The vacation time of Jiangfuzi School is strictly based on the system of once a year.
Generally, the school starts one month before the Spring Festival and lasts for three months until the spring when the weather gets warmer.
This has been the case every year for more than 20 years since the school was founded.
Because the weather here in Yuzhou is very cold in winter.
The cold winter month of March is divided into Mengdong, Zhongdong and Jidong.
The beginning of winter is not the coldest, and the snowflakes have not yet fallen.
Towards mid-winter, heavy snow will arrive, falling for more than a month.
The heavy snow will not stop until the end of winter, which is when the Spring Festival approaches.
On snowy days, the temperature is usually so low that your breath turns to frost, and if you don't have good cold protection measures, you can be frozen to death.
Every winter in Yuzhou, many homeless beggars die on the roadside, and some poor people even die from the cold.
As the saying goes, while the rich have wine and meat, there are people freezing to death on the streets.
The officials enjoy the best of life and wear fine clothes, while the common people, in contrast, are extremely miserable.
Although the original family that Chu Qi traveled to had encountered misfortune more than 20 years ago and fell into poverty, becoming farmers overnight, they were not actually very poor when they first fell into trouble.
After all, he lost his official position, but his property was not confiscated, so he still had the assets.
When the Ye family moved, they also took a lot of gold and silver jewelry with them.
The reason why they ended up in this predicament was mainly because during the escape, Huang Ying's mother caught a cold, and Grandpa Ye's legs also needed money for treatment. For the sake of these two elders, the whole family did their best to treat them.
Later, Huang Ying's mother could not resist the attack of illness and passed away. She was buried next to the ancestral home, which can be regarded as returning to her roots.
In addition to spending money to save his elders' lives, Ye Ping also spent a lot on exams.
The reason why the Ye family had so much confidence in Ye Ping was that Ye Ping passed the examination for a tongsheng at the age of ten, and then passed the examination for a xiucai at the age of eleven, making him a genius.
The Ye family believed that it was only a matter of time before Ye Ping passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi.
Therefore, in order to take the exam, the Ye family had to spend money to hire a guarantor and ask the county magistrate to stamp the certificate every time an exam was held, which was also a considerable expense.
......Later, Ye Ping went insane, and all his previous efforts went to waste.
After spending most of their money, the only valuable items left in the Ye family were their fancy clothes.
However, as an ordinary citizen, how could he be qualified to wear fancy clothes?
Most of the items that could be pawned were pawned for silver, and those that could not be pawned were kept and made into inner linings, while the coarse linen clothes were still worn on the outside.
After so many years, the money that was saved back then has long been spent, and the Ye family has no extra money left.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of quilts that we brought when we moved.
Although it is a bit worn out, it is still warm enough and you won’t be too cold to sleep at night.
But they have fewer warm clothes. For example, Mr. Ye only has two or three pieces. But since his legs are broken, he doesn’t need to go out.
The original owner, Ye Qingyun, had the most warm clothes, more than twenty sets, with very few patches, and some even had no patches at all.
In his words, clothes must be better so that you will not be looked down upon when studying in school.
......In fact, if he had worked harder and passed the examination to become a student earlier, he would not be looked down upon by others.
Why do we need such material things to adorn ourselves?
Unfortunately, he had only shown a talent for studying, but failed in exams repeatedly. This year, at the age of fourteen, he had taken the examination for the title of Tongsheng twice, but failed both times.
The eldest brother Ye Youze had fewer clothes. In seasons that were not too cold, he usually wore a short linen shirt with countless patches.
Huang Ying is similar to her mother-in-law, most of her clothes are patched.
The two younger sisters who worked for the landlord were wearing the same servant clothes.
Speaking of which, my two younger sisters won’t come home until the Chinese New Year.
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Three days before the holiday, Jiangfuzi School held a unified examination.
This is a reading summary to see how the students have learned.
On the second to last day before the holiday, Mr. Jiang specifically picked out a few questions that students made the most mistakes on and explained the knowledge to the students.
On the first day before the holiday, classes are held as usual in school.
The night before the holiday, Chu Qi packed her clothes and books, and placed those that she couldn't take home neatly on her bed.
The things that were brought back, such as books and towels, were packed in a rattan bag, while the pens, ink, paper and inkstone were packed in an examination box.
It’s not a lot of stuff, but it’s not light either.
Fortunately, Chu Qi had the powerful pill given by the system, which doubled his original strength, making it easier for him to carry these things.
On holidays, the school gates will be completely closed at night, and students will not be allowed to enter or leave freely.
Students just sleep in the dormitory during the day and no one will say anything.
To sum up the prices in the Gan Dynasty, a steamed bun costs one copper coin, and the prices of low-quality food are relatively cheap.
The cloth we wear is also divided into different grades. Generally, linen is the cheapest, costing only fifteen copper coins. A poor family can afford to buy one or two times a month if they grit their teeth.
Above that is coarse cloth, which is more expensive, costing twenty-three copper coins a piece.
Going up again, we get to the more luxurious cotton fabrics.
A piece of this cloth costs thirty-three copper coins.
Poor families would grit their teeth and not spend money, after all, the price of one piece of cotton cloth was enough to buy two pieces of linen clothes, and there would even be some left over.
Besides, we have to work every day, so it’s enough if the clothes are wearable, there’s no need to pursue quality.
It's winter now, and it's time to add some new clothes to the house.
There was a pocket for money sewn on the lining of Chu Qi's clothes, and she put a hundred copper coins into it.
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