Chapter 10 Finishing University and Going to Primary School (Part 1)
Tang Que's actions are more appropriate than books, but rather than books. The wheat recorded in the books is expressed by drawing wheat ears, soybeans are drawn in a small circle, and the employed Zhuang Man is the little man who paints. As for time, it is represented by painting the sun, and the length of time is marked by the light outside the sun. In addition, there are many symbols that Tang Que cannot see the actual meaning. Obviously, this is also created by the poisonous widow. As for what these symbols mean, only she can interpret them herself.
After laughing, Tang Que frowned slightly again. If this is the case, it means that he will be with the poisonous widow day and night for a period of time. He is not afraid of being defeated. However, in this way, he is afraid that he will be unable to hide his embarrassment when he encounters words he can't write.
However, there is another thing that is worthy of Tang Que's happiness. Judging from the thickness of this stack of books that had been accumulated for eight years, it would take two months to complete it and two months to submit it to the county government for filing. This means that he can earn at least seven cents of income from this job.
Seven pennies are more than seven pennies! This is equivalent to 2,200 yuan in later generations. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was prosperous. The prices were both low and stable, and the rating of rice was only seven pennies. Think about how much more seven pennies could do? I think about how many things Zhang of the Tang Dynasty was about to sell it a month ago. When he was a child, he only asked for eight pennies.
Although the family lost one strong laborer in the subsequent busy schedule, it was fine to hire two people with this Qiguan money. If one person was less than the family to eat, if the Qiguan money was used carefully, after paying the official tax, it would not have to buy new grain to support the past. This means that the family will not be short of food until the autumn harvest. If it is handled properly, it may be a slight surplus.
Thinking of this in his mind, Tang Que walked out of Zhuangzi with a good mood, but as he got closer to home, he became worried about the remarks. Just because of Tang Zhang's temperament, he would definitely not allow him to go to the poisonous widow to help, let alone get along day and night. The reason is not reasonable. The only way is to find a good reason to hide this matter, and at least earn money to the right hand.
But, how should I find this reason?
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When Tang Que returned home, it was time to eat. He ate dry food when he was busy and ate thin food when he was free. Now his family only has this condition.
The weather was so hot that he couldn't stay in the house. Tang Que washed his hands and face by the well and took a big bowl of vegetable leaves handed over by Tang Zhang and drank it. After drinking more than half a bowl in one breath, he raised his head and said, "Dad, mother, I want to discuss something with you. These days are just free, and there is no work at home. I want to learn some literacy and calculation skills in the village school."
After hearing what Tang Que said, Old Tang sucked the batter and stopped suddenly, and after a while, he rang again, "What's wrong with your son? When he was a child, his family was in good condition, and two sisters were helping with his work. At that time, he refused to go to school. Why did he suddenly talk about this today?" Old Tang thought about this in his heart, and his face became a little heavy.
Although there is no need to pay for the tuition, it is not necessary to go to school, if you want to go to school, the teacher’s two meat strips and four treasures of the study will be a shortage. Even if you prepare it carefully, it will be a 120-month expense. If you loosen your hand a little, you will be afraid that you can’t even get a 150-month price. This money is really not a decisive for the current situation in the family. But facing the only son in the family, what Lao Tang really feels sorry for is not money. What he is afraid of is that his son is thinking about going to school because he can’t bear the hardships in the fields. If that’s the case... When thinking about this, Lao Tang is a little afraid to think about it.
He has seen too many precedents in the village, and he can't learn it in the school, and he is unwilling to do the hard work in the fields. Over time, he becomes a idle second-hand man. How many once prosperous families have lost their families like this. As a farmer who digs food for a living in the fields, suffering is the duty and the foundation for establishing one's own family business. How can he live without this?
But my son recovered from a serious illness a few months ago. He has been working steadily for the past three months without any slightest expression. Didn’t he hear the praises in the village? It’s not like he can’t suffer. Since then, it’s hard to say what he advised. After all, he is a person of sixteen or seventeen. If it weren’t for the illness, he would have been married and had children long ago. He always had to worry about his face.
The head of the family naturally understood what Tang Zhang knew. She was worried, but this worry was immediately replaced by the distress of her son. Thinking about the scene where her son was often tired in the past few months and could not eat and didn't want to say anything, Tang Zhang felt sad.
The family was in a good situation a few years ago, and the farm work in the fields could be done by the mountain guests. If they couldn't take care of it, they would have two sons-in-law to support her. Her only son had never suffered any hardship since childhood. She had worn out her hands like the ones she had been tired in the past few months. Although her son deliberately hid it from them, how could she still be a mother? For this reason, she didn't know how many times she cried at night. Now her son wants to slack and slack, but their incompetent parents have no reason to stop them anymore.
After coughing a few times, he saw that the head of the family was not talking, Tang Zhang put the coarse clay bowl in his hand, "Cheng'er, you want to go to school, this is a good thing. Whether you are learning to settle accounts or read, there are always benefits. At least in the future, you don't have to pay for wine or food to invite people to the best. Can we parents stop you from going there? His father, are you talking about this? "
The opening of the Tang Zhang family made Lao Tang breathe a sigh of relief, who didn't know what to say. His son wanted to take a break, so he let him take a break, after all, he had done too hard for the past three months. As for the work at home, he would just have to make more trouble. "Well, if you want to go, you can go for a month first, and if you go, you can learn hard after listening to your husband's words. Cheng his mother, after you finish your meal, you can take a hundred and fifty cents to go to the wife of Li Zheng, first cut two pieces of meat, weighing three pounds and three taels of meat, then buy a set of four-color snacks for the teacher, and also buy a box of four-color snacks with the word "Fu". Although the one-month period is about life, Lao Tang is not negligent in preparing gifts for the husband. Even if his son only goes for a month, he cannot let the gentlemen in the village school underestimate him.
Tang Que had carefully investigated the situation of the village school a while ago, and naturally knew that the ones who were passing by were given two pieces of meat plus one piece of four treasures in the study. As for adding an extra snack box, this was considered a great gift for apprenticeship in the village school. He naturally knew why the two elders did this, especially considering the current situation at home, he became more and more moved.
After dinner, Tang Zhang didn't even bother to brush the pot, so he took the money to the store opened by Li Zheng's wife to buy things. This is the only grocery store in the village. People in the village usually buy oil and salt.
After Tang Zhang came back, Tang Que carried two meat sticks weighing six pounds in his left hand, and his right hand was carrying a snack box and four treasures of study. Behind him, Tang Zhang and his two standing at the wood door watching him walk along the village road. It’s not that they don’t want to go, but Tang Que refused to do it. Just kidding, what’s the matter if he wants his parents to smile at others when he is seventeen or eighteen years old?
Tang Que met several villagers not far along the village road. These people looked at the things he was carrying and looked surprised, "Tang Cheng, are you going to school?"
"Yes!" Tang Que didn't say much, agreed and continued to walk forward.
"It's good to go to school, study well, Tang Cheng, you have ambition!" Not long after the words came from behind, Tang Que heard a burst of laughter.
He knew that these were laughing at him. To put it bluntly, the village school he was going to at this time was similar to the elementary school in later generations. Think about it, what would it look like if a person who should have graduated from high school went to elementary school? If he was in later generations, he would probably be able to go to newspapers. Especially considering that men in this era generally got married at the age of fifteen, this behavior became more and more ridiculous. It would be good that those villagers did not scold him for being crazy.
"Is this the generation gap?" The generation here is not a generation of one generation or two generations, but a generation of times. It is more than 1,300 years apart. How could they understand what I think? Thinking of this, Tang Quezi was calm and was open and open when he greeted the villagers all the way. In this way, the villagers who wanted to laugh at him could not say anything.
Chapter completed!