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Chapter 3: Juvenile Knowing Sorrow

When he was young, Zhishou stood on the stone on the top of Huyang Mountain, facing the golden sunshine and breeze, his brow frowned into the character Sichuan. He was a new arrival and integrated the physical memory of the owner, allowing him to understand his own situation. The result was - very bad, extremely bad!

Ning Caichen is from Chen County, Sanchuan County under the rule of the Liang Dynasty. He is now 18 years old, a scholar and a poor scholar! The demise of the Qin Dynasty and the restoration of hundreds of schools, especially the comeback of Confucianism, promoted the resurgence of scholars. The threshold for practicing martial arts is high. This thing depends on qualifications. Most people will find it difficult to achieve great success in their entire life. The threshold for practicing Taoism is higher, and it is rare to get started!

However, people are all thoughtful and ambitious creatures who want to climb to a high place, practice Taoism, and practice martial arts to gain good skills. However, such a path is too difficult to walk.

On the contrary, the threshold for studying is low, and it is more popular. It is favored by many aspiring people. As long as you work hard, you will have a chance to go, and you may be elected and enter the court. From then on, you will be promoted to become a powerful person. As long as you have a chance, you will have motivation. Therefore, the trend of studying is prevalent, and there are countless scholars in the world to study and study, and Ning Caichen is one of them - a poor scholar!

To put it nicely, the so-called poor scholars are called literati, but to put it badly, they are poor scholars and those who cannot see the best. At least Ning Caichen now has no hope of making a name for himself. Nowadays, although the trend of studying is prevalent, there is no systematic reading material selection system, which is similar to the literary and imperial examination. Nowadays, scholars who enter the court are mostly recommended to be officials by local officials or prominent families and noble families, which are similar to the filial piety and honest people, and there are few quotas. There are only twenty quotas per year in a county, but the number of people in a county is, according to the memory, Sanchuan County, which has the least number of people among the four counties of the Liang Kingdom, is that the total number of people in the county is more than 30 million, and there are few scholars. There are only one million people in a million, not to mention that these quotas are recommended by wealthy families!

These wealthy families naturally focus on their own interests, and those of poor families with no background are almost impossible to have the opportunity to be recommended! Of course, scholars do not have to enter the court to become officials to have a way out, and they can also go to the residences of some high-ranking officials and nobles to be guests and counselors. However, this is also difficult. Generally, if you want to be favored by high-ranking officials, you must be famous in addition to real talent and knowledge. If you do not have fame, you may not even see the other party, and the competition is also very large!

He sighed in his heart, Ning Caichen felt helpless. This is the limitation of the background of the times. He didn't know what to say. Did the original owner of his body do the wrong way? He may not be able to make a name for himself after studying for a lifetime, but if he didn't study, he might not even have hope. However, Ning Caichen's comments on himself now are useless and a scholar!

In studying, Ning Caichen admired the perseverance of the original owner of the body. Moreover, the original owner of the body is indeed talented. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is full of knowledge, but if you want to say anything else, you can't praise it. Just say that his current living situation is also very embarrassing. Ning Caichen used to live a well-off life, and his parents ran a restaurant, had enough food and warm clothes. It was undoubtedly not easy in such a war-torn era. However, since four years ago, his parents went out of business and encountered bandits, they never came back. Ning Caichen inherited the restaurant, but had no talent for business experience. In less than a year, the restaurant went bankrupt, and his life became more and more embarrassing!

Today, I have been living a life of having a meal but not having a meal. In this case, the original owner of the body still insists on studying day and night, which made Ning Caichen sigh. I wonder if I admire the original owner of the body's perseverance, but should I scold him for studying hard!

As a new person, he came to this strange world. Although he integrated the original owner's memory, his thoughts were not greatly affected and he maintained his usual calmness and rationality!

When you come to a new world, the first thing you have to do is naturally to find a way to survive. This is what Ning Caichen is most urgent. His family knows his family affairs. Ning Caichen is very clear that his life is already in a difficult situation and eating is a problem. In addition to him, there is still Ningshan, who is similar to his age, who was picked up by Ning Caichen's parents when they were alive. He was named Ningshan. Ningshan was seven years old when he was picked up by Ningshan and then lived in the Ning family, acting as a servant of the Ning family. Ningshan is loyal and grateful to Ning's father and mother for his kindness. Even if the Ning family is in a difficult situation, he still stays in the Ning family and never leaves him. Even the life over the years has been Ningshan going to the mountain to cut vegetables and sells them for a living!

However, the income from selling wood is limited, and two meals on weekdays cannot be guaranteed!

The thoughts in his mind flew around, and it was hard for a good cook to cook without rice. Soon, Fang Ming understood what he should do now!

Two words - make money!

Only by making money can you change your current life and live in the 21st century. Although Ning Caichen is not rich and powerful, he has no worries about food and clothing. He also travels from time to time to enrich his life. Now all three meals are a problem at once. This is not bad. It is enough for people to get along like this. Moreover, if the air gets colder today, it will soon enter the twentieth month of winter! You also need to prepare winter supplies!

In my memory, there was not a single quilt in the Ning family, and the winter in Chen County was very cold, a few degrees below zero or even ten degrees, and it was not new to freeze people. He didn't know how the original owner of his body survived the past few years, but he knew that if he didn't prepare things for winter this year, he would not be able to freeze to death with the broken and thin beds at home. Only by making money can he solve the current problem of food and clothing, prepare things for winter, and live in this winter! Making money is the top priority. It solves the current situation and ensures that he can survive. Ning Caichen can also make the next plan. It is not easy to survive in this chaotic world!

But it is not easy to make money. Now it can be said that it is poor and wasteful. If you want to make money, it is mostly a way to make money, that is, the cost is very low. However, what to do is a problem. After standing for a while, Ning Caichen thought of two, one was to go into the mountain to chop wood or hunt and then take it to the market to buy it. However, after looking at his weak body, Ning Caichen sighed. He really doubted whether he could carry fifty kilograms of things; the second idea was to copy books!

Nowadays, there are already paper, but no printing techniques, and there are many scholars. There are many books in short supply, so the book copying industry has emerged. However, this thing is not easy to make. One book is about one more, and one copy a day. If you can copy two books, it is considered as fast as you can. This also requires the quality of copying. The handwriting is neat, and it is also an ancient saying that there are not many words in the book. If it is the book for funeral, a book is hundreds of pages, and it is full of words. It would be strange if you copy books without copying them to death. At present, an ordinary bowl of noodles is only one copper coin to one copper coin, which is probably enough to eat two bowls!

During the Warring States Period, coins still followed the currency system set by the pre-Qin period, with three currencies: gold, silver and copper. One silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins, and one gold coin is equal to one hundred silver coins. The monthly food expenses of ordinary people are only two or three silver coins!

That's all for the time being!"

After thinking for a long time, Ning Caichen did not think of any good ways to make money. Although he came from another place, he had a broader mind and did not have the ideological limitations of people in this world, it was not easy to make money in this troubled times. Even if he had some ideas, he could not implement it now. The earth and this place are two worlds, and many things were incompatible. He could only find a job to copy books first!

With an idea, he also had a goal. It was already afternoon, and the sun was in the west. Ning Caichen was about to go down the mountain and went to find a job to copy books. On the stone next to him, there was also a book - "Huaizi". This book was borrowed by his original owner. In this era, books were extremely expensive. A book was mostly a silver coin, which was not affordable for ordinary people. What's more, he was a poor scholar. Even if his parents were alive, the books he read were either rented or borrowed!
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