The snow is falling, and the sky and the earth are covered in silver.

In the small bamboo village, Wang Chong and Wang Erxi sit and drink, there is an earthen stove on the eucalyptus, the furnace burns a charcoal fire, and on the stove there is a clay pot containing most of the pot of water, and on the clay pot where the water vapor is steaming, there are also two white porcelain wine pots.

"San Lang, come, drink another bowl!" Wang Erxi held the wine glass and invited Wang to drink again.

"Here! !" Wang Chong raised his glass with both hands, touched it with Wang Erxi, and then raised his head and drank it all.

"Saburo has a lot of alcohol!"

"Hahahaha!"

Wang Erxi's laughter was very heroic.

The two of them pushed the cups and changed the lamps, just pickled radishes, fried soybeans, drank to the rising place, looking at the snowy scene through the window, Wang Zhong couldn't help but chant a poem: "Green ants make new wine, red mud small stove, and the sky is snowy in the evening, you can drink a cup of nothing!"

"Good poetry! He is a reader!" Wang Erxi even gave a thumbs up.

Wang Chongdao: "The poems written by Bai Juyi, a monk in Xiangshan in the Tang Dynasty, are naturally good poems."

Wang Erxi was stunned for a moment, then laughed, picked up the wine glass and invited Wang to touch it again.

"I didn't think that in just a few months, San Lang bought a Zhuangzi and opened a restaurant, so he actually started to be a foreigner!"

Wang Chong said: "Licking blood from the knife edge is not a long-term solution after all, after all, we have to prepare some property for my sister-in-law and Sister Qian!"

"yes!" Wang Erxi sighed with emotion: "It's a pity that I don't have the cleverness of San Lang, I'm afraid that I can only rely on this strength to fight in the rivers and lakes in this life."

Wang Chongdao: "Listen to my sister-in-law, sister-in-law Yu is happy again?"

Sister-in-law Yu is Wang Erxi's daughter-in-law, Wang Erxi's father and Wang Chong's father are fellow villagers, and they were placed in Baishui Village together, and the relationship between the two families has always been good.

Wang Erxi nodded and said, "Lang Zhong has seen it, and said that it has been more than two months!"

Wang Erxi is nearly thirty years old, and he already has two sons and a daughter under his knees, plus this, it is four.

Wang Zhong looked at Wang Erxi and asked, "Second brother, have you considered the future?"

"In the future?" Wang Erxi looked at Wang Zhong with some doubts.

"Uncle has passed the year of the Mandate of Heaven, and Dalang is also ten years old, right?"

"In two months, I will be ten years old!" Wang Erxi said.

Both of them are talking about one year old.

Wang Zhong asked, "Second brother, have you ever thought about what they will do when Da Lang and Erlang are old in the future?" Do you follow the second brother to the Cao Gang to mix the rivers and lakes, or stay in the village to farm?"

Wang Erxi didn't think about it, and replied directly, "Naturally, I stayed in the village to farm! Fighting in the rivers and lakes, licking blood from the knife edge, that is to tie your life to the belt of your pants to make money······

But as he spoke, he suddenly reacted, looked at Wang Chong, who was looking at him, and asked, "Why did San Lang suddenly talk about this?"

Wang Chong said: "Now I have settled my sister-in-law and Sister Qian, I will participate in the imperial examination this year, if everything goes well, maybe I will go to Tokyo, in the past few years, if it is not for the second brother, there is no Wang Chong today, I am now busy studying and preparing for the exam, many things can not be done by myself, if the second brother is willing, come to my side to help me?"

Wang Zhong suddenly gave up his hand and sent out an invitation, and said very sincerely.

"This ······" Wang Erxi was stunned by Wang Chong's sudden invitation, and he didn't react for a while, and he didn't know how to decide.

"Second brother rest assured, it's not that the second brother and the Cao Gang are completely broken, it is estimated that there will be a lot of things in the family in the future, and I have to bother the brothers of the Cao Gang to help, but there is really no trustworthy and competent person around the younger brother, and the second brother is unwilling, so I will let the younger brother not mention this matter, so I will give up!"

"San Lang, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that this thing is too sudden, and for a while, I'm ······." Wang Erxi really didn't know how to explain to Wang Chong.

Wang Zhong smiled and said, "Second brother doesn't need to remember the reply, go home in the evening and discuss it with your uncle and sister-in-law."

"Thank you brother for your understanding!" Wang Erxi picked up the wine glass and toasted with Wang Zhong again.

After eating a meal, it was almost dark, although Wang Erxi had some alcohol, but obviously not drunk yet, Wang

I still asked Yu Chuer to send Wang Erxi home.

It's been half a year since I came to the copy world, and this body is almost eighteen years old, Wang Chong has not been idle, he has turned over the four books and five classics, all the scriptures and meanings, and read the "History of the Song Dynasty" and "Song Law" several times, and the Jinshi articles circulating on the market over the years have also been found and read, coupled with the profound knowledge accumulated over hundreds of years, the imperial examination is not too difficult for Wang Chong.

It was night, Wang Erxi's house, Wang Erxi hugged his mother-in-law Yu, and told Yu's advice during the day, and it was still in January, the weather was cold, and the two of them shrunk in the quilt, clinging tightly, but it was also warm.

Yu reluctantly got up, brought up the quilt, and the cold air hit, making Wang Er shiver: "What are you doing, freezing to death!"

Wang Erxi hurriedly hugged Yu back and folded the quilt, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boss, I think what San Lang said makes sense, San Lang is a scholar, and he is smart, if it wasn't for his eldest brother's incident, he would have gone to participate in the imperial examination a long time ago, you see San Lang, but after following you for a few years, I saved so much money, bought a Zhuangzi, opened a restaurant, and changed you, can you?"

"Forehead ······" Wang Erxi was a little embarrassed by what his mother-in-law said, but after thinking about it, he has worked hard in the Cao Gang for so many years, and now he is just a little minion, and he has saved some money, but compared with Wang Chong, it is still much worse.

"San Lang is a scholar, if you run errands for him by San Lang's side, our son may be able to study with San Lang in the future! If San Lang really gained fame and became an official, wouldn't our family be able to follow the blessing of San Lang!

If you do your errands well, do you still have no future?"

Compared with her husband's involvement in the Cao Gang, who pins his head to the waistband of his pants all day long to earn money, Yu is obviously more inclined to let her husband follow Wang Chong, even being a guard is better than licking blood from the knife edge.

The husband and wife discussed the small half of the night.

Early the next morning, after his father was revealed, Wang Erxi made a decision and directly found Wang Chong to express his intentions.

"In that case, the second brother will be a steward by my side first! How much money does it make every month?"

"Good! Okay!" Wang Erxi suddenly had a smile on his face.

A month is consistent, a year is twelve, although it is not as much as earning more in the Cao Gang, but it is also a lot.

Wang Zhong said: "There is an errand right now, and the second brother needs to do it!"

"Saburo is just as he is told!" Wang Erxi patted his chest and said.

Wang Chong said: "The oil mill next to Zhuangzi, has the second brother been there?"

Wang Erxi shook his head and said, "I haven't been there yet."

Wang Chongdao: "The oil mill has been built for more than a month, but there are no soybeans and rapeseeds, the second brother has worked in the Cao Gang for many years, I don't know if there are acquaintances in Runzhou, Jinling and other places?"

Wang Erxi said: "Jinling and Runzhou all have Cao Gang rudders!"

"If the second brother is troubled to match the gap and entrust the Cao Gang to buy soybeans, I don't know if it will work?"

"Of course!" Wang Erxi patted his chest and said, "It's not that I, Wang Erxi, boast about it, I have been in the Cao Gang for many years, although I don't have any great skills, but I also know a lot of brothers who are like each other, but it's just a matter of buying some soybeans."

"Second brother rest assured, I won't ask the brothers to work in vain, now a pound of soybeans in the grain store is only three cents, no matter what price the Cao Gang brothers collect soybeans, I will buy them at the price of four cents a catty, but it is not easy to store, and the scale of the oil mill is also limited, we are doing business for the first time, and it is limited to five hundred stones, how about it?"

"There should be no problem." Wang Erxi said, just after the New Year, the weather is cold, even the brothers of the Cao Gang have to accompany their families and friends to celebrate the New Year.

Wang Zhong took out five ingots of silver from the inner room, put them in front of Wang Erxi, and said, "Ten taels and one ingots, a total of fifty taels, should be regarded as a deposit, and the rest of the money, when the five hundred stone soybeans arrive, will be settled together!"

Five silver ingots were placed in front of him, and it was Wang Erxi, who had been traveling south and north for many years, and he couldn't help but be suppressed by Wang Chong's handwriting.

It's not that Wang Erxi hasn't seen so much money, but Wang Chong's letter to himself

Ren, now I haven't even seen the shadow of the Cao Gang, and I took out the deposit of fifty taels without frowning.

The thinking of the ancients is not the same as the thinking of the big guys in reality, the ancients paid attention to the death of the confidant, especially Wang Erxi, who was reckless in the rivers and lakes, and it was the kind of righteousness that came first, and when life and death were in danger, they could be entrusted to their wives and children.

Wang Erxi is not an ignorant person, when he even put the five silver ingots into his arms one by one, he solemnly bowed his hand to Wang Chong and said: "San Lang don't worry, I will go to the city to find Brother Shi, Brother Shi is the deputy helmsman of the rudder, as long as Brother Shi agrees, this matter will be half done."

"So it's annoying for the second brother!"

"What is the matter, all right, here I go!" Wang Erxi has never been the kind of person who drags mud and water, so he just did what he said, and immediately said goodbye to Wang Chong and went straight to the stone deputy helmsman of the Cao Gang.

The task given by the system is to survive, although Wang Chong has never lived in this kind of feudal and autocratic society, but Wang Chong also understands that now the Great Song Dynasty can barely be said to be the country and the people, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Since the difficulty is too great, then naturally you can only take a shortcut, anyway, there is no punishment for failing the task to be wiped out, even so, it is better to go through the imperial examination road, and feel the life of the ancient scholars, from reading the imperial examination to becoming an official.

Wang Chong also knows very well that it is difficult to move an inch without money, whether it is in modern times or in ancient times, it is a wise saying, not only to take the imperial examination, but also to say what to do up and down, just the cost of reading is not a small amount.

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I didn't even have time to explain the aftermath, and my skills were lost.

The whole pigsty walked around, and it was indeed as Yu Chuyi said, the growth of one hundred and twenty piglets was quite good, and there were no cases of illness so far.

"Not bad! It must be remembered that the pigsty must be cleaned every day, the water must be supplied in a timely manner, and it must be made sure that it is clean······ Before leaving, Wang Chong gave Yu Chuyi another exhortation.

Whether it is raising pigs or raising chickens and ducks, the most feared is the epidemic, once the scale is formed, it is a loss, but as long as you do a good job of protection and maintain hygiene, it can still play a preventive role to a certain extent.

"Don't worry, Childe, it's all done according to Childe's requirements." Yu Chu Yi.

"If these piglets grow up and go out of slaughter, your reward is indispensable!"

"Thank you, Childe, the little one must be dedicated!"

Although Yu Chuyi is not as clever as his younger brother Yu Chuer, he is not a fool, but he is just a little wooden.

Now the pigsty has become a scale, after the beginning of spring, Wang Chong is also ready to raise chickens in Xiaozhu Mountain, and raise some ducks in the small lake, the water system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed, and many Huaiyang dishes in later generations are related to ducks.

Like Jinling's famous duck blood vermicelli soup, roast duck and so on.

It's not that Wang Chong won't make soap, make wine, purify coarse salt, and refine white sugar, but these things are too profitable, and the things involved are too sensitive.

Although Wang Zhong is not afraid, there is no need to get himself into trouble.

The steady development of peace and stability, step by step and gradually growing, is the so-called high wall, extensive accumulation of grain, slow king, is almost the truth.

Time passed day by day, and just a few days after entering February, the first batch of 500 stone soybeans from the Cao Gang was delivered to Baishui Village.

Wang Chongdang even led a group of farmers into the oil mill and personally instructed the farmers to extract oil from soybeans.

Oil extraction is a technical work, whether it is fried or billet, there are exquisite, fortunately, there is Wang Chong, who is almost omniscient, omnipotent, under the teaching, the dealers get started very quickly.

And Wang Erxi temporarily took on the job of managing the oil mill.

The oil mill has already started, but Wang Chong is not idle, but finds several elders and nobles from the Yu and Li families in Baishui Village.

"The junior Wang Chong, I have seen three elders!"

"Brother Chong, are you looking for us?" Among the three, Mrs. Li was the first to speak.

According to the generation, Mrs. Li is the grandfather of Wang Chong's sister-in-law Li, although the room is separated, but at this time and later generations are different, the clan concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and respecting the elders and the virtuous is a fine tradition that existed in ancient times.

"I take the liberty to invite today, there is indeed a reason, a few elders and listen to the juniors slowly!" Wang Chong bowed to the three of them again before he said slowly: "In the early years, my brother found trouble, if it weren't for the elders and the villagers to protect the younger generation's family, there would be no younger generation today."

"Although my Wang family is from outside, but the Yu and Li families in the village have the grace to take in my Wang family, one of the helpers, and the younger generation is not a forgetful person, and now Bo has family resources, and wants to repair the village middle school, invite the school teacher, teach the children in the village to read and learn words, all the expenses should be borne by my Wang family, I don't know what the three elders want?"

"Brother Chong'er's words are true?" The three elders were shocked when they heard this.

"Naturally, it's true!" Wang Chonglang said.

Mrs. Yu sighed with emotion: "Since Mr. Lu passed away and Houting moved his family, the village middle school has been idle for many years, and the school is easy to repair, but this school teacher, I'm afraid it's not easy to find!"

Wang Zhong said: "Let's repair the school first, and then the teacher will slowly look for it."

"It's just that the juniors are preparing for the end of this school, and they still have to prepare for the exam, and the three elders have to worry a lot about the renovation of this school."

Hearing that the three elders were all in one place, the three pairs of eyes looked at Wang Chong invariably, and there was a little shock in their eyes, and Old Lady Li hurriedly asked, "Will it end this year?"

"Because of trivial matters at home, it has been delayed

It's been nearly four years, and next autumn will be the township test, and if you try it this year, you won't be successful, and you should accumulate experience!"

"Hey!" The three elders sighed in unison when they heard this, they all knew about Wang Chong's family, when the people from the gambling house came to Baishui Village to collect debts, they still treated people to protect Wang Chong and Li's mother and daughter.

"That's fine!" Old lady Yu said, "One more test, one more chance."

Second Master Li said: "In this case, Brother Chong'er can study at home to prepare for the exam, and leave the matter of repairing the school to a few of us old guys."

Wang Chong bowed his hand again and said, "When the younger generation goes back, I will explain it to my sister-in-law clearly, and if I spend any money, I will ask my sister-in-law to withdraw it."

"That's all the good!" The three old men stroked their beards and said with a smile on their faces.

Wang Chong's voice changed: "There is one more matter, and the three elders still need to come up with an idea."

Old Lady Yu asked, "What else is going on?"

Wang Chongdao: "The soybeans that the younger generation entrusted to the Cao Gang to purchase have all been delivered a few days ago, and the first batch of soybean oil has been tasted by the three elders?"

The three elders nodded their heads.

Wang Zhong asked again, "How does it taste?"

Old Mrs. Li said, "Although the taste is slightly less than the meat oil, it is not bad!"

Old Lady Yu stroked her beard and said, "Very good!"

Second Master Li: "······"

"Now there is a lot of oil in the oil mill warehouse, and the younger generation wants to sell this oil to the people at a low price, but the reputation of the oil mill is not obvious, and there are not many people available under him, so I want to ask the three elders to help!"

"Selling oil?" The three elders' eyes lit up when they heard this.

The three of them immediately discussed with Wang Chong, and finally decided that the oil price would be uniformly designated by the Wang family oil mill, but for every pot of oil sold, the oil seller would have a penny of profit, and the oil pot, oil drum and oil spoon were all provided by the oil mill.

The people found by the three elders only need to be in charge of sales.

The reason why Wang Chong came to find the three elders is also because of the lack of sales talents who can speak well, Yu Chuer can barely be counted as one, but Yu Chuer alone is definitely not enough, most of those dealers are honest people, and few can speak well.

After all, selling oil is also a business, and people who can speak well and have thick skin are indeed more advantageous than people who are wooden.

Within a few days, the three elders came to Wang Chong with people, in addition to a few villages, there were also several in-laws of people from the same village, all of whom could speak the Tao.

After signing the contract with everyone and conducting simple training, these dozen or so people pushed the cart and pulled the soybean oil produced by Wang's Oil Mill, and sold the oil for eight items in ten miles.

As the oil mill and pig farm gradually got on the right track, Wang Chong was slowly handing over these things to his sister-in-law Li to take care of.

In Yangzhou City, Wu Laohan, a father and son who have been selling braised meat and various kinds of water for several months, finally got Wang Chong's approval for their dishes, and the restaurant that had been preparing for many days finally reopened.

There has been a foundation laid by selling braised pork for several months, as soon as the restaurant opened, the business became booming, Wu Laohan and his son themselves have good cooking skills, and Wang Chong has been dialing for a few months, coupled with the novelty of stir-frying, and Wang Chong is willing to spend money, please help to publicize it everywhere, but in just a few days, the restaurant is full every day, and Wu Laohan and his son are busy every day.

Wang Erxi also set up a banquet in the restaurant, and invited the brothers who had made friends in the Cao Gang to eat several times, and with the help of the Cao Gang to publicize, those businessmen who stayed in Yangzhou inevitably had a few who wanted to taste it.

This taste made the name of the restaurant outstanding.

In the second year of Jiayou, a restaurant called Wangjianglou completely established itself in this Yangzhou wharf.

At this time, Wang Chong also came to Yangzhou City, lived in the courtyard he originally rented, prepared to take the examination a few days later, and officially embarked on the road of the imperial examination.