Chapter 18 The villagers raise money
After listening to Lu's story, Yi Yu sighed in her heart, she is also a family without a father, she has a mother and a brother, but Liu Xiangxiang was given to others by her own brother as a property.
"Mother is not afraid that you are young, and your ears will be dirty when you listen to these things that you shouldn't hear, but everyone always has to do wrong things, but then Liu Gui has more than one typo, Zhi'er, Jun'er, you two were raised by me, and you have never gone through the hands of others, Mother knows very well what kind of character her child is, and she is not afraid that you will be like that pig and dog in the future." Lu Shi paused when he said this, and his eyes were already very cautious.
"Mother plans to take five guan money from the family, do it first, so that the village chief can mobilize the whole village to raise money for the Liu family to redeem Xiangxiang's deed of sale, there are also twenty-seven families in our village, and each family will be enough to make up a consistent half-run, but this five guan money is used to build a house for your two brothers after the grain is collected next year and add some furniture, my mother let you be the master, whether you want a new house or save a poor woman who has nothing to do with you."
As soon as Lu finished speaking, she stared at the two brothers and waited for them to answer, she was also worried in her heart, she actually said that she was going to lend out this money, just to test the character of her two sons, hoping not to disappoint her.
"Of course you have to borrow! Sister Xiangxiang can't marry a hooligan! "Lu Jun didn't go to Liu's house last night to join in the fun, he was a little unable to hold back after listening to Lu Xiangxiang's story about Liu Xiangxiang just now, if it wasn't for the atmosphere being too depressing, he would probably have jumped up and shouted.
Yi Yu looked at Lu Jun's blushing cheeks with a strange expression, and for some reason felt that his excited appearance was very suspicious.
Lu Zhi waited for Lu Jun to finish expressing his opinions, and then slowly said: "We can live in the house, don't be in a hurry for the time being, it's important to save people." ”
Lu Jun hurriedly said on the side: "Yes, yes, yes!" The eldest brother is right, it's not that our house can't be lived, it's not too late to build it in the future, mother, let's hurry up and send money to the Liu family, it's too late for Sister Xiangxiang to marry the villain! ”
When he said the words "marry a villain", Lu Jun's teeth were rattling, and Yi Yu suddenly realized why he felt wrong, it turned out that Lu Jun's expression was like someone else robbed his wife alive!
Although she hasn't seen Liu Xiangxiang, she has heard that she is beautiful, Lu Jun is also eleven years old, children at this age are very precocious, it is not strange to say that there is a crush, it seems that Liu Xiangxiang is two years older than him, and I don't know if Lu Jun likes other girls to be beautiful, or because he likes to be older.
Yi Yu knew that she was thinking far away, so she hurriedly pulled her thoughts back, and saw Lu Shi turn her gaze to herself, and was stunned for a moment before reflecting what she meant, so she quickly nodded and responded: "What the eldest brother and second brother said is right." ”
So the family took the case, and Lu assigned the task immediately.
"I'll go to the village chief's house first to discuss with him about raising money, Lu Zhi, you go to Liu's house to inform the two of them, and let them wait at home."
"Okay." Lu Zhi got up and left.
"Lu Jun went to your aunt Niu's house and called her to find me at the village chief."
"Hmm!" Lu Jun also hurriedly ran out.
Lu Shi turned around to leave, but was pulled by a pair of small hands at the corner of his clothes, and when he turned around, he saw Yi Yu blinking his big watery eyes and asking, "Mother, what about me?" ”
"You look after the house." With that, she broke her little paw and went out the door.
At this time, there was only one "idler" left in the family, and she was already in a dull mood because of Liu Xiangxiang's incident, but she was easily hit by Lu's words.
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The Lu family went to the village chief's house and told him about raising money, and the village chief Zhao agreed immediately, and the Zhao family of the Liu family is also a relative of his own family.
There are more than 20 households living in the mountain village, although there are those who are not in tune with the Wang family, but most of them are simple in character, and they have a good relationship with the Liu family and have long had the intention of helping out, and those who have a bad relationship will not shirk the past in the face of the village chief, not to mention that there is such a precedent as the Lu family, and the widows who can't speak a few words with the Liu family have taken out the money at this time, and the others are not good to contribute.
So when the village chief led people to look for them from house to house, most of them agreed to take them out, and some of them were willing to pay three or four hundred yuan.
Zhao begged Lu to keep an account for her, so the group came to the small courtyard of the Lu family, Lu took a pen and paper and sat in the courtyard, whoever came to send the money would write a note to whom, and by noon the money had already made up most of the money, only a few men were not at home and could not take the idea, and they had to wait until noon.
The people who had paid the money did not disperse, more than 20 people crowded into the small courtyard of the Lu family, some squatted on the fence and waited, and some gathered together to gossip, Yi Yu sat at the door of the house and looked at the various expressions on their faces, and some unusual feelings came out of his heart.
Originally, in the matter of Liu Xiangxiang, she just held a bystander attitude, although she was not a ruthless person, but after all, the soul had been a modern person for 20 years, and the development of the information industry made her see more of the hot and cold world, and the social environment made people living in that era have to show a faint indifference to things that do not concern themselves.
But looking at the group of villagers in front of her who thought they could help the Liu family in distress, she had a feeling of being in it, she was also a member of this group of people, her mother was doing her best to help the little girl who was suffering from life, she was no longer a crowd of people and onlookers.
It's just that after the Liu family returns the money, will Liu Xiangxiang be able to get rid of this bad luck, and the person named Zheng Li is really willing to push out the beautiful girl who has it again?
All along, she seems to ignore the essence of this era, which is more cruel than modern times, this society is seriously hierarchical, and the role of money and power is even more prominent, unlike in the 21st century, although people are snobbish, in the end there is still a big hat of law and morality on their heads.
In the countryside, the restrictions of law and morality are even weaker, not to mention that Liu Gui really owes money to others to take his sister to pay off the debt, in terms of Liu Xiangxiang's appearance, unless he can't stay at home, he will encounter this kind of thing sooner or later.
It is too difficult for women in this era to protect themselves, and it is okay to be ordinary, but who has a little bit of beauty and a poor background, who can get rid of the temptation of fate?
Someone suddenly tapped her on the shoulder, and Yi Yu turned her head to look at the people sitting beside her, the confusion in her eyes had not yet dissipated, and she could see the uneasiness in her heart at a glance.
Lu Zhi asked with a little confusion, "What's wrong?" ”
Yu Yu shook his head, unable to tell him that he just suddenly understood something, and he didn't want to think about it but had to re-examine this society, so his heart was sullen.
"Shocked by yesterday's events?"
She nodded honestly, but she knew that she was not just scared, she had to admit that she had regarded this society too well before, lacked a sense of crisis, and was stunned by happiness just because of the family affection that fell from the sky.
"Don't be afraid, big brother won't let you encounter this kind of thing."
Looking at the serious expression on Lu Zhi's immature face, she felt bitter in her heart, although this child is smart and sensible, but after all, he has never gone out at a young age, and the Lu family has a good way of keeping the family and has not let the children suffer anything, so he does not understand the cruel side of this unequal society, and some things can be avoided if they do not want to encounter.
Now life is very happy, but if you want to live more freely, you must have the means of self-preservation, power and money are the most direct, the eldest brother Lu Zhi will definitely participate in the imperial examination, and the development of the imperial examination system in this dynasty has been relatively perfect.
As far as she knows, the imperial court will hold regular examinations every year, and the subjects are specifically divided into dozens of kinds such as Ming Jing and Jinshi, and the Jinshi subject is the easiest among them.
There are two sources for candidates in the regular course, one is a student and the other is a village tribute. Born from the Jingshi and the state and county schools, and sent to Shangshu Province, the subjects are called apprentices; Those who do not go through the school hall and first pass the state and county examinations, and then send them to Shangshu Province to take the exams are called township tributes, and the township tributes are recommended to Chang'an candidates through the division and are also commonly known as lifters. Both of them eventually have to participate in the Ministry of Rites Examination held by Shangshu Province, which is the so-called "Spring Ceremony".
The mayor of that town is a person from the township tribute, but he didn't pass the "Spring Ceremony" in Chang'an, so he didn't have a chance to be a leader, but he still went back to his hometown and became a town mayor.
Judging from Lu Zhi's current situation, when he can take the exam in four years, he can come back with a test casually, and it is not impossible for him to get out of the "Spring Festival".
But in this era, it is much more difficult to supply a subject candidate than to provide a college student in the previous life, as long as the college student can be admitted to the state, he will give a loan subsidy, and no matter how bad it is, there is a social donation or the like, but at this time, even if the candidate is admitted, he may not be able to get the qualification to be recommended into the "Spring Festival", even if he does not need to take money to pass, he has to make a little bit up and down, as far as their family is in this situation, because Lu has a pen and ink in his mind, he has saved a fee for going to a private school, although it is not enough to supply Lu Zhi, but it is also quite difficult.
There is still no money, because there is no money, so Liu Xiangxiang was used by her brother to pay off her debts, because there is no money, the drought makes the farmers who live on grain sleepless at night, because there is no money, so the Lu family has to work stitch by stitch, because there is no money, so a piece of clothing has been changed four or five times and has to continue to wear, a piece of meat can make the family eat excitedly for several days......
She thought of her blood ability again, it was not difficult to make good use of this item without being discovered, she already had a plan for this, she wanted to wait for a few more years for herself to grow up, but Liu Xiangxiang's matter was like a slap in the face, so she inevitably considered whether to advance this matter better.
There was a muffled "grunt" in her abdomen, and Yi Yu felt hungry at this time, looked up at Lu Zhi, who was staring at her forehead, and then looked at the crowd in the courtyard that still hadn't dispersed, sighed and got up to go to the stove room to find food.
There was still one left in the morning, and she took a small piece from the bowl on the stove on tiptoe and put it in her mouth and chewed it.
Just as she was sitting in front of the stove and eating the nest head, there was a sudden commotion in the courtyard, she frowned and swallowed the last piece, patted the crumbs stuck to her fingers, and then lifted the curtain and walked out.
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