The moon is like a hook, the night is dark, the lonely light is a little light oil, and the pen does not stop; The ink is lightly grinded, the wrist is slowly closed, and the two figures are left on the wall, accompanied by each other in the heart.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had dinner and slept for two hours, and got up in the middle of the night to read and practice calligraphy, both of them knew that happiness is not given by others, they have to pursue it themselves, take advantage of their young age, be sensible than other children, learn more, and use it in the future, especially Zhang Xiaobao, he also has to take the imperial examination, he has an official position, and it is convenient to speak and do things.

The plan for two people is to sleep for five and a half hours a day, two hours after dinner, about from eighteen to twenty-two, get up to study for two hours, to two o'clock, and then sleep until six o'clock, exercise in the form of games after eating, take a bath and sleep for half an hour, eat at noon, have no important things for an hour, and the day is about to come down, and special arrangements are made for special things.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan have both specially trained the methods of sleeping, two, one is to quickly enter deep sleep, which can speed up the recovery of the body a lot, and the other is half-asleep, no movement, no threat, just asleep, otherwise you can wake up immediately and react subconsciously.

The two of them are still learning the Analects, in fact, they have memorized it a long time ago, but Zhang's father taught it to be a bypass, and he took out a sentence casually with a certain allusion, so he has not yet raised his identity, in addition to Zhang's father does not understand the rules of the examination, it also shows how difficult the imperial examination is at this time.

Pomegranate went to bed early, just lay in the outer room, she has a lot of things to do during the day, originally there was no such treatment, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were stunned to add it to her, there are two people in the outer room who patrol the night at night, don't worry about not being able to react when encountering things.

"Zhou Xihu's uncle is coming soon, Cheng County Ling actually made such a bad move, if it wasn't for the Yamen coming to tell us at night, I thought that Cheng County Ling would eat and drink for those people, so that they couldn't pay attention to others."

After writing for more than half an hour, Wang Juan stopped first, rubbed his wrist, picked the oil lamp again, and in the crackling sound, the light was brighter again.

"Well, those people are all loose officials, they have no real power, they don't have to worry about Cheng County Ling offending people, not to mention that as long as Cheng County Order doesn't let them know who arranged it, they can only hate the villagers over there, and when they go back, it is impossible to retaliate, the lives of the villagers are not valuable, and their future is important.

A lamp is too dim, add, replace it with a candle, make so much money and don't spend it, and burn your eyes, where will you cure it? Come, take three candles and light them. ”

Zhang Xiaobao followed the analysis for a while, felt that his eyes were sour, and beckoned the night watchman outside to come over to send candles, and the two girls who were sitting there chatting and eating snacks heard the movement inside, and did not dare to slack off, so they sent the candles over as instructed, not three, but a bundle, and it would be easy to change when the time came.

As soon as the candle was lit, the brightness in the room was immediately different, and Zhang Xiaobao was satisfied, "It's okay, by the way, is my dad also reading at night?" Send some candles to my father, too, if you don't want it, take my oil lamp, and if you make money, your family will suffer, why bother to earn it? ”

The two girls didn't say anything, took the oil lamp and went out, one continued to stay there, and the other went out, looked at the night sky outside, and shivered, but fortunately there was a torch swaying in the wind in the yard, not so dark, and gave herself the courage to walk towards the other yard.

As soon as she walked into a dark corner, she found that there seemed to be a shadow shaking over there, and she was so frightened that she almost dropped the lamp in her hand to the ground, watching the shadow swaying and not moving, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, remembering that this was the person arranged in the Zhuangzi, and a hanging heart was completely put down.

She just came for a month, a family of five fled here, the spring ploughing did not fall, all signed the death deed, today she is the first time to keep vigil, only heard, not familiar with, the night is naturally afraid, at this time I feel the arrangement of Zhuangzi, the original a little pale face showed a happy smile, feel that this is the feeling of home, help each other, work hard, other things do not have to bother.

She didn't know that when she first chose people, Zhuangzi put a lot of effort into it, so many families who fled, only two were selected, and they had to report to the government.

"It seems that this drought is decided, now rest assured, the day is so cloudy, and there is not a drop of rain, when will our food and chickens and ducks be delivered over there? It's a long way to go, and it takes a lot of time. ”

Wang Juan dipped the pen in ink, and asked Zhang Xiaobao when he was about to write.

"In two months, when the locust plague over there has signs, we will set off, and it is just the moment when they are in a hurry to exterminate the locusts, and the newly hatched cherries can also be taken with them, and they will go over there to eat locusts, sell eggs, and come back in exchange for other things."

"And the chickens are still coming back?" Wang Juan asked again.

Zhang Xiaobao nodded affirmatively and said: "Of course I want to bring it back, lay laying hens, and expect to give the farmer more income, and rush back all the way from there, and I don't need to feed extra food, the locusts can fly, it is estimated that we can have a little bit here, in the name of eliminating harm for the people, and the righteousness is on our side." ”

Wang Juan, who was about to write, heard this, put down the pen again, and stared at Zhang Xiaobao, "Are you stupid?" What righteousness? When there was a plague of locusts, these people all bowed down, and it was not the one surnamed Yao who took all the responsibilities and started to exterminate the insects. ”

"You are also right, history says that he exterminated the locusts in time, but in fact, it is nothing more than not allowing the locusts to spread on a large scale, and the losses in those two places are not small, Li Longji wants to exterminate the locusts, and he is not willing to bear the responsibility of violating God, and the officials and the people do not want to destroy them.

In this way, you can't come back all the way in the name of righteousness, you have to think of a way...... Yes, on the way back, I will eat correctly, and then use eggs to exchange other things with the people around me in addition to food, and say that these chickens are specially designed to give eggs to everyone in times of disaster, and talk to the surname Yao, please have a fold down, so many chickens and ducks, mighty, this is called Huang En Haodang. ”

Zhang Xiaobao finally found the entry point, picked up the pen and continued to write, Wang Juan also smiled, "You will deceive people, what is the emperor's grace, the locusts are even more powerful, should they be destroyed or destroyed?" You can't control the strength of that word, why don't you tie a sandbag? ”

"No, my little arms and legs, I don't want to leave sequelae, tomorrow that week Xihu's uncle may arrive, let's learn."

Zhang Xiaobao yawned, picked up the hand towel in the basin next to him, wiped his face, felt a little more energetic, and continued to write.

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"Is this something for human consumption? I didn't even have a bowl of soup, phew! "In the small village in the mountains, Cheng County Ling and the others were finally able to eat, and the people in the village brought the rice, one rice ball after another.

To be precise, it is the bad rice plus the coarse bran and some wild vegetables and things that are steamed together, take a bite, the mouth is astringent, I want to swallow it directly, and I find that my throat is about to break, as long as I bite hard, a bite is full of scum, and I go down with cold water, starting from the neck, and the line is hot.

In addition to this thing, which can be regarded as a meal, there is also a small dish, mother-in-law, that is, dandelion, plus a wild vegetable called bitter butterfly, with a little large black salt, which is bitter and prickly.

After eating a few bites, one of the people couldn't stand it anymore, spit out two coarse chaff stubble, and complained loudly.

"Don't vomit, eat, it's better than starving, didn't you hear the villagers say, is this the best thing they usually eat? You vomit and you are starving, don't expect to eat us, tomorrow morning you will get up to work for the village, then you will be hungry and have no strength, see if you can't work, people will give you nothing to eat at noon. ”

When another official heard the man's complaint, he felt that the thing in front of him was even more unpalatable, so he interrupted the man's words, took a mouthful of the dish, opened his mouth and stuffed it in, chewed it twice, and took another bite of the rice ball, and playfully mixed the two things together, took the water and poured it down, and let out a long breath.

"Let's eat it all, it's okay, it's much more comfortable in this stomach, work for two days, wait for Cheng County to send someone to bring the money, and bring some other food, and it will be over, the two waiters are eating deliciously, I don't know the suffering of the people?"

When everyone heard his words, they turned their heads to look, and sure enough, the waiter of the Ministry of Works and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites both ate the same thing, and Sicang joined the army and also ate, and his nephew heard that it was not an ordinary gentleman here, and he didn't pick it now, so let's eat it myself.

Everyone gritted their teeth and ate it, the two waiters ate deliciously, the rice balls were also bad rice, bran and wild vegetables, and the side dishes in front of them were also like that, if you don't look carefully, you really can't see any difference from others, but if you break it and take a good look, you will know where the difference is.

The rice balls they ate had shredded meat sandwiched in the middle, the wild vegetables were oiled, the bran was finely ground, the bad rice was steamed before being kneaded in, and the salt used in the side dishes was different, and it looked black, it was fried meat sauce.

"Well, it's not easy for the people, they usually eat this thing, we should be diligent and thrifty, and it's good to eat coarse grains occasionally, what do you think the two adults think?"

Zhou Qi used his tongue to get out two pieces of shredded meat, chewed them in his mouth, and said to the others.

"That's exactly how it should be." The waiter of the Ministry of Works and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites spoke at the same time, they do know now that it is not easy for the people, and they can endure the things that have been added.

The other officials couldn't even speak, so they could only nod their heads over there, and agree with this statement, and after eating for a while, they should go to bed early, and start their work tomorrow, helping the people in the village to carry water and water the ground, and the reward was two days' food.

"Adults, you may think that the food is unpalatable, tomorrow it will be fine, tomorrow the little old man will let them make some soup and cook two more dishes." Qin Cun was standing by the side and waiting, and then he spoke, his face full of apologies.