Chapter 7: How Much Sweat and How Much Eat
Rural people from poor and small households, even if they feel sorry for their son, someone must do the work in the field, not to mention that at Tang Que's age, he should have been the strong laborer of the family a long time ago, so even though he was tired and wanted to die the next morning, Tang Que still got up and followed the second elder to the ground.
The days of farming are very tiring, very boring, and the time passes very slowly, after two or three months of intense farm work, Tang Que's face and arms are a little darker, the muscles under the trouser legs that are pulled up high are also a lot stronger, and the calluses on his hands are also thinly layered, at the same time, the waist that has not been able to stand up for the first few days is now as tall as a pine, which is different from the loose and loose sitting in the office for a long time in later generations, and now there seems to be a breath of air in the body.
Not only that, but the strong physical labor of these three months of sleepless night also brought another benefit to Tang Que, he had a very serious insomnia in his later life, and he was cured without medicine, think about it, now he is tired and stinky to death every day, and he can fall asleep with a pillow after going to chuang, what is the difficulty of insomnia? After going to this problem, the trace of decadence and erratic in Tang Que's eyes disappeared completely.
When Tang Que occasionally thinks of the nihilism of the later generations, he really feels like a different world, thinking about it with today's experience, he is quite a little feeling about the disease-free moaning of the later generations, what is the meaning of life? In fact, this question is not philosophical and mystical at all, it is a down-to-earth farming, a real life, for today's hard work, tomorrow's good harvest is meaningful. When it comes to the medium-term plan, the significance of it is to completely change the poverty of the whole family, move out of the current dilapidated house, and the family will eat and dress well. As for the farther life goals, it is a bit vague for Tang Que, but in general, it should not be bad for himself and his family to live a decent life.
Look at these short, medium and long-term plans, where is there still a bit of nothingness? The piles and piles are real, and they are also the wishes and responsibilities that Tang Que needs to work hard to realize.
Transform the soul with labor, touch the soul in the way of laboring its flesh and skin, and the great task of heaven must first starve its body and skin, and deplete its body! Anyway, after three months of heavy work and a life of eating and eating, although Tang Que's people are rougher than before, the spirit in his bones is like being tempered by a furnace fire, and he is less frivolous and impetuous, and the whole person is full of peace of mind and reliability. So that many villagers who saw Tang Que were amazed, although these villagers couldn't say anything about temperament, they all agreed that the Tang family kid is now more and more like the big gentlemen in Yunxi City.
It was also in the interval of work, Tang Que asked about the situation in the village school, the Tang Dynasty began to establish a complete education system since the time of Gaozu, through the three dynasties of Taizong, Gaozong and Wuhou, now not only the imperial examination system has become a permanent example, even the school system at all levels has been completed. The official educational institution has a national eunuch in the central government, and there are two halls in the palace, Chongwen and Hongwen, which are dedicated to collecting the children of princes and nobles to study. In addition to the Taoism of various provinces, there are also prefecture and county schools in the local area, all of which are called official schools, in which students can study Confucian classics and calligraphy, arithmetic, and law. As for the examination is also a layer of selection, the top grades in the county school enter the state school, and then through the examination to select into the Taoism, there will be an examination every year in the Taoism, in order to select the excellent character and learning as the Taoist tribute students recommended to the Chang'an Ministry of Rites to participate in the annual Luncai ceremony, seeking fame.
As for the village school that Tang Que was worried about, it did not belong to the official school system, and most of the teachers in the school were old teachers who had returned to their hometowns from the state and county schools, and they mainly accepted poor children from nearby villages. As for their income supplement, it is not to eat the imperial grain, but to allocate a part of the public land from the nearby village to support it, so that the children of poor families are exempted from the annual expenditure of bondage. Because of the strong charitable nature of this village school, it is also known as Yixue. It is somewhat similar to Yizhuang, which collects and buries the body of the ownerless.
As for the management in the Yixue, it is far less formal than the official school, and the students here think more about knowing a little bit of words, and they can calculate simple accounts, and no one expects to be able to gain fame from here. Therefore, the whole teaching order seems to be scattered, and most of the students go home to help with the work when they are busy with farming, and the gentlemen just turn a blind eye and let it go.
"This is very much in line with my situation", Tang Que thought to himself after listening to the introduction. In his current situation, the most difficult understanding of the scriptures for other students is not a big problem, but what he urgently wants to learn is the most basic things, such as practicing brush characters, converting simplified and traditional Chinese characters, etc., and this kind of learning process can be completed at home in private, and there is no need to spend time in the school to draw red and shake the head of the chanting.
After secretly writing down these circumstances, Tang Que spent more time wandering around the village school when he was at work, but now that the family problem was not solved, it was inconvenient for him to make such a request.
After three months of solid work, the grass in the slope has been hoeed four times, and the farm work is idle for a while, and the farmers take advantage of this time to rest their bodies and bones in preparation for the busy double rush when the wheat is ripe.
After three months of hard work, Tang Que was really unaccustomed to being idle at first, and it was difficult to stay at home that day, so he simply put on a half-arm made of linen, "Mother, I'll go out for a walk and breathe."
"Aunt Li, it's all over, you're still busy."
"Hey, it's such a big fish, it's still peach petals, Brother Zhang is so lucky! I'll be able to drink two good things tonight."
Tang Que went out of the door, casually greeting the villagers he met, and walked towards the village school. These days, when he is idle, he likes to go to the vicinity of the village school to relax.
When he arrived near the village school, Tang Que didn't look around much before he saw a piece of paper pasted on the earthen wall near the main entrance, and when he stepped forward to take a look, he found that it was a notice for the accounting room, which stated that he wanted to hire a gentleman who could do the accounts, in addition to taking care of three meals a day, there was another salary of 120 Wen.
At this time, the master craftsman who built the house and was responsible for ramming the plate on the hanging line only paid 100 wen a day, and the current price of this 120 wen was really a high salary, not to mention that the main family was still in charge of three meals a day, and if the food was slightly better, one hundred and fifty wen a day was almost the same, Tang Que originally wondered how no one unveiled the notice for such a good condition, and only understood it after seeing the signed "Gaomen Li's".
Since the person who asked for the account office is a poisonous widow, it is not surprising at all, his reputation as a Kefu has long developed into a gram man, and now even the illiterate croppers dare not deal with her more, let alone these literate and evasive readers?
Tang Que didn't believe in any men, and now it was the time when he was short of money, thinking that there should be no problem in sorting out his accounts, he took off the notice and turned around and walked towards the poisonous widow's Zhuangzi.
"It's good to live in a quadrangle, and you can be a lady in the courteous hall", this is a common saying on the lips of the Tang people. The poisonous widow's house is a quadrangle house at the west end of the village, surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing the water, which is the blessed land of the golden chair and jade belt on the feng shui.
Seeing Tang Que coming from the stone bridge, the Zhuang Han who gathered under the big willow tree outside Zhuangzi to enjoy the shade looked at him curiously, none of these Zhuang Han were from this village, they were all poor men from the deep mountains in the west, and they couldn't take too much care of it in order to eat well.
Tang Que didn't mean to speak, and smiled at those Zhuang men and went directly to the gatehouse.