When the original owner was a child, he cooked food, but Yanjing has his memory, so he can... cook things.
But don't think about things like color, smell, etc.
What he is best at is cooking rice, and while cooking rice, steaming various vegetables.
Donggu County is a land of fish and rice. The land is fertile. Basically, every household grows rice twice a year. Rice is the staple food of everyone. However, it is difficult for ordinary farmers to eat dry rice cooked only with rice. Put in other things to cook together. 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 you have only green vegetables, you can eat vegetable rice.
Every household generally only has one pot... Either they just eat and don't eat vegetables, or else, they are often steamed on a steaming rack.
That night, Yan Jing steamed the lean meat he had marinated with salt the day before, and steamed some wild vegetables pulled from the front and back of the house.
The wild vegetables were steamed and turned rotten yellow. Wei Lingxiu didn't move his chopsticks, he just ate two bowls of rice with bacon.
Yan Jing is so smart... When he is in a good mood, his appetite is also good.
Yanjing watched him eat like this, and was a little worried, for fear that he would not be able to support Wei Lingxiu.
Pork is not cheap! Fortunately, Wei Lingxiu likes to eat lean meat, and lean meat only costs fifteen or sixteen cents per pound.
"Ling Xiu, let's go to the county town tomorrow and sell the book?" Yan Jing suggested that he was motivated to do it if he was sure that it would really make money.
Wei Lingxiu was taken aback.
When something like that happened, he was a little afraid to go to the county seat, for fear that others would say him, but if he didn't go, should Yanjing go instead
Yan Jing has just read, but he doesn't understand a lot of 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 Jingze
In fact, it is impossible for him not to go to the county seat all his life.
"Okay, let's go to the county town tomorrow." Wei Lingxiu said.
It was getting dark after dinner, Yan Jing urged Wei Lingxiu to go to sleep, and he kept yawning.
"Go to bed earlier." Wei Ling said, then asked, "Your bed..."
Today, he went to the room where Yan Jing used to sleep. There was also a door panel, but it was so broken that it didn't look like it could sleep.
But does he want Yan Jingze to sleep with him
Not to mention that the door is so narrow that the two of them can't lie down at all, and Yanjing probably doesn't want to sleep with him either... Yanjing also said before that he wanted to marry a daughter-in-law.
"I'll clean up right away." Yan Jing went to clean up immediately.
The door panel over there is even more broken, but if you put something on it, you can still sleep!
Wei Lingxiu also gave him a quilt!
Yan Jing first laid a few pieces of wood on the broken door, then put his old clothes and quilts on top, and then put the bed curtains pulled from Wei Lingxiu, this bed is comfortable enough!
Yan Jing didn't sleep last night, and he 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 old rice for himself, ate half of it, put the remaining half in a jar and put it in his house, then cooked another pot of white rice, waiting for Wei Lingxiu to eat it later.
At noon and night yesterday, because Wei Lingxiu was there, he only cooked white rice and ate it with Wei Lingxiu.
But he actually cooked less at that time, and then ate as much as Wei Lingxiu, so he was full.
The original owner's appetite is too great!
Today, he simply cooked some old rice in advance to be full, and the rest can be eaten when he is hungry.
Although copying books can make money, he is not the original owner, and he has no idea of "eat all and be healthy". He has already begun to think about what will happen decades later!
He and Wei Lingxiu are both men, and they will not have children in the future, so they must 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, that's not enough.
Wei Lingxiu loves meat, but he eats too much...
Yan Jing did not dare to spend money indiscriminately.
With that in mind, he sat down at Wei Lingxiu's desk and continued to copy books.
He had already copied the "Three Character Classic" once yesterday, and now it is faster to copy, plus the book is very thin...
Before going out, he actually copied another copy.
Wei Lingxiu, who woke up late, didn't know what to say.
Seeing Yan Jingze, such a big man holding a pen and quickly writing in small letters, he always felt a little discordant.
"Brother Yan, you write so fast!" Wei Lingxiu couldn't help but sigh.
"Once you know what force to use to write, it's easy to write." Yan Jing said, he never took a pen at the beginning, and he didn't know what force to use, so he could write ugly. After getting used to it, he felt that writing was too much. Simple.
With his physical strength, he will not be tired from writing all day!
Wei Lingxiu: "..." If others heard Yanjing say that, they would definitely want to hit him!
No, don't talk about others, he wants to fight Yan Jingze.
Yanjing took Wei Lingxiu and walked to the county seat, recognizing the way by the way.
Wei Lingxiu's physical strength is not very good, but he won't get tired just by walking without holding things. After walking with Yan Jing for half an hour, they came to the county seat.
Donggu County has no city walls, but is surrounded by a river with several high stone bridges.
Yan Jing took Wei Lingxiu across the bridge, and many people came over.
Wei Lingxiu remembered that he and Yan Jingze were caught and raped by a large group of people back then, and his family had no intention of covering up for him at all, but they obviously wanted to make a big fuss...
They can't see him well, and now they are afraid that the whole county will know about him and Yan Jingze.
I don't know what other people will think of him.
Wei Lingxiu was a little worried. He was afraid to look up when he saw other people's disgusting eyes.
There were no people around him and Yan Jingze, probably others were frightened by Yan Jingze's unusual size, but why... They looked at him occasionally and looked very sympathetic
Wei Lingxiu was a little confused.
However, the most important thing right now is the business of selling books.
Wei Lingxiu brought Yan Jingze into the bookstore.
When ordinary people outside looked at Yan Jingze, they were a little scared, but when a few scholars in the bookstore saw Yan Jingze, they looked at him with disgust, and some people said, "It's really insulting!"
However, as soon as the person exited, he was pulled away by the people around him.
Most of the people who want to come to the bookstore to buy books are just starting to read, and most of them haven't even been admitted to Tongsheng.
Although scholars have 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 Jing said: "..." He felt that his stature 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 packed up his mood 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 their fields and land to buy books, but there are few books... What books do you want to sell?"
Wei Lingxiu was a little embarrassed: "I don't want to sell a collection of books, I just copied some books and want to sell them."
Having said that, Wei Lingxiu took out the Buddhist scriptures he copied at Wei's house and the three newly copied "Three Character Classics".
These are not actually books, they are not bound.
"You copied it?" the shopkeeper asked.
"Well." Wei Lingxiu said.
"Master Wei's calligraphy is good, why didn't you take the exam?" The shopkeeper was a little surprised. He basically knew all the literati in Donggu County, and many of the characters of the scholars were not perfected by Wei Ling.
But he has always heard that this young master of the Wei family is naughty and doesn't like reading...
In fact, like Tong Sheng, as long as you have memorized the books to be tested, someone will explain it, and if you have a good word, you can basically pass the test. It doesn’t matter if you write essays or poems.
Wei Ling Xiu was in the Wei family, so he could pass the exam no matter what.
Wei Lingxiu didn't answer.
In fact, children, who likes to read in the first place? It's just that his two younger brothers' family forced him to read, and when he arrived... they all said that he didn't like to read, and he believed it himself.
Wei Lingxiu didn't want to say more: "The shopkeeper, these books..."
"I'll take a look first." The shopkeeper looked at each page carefully.
He read it for a while before he finished reading all the papers: "The words are all right, I sell the Three Character Classic here for 300 wen, and a copy will give you 250 wen. As for these Buddhist scriptures, 400 wen each. Book."
Those few Buddhist scriptures are thicker than the Three Character Classic.
Although such books are not sold very much, there are always some rich wives or old ladies who come to buy them. After buying them, they will either recite them on their own, or use them as offerings in front of the Buddha, or even burn them. All have.
Wei Lingxiu had copied six Buddhist scriptures before, and he directly sold two copies and four hundred texts, plus the money from the "Three Character Classics", they added up to more than three copies, which was about three taels of silver.
Although the Wei family gave Yan Jingze a few hundred taels of silver in order to frame Wei Lingxiu, for ordinary people, three taels of silver was a lot.
Yan Jing was suddenly a little excited.
But when he asked about the price of pen, ink and paper...
Books are expensive here, and a large part of the reason is that paper is expensive!
The paper needed to copy a Three Character Classic... Even if one character is good, it will take seventy or eighty characters!
No wonder only rich people study!
However, after reading and recognizing characters, you can earn a lot of money. You can earn about 150 texts from copying one copy of the Three Character Classic, ten books are half a book, a hundred books are fifteen books, and a thousand books are one hundred and fifty…
He copied ten and twenty of his books a day!
Yan Jing has already set a high ambition.
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 only copied three books after he left the Wei house for one day. This...
"I'm not tired." Wei Lingxiu said, two of which were copied by Yan Jingze.
The bookstore owner didn't believe it anyway.
Yan Jing and Wei Lingxiu made some money, bought some things, and then went home.
They ate in the town at noon, while Yan Jing ate as much as Wei Lingxiu, and was not full at all. When he got home, he went into the house 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'll copy it with you."
"Copy a thousand copies first, so we can build a house before winter!"
"..." Wei Lingxiu was speechless: "Brother Yan, the bookstore may not be able to sell a thousand copies of the Three Character Classic in a year..."
Yan Jing stopped writing and looked at Wei Lingxiu: "I think I can learn another book... I'll copy it 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, so he only wants to copy books