Cai Cong was very happy that he finally ate rice, and the dishes were also cooked by himself. Sister Cai's cooking was light and tasteless, and he really couldn't eat it.

Cai Gang's family was even more happy and speechless, just to accompany him to Chang'an City, he got two stones of white rice, which gave him the illusion of walking in the clouds. Sometimes it is too easy to get, but it feels very unreal, so that I get up at night and watch it three times, for fear that it will be a sweet dream.

The next morning, there were always people walking around outside the fence of Cai Cong's house, and when the fragrance of minced meat and millet porridge was permeating, some people stopped to take a long breath.

Tao Yuanming said that he would not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, but this kind of statement has no market among ordinary people. When Cai Cong pushed the door open, he could see a group of people with smiling faces.

The villagers had no ill intentions, and their smiles were a little flattering, reserved, and a little wary. They hope to get some benefits from Cai Cong, but they are afraid of being ruthlessly rejected, so they have mixed feelings, just thinking of a child who is eager to get candy.

"Hello elders!"

Cai Cong said gently and politely, he would not look down on the villagers, and he would eat the biggest in the world. There is no shame in the fact that the villagers want to be given the opportunity to earn food.

"Brother Cai, hello. Have you eaten it? ”

"Good, oh my God, good."

"Brother Dog, what are you burning at home? It smells so good! ”

"Bastard, if you want to call Brother Cai, if I hear you call a dog again, Lao Tzu will beat you to death."

The humility of personality is vividly reflected at this moment, if it was yesterday, a dog would have barked, but today it is not, because the person named Cai Cong can already eat dry food.

"The elders are here today, the kid already knows, go up the mountain to catch chickens and come back to raise! Chickens lay eggs, eggs lay chickens, and there is no end to it. Cai Cong said with a smile, he suddenly thought of the terrible locust plague in the second year of Zhenguan.

Thousands of miles of red land, easy to eat, more than a dozen state capitals have no harvest. He couldn't control the miserable people, but he wanted to help the villagers. Although there is not much contact, these are kind people.

Hearing Cai Cong say that raising chickens, the faces of many villagers immediately collapsed, and it takes at least two months to lay eggs for chickens, besides, the whole village raises chickens, who are so many eggs sold to? What to use to raise chickens?

"Brother Cai, raising chickens will fly away, let's raise chickens for rice, let's not exchange much!"

"A big chicken can be sold for a hundred Wen, and you can cut its wings short if you are afraid that the chicken will fly away, but you must raise a lot of it!" Cai Cong said faintly, his expression at the moment was a little trance-like, no one could still pretend not to know after predicting the catastrophe.

He only hopes that he will have more chickens, so that he can eat more locusts and save some food.

"One hundred? God! How is this possible? ”

Someone immediately screamed, a chicken cooked in a restaurant is only 30 yuan, and now it will be sold for 100 yuan if it is raised and sold, who would buy it so stupidly?

"I prove! Cai Ge'er, those chickens yesterday were really sold for 100 wen. Otherwise, where would you get so much money to buy rice and cloth? Cai Gang walked refreshed, and when he saw people, he showed off the hot scene yesterday.

"So what are you waiting for? Hurry home and ask the mother-in-law to go up the mountain to catch chickens! A clever man shouted, running as he spoke. In his opinion, if he has time to listen to Cai Gang's praise, it is better to hurry up and catch chickens.

As soon as he heard him say this, the other villagers ran away at once, for fear that they would catch more than others if they ran slowly. The whole village seemed to come to life at once, and the sound of scolding the wife, the cheers of the children, and the barking of the dogs were all suddenly full of life.

"Brother Cai, are we going to catch chickens and sell chickens today?" When the people were gone, Cai just came over and asked, he received a few stones of rice yesterday, he was more happy than guilty, and he always wanted to help do something.

"I want to go into the city today to buy some books, but it's always inconvenient for me to go with a child, and I need to trouble my uncle to accompany me into the city." Cai Cong felt a little guilty, fortunately, it was August, not the busy farming season, so he wouldn't delay Cai Gang's farm work too much.

"Buy books! Brother Cai, are you really going to study? Did Old Master Wei's bundle be sent over? Did he accept it? ”

Cai Gang originally felt that he behaved like a scholar, but now that he is going to buy books, it is not strange, but he is worried that the old master will not accept Cai Cong.

"Hehe, I didn't think about apprenticeship, I read by myself. Uncle go to the ox cart and let's go. "Cai Cong didn't think about worshipping any old master in the past, and he just passed the time by studying by himself, if he apprenticed, many things would have to be restricted by the teacher, and the prince of heaven and earth in this era is not talking in vain.

Cai Gang didn't ask much, anyway, this is not an ordinary child. He asked himself if he could keep up with Cai Cong's thoughts and practices.

The ox cart walks very slowly, it is an old cow, and as it walks, it stops and gasps. Cai Gang was very sad, he was no longer sitting on the ox cart and walking with the ox.

"Big black! What's wrong? Are you tired? The old man insisted, Chang'an City is almost here, and I will buy you beans to eat in a while, which must be better than forage. Cai Gang's eyes are a little moist, Da Hei has been in his house for more than ten years, and he has long been regarded as a member, and now he is old and dying, how can he make people not secretly sad.

"It's dying, what are you going to do?" Cai Cong sat on the ox cart and asked lightly.

"Naturally, it is reported to the government, alas, not to say this. Let's go" Cai Gang lost interest in speaking, urging Lao Niu to walk silently all the way.

The poor family is of the highest quality, the book is really expensive, the remaining two dollars yesterday are enough to buy a book of Analects, if it weren't for the shopkeeper to see that Cai Cong was weak and studious, and took the initiative to subtract 500 Wen, he might have to return in vain today.

Cai Cong held the book, sat on the ox cart and read aloud, and Cai Gang, who was holding the ox, looked at him with a completely changed look. Although he didn't understand why Cai Cong was literate, his eyes were full of awe.

Although he was inexplicably afraid of Cai Cong before, he was somewhat confused by strange powers. Now Cai Cong reads loudly, page by page, more clearly and smoothly than those who have been reading for many years, how can this make him not in awe.

When I go, the sun rises in the east, and when I return, the sun is like fire. The village should be quiet at this time, but there is a constant noise in the village, and loud cursing can be faintly heard.

"It's the voice of the chief, I think it's from your house." Cai Gang listened to it for a while, and suddenly said to Cai Cong with a dark face.

In ancient times, it was said that it was the rule of law, but in fact, it was better to say that it was the rule of man.

The lieutenant chief is a relatively prestigious person in the local area, and belongs to the bridge between the government and the local government. He was responsible for collecting taxes and distributing conscripts at the local level. In terms of rights, this is only for the patriarch.

But there are good and bad lieutenants, and the lieutenants of Caijia Village belong to the bad kind. Although it is not the kind of sores that flow pus on the top of the head and sores under the feet, he definitely has a share in the rampant township, and it is no wonder that Cai Gang wants to change his face.

Cai Cong's face also changed greatly, he was close, and with such a loud voice, he naturally heard what he said clearly.

"Let's go!"

Cai Cong said, reached out and grabbed the whip and whipped the big black whip fiercely, and the old cow ran in pain. Cai Gang let out a sigh of excitement and ran wildly after him.

The old cow went on a rampage like crazy, watching the lively crowd hurriedly dodge, and for a while the scolding came and went.

An old man in a silk robe was helped by two men to escape the ox cart, and the horror between life and death made all the shrewdness in his eyes disappear, leaving only deep fear.

Cai Cong tightened the reins, and the old cow was uneasy to dig his hooves, but he also quieted down. "What happened to Mother? Why are you crying? Cai Cong ran over and asked with concern about Sister Cai, who was leaning against the door and crying.

"Master Zhang, please, my family is only eight years old! How could he serve in conscription? Raise your hand. ”

Sister Cai was still a little strong, but when she saw Cai Cong who came back suddenly, the fear in her heart instantly magnified, and she couldn't stand steadily.

"Hmph, this is the law of the imperial court, is it that you can accept it if you say it? Longxi is now in full swing, the imperial court transports grain and grass, according to the law, one person from five households, and the other four Wude have already served during the year, and now of course it is time to go to your house. ”

The frightened old man said with a calm face and a very gloomy face.

There is often a rumor that there is a delicious chicken today, Zhang Lichang originally wanted to find out where to buy it, but he didn't expect to find out that this secret recipe was from an orphan and widow under his jurisdiction, which made him not use his brain? Originally, he just wanted the secret recipe and didn't want to make things bigger, but now he doesn't think so anymore, he wants to force Cai Cong to death, and he dares to hit him with an ox cart, causing him to make a fool of himself in public.

"Tang Law Volume 8, widows, widowers, only sons in the family, and those under the age of sixteen do not need to serve forced labor. Zhang Lichang, my mother lives alone, I am eight years old, and Tang Law stipulates that I do not have to serve forced labor. Now that you want me to serve in the conscription, what statute do you use? Is there a law in the year of the great cause? ”

Cai Cong spoke very calmly at first, as if he was reciting a book, but when he talked about the great cause, he almost shouted out, and when he heard these two words, the faces of many people who watched the excitement changed.

The name of the great cause was very sensitive in the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty had a high evaluation in history.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, absolutely no one would miss him, and these people who had experienced turmoil and baptism of war regarded Emperor Yang of Sui as a wolf and a tiger.

Zhang Lichang's face is not much better, his position as lieutenant chief was given by the official family, it was given by Li Tang's official family, if he dared to say that he used the law of the great cause, then he was either beaten to death by the angry crowd, or tied up to the Chang'an County Ya.

Zhang Lichang was not sure if Cai Cong really knew Tang Lu, but when he saw the Analects in Cai Cong's hand, he was silent. How could a scholar misremember Tang Lu? The most important thing is that he himself is just a village grass, so what books have he read?

"This is a new law, and you don't know it, why do you disobey it?" Uncle Zhang scolded sharply, seeing the angry crowd on his face, his face became unwilling, he sneered in his heart, these foolish women were really bluffed again, it was nothing at all.

Thinking of this, he took two steps forward and raised his head, and said to Sister Cai condescendingly: "Actually, there is a way to make your son not have to serve servitude, you have a child out of wedlock, it is a shame, and it is already your patriarch's mercy not to soak you in the pig cage." As long as you marry, your family's conscription will naturally be borne by your man, not by your son. ”

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the population dropped sharply from more than 8 million households in the Sui Dynasty to more than 3 million households. Therefore, the court stipulated that men must marry when they reach the age of 20, and women must marry when they reach the age of 16.

At the same time, widowers and widows are also encouraged to marry, hoping to increase the population as soon as possible. Therefore, the size of the population also became an important component of the performance evaluation of local officials at that time.

"You say that to introduce that man to my mother?" Cai Cong looked at Zhang Lichang coldly, this kind of foolish trick was too superficial in the eyes of him, who was an international liar in his previous life, and he didn't want to look at him at all.

"Hmmm! Yes, there is a cousin in my distant relative, who is thirty-five years old, in the prime of life, and he is newly widowed, and he does not dislike your mother. It's just right to make a pair. ”

Zhang Li said with a smile, and the two servants shouted very doggedly that Sister Cai had won a great blessing, and she could only be worthy of such a wishful husband today.

"The ancients said that the picture is poor and the dagger sees, your old dog's sense of smell is quite sensitive, saying so much, it is nothing more than seeing my family, yesterday I got a cart of rice, I have a way to make money, I want to find someone to be the master of our family, and rob the wealth."

An eight-year-old man always speaks with a little milky voice, even if he is angry and very unhappy.

Zhang Lichang's name is Zhang Xiao, and when he used to listen to book reviews, he heard some stories that prodigies were born to know, and he always felt absurd. But now he is really afraid, an eight-year-old child not only has a good way to make money, but also has a mind like a demon, and he breaks his plan in one word.

"Let's go! Tomorrow Chang'an County Ya see, I want to see if your Tang law is the same as the Tang law of the Tang Dynasty. After Cai Cong finished speaking, he helped his mother and walked towards the house, unwilling to look at him again.

"Master, he's going to sue us, do you want to ...... at night" The servant beside Zhang Xiao made a murderous gesture with a fierce face.

"This kind of person can't be frightened, and you can't get the secret recipe if you kill it, you will go to my brother's place in a while, tell him about it, and say that he will tell him a plea in the county order, as long as you can ask the recipe for those two dishes, his benefits are indispensable."

Zhang Xiao thought about it, and said in a low voice, he hasn't done this kind of thing before, the other party is just a child, can he still turn the sky upside down?