Chapter 3: Ye Xiucai's plan
The bean-sized light made the already low room even more depressing, and the moonless sky outside the window and the empty desk in the room made Ye Guan prepare to experience Li Taibai's wish to "raise a glass to invite the bright moon, and the shadow became a trio" was frustrated.
Although he was quite full for dinner, Ye Guan was still a little apologetic in his heart, and when he was full, he would at least return the bowl. It's a pity that his own bowl didn't know who was taken away when he saved himself last time, this is Ye Guan's only bowl in the past few days, so Ye Guan discouraged the idea of returning the bowl very shamefully.
"When it is developed, I will return a hundred blue and white porcelain bowls to his family, if it is not developed...... Forget it, that's not what I'm thinking about right now. Ye Guan sat alone at his desk and muttered to himself.
Taking advantage of the fact that the moon had just revealed his face, Ye Guan quickly blew out the oil lamp and ran to sit outside the gate.
"Nonsense, the water bill doesn't cost money now, there is one by the river, so I'm not afraid of the charter wife scolding, but the electricity bill costs money." Especially when there is natural light, how can you waste those lamp oil, maybe you have no way out, it is also a good choice to use lamp oil as a lunch. In order to have your own lunch, of course, you should use it as little as possible. ”
Outside the door, while he could see clearly, Ye Guan hurriedly took out the copper coins in his hand and counted them, counting them back, and they were always thirty dollars.
"Why don't you think the money is more and more counted?" Ye Guan asked the voices of countless heroes who were stumped because of a penny. If the blue-faced beast Yang Zhi lived in the Ming Dynasty, he would definitely have to cut off the head of the chicken with Ye Guan, burn incense and worship the handle, of course, the premise is that Yang Zhi has a yellow chicken and incense, which are the two necessary things to worship the handle, otherwise he will definitely not be able to worship.
Why can't you worship it? Because these things are not ...... Ye Guan
has a car but no house, both parents are dead, a young man with literary talents, and a handsome child. This is the view of some women's mate selection, and Ye Guan can be regarded as meeting such a standard.
"Hey, I'm also a family with a house, but it's a pity that there are no such gold worshippers here. I have a two-entry old house, I don't need to pay the mortgage, I have no parents, no brothers, and no one robs me of the inheritance. Two acres of medium-sized paddy fields near the small river were handed over to Brother Zhang for planting, as long as he received some relief on weekdays and gave some rations during the autumn harvest. I'm still a showman, but it's a pity that I'm not the first, and it doesn't matter, I can't get the qualification of a student, and I can't get food. Oh, by the way, and the thirty pennies. That's all I have. It's not bad, it's only one step behind those gods who wear it, and after this step, I'm also worry-free. But it's just that people are crossing into the rich man's house, and I am crossing in the landing Xiucai's house. It's bad, if it's a young lady to accompany me, I'm much happier than him, there are two five girls...... "Ye Guan started a good habit that he couldn't get rid of for a long time-complaining.
"Why don't you say I don't have a lady who hasn't passed through the door? At least two people can get through it together. This person stands alone, hanging from each other, no different from before he crossed over! Ye Guan couldn't stop lamenting.
To say that Ye Guan has the fame of Xiucai, and he is only eighteen years old, he is simply the most dazzling star in this mountain and countryside, and it is really not good to go to a businessman's house to be a door-to-door son-in-law.
Originally, there were a few families who fell in love with Ye Guan, and even some small and medium-sized businessmen in the county revealed that they were willing to marry their daughters to Ye Guan, if it was Ye Guan now, he would definitely dream and laugh, but it was a pity that the predecessor of this body returned to a sour and smelly nerd, abiding by the way of farming and reading heirlooms, rejecting those businessmen with words, and being obsessed with his studies, ignoring the village girls who like to send spinach in the village.
The irresponsibility of the predecessor has also created the embarrassing situation of Ye Guan today. Now Ye Guan's title of "Heartless Xiucai" is not only famous in the village, but even the people in the surrounding towns and villages in the county know it, and no one will give rice if they want to cook rice now.
No way, in this ancient world where there was no entertainment, news was no longer transmitted through computers, but through the evening, on the kang of Brother Zhang's house. After doing strenuous exercise, Ye Guan's situation is a condiment used by the two of them for halftime. Now no one wants to marry their daughter to a showman who has lost his mind.
If you don't have a wife, you can't have it, why don't you have a wife? But even if the big husband doesn't suffer from wifelessness, the big husband will also suffer from no money!
Money money money, this is something that everyone knows except fools. Although money can't be eaten or drunk, money can be bought for food, money can be bought for drinking, such a good thing, but Ye Guan has nothing to do with him.
"Aircraft cannons can't be built, glass boiling salt is unknown. The chef can't eat enough food, and the calligraphy article is on paper. His grandmother's, why didn't I study science in the first place, I can't play this engineering thing, why didn't I learn to cook, it's good to open a small restaurant, I haven't learned a brush, calligraphy articles can not be anything other than knowing and spraying. It's really not good, it's good to join a pyramid scheme, at least you can deceive the foolish people in the countryside. What a regret! Ye Guan was heartbroken, there were so many good careers in front of him, he didn't cherish them, and he didn't know that he regretted it until he lost it!
This small village is definitely not a place where he is willing to stay until he dies, just like the young man from the mountain village who went south to Guangzhou in his previous life, going out is the right way.
"Sixteen years of Hongji? What age is this? I only know that it is still early before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, so it should be okay to go out and see. Maybe you can make a difference in this world? Ye Guan sat in front of the door of his house, confused about the future......
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"Ye Xian's nephew, is it Ye Xian's nephew?" Seven or eight meters away from Ye Guan's house, an old man with a cane walked in front of Ye Guan.
"Oh, it's Zhang Lichang, is there something wrong with you coming here?" Ye Guan saw the old man's face by the moonlight, he was the chief of the village, after Ye Guan's observation in the past few days, the chief was equivalent to the village chief and the like.
However, the power of the lieutenant chief is not small, and the lieutenant chiefs here are all appointed by some respected elders elected by the villagers.
The old man, what he likes the most, what he is best at is to deal with the mud and solve disputes in the countryside and other things, which is also the most basic layer of China's feudal society for two thousand years, and it is one of the important roles of the squire and the local parents to govern the local area, which is a bit of a senator's meaning.
In many cases, the habit of the people not holding officials accountable is because of these local squires. They effectively alleviated the work difficulties of the county magistrate, who had the power of the police, government, culture, health, and household in the county.
No matter how big the matter is, it will be solved by the chief of the village and the slightly famous squire, which is why some people boast about the lack of death row prisoners in ancient China at certain times. Those old squires don't pay attention to what you want to ask about the autumn queen, small things such as stealing chickens and touching dogs, the Zhang family and the Li family fought, and the daughter-in-law of the Wang family chopped the villain at the entrance of the village, and scolded at the same time, and solved it on the spot, which is very time-sensitive. Big things, such as uncle and sister-in-law adultery, the father killed the unfilial son, the pig cage that should be dipped in the pig cage, the one who should be concealed is concealed, and there is a tradition of hiding relatives and relatives.
Therefore, sometimes the emperor's ministers praised the good governance of the dynasty in unison, and there were only a few dozen prisoners in the country. That's because a large number of criminals have long died at the hands of the squire and the lieutenant, and there is no need to report it at all.
"Nephew Ye Xian, well, I have some things that I want to discuss with you." Zhang Lichang said tentatively.