Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has been many years since the demon star appeared.

The Five Kingdoms are still there, and many schools of thought are more prosperous.

At this time, in Hecang City, it can be said that people are panicked, on the streets paved with blue bricks, there is a scene of chaos, there are people running around with packages on their backs, and even the shopkeepers and drinkers in the restaurant will glance at the direction of the city gate with horror from time to time.

This is an important city on the border between Nanzheng and the Sino-Tang Dynasty, and there were rumors that there was going to be a fight as early as three years ago, but it has not been fought until today three years later, but every time there is a rumor of a war, people who believe it are also afraid that they will not believe it.

The rumors of passing through the army and combing are not a joke, of course, this should still have a lot to do with the terrifying impression left by the troubled times. Thousands of miles without hearing the rooster crow, the white bones are not only legends, but a fact that many old people have witnessed with their own eyes.

"Hey, hey, second brother of the Zhao family, dare to love because I ate your noodles yesterday and didn't give you any money, or are you so angry that you want to abandon your old job?"

The boy didn't look very good, and his chest was a little heaving after a few more steps. This young man is a delicate face at best, but his eyes are very dark and smart, and he looks like he is cunning and intelligent.

The second brother of the Zhao family, who was stopped by him, was shirtless, put a white towel on his shoulder, and set up a street stall, at first glance, he was the kind of loyal and honest person. He was busy picking up the household belongings at hand, and he was still pouring water in the stove that was burning Wangxiang, and the cold water squeaked on the red coals, and when he looked up and saw the young man, he immediately smiled bitterly:

"It turned out to be a petty official of the Lin family, where did you start talking about this, don't fool me early in the morning, my family is counting on this stall to eat, when are you going to abandon it?"

This Lin family's petty official, Lin Fengjin, immediately picked up the conversation and said:

"If it's not like I said, why are you going to close the stall and go home just after midnight?

The second brother of the Zhao family immediately sighed and said:

"Little official, don't look at what kind of situation this is, the streets are full of people who are talking about war, where do I still have the heart to guard this stall, go home as soon as possible to pick up and find relatives in the countryside to go to the country. The chaotic soldiers only know gold, silver and copper coins, where to divide the good and the low, the rich, and the blood, and wait until the blood flows into a river is not a joke. ”

Hearing this, Lin Fengjin immediately sneered and said:

"War? Who is talking nonsense, besides, three years ago, there were rumors that the Tang side was going to fight, but as a result, it was still calm after three years. ”

The second brother of the Zhao family frowned and said:

"The little officials of the Lin family, you can't say that, this kind of life-threatening thing can't be guessed casually, it won't be wrong to take precautions early, if those fierce soldiers from the Tang Dynasty didn't come, the big guys would just make a few days less money, but if they came, then the whole family would have to pin their heads to the trouser belt. ”

Lin Fengjin sighed and said helplessly:

"That's it, I got up early in the morning and ran three streets to eat noodles to you, I can't go back hungry, second brother of the Zhao family, I will explain the contents to you today, so that you can rest assured that you can buy and sell." ”

When the second brother of the Zhao family heard this, he leaned over in disbelief, Lin Fengjin sat on the table, and while instructing the sister-in-law of the Zhao family next to him to continue to boil the water, he whispered:

"What is my old man doing, the second brother of the Zhao family, do you know what to do?"

"Who in this Hecang City doesn't know that the foresters have been doing grain trading for decades, and the business has always been done to other countries. The second brother of the Zhao family said immediately.

Lin Feng stretched out his hands and said:

"As the saying goes, the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, the Zhongtang side suffered a flood and a poor harvest last year, so the grain price has always been in the bull market, oh no, it should be rising, but the grain price collapsed last month, so what kind of bullshit is fighting, it's all rumors!"

The second brother of the Zhao family was confused, and couldn't help asking:

"Niuyang Market is outside the West Gate on the fifteenth day of the new year, does this have anything to do with sending troops?

"Khan ......... It's been so long, why can't I change my words. Lin Fengjin couldn't help wiping a handful of sweat: "If this character doesn't change, one day he will be arrested and used as a fallacy to confuse the public into a pig cage!"

"Well, to put it simply, last year, the Tang Dynasty suffered a disaster, the surplus grain in the country must have been almost consumed, and now there is no catch, if you want to fight our well-defended city of Hecang, you will definitely use no less military strength, so you must prepare grain and grass in advance. ”

"However, now the price of grain on our side and even in China and Tang Dynasty has not risen but fallen, which shows that no one is buying grain on a large scale------- so it should be that China and Tang are using the accumulation of government treasury to stabilize grain prices, so what kind of hell is it fighting? Could it be that the incoming government soldiers can use Guanyin soil as military food?"

Lin Fengjin stopped the words for a moment, and after finishing the above words in one go, he saw the blank eyes of the second brother of the Zhao family, and could only sigh deeply that it was terrible to be uneducated. However, the second brother of the Zhao family stayed for a while, shook his head, looked at Lin Fengjin with an admiring look, and said sincerely:

"I'm really a literate person, and although I didn't understand a word of what I said, I still think it's amazing. ”

Lin Fengjin sighed and found that he had nothing to say, but in the next second, the second brother of the Zhao family's actions made his eyes widen, because this honest-looking honest person suddenly pulled an old acquaintance who came over from the opposite side:

"Hey, He Laosi, when you just came over, did the Lin family's old man's grain shop open?"

"Absolutely. ”

"What about Master Hu's pawnshop?"

"Business is booming!"

"What about the Spring Breeze Drunken Restaurant opened by the brother-in-law of Yamen Hu Bantou?"

"When I came over, Hu Ershao was whipping a lazy guy. ”

"I see.........

"Hun family, immediately boil water and set up a table to knead dough! Why don't you make tea for the Lin family's petty officials?"

"Aren't we going back to our hometown to join our relatives right away?"

Why don't you go to reincarnation? We are not in a hurry in Hecang, these top rich and noble families, what am I afraid of as a poor noodle seller?"

“......”

Hearing the above dialogue, Lin Fengjin couldn't help but roll his eyes, sure enough, the wisdom of the working people is infinite, they have their own way of survival, and it seems that they are uneducated. He sat down for a while, and then the dough he asked for was brought up.

The red and oily noodle soup, the snow-white dough is like a fish swimming in it, and it is covered with a large piece of ochre beef with tendons, which is cut enough to be the size of a palm, but it is as thin as paper and can pass through the light, drop a few points of vinegar on it, it is sour and spicy and delicious, and you will sweat when you eat it.

If you feel a little tired, there is also a local specialty of a kind of green skin purple heart radish, which can be said to be good and cheap, add an extra penny, the second brother of the Zhao family will cut it thin and put it on the plate and send it over, chewing sweet and juicy, refreshing and pleasant, and just picked up in the old well, the ice is heart-watering, after eating, it can be said to be sweet and juicy, and the fire is completely gone.

Lin Fengjin was sweating profusely every time he finished eating, so he would sit on the stall and chat for a while, blowing the river breeze or something, but at this time, a guy in a green coat and a small hat suddenly ran from across the street, and when he saw Lin Fengjin, he shouted happily from afar:

"Young Master, Young Master, the list of children's exams has been posted, and you have won!"

Lin Fengjin is now seventeen years old, and in the eyes of insiders, his qualifications are really average, well, it is similar to being admitted to junior high school at the age of seventeen now, plus his soul is still a double doctor who has been running three before he crosses through his body, and he really can't look down on this kind of children's examination similar to kindergarten to primary school, but it does not prevent these illiterate men next to him from casting envious eyes.

---------- because of the identity of a child, it is equivalent to certifying that you have passed the reading level and can read and write, which means that you can go to the world's well-known major academies to study, and the proportion of hires is still very good.

According to modern terminology, the lack of literacy in the proportion of the population determines the lack of students, and now a hundred schools of thought are contending, literacy is only the basic, and what is valued is not necessarily the ability to read, such as the Mo family's non-offensive academy, which emphasizes both hands-on ability and academics, and for example, the Lianheng Academy of the vertical and horizontal family, even more than knowledge, is more interested in being able to speak eloquently......

Although the chance of directly entering the inner courtyard is not very large, the chance of letting you go is also very small, and even if you feel that your ability is insufficient, you will often be left in the affiliated school of the academy to study, and free board and lodging are provided in the process of studying.......

The reason why this kind of thing happened was because of the comet-like rise of the Dongshan Goat more than ten years ago, the Dongshan Goat, the benevolent brother who went to the Confucian Donglin Academy to study, was also considered an older youth, so the examiner who took the exam was not happy, and the results in the initial examination were miserable, and he was rejected by a series of sarcasm, and if he changed someone to say that it was not good, he would be ashamed to jump into the river and commit suicide.

But although this person has no talent in distinguishing the economy, subtle words, and so on, he is a genius in distinguishing between qi and public opinion!

After this person was severely humiliated by the Confucian Donglin Academy that day, he joined the Wude Academy of the Yin and Yang family by chance, and he suddenly became like a fish in water, and it can be said that he is making rapid progress.

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