On the way back to the village, the three of them turned to "Shushi Slope" to pick up sheep dung. Jia Sanyang told Wang Ge in a depressed tone: "My grandmother took the straw hat that Sister Ge gave me yesterday."

"Stop pouting, I'll make up another one for you."

"real?"

Wang Ge nodded.

Jia Sanyang immediately took out the sickle from the basket on his back: "You use this to cut grass, Sister Ge, don't you have a sickle at home? Look at your hand... doesn't it hurt?"

As handsome as Wang Ge's face is, his hands are rough, covered with deep old wounds, and there are calluses on the tiger's mouth and knuckles. "There is a sickle, and my family can't even farm the land. When I make money, I can make more

Buy a sickle."

"Making money? Sister, you have never been out of the village. Do you know how hard it is to make money?"

"Have you been to the countryside?"

Jia Sanyang said proudly: "I've even been to the county!"

"So those who do business in the county, do they exchange things for things, or do they use money to buy things?"

"They are all there. I see those salesmen collect money, grain, and cloth."

"Sanyang, do you know that there is an exam for craftsmen in the county? You can take the craftsman level test!"

"Well... my eldest brother seems to have mentioned this. Oh, your hands are bleeding!"

"It's okay."

Wang Yun's eyes were red. He blew her hands and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt. After the cocoon is born, the cut will no longer hurt." She smiled and cut off a piece of her skirt and wrapped it around her palm. She continued to knit Jia Sanyang's straw hat. She asked again: "Do you want me to knit two

One, give one to your father too?"

"Okay, okay!"

Wang Yun lowered her eyelids on the side. The blood had already penetrated the cloth. How could it not hurt? But my sister knew that it was useless to tell others that it hurt. She stole the wool because she wanted to make cotton shoes for her eldest parents, so she had no choice but to tell others that it hurt.

Don’t please Jia Sanyang.

After dinner, the Wang Ge sisters took advantage of the fact that there was no one in the courtyard and came to their eldest parents' house with two wooden slips in their arms.

"Father, we got a baby today!"

Wang Weng found that his grandson's eyes were brighter than ever before, so he happily brought him over and asked, "What good thing did the tiger head get?"

Wang Ge didn't want to play riddles with his elders, so he untied the wooden tablets and placed four wooden tablets on the table. His parents were stunned!

"This is...a slip? Where did it come from?" Wang Weng rubbed his hands on his clothes before touching the wooden slip. Jia Guo didn't even dare to touch it. It can be seen that such important things as slips are very important to ordinary people.

I also know how precious it is!

Wang Yun immediately sat down and Wang Ge told him in detail about his two encounters with noble people on Shoushi Slope and river beach.

"Our tiger head is blessed with good fortune!" Jia Guo clasped her hands together and prayed to heaven.

Wang Weng and Yourong said: "Then his sister and brother must be sensible to be able to look at the nobles!" Then he said regretfully, "The nobles just don't know how to live. Look at these wood chips, there are still many empty spaces.

, Hu Tou will not be willing to waste it like this in the future!"

"Yes!" Wang Yun also thought so.

In fact, regardless of Wang Ge's character, I still think what the elder father said makes sense.

"My eldest father," she asked, "that noble man said about the craftsman examination, do you think I can try it?"

"Why not? It just so happens that we have some grain reserves that need to be sold. Don't wait for the village officials. Let's go to the countryside to inquire ourselves. If we can't find anything, we will go to the county!"

Wang Ge's eyes turned red and he said, "My eldest father treats me so well!"

The sister and brother left hand in hand. The slip was a family heirloom and must be given to the eldest parents for safekeeping.

Only then did Jia Gui calm down her excitement and curiously touched the polished wood chips.

"Don't touch the words!" Wang Weng reminded.

"I know!" Jia Concubine avoided the ink stains with her fingers and brought it to her nose to smell it: "It smells a bit stinky."

"Don't be careless! That's called Mo Xiang!" He tied the two wooden slips together again, but he didn't know where to put them. "It will cost a lot in the future, so I have to write a record for Hu Tou." He said it with a worried tone.

, but the corners of his mouth were smiling up to his ears.

"Give it to me!" Jia Gui glanced at her husband. She knew where to put it. She opened the bedside suitcase and found a bamboo box in the lower right corner. There were several treasures in it. She put the wooden slip and the bamboo box side by side and closed them.

clothes.

The courtyard door rang. It was Wang Ge who had gone to fetch water.

Jia Nu sat back and said worriedly: "Age is capable, but we will see each other in two or three years. What will Dalang do then? The tiger's head is too small, ugh."

"If you go out and ask around, it's best to remarry Da Lang, otherwise A Ge will have to marry in the village."

With my granddaughter's character, it is really unfair to marry in this village! Jiashe Village is too remote. Any girl with outstanding character wants to marry in the county, even in the township.

If a girl marries into Jiashe Village, she must be from a poorer place. For example, the three-bedroom bride Yao married from Shatun, the poorest village.

Jia Concubine asked: "Husband, what do you think...how is Zhang Cai's young man?"

"no."

"If you really want to marry in this village, wouldn't it be a good idea to open a household? His family has many sons and two strong cows. No one can compare with his family in clearing wasteland and farming!"

"His family doesn't have enough room! Several sons squeeze into one house!" Wang Weng lowered his voice and explained: "It's just because his family has many sons that it can't be done. Only when the mother's family is strong can a girl have the confidence to marry! My uncle's family is strong.

, when Age gets angry, how can we deal with her? I can’t even beat her!"

"Tsk!" Jia Gui glared at her husband, "How can you be like you? You haven't done anything yet, and you just want to beat me!"

Early the next morning, Wang Weng and several other families in the village took an ox cart to go to the township. Those who did not transport goods were given two liters of rice to the family of the cattle; those who transported grain like Wang Weng had to give five liters to a bucket.

This is called "foot money", and it's a round trip, and you won't get a ride or return it when you come back. This is why Wang Ge didn't ask to go to the township with him.

Wang Weng was very excited when he left, but when he came back he sighed: "I wish I had known the time earlier."

It turned out that when he went to the countryside to inquire about it, he found out that there really was such a thing as a craftsman grade examination. The tax and service exemptions were equivalent to the salary given to craftsmen by the court. Among the grades, the lowest was "craftsman boy", and the seventh day of the fifth lunar month was the exam time!

The exam is only taken once a year.

Jia Nu said happily: "Isn't this great? There are still two months to prepare."

"Well, the number of applicants for the craft that Age wants to apply for will be calculated in three days. There is no need to pay, but only the craft. After passing the craft skills, you will first become a 'craftsman'. In May, you will be eligible to go to the county to take the 'craft boy' exam."

'."

Wang Ge definitely didn’t give up and asked: “Dad, how do you teach me craftsmanship?”

"I'm old, and this is the first time I've heard of such a novel test method, called: Jihuagu."

Not long after, Wang Ge returned to the house and pulled out the basket under the wooden bed. It was full of stones that she had picked up before. When she was in a bad mood, she would pick stones to relieve her boredom.

The "deer stone" she gave to Zhang Jiying was not picked up on the river beach, but was always carried with her. There were wealthy children visiting Jiashe Village from time to time. What if they could get what they wanted? She successively exchanged the strange stones for lacquer.

The quality ear cup, the tail fan, the stone dustpan and inkstone, these are all valuables that common people rarely see, including the wooden tablets exchanged for them two days ago! Of course, they were all given to the eldest parents for safekeeping.

In her past life and this life, she knew that opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.

While sifting through the stones, she recalled the news her eldest father had brought back.

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Uncle's family: Refers to the parents-in-law's family. In the Jin Dynasty, kinship titles mostly followed the Han system. A woman would call her husband's father uncle;

uncle.
Chapter completed!