Husband and wife ancient struggle plan

Chapter 11

   Tian Tian and Lu Yang hit it off to discuss the fake marriage in private. Zhang Tianba, who had been waiting outside for a long time and was already impatient, was very satisfied with the result of Lu Yang agreeing to marry his cousin.

No matter how destitute Lu Yang looks now, but generally speaking, he is no worse than other men in the village except that he is a little poorer. Zhang Tianba is very satisfied that Lu Yang is his cousin's husband, which is better than letting his cousin get married.

Of course, he didn't know that the two of them were going to pretend to be married and act in a play. He had to know the content of the discussion between the two, let alone greet Lu Yang with a smile, he was ready to kill Lu Yang.

How can marriage be a trifling matter? Ancient times were not more open than modern times. Once married, life as a widow and widow is not easy.

Once the matter was decided, Zhang Tianba was going to take Tian Tian home first, and then take Lu Yang to Zhangjia Village to settle down in a few days.

Naturally, Tian Tian also wanted to go back with her. Ancient rules were strict, even if the two were about to get married, it would not be a good thing to be caught sleeping in the same room.

Seeing Tian Tian packing his luggage beside him, Lu Yang felt strangely uncomfortable, and finally couldn't help but let Tian Tian and Zhang Tianba eat before leaving.

Because he was a little worried that a child like Tian Tian who ran away from home would have to be taught by his elders when he returned home, and then he would be locked up in a small black room and starved for a meal... For

dinner, he made crucian carp soup, fried pork liver, wild vegetables, and Fragrant rice, this dish is very good for farmers, especially dry rice, which is reluctant to be eaten by rural people.

However, Lu Yang came from modern times, so as long as he has the conditions, he will not treat his stomach badly. In this short period of time, the daily meals of the two of them are basically like this.

Especially since Tian Tian was found to have mild night blindness, Lu Yang would exchange some pork liver and chicken liver for something rich in vitamin A every day when he sold sugar.

Staring at the dishes on the table, and seeing Lu Yang skillfully helping Tian Tian with dishes and Tian Tian's full of complexion, Zhang Tianba's impression of Lu Yang improved a lot. It can be seen that his cousin lived with this man during this period of time. good.

After dawdling to finish the meal, Tian Tian left with Zhang Tianba with his burden on his back, Lu Yang looked at the hut alone with a feeling of emptiness in his heart. How could there be one less person, as if a lot of things were missing?

If it was this time in the past, Tian Tian would definitely come to help him beat his back and legs, and chat with him happily. The young man has a very cheerful personality and talks a lot.

Although they have a generation gap between the two worlds, they don't feel strenuous or uncomfortable every time they chat with the young man. Every time he gets angry with him, the way he stares and yells is not to mention how interesting it is, hehe, he is being abused physique? Why do you still like the way the little beggar scolded him for being fierce? ...

Thinking about it, Lu Yang felt more and more that the hut was too empty, the sky was too dark, and there were too many mosquitoes. Why did life suddenly become so boring? Life without a little brother is so boring.

Lying on the bed tossing and turning for half the night, Lu Yang finally crawled into the bed where Tian Tian slept, smelling the familiar scent different from his own bed before falling asleep...

After Tian Tian left, Lu Yang didn't Going to sell sugar again, according to what Zhang Tianba said before he left, the news will come in a few days at most.

Therefore, in the past few days, Lu Yang carried all the food he exchanged in the thatched hut to the nearby villages and exchanged it for cash, which he planned to use when he got his household registration.

Since they were married in a fake way, he had to pay for the money himself. He had already inquired about it before, and at least it would cost 4 or 5 taels of silver to settle down and pay the official tax. This amount is already a lot for a rural family.

During this period of time, he made a lot of money selling sugar, with an average income of at least 300 taels per day. Excluding the distribution to Tian Tian, ​​he earned about 12 taels in the past two months. There are 14 taels of silver in total.

Here one tael = 1500 texts = one and a half, ordinary people usually save a little money and can use it for two or three months to eat and drink, 14 taels is really a lot.

In addition to exchanging the things in his hands for cash, Lu Yang took the opportunity to inquire about Tian Tian's family and Zhang Tianba's personality.

The reason for doing this is because Lu Yang was really scared in his previous life. He didn't worry about Tian Tian reporting him, but Zhang Tianba is not necessarily a cousin. If Zhang Tianba is bad, then he is not What happened again... The Tian family has

been rooted in Canghe Village for generations, and their ancestors are all rural farmers. The family is not too poor, but it is not too rich either. It is about the same as most families in the village, just a little bit below the food and clothing line.

Tian Tieshi, the old man of the Tian family, and Qian Shi, his grandma, have four children, the eldest son Tian Dalang, the second son Tian Erlang, Tian Tian's father Tian Sanlang, and his aunt Tian Guilan the fourth son.

Mr. Tian is a very ambitious person. He worked very hard when he was young. In order to change his family's poor environment, he took the risk of traveling with a caravan.

Although he almost lost his life at that time, he also made a lot of money, built a house, bought a lot of fields, and pulled the Tian family out of the ranks of poor households in the village.

Although merchants make money, but in the end merchants are low-class people and lowly slaves. In Mr. Tian's mind, farming and studying are fundamental, so he wholeheartedly supports his children and grandchildren to study, hoping to change their family status.

However, except for Tian Dalang who is a little smarter, the generation of the sons of the Tian family are not suitable for studying, and the Tian family does not have so much money for so many men to study.

Tian Dalang lived up to the expectations of Mr. Tian, ​​and he was selected as a scholar in his teens, which made Tian's family ecstatic. However, his good luck seemed to be used only at that time. After that, he failed all the exams, and he is still a scholar until now.

But even so, Mr. Tian still thinks that the eldest son is a seedling who is studying. Coupled with his love for the eldest son, under the leadership of Mr. Tian, ​​all the people in the Tian family have tightened their belts to live these years.

All they did was to squeeze money out for the eldest son to study, or to spend money to find connections for the eldest son to become a county magistrate.

In the Southern Ming Dynasty, a scholar could be an official. If he was elected as an official, he would shine in his family. If a scholar was accepted as an official, he would also be an official. Although there are differences, they are all officials, and they are all ways to help the Tian family change their family status.

Tian Tieshi is very willing to spend money on the matter of studying for future generations. As long as there is a male in the family, he has to go to a private school to study for a few days.

However, in the Tian family, only Dafang seems to be the material for studying. Dafang's son Tian Jiawen is also very good at reading. Like his father, he also passed the exam as a scholar.

So even if the Tian family has more than 20 acres of land in the village and built a brick house, life is very difficult. You must know that the idea of ​​studying is a waste of money.

In addition, Dafang also has a beautiful daughter named Tian Yue'er, she is very beautiful, she is 16 years old, she is engaged to get married, she is a classmate of Tian Jiawen, her family background is good, but the only disadvantage is, Tian Jiawen's classmate seems to be quite old... The second housemate of

Tian's family is not as powerful as the big housemate, but although the second housewife is not as smart as the boss, he farms at home all the year round and doesn't make a sound at ordinary times, but he is not stupid.

In addition, the second room has a powerful wife Miao, and the second room is not at a disadvantage at home. The husband and wife belong to the kind of people who have no great prospects and love to take advantage of small things.

The second room also has a son and a daughter. The son Tian Jiawu is 18 years old, and the daughter Tian Zhaodi is 14 years old. They are not married yet.

Although the sons and daughters are not as outstanding as Dafang, the two children are not bad, Tian Jiawu has a good farm, Tian Zhaodi is not as bright as Tian Yueer, but she is also upright.

Generally speaking, the genes of the Tian family are not bad, and all the descendants are fairly decent in appearance. Even if Tian Tian is ugly, it is only because of the scars on his face from a fall when he was a child, and he got tanned from working in the fields. His facial features are actually very ugly. Exquisite and beautiful.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the Tian family's grandma, Qian Shi. This is a typical "evil mother-in-law" who was fed up with anger when she was young, and her daughter-in-law became a mother-in-law.

The daughters-in-law in the family don't care whether their natal family is good or bad, they all have to be obedient in front of her, patriarchal, stingy, stingy, and love to poke tricks, in short, she basically takes up all the shortcomings of country women.

The scar on Tian Tian's face is inseparable from her, it was the old woman who pushed it on the ground and fell out!

The Tian family also has a daughter, Tian Guilan, who is Zhang Tianba's mother and Tian Tian's aunt. This is a hard-fated woman with bad luck. Her husband died within two years of her marriage. The man in the family is alone and has no relatives or elders. , she can only take her son back to her natal family to be a widow.

What about Zhang Tianba? After asking the villagers, Lu Yang felt that this man could only be described as a bandit, anyway, he was the kind of guy who would throw his fist when he said something wrong.

Apart from these people in the Tian family, the most worthy of Lu Yang's concern is Tian Tian's situation. Tian Tian's father, Tian Sanlang, is the most worthless person in the Tian family. A lazy man who gets something for nothing.

In the past, he was just lazy, but after he learned how to gamble, he became a complete gambler. As long as he made money, he would directly donate it to the gambling houses in the town. He even learned to steal money from the family, but was interrupted by Old Man Tian. Dogs can't change eating shit even if they lose their legs.

Therefore, because Tian Sanlang didn't live up to expectations, the life of the Sanfang people in Tian's family was the most difficult. Tian Tian's mother died early, and later Tian Sanlang married another daughter-in-law named Sun Xianghua. This woman was a bit mean and did not treat Tian Tian well. .

He is a little brother, the little brother is born to be cheap, his father doesn't care about things, the child has had a hard life since he was a child, and later he broke his face and left scars and became an ugly little brother, so he was even more disgusted , This is the biggest reason for Tian Tian's inferiority complex.

Fortunately, there is Zhang Tianba in the Tian family. Zhang Tianba mischievously fell into the river when he was a child and almost died. It was Tian Tian's mother who saved him. So since Tian Tian's mother passed away, Zhang Tianba has been very protective of him. .

Therefore, Tian Tian is very close to the only cousin in the whole family who treats him well. He grew up behind Zhang Tianba. Lu Yang guessed that maybe this is how the little beggar acquired his fierce character...

The author has something to say Said: The author of Xiucai became an official went to Baidu, because different dynasties have different rules, and there are examples of scholars becoming officials in history, so I set the Nanming Kingdom in this article as a scholar who can buy officials with money.

There are characters in the character introduction article, so it looks a bit complicated, so the author has made a brief description of the relationship between the characters of the Tian family below. If you are a little confused, you can

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it. Monk Huiyu in the "Da Dian" said: "In the Hongwu period, scholars suffered so much hardship, suffered so much fear, and worked so hard with the court. Er. At that time, the scholar-bureaucrats were not responsible for the country, and the country was responsible for the world, and there were many scholar-bureaucrats." It can be seen that there are scholars who are officials.

The proper way in the Qing Dynasty was the imperial examination. First test the scholar, and then take the examination for juren, and then take the general examination to obtain the qualification of tribute, and then take the palace examination to obtain the qualification of Jinshi. )

[Character relationship:

Elder: Grandpa (Tian Tieshi) X Grandma (Qian Shi)

Big House: Tian Dalang (Xiucai) X Feng Shi——Tian Jiawen (son) + Tian Yueer (female)

The second room: Tian Erlang (farming) X Miao family - Tian Jiawu (son) + Tian Zhaodi (female)

The third room: Tian Sanlang (gambler) X Sun Xianghua - Tian Tian + Tian Qiaoqiao (stepdaughter)

The fourth room: Tian Guilan (stepdaughter) widow)——Zhang Tianba (cousin)]