Rebirth: Don't Be the Best

After the wedding banquet is the mid-autumn festival on August [-]th. After this festival, it will be a vigorous autumn harvest, so in order to enjoy this festival, everyone puts all their energy into making delicious things.

In the first half of the year, everyone made a lot of money by selling spring potatoes and doing work at Zhang's house. Now everyone is busy during the holidays. What is the autumn harvest?Can you survive without eating something good?

Even the pork sellers in the town said that the people in Anping County might get rich this year. They usually sell some meat at a price of half a catty and a few taels. There are many other things in the back basket, it seems that they have a good time this festival.

Zhang Shu didn't go to the town to grab pork from other villagers. He drove the ox cart to the county town, took Li Yan and Zhou Nan with him, and bought everything for the two families for the festival.

I also bought all the gifts to give away, because Zhou's father didn't want to go down the mountain to spend with them, so the things prepared for him should be more generous.

On August [-]th, Grandpa Zhang was invited to build a pagoda early in the morning. I thought that at this time last year, Zhang Shu was squatting next to his grandfather like a kid watching him rubbing straw ropes. This year, he was about to do it. Father.

If we put the original Zhang Shu and the current one together again, I am afraid that no one will dare to recognize it as a person.

When the tower was burning in the evening, Zhang Shu saw those people who always bullied him. They still looked bad, but when they faced Zhang Shu, they didn't dare to look at him at all.

The original Zhang Shu was weak and deceitful, but now Zhang Shu is a capable person in the village. They have to weigh their own weight no matter what.

Zhang Shu sighed a little, if others want to bully you, then it’s useless for you to hide and hide, and it’s useless to rely on other people’s help, unless you become stronger and subdue them, they won’t dare It's easy to bully you.

It’s not that these people haven’t had the idea of ​​Zhang Shu’s family. It’s obvious to all that his family has become rich. Everyone doesn’t know how they sold before, but since someone drove a carriage to buy things, everyone really realized that Zhang’s family is really good. Got rich.

Wang Changfa and Zhu Dabao were still hanging out in the village all day long. Seeing that the Zhang family was up, they went to the neighboring village to encourage Zhang Huai to make trouble. parts and the like.

But Zhang Huai was not fooled, and he was quite arrogant in his speech, as if he looked down on this small business done by the Zhang family.

Wang Changfa and the others were at a loss. Everyone knew that Zhang Huai's father broke up with Zhang's family during the Chinese New Year last year. Why didn't they care about it for a while?

The instigation failed, so they had no choice but to leave in despair. The kid Zhang Huai hadn't played with them since he went to the outer village. Recently, I heard that he was still going to the town. He was still a good brother before!

When the full moon shines in the sky on the [-]th day, thousands of families sit in the courtyard and look up at the bright moon in the sky, thinking of their relatives in their hometown.

In Zhang's yard, the family happily ate all kinds of pastries and fruits, and chatted about a few interesting things in the village. They lived a peaceful life.

Hanyang Village

Zhang Yun took two children and carefully managed in the kitchen. Outside, her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law were sitting outside cracking sunflower seeds.

"Sister-in-law, are you ready? You want to starve us to death while my brother is not at home?" There was a call from outside, showing a lot of impatience.

"It will be ready soon," Zhang Yun replied loudly, and then pushed his daughter who was cutting vegetables beside him, "Hurry up, take this plate of scrambled eggs to my sister-in-law first, so as not to starve my sister-in-law."

The girl lowered her head, with a trace of sadness in her eyes, then obediently picked up the plate and went out.I didn't know what I tripped when I put it on. A little soup spilled on the table and splashed on her sister-in-law's sleeve.Her grandma yelled, "You're a prodigal bastard! What kind of crime did I do to get you two? Yunniang, take good care of these two little girls. My son is going to be an official, and I will take care of you like this in the future." You don't have to humiliate your family when you go out!"

Zhang Yun rushed out of the kitchen and pinched her daughter twice, "I told you to be disobedient, told you not to do things well, and apologize to grandma and aunt!"

The little girl choked and cried, "Grandma, aunt, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."

Zhang Yun dragged her back to the kitchen, sighed, and went back to work.The little girl's younger sister hid a few peanuts in her hand, stuffed some into her mouth secretly, and then held it silently, not daring to make any chewing noises for their mother to hear.

Zhang Yun didn't have time to talk to them, he just wanted to take good care of the elderly and frail mother-in-law and the weak and slender sister-in-law while her husband-in-law was away, so that her husband would definitely praise her well when he came back from the imperial examination. He would read a poem to her. Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Zhang Yun's face, and his heart was a little sweet.

The township examination was held in August, on the ninth day of August, on the [-]th day of August, and on the [-]th day of August.

After the last failure, Zhang Xiucai studied hard at home for another three years. This time, he is full of confidence. For some reason, he always has a premonition in his heart that he will pass this time.

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Zhang Shu didn't think about this trouble at all, he had already forgotten about those bad relatives, and he had nothing to do with what these people did.

This year's autumn harvest had more Yu Xiaoliu, and Li Yan and Zhou Nan also took time to help. In less than three days, all the rice in his field was harvested.

The rice was spread out on the grain drying field, attracting the attention of many chickens and birds. His family harvested it quickly, and others hadn't brought it over for drying.

But this year there is no need for people to sit and watch. Zhang Shu put the family’s puppies on the grain drying field, and chased after any chickens that came to steal and eat them. Chickens or birds dare to move his rice.

When the rice is harvested, dried and granulated, the villagers can finally have a rest.But at this time, the tax collectors also came.

This year is another year of good weather, and the imperial court stipulates that the grain and cloth in the tax can still be offset by money.

Most of the people in the village paid money to offset taxes. In addition to the normal taxes, there was also a poll tax, which was [-] Wen per person.

In a family with a large population, the head tax would cost them hundreds of renminbi, but for a family like Zhang Shu's, the addition of taxes is not much.

Yu Xiaoliu's family was divided into different households, so his poll tax was still levied on his own family. He returned home with [-] Wen and handed it over to his father.

The daily salary of long-term workers is a little less than that of short-term workers, but because this job is done every day, after a month, they can get 20 yuan.If it is a part-time job, maybe ten to twenty days can get it, but if you do it once, you will lose it. It is not as real as every month.

His wages from the previous few months have been paid back to Zhang Shu for medical treatment. Anyway, he is useful here, and he doesn’t need that much money.

After selling the peach gum a few times, he ran out of money to see a doctor, so he started saving money.

Now his brothers and sisters-in-law are all smiling when they see him, and treat his father better, because they know that Yu Xiaoliu came home because of his father.

After the taxes were paid, the tenants of Zhang's family brought them grain. Loads of golden rice piled up the whole warehouse.

Fearing that there would be mice in the granary, Zhang Shu went to catch a cat and brought it back. Unexpectedly, on the first day after it was caught, the cat was forced to the roof by the family's five dogs, and would not come down no matter what.

The five puppies in the family still have a sense of xenophobia, and they will chase after the cat as soon as it comes.The cat was so frightened that it trembled, not to mention catching mice, it didn't dare to get off the beam.

Zhang Shu had no choice but to ask Laiwang's house if he wanted it, but he didn't know that as soon as the kitten settled down in Laiwang's house, the puppies chased to the next door. Dabao and the puppies had a good relationship, so he helped them chase the cat together.

Zhang Shu has no choice but to throw it away, right?How can such a small one survive?

In the end, it was Zhou Nan who came to take him away. No matter what, the little tiger was a mature big dog. After Zhou Nan talked to it carefully, it really didn't chase the cat.

At the beginning, the kitten was afraid of the dog, and its hair all blew up, but later, it tried to walk around the little tiger, but the little tiger chased and bit it, so it settled down in Li's house with peace of mind.

Will Li Yan go to the water to catch some small fish and come back to dry? He likes to watch Zhou Nan feed the cats one by one.

As the days passed, it was the end of August, the day when the township examinations were announced.

Early in the morning, I heard the sound of gongs in the village, and everyone went to watch the excitement, and finally found out that it was the village head's Cheng boy who won the election.

This is an amazing thing!

The son of the village chief, Yang Yicheng is only 20 years old this year, and he can win the exam?

He had been studying at home all the time. He passed the children's examination when he was 12 years old, and passed the examination as a scholar when he was 17 years old.

Unexpectedly, in just over a year, he has achieved such a great achievement. For a time, the limelight of the village chief's family was unique in the whole village.

In fact, not to mention the village, even the entire county attaches great importance to this matter. During his term of office, there were three candidates in the area under his jurisdiction. What a political achievement!

There were three people who passed the exam this time. Besides Yang Yicheng, there was another student named Yan Fusheng who was also a student of Mo Family Academy, and the last one was Zhang Shu's uncle Zhang Wenjie.

The reputation of Mo's Academy has grown so much that not only people from this county, but even people from other counties want to study here.

The wealthy households in the county took action immediately, sending a large number of gifts and gift money of two taels of silver to the families of these people who had just become lords.

The village chief laughed so hard that he thanked him repeatedly, but at the same time declined the items, for fear that he would cause trouble for his son by taking the wrong items.

The Yan Fusheng family was also like this, politely inviting people in, and then politely leaving things out, saying that they would not be too late to deliver them when there was a banquet at home.

After all, people who can study in the county have at least a decent family life. Who would be greedy for these things?

However, some people really want these things.Zhang Xiucai's mother, Lao Fengjun, sat in the main room like Feng Jun, and thanked those who came to give gifts very reservedly, and when they left, she ordered Zhang Yun to carry this to her room.