Chapter 25 Second Brother, Hello Two
Brother Wei and Wei An went on the road with dry food. The Wei family was not far from the county seat, and after walking for less than half an hour, the two came to the county seat. The two of them were very familiar with the county, so they found Baohetang, a pharmacy with the best reputation and didn't look bad for money, and sold the prescription to Baohetang.
Wei An took out two prescriptions researched in the Qing Dynasty and a prescription for the preparation of modern Chinese patent medicine, all of which are not available in modern times, and the effect is very good, each of which is very precious, not to mention three. Wei An didn't ask for much, and only sold a piece to Baohetang for a price of one hundred taels, and the only requirement was to let Baohetang keep it secret for them, so as not to let people know that the prescription was purchased from them.
Boholtang naturally agreed, they didn't want other competitors to find the Wei family and buy prescriptions from them.
Walking out of Baohetang, Brother Wei was dizzy. Three hundred taels of silver, he has grown so big, he has never even seen thirty taels of silver, and he has ten times more than thirty taels of silver on his body in modern times. Oh my God, he can't be dreaming, is he?
Brother Wei patted his chest, there were five silver tickets in it, two hundred taels, one fifty taels, two twenty taels, and the remaining ten taels were broken silver, which was carried by Brother Wei in a package. He is now full of worries, what if the money is robbed?
"Big brother, take it easy, no one will believe that the two of us have so much silver on us." Wei An whispered to Brother Wei, but unfortunately, Brother Wei still did not relax, and the whole person was tense.
Wei An sighed, originally wanted to go shopping in the county seat and buy some delicious food, but it seemed that he couldn't go shopping, so he could only follow Brother Wei back to Wei's house.
The Wei family, after Sister-in-law Wei knew that the prescription was sold for three hundred taels, her reaction was exactly the same as that of the previous Brother Wei. Brother Wei took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels for repayment of debts, and pushed the rest to Wei An: "Third brother, this money is yours, put it away." ”
Although Sister-in-law Wei was greedy for so much money, she didn't say anything, but agreed with Brother Wei's approach, thinking that the money was exchanged by Wei An for his prescription, and naturally belonged to Wei An.
Wei An took out a silver ticket of one hundred taels from it and put it away, and pushed the broken silver of the remaining silver ticket back to Brother Wei and sister-in-law Wei.
"Big brother and sister-in-law, you can put away your silver and use it as a family in the future."
"No, it's all yours." Brother Wei and sister-in-law Wei hurriedly refused.
Wei An said: "Big brother and sister-in-law, we are all a family, what do we have to share with each other." This money is mine, and it is yours, and you use this money to improve your life, and I will also benefit, right? ”
Sister-in-law Wei looked at Brother Wei, Brother Wei nodded, and said to Sister-in-law Wei: "Put it away, like the third brother said, we are all family." ”
Sister-in-law Wei happily put the money away. She carefully packed the silver ticket in a lotus box, put it into a wooden box with the broken silver, and then put it into her room with Brother Wei. As for where to put it, Wei An didn't know.
That night, Wei An had a good night's sleep, but Brother Wei and Sister-in-law Wei tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep. It's really that the two of them have never been tortured and paid more, and their hearts are really unsteady.
"Daddy, child, do we really have a hundred taels?" Sister-in-law Wei couldn't help but ask.
"Really, really, you've asked dozens of times." Brother Wei said impatiently.
Sister-in-law Wei said curtly: "Isn't it true that I don't have a sense of reality and think I'm dreaming?" I'm afraid I'll wake up from a dream and there's nothing. ”
Brother Wei was silent for a long time, and then said, "I also think it's a dream." But everything is true, these silver coins were all exchanged by the third brother for his precious prescriptions. We have been stained with the light of the third brother, and we will be better to the third brother in the future. ”
Sister-in-law Wei hurriedly said: "I know, I will treat the third brother better than Xiang Ming and Xiang Hui." ”
Sister-in-law Wei said again: "The child's father, how are we going to use this huge amount of money?" ”
Brother Wei said: "I thought about it just now, and I will first take out eighty taels of silver to buy land." The high-grade paddy field is ten taels of silver per acre, the dry field is eight taels of silver and one acre of silver, let's buy five acres of dry land and three-eye paddy field. Add our family's previous two acres of land, so that we have ten acres of land, and the future output will be enough for our family to eat, and we will never go hungry again. ”
Sister-in-law Wei was excited when she heard this: "Okay, buy the field." ”
Brother Wei said: "The remaining twenty taels of silver will be used by the third brother and Xiang Ming to go to school." I promised my third brother that when I had money, I would send my third brother to study in the school. ”
Sister-in-law Wei agreed: "The third brother is so smart, he will definitely be able to succeed in his studies, and maybe he will be able to pass the examination, and then our family's fields will be tax-free." ”
Brother Wei agreed: "You are right, the third brother will definitely be able to pass the examination." As for Xiang Ming, I don't ask him to be able to pass the exam, as long as you can learn to read and write, you can settle accounts, and you can find a good job in the county in the future. ”
Sister-in-law Wei said: "I heard that those account offices and shopkeepers in the county town have one or two silver a month!" If Xiang Ming really became the bookkeeper and shopkeeper, he wouldn't have to worry about marrying a daughter-in-law in the future. ”
Brother Wei said: "When Xiang Hui is older, he will also be sent to the school." ”
Sister-in-law Wei: "Okay." ”
The two couples imagined the future and gradually fell asleep.
Three days later, the debt collector came to the door, and Brother Wei returned the silver ticket of one hundred taels to them. The names of the nearby villages were stunned, but they didn't expect the Wei family to really take out a hundred taels of silver! Everyone was very curious, and openly and secretly inquired about the origin of the Wei family's money. Brother Wei and sister-in-law Wei told everyone the statement that had been discussed a long time ago, saying that they had sold an item left by their ancestors and exchanged it for silver to pay off their debts. They are sorry for their ancestors.
The villagers knew that the ancestors of the Wei family had been military generals, because they had no doubts about their ancestral heirlooms, and only sighed that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse.
After Brother Wei bought the land, the villagers didn't doubt it, but they watched with envy as Brother Wei bought the family business, watched the Wei family become more and more prosperous, and watched them send their younger brother and son to the school in the county seat.
Wei An didn't expect that Brother Wei would send him to the academy! Can he say no? In the previous world, he had finished studying the "Four Books and Five Classics", but he didn't want to learn it again. Moreover, Brother Wei and Sister-in-law Wei still hope that he will rely on scientific research...... Wiping his face, he just wants to live an easy life!
Wei An finally followed Wei Xiangming into the school. In order not to start learning from children's books such as "Three Hundred Thousand", Wei An showed one-tenth of his strength, skipped the kindergarten class, and directly entered the intermediate class, and then showed his unforgettable genius ability, and entered the advanced class in two months. It's Wei Xiangming, obediently studying in the nursery class! The 10-year-old child cherished the opportunity to learn, and he understood that reading and writing could change his destiny, so he studied very hard.
Wei An decided to take the county exam a year after entering the academy. His reputation as a genius had spread throughout the county, and no one questioned his decision. In the spring of the following year, Wei An took the county examination and successfully passed the examination to become a child, followed by the government examination and the hospital examination, and Wei An finally became a showman, allowing the Wei family's fields to be tax-exempt.
Brother Wei got the news that his younger brother had become a Xiucai, bought firecrackers and set them off for a whole day, and set up a day's flowing water banquet to entertain the villagers and those who came to congratulate him. Now the Wei family has ten acres of land, and the output is enough to hold a few flowing water banquets in addition to eating at home.
After that, Wei An no longer went to the school, and he was called self-study and review at home to cope with the township exam three years later, and actually stayed at home to enjoy himself, and pointed out Wei Xiangming, who was still studying in the school.
Wei Xiangming admires Wei An very much, a little uncle who is younger than himself but more powerful than himself, and he doesn't ask the gentleman who doesn't understand anything when he is studying, and he is more willing to ask his uncle. Wei An was happy to point out Wei Xiangming. Wei Xiangming's qualifications for reading are only average, but he is very diligent, which makes up for his lack of qualifications. And under Wei An's guidance, Wei Xiangming's learning progress is not slow.
Wei An told Brother Wei that he asked Brother Wei to support Wei Xiangming's study, and he judged that Wei Xiangming would be able to pass the Xiucai examination before the age of eighteen and the promotion before the age of twenty-five. It's hard to say that you can get into the Jinshi, but even if you can't get into the Jinshi, you still have the qualifications to be officials, and when you bring it, Brother Wei and Sister-in-law Wei will become the old lady and old lady of the official family.
After listening to Wei An's words, Brother Wei naturally fully supported his eldest son's study, Fang Zheng's family's fields did not have to pay taxes, and the family's income was more, which was more than enough for the two children to study. When Wei Xianghui was five years old, Brother Wei also sent him to the school, but this child prefers to learn martial arts than studying, so every time he comes back from the school, he learns "radio gymnastics" with Wei An the rest of the time, and follows Brother Wei to learn horseback archery and some external kung fu. Brother Wei planned to wait for him to take the martial arts exam after he was fifteen years old.
In addition to his two children studying and learning martial arts, Wei An spends the rest of his time on his family's fields, thinking about how to help his fields increase production. Interplanting or something, Wei An, an alien, doesn't understand, but he can check the information! Wei An is responsible for providing information, and Brother Wei is responsible for testing according to the data.
Brother Wei trusts his younger brother very much, and feels that everything his younger brother says is right, and he will not suspect that the so-called intercropping and intercropping methods provided by his younger brother will not work and harm the land. In the eyes of other villagers looking at the jokes, Brother Wei planted according to the information given by his younger brother. It turned out that his younger brother was really the best, and the family's fields were abundant, and the output was one-third more than before.
The people in the village were in an uproar, thinking that this method proposed by Xiucai Ye must be useful, so from the second year, the villagers also followed Brother Wei to learn intercropping, and they also obtained a bumper harvest. After that, the method of intercropping and intercropping spread throughout the county.