Chapter 10 Renting a Bookstore in the Ming Dynasty
Inside the room, Daddy Zheng listened to his request and became silent, Zheng Guofan was outside the room, and he could hear the intermittent coughing sound inside, and said in his heart that I came to empathize, from the perspective of Dad, this matter is indeed embarrassing and humiliating, but if I can't bury my sister with a good fan, I can't be at ease.
Zheng Xiaoguan's sister was selected as a show girl when she was twelve years old, and then it didn't take long for the painting fan to be bought into the door, whether it was a nominal daughter-in-law or a daughter-in-law, and later she was admitted to the county school and hurriedly made a concubine ceremony, Zheng Xiaoguan actually regarded the painting fan as a sister, so whether it was Zheng Guofan of the Ming Dynasty or Zheng Guofan of later generations, I thought about dealing with this matter, I couldn't kill anyone, and I came back to wash and sleep when nothing happened.
There was silence in the room for a long time before Father Zheng said slowly: "Just do what you want!" Don't alarm your neighbors, though. ”
Zheng Guofan smiled bitterly, this dad is really, how can he not be alarmed, in the memory of later generations, he remembered that there was a scandal in his hometown, which was about the story of Su Dongpo picking up ashes in the wild history, it is said that this father-in-law and daughter-in-law didn't know why when they did it, they couldn't get out of the bottom sticking together, and in the end, it was two people with a quilt wrapped in bare buttocks who were pulled to the hospital by a medical car, and the next day, this matter spread all over the city with a population of one million, and countless versions were derived, and the power of gossip can be seen.
"My son wants Sister Fan to have a whole corpse, and then ask two monks to do a rit......ual," Zheng Guofan said with his head down.
There were a few heavy gasps in the room, and then, with a violent cough, Zheng Guofan shouted outside: "Big head." ”
Inside Shan Sinan sighed, climbed onto the kang and stroked Daddy Zheng's back with his small hands, then brought water to Daddy Zheng to drink, and took mulberry leaves to spit on Daddy Zheng, paper was very expensive in the Ming Dynasty, so it was replaced by mulberry leaves, and the spitting mulberry leaves Shan Sinan gathered together every day and burned them with fire......
These are not at all Zheng Guofan's instructions, Shan Sinan and his father Shan Chixia went out to buy ginseng in July and August every year in the past two years, and returned in September, the richest place in Shuntian Mansion, the price of ginseng is high Daddy Zheng can't afford it, Shan Chixia has a lot of old habits in the army, and in the summer and autumn of each year, he goes out of the plug alone, collects a little ginseng mink and the like, and then returns to Shuntian Mansion to sell, the amount is not large, relying on the old care in the army, even the tax can be exempted, a bit of drug abuse in later generations to sell and suck, mainly for Daddy Zheng.
During the period when Shan Chixia was away, Father Zheng had to rely on Shan Sinan to take care of him, and as for Zheng Guofan, he was not approached at all.
Finally waiting for Father Zheng to calm down, Zheng Guofan quietly said inside: "When my son was studying, I read that there was a sage who said that [those who do not seek a lifetime are not enough to seek a moment], and I didn't understand it before, but today my son has figured out a lot of things. ”
Hearing [the sage said], Father Zheng quieted down inside, and Zheng Guofan told what he thought in his heart.
The father and son talked for a long time, and in a word, it was to go to the county to study for the time being, and make money first.
The so-called [rich as a dragon, swimming all over the world. Poor like a tiger, scattered nine clans and six relatives], Zheng Guofan looked at this dilapidated home, and his father with tuberculosis to support, so he naturally had to use his brains, first of all, this skin is thirteen years old, even if he only learns ten buckets in the world, he monopolizes eight buckets, and within ten years, it is impossible to be an official and embezzle money to support his family.
It is said that the late Zhang Ge Lao Zhang Juzheng was also full of talent when he was young, and he participated in the township examination at the age of thirteen.
He told his father the allusion of Zhang Taiyue, and Father Zheng also felt that it made sense.
Then, he said the hesitation of the county magistrate when he was judging the case, and finally told his father, "...... If it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Wenren ripped off her son's clothes in the court and did something insulting, it would be equivalent to slapping the face of the county and all the scholars. ”
Father Zheng was shocked into a cold sweat, if he really wants to make such a big fuss, I'm afraid his son won't be able to save his son's life.
Don't look at it as just a county student, it seems to be just a name, in fact, the benefits are innumerable, for example, exemption from forced labor.
Back then, Daddy Zheng was the master who was ordered to nine sides, thanks to Daddy Zheng who saved Shan Chixia back then, Shan Chixia was born in Zhejiang and was a personal soldier of Qi Shaobao, plus Daddy Zheng also picked up two heads on the road, so not only did he not break the fortune but made some rewards, and the most important thing was to get a single housekeeper to devote himself. This thing is lit, and the good people of the third generation are likely to be bankrupt overnight.
The weight of conscription in ancient times is incomprehensible in modern times, such as the development of the Grand Canal, the common people have been pointed, and it is basically a dead word, but after Zheng Guofan entered the county school, this can be exempted.
On the way home, the son thought, Mrs. Duan was extremely shrewd, and she was speechless when she asked the county honor, how could she do this kind of thing, it was too irrational, and she walked to the door of the house, and the son figured out that Mrs. Duan just deliberately gave the county zun a step down, anyway, her shrewd and pungent impression has been known, and her purpose has been achieved. Moreover, I heard before that this period of Qianhu has a lot to do with the eunuchs in the palace. ”
When Zheng Guofan figured it out, he was really shocked, even if the man who picked up his pants died and became a widow, he should not be underestimated! has connections, and is shrewd and spicy, this kind of woman is very terrible.
The so-called people don't fight with officials, the poor don't fight with the rich, his family has no permanent property, and he has to support his father, what to fight with others! In case someone comes to retaliate, his thirteen-year-old little arms and legs ......
After saying this, the room sighed, followed by another cough, and after a long time, Father Zheng asked him, "Good officer, what do you think you should do?" ”
"My son thinks so! Uncle Shan is estimated to be coming back in the next few days, and after I finish the funeral of my sister who painted a fan, I will go to the county school to issue a study tour note, and we will sell the house and go south to my uncle's house in Ningbo to join my relatives. ”
There is a little hesitation in the room, it is good to be at home, but it is difficult to go out! At this time, Zheng Guofan added another straw outside, "Uncle Shan left his hometown when he was young, and it has been many years since then, and even the name given to the big head is Sinan ......"
Father Zheng sighed, he really had a lifelong friendship with Butler Shan......
"The tree dies, but the man lives...... Good officer, you have an idea about this, it's just, Dad's body, alas! It's always Dad who drags you down. ”
The conversation between the father and son ended here, and the Zheng family decided to go south to Ningbo, but before that, Zheng Guofan had one more important thing, to earn a sum of money to redeem the body of the painting fan, and it was best to prepare some travel expenses to the south.
For this, Zheng Guofan is a little sure, he stood in the yamen all morning, and almost straightened out his thoughts and memories, what dynasty is this? Ming Dynasty, Tang poetry, Song poetry, Yuan song, Ming novels, what did Zheng Guofan do? If you write a novel, you have to add a parentheses, **Novel.
In fact, for him, this era is a good era, later Lu Xun commented: However, it is also involved in hidden songs, there are many profanes, and later generations called it a silver book, and at that time, it was also fashionable.
After the Ming Dynasty from Hongzhi and Zhengde years, the history of the Ming Dynasty [the atmosphere has changed, and Wenlin], at this time, the government and the opposition are not ashamed to talk about the matter of the boudoir prescription, just like the yellow joke on the wine table in later generations, it is really a fashion, and the high-ranking officials and doctors take the creation of ** novels as fun, and they will also be praised as [elegant and romantic, not common law]
In this way, he is a ** novel author, what else is there to complain about.
However, before the three armies moved the grain and grass, he had to take a shower before he started writing, and then go to the streets to see what books were good to sell at this time.
After he went downstairs, he asked Shan Sinan to boil some water, took a bath with a wooden barrel in the room, changed into a Confucian shirt, dismantled two horns, and combed his hair into a bunch and tied it on the top of his head.
looked at the bronze mirror, it was really picturesque with red lips and white eyebrows, and he felt that he was a little more handsome than Duan Yu in the CCTV version of "Dragon Babu".
I pinched a few handfuls on my face, made a few grimaces, and clearly felt the pain in my facial muscles, and couldn't help sighing, whether it was Nan Kemeng or Handan Meng, I always had to live well.
He looked at the mirror for a long time and said to himself, "Okay! Zheng Guofan, God is not bad to you, at least he didn't throw you to the ** era, and he has a talent identity, although his face is a little tender, he hasn't become a girl, so ...... Zheng Guofan, it's all up to you to support your family and support your father, come on. ”
Clenching his fist into the mirror and taking a deep breath, he turned and walked out of the room.
called Shan Sinan to follow, and the master and servant went out of Huaishu Hutong.
In the Ming Dynasty Wanli years of the Shuntian Mansion to read books, it is very simple, the streets are full of rented bookstores, there is such a record in the notes of the Ming people: why should there be more books, the West Journey to the Water Margin shelf on the bunk, borrow not a cigarette, but also need green worms. Glad that the family remembered that there was no surname, and yesterday I said that I read it, and I said that I rented it again. It's a real poetry book that lives up to me, and it can be fruitful to have this number of volumes.
What if I don't know how to read? It's okay, there are storytellers, the so-called: a ruler wood appeared at a glance, the rolling words were short and long, and the prehistory was actually remembered, just after the Three Kingdoms and the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
At this time, the current affairs news also relied on this way to spread, for example, the last great eunuch Wei Zhongxian was defeated, and within a year, there were "Wei Zhongxian's Novel Rejection Book" and "The Biography of the Emperor Ming Zhongxing Shenglie" to expose the eunuch party touting the Donglin party. This mode of transmission continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Wuxu Reform failed to do so, and within three months, Yanjing City had the book "Arrest Kang Liang Er's Reverse Romance" for sale.
In this environment, the idle Han Tang San and the master of Dongbai can talk together, and the fan Pozi who sells tea and soup dares to tweet and comment on the Yamen case, on the boundary of one government and two counties, no one knows worse than the other, the difference is only the way to obtain it, the scholars read the Di Bao, the lower-class literati and literate businessmen read the books adapted and written through the Di Bao, and the common people listen to the lyrics and songs of the storytellers adapted from the books.
Zheng Guofan is now entering a rented bookstore in the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as he enters the door, there is a piece of paper on the wall, which reads: Book career, this is a big profit. I smear and tear it, and all of it accompanies it. Frequent replacement is returned early, and it is replaced in turns. Three periods, expiration multiples. The prayers are hereby revealed.
He was amazed, and said in his heart that this is no different from renting a bookstore at the entrance of the university!
The shopkeeper was an elderly man, and he didn't pay attention to him, he looked at the book in his hand, he looked down and glanced at it, and suddenly embarrassed, this old gentleman, looking at "The Biography of Ruyijun" openly, this is written by Wu Zetian's seventy-year-old surname to undiminished, summoning the beautiful man Xue Aocao into the palace, and saying that the story of the night is unbridled and the silver is up all night, and the book can no longer be banned in later generations.
ps: Recommended ticket drop work.