Chapter 1: The Thirty-seventh Year of Wanli
"San Lao, are you awake?"
A call in the early morning made Li Zirong, who had not slept all night, realize that he had to face the fact that he was in front of him. He was no longer the writer of online history in the 21st century, but actually came to the Ming Dynasty and became a "native" in the 17th century - a 16-year-old boy.
Now Li Zirong's name is Wei Liangchen. The one who knocks outside the house is his brother Wei Liangqing, who is ten years older than him. In addition to this brother, Wei Liangchen also has an older sister who married the Wang family in the next village. His mother, Zhao, had already passed away seven years ago. Now his father Wei Jinde lives with his brothers.
Logically, Wei Liangqing is 25 years old and should have married his own children long ago, but because the Wei family is really poor, no family in the neighborhood wants to marry their daughter to suffer, so Wei Liangqing has been bachelor. For this reason, Wei Jinde was so anxious, but no matter how anxious he was, he had no choice. Only the seven or eight acres of thin land in his family could support him, and he was merciful, so he didn't expect to ask for a wife.
As the eldest brother, Wei Liangqing is really good. He knows the situation at home and doesn't blame him for his father's failure to ask for his wife. Now he is devoted to working, and he is a simple person by nature.
Wei Liangqing is really good to his younger brother. He is close to Liangchen when he makes snacks. Like his father, he grits his teeth and supports Liangchen in the society. In order to one day, his younger brother can be admitted to the scholar and shine his Wei family. In addition, if a brother can be admitted to the scholar, although he is not as glorious as an juren, he is a student. At that time, not only will the rent in the field be exempted, but he can also marry a wife as a brother. It is difficult to find a daughter, but someone who remarries a widow will always be willing to find a promising scholar as his uncle.
Speaking of which, Wei Jinde had high hopes for his two sons. He studied social studies for a year when he was a child, but he was beaten countless times, but he could not recite ten sentences in "Hundred Family Surnames". He was not a good person and was not a material for studying, so he hoped to raise his son to strengthen his father. For this reason, Wei Jinde specially asked the teacher of social studies to name his two sons. His generation was from the generation generation, and his son's generation was from the Liang generation, so one was named "Liangqing" and the other was named "Liangchen". It was really full of deep meaning.
For these two names, Wei Jinde gave two chickens and a pound of pork to the societies. However, things went against their wishes. Liangqing failed to become a "young Qing" and became a farmer like his father. Although Liangchen was still young, he entered the societies at the age of nine. After seven years, he failed to pass the exam for a child.
Seeing that he was getting bigger, Liangchen had no intention of studying anymore. He had no ambition in his heart. He stole the cats and fought all day long, and was a naughty boy. He went to the Wei family to complain, and the social school teacher was so angry that he told Wei Jinde clearly that he would never teach this student again in his life. Three months ago, Liangchen secretly ran to the horse factory in Taipu Temple in the county and stole other people's horse riders. He was caught and beaten to death and carried back.
No matter how bad the son is, no matter how bad his son is, he is always alive. How could Wei Jinde watch his son wait for death at home? So he begged his grandfather to borrow some money from others and went to the county to ask the doctor to save his son's life. The father and son took care of him day and night, and then he saved half of his life. However, the father and son did not know that the good minister had returned, but he became another person.
Outside the house, seeing that his younger brother did not respond, Wei Liangqing was a little worried, so he leaned his hoe against the wall and pushed open the door. He said it was the door, but it was just two wooden boards and a door bolt. On windy and rainy days, the "squeaking" sound could be heard all night.
"Big...Big Brother..."
Seeing Liangqing come in, Wei Liangchen was very nervous. He had not accepted this era yet, nor had he adapted to his new identity. He said that he was not panicked, that was impossible.
"Wake up,"
Wei Liangqing did not notice the wrong expression on his younger brother's face. Seeing that he was about to get up, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't move, sir, your injury has not healed yet, so you can't move lightly, otherwise you will be afraid of being unable to move your legs."
"oh."
Wei Liangchen agreed vaguely, and remained motionless, lowered his head slightly to avoid Liangqing's panic.
"Dad went to the field before dawn. I just finished picking up the water and I was about to go to help my dad. In addition, Dad asked me to tell you that my eldest sister will come to see you in two days."
Wei Liangqing said as he put a pancake on the table. He was thinking about the work in the field, so he didn't say much to Liangchen. He nodded and took a hoe to his own field at the entrance of the village. Liangqing was like this. He was taciturn by nature and looked very dull.
Not long after Liangqing left, Liangchen stood up from the bed. Although he was beaten very hard by the people from Taipusi Horse Factory, he was a young man after all, with thick skin and had been raised for so many days. The good ones were almost the same. The pancakes on the table were still hot, but the color was a little worse. Liangchen knew that this was probably made by the eldest brother Liangqing.
After taking a bite of the pancake, Wei Liangchen searched the memory of his master and knew that the eldest sister was not married to the Wang family in the next village, but the daughter of the second uncle. She was sold to the Yang family as a child bride since she was a child. As for the second uncle, her whereabouts were unknown. Anyway, Liangchen had never heard his father say it for so many years, so it was probably because he died outside.
After the whole pancake was laid, Liangchen felt that his stomach was quite stable. It was already bright outside. He couldn't stay in the house, so he got up from the bed and tried carefully. After the injured right leg was fine, he walked to the yard.
The yard is a typical farmhouse yard, three large rooms, one kitchen, and a thatched room and a warehousing room for things. Except for the three large rooms, the three large rooms are made of bricks, the rest are piled with adobe, covered with hay and tiles. There is a large jar in the corner of the yard, and the water is full of water. There are two wooden barrels on the side, which are wet. There is a basket hanging under the eaves of the corridor, and the basket is garlic. Apart from that, there are no items in the yard.
The whole yard gave Wei Liangchen a bad feeling. He originally thought that the Wei family was just a few thatched houses, but now it seems much better. When he walked to the thatched cottage, Wei Liangchen smelled a stinking smell, and then he found that the wooden squat in the thatched cottage was moved away, and most of the manure in the trash pit was reduced. It seemed that most of his father Wei Jinde had carried the manure into the field to fertilize.
It is the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century, and there is definitely no chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Farmers use farming fertilizers, so these farm fertilizers are very expensive. Unless there is no way, farmers will not be willing to deal with them outside. This is the origin of the so-called fertilizer and water not falling into the fields of outsiders.
However, most farmers' farm manure is not enough for their own fields, so they often need to buy it in the city, which leads to an industry called a manure store. People in the manure store drag out the manure from the city and sell it back and forth, making a lot of money. Manure labour is also a very popular profession. Compared with ordinary families, their income is good.
If you don’t have money to buy at the manure store, you can only go out to pick up manure in the middle of the slack farmer’s house. Most of the manure is the manure of cattle, horses and livestock, and the most of them is dog manure. Wei Liangchen remembers that before he went to the community, he was often called out by his father Wei Jinde to pick up dog manure.
Some people are sloppy in stealing other people's manure while their neighbors are not at home. For this reason, the village has several disputes over manure stealing every year. In the end, the villagers are mostly talking about peace and suppressing the matter. Otherwise, they will go to the county for some "shit" and the county magistrate will be annoyed, and the villagers will have no shame.
After walking around the courtyard for a while and understanding his "family background", Wei Liangchen sat on the door with some headache. He didn't have a headache about why he came to the Ming Dynasty. As the saying goes, he will be at peace. Things have happened. Liangchen knew that the only thing he could do was to adapt to this era, not to resist and resist, which would be of no benefit to him. You can't just be reborn and end your feet.
The headache for Liangchen now is how he survived in the Ming Dynasty. Specifically, how he could change his destiny. He didn't want to be a farmer like his father and brother, facing the loess and facing the sky. If he really did this, he would be too sorry for God to give him a chance to live again.
In the past life, I had no chance to be in a hurry, but in this life, I always have to go there for a leisurely trip.
But, how can he change his destiny?
After thinking about it, Liangchen felt that he had only one way to go, that is, study and take the imperial examination.
All are inferior, but only high school students are high. In the Ming Dynasty, being a scholar would definitely be better than being a farmer. Otherwise, why should his father Wei Jinde and his brother Wei Liangqing be constrained to support him in the society? However, the problem is that if Liangchen remembers correctly, Master Wu of the society said in front of his father Wei Jinde that he would never teach Wei Liangchen again in his life.
In other words, the good ministers can't go to the society.
In addition, the most serious thing is that since the Tong Sheng Examination failed the mansion exam two years ago, Wei Liangchen refused to study hard again and wasted two years in vain. At that time, one of the students of the same class had already passed the scholar. The others either abandoned school to farm or went to the city to apply for apprentices. He just hanged with the gangsters all day long, and his reputation was already bad, so how could he go to school again?
This is really a fatal thing. In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to change your destiny, for the peasant children, there is only the path of studying for the imperial examination. However, this path was cut off because of the "rude behavior" of the former master. Wei Liangchen was anxious and angry, but he couldn't do it. He scolded him all the time, but he was not scolded himself. It should be noted that he is Wei Liangchen now.
well!
Liangchen sighed, and could not think of any good idea for a moment, so he thought about going out for a walk. Since his leg was broken, he said that he had not left the house for three months.
It is a hundred days since the older generation will never be wrong when they speak.
However, when he got up from the door, Liangchen suddenly stumbled, because he realized a bigger problem, that is, this year seemed to be the 37th year of Wanli.
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