Struggle in Ancient Chapter 6

“What’s the different? I just brought so pheasant’s ho.” Liao Tingyu’s heart skipped a bit but he still calmly replied.

“It really changed a lot. You didn’t like to teach , although mother always told you to teach . You always say that I’m stupid, I can’t do anything.” Liao Shi didn’t realize it, but he replied with a little resentnt.

Liao Tingyu cald down and smiled, “Aren’t you a bit dull? Let’s talk about learning the word, my teacher thought

three tis and I already understand. But big brother, I thought you several tis you still forgot it the next day. What you write always missing one stroke, if you are in school the teacher will hit your hands.”

Liao Shi also thought he actually wasn’t smart but his little brother was truly a genius. Back then, his little brother was at the village chief’s house and listened to village chief’s son reading aloud, he was able to follow and rembered the words.

But he didn’t think much about it, after all there were many other students. At the beginning, the teacher said that his little brother was extrely smart and could obtain the scholar fa. Not only that, he could find better jobs with his father because his little brother teaching.

Thought about it, his little brother was really good, then he said triumphantly, “I made the trap today, you also watched, I learned it quickly. I’ll co and see it tomorrow; I will try to make a better one. Let’s have another good al, I haven’t eaten enough today.” Liao Shi rubbed his stomach aggrievedly.

“Sa with , actually I asked sister-in-law to cook them all but mother said only need one. Those pheasants can only be sold few pennies. It’s better for us to eat them.” Liao Tingyu nodded in agreent, “Well, big brother can catch bigger prey tomorrow. Are you still going to work in the town?”

“I still have to go; I will go ho earlier. Everything almost done, we just need to finish it tomorrow.” Liao Shi suddenly thought of sothing, “Let

tell you, there are two children in the master’s house and they are looking for a teacher. I heard of them saying their current teacher have to be replaced. If you pass the exam, you can go to those rich people’s ho to teach their children. I heard the teacher eat very well, the paynt is ten taels a month, you don’t have to do anything all day, just teach those children.”

“Is the master a rchant?” Liao Tingyu asked.

“Oh, it seems to be, but he has a lot of lands. In our village, there are 30 mu (Chinese land asurent) of land belongs to his family.” Liao Shi realized; no wonder the teacher’s salary was high. In the eyes of scholars, rchants were less prestigious than those who run around digging the ground.

It was only a few years ago that I heard the children of rchants had to pay hundreds of taels before they could take examination. So scholars and farrs looked down on them. Liao Shi thought this topic seed a bit wrong, “Haha, I just said it, you don’t have to think too much. Big brother didn’t an anything.”

“There are children of rchants who study with

in the school. Actually, they are much better than us who watch the sky to eat.”

In fact, Liao Tingyu didn’t have any special thought in his heart, he just said on a wimp. He thought, even if the rchant status was low, aren’t they live very well? The country’s economy also developed by business.

Liao Shi nodded in agreent, “Yes, even the master family has so many servants to serve the children.”

The next day, Liao Shi went to check the trap, he was lucky enough to catch a rabbit. Mother Deng smiled so wide and held the rabbit tightly in her arms, “This fat rabbit could be sold for two taels. Old man, you sell it tomorrow.”

After the rabbit, they didn’t catch it again. Even so, their life was much better. They couldn’t eat at every day, but there was at once a few days. Liao Tingyu also started his own plan.

He gave himself a nice fake na, combined the stories his heard and saw with his own imagination then wrote them into books. He sold the book in a bookstore; the contents of his book had never appeared here and it won the interest of many readers.

Because the sale was quite good, he signed a contract with the bookstore owner. In less than three months, he already saved sixty taels. Even for small business, targeting a scholar was the best; these were the people with good pocket money and willing to spend so for book.

Thought about those protagonists in transmigration novels, they usually sold recipes and do so handicrafts. He had the sa idea but who could guarantee the recipes would be accepted? Every restaurant had their own unique taste, it was all from ancient cooking thod.

He couldn’t think of anything else, as a physic student and single man who could only do simple ho-made foods. He really couldn’t try selling recipes.