Chapter 60 Chapter 60 I Want to Venture Out
Lin Si had always been cautious about bringing in refugees. Large numbers of refugees tended to form groups. Seeing how prosperous Li County was, he feared that several groups might gather and cause trouble, with the civilians suffering. Although the troops patrolled day and night, they wouldn't be immediately aware of any groupings of refugees looting homes.
Lin Si's compassion was not overflowing at all. After all, she was not strong enough to accept refugees at will.
For the time being, she only accepted the refugees selected and brought back by Qian Sui. These refugees were very weak and docile. After arriving in Li County, they worked on the farm with gratitude.
Moreover, after these refugees are brought back, their popularity and reputation can almost reach the upper limit within a week.
That day, after washing up, Lin Si dried his hair and prepared to go to bed.
There were no hair dryers in ancient times. It was okay in the summer, as the clothes would dry after a while, but in the winter it was hell.
As soon as he closed his eyes, the feeling of high beams that could blind people came back. Lin Si opened his eyes with a very unfriendly expression, and saw that the goose yellow bracelet on his hand began to glow again.
"Congratulations to the host! You have successfully upgraded the Li County territory to a third-level territory. The upper limits of reputation and public opinion have been increased."
The cold and heartless system mechanical voice was as cold and heartless as the system itself. It disappeared after saying this.
Lin Si covered his eyes for a while before he reacted.
She hurriedly opened the system interface to check, and found that there were indeed two very small words following Li County, Level Three, so small that Lin Si initially thought they were punctuation marks.
Lin Si was speechless, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Lin Si hurriedly checked the people's hearts and reputation system. He didn't know until he looked, and he was shocked. Both values had more than tripled!
The 111 exchange rate for potatoes and sweet potatoes is just around the corner.
Of the 6,000 people in Li County, she originally had a heart rate of 30, except for spending 1 to exchange for a pen. She was reluctant to spend the rest. In addition to the Hu people, orphans, and some refugees she brought back later, her heart rate has now doubled to 100.
Lin Si was so happy that he almost fainted. This number was not exactly three times, and he had no idea what coefficient was used to calculate it.
Her original plan was to complete the 111-point heart rate value in the summer of the sixth year, but now it seems that she can complete it ahead of schedule.
Lin Si carefully inspected the three-level territory again and found that it was to allow the people to live and work in peace and contentment, and to complete and transform three of the four aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Lin Si felt a little sorry. She had completed the three necessities of food, clothing and transportation, but there was really no way to find a place to live for the time being. Otherwise, it would have to be a level four territory. It was really difficult to rub cement with hands. Moreover, the territory was small now, so there was really no need to do so. It was a waste of manpower and resources.
Lin Si didn't even look at the other things, only staring at the potato and sweet potato combination set.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes, come into my arms.
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Time flies, and when autumn comes, Lin Si has been in Li County for exactly four years.
The children in the school have been studying for almost a year.
In the summer, Lin Si set up a night school, which taught literacy and simplified numbers at night. Tingyu and Zuoyou selected some of the students in the school to give lectures to the adults in Li County at night.
As for why summer was chosen, it gets dark early in the summer. When I went to class after dinner, it was still bright and the sun hadn't set yet.
Although the teaching materials are determined by Tingyu and Zuoyou, the teachers are children, so it is very likely that strange situations will occur where children teach their parents.
As luck would have it, Stone encountered such a scene.
Since the last chat with Guo Zi, Shi Tou finally found the direction of his efforts and made great progress in his studies.
Looking at his mother and father looking at him from the audience, Shitou didn't feel embarrassed at all.
He is a teacher now. In the classroom, there are no fathers and sons, mothers and sons, only teachers and students!
Therefore, Shitou's eyes did not linger on Kang Zhuqing and Shitu's eyes at all.
He is just an emotionless teaching machine.
Night school is voluntary, not compulsory, and there is a fee, so some people are unwilling to come, and Lin Si does not force them.
Ever since Kang Zhuqing heard about the night school, she was determined to come. She had always dreamed of learning to read, and now that she finally had the opportunity, she naturally had to seize it.
Shitu was a little hesitant.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to go, but he’s worried about whether he can learn it.
"Those kids are smart, unlike us who are older. What if we can't learn?" Shi Tu looked worried.
Kang Zhuqing glared at him. "As long as you study hard, you will definitely be able to learn it. Jin Niang and Shitou both said it's not difficult."
"I saw Shitou doing his homework last time. The simplified digital symbols looked like tadpoles, crooked and twisted. How could I recognize them?"
In the end, Shi Tu was no match for Kang Zhuqing and they both signed up.
But I didn’t expect that the person teaching them was my own son.
Shitou acted like a real teacher, with his hands behind his back, talking about graduation certificates, outstanding graduates and the like.
Kang Zhuqing wanted to be that outstanding graduate, not for anything else, but to make it sound good to others, especially those next door, to piss them off to death.
Kang Zhuqing felt a little better when he thought of the family next door. The son of that family was about the same age as Shitou and was also sent to school, but his grades were terrible. Not to mention going to higher education, he probably couldn't even get into a technical school.
The couple was very anxious at home, but they couldn't bear to use violence against their son, so they could only coax him.
As a result, the more he was coaxed, the less willing he was to study, and he threatened that the worst that could happen was that he would just farm after graduation.
When Kang Zhuqing had nothing to do, she would lie in the yard and listen, laughing secretly as she listened.
After Shitou finished his introduction with his hands behind his back, he began to teach. A wooden board was placed on top of the class, and Shitou wrote with a black charcoal pencil, teaching as he wrote.
The adults below read along with the stone.
This scene is surprisingly harmonious, right?
At the end of the class, Shitou suddenly understood why Teacher Tingyu always said, "I can see everything you do down there."
It's really clear to see!
Fortunately, his mother and father studied very hard and did not embarrass him.
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Zhuo Zhengchu looked at his rumbling stomach, put the shovel aside, and began to think about tomorrow's route.
He is sixteen years old, and it has been five years since his entire family was executed.
He was the only one who survived.
He could never forget the determination in his father's eyes when he handed him the forged household registration document.
"My Zhuo family cannot be extinct! Ah Chu, after you escape, marry and have children peacefully. Remember not to think of revenge!"
But Zhuo Zhengchu was furious. His father treated him so well and his mother was such a kind person. How could his family embezzle the disaster relief money?
There must be some misunderstanding here, and my father must have been framed.
Zhuo Zhengchu relied on this belief to survive for five years.
He came to this remote county under an assumed name and has lived alone for five years.
As for why he wanted to think about life today, it all came from a dream he had last night.
In his dream, in his sixth year here, he was still determined to take revenge, so he decided to leave this remote county and say goodbye to his childhood sweetheart he met here.
With red eyes, the childhood sweetheart gently put the wheat cakes she made on him.
He shouted, "Don't bully the young and poor," and left with a bag on his back.
But he had been hungry for nearly a year. He tried to join the army, but learned that they were only recruiting government soldiers. That meant they had to be responsible for their own food and clothing, and prepare their own fighting equipment, and they had to go when the court called.
Zhuo Zhengchu was frightened by this policy and ran away immediately.
Just when he was at the lowest point in his life, a turning point appeared.
A wealthy businessman who was in the paper business in Shuozhou, Jinbei Road, took a liking to him and said that he had a good face and was well-born, and would definitely achieve something in the future.
Ask him if he is willing to be his son-in-law.
Of course Zhuo Zhengchu was willing. Not to mention that he was shouting slogans of revenge but couldn't even afford to eat, not to mention that the girl from the rich merchant's family was just a little weak, but well-educated, gentle and considerate.
Another year passed, and a cold wave hit. A plague raged, and the world was in chaos. Peasants rose up in various places, and it seemed that Dachen's kingdom was about to be lost.
The fire of revenge in Zhuo Zhengchu's heart also burned fiercely. He wanted to go out and try his luck. He wanted to take the head of the dog emperor. The dog emperor killed his entire family, so he wanted to kill the dog emperor's entire family as well as those officials who were involved in this incident. He wrote them all down carefully. Over the years, every night, he would read these names before going to sleep.
His first wife was very considerate and gave him some money to support him in going out and making a living.
When Zhuo Zhengchu went out, he unexpectedly met a disheartened soldier. After asking, he learned that the court had not paid the soldiers for a long time. The soldier's parents had died of plague and his sister was missing.
Zhuo Zhengchu asked the soldier if he was willing to follow him, and the soldier agreed.
Of course, he also met many confidantes, including the weak maid who treated his wounds, the lively and sharp-tongued Nanzhao princess, the bold and daring remarried widow, the naive and shy daughter of an official, and so on.
There were quite a few romantic encounters along the way.
In the end, he ascended the throne and the dream ended.
Zhuo Zhengchu originally thought it was just a dream, but after waking up he remembered everything clearly, as if it were engraved in his mind.
In order to verify the authenticity of this dream, Zhuo Zhengchu waited in this small county for a month. During this month, everything that happened was exactly the same as in the dream.
For example, seven days ago, his childhood sweetheart A Qing would send him some fruit.
Six days ago, the fat boy who had always disliked him would try to trip him up.
Five days ago, the old lady next door would step in dog poop when she went out.
This made Zhuo Zhengchu even more certain that this might not be a dream.
But the future.
Zhuo Zhengchu was so excited that he couldn't sleep the whole night. Now that he had these memories, wouldn't he be able to take revenge faster and become emperor faster?
Ah Qing came to bring water to Zhuo Zhengchu.
Seeing Zhuo Zhengchu lowering his head, he asked, "Brother Zhengchu, what are you thinking about?"
Zhuo Zhengchu looked at Ah Qing and said sternly, "Ah Qing, I'm going out to explore the world tomorrow. A good man has ambitions. Don't look down on a poor young man. When I've made a name for myself, I'll come back and marry you."
Ah Qing blushed, "Okay... I'll wait for you. I'll bring you some wheat cakes tomorrow."
Zhuo Zhengchu gave the shovel to Ah Qing and said, "Take this shovel. I'm leaving tomorrow and won't need it anymore."
Ah Qing took the shovel home and counted his fingers excitedly, "This is the third one who said he wanted to go out and explore the world this year. The remaining two have to wait for the imperial examinations, and one is going to earn military merit."
Ah Qing thought, she was not fickle, her heart was just broken into pieces, and she wanted to give every man a home.
Such a simple-minded and strong-limbed man is the easiest to deceive.
Zhuo Zhengchu had no idea that he was just one of Aqing's many brothers. He had already thought of a route. He would go to Shuozhou first and marry his first wife. Making a living required a large amount of money investment. If it were not for the initial capital given by the Mo family in his previous life, his success would not have been so smooth.
Since he was liked by his father-in-law at the age of eighteen, he must be able to do the same at the age of sixteen!
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