Making money, taking exams, and raising a family in rural imperial examinations

The news of the opening of Nanyang Town Commercial Street has long been spread through various channels.

In fact, to be precise, it should be a 'commercial center', because the so-called commercial street is not a single street, but a place for entertainment and shopping that is composed of major shopping malls like modern shopping malls.

In the five-year planning and construction, the entire Qingshan County can be said to have undergone earth-shaking changes. The residential areas, shops and streets of the people were planned and repaired at the same time.

During the overtime work of the workers, the ancient houses were not so high and the construction was fast, so the people had already lived in new houses, and new shops opened one after another, and the economy of Qingshan County developed rapidly.

But only this 'Nanyang Town Commercial Center' has only been completed until now, and then merchants are arranged to settle in and open.

However, as the saying goes, a good meal is not afraid of being late. The final effect of this commercial center carefully designed and planned by Lin Ze is naturally shocking.

The buildings in the entire commercial street are much taller than other places, and the shape is also very peculiar, full of the combination of ancient and modern styles, both ancient and modern simplicity, the visual effect is very eye-catching.

From a distance, everyone can see the houses on the commercial street, and they have a strong curiosity before entering.

This is what Lin Ze wants. As the economic center of Qingshan County, it must first have a landmark building.

All preparatory work is completed.

On the opening day of Nanyang Commercial Street, the entire Nanyang Town was crowded with people, most of them came from other towns to join in the fun. Anyway, now that the traffic has been settled, it is not too far to go back and forth, so it is natural to come and see such a rare excitement.

And today is the weekend stipulated by Lin Ze. All the government primary schools and academies are on holiday. Taking advantage of the time, more people came to play.

Amidst the cheers of the common people, after Lin Ze cut the ribbon with various officials, he also took Zhang Yu and his three children to wander around, enjoying the atmosphere of the commercial street he had carefully created.

Duan Wensai, He Xiangfeng, Linsheng and other good friends were also together, and they acted like a tourist group.

"Brother Lin, what do you think is the length of your head? Why do you have so many ideas? Look at this lively scene. I have seen His Majesty's visit to the palace and important festivals in the capital, as well as the management and arrangement of this shop. , What kind of alliance discounts and fun things are there, even the capital city doesn't have them, so you can think of them..."

Everyone commented along the way, among which Duan Wensai said the best.

Others have never seen the outside world without comparison, rare is rare, but there will not be a big gap in comparison;

But he is different, he grew up at the foot of the imperial city, he has never seen any good things, but in front of the things Lin Ze made, he is like a bumpkin who has never seen the market, amazed again and again.

The longer he has known Lin Ze, the less Duan Wensai wants to go back to the capital. A place with an uncle is more interesting and comfortable. After staying in the post year after year, he is very happy to be the ninth-rank sesame official.

"One kind of rice feeds hundreds of families, and the food rewarded by God, don't be envious of your dominance. Don't patronize us adults, today is a good time to take the children to play, go, hurry up and buy things, and get enough 10 taels Get the play ticket, and since there are few people in the play area, let's play enough first."

Lin Ze was narcissistic without humility, and led everyone to play.

The whole project activities are almost all ideas given by him, and even the types of shops that attract investment are planned by him. He knows best what is fun and delicious in the commercial street, and he is the first to bear the brunt of being a guide.

"Daddy is the best!"

Lin Dongdong is a very coaxing little guy, so he flattered him right away.

"Daddy is awesome." The two twin brothers were not far behind, and followed closely behind to slap daddy's ass.

The rest of the children were also very smart, and they all praised themselves without hesitation, and they kept talking nicely, so happy that Lin Ze couldn't stop smiling.

All the grown-ups also looked at it cheerfully and narcissistically, thinking that the child they gave birth to was so smart.

Under the leadership of Lin Ze, a group of people ate, drank and watched one by one along the way. The family was not short of money, and they bought everything they liked very generously.

Zhang Yu’s brothers like to visit the cloth shop and the place that sells children’s things. After walking in, Lin Ze and his men just stood by and let their daughter-in-law make gestures, and then carry things.

When the shopping was almost done, everyone took the shopping receipts to exchange for amusement tickets.

These are naturally thought up by Lin Ze. There are many places to play in the commercial street. There are ancient and modern street games, such as hoops, throwing pots, etc. Those who have tickets can play casually, and those who don’t have money to play single.

Anyway, the series are all aimed at promoting consumption and making today's commercial street more lively.

The most conspicuous of all the games is the 'claw machine', which modern people know is the kind of machine game played by coin-operated catching dolls and catching toys.

Of course, it was impossible to have a machine in ancient times, so Lin Ze made adjustments and made it into a large-scale game imitating a claw machine that hangs a real person down to grab things in a shopping mall. Use a rope to hang you down, and within 30 seconds As many things as you can grab out, as many things are yours.

There are many puppet dolls, packaged dry food, candy and other interesting and edible things in the huge venue. The value is neither expensive nor too cheap, and it is very attractive to look at.

The adults looked at it very rare, and the children watched it even more and yelled, pulling their parents around here, and they were very curious about the exquisite and lovely dolls inside.

However, this is fun, and there are many requirements and restrictions. The exchange coupon must be spent more than 30 taels, and a single play requires 10 copper coins. The average family still has to grit their teeth and think about it. Compared with 10 copper coins, you can buy a little more. It's a catty.

Lin Ze and the others had no worries about money. They bought a lot of things, and it was very easy to exchange for play coupons that consumed more than 30 taels. They took their children there early.

"Father, come on! I want a big tiger doll!"

"Father, I also want a big tiger doll, I can't lose to Uncle Lin!"

"Father, father..."

A group of children gathered outside to cheer for their father, hoping that their father would be the best and take out the biggest doll.

For the sake of their own children, Lin Ze and others, who are normally quite brothers, turned against each other in an instant. You glared at me, and I fiercely attacked you. They took a deep breath and competed in the prize pool. All of them had ferocious expressions, which amused the onlookers.

As a result of such a struggle, no one got the biggest puppet in the end, and the children pursed their mouths and cried aggrievedly.

"Woooo, Dad/Father is so stupid..."

A few useless fathers scratched their heads anxiously, "..."

"It's okay, Daddy will make it for you when you get home."

In the end, it was Zhang Yu and the younger brothers who coaxed the children to stay. A group of children of a few years old were just at the time of being naughty and coquettish.

At the same time, the same scene appeared in other places, pitiful parents all over the world, in order to satisfy their children, a group of parents spent a lot of money, effort, and exhausted tossing.

But when they see the happy smiling faces of their children, the parents of each family feel that the tiredness and hardship are not worth mentioning. Under the influence of this atmosphere, the people who are thrifty on weekdays are also very generous to satisfy the children's various needs. Such a request is a rare luxury to have fun.

When we were tired from playing, we went to the teahouse to sit down and rest, order some refreshments and enjoy the leisure and tranquility in the busy city.

Each adult holds a child on his body and feeds his little darling. There are three children in Lin Ze's family who can't finish hugging them. The couple can only hold two small ones and rely on his elder brother Rong.

Lin Ze didn't like his good baby clinging to others, but there was nothing he could do. The couple couldn't bring up three children, and Lin Dongdong let others take care of them besides them and Zhang Yirong, so he could only turn a blind eye. one eye.

Anyway, some of the apprentices are going to take the exam in a while, and after the exam, they will go outside. I'm afraid I won't see his brother Rong for a long time, so let's go with the children...

"Brother Rong, I want to eat that, the green ones, and this and this."

"Okay, but you can't eat too much, the moving teeth are full of worms, you know?"

"Yeah, it's nice to hear from Brother Rong."

The interaction between one big and one young with a seven-year age difference, one sticky and one doting, is a warm picture of childhood sweethearts.

Lin Ze was panting acid on the side, while thinking about the future of his little baby.

If there is a reliable person who can pamper his little one to be pure and happy, without any trouble for a lifetime, it seems... not bad?

The commercial street in Nanyang Town is accompanied by a fiery opening, and the popularity remains undiminished afterwards.

Because of the well-developed traffic in Qingshan County, the time it takes for the people in the county to commute is short, and many people will start to take the elderly and children at home to meet the world and have fun during their breaks.

Even if you don't have too much money to spend, looking at the changes outside and the unique buildings in the commercial street is a good thing to relax your mind.

And the people in the surrounding counties like to go to Qingshan County even more, as if it is a matter of face for Bel to come to Qingshan County for a visit.

At the same time, with the spread of news among businessmen, countless outside businessmen were attracted to look for business opportunities. In order to arrange and retain these businessmen to promote the development of Qingshan County, Lin Ze thought of many ways.

For example, regularly hold commodity exhibitions, businessmen exchange meetings and other related activities.

In short, with Lin Ze's vigorous publicity and policy support, Qingshan County is developing at a rapid pace.

After the implementation of Qingshan County, various policies that had no problems were also reported to the capital, and were adopted by the higher authorities one after another and gradually promoted and implemented nationwide. The style of Daji is getting better and better in the hands of benevolent and inspirational superiors.

Almost a month after the commercial street in Nanyang Town opened, the three-year township examination that everyone was looking forward to came again.

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The arrival of the township examination once every three years is another moment for Jingjing students to change their destiny.

The last township examination Junxian Academy was established not long ago, and the teaching effect was not great, so at that time Lin Ze did not recommend students to take part, did not organize students to take the test, and only let some of the students with very good grades go by themselves.

But this time, after five years of precipitation and education, Lin Ze checked that everyone's academic performance was very good, so he led the teachers of each class, and the academy organized the students who signed up to participate, and provided transportation and accommodation assistance throughout the process.

In addition, if the students who break through in the rural examination, the academy will continue to subsidize part of the silver for everyone's travel expenses to Beijing, which greatly relieves the pressure of poor students in the examination due to financial problems.

The students were so grateful that most of their eyes turned red on the spot when they got the news, and they couldn't help feeling a stronger sense of belonging to Junxian Academy in their hearts.

There is a new understanding of the word "alma mater" that Lin Ze calls every time he speaks and holds a conference.

Hundreds of students who signed up for reference wore uniform academy uniforms, rode in bullock carts driven by uniform servants, and were led by several academy gentlemen to live in the same inn.

The scene of the orderly action was really eye-catching, and the students from all the counties looked with envy in their eyes. Their private schools did not arrange such treatment for them.

Even the students from other academies couldn't help being very envious. Junxian Academy's wealth and treatment of students are definitely top-notch, even if the academies in the capital can't compare in some places.

But envy is envy, but everyone is not jealous at all, because Junxian Academy's enrollment is absolutely fair, regardless of status, only in terms of talent and learning, those who can be admitted to Junxian Academy are genuine materials without any adulteration.

Moreover, the school spirit of Junxian Academy is very strict, and it attaches great importance to the character requirements of the students. All the students are impeccable in terms of character, whether they are acting in school or outside.

As for the private life, well, please look at the school schedule, the name of the last class every Friday is 'Thick Black Studies'...

In the past five years, the Great Ji Dynasty has revised many laws and systems, and most of them have been fine-tuned and improved even if they have not been changed.

Although the overall system including the imperial examination has not changed, the treatment of students during the examination period is much better according to the abundance of money in the treasury.

Compared with the poor environment in the past, the free food provided by the examination government has been greatly improved now, and even funded by the imperial court, in the severe cold weather, each student is given a quilt.

Although the process is still difficult, it is much better than before. In the past, to prevent entrainment, the thin quilts that everyone brought were of no use in winter. The completion of the exam depends on physical fitness. Every year, students with poor health suffer Can't help but freeze to death.

This year's situation has improved a lot, and most of the students who have already had scientific research experience are grateful for the court's care.

Lin Ze did not become an invigilator for the imperial examination. His official position was enough, but thinking of the academy he opened, he did not intervene in order to avoid suspicion, so as not to affect the exam results of the students in the academy.

And the imperial examination can't be over in a while, so Lin Ze didn't do anything to accompany the exam, and just waited for everyone to come back in the academy with peace of mind.

Lin Dongdong has been making a lot of noise recently because his elder brother Rong left home.

Eating is not good every day, and I am not happy to go out to play. Every day after school, I go to the entrance of the village to wait, waiting outside to see when his brother Rong will come back, and I feel very reluctant.

A few friends couldn't stand it anymore, and it was boring to accompany Lin Dongdong to the entrance of the village every day to sit in a daze, so they took Lin Dongdong to the orchard on the back mountain to play.

After the planning of the field, Lin Ze has allowed the villagers to develop many other farming and plantings in the past few years. Not only have every household planted a large amount of sugar beet needed for sugar production, but it is not easy to farm in the mountains, so all of them are planted with fruit trees.

Nowadays, the back hills of the several villages connected to Heba Village are full of various fruit trees that are easy to support. Fruits that adapt to the solar terms grow and mature all year round, and they look delicious and pleasing to the eye.

Therefore, in the first year when it began to bear fruit, it attracted countless children to make trouble.

In the end, the adults were helpless, so they simply circled some places for children to pick fruits to eat and play, and the orchard has become the children's favorite place to go to on weekdays. They can eat and play without being scolded.

After all, he was still a child. After being sad for a few days, Lin Dongdong was influenced by his friends to clean up his mood and start bouncing around again.

"Hmph, brother Rong left him again, and he will get angry when he comes back, now go eat some fruit!"

Lin Dongdong got over the feeling of reluctance at the beginning, hummed twice, and happily carried the basket to play with his friends in the orchard on the back mountain.

The more dangerous wild animals in the back mountain have been cleaned up, roadblocks have been set up on the road from the deep mountain, and hunters are often arranged to check the footprints. The weather has been good in recent years, so under normal circumstances no wild animals come out to attack people.

And if there are children going to play in the orchard, the person in charge of the orchard will also specially arrange a few adults to watch by the side to avoid accidents.

When a group of children arrive in the orchard, they are like monkeys who liberate their instincts. The boys climb trees to pick fruits, and the little brothers and girls pick fruits under their subordinates.

When they are tired from climbing trees, picking fruits and playing, the children will take out the snacks and snacks prepared by the adults at home, and gather around to share food and rest.

What everyone likes to share most is the food of Lin Dongdong’s family, because the food of Lin’s family is the most special, there are various new flavors every time, and there are many snacks that are sold very expensive outside and ordinary people can’t eat, so everyone scrambles for the first Sitting next to the three children of the Lin family.

The twins of the He family and the Duan family also brought out a lot of rare and delicious food, tempting to drool, and the young masters are the focus of everyone's attention every time anyway.

The children next to the mountain are all leather monkeys, and they can play well without adults taking them with them at a young age.

"Brother, we have to pee..."

The problem of eating and drinking enough to make a living came out. Lin Duogu and Lin Duomi watched her brother go to the toilet.

Although most of the time it is their two younger brothers who maintain and worry about the elder brother who is careless, but due to his age, he still needs his elder brother's help in life.

They can go to the toilet by themselves, but they dare not run around in the wild mountains. They have also developed the habit of going to the hut to go to the toilet at home and school, so they are not used to finding a place to solve it.

"Well, then wipe your hands clean first, and my brother will take you there."

At this time, Lin Dongdong was still very much like an older brother. He wiped the sticky hands of the two younger brothers with a handkerchief, and then led the younger brother to the latrine.

People often come and go in the orchard, and there are many outsiders who have fun, so in order to prevent people from stepping on dirty things, a special hut has been built.

After sending the two younger brothers to the latrine, Lin Dongdong checked the "safety" of the latrine carefully before putting the two younger brothers in to pee by himself.

As for why you check 'safe' first?That was naturally Lin Ze's order.

In ancient times, unlike modern toilets, there were squatting seats and toilets. At most, they stepped on air and stepped into small holes, and at most they got dirty and there was no other problem.

But in the huts in the ancient countryside, it was very scary.Many huts are like the kind where a big deep pit is dug, and then two wooden planks are placed on it. Not to mention children, even adults can easily fall into the latrine pit unsteadily.

Although Lin Ze couldn't stand this kind of shabby hut, he made a special renovation of the hut during the construction, but he couldn't guarantee that everything was rebuilt. In fact, his three children were raised very delicately, and they were used to the hut at home. With a convenient life, it is inevitable that some places are not as good as ordinary children raised in a rough way.

Therefore, on weekdays, Lin Ze and his wife often teach their children more details about life than books. self-reliance.

Lin Dongdong's personality inherited Lin Ze's dishonesty, but at the same time he also learned other excellent things. Every time he brought his two younger brothers out to play, he still took good care of them.

After the younger brothers came out from the toilet, and helped the two younger brothers wash their hands with the flowing mountains and rivers, Lin Dongdong was satisfied and took his younger brother back to find his friends.

Unexpectedly, there was an accident on the road, two dirty and beggar-like people suddenly rushed out from the grass, pushed Lin Dongdong down, quickly snatched the small purse containing snacks from Lin Dongdong's waist, and then guarded the orchard. He ran away crazily under the scolding and chasing.

Things happened too fast, and when Lin Dongdong felt the pain in his elbow that hit the stone, he burst into tears.

"Wow, it hurts, it hurts to move my hands..."

Lin Dongdong was most afraid of pain. Although his elbow was only bumped and did not bleed, it still made him cry sadly. The loud crying scared his two younger brothers and the children here.

Some of the staff guarding the orchard went to chase him, and some rushed over to check on Lin Dongdong.

This is Master Lin's precious little brother. He is reluctant to touch him on weekdays, and he always holds his treasure when he goes out to discuss business. If something goes wrong, they can't afford it.

"Chasing! Notify the security team, search the mountain! We must catch those homeless people who don't know where they came from!"

Without saying a word, the person in charge of guarding the orchard immediately ordered all the security team members guarding the orchard to search the mountain.

Now the orchard is not only an important income and output value for the villagers, but also a major scenic spot in Qingshan County. Every spring and autumn, it attracts a lot of people from outside to come for outings. Security issues cannot be ignored.

Now the orchard actually didn't know when a homeless man came in. This is no small matter.