In winter, a heavy snowfall came.

The two sides of Song and Jin, who fought fiercely, temporarily ceased fighting, and had to stop fighting.

In this era, cotton has not yet been popularized, cotton clothes and cotton pants have not yet been born, and warm clothes are very simple, and they can't prevent the cold at all; And when the soldiers of the Jin army wanted to roast the fire, they couldn't even find the least dry firewood, and the Song army's policy of clearing the wilderness was too ruthless; I wanted to hit the grass valley, but I couldn't grab it, and the people ran out.

The non-combat attrition of the Kim army was extremely serious.

In this case, the Jin army could only retreat.

There was a brief truce between the two sides, and both sides were licking the wounds on their bodies, quietly recuperating, and preparing for battle.

The war-torn city of Xiangyang has gradually regained a trace of vitality. When they got up in the morning, the people began to go about their lives again, some chopping wood, some lighting fires, and some selling ............ Each is busy with their own, plain and serene.

And in a ruined temple, the sound of reading in Lang Lang and other places came.

"My day and three provinces of my body: seeking for others and not being loyal? Making friends and not believing them? Do you want to learn about Hu? ”

"A gentleman has nothing to eat, no place to live, is sensitive to things and cautious in what he says, he has the right way and righteousness, and he can be said to be studious."

"If you don't suffer from others, you don't know yourself, and you don't know people when you suffer from them."

In the ruined temple, there was a leaky wind, as long as the wind blew, the cold eroded in, and the scholar couldn't help but shiver, wrapped his robe tightly, and tried to get as close to the fire as possible, but he was still reading aloud.

How can a scholar not read for a day?

If you don't read for a day, your knowledge will decline; If you don't study for two days, your ethics will decline; If you don't read for three days, you pretend to be a reader.

"Childe! I bought the steamed buns back! "At this time. A scholar walked in from outside the temple, his hands a little blue from the cold. A steamed bun with a lotus leaf bun in his hand.

And the reader didn't seem to hear it, and was still reading aloud. It wasn't until he finished reading this page that he closed the book and asked, "Xiao Shen, let's eat!" ”

The meal is very simple, four steamed buns, the scholar eats two, and the scholar eats two.

The steamed bun is only the size of a fist, and it is not enough to eat at all, after the scholar has eaten it. Feeling hungry, he asked, "Xiao Shen, the price of steamed buns has risen again!" ”

"Hmm!"

"How much money do we have!"

"Not enough money!" The scholar said sadly.

"There are tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, and the poor people in the world are happy!" The scholar lamented again, "We are a medium family, and it is still difficult to feed and clothe, and how miserable the ordinary people are!" ”

After eating the steamed buns, I still don't feel full, so I can only drink porridge.

Inside an iron pot. Millet porridge is cooking, millet plus vegetable leaves, but there are a lot of vegetable leaves, and there are very few millet. It doesn't taste good at all. It's just that in today's situation, I can't care about it so much. After drinking three bowls of millet porridge, my stomach finally felt full.

"It's finally full!"

After you have eaten your fill. The scholars began to look for work outside.

In Da Song, reading is the best job. As long as you read the book well, everything will be fine. There is Yan Ruyu in the book. There are thousands of horses in the book, there is a golden house in the book, there are many cars and horses in the book, as long as you read the book well, everything will be there.

If it is the title of the gold list, it is naturally fame and fortune; Even if it is difficult to get the first, you can also open a private school to teach and educate people, or teach the sons of powerful people to solve doubts, or exchange for pen fees in the Qinglou, etc., plus some preferential policies of the imperial court, scholars are enough to live a prosperous life.

Poor scholars, in fact, are not poor!

Even if you are not good at business, making ends meet is not a problem.

In the past, he never worried about eating, and he never worried about lack of money, but everything became disgraced with Jingkang and with this great turmoil.

………………

In front of a small stall, there is a sign with a line written on it, the content of which is probably how many texts to receive for letters; Draw a picture, how much does it cost; Or it is to assist in teaching the texts of the imperial examinations and so on. In a word, sell articles for a living.

Readers can only sell literature for a living!

If it is in the Taiping years, he only needs to compose a poem, and the woman in the Qinglou will send a pen fee, and even a Spring Festival; He didn't need to open his mouth, and a large number of powerful people invited him to teach him; It's just that everything was yesterday, and with the shame of Jingkang, everything is gone.

With the shame of Jingkang, his career as a talented man came to an end, and he could only flee south, along the way, his companions were either starved to death or killed by bandits, and there was not one in ten who could save his life. And he was lucky enough to flee to Xiangyang, and the last time the Jin army killed Xiangyang, he almost died in the chaos.

Although, in the end, he survived. However, all the family property in Xiangyang was lost, and he could only be reduced to a broken temple, working hard to survive, eating three meals a day, and could only live on wild vegetable porridge and steamed buns, barely living.

"Pity me, a generation of talents, can only live on the streets, selling literature for a living; Pity me Li Ruoxu, I have fallen to this! Li Ruoxu muttered in his mouth, feeling a little lost in his heart. At this time, the stomach couldn't help gurgling, and it was only three hours, and the stomach was empty.

Li Ruoxu not only looked at the cooking cake stall on the side, a young man was selling cooking cakes. Looking at the cooking cakes, Li Ruoxu didn't feel even more hungry.

The young man who was selling cooking cakes on the side seemed to see Li Ruoxu's embarrassment, took out two cooking cakes, stepped forward and handed them over, and said, "Brother, if you are hungry, you can eat some for the time being, and add to your hunger!" ”

Li Ruoxu wanted to take it, but in the end he stubbornly said: "No merit will be punished!" ”

"Brother, I once had the grace of enlightenment to my younger brother, this is considered filial piety to the teacher!" The boy who sells cooking cakes said.

Li Ruoxu couldn't help asking: "I don't know the surname of the little brother, have we met?" "After recalling it for a long time, I still can't find a trace.

The young man said: "The younger brother's name is Yu, his name is Yunwen, and he has no words." ”

"Yu Yunwen!" Li Ruoxu recalled, and suddenly, the shadow of the young man and a person in front of him merged. Finally, he asked, "You are the son of Yu Qi!" “

"Exactly!"

The young man in front of him, Li Ruoxu, once enlightened Meng, and had been a teacher for three months, which can be regarded as some contacts. At this moment, he saw that the former teacher was starving, so he stepped forward to give cooking cakes.

"Your father is an official of the imperial court, why do you want to sell cooking cakes on the street, insulting Sven, insulting Sven!" Li Ruoxu couldn't help frowning. A scholar should look like a scholar, how can he sell cooking cakes on the street for a living, and engage in cheap work to support himself.

"Your younger brother is the righteous Li Ruoshui, who died for the country, and Brother Li didn't sell literature on the street for a living?" Yu Yunwen said calmly.

Li Ruoxu said: "This is different! ”

"It's all the same!" Yu Yunwen said, "The difficulty of Jingkang, our dynasty was humiliated, and the two emperors were captured. Scholars are unable to escape, they have no fixed place to live, they are adrift, and there are many more. There are many classmates and friends who take refuge, but my father can't bear to refuse, so he can only try his best to help. It's just that the situation at home is not good, so I can only secretly carry my father behind my back and sell cooking cakes outside to subsidize the family! ”

Li Ruoxu nodded and said, "Yunwen, you are really a filial son!" ”

Filial piety comes first, in the face of filial piety, everything is understandable, and Yu Yunwen's sale of cooking cakes on the street is also understandable.

I just couldn't help frowning and said, "I treat officials well, since your father is a high-ranking official, how can he be so embarrassed!" ”

The officials of the Great Song Dynasty have never been poor.

The prime minister and the high-ranking officials at the level of privy envoys shall have a monthly salary of 300,000 (i.e., 300 guan), 20 horses of silk, 30 horses of silk, and 100 taels of cotton in spring and winter, and 100 stones in the month of Lusu; Local state and county officials, the county order of large counties (more than 10,000 households) is 20,000 per month, the county order of small counties is 12,000 per month, and the month of Lusu is 5 to 3 stones. In addition to the regular income, there are also various subsidies, such as tea, wine, kitchen materials, salary, artemisia, charcoal, salt, and even forage for horses, and clothing and food for accompanying servants, all of which are quite considerable. During the time of Song Zhenzong, foreign officials were not allowed to bring their families, and the alimony of their families was provided by the government finance, and daily necessities such as rice, flour, and sheep were provided monthly. In addition, there is also "public money" (that is, entertainment expenses), such as the public money of the festival and the envoy can be as high as 20,000 yuan, and there is no upper limit, "exhaust and continue to give, no limit on years and months". In addition to public money, there is also "vocational land". The officials of the various roads have their own fields, 40 hectares of the two capitals and the great feudal mansions, 35 hectares of the secondary feudal towns, and 7 hectares of the remote small counties. Moreover, "foreign officials occupy the land, and more than the previous system", the tenants rent the seeds, and the officials sit and enjoy the profits.

Yu Yunwen said: "After years of war, the imperial treasury has long been empty. But everywhere it costs money, and it costs money to train a new army; It costs money to provide relief to the victims, and it also costs money to build the city wall, and it also costs money to reward the soldiers in front, and the cost is extremely tight. Nowadays, the official family's meal is simple, a meal is only two dishes and one soup, steamed buns, and it is thrifty to the extreme. Everywhere I went, there was no overhaul of the palace, and most of them took the government as their residence. Some courtiers suggested overhauling the palace to show the majesty of the heavenly family, but the official family refused. Some courtiers often said that they wanted the official family to increase their diet and keep the dragon body; But the official family said that my father and brother were lost in the Jin Kingdom, and I couldn't eat enough and my clothes couldn't be warm. ”

"Officials often say that it is better not to eat meat for ten years than to build a strong army; I'd rather live ten years less than drive out the gold thief! If the official family is like this, how can the ministers of the court not respond. The officials of the imperial court have asked for orders to reduce the amount of money, and now the officials are only half of the original! ”

Li Ruoxu couldn't help but admire: "Heaven descends on Mingjun, God bless the Great Song!" “

"Today's official family, advocating thrift and diligence for the government, has just closed the Qinglou a little too much, so that I and other scholars want to sell literature for a living, and there is nowhere to go!" As he spoke, Yu Yunwen took out a folded piece of paper, handed it over and said, "This is the latest version of the "Broken Prisoner Daily", which says "Ten Evils of Qinglou!" ”

"It's not cheap, at least ten cents!"

Li Ruoxu took the paper and saw that there were various contents written on it, including various current political news of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom, quotations of various commodities and goods, recruitment information, and articles introducing various generals of the Jin Army. But the most eye-catching thing is the article called "Ten Disadvantages of Green Mansions". (To be continued......)

PS: Li Ruoshui has been hungry and cold, Yu Yunwen has sold cooking cakes, Tang Bohu has sold spring * palace * paintings, and mustaches have sold nude paintings. Everyone's life has had a low ebb.

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