The regular customers he had accumulated with great difficulty finally gained a foothold on East Street, "I still have to go, but I have to think about selling something else." ”

Food is too expensive and consumes too much.

Yan Junqi asked: "Do you still sell snails?" ”

Lu Xu opened his eyes and calculated the cost, Tian Luo didn't want any money, and he also had a lot of oil and salt seasonings.

At this juncture, many of the seasonings sold as herbs have not increased in price, which is thankful.

Lu Xu took out his piece of paper and began to write and draw, remembering his sesame paste.

The only two happy events in these days are that Liu Youzi finally made sesame sauce and the third aunt finally scraped together enough money to buy cattle.

Liu Youzi's sesame paste tasted more mellow than any brand he had eaten before, and when he went to collect the sesame paste, there were some small tricks - Liu Youzi didn't want copper coins.

Their notes were written, one hundred and fifty pounds of sesame paste, and now the money is worthless, but the notes they set up are written in black and white, and Liu Youzi's heart is dripping blood.

He insisted that Lu Xu convert it into grain for him according to the market price at the time of the document.

Lu Xu: "You didn't buy this sesame seed now, why did you lose money if you sold it to me for one hundred and fifty yuan?" ”

Liu Youzi didn't do it: "Now a pound of wheat is one hundred and fifty Wen!" A pound of wheat for a pound of tahini? I'll give it to you at this price, and our whole family will drink the northwest wind? Don't do it! You can find the yamen and arrest me! ”

He sat down on the threshold as if he were splashing, and didn't let Lu Xu enter the door.

Lu Xu laughed angrily, he thought that he was thick-skinned enough, but he didn't expect to meet such a shameless person.

He didn't enter the door either, rolled up his sleeves and quarreled with Liu Youzi at the door of their house, the two of them went back and forth, and finally negotiated a compromise price: four catties of wheat for one catty of sesame paste.

According to the previous market price, it was Lu Xu who made it, but Liu Youzi couldn't buy rice and noodles with sesame seeds, and their family was out of cooking, both of them were quite satisfied with the small account book in their hearts, but their faces put on a posture of "I'm angry and I suffered a big loss", Lu Xu brought 60 catties of wheat the next day in exchange for 15 catties of sesame paste, and they were all happy.

It's just that Lu Xu originally planned to sell cold noodles with sesame sauce while the weather was hot, but he didn't plan to sell them now.

After thinking about it, there was only one direction left: "It's not good to be spicy on such a hot day, or I'll sell cold vegetables!" ”

By the way, tahini is sold!

After the plan was made, Lu Xu didn't think about it anymore, and carefully calculated on the paper how much food he left for his family, the third aunt, the fourth aunt, his grandparents and Yan Junqi's family, and how much wheat he had.

"How can you keep these until the autumn harvest, huh...... You have to keep some emergency use, and you have to set aside it for the New Year. Lu Xu drew a few more lines on the paper.

He picked up the ghost drawing talisman, except for the paper that no one could read him, as if to see a flower, he picked up the pen and added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, and calculated how many fritters he could make every day: "In this way, I go to Guanyang every two days, and I can sell fifty fritters and cold vegetables at a time, and I will come back early at noon, and I can open up the wasteland in the afternoon." ”

Lu Xu smug commented: "I'm really a genius! ”

He folded the paper and put it back into Yan Junqi's drawer, not paying attention to his ghost drawing talisman like a chicken mixed into the swan flock, and there was a three-folded letter pressed underneath, he still thought about how to make vegetables with his chin on his back: "Tomorrow I will go to the county to buy some dried vegetables such as kelp, fungus, mushrooms, etc., there are beans and bitter gourds in my vegetable garden, and the third aunt has edamame, cucumbers, loofahs, and courgettes, and then gather some wild vegetables, buy some tofu, and I don't know if the tofu seller wants copper money...... Are you short of paper and ink? I'll bring you some. ”

When the salad is ready, give it to the family first!

Yan Junqi was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "I'll go with you tomorrow." ”

Lu Xu: "Huh? ”

Yan Junqi took out the folded letter from the drawer, and said quietly: "Go to the book." ”

Lu Xu was stunned for a while and didn't react, go to the book? What books are you on? He also had no concept of ordinary people going to books in his two memories.

Lu Xu: "Who do you want to book?" ”

Yan Junqi: "Lord County Order." ”

Lu Xu forced himself to calm down: "Let me see?" ”

Yan Junqi handed him the letter.

Ancient characters and ancient sayings, Lu Xu could barely see a general meaning: Yan Junqi wrote a "letter to the county magistrate" to reflect that soap was greedy for grain and ink.

He stared at it for a long time, maintaining his illiterate persona: "What is this written?" ”

Yan Junqi explained to him sentence by sentence that Lu Xu was hovering between Yan Junqi's courage and his literary talent, and he didn't know what idea to give Yan Junqi.

He asked, "You won't get caught writing this, will you?" ”

Yan Junqi: "Since I have been admitted to the Tongsheng Examination, even if I fail to enter the school, I can still write to the local parents and officials for direct advice." ”

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the imperial court encouraged the people to give direct advice to the emperor, and ordinary people could directly write to the emperor, whether it was on politics, self-recommendation, or sue the emperor, all of which were not limited.

Lu Xu didn't know, he felt that Yan Junqi was too bold.

Only the official sues the people, how can the people sue the officials?

Lu Xu: "Why don't you give it to me, and I'll throw it into the county government while people are not paying attention?" ”

The wall of their county government is not too high, and it is easy to climb over the wall.

Yan Junqi couldn't help laughing, the depression of a few days dissipated, and the person became clearer. He understood the subtext that Lu Xu might not have paid attention to: This book should be published, but out of worry, Lu Xu didn't want him to read it.

Yan Junqi's heart in the book became firmer: "I was fortunate to meet the county magistrate once in the Tongsheng test last year, he is not a corrupt official who doesn't care about the life and death of the people, even if he is angry after watching it, he will not treat me as a little child." ”

Lu Xu: "People's hearts are separated from their stomachs, how do you know if he is pretending to be charitable, in case it is those soap servants he acquiesces to?" Even if he didn't know, wouldn't it be even more emboldened for them to dare to do this blatantly without telling the county order? You don't know who to offend when you are in this book, what should you do if you want to take the exam and be put in small shoes? ”

Yan Junqi: "If the court officials are like this, I won't take the test." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

He felt that Yan Junqi's extreme temper had to be changed.

Lu Xu grabbed Yan Junqi and persuaded him, "It's just not right, you also have to talk about methods, for example, if I did something wrong, Lu Zhou jumped out and blamed me, even if I did something wrong, I would definitely want to beat him." Adults are very face-loving. ”

Yan Junqi nodded and smiled: "Well, so I wrote very tactfully." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Lu Xu recalled the paragraphs of Yan Junqi's article in his mind, first analyzed the lack of food in the world, the importance of the geographical location and properties of Guanyang, and then listed data and examples to illustrate the difficulties of the people's lives today, and praised the merits of the county order.

There is nothing wrong with the structure, Yan Junqi also characterized the soap li's greed for ink as deceiving the upper and lower levels, and deceived the upper peak, which has nothing to do with the county order of diligent government and love for the people, Lu Xu thinks that he can't write such an article, but it's okay, Yan Junqi is lacking a little pen and ink in praising people, and he is a little ruthless in criticizing and scolding people. Although he didn't say a word about the bad of paying taxes, between the lines, he was expressing that he had repeatedly raised taxes and exploited them layer by layer, which was forcing people to rebel.

The sentence "How can the peace of law last long", he understands it as a scumbag.

Lu Xu scratched his head, and thought about it carefully, the changes in the daily grain prices listed by Yan Junqi, how the people of Guanyang County couldn't buy grain, and how many copper coins a tael of silver could be exchanged for every day, were all what he said.

Lu Xu: "......"

Asking is regretting, he is idle, what do you do with Yan Junqi every day!

Yan Junqi stared at him directly, "I have also thought for a long time whether I should write it, whether I should submit this letter, I naturally understand the truth of how to behave in the world, if I don't see it, I can paralyze myself and think I don't know, but since I see it and hear it, I can't deceive myself anymore." What I saw and heard that day was like a boulder falling in my heart, and I tortured myself day and night, after reading so many books, if I couldn't pass the exam, would I have read it in vain? ”

Lu Xu was speechless by his burning eyes.

"I was hesitant, and I wanted to burn it several times," Yan Jun pressed his hand on the letter, gradually pressing, and the small flame in his eyes became vigorous, "But listening to your words today, I figured it out." His whole person was unbridled, his tone was excited, the speed of his speech accelerated, and the things that had been suppressed in his chest for a long time erupted: "The gentleman is worthy of heaven and earth, worthy of people outside, and worthy of his heart inside, if I don't do it, my heart will be difficult to be calm, my mind will be difficult to peace, and I can't read the books of sages, if I do it, it is only a future at most." If I can't help the world, I will cultivate myself, big deal, I won't read it, I will open up the wasteland and farm with you to do business, maybe it will be more enjoyable! ”

Yan Junqi leaned in front of Lu Xu, as if he wanted to get closer to give him what he seemed.

Lu Xu was stunned, his experience, intelligence, and thoughts were not enough for him to read Yan Junqi's loneliness, anger, determination, and growing three views and soul, but Lu Xu could feel the trust and honesty that burst out of him.

Yan Junqi was willing to show him his sincerity, and flattened his brain to show him.

At this time, Lu Xu intuitively knew that he couldn't persuade again, and if he persuaded again, he would disappoint Yan Junqi's intentions.

Lu Xu also wanted to open it, isn't it just the same thing to make friends, who cares if the benefits and disadvantages are cost-effective, like-minded, it's enough to be happy! He was enthusiastic and rolled up his sleeves: "There is more than one road in the future, who said that you can only study!" ”

He can't read!

"If you can't read it, I'll cover you!"

Even if he wants to be a cook, he can get along.

Lu Xu looked up, full of pride, looked down at the spread article, thought about Yan Junqi's smart head, and hurriedly dragged back his reason, and made up for it: "If you can read, you still have to read, everyone has their own strengths, I am good at cooking, you are good at reading, you have to be good." ”

Yan Jun Qi Waner.

Lu Xu grabbed his article, "It doesn't matter if he should be right or not, since you want to go to the book and don't feel uncomfortable, then go to it, I support you." ”

He moved his chair to Yan Junqi's side, "But you can't write like that, it's too straightforward, you have to change it, you have to praise people and then persuade them tactfully." I'll teach you! ”

Yan Junqi listened to the persuasion, what Lu Xu said, he picked up the pen and changed it on the straw paper, and followed Lu Xu's whimsical nonsense, and he put down the pen into a dignified and subtle splendid article.

Lu Xu: "We can live in Guanyang, and it is a blessing to be under your jurisdiction, and the worship of you is like a surging river." ”

Yan Junqi put down the pen: "Mu Ze is under the rule of Jun, and the people are all very fortunate. ”

Yan Junqi finished writing a sentence and read a sentence to Lu Xu, if he went to something that Lu Xu didn't understand, he had to explain it, and when he quoted the scriptures, Lu Xu's eyes were full of shock and admiration, and when it came to how to scold people, Lu Xu leaned aside and scratched his ears and cheeks, trying to think about how to modify and tactfully.

The sky became dark, Lu Xu went home to eat, and continued to stare at Yan Junqi with an oil lamp, and his mind was full of Yan Junqi's articles during the meal, and he had never been so serious in writing articles himself.

Lu Xu thought that he was not yet eighteen years old, and he had a sense of déjà vu of helping children with homework late at night.

The brain capacity was exhausted, he supported his chin with his hand, and dozed off little by little, and when Yan Junqi finished transcribing the revised draft, Lu Xu didn't bother to go home, and Yan Junqi hooked his shoulders and threw himself on Yan Junqi's bed, arching to the bottom of the bed like an insect, and then rolling to the inside next to the wall and hugging the pillow and falling asleep.

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Lu Xu: What did I say in the last chapter?

Chapter 33 Complaint

Early the next morning, Lu Xu and Yan Junqi took the newly embroidered fan embroidery pieces of Yuan Manniang and Yan Mu, and the newly copied book of Yan Junqi to Guanyang County.

They only thought that Yan Junqi wanted to buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, Yan's mother was quite happy that Yan Junqi went out for a walk, and Yuan Manniang was also happy that Lu Xu had someone to be his companion.

The family life is simple, there is food and clothing, the children are healthy, the price of goods and money has nothing to do with them, Yuan Manniang, who has always loved to cry, also heard Lu Xu nag a few words about whether money is worth it, she only asked a few words worriedly: "Can you still afford salt?" "Is there enough to buy oil and cloth?" got Lu Xu's affirmative answer, and Yuan Manniang was fine.

Isn't that great!

As for white noodles, meat, eggs, etc., they are not things that should be eaten often.

She has lived for twenty-five years, and the white flour and meat she has eaten have not been more than two months combined, and she has spent a long New Year.

Lu Xu said that he wanted to open up the wasteland, so Yuan Manniang packed up the hoe and prepared to work.

She has thought about the place, and she will be next to the third aunt's barren field, and they will be able to be companions when they go to the field together in the future. Yan's mother was also moved, the price of grain rose like this, their family was worried about how to eat, just plant some millet, barnyard seeds, buckwheat, you can also satisfy hunger, you can't grow these, plant some hemp weaving, or plant some vegetables is also good.

It's not early in the season, and if you don't hurry up, you can only plant buckwheat, Yuan Manniang told Lu Xu to buy good things and come back early, so that Layue is optimistic about Lu Rui, and Yan's mother will carry a hoe to open up the wasteland.

Lu Xu responded with a hmm-hmm, his eyes couldn't help but glance at the article that Yan Junqi put on his chest, and he had a weak heart to hide from his parents and do bad things.

Yan Junqi was much calmer, there was no discoloration on his face, and he calmly told Wen Zhen not to run around, and to help Layue take care of his younger brother together.

Three-year-old Yan Wenzhen has to help five-year-old Layue take care of one-year-old Lu Rui.

Lu Xu has infinite sympathy for his sister, the children of the poor are in charge early, and his baby sister is only five years old, so she is going to take two little radish heads to play!

He tugged at Layue's pigtails, "Brother is back to make you something to eat." ”