Lao Dao took out a yellow talisman from his arms, and there was a red rope tied to the yellow talisman and put it directly on Zheng Fan's neck.

Zheng's father and Zheng's mother, naturally, were very grateful, took ten taels of silver and gave it to Lao Dao.

Lao Dao repeatedly refused, but finally accepted it, until he walked out of the house, Zheng Fan didn't see a trace of joy on his face.

"Don't say it, this old man's acting skills are amazing, and he doesn't leak a smug and happy look on his face, ten taels of silver! It's basically a year's income for our family! You will be sent away with a piece of broken yellow paper, which is really a profiteering industry......"

After this incident, Zheng Fan also knew that it was time for him to speak.

On the third day after Lao Dao left, he called out his mother for the first time, but Zheng's mother was very happy.

"The Taoist mantra is really a god! It's only been three days, and my son and second dog can speak. ”

Immediately afterwards, Zheng Fan called his father again, and he was happy for Zheng's father, and he kissed three people in a row, which gave Zheng Fan a response, although he said that he was his father, but he was kissed three times by a man, and he always felt a little awkward.

"Good, good, good!"

Zheng's father happily shouted three times in a row: "In two years, my father will let you go to a private school to study, and in the future you will get a fame, don't be like me, you can only be a cook, and listen to people every day." ”

Although Zheng Fan was unhappy to be kissed by the eldest of the three people, as soon as he heard Zheng's father mention the word reading, he came to the spirit, he didn't want to wait for another two years, and sleep for another two years, he was really afraid that he would sleep stupidly.

He was looking for something to do, and reading a book was a great choice.

"I... I... I want to read. ”

Zheng Fan deliberately lengthened his voice and stumbled out such a sentence.

When Zheng's father heard this, he was so shocked that he almost fell to the ground, and after the shock, he was in ecstasy.

"Isn't my son a child prodigy? Less than two years old, I don't know the world, and I want to study? ”

Father Zheng looked Zheng Fan up and down again, and asked tentatively, "Son, you say it again." ”

"Read... Books, read... book..."

Zheng Fan just kept repeating the word reading, he didn't dare to say more, sometimes he was considered a prodigy, which was not necessarily a good thing.

He knows very well that his family is just ordinary people, and the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it. He knows too little about the world, which is why he is so cautious.

"What are you excited about, the child is just learning to speak, just now you mentioned the word reading, so my son just called two sentences."

Zheng's mother took the child into her arms and glared at Zheng's father: "Ergou is only a little more than a year old now, and he can't go to private school." ”

Father Zheng smiled innocently, and then he suddenly didn't take it to heart, just thinking that Zheng Fan was learning his tongue.

It's a pity that Zheng Fan's plan fell through, although he didn't expect to be able to go to school now, but it was also a good thing to get a few books back and learn the words of this world.

Since then, Zheng Fan has stopped calling his parents, and muttered two words all day long: "Reading".

For three days, the parents also felt that something was wrong.

"In charge, you see that your son is yelling to read every day, can he understand what reading is at such a young age? Could it be that the soldier's soul in him is haunting him again? ”

Father Zheng frowned and said, "Probably not, Ergou has a rune given by the Taoist Chief, why don't I go buy him a book and come back to see if my son can like it?" ”

"The head of the house, why is he talking nonsense, Ergou is so young, does he know what it means to read? A 'thousand-character text' is worth one or two silver, which is almost a month's salary! When you come back from buying books, haven't we eaten or drunk this month? ”

Father Zheng smiled and said, "I'm a cook, when did our family stop eating delicious?" So let's do it, I'll go to our shopkeeper to borrow a book, come back and show Ergou, if he likes it, let him watch it first, if he doesn't like it, let's return it, how about it? ”

"Well, that's fine, well, where do you touch your hand? In front of the child, there is no ...... of righteousness."

Zheng Fan's eyes closed: "I didn't see anything......"

In the evening of the next day, Zheng's father got off work and brought back a book and put it in Zheng Fan's hand: "Son, don't you want to read, is it okay for your father to teach you how to read?" ”

Zheng Fan looked at the book in his hand, and flipped through it a few times at random, it was made of paper, as for what kind of paper, he didn't know very well, only to see that the cover was written in traditional Chinese characters - 'Thousand Character Text'.

"Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, the sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining." At a glance, Zheng Fan found that he didn't know one of the 16 words, and then he saw that "the cold comes and the summer go to the autumn and the winter are hidden, and the rest of the year is old, and the law is the sun", and he didn't know three more words.

Flipping through the pages, Zheng Fan found that in this thousand-character text, he had at least half of the words, he had never seen them, and he didn't know how to read them.

Since he didn't know him, Zheng Fan didn't dare to guess, so he could only force himself to memorize how to write it, and wait until he went to a private school in the future, and then taught him like a gentleman.

As if looking at the flowers, a thousand-character text was finished by Zheng Fan after a while, and then he closed the book and laughed 'giggles'.

Father Zheng said with a look of truth: "It's me who is too careful, Ergou should have just learned to speak at that time, and it didn't take long for a while, and after the freshness passed, he threw the book aside." ”

Mother Zheng nodded: "Hurry up and put the book away, and send it back to your shopkeeper tomorrow, don't break it for others..."

Zheng Fan closed his eyes, and his heart was ecstatic, just because of the thousand-character text, he just read it once, and he knew all the content by heart, these words were like a knife and axe engraved in his heart, and he couldn't forget it.

"This is the legendary Passing and Not Forgetting!"

Zheng Fan clenched his little fists, and was very excited in his heart: "I can't imagine that I can be reborn as a human being, I have such skills, with this ability, and I am just waiting for fame, but this is only a book, I still want to read others..."

Thinking like this, Zheng Fan began to shout again: "Read, read, read..."

Father Zheng handed the thousand-character text to Zheng Fan again, but Zheng Fan stretched out his hand and shook his head: "Read, read..."

Zheng's father was a little at a loss, Zheng's mother thought about it, and said on the side: "The master, Ergou doesn't seem to like this book anymore, why don't you find the shopkeeper to borrow another book tomorrow?" ”

Time flies, and a year and a half have passed in a blink of an eye, and Zheng Fan is also three years old.

In the past year and a half, Zheng Fan can be said to be very comfortable, because Zheng's father can bring a different book back for Zheng Fan to read almost every day.

From the daily conversation between the two, Zheng Fan also understood that in this world, those who can do some business are not simple people.

It's like the shopkeeper of Zheng's father's restaurant, who is a 'lifting man', full of economy, and rich in learning. And in addition to exempting themselves from labor and paying taxes, they can also shelter the labor within 100 people and the field tax within 100 acres.

What is this concept? To put it simply, the shopkeeper does not have to pay taxes to open a company, if it is now a troubled time, the country needs to conscript, and the lifting of people is not counted, and by the way, he has the right to exempt 100 people from labor and field tax, and shelter 100 people from military service.

Then these hundred people will naturally willingly devote themselves to being slaves and doing things for him.

Zheng Fan also figured out since then why many people in ancient times studied hard for more than ten years, forgot to sleep and eat, and squeezed their heads to gain fame, this benefit is really too great.

Moreover, you can see the official without kneeling, even if you break the law, you can't easily punish the person.

As for the Jinshi who is above the people, the benefits are naturally more.

Therefore, most of the shopkeepers who make big deals, open restaurants, gambling houses, etc., are people with meritorious reputations, or use the names of meritorious people to 'open companies', otherwise they have to pay heavy taxes.

If you start a company in my name, won't you give me a share of the money? Therefore, as long as you have fame, you can live a good and comfortable life in this world.

On this day, Zheng Fan had a very strange dream.

There were no shards, no zombies, no abilities in the dream.

He dreamed that he had grown from a baby.

"Are you still thinking about that chick in the green building?" Zheng Fan took a sip of 'red yeast wine' and looked at the man opposite with a smile, his eyes full of amusement.

The man opposite looked eighteen or nineteen years old, his cheeks were slightly red at the moment, and he didn't know if he was drunk or embarrassed by Zheng Fan's words, his eyebrows furrowed, and he said softly: "Zheng Fan, why do you always say these strange things?" What is a chick, you can call her a woman, or a girl..."

Before the man finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zheng Fan: "Hey, look, I guessed that I'm really right, you really are thinking about that little... Woman. ”

"Okay, don't say it again, and I'll let my father withhold your salary!" The man was obviously a little annoyed, and threatened Zheng Fan viciously.

Zheng Fan raised his eyebrows, completely disapproving: "You try, deduct my salary, and in the future, you don't want to get poems from me to please the beautiful girl in the Qinglou." ”

"Yes, you are an uncle, I can't afford to mess with my son, but then again, your poetry and writing are so good, why don't you go to get famous? With your poems, not to mention the champion, it should not be difficult to get a jinshi, it is better than being a small official who does not excel in this life. ”

The man took a bite of the fish and put it in his mouth, and asked suspiciously.

Zheng Fan smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Relying on a few poems, you want to gain fame in the examination, you look at the imperial examination too simply..."

Speaking of poetry, Zheng Fan looked out the window and was distracted.

It has been eighteen years since he came to this strange world, and the memories of his previous life are still clearly imprinted in Zheng Fan's mind, and he remembers that he used to be an 'earthling'.

When he realizes that he has become a 'time-traveler', the first feeling is shock, then some fear, and then there is an infinite ambition to dominate the world!

As a traverser, it would be meaningless if you didn't dominate the world! Although that year, in this world, he was only one year old.

But slowly he found that before the age of three, he was speechless like ordinary people, and could only laugh or cry. He also wets the bed.

When he was just able to speak, he asked his parents to read books, yes, he wanted to know clearly what kind of world he was in, and he wanted to understand the culture and history of this world.

But his father in this world is a cook, although the income is more than ordinary coolies, but it is only more, excluding daily expenses, he can't afford to buy books at all, books, in this world, are very expensive, ordinary people can't afford to buy them, it's normal.

The plan to read a lot of books failed, but his 'genius' was regarded as a treasure by his parents, and when he was only five years old, he began to go to a private school to study with his husband, and it was then that Zheng Fan's memory ability and comprehension ability beyond his peers were discovered.

Mr. Na was proud to have a 'genius' student like Zheng Fan, and was recommended by Mr. to be a companion to the little son of the county as a companion student.

In order to prevent local officials from blinding the people, the imperial court would often send inspectors to inspect the counties, and according to the regulations, the inspectors did not have the right to directly transfer the county order, but they had the right to transfer the county.

In this way, the county can be said to have the right to 'make a small report' to a higher level, so even if the county order is one level greater than the county official, he will be afraid of the county official.

And the little son of the county is the man who is sitting opposite Zheng Fan now, his name is 'Guo Pu'.

Zheng Fan naturally didn't know what level of official the county was at that time, but he knew very well that any petty official, pinching a poor person like him to death was no different from pinching an ant to death.

He himself is a year older than Guo Pu, and he doesn't know how much older he is, and he soon became a good playmate with Guo Pu. With the identity of the county son's companion reading boy, if you want to read some books, it is simply not too simple.

Five years, he only used five years, the local books, basically read through, it can be said that in the past three years he has basically not done anything else except reading, at this time, he was ten years old.

At this time, he has obtained the qualification to be admitted to Xiucai, the person who took the Xiucai exam at the age of ten is already shocking news in this small Diying County, Zheng Fan asked himself if he is not a genius, but with the insight and knowledge of his two lives, it should be okay to take a small Xiucai.

Many people's impression of Xiucai generally stays in four words - poor and sour Xiucai. But otherwise, once you pass the exam, there are many benefits.

Xiucai can see officials without kneeling, exempt from taxes, and conscription, that is, if the country is in turmoil now and a conscription war is needed, Xiucai is not within the scope of conscription. If you do a small business or something, you can also not pay taxes, which is a very good benefit.

On the day of the exam, Zheng Fan only took less than half an hour to finish the exam paper, and he was very conceited that he thought he would be in the top three. But the reality is, he fell off the list.

He was very puzzled, and wrote his article to the gentleman of the private school, and the gentleman sighed after reading it: Fan'er, you are smart by nature, and you don't need to say more for a teacher, your article, in my opinion, don't say that it is a showman, even if it is an article of a jinshi, it is nothing more than that, but, a teacher is not an examiner!

Zheng Fan smiled, he finally understood, he was in the way of others!

There are many benefits for just showing talents, not to mention lifting people, jinshi, etc., if you can't do it, you can't do it, and you can't do it! It wasn't until that day that Zheng Fan clearly realized the true meaning of this sentence.

But he was not reconciled, the exam was held once every three years, and he had to take it every three years, but until he was now eighteen years old, he had never even passed the exam.

When he fell off the list again at the age of sixteen, he had an idea, took his three failed articles, and went to find his father, the county Cheng, behind Guo Pu's back.

He wants to seek justice, he is really unwilling, unwilling to crawl at the bottom of this world for the rest of his life.

After seeing his article, the county was amazed, and sighed that his small Diying County had such a genius, but at the same time, he said regretfully: There is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the world, and the examiners are fair and just.

For six consecutive years, Zheng Fan's heart has also calmed down, since his career has not succeeded, he has become a martial artist! It's a pity that he is already sixteen years old, and his muscles and bones have basically grown, and then practicing martial arts at this time is at most the effect of strengthening his body, and he wants to kill one person in ten steps? That's a joke.

He succumbed, he bowed his head like reality, when he was ten years old, the county wanted to recruit Zheng Fan to be his official, the so-called official, that is, the lowest official without rank, equivalent to the most basic civil servant.

The salary is basically the same as his father, who worked as a cook in a restaurant.