The pastoral life of the reborn farmer

Chapter 13

Aunt Zhao stiffened for a moment and then came back, smiling and holding the longest couplet. Anyway, the longest is always the one with the most words, and the one with the largest paper must be stained. She must bring this couplet in white.

"Erlang! Look, you must have forgotten a lot of things before you can remember. Have you forgotten? Every year, your third brother writes a lot of couplets and distributes them to relatives. I am your sister-in-law's aunt. I I think this letter is good, why don't you let me first, and then return it after your third brother has written mine, what do you think?"

Although Shen Jia Saburo can write couplets, he must be asked by others to come to the door. To start writing, someone else has to prepare the paper. It is impossible for the Shen family to save a pile of red paper and put it there to wait for someone to ask for the couplet. Shen Ling has already inquired about it before selling the couplet. This woman is simply bullying him. I don't remember anything, so I deliberately mocked him!

Moreover, even if Shen San wrote the couplet of this Aunt Zhao, why would he want to come back? Shen Ling looked at the rather large piece of red paper with a cold gaze, a penny is money! It doesn't matter if he pays ten pennies honestly, after all, even if he pretends to have amnesia, he can't deny his six relatives, but now it seems that none of the relatives in this body are worth treating him in the way he treats relatives!

"Auntie, you're joking, I have long since separated from the old house, how can I go to the third brother to get something? If the third brother really wrote your couplet, then you don't want the third brother's couplet. Take mine, this is to make the third brother angry with me, this is not good, and the third brother's handwriting is definitely better than mine, I just write casually, how can my handwriting be compared to the county school What about my third brother? You made my father hear what you said, and I'm so angry."

Aunt Zhao choked, but she still refused to let go. Shen Ling looked at her with a smile, and continued: "Auntie, since you have made a reservation The couplet of the third brother, it is estimated that you don't need to buy it, come on, it's quite cold today, I won't leave you, you can hurry up and do it!"

Aunt Zhao looked down at the couplet in her hand, and she thought it looked good no matter what, the paper was good, and the words were beautiful. She felt resentment against Shen Ling for a while, but she didn't keep any emotion, she said it for the sake of it. , a big man should give her the couplet even for the sake of face! How can he be so stingy, and on the other hand, he complains about Shen Sanlai, who obviously went to the county school, how can he write better than Shen Er, who has never been to school? Although there is nothing, but compared with Shen Er's one, why does the word appear so small?

Shen Ling pretended not to see her continue to greet other guests, Han Shi didn't speak from beginning to end, just stood by and silently watched the stall to collect money, he didn't know how to answer when someone asked the price, he was busy and nervous, Shen Ling had already turned around and answered the call for him, and soon made another business and handed him the copper coins.

Han Shi was stunned for a while, then quickly picked it up, lowered his head, and didn't even say hello to Aunt Zhao, he didn't know what to say, he never said hello to any relatives, just married into Shen When he was at home, he called his father and mother, and no one else said much. He always had a natural panic towards unfamiliar people.

Seeing that no one paid any attention to her, Aunt Zhao blushed with embarrassment. She stood there for a while, and saw Shen Ling accepting handfuls of copper coins. She was angry and jealous for a while, and finally left angrily.

Shen Ling glanced at it, then turned his head to go about his own business. Shen Ling had a good temperament, a smooth mouth, and was literate. When someone asked him what was written on the couplet, he could answer it, and the words he read were quite pleasant, so Business is getting better.

After a while, a servant dressed as a servant from a large family squeezed into the crowd, holding a couplet and asking, "Boss, who wrote the Spring Festival couplet?"

"It's me, I made you laugh." Shen Ling said with a smile .

"Give me a few pairs, the main room, the east and west rooms, the door, the kitchen, and the pigsty." Jia Ding said.

Shen Ling understood that he was buying Spring Festival couplets for his own family, not for a big family, and he was not disappointed. After quickly choosing the couplets, he did a little mental calculation to get the price, and took out a square cut out of the remaining red paper. The one with the word "Fu" written on it handed it over and asked, "Look at this again! You can stick it on the wall, and the price is also cheap, one piece of three cents, two five cents, round up, seventy cents.

" I didn't react for a moment, I figured it out with my fingers, the paper at the door is a bit more expensive, and the cheapest between things, then I added and subtracted, "Yes, yes, it's seventy wen, the boss is so smart, you don't need abacus. "

You're welcome."

"You said that you wrote the Spring Festival couplets just now?"

"Exactly."

"It's almost the county exam, why do you still have time to do this? Don't you have to study hard at home? My young master is now If you can't eat or sleep all day, you're worried about your county exam!" Jiading said casually.

Shen Ling knew that he regarded himself as a scholar, shook his head and said, "I don't take the county exam."

"Then you are a scholar?" Jiading raised his head in awe.

"No, it's still Bai Ding, it's just that I know that I'm not good at learning, I'm self-studying, I don't read much, and I don't have the teacher's recommendation, so I can't take the exam if I don't dare." Shen Ling said casually, in fact, he wanted to take the imperial examination. The cost is too high, and he is really not a scholar. He doesn't know what the eight-legged essay is. How can he write it? If you have this time, it is better to make good money, raise your child, raise fat, and give birth to a small child as soon as possible. I don't know how the twins give birth to children! Dangerous is not dangerous! No, he has to make good money, at least when his child is born, he has to hire several stable mothers, and also buy a bunch of ginseng elixir, ready to give Xiaoshi a strength at any time.

Shen Ling's thoughts ran a little far, and he couldn't pull it back for a while. There was a bright smile on the corner of his mouth. The smile made the housekeepers on the opposite side feel a little weird. !

"Boss?" Jiading couldn't help but called out.

"Ah? I'm sorry, I lost my mind." Shen Ling said quickly.

"It seems that the boss is thinking of something beautiful." Jiading said with a smile.

Shen Ling smiled and didn't answer. He handed the couplet to the servant, and then collected the money and handed it to Han Shi. After the servant left, Shen Ling entertained the other guests.

Han Shi secretly raised his head and glanced at Shen Ling. In his eyes, those who can work in big families are all knowledgeable people. Today, he bumped into one and was so scared that he didn't even dare to raise his head, but Shen Ling was able to It was a lot of fun chatting with him, and the other party also said that Shen Ling can go to the county test, that is the qualification that only Tong Sheng can have! Although Shen Ling is not a Tongsheng, but Shen Ling can read poetry and write, so there must be no problem in taking the Tongsheng test, right?

Han Shi silently counted in his heart how much money he had left at home, and how much he had to save, so that Shen Ling could take the Tongsheng exam with peace of mind, and then go to the Xiucai exam. He felt that Shen Ling was so powerful that he would definitely become a scholar, he said. It might even be a lifter! Then he can become an official.

Thinking of Shen Ling becoming an official, Han Shi couldn't help but feel a little inferior and sad. If Shen Ling became an official, he would definitely not marry a pair of children to be the wife of the principal room. Yes, he has never heard of any Juren's daughter-in-law who is Shuang'er, or else, let Shen Ling test Juren, Han Shi got tangled, felt sorry for Shen Ling, and thought that Shen Ling had just chatted with that person about the test. I laughed in a daze during the imperial examination. I guess I also want to take the exam in my heart! Han Shi felt more and more sad and aggrieved.

After Shen Ling received the money, he wanted to hand it to Han Shi, but found that the people around him hadn't taken the money for a long time. Shen Ling quickly turned to look at Han Shi, and found that the child didn't know what he was thinking. He lowered his head and looked aggrieved. Especially painful.

Shen Ling's heart softened, and he threw the money in the box, and he didn't care about the other guests who came around. He reached out and touched Han Shi's head, "What's wrong?"

Han Shi raised his head, his big eyes were already full of tears, and he asked pitifully, "Do you want to take the exam?"

"I'm not a Tongsheng exam?" Shen Ling was surprised, he remembered that his third brother was The whole village knew about the person who was going to take the exam, so he also knew that this exam was an exam for scholars, and only Tong Sheng could take it, he was just a white man.

"I mean, the Tongsheng exam is held once every six months! Do you want to take the exam?"

Shen Ling touched his chin. In fact, taking the exam is not a problem, and it can improve his social status even if he is not an official. , it is impossible to farm all the time, and it is impossible to say that you will rely on doing business to get rich in the future. Being a Confucian businessman is better than being a businessman covered in copper.

"Then, do you want me to take the test next time?" He felt that even if he couldn't write the eight-part essay, as long as he started to study from now on, it would be the same as writing essays in the previous exams. In response to the efforts of the Eight Gus, Tongsheng Xiucai or something can still work hard.

Maybe it takes real talent and real learning to go to the exam, and the knowledge that belongs to this world is accumulated through book by book, but it should not be so difficult to reach the level of scholar! Seeing that a child in the high school grade of Shen San can pass the entrance examination for Tongsheng, and there is a great hope that he will be a scholar, you can know, but it is only a high school level of knowledge.

Han Shi's tears fell in an instant, and he cried aggrieved. Shen Ling spoiled him a little bit hard these days, so he couldn't hold back his emotions all the time, "Wuwuwu, you just want to take the imperial examinations. , I want to be an official, you don't want me anymore, you laughed just now, are you thinking about becoming an official after you get admitted..."

Han Shi felt that he was very unreasonable, but Shen Ling didn't want him anyway, he It doesn't matter, even if he is kicked out of the house, it's no big deal. Anyway, he might as well die if he can't be Shen Ling's husband!