Chapter 3 Life is to be able to eat enough first (II)
The small environment that Tang Que crossed into was a small mountain village under the jurisdiction of Yunxi County, Jinzhou, Shannan East Province, if converted according to the administrative divisions of later generations, the "Dao" of the Tang Dynasty was similar to the province of later generations, and the "state" was equivalent to a prefecture-level city. Shannan is divided into east and west, because it is located in the south of the Qinling Mountains, so it is named after Shannan. These two are located in the Qinling Mountains and the Daba mountain system of the encirclement, the biggest feature is that there are many mountains, since ancient times there is a saying that "the land is not divided into three parts, seven mountains, two rivers and one field", fortunately, there are many mountains and rivers, and the people can fish out some production from the dense mountains and forests and rivers to supplement the lack of grain production.
If you are specific to the family he was reincarnated, all the situations can be summed up in just one word, that is, poor, very poor. This was originally an ordinary peasant family, and two of the eldest sisters of the three children had already married, and the married family was also an ordinary farmer. In the prosperous times, the family was originally in good shape, but a serious illness of Dumiao's son made the whole family impoverished.
From the initial weakness of the whole body, to the high fever and coma that lasted for more than 20 days, the original owner of this body, Tang Cheng, was ill for more than half a year, first the money for his daughter-in-law prepared by the family was spent, then the sale of slope land, the sale of large livestock, and then the sale of the house.
Now the family is borrowing three old houses that have been abandoned by others for three or four years, which is why the musty smell in the house is so strong. The total property of the entire family is only 600 copper coins, which is equivalent to about 180 yuan when converted into later generations. In addition, there is an acre of paddy field, four stones of grain storage, respectively, rice and wheat three, converted into the measurement unit of later generations, it is equivalent to more than 100 catties of rice, and a little more than 300 wheat.
In addition to these large items, there are a number of grain bran and bran at home, these things are not only feed for poultry, if you catch up with the famine year, it is also used as life-saving food by the villagers, and there is a saying in the countryside since ancient times that "bran vegetables are half a year's grain", so it is necessary to count it when taking stock of the family.
It is worth mentioning that there are six chickens at home, and all of them are hens that can lay eggs, in fact, Tang Zhang's originally raised a lot, but they were all eaten up by his sick son in the past six months. Because the custom of the Tang Dynasty was to eat pork in the north, there was no custom of eating pork in the people, so there were no pigs at home.
The last thing to talk about is Tsukuda. There are taxes to be paid, and the family has to eat with three mouths, and the yield in the field at this time is far from being as high as in later generations, and it is not enough to rely on just one acre of paddy field, so the Tang family tenanted fifteen acres of sloping land to Liu Lizheng, the largest landlord within a radius of dozens of miles.
After figuring out the family background, Tang Que spontaneously gave birth to a strong sense of crisis, not to mention the problem of money, first of all, the food was almost unstable. It is now March, and the wheat in the mountains is ripening late, and the family will have to hold on until the beginning of July to harvest new wheat and new grain, at least nearly four months.
Usually there is little oil and water, and it is heavy work, so people will naturally spend more money on food, so if it is calculated, three people in four months must prepare at least about 400 catties of grain, it seems that the food stored at home is enough, but if you count the chewing of wheat customers when cutting wheat, it is a little worse. But this wheat customer could not be uninvited, if the wheat grabbing was delayed in order to save these expenses, all the harvest in a season would be ruined by a rain, and the taxes of the imperial court and the rent of the tenant land would not be less. As for the 600 yuan for mobility, it can't fill this hole, because it has to be kept as a salary, and it can't be used indiscriminately.
In the more than half a month of recovering from his body, when Tang Que understood these things one by one and understood the calculation and planning, he said to the farmer and his wife: "Dad, mother, I want to go to the county seat tomorrow", after more than ten days, although there was still a little stumbling when shouting, the word "father" and mother Tang Que finally shouted out.
Early the next morning, Tang Que embarked on the road to the county seat with forty copper coins, at least he was very confident in himself when he walked on the road, but he also graduated from a famous university in the later life, and he passed the sixth level of English in his freshman year, and now he can still live a good life when he returns to this 1,300 years ago?
Under the domination of such self-confidence, Tang Que almost didn't rest his breath on dozens of miles of mountain roads and went all the way, of course, this is also thanks to the good body he inherited, although he has been sick for a while, but the foundation laid by participating in labor since he was a child is very solid.
The height of about one meter seven or eight nine is definitely called Yushu Linfeng in this era when the average height is slightly lower, because of the height and some slender body muscles are bent, looking quiet but solid and solid. Another thing worth mentioning is the appearance, thick eyebrows, big eyes and high nose bridge, although there is no Tang Que later generations of beauty, but there is the masculinity that is most in line with the aesthetics of the Tang people. All in all, it's quite atmospheric, and you don't stumble when you go out.
Although the journey was urgent, it did not hinder Tang Que's good mood, and when he looked at the mountain scenery on both sides, he couldn't help but praise the current forest coverage rate is really high, and the air is really good. But when he really walked into Yunxi County, his original good mood completely disappeared.
Tang Que was hit, and it was one blow after another.
It wasn't until he actually started looking for a job that Tang Que realized that the imaginary theory of the superiority of the traverser was bullshit, at least when a traverser was in such a low starting point as his.
Originally, Tang Li thought that it would be no problem to get a writing job in this era with the education he received in later generations, but when he was really immersed in the scene, he found that he couldn't write with a brush at all, and he couldn't even write large characters, let alone the daily use of the hairpin. And even if he could write calligraphy, he couldn't recognize all the traditional characters of the Tang Dynasty, and no one knew the simplified characters he wrote. This scene is like boiling dumplings in a teapot, although he does have goods in his stomach, but he can't pour them out.
The brush can't be used, the basic common words can't be written, and in the eyes of others, Tang Que, who came in confidently and high-spirited to find a job, became a joke.
In such a situation, even if Tang Que wanted to recite two classic poems memorized in later generations, it would be in vain to shock people, who could believe that a person who couldn't even write with a brush could make good poems? Such an act is just to add another name of a poet thief to himself, anyway, there are more elegant thieves in these years, and everyone is not surprised.
Temporarily gave up the idea of relying on knowledge to eat, Tang Que, who graduated from a famous university in later generations, could only retreat to find a job to eat by physical strength, and the result was that he suffered a ruthless blow again.
"Do you want to make a career in this restaurant? Well, the young man is very open, don't embarrass our Piaoxianglou, let's talk about it, have you worked there before? Do you do the stove work or run the hall? Oh, if you want to run the hall, okay, you can first report a senior wedding banquet in the Accord and I'll listen to it...... No? The small three-yuan table that is scattered is also fine...... Nor will it! I said, young man, you are here to make trouble, you won't do anything here. Ah Fu, don't just know how to giggle, send him out".
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"Yes, our pharmacy is short of a buddy, do you want to do it? Come in, come in and talk, young man, look at it, in the medicine cabinet outside here are the one hundred and thirty-seven herbs that are often sold in this store, how many can you recognize? You don't need to be too familiar with the medicinal properties, just know the cold and temperature, and know the medicinal properties...... Hey, boy, I'm not done yet, don't be in a hurry."
For the pharmacy owner's call, Tang Que just didn't hear it, and the louder his call, the faster Tang Que left, embarrassing, adding up all the embarrassing experiences in his later life, there were not as many people as he lost today. After spanning 1,300 years of time and space, Tang Que truly understood why career guidance teachers emphasized the importance of "work experience" so much in later university classrooms.
Wuwen can't do the work of ink, the work of the service industry is inexperienced, Tang Que even ran to the Sihai warehouse in a hurry, indeed, he can do the labor, but after carefully inspecting the working status and income of the laborers, Tang Que categorically dismissed the idea, instead of working here as a cow and a horse to earn so much money, it is better to go home and farm the land cost-effective.
The small county town was not big, exhausted, and the disappointed Tang Que dragged his two sour legs and sat down on the roadside cake stall, first spent three dollars to buy three Hu cakes, and then swallowed the Hu cakes with noodle soup that didn't need money while resting.
After eating, looking at the sky, Tang Que got up and walked towards the city gate without looking back, since this county town is not suitable for him now, he has nothing to be nostalgic for. When he was a child, his family experience told him that even if he complained a lot in the face of unsatisfactory things, it was useless, so he should do what he should do first.
hurried home all the way, but Tang Li did not leave in a hurry as he did in the morning when he passed by the village entrance this time, but deliberately took a few more steps to take a closer look outside the village school located not far from the village entrance.