Chapter 5 The Way Out

It's not easy to eat meat every day.

But the mother and the little sister knew that this was a beautiful vision for the future, so they both smiled.

Who wouldn't want to live the days of eating meat every day?

The family finished breakfast very happily, and Zhou Cai's wanted to stay and clean up the kitchen dishes and chopsticks, etc., as usual, Zhou Zihe hugged the big basin and left first - the longing is beautiful, but the work still has to be done quickly.

And they have a lot of laundry to do today.

In other words, the geographical location of Lingzhou City is somewhat special, not only there is a Lingjiang River passing through the city, which can be navigated between the upstream and downstream, for this large area within a radius of hundreds of miles, if you want to go north to Chang'an, pass from Lingzhou, take the official road from Lingzhou to Chang'an, it is also the best road to take and the distance is the closest, so Lingzhou is a serious thoroughfare.

Since it is a thoroughfare, of course, commerce and trade are developed, and there are many merchants coming and going, so that many local people can also eat a bite of food from the corners and corners - just like Zhou Cai's who goes to various inns and warehouses every day to "pick up clothes" to wash and make hard money, there are many people in this city.

It coincides with the end of spring and the beginning of summer, in this time period, the impact of "Peach Blossom Flood" is still there, the water level of the Lingjiang River has risen sharply, the big ship goes more smoothly, and the north goes to Chang'an, and it is a period of scarce rain, which is the most suitable for rushing, so during this time, Lingzhou City is the most rubbing shoulders, not only the life of the Zhou family has been better recently, all the people who rely on business and trade to eat are very busy.

Seeing that the little sister Zhou Zihe went out with a big basin, and his mother Zhou Cai's hands and feet were also neatly cleaned up without taking long, and when he got to the house with a big burden and was about to go out, Zhou Ang felt a little cramped.

At this time, if it was the original Zhou Ang, he should naturally go back to the house to study, but now this Zhou Ang feels that with such a big burden of clothes, it seems that it is more appropriate to send it to the river and come back.

But at this time, Zhou Caishi didn't mean to ask him for help at all, don't look at her thin body, such a big bag of clothes, but she carried it all at once, and before leaving, she didn't forget to turn around and advise, "Ang'er, you have just seen a good body, don't be too tired, rest more, no matter how important it is to study, don't fight on this day." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhou Ang to agree, so he hurriedly pushed the door and left.

Zhou Ang stood at the door of the hall for a while, and with some emotion in his heart, he turned around and returned to his room.

On the small bookcase at the head of the bed, there is a stack of thread-bound books, and all of them are handwritten books without exception, and there are pen holders and inkstones in the corner of the bookcase, all of which are ordinary goods. There was a half-used ink ingot on the inkstone, and Zhou Ang picked it up and sniffed it—according to the situation in his memory, this was the most ordinary and cheap ink.

It doesn't smell good.

It is said that good ink smells fragrant, and his piece has a faint sour smell.

In the middle of the bookcase is a stack of manuscripts.

Pick it up and take a look, and no matter how well this article is written, at least every article and page is properly written, which is really a good word - ten years of hard reading, it is worth it.

Zhou Ang in his last life, writing brush words is already a very "artistic" thing, if there is no family history from a young age, relying on themselves, especially when they work, realize the importance of cultural literacy and yearn for it, and then want to practice brush words from scratch, it is almost impossible to do.

After thinking about it, Zhou Ang pulled out the stilted chair and sat down, took a piece of cut paper, pressed the paperweight, and according to the appearance in his memory, he studied some ink for himself very seriously, took his favorite pen, licked some ink, and began to write very seriously - the first pen was written, it was really awkward everywhere, but as he wrote, it became more and more beautiful, and he was getting closer and closer to the original Zhou Ang's font and handwriting.

The body's muscle memory, and the memory fragments left in the brain, are still very useful.

After writing on a piece of paper, Zhou Ang put down the pen and examined it himself, and felt that the more he wrote, the better he was, the first few words were obvious "pen body", ugly was not good, but the further back the better, and the writing became more and more relaxed.

After reading it, the ink was basically dry, and he suddenly threw the whole paper into the wastebasket.

Then get up and stand up.

After walking around the room twice, he sat back down, pulled out his chair, laid out a piece of paper, and began to write:

First, find the person who can recognize the demonic spirit,

Second, find a way to make money,

After writing it, I read it for myself, and I felt that it was all nonsense.

So I threw it away again.

The thing is to do these two things first, but how to do it and how to do it requires some thought.

The matter of finding people must be paid attention to, but Lingzhou City has a large population, and it has caught up with the time when the floating population is the largest, God knows if the person in his memory is a local, and now he is not in Lingzhou City.

You can only pay attention to it, find it little by little, and even ...... Go touch.

I remember that when I met the man on the street that day, I went to buy paper...... That's right, Sogo Place!

There are 36 squares in Lingzhou City, among which Sogo Fang is a commercial area, selling everything, and if you want to find someone, you should focus on going there to go around more and inquire more.

Then there is the matter of making money, which must also be on the agenda.

Although he has crossed over, he has those memories in his mind, and he still feels a little awkward to say that he completely treats his mother as a mother, but he really feels close, and his sister is almost the same as the real sister - the little girl is too cute.

Seeing the two of them working so hard and eating so poorly every day, Zhou Ang really didn't want to wait for a day.

It's just that Zhou Angzhen was a pure otaku in the past, and in his memory, he also considered not wanting to continue to study hard at home, and wanted to go out to find a job to do, while supporting his family, he studied slowly, but he didn't think about it for a day or two, and he still didn't know what he should do.

Scholars, the best way is to be an official, if you can't be an official, it's not impossible to be a knife and pen officer, otherwise you can teach, and if you don't, it's also a way to be an accountant. In short, it has to be linked to pen and ink.

Anyway, hard work is definitely not considered.

First, there is no strength to sell, and the virtual one is not good, and secondly, it is rare to read anywhere, and it is obviously more valuable.

It's stupid to be able to write and calculate, but to do hard work!

Thinking of this, he suddenly had an idea, and pulled out another thing from the memory in his mind - Zhou Ang's uncle taught in a private school, and the uncle's son, that is, his uncle and eldest brother, was working as a knife and pen clerk in Lingzhou County.

Speaking of which, there are some past stories.

According to the memories left by Zhou Ang in the past, the Zhou family is actually not a scholarly family of generations, but the grandfather's generation seems to have made a little fortune, so he spared no expense to provide his two sons with education. Among them, the eldest son, that is, Zhou Ang's uncle, can be regarded as a middle-aged person, but the second son, that is, Zhou Ang's father, in modern terms, should be regarded as a mutant among the children of poor families - he is very smart.

It is precisely because he is very smart that he realized very early on that according to the talent promotion system of the Tang Kingdom, if there is no family background behind him to support him, if he simply reads, unless his talent is so powerful that he is against the sky, it will take three years for a huge county to raise one filial piety, and there are only ten Maocai in a year, and it is difficult for ordinary people to take their turn.

Therefore, after seeing these things, he quickly changed his path, and I don't know what way he thought of at that time, anyway, at the age of seventeen, he entered Lingzhou County and became a clerk in the six-room middle torture room of the county government, and after three or two years, he weaved his own connections from scratch, and by the year Zhou Ang was born, he was already the foreman of the six-room house.

This errand is said to have a lot of oil and water.

However, this is not the end, when Zhou Ang was three years old, his father should have been twenty-three or fourteen years old at the time, and he became one of the three canons of the county government of Lingzhou County.

The so-called classic history is not an official but infinitely close to an official, almost the pinnacle of "officials".

According to the official system of the Tang Dynasty, a county land, more than 10,000 households, set up a county order, less than 10,000 households, set up a county magistrate, under the commander, set up a county cheng, a county lieutenant, a county secretary, and a chief book, and sub-divisions.

These five people are all officials.

Don't care about the big or small officials, as long as they are officials, they have their own independent office space.

In addition, all the clerks, officials, etc. in the county government can only be "officials" when they reach the sky.

Officials are circulating, eating money and grain directly from the household department, and when the first order is issued, they are directly transferred to thousands of miles away, while most of the officials are filled by locals, and they also eat local money and grain, which is not "flowing".

And among these "officials", the classic history is outstanding.

This small position is an unconventional position, the big county is busy with affairs, according to the need, you can apply to set up one to four canons, each in charge of a piece of affairs, and the small county may not have one.

The fact that he is in charge of a piece of affairs alone is actually close to an "official", and according to the usual practice, once there are not enough officials in the country, priority will be given to selecting talents from the canonical history of all parts of the country and turning them into liuguan officials.

Even, in many counties, it is not uncommon for the canonical history of large counties to be "Cha Tewei and Mao Cai" by virtue of their advantages in the field.

Therefore, the history of the canon is very different.

Lingzhou is a thoroughfare, with a large population, a large floating population, and the seat of county governance, which has always been a top county, so the three canons are almost permanent.

Each of these three canons is truly authoritative.

Zhou Ang's father climbed to this position on his own in his early twenties, and he can definitely be regarded as young and promising, and even in time, whether he is a talented man or a transfer official, the future is limitless - unfortunately, he has been doing classic history for less than three years, and suddenly had a serious illness, did not survive, and died.

The thriving Zhou family has been going head-on since then, and it has been sluggish.

More than ten years have passed, and his wife and children have even fallen to their current situation.

However, in his short six or seven years of "official" career, Zhou Ang's father did not leave abundant property for his children to squander, but he still left a lot of legacy.

One is that he arranged Zhou Ang's uncle to teach in a local private school, even if he died, people still cared about the old feelings, and Zhou Ang's uncle has been teaching until now, and the second is that after his death, Zhou Ang's uncle Zhou Ye still borrowed his love and squeezed into the Lingzhou County Ya.

Even to put it mildly, Lu Chunsheng, who killed pigs in the neighborhood, often helps the three members of the Zhou family until now.

Therefore, Zhou Ang went to the place where his uncle taught to enlighten and study since he was a child, and he didn't take it seriously, he almost read for free, and his uncle and uncle would also send a little money and food every month - every time Zhou Cai's refused again and again, but for more than ten years, they still gave it every month.

From the perspective of Zhou Ang now, he thinks that first, this may be the characteristics of the clan society, and secondly, he has to admit that his "father" is too successful.

It's just that in the past, whether it was Zhou Ang, who only knew how to read, or his mother, they were far less smart than this father, so they didn't know how to make better use of the grace he left behind.

"But...... Now I'm here!" Zhou Ang thought to himself.

Although he has not graduated from college for a few years, he is also a person with an annual salary of 200,000 yuan in a large company, and he thinks that his vision and insight are not comparable to Zhou Ang in the past.