"Greetings, sir," Zhao Lingling immediately stood up and bowed deeply to Master Lin.
It turned out that the scholar wanted to hire him to be the girl's teacher.
Master Lin was proud and arrogant, and would not bow down for five pecks of rice.
But his family's savings have long been used up, and now he can only eat one meal a day. If this continues, he won't even be able to eat one meal a day. If he doesn't find a way, he will starve to death.
Two days ago, he found Mr. Fang, the village's private tutor, hoping to find a teaching job because he urgently needed to earn money to fill his stomach.
Mr. Fang shook his head helplessly, indicating that he was unable to help. His school was losing many students, and his annual income was barely enough to make ends meet; he couldn't help Master Lin at all.
Master Lin was surprised when the scholar came to his door early in the morning to ask him to be his sister's tutor.
This was a godsend for him, but he only had one student. According to the current teaching rate, a teacher could earn 100 catties of wheat or rice a year for each student. But these days, rice was expensive, and most people were only willing to give teachers wheat. But this amount of food was not enough to support himself.
During this period, every household in the village harvested rice and had surplus grain, so they no longer had to go hungry.
But if we don't farm, where will we get our food? If this continues, we'll starve to death sooner or later.
Master Lin had no choice but to agree for now and try to get through this period.
Thinking of this, Master Lin finally spoke:
“Alright, no problem. I wonder if your younger sister is coming to my humble abode to study, or if I should come and teach her?”
"That depends on Master Lin's opinion. We will follow Master Lin's arrangements."
Master Lin didn't want to be in the public eye or be pointed at, so he naturally preferred to stay at home and teach.
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