The Reborn Wife is Farming

Liu Lang opened the door with a stern face, and Mu Yangling looked at him with a smile, "Cousin Lang, Cousin Lun is so old, and he is so particular."

Liu Lang's face became even darker, and he taught her with a straight face, "You are nine years old, and Allen is eight years old, and you will be married in a few years, why are you still so reckless? Fortunately, today We are the only ones who know about it, and we are our own cousins, what if someone else insists on you being responsible for marrying you?"

Mu Yangling opened his mouth wide and stammered, "I, I'm only nine years old..."

Liu Lang frowned, "You are already an adult at the age of nine, and the black girl from Uncle Liu's family got married at the age of thirteen."

Mu Yangling closed his mouth immediately, thirteen years old...

Liu Lun had already dressed and was washing clothes. When he saw his cousin and cousin coming in, he snorted and went back to the house with his head raised. Mu Yangling saw that the corners of his eyes were still red, so he knew that this child I really mind.

Little Bowen didn't know what happened, he was staring blankly at his cousin and sister, who were both stern, and didn't dare to joke anymore.

Mu Yangling said: "Cousin Lang, Uncle said you picked up two books, so I'll come over and have a look."

"Well, wait, I'll get it for you in the house." Liu Lang left him in the yard and turned back to the house.

Yep, with just a glance, I don't even have the qualifications to enter the house.

Liu Lang gave Mu Yangling two books with tattered skins, and said, "I picked them up in the trash can of a family in the town. I saw that there were words on them, so I took them back."

There is no bookstore in Qili Township, and they have to go to the county town to buy books, and a book is not cheap, and books represent inheritance, so it is rare to throw books as garbage in this era, and this is the first time Liu Lang picked them up Such a baby.

But everyone in their family is literate, so it's useless to pick it up, so it's better to give it to my cousin.

Mu Yangling took the two books, the skins were already rotten, as if they were torn apart, she opened the inside and found out that it was the Analects, Mu Yangling's eyes lit up immediately, and said happily: "Cousin Lang , This is "The Analects of Confucius", although the first five pages are torn, but the back is complete, it is really great, my brother can read some Analects after reading the "Three Character Classics."

Liu Lang was very envious, because he didn't know what "The Analects of Confucius" was, and he said sincerely: "It's good if it's useful, you take it back and use it, and I'll look for it later to see if I can find more things with words." .”

Mu Yangling saw that he was looking at the book in her hand full of longing, and said, "Brother Lang, why don't I teach you how to read and recognize more characters, so it will be easier for you to go out and find places in the future."

Liu Lang was moved, hesitantly said: "But I can't afford a pen and ink."

Mu Yangling raised a smiling face, "Our family can't afford brushes and ink. They are all drawn on the ground with branches. We don't take the imperial examination. We just need to know some characters and write. It doesn't need to be pretty."

This is how Shu Wanniang taught her, but she never allowed Xiao Bowen to draw with branches on the ground, but asked him to write on the table with his fingers dipped in water, because he was afraid that he would get used to holding branches and become habitual when learning to hold a pen later. On the contrary, I can't learn words well.

"Then why don't you see what the other book is?" Liu Lang urged her.

"It's the Three Character Classic. Cousin Lang can keep this book for himself. Later we will use the Three Character Classic to learn how to recognize characters."

Liu Lang breathed a sigh of relief, and said in a low voice: "Don't tell my parents about this, I will go to your house every day to find you and learn from your house." Liu Lang hesitated: "Can I take Alan with you?" , You also teach my brother."

"Teaching one is teaching, and teaching two is also teaching. Don't worry, I will keep it a secret."

A big smile appeared on Liu Lang's face.

Mu Yangling was a little sad and sad.

In the previous life, out-of-school children were very worrying, but the number of out-of-school children only accounted for a small part of the huge national base, but this era is different. Here, ninety-nine out of one hundred people are illiterate, or even more. many.

Only a very small number of people have mastered the language, and the entire Qili Township is fully literate, and only those few families can read.

Mu Yangling followed Mu Shi to the county seat. She didn't do anything at that time, but went to the bookstore to look through the history books for a long time. In addition to the news she got by insinuating on weekdays, she knew that this was an era similar to the Song Dynasty.

The history before the Later Tang Dynasty was the same as the previous life, but the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms after the Later Tang Dynasty changed. Zhou Taizu Guo Wei was born in a poor family. Politics, economic development, and even a good emperor with great talent and strategy. In history, he died of illness after only six years as an emperor, leaving behind many regrets, so that Zhou was swallowed up by the Northern Song Dynasty, but here History books record that he reigned for seventeen years, not only developed the agricultural economy, but also unified the whole country in the southern and northern wars. He was Zhou Shizong, and his son Zhou Gaozong later succeeded to the throne.

So the Northern Song Dynasty, which unified the country, disappeared, but history turned a corner and returned to the original point.

Zhou Shizong paid equal attention to both civil and military affairs, and was conscientious in government affairs, but Zhou Gaozong didn't like military officials. He was afraid that military generals would seize the power of the Guo family, so he reformed politics shortly after he ascended the throne. Adjusted Zhou Shizong's policy of fighting against foreign affairs to secure the interior, and most of the domestic troops were used to prevent civil uprisings and generals' mutiny.

Zhou Gaozong said: "I am a great China, and I have never seen barbarians ruled by barbarians. In the past dynasties, every time the country was destroyed, it started from the unreasonable people and generals. Not yet."

Therefore, the 800,000 soldiers who originally stationed outside the pass were dispersed and returned to various places in the pass, but they did not expect that the Dangxiang people and the Jurchen tribe would gradually grow stronger.

The emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty had not had time to support civil servants in the future, but the military generals had already been suppressed and disbanded. There was no choice but to reuse the aristocratic family.

The nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which was so easily abolished in the Tang Dynasty, gradually rose again. Although the Great Zhou Dynasty did not say to use the nine-rank Zhongzheng system to select officials, the imperial examinations have been monopolized by the aristocratic family, and fewer people can read and write among the people.

For example, in Mingshui County, there is only one small academy in the huge Mingshui County. Those who can sit and study in it are the children who are wealthy but have no family education. There is only one bookstore in the county. Mu Yangling wants to buy pens, inks, papers and inkstones It takes nearly two hours to go to the county to buy, and there are only six shelves of books in the bookstore. Mu Yangling heard from his mother that most of the books are still in the hands of the family.

From Mu Yangling's point of view, Da Zhou is going backwards.

It is something to be proud to have a literate person in Linshan Village, and Shu Wanniang has always been kind and docile, so she will seriously teach children who want to read when they come to study.

Suddenly exposed to the outside world, some unrealistic ideas agitated in the hearts of the children.

Liu Yong, the eldest son of Uncle Liu's family, followed Shu Wanniang to read for a few days, and then made a fuss about going to the county seat to go to school to take the imperial examination.

This can be regarded as a shocking thunderbolt to the Liu family.

Uncle Liu's family barely had food and clothing, and they didn't even dare to get sick, let alone study and take the imperial examinations?

The patriarch thought that it was so easy to find such a determined person in the clan. If he was capable, it would be possible to use the power of the whole clan to support him. Although the cost of studying is high, the rewards are equally generous, so the patriarch went to Shu Wanniang to ask Liu Yong's talent for reading.