Beloved wife

The original owner used to cook when he was a child, but Yan Jing has his memory, so he can...cook things well.

But don't think about the color, smell and the like.

What he is best at is cooking rice, and steaming various dishes while cooking rice.

Donggu County is a land of fish and rice. The land is fertile. Basically, every household grows rice. They grow rice twice a year. Everyone’s staple food is usually rice. However, it is difficult for ordinary farmers to eat dry rice cooked only with rice. Put it in and cook with other things. For example, when there are sweet potatoes and pumpkins, you can eat sweet potato rice and pumpkin rice every day. When broad beans are cooked, you can eat bean rice. When there are only vegetables, you can eat vegetable rice.

Every household generally only has one pot... or simply eat without eating vegetables, or else, they often steam and order dishes on the steaming rack.

That night, Yan Jing steamed the lean meat he had marinated with salt the day before, and steamed some wild vegetables plucked in front of the house and behind the house.

The wild vegetables were steamed and turned rotten yellow. Wei Lingxiu didn't move a single chopstick, and only ate two bowls of rice with bacon.

Yan Jing is so smart... When he is in a good mood, his appetite also improves.

Yan Jing saw him eating like this, and was a little worried, fearing that he could not support Wei Lingxiu.

Pork is not cheap!Fortunately, Wei Lingxiu likes to eat lean meat, which only costs fifteen or sixty cents a catty.

"Ling Xiu, let's go to the county seat tomorrow and sell the book?" Yan Jing suggested that he would only be motivated to do it if he was sure it could really make money.

Wei Lingxiu was taken aback.

After something like that happened, he was a little afraid to go to the county seat, because he was afraid that others would say about him, but if he didn't go, could it be that Yan Jing would go instead?

Yan Jing has just learned to read, and he doesn't understand many things, and he has never dealt with people in the bookstore. Those people are used to looking down on people, will they lie to Yan Jing?

In fact, it is impossible for him not to go to the county seat for the rest of his life.

"Okay, let's go to the county seat tomorrow." Wei Lingxiu said.

It was getting dark after dinner, Yan Jing urged Wei Lingxiu to go to bed, and he kept yawning.

"Go to bed early." Wei Lingxiu asked, "Your bed..."

He went to Yan Jingze's sleeping room during the day to have a look. There was also a door panel there, but it was too broken, and it didn't seem like it could sleep.

But does he want Yan Jingze to sleep with him?

Not to mention that the door is very narrow, two people can't lie down at all, and Yan Jing probably doesn't want to sleep with him... Yan Jing said before that he would marry a wife.

"I'll clean it up right away." Yan Jing went to clean it up right away.

The door panel over there is even more broken, but you can still sleep if you put something on it!

Wei Lingxiu even gave him a quilt!

Yan Jing first laid a few wooden boards on the broken door, then spread his old clothes and quilts, and then spread the bed curtains pulled from Wei Lingxiu. This bed is comfortable enough!

Yan Jing didn't sleep last night, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down today, but the next morning, before dawn, he woke up again.

He first cooked a pot of stale rice for himself, ate half of it, put the remaining half in a jar and put it in his room, and cooked another pot of white rice for Wei Lingxiu to eat later.

Yesterday at noon and night, because Wei Lingxiu was around, he only cooked white rice and ate it with Wei Lingxiu.

But he actually cooked less at that time, and then ate the same amount as Wei Lingxiu, and he ate to a third of his full.

The original owner's appetite is too great!

Today, he simply cooked some stale rice in advance to satisfy his hunger, and he could eat the rest when he was hungry.

Although copying books can make money, he is not the original owner, and he has no idea of ​​"eat and use up and be healthy". He has already begun to think about things decades later!

He and Wei Lingxiu are both men, and they won't have children in the future, so they have to save money!

They need a few better houses, dozens of acres of land, and enough savings, so that they can spend their old age in peace.

No, none of this is enough.

Wei Lingxiu loves to eat meat, and he himself eats too much...

Yan Jing didn't dare to spend money recklessly.

Thinking of this, he sat down at Wei Lingxiu's desk and continued to copy books.

He has already copied the "Three Character Classic" yesterday, and now he can copy it faster, and this book is very thin...

Before he was about to go out, he actually copied another copy.

Wei Lingxiu, who got up late, didn't know what to say.

Seeing Yan Jingze, a big man holding a pen, quickly writing correct lowercase letters, he always felt a little disharmonious.

"Brother Yan, you write so fast!" Wei Lingxiu couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"Once you know what strength to use to write, it's easy to write." Yan Jingze said, he had never held a pen before, and he didn't know what strength to use, so that his writing would be ugly. After he got used to it, he felt that writing was too easy.

With his physical strength, he won't get tired after writing for a whole day!

Wei Lingxiu: "..." If others heard Yan Jing say that, they would definitely want to beat him!

No, don't talk about others, he wants to talk to Jing Ze.

Yan Jing took Wei Lingxiu and walked to the county town to find the way.

Wei Lingxiu's physical strength was not very good, but he didn't feel tired just walking without carrying anything. After walking with Yan Jing for half an hour, they arrived at the county seat.

Donggu County has no city walls, but is surrounded by a river with several high stone bridges on it.

Yan Jing took Wei Ling to repair the bridge, and many people came to see it.

Wei Lingxiu remembered that he and Yan Jingze were caught and raped by a large group of people at the beginning, and his family members did not intend to cover up for him at all, but they obviously wanted to make a big mess...

They don't want to see him well, and now the whole county probably knows about him and Yan Jingze.

I don't know what other people think of him.

Wei Lingxiu was a little worried, because he was afraid of seeing other people's disgusting eyes, so he didn't dare to raise his head at first, and later raised his head...

There was no one around him and Yan Jingze, probably because others were intimidated by Yan Jingze's unusual size, but why...they occasionally look at him with a sympathetic look?

Wei Lingxiu was a little confused.

However, the most important thing now is the business of selling books.

Wei Lingxiu took Yan Jingze into the bookstore.

When ordinary people outside looked at Yan Jingze, they were a little scared, but when the few scholars in the bookstore saw Yan Jingze, they looked disgusted and said humanely: "It's really insulting to the gentleman!"

However, as soon as this person exited, he was dragged away by the people around him.

Those who want to come to the bookstore to buy books, most of them are just starting to study, and most of them have not even passed the entrance examination for Tongsheng.

Although scholars have a high status, they are also flesh and blood, and they are afraid that gangsters like Yan Da will trouble them.

So... it's better not to offend people!

Yan Jingze: "..." He felt that his figure was really tall.

Look, everyone is afraid of him!

Wei Lingxiu felt a little uncomfortable because others despised Yan Jingze, but when he saw the bookstore owner, he calmed down again: "Boss, I want to sell books."

The owner of the bookstore was an old man with a long beard. He glanced at Wei Lingxiu and said, "There are many people who sell fields and land to buy books, but there are not many who sell books... What books do you want to sell?"

Wei Lingxiu was a little embarrassed: "I don't want to sell the collection of books, but I copied some books and want to sell them."

After speaking, Wei Lingxiu took out the Buddhist scriptures he had copied at Wei's house and the three "San Zi Jing" that he had just copied.

In fact, these are not books, and they are not bound.

"Did you copy it?" asked the shopkeeper.

"Yes." Wei Lingxiu said.

"Master Wei's handwriting is pretty good, why didn't you take the merit test?" The shopkeeper was a little surprised. He basically knew all the literati in Donggu County, and there were quite a few scholars whose handwriting was not as good as Wei Ling's.

But he has always heard that the young master of the Wei family is stubborn and doesn't like reading...

In fact, like Tongsheng, as long as you memorize the books to be tested, have someone explain them to you, and have a good handwriting, you can basically pass the exam. It doesn't matter if you write essays or poems.

Wei Lingxiu was born in Wei's family, so he could pass the exam no matter what.

Wei Lingxiu didn't answer.

In fact, children, who would like to read at the beginning?It's just that his two younger brothers' families forced him to read, and when it came to him... they all said that he didn't like reading, and he believed it himself if he said too much.

Wei Lingxiu didn't want to say too much: "Boss, these books..."

"Let me take a look first." The shopkeeper looked carefully at each page.

He looked at it for a long time before finishing all the papers: "The words are all correct. I sell the "Three Character Classic" here for 250 copies, and I will give you [-] copies for each copy. As for these Buddhist scriptures, I will sell them for [-] copies."

Those few Buddhist scriptures are thicker than the Three Character Classic.

And such books, although not sold much, but there are always wives or old ladies from rich families who buy them. After buying them, they either recite them by themselves, or offer them to the Buddha, or even burn them. Both.

Wei Lingxiu copied six Buddhist scriptures before, and sold two copies for four hundred texts. Adding in the money for the "San Zi Jing", the total was more than three copies, which was equivalent to three taels of silver.

Although the Wei family gave Yan Jingze several hundred taels of silver in order to frame Wei Lingxiu, but for ordinary people, three taels of silver is a lot.

Yan Jing was suddenly a little excited.

But when he asked about the price of pen, ink and paper...

The books here are expensive, a large part of the reason is because the paper is expensive!

The paper needed to copy a copy of the Three Character Classic...even if one word is good, it will cost seventy or eighty characters!

No wonder only rich people study!

But after reading and learning Chinese characters, you can earn a lot of money. You can earn about 150 copies by copying the "Three Character Classic", ten copies are one and a half copies, one hundred copies are fifteen copies, and one thousand copies are 150 articles...

He copied ten or twenty copies of him a day!

Yan Jing has already set his ambitions.

The bookstore owner looked at the "Three Character Classic" that seemed to have just been copied, but said to Wei Lingxiu: "Young Master Wei, don't be tired..."

Wei Lingxiu copied three books only one day after he left Wei's house, this...

"I'm not tired." Wei Lingxiu said, two of them were copied by Yan Jingze.

The bookstore owner didn't believe it anyway.

Yan Jingze and Wei Lingxiu made money, bought some things, and then went home.

They ate in the town at noon, Yan Jing ate as much as Wei Lingxiu, and he was not full at all. When he got home, he went into the room and ate the remaining half pot of rice, and then began to copy books.

"Brother Yan, shall I teach you something else?" Wei Lingxiu suggested.

Yan Jing refused without hesitation: "Wait, I'll copy a few more books first!"

Wei Lingxiu: "...Brother Yan, how many copies do you want to copy first? I will copy it with you."

"Copy a thousand copies first, so that we can build a house before the winter!"

"..." Wei Lingxiu was speechless: "Brother Yan, the bookstore may not be able to sell a thousand copies of "San Zi Jing" a year..."

Yan Jing stopped writing and looked at Wei Lingxiu: "I think I can learn from other books... I'll copy them instead!"

If a book is copied too much, it may depreciate if it cannot be sold, so he should copy a few books!

No matter what, he has to make money for the retirement of himself and Wei Lingxiu!

Wei Lingxiu: "..." Yan Jing has such a talent that he only wants to copy books?