Chapter 2 People's Hearts
The old man said and left.
Song Jiu was a little dazed and asked him to choose. He would rather live in that world. Although he could not be considered a rich man, he had air conditioners in summer and quilts in winter. If he was a little poorer, he could still fan it with an electric fan.
But when you walk through, time travelers always have the advantage of time travelers.
What have you done this year?
This is wrong. In the future, culture is popular and culture is even more popular in this era. Di Qing's status is still hard-working to study hard every day, which made Luo Guanzhong use his image to Guan Yu when he wrote the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Although Yue Fei was a martial artist, he wrote very well, and his articles were also well written. When he lived in seclusion in Lushan, he had a harmonious relationship with literati and never left the disadvantage.
Song Jiu wanted to spend his whole life in this famous slum in Kaifeng City. This year he wasted his time in a mess. If he wanted to have a future, this year would not be considered a time. On the contrary, his mentality is now rather impatient.
At least after this year's precipitation and some of his previous foundations, it is difficult to write well in four- and six-style parallel prose. However, even if you can write ordinary articles, even if you write poems and characters after a year of practice, you can still get a little bit out of it, at least you won't lose his face as a disciple. This will be of great help to his future development.
He is now thinking about those time travel novels, and it is so easy to make a fortune by traveling through time...
Song Jiu did not believe in evil. He was a cultural person in his previous life and liked to run outside. Didn’t Lao Su say one thing: Reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. He is knowledgeable. Is there really nothing he can do?
When the eldest sister saw Song Jiu in a daze, she thought he was uncomfortable, so she said, "Jiu'er, go to my store, I'll make some special side dishes for you."
Song Jiu didn't take the little lady of the Liu family seriously, but someone came to regret her kiss. He also said that it was not a perfect match for the dogtail grass. He felt a little uncomfortable and said, "Okay."
Stand up and leave.
"Where are you running away with your hair disheveled? Do you want to learn a sorcerer?" The elder sister pressed Song Jiu down and combed Song Jiu's hair smoothly. The hair on her forehead was tied up on the top plate and tied up with a silver hairpin. She picked up a confucian scarf and covered his hair. She looked at the bronze mirror again. The morning breeze blew, and the two small straps on her head were floating. The elder sister said, "This is what I want to be a literati."
Song Jiu was not talking, and the three sisters wanted to be a literati by themselves, but their bodies were inherited by the cheap ones. They were big and could not tell much about the literati's appearance, but when they looked, they looked quite like a general.
When I arrived at the eldest sister's store, I first bought vegetables with my elder sister and came back with pity.
Song Dynasty had two regular meals in the morning and evening, and few people had lunch. Before the guests in the winery came, the eldest sister cooked for Song Jiu first. The eldest brother-in-law was choosing vegetables. His attitude was neither lukewarm nor hot, which was also his usual personality. However, Song Jiu was not the nerd Song Jiu of the past at this time.
He felt something that was indifferent to his elder brother-in-law's indifferent eyes. When Song Jiu's father was there, his family was in good condition and several sons-in-law benefited. Later, the rivers were getting worse and worse, and several sisters secretly supported the family. The nerd Song Jiu thought that he had posted a lot of money at home before, but now he was giving back. When Song Jiu arrived in the Song Dynasty, he felt that he was not very good and wanted to study. He didn't have time, so he came up with a solution. The Song Dynasty had not been established for a long time, but from Zhou Wei to Chai Rong and to the Zhao brothers, they all attached importance to internal governance. The capital of the Song Dynasty was not as prosperous as mentioned in history books, but some thriving scenes began to appear.
With more population, strong commercial atmosphere, and increased migrant population from outside, the Song family was large, so Song Jiu rented out his empty house and became the landlord. However, the Song family was on the south bank of the Bian River in Dongshuimen. When they arrived here, the terrain was a bit off and the house rental price was not high. The rent could only barely be enough for Song Jiu to have food and clothing, but if enough, he would be full of his family. So apart from studying, he was just a waste of time.
My eldest sister was disgusted, and Song Jiu said: "Sister, can you protect me for a while, maybe I will protect me for the rest of my life?"
The eldest sister was speechless and still stuffed some money for him from time to time.
In this case, my brother-in-law is not easy to say anything, and my brother-in-law's family is mostly managed by my elder sister, so he dare not say anything.
But after a long time, my brother-in-law will definitely feel unhappy.
"What should I do?"
Song Jiu stared at the Bian Dike outside. The willows on the Bian Dike were green, and a few little black swallows flew around. Their lively and graceful figures were like a few elves dancing.
There are a few choices. The first is to become an official. If you want to be an official, you are on the battlefield. Song Jiu was not easy to mess with in his previous life, but it is so difficult to make a fame on the battlefield. The second is the imperial examination. Don’t think about this. After participating in the imperial examination, he found that this thing was a waste of time for him.
The second is doing business.
After the Song Dynasty, the business atmosphere was developed, and being a rich businessman was also a good choice.
But is it that easy to do business?
It's just easy. If my elder sister heard that she was going to do business, she would probably chase her with a knife.
Thinking of this, he felt sad. People always have a goal, where is their goal?
Song Jiu was wandering around the sky, and his seven-year-old nephew ran in and shouted: "Uncle, my mother said that you will become a high-ranking official after passing the exam. Have you become a high-ranking official?"
The eldest sister wanted to beat him, and Song Jiu reached out to stop him, and his nephew still stared at Song Jiu with his innocent big eyes. Song Jiu beat him up and said, "Is the high official? I will definitely do it in the future. No now."
"Why?"
"My uncle is still young, not the time to be an official."
My brother-in-law groaned secretly.
When Song Jiu saw it, he thought to himself, this won’t work. If you continue, you can’t even have relatives.
Just as he was in a daze, Sister Qi ran over and shouted, "Sister, brother-in-law, it's not good, the two rivers are fighting again."
It refers to the fight between the people on both sides of the Bian River and the porters for their work.
Kaifeng was also a commercial city during the Tang Dynasty. During the Five Dynasties, it became more and more capitals. Originally there were imperial cities and inner cities, but in the Later Zhou Dynasty, an outer city had to be built and the old city was widened, which was divided into three types: fifty steps, thirty steps and twenty-five steps, improving the transportation system.
It has not yet been obtained from the south of the Yangtze River, but many materials have been transported to the capital from the two Huai Rivers, so the Bian River is very important. However, the Bian River is divided into two streams at the Xiatu Bridge. One is the mainstream of the Bian River in the north and the tributary in the south. It does not meet again until several miles outside the city.
During the Later Zhou Dynasty, the country's energy was still foreign enemies, so it could not concentrate on building the capital. The south bank of the South Bian River was a warehouse area, and the west bank was a prosperous commercial area, while the north bank of the North Bian River was a residential area, and the north bank of the North Bian River was a commercial area and the handicraft area was a commercial area and the north bank was a commercial area and the handicraft area was a very remote river. At one time, it was a wasteland of vegetable gardens. Later, the population increased, and the two waters began to fill the people, but most of these people were moved from other places. One was an immigrant and the other was an indigenous, which had some contradictions.
The capital is so big and has so many people. If you don’t weave or farm, you have to find ways to make a living. Those with abilities become officials and business, while those with incompetence have to join the army or do hard work, and even force your wives to go to prostitution and support the family.
To do cool labor, you have to rely on the mountains to live and rely on the water to make a living. The people in Hebei and Hezhong make a living by making a living. When the ship comes loading goods from all over the country, they have to be unloaded from the ship. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait come to move and unload them, and move them to warehouses, or various commercial and handicraft areas for their owners to earn the cost of this cool labor.
There were some conflicts between the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. If it was the off-season, there would be some conflicts in order to grab a job. My eldest brother-in-law had a good family background, but with the support of Song Jiu's father, he opened a wine inn by the Bian Dike, and lived a good life. My fifth sister's family was also OK, and it was also supported by Song Jiu's father, so he opened a small inn within the Zhuque Gate. When the seventh sister got married, Xu's father died soon, and the Xu family was getting worse, so my seventh brother-in-law had to be a porter to make a living.
The eldest sister loved Song Jiu and the younger sister. After hearing this, she immediately said, "I'll go over and take a look."
Song Jiu and his elder sister came to the dock. Some yamen runners had arrived and were stopping them. The fight in the field gradually subsided. Sister Qi found Brother Qi's husband in the crowd. He didn't know that the man smashed his head with a shoulder pole. Although Brother Qi's husband covered his forehead with his hands, blood still came out of his fingers. His injuries were not serious. When he saw Song Jiu, he asked with concern: "Jiuer, did you pass the exam?"
Seeing his appearance, Song Jiu was both angry and funny and said, "Brother-in-law, you should take care of your injuries."
"All these Hebei people deserve to die, Jiuer, did you pass the exam?"
"That's so easy to get it. Come here quickly, I'll cover the wound for you." The eldest sister quickly found a cloth strip and wrapped her seventh brother-in-law's forehead, which was considered to be covering the injury. In this era, medical conditions were backward and there was no expectation of disinfection.
Another team of officers and soldiers came, shouting and the conflict subsided.
Then an official came over and kept asking questions and arrested several people from the conflict leader. However, the government could not solve this situation. At most, he could only give up dozens of beats and the person was released.
Sister Qi was crying, while Sister was sighing.
The seventh brother-in-law couldn't stand the two ladies, so he picked up the shoulder pole and went to work.
Song Jiu sighed: "Life."
Life is difficult for me, and life is even harder for my seventh brother-in-law and his family. However, the siblings are also considered united, but this affection makes people feel very warm.
The eldest sister and the Qi sister were whispering. The eldest sister suddenly looked at the Qi sister's belly and said in surprise: "Is there?"
"Sister Qi, have it?" Song Jiu also asked in surprise.
Sister Qi was shy and the elder sister knocked Song Jiu on the forehead with her finger: "Go, it's not what you asked."
"Yes, yes," Song Jiu, the one in front, was afraid of the elder sister. The more you owe, the more you owe, the more you owe it, and the kindness you owe! But he was also happy. Sister Qi married into the Zhong family for several years and has not been moved yet. This time, it was a great joy. But what should I do if I think of a bad thing, my brother-in-law's family is poor and a child is a child?
"Money!" Song Jiu shouted in his heart.
It is definitely a good thing to have money. This money is not made, it is earned. How to earn it? He stared blankly at the river surface. It was March. The peach blossom water had just come up, and the water level of the Bian water was very low. The porters had to pick the goods off the ship and then slowly carry them onto the ashore along the river bank. In fact, this doesn't matter. The difficulty increases, but the wages increase, and the cargo owner doesn't matter. The cost increases, and the price can be added. But Song Jiu came up with an idea.
I dare not tell my elder sister, or even to my seventh sister, that the three sisters are united, and one person knows, and all of them knows.
First, I found a pawnshop and pawned some houses in my house and exchanged some money.
I came to the blacksmith shop again. There were some shops and workshops in the river, but very few were from neighbors. Many workshop owners knew Song Jiu. After hearing Song Jiu say that, Li Blacksmith asked strangely: "Jiulang, what are you going to do?"
"Li Dalang, just follow my instructions, the cost of your work will not be less than that of you."
Chapter completed!