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Chapter 73 Food Money

  Zhang Yue and Guo Lin are about to enter the county school.

The day before, Guo Lin arrived with large and small bags. Zhang Yue thought that Guo Xuexue and his wife would come to give him a gift or something, but they didn't at all.

 Just let Guo Lin come with so much luggage.

Zhang Shi felt a little distressed when he saw it and said: "Why do you bring so many things? I don't have enough clothes and bedding, so I came here to get them. Third brother still has some clothes. I told you to treat this as your own home. Look, it's already been winter."

Yes, bring me some winter clothes."

 Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Senior brother, why are you so polite to me?"

Guo Lin smiled and said: "Thank you so much, Mr. Dalang. Junior brother, I have actually been staying here for many days, so I am really disturbing you."

 Zhang Shi smiled and said, "You have too many rules, kid. You should learn from Saburo in this regard."

Guo Lin nodded and said: "Junior brother is of a generous nature, but I have seen little in the world."

 Zhang Shi shook his head again.

Yu Shi boiled hot soup for Guo Lin, and Guo Lin took a bath.

“There are so many pickle jars, he won’t use them as food!” Zhang Shi couldn’t help but say.

 Zhang Yue nodded and said: "There are only a hundred old students in the county school who will give rice and grain, and none of them will be given. You must also bring your own pen, ink, paper and inkstone."

 “Then what do you do with food?” Zhang Shi asked.

"Isn't there a dining hall here? I heard that the meals in the dining hall are divided into first, second, third and third classes. The first class has some vegetables and meat, but it costs 20 yuan for a meal. The second class also gives vegetables, but not

Meats and vegetables cost ten yuan a meal. As for the third class, they only have steamed eggplant and corn rice. No vegetables are provided, and the meal costs three yuan."

Hearing this, Zhang Shi was silent for a moment and said, "Your senior brother can't even eat pickles and eggplants all day long."

Zhang Yue said: "It's useless. Senior brother said that he admired Fan Xianggong the most. Fan Xianggong was also poor at that time. He cooked porridge every day and had one meal in the morning and one in the evening. His classmates gave him some good food, but he refused.

.Xiangong Fan said that if you are used to eating these, you will not be able to stomach the white porridge."

 Zhang Shi hesitated for a while and said: "I also prepared some money for you to eat first-class food, but now your senior brother is like this, how can you make it happen?"

Zhang Yue said hurriedly: "Brother, you can't be like this! These days... how much money does the family have left?"

Zhang Shi said: "I collected a lot of congratulatory money in the past few days. Since everyone knew that your second brother had returned the imperial edict and not awarded Jinshi, no one has sent any more money..."

 Zhang Yue heard this and thought, this is too snobbish for the mother-in-law.

Everyone said that the second brother was not as good as his nephew in the imperial examination, so he refused to accept the order. Didn't this make the official family lose face?

 In this way, a lifetime career will be ruined, and there will be no chance again.

  In other words, the second brother gave up the exam this time, and would have to start from scratch the next time he takes the exam, so there is little hope.

 But Zhang Yue was relieved that they finally no longer had to pay attention to whether the second brother wrote a letter. Just let it be!

Zhang Shi sighed: "Fortunately, we have been friends for many years and did not ask us to return anything. But now even if three hundred guan is placed in the restaurant, it is not enough. There is still a lot of money and space, and we have to live a tight life."

Zhang Yue couldn't help but said: "Brother, these days I know that my second brother is a Jinshi. It's okay for you to spend money lavishly, but you don't need to reciprocate this gift and that other gift. Now the family has not saved any money. Look at you?"

“Don’t you know that there is a saying, ‘There will always be a day when there is no day, but there will be no day when there is no day’?”

Seeing that Zhang Yue, as a younger brother, dared to criticize himself as an older brother, Zhang Shi also lost his temper and said: "Third brother, are you saying that I am not good at running the family as an older brother?"

 “Isn’t that clear?”

 “Third brother, good!”

 When Zhang Yue said this, Zhang Shi walked downstairs angrily.

 “Brother, remember to keep the door open.”

 Zhang Shi was halfway down the stairs. After hearing this, he went upstairs angrily and closed the door.

Not long after Zhang Yue lay in bed, he heard Zhang Shi say outside the door: "Third brother, don't worry, our family's life will be better when the food shop has income. Now I will wrong you a little, and we will provide you with first-class meals."

Don’t eat it for now, let’s change it to second class!”

 Zhang Yue said angrily: "Brother, I'm going to bed, and I won't talk to you anymore."

 “Okay. Third brother, go to bed early.”

 There was another sound of footsteps on the stairs.

 After a while, Zhang Shi came upstairs again and said, "Third brother, I will send you to the county school tomorrow."

“No need, senior brother and I can walk by ourselves.”

After a while, Zhang Shi asked again: "Third brother, are you hungry? I'll give you and my senior brother a bowl of noodles."

 “Brother, I’m asleep.”

Zhang Shi sighed downstairs for a while with his hands on his hips, and then counted on his fingers: "A second-class meal costs ten cents, two meals a day is twenty cents, and excluding New Year's Day in January, it costs five hundred and eighty cents."

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“If it were converted into a first-class meal, it would cost one hundred and sixty yuan, which is really unaffordable.”

  The next day.

 Zhang Yue and Guo Lin got up to freshen up.

Zhang Shi pulled Zhang Yue aside and stuffed a bunch of money into his package and said: "I will give you a sling of money every month. If you get hungry in the morning and evening, just buy some snacks. If you are short of anything on weekdays, you don't have to wait until the New Year.

Come to my house and ask me to buy it."

 Zhang Yue's expression became more relaxed.

The word dim sum comes from the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the stomach was called Xin Gu Zui'er, and dim sum means to comfort the heart. Generally, people in the Song Dynasty had two meals in the morning and evening, so dim sum often refers to eating something to comfort us when we are hungry at noon.

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 In a prosperous urban family like Zhang Yue's, the family had already had three meals a day. After the second brother escaped from marriage, it was only when the family's financial situation declined that they switched to two meals a day.

As for most people, especially the wealthy landlords, they still have two meals for the sake of diligence and frugality. Even the emperors of the Song Dynasty, dignitaries, and royal kitchens did not have the term "lunch", only snacks.

How should I put it? As far as studying is concerned, one month's money is enough, which is much better than when I was in Wuxi.

 Zhang Yue asked: "Sister-in-law Xi'er is enough?"

Zhang Shi smiled and said: "That's natural. It's just a little tight right now. When our restaurant opens, we will have more money. You can eat whatever you want."

 Zhang Yue nodded with satisfaction.

 Zhang Yue and Guo Lin didn't ask Zhang Shi to see him off when he went to school in the county, so they went together.

Zhang Shi worriedly sent the two of them to the bridge and warned them all the way: "Third brother, take good care of your senior brother from now on and help him carry more things."

 That’s right, Guo Lin had to carry a lot of bags and bags along the way.

When the two of them arrived at the county school, they were directed to the restaurant to pay for their meals.

 County schools are equivalent to public schools and do not require tuition fees. Therefore, food money is the largest expense for attending county schools.

It was said that it was five hundred and eighty yuan, but it was actually a hundred yuan. In fact, it would have been better to give it four hundred and forty-seven yuan. But the sling that Zhang Shi gave to Zhang Yue was actually a thousand yuan, which left a lot.

“Second-class meal, Zhang Yue,” the other party looked up at Zhang Yue and said with a smile, “Are you the number one economics student in this county school entrance examination?”

 Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Exactly, it makes the minister laugh."

 “All access! Amazing!”

 Zhang Yue was very happy, thinking that the other party knew him because of his second brother, but he did not expect that it was because he came first among the economic students in the county school entrance examination.

When we arrived at Guolin, the other party said: "Third-class meal, Guolin!"

The other party pronounced the words "third-class rice" a little too seriously, then raised his head and looked Guo Lin up and down.

 For a moment, Guo Linton felt ashamed.

 Zhang Yue said calmly: "Ministry, this is my senior brother Guo. He taught me most of what I am today."

Hearing this, Shi Shi suddenly said: "It's incredible, it's even more incredible!"

Ps: Much of the knowledge about food in the Song Dynasty in this book is taken from "Food in the Song Dynasty" by Mr. Li Kaizhou.


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