Yao Zhenfu went to study in a private school in the county, and the money collected by Mr. Xiucai was actually not much, but it cost money to buy books, pens and paper.

A very thin book with a few sheets of paper costs dozens of texts, and a thicker book costs hundreds of texts, and the paper, pen and ink are not cheap...... His family really didn't have much savings.

He sold a piece of his family's land to Li Qingzhi to build a house because he saw that Yao Zhenfu was about to get married, but the family had little money.

In fact, Yao Zhenfu is already twenty-two and has become a father, so it stands to reason that he can find a job to help the family, but Yao Zhenfu wants to take the Xiucai exam......

Yao Gong silently stopped the boat.

Yao Zhenfu stood on the stone steps and tidied up his clothes before he tilted his head and walked up, and then he happened to see Li Qingzhi who was standing up.

Li Qingzhi is a head taller than him who is less than 1.6 meters, he can't look up!

"Li Qingzhi?" Yao Zhenfu hesitated for a while before calling out Li Qingzhi's name.

He knew that Li Qingzhi was back, but he had never met Li Qingzhi, even five years ago, he was not very familiar with Li Qingzhi.

First, he goes out early and returns to school in the county seat every day, and secondly, he comes...... Li Qingzhi's appearance is a bit different from him, and he doesn't want to stand next to Li Qingzhi.

At that time, the people in the village said that Li Qingzhi was good-looking, and they also said that Li Qingzhi's knowledge must be better than him...... He didn't know how annoyed he was.

However, it was later confirmed that Li Qingzhi's education was not good, and five years later, Li Qingzhi's body was still broken and thinned into a ghost...... Yao Zhenfu was full of superiority in front of Li Qingzhi.

"Brother Yao, long time no see!" Li Qingzhi smiled and looked enthusiastic.

He felt that Yao Zhenfu in front of him was quite kind.

It's been a long, long time since he's seen a fat man!

Yao Zhenfu didn't know that Li Qingzhi liked everyone he saw now, and he was enthusiastic about everyone he saw. He saw that Li Qingzhi was so eager, and thought that Li Qingzhi wanted to slap himself up.

Thinking about it carefully, the Li family is really poor now, and it is normal for Li Qing to want to tie himself up.

Yao Zhenfu wiped the sweat off his face and smiled slightly: "Long time no see!" Now that Brother Li is back, we can discuss knowledge together when we have time. ”

In the past, Yao Zhenfu didn't dare to discuss knowledge with Li Qingzhi, but didn't Xiucai from the next village confirm that Li Qingzhi had no knowledge? Li Qingzhi hasn't touched a book for five years! Anyway, he's not afraid now.

"Is that okay?" Li Qingzhi looked surprised, then sighed again, and his face was full of sadness: "It's a pity that I am not good at learning, and I haven't touched a book for more than five years......"

"It doesn't matter, as long as you are willing to learn, you can always pick up the knowledge." Yao Zhenfu said.

Li Qingzhi asked again: "Brother Yao is right! Brother Yao, I have a reluctant request. ”

"What?" Yao Zhenfu asked.

Li Qing insisted: "Brother Yao, when I fled, I didn't bring out a single book at home, and I didn't have money to buy books later...... Brother Yao would like to borrow books from me? Brother Yao, rest assured, I will keep the book properly, and I will compensate if it is damaged. ”

At this time, the book is not cheap, and if it is broken, it will definitely be compensated.

As for why he borrowed books...... Li Qingzhi does plan to go to the county seat to find a job first to earn some money to support his family, but he also has plans for the future.

This era is actually quite unfair, not to mention the difficult life of ordinary people, and there are all kinds of forced labor, and it is difficult to keep wealth even if you have it.

If he could, he wanted to make a name for himself.

It's just that the original owner's knowledge is really common, so he has to learn it from scratch.

Yao Zhenfu hesitated slightly: "What book do you want to borrow?" There are some books that I want to read as well. ”

Li Qing insisted: "Brother Yao can borrow me a copy of the "Three Character Classic", and I will teach the two children to memorize it." ”

Yao Zhenfu agreed: "Brother Li will follow me to get the book!" If Li Qingzhi borrowed those expensive books from him, he would have hesitated.

But the "Three Character Classic" ...... He was not afraid to borrow this book.

Yao Zhenfu even has a sense of superiority - I didn't expect Li Qingzhi to even know how to memorize the "Three Character Classic"!

Although his knowledge is average, he is still familiar with this book.

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After Yao Zhenfu beckoned Li Qingzhi to get the book, he walked forward.

Li Qingzhi glanced behind him - Yao Gonggong had just parked the boat and was still moving things down from the boat!

He moved a lot of things, and he took the burden to pick it up, so Yao Zhenfu didn't help?

Well, he really didn't help, the bookboxes where he put the books were all on Yao Gonggong's side......

"Brother Li, why don't you leave?" Yao Zhenfu asked.

Li Qing followed with a smile. Yao Gonggong has no opinion on being a father, what can he say? If you really want to say it, Yao Gonggong may blame him for being nosy.

He does like the people around him, but the end-time experience has also taught him one thing, and that is not to meddle.

Although Li Qingzhi is better, his walking speed is still very slow, but fortunately, Yao Zhenfu is short and does not walk fast, and the two can walk side by side.

It didn't take long for Yao Gonggong, who was carrying the burden, to catch up.

The people who enjoyed the cool waited for them to leave before continuing to chat, and the aunt who had a good chat with Li Qingzhi just now couldn't help but say, "Those two ...... A dwarf winter melon, a clothes pole. ”

Li Qingzhi is the tallest in the village, and after losing weight, he looks like a bamboo pole.

As for Yao Zhenfu...... They didn't think he was fat before, and they thought he was rich, like a man in the city and a landlord, but he walked by Li Qingzhi's side, which was too short!

The people in the village chatted again, but Li Qingzhi had already followed Yao Zhenfu to Yao's house.

According to the memory of the original owner, some large families living in the countryside would dig the foundation of the courtyard wall very deep, and the courtyard wall would be built three meters high, all to prevent bandits.

However, there are few landlords in Miaoqian Village, and there are no such houses, so most people make a fence.

The Yao family made a fence with bamboo and fenced off the vegetable patch in front of their house, which was to prevent chickens from pecking at the vegetables inside.

Walking through the vegetable field, I saw the Yao family's house, Yao's house has four south-facing houses side by side, and behind these four houses, there are thatched houses and pigsties.

Li Qingzhi saw that the door of one of the rooms was wide open, and a boxy Eight Immortals table was placed in the middle, and there were many things next to it.

Li Qingzhi's family has very few things, not even a table of eight immortals, but looking at the Li family, the farmhouse basically has the things that the farmer needs to use on weekdays.

Yao Zhenfu pushed open the door of the westernmost room, and Li Qingzhi saw a desk, a chair, and several cabinets inside.

Looking at the furnishings, this is a study.

Yao's house is big in the countryside, but there are not too many houses, Yao Zhenfu can have a south-facing house as a study, and his status in this family is not high.

In fact, the people in the village are not used to children, and girls are very early

They will start to learn to do housework and raise silkworms, and the boys will follow them when they are a little older.

Jin Xiaoye's grandparents are partial to Uncle Jin Xiaoye's family, but the cousins of Uncle Jin Xiaoye's family are also in their teens.

Of course, they don't work hard, they love to be lazy or something, that's another thing.

Yao Zhenfu, who never goes to the ground, is really unique in the village.

However, in this era, scholars are indeed superior, if Yao Zhenfu can make achievements in scientific examinations...... That Yao Gonggong's efforts on him are all worth it.

Even if Yao Zhenfu, who has studied books, can find a job in the county, then he will be able to live comfortably in this life.

Yao Zhenfu took a copy of the "Three Character Classic" to Li Qingzhi, and encouraged Li Qingzhi a few words in a crepe manner, so that Li Qingzhi could study hard.

Li Qingzhi went out with the book, and saw Yao's mother sorting things out with Yao's father-in-law, and Jin Jasmine was holding a girl and holding a boy to stand next to her to help.

Yao's mother glared at Jin Jasmine, and her tone was fierce: "I know that there is something in the way next to you, get away!" ”

Yao's mother was very bad to Jin Jasmine, but she was very polite when she saw Li Qingzhi: "It's Xiao Li, do you want to eat at our house?" ”

Most people in the village eat two meals a day, but the Yao family eats three meals a day, Yao Gonggong and Yao Zhenfu eat one meal before going out in the morning, Yao's mother takes Jin Jasmine and her grandchildren to eat briefly at noon, and when Yao Chenggong and Yao Zhenfu come back in the evening, they eat together again.

"Auntie, I've already eaten it." Li Qing refused with a smile, and said a few more words of greeting before leaving.

As soon as he walked out of the yard, Yao's mother began to instruct Jin Jasmine: "Your father bought tofu and came back, you go to the kitchen to make it!" ”

Jin Jasmine picked up the tofu and took her children into the kitchen to make tofu.

The house in the county is expensive, and the rent is also expensive, Yao Zhenfu has been studying in the county for more than ten years, and he has always been sent by Yao Chenggong in the morning and picked up in the evening, so he and Jin Jasmine did not delay in having a child, and the two gave birth to a son and a daughter in the past five years.

These two children are all taken care of by Jin Jasmine, and she is also responsible for cooking, laundry, and feeding the chickens.

Of course, Yao's mother is not idle, Yao Gonggong earns more than farming because of the boat, and he is busy working outside every day and has no time to do work in the field.

Their family has ten acres of paddy fields alone, although Yao's mother spends money to hire people to do the heavy work, but she still has to do some light work, and she also has to watch when others are working, and she is not idle.

When Jasmine Jin entered the kitchen, she took out the "oil can".

The Yao family will grow rape in winter, and the seeds produced by the rape can be sold for money and can be exchanged for oil with the oil mill, so their family has oil, but Yao's mother does not allow her to use it more, and only when Yao Zhenfu is at home, she can use oil to cook.

In fact, there is no oil in the "oil tank", only a piece of gauze that has invaded the oil.

Jin Jasmine took out the gauze with chopsticks and wiped it in the pot, and the pot was stained with some oil, then added tofu and water, and added some pickles, and it was made into pickled stewed tofu.

People in the village rarely spend money, basically they eat what they have, Yao Gonggong buys tofu almost every day to go home, and I don't know how many people in the village envy it.

But Jin Jasmine eats it every day, and I'm tired of it!

She clearly remembered that the Yao family had a good life at this time in her previous life, and Yao Gong would buy some meat home from time to time, which made her unspeakably envious, why didn't she have it in this life?

Because Yao Gonggong prefers Jin Xiaoye and doesn't like her?

Obviously, Jin Xiaoye quarrels with Yao Zhenfu all day long, and he can still fight, why does Yao Gonggong prefer Jin Xiaoye?

Jin Jasmine was a little depressed, but when she thought that Li Qing was so hungry that she ate weeds, her heart was relieved again.

She thinks tofu is not delicious, but people can't eat it if they want to!

When Jin Jasmine was cooking, Yao Gong said to his wife: "Don't be so fierce to Jasmine." ”

"I didn't do anything!" Yao's mother said with a cold face: "If I don't send her away, she will definitely be watching here, counting how much money you earn...... I just don't like her, I spend money lavishly, and I look like I'm holding the money and not spending it for her. ”

"It's that you're thinking too much." Yao Gonggong felt that this daughter-in-law was okay, she worked diligently and was scolded and never lost her temper.

Yao's mother didn't say anything, and talked to Yao Gonggong about something else, calculating the family's expenses - Yao Zhenfu spent too much money on studying, so that their family had no savings at all.

On the other side, Li Qingzhi walked towards the river port with the book in his hand, and read it as he walked.

He's going slow anyway.

In Daqi, a talent can be exempted from forced labor, but the talent is not easy to test.

If Xiucai is good at taking the test, it is impossible for the original owner to give up completely.

But Li Qingzhi still wanted to try.