The first step in the book is to start selling tofu

No matter how much they hesitated, the three of them finally arrived in front of Lin Zhi.

"Everyone, find a stone and throw it at him. Be careful not to break his bones."

There were quite a few stones at home, but they were too big to hit people with, so the three of them went to the yard to find a handy one.

Daya and Dalang hesitated for a while before hitting it, but Erlang was different.

The moment he got the stone, he excitedly smashed it hard.

If he wasn't small, Lin Zhi would suspect that there wasn't a single healthy bone in Gousheng's body.

Gousheng, lying on the ground, was awakened by the pain many times and fainted from the pain many times.

"Tsk, tsk, how pitiful."

Lin Zhi said she felt sorry for them but did nothing. She waited until the three kids were exhausted from beating them until they stopped.

"Pause, take a break first."

After resting for a while, Lin Zhi and the other two dragged the man out.

I don’t know what time it is now, but people in ancient times usually woke up early, and Lin Zhi is afraid that something unexpected will happen if he delays any longer.

Anyway, I'm already angry, so it's better to deal with it early.

"Mom, why did you drag him here?" Dalang said anxiously.

This is the public toilet in the village, specially for those who do not have a toilet at home.

All you need is a little bit of land and there will be a steady supply of fertilizer, and both builders and users will be happy.

Lin Zhi: "Take off the ropes on him and throw him into the toilet."

Lin Zhi: "Remember not to put his head in water, it can kill him."

Lin Zhi: "Even if he deserves death, he can't die in our hands. We won't get our hands dirty."

Lin Zhi: "Don't make it too straight. Make it look like he fell into the pit accidentally while using the toilet."

……

Lin Zhi stood far away, pinching his nose and giving orders.

The three little ones pinched their noses, endured the nausea and made the dog-like posture in the toilet.

"Okay, okay, that's enough, let's go home!"

The accident scene that the three of them had fiddled with for a long time to create was obviously not an accident at first glance.

but,

So what?

Except for their family of four and that Gousheng, everyone would think it was an accident.

The four of them would not tell anyone about this. Even if Gousheng told the story, no one would listen to him. They would only add insult to injury at this time.

This is the negative impact brought about by people who do evil.

“Does it still stink?”

“It doesn’t stink anymore.”

"Really?"

"real."

“No, I still feel it stinks.”

……

The four of them returned home and washed themselves inside and out several times until the water in the tank was used up.

"It doesn't stink anymore, it doesn't stink anymore, if you brush it again your skin will peel off."

Lin Zhi stopped the two brothers from going to fetch water to wash.

The two brothers raised their hands and smelled themselves. There was clearly no smell, but they felt that they smelled.

"It really doesn't stink. We didn't encounter those yellow and white things at that time, so how could it stink?"

Daya also joined in.

She wondered if the two brothers had some sort of illness; they hadn't come into contact with anything dirty; at most they had stayed in the toilet for too long and were bothered by the stench.

After coming back, they just washed and brushed once. They washed and brushed for several rounds, even brushing their teeth several times.

People who don’t know would think they were eating in the toilet…

Pah! What are you thinking about?

In the end, neither brother went to fetch water.

It was not yet dawn, but none of the four felt sleepy anymore.

There was no light in the dark, so Lin Zhi couldn't spend the long night playing games with them.

"It's been almost a year since you came here. Do you still remember what you read in the books?" Lin Zhi suddenly asked.

Gousheng’s arrival tonight made Lin Zhi feel like escaping from the mountain village.

They are both rural areas, but the rural areas here are different from the modern rural areas she lives in.

The things here are not civilized, and the people here are not civilized either.

Things are not civilized and life is not convenient.

People are uncivilized and cannot explain themselves clearly when something happens. There are no strong men in the family. If something really happens, they are afraid that others will kill them with brute force.

“Yes.”

Dalang answered and Jilang nodded.

After coming here to live, they are unfamiliar with the place and the way they pass the time is to recite the knowledge in their minds over and over again.

"Just remember it, just remember it." Lin Zhi didn't even open his eyes and continued, "If you don't want to live here forever, you have to remember the knowledge."

If it were a modern society, Lin Zhi would never place her hopes on her two children. She could get out of this remote mountain area by herself.

But this is the feudal ancient times.

Even though the status of women in this dynasty has been slightly raised because the eldest princess assisted the new emperor in governing the country.

It's just a little bit higher, and for women living at the bottom of society, it has almost no impact.

"Do we still have a chance to leave here?" Dalang's tone was full of uncertainty.

Lin Zhi's topic gave him hope of leaving. Even in the darkness, he could see his shining eyes.

"Mom, do you have any other ways to make money?" Erlang also joined the conversation: "We can't leave here just relying on the money from selling tofu."

According to the day when they earned the highest income from selling tofu during this period, that little income could only allow them to solve the problem of food and clothing for the time being.

After all, they don't have enough land like the villagers to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Most of their income is used to buy food, and only a small portion can be saved.

The small number still needs to be arranged for clothing, housing and transportation. They are short of any of these. This huge gap cannot be solved by the income of one or two taels a month.

Erlang's words made Dalang feel like a deflated ball, completely drained of interest.

"Mom, as long as I can leave here and go to the prefectural city or the county town, I can help make money to supplement the family income."

Dalang had good handwriting. When he was still in the capital, he went to a bookshop to take on the job of copying books in order to make money.

After arriving in Dashan Village, the difficult situation at home made him want to return to his old job, but the conditions here did not allow it.

There were hardly two literate people in the village, and he had never seen a pen, ink, paper, or inkstone.

The situation in town was better, but there wasn't even a bookstore there, so he had no place to get work if he wanted.

Not only is the county town far away, but there is also an entrance fee.

When his father was still alive, he went with his father to see a doctor once, so he knew the situation there.

First you have to have money to go to the county town, and then you have to have money to buy pens, ink, paper and inkstone before you can get the job of copying books.

But if they lived in the village, they could buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones with the money they saved for several years, but the money they earned from copying books was not enough to cover the round-trip fare and travel expenses.

If you want to live in a county town, you must at least have money to rent a house!

"For now, this is the only job that makes money. The others are not suitable."

Hearing this, the light in Dalang's eyes went out.