, and looked all the way along the way, but also saw a lot of plants and animals that were not available in that era, and some customs and customs, which made him see some bends and curves.

He found that due to the underdevelopment of transportation in this era, the so-called commodity economy completely revolved around the four major aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation.

If there is some capital in the future, it is a profitable business to open a transportation bank, but at the moment these are just an idea, and the difficulty of implementing it should be no less than building a rocket, and there are too many aspects to consider.

Hurried forward all the way, and when he was about to approach his home, Fan Ming deliberately took a detour to Qinghe Township, and he unexpectedly found that this town still has a bit of a prosperous taste.

There were several small ceramic workshops and several weaving workshops around the township, and although he could not really see anything inside, he still saw some of the working hours from a distance, and thought that his little sister-in-law was also working in one of the workshops here.

Not far away, he also saw a village school, and when there was a subdued reading in it, Fan Ming's heart couldn't help but move. The Great Song Dynasty is an era of the rise of literati, no learning in this era is difficult to move an inch, this learning of course refers to the way of Confucius, Mencius and Huang Lao, which is precisely their own weakness, and the village school is a bridge that they must pass, if it is really not possible, come to the workshop here to work, by the way listen to the class, long knowledge.