The next day, after getting up early and washing up, Zhang Ran unconsciously picked up the bamboo slips, looked carefully, and carefully pondered the contents that he didn't understand yesterday.

When Zhang Li saw Zhang Ran holding the bamboo slips early in the morning, he was very happy and personally cooked a large bowl of noodles for Zhang Ran and stewed a large jar of fish soup.

Although it feels a bit strange to eat noodles, it is my mother's intention after all. So Zhang Ran could only finish the noodles with tears in his eyes and drank most of the jar of fish soup under his "gentle" persuasion.

At around the hour of the year, Sankui knocked on the door and came to Zhang Ran’s house as usual, and asked him to go to the river to collect fish cages. However, at this moment, Zhang Ran was thinking about the content of the bamboo slips, so how could he have time to accompany Sankui to collect fish!

So he directly rejected Sankui and told Sankui that he didn't want to care about the fish collection anymore, and that he would just leave all such things to Sankui himself in the future.

Sankui was very depressed when he heard this, but he didn't say much. After all, no matter from any perspective, studying and learning knowledge is more important than hand fish.

Moreover, with the disclosure of fishing methods, almost every household in the village has learned how to weave fish cages and how to catch fish with fish cages. Therefore, in recent times, the number of fish and shrimp harvested by their fish cages has dropped rapidly. Each fish cage can only catch one or two fish every day, and they are small fish and shrimps. When you are not lucky, some fish cages cannot even catch a single fish. The scale of Zhang Ran and their own fish cages has not continued to expand, so that it would be good to harvest thirty or forty kilograms of fish a day with hundreds of fish cages combined.

This fish can be handled by Sankui alone, and there is no need for two people to work together. This is also one of the most important reasons why Zhang Ran returned the fish collection work to Sankui.

So this is definitely not something Zhang Ran is unwilling to do because he feels troublesome, absolutely not!

After not disturbing these trivial things, Zhang Ran had more time to read bamboo slips to understand the crystallization of the thoughts and wisdom of the current "ancient people", better integrate into this era, and find ways to strengthen himself.

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After reading the bamboo slips all day, Zhang Ran felt dizzy at night, and his hands were almost tired and cramped. Even when he picked up the noodles, he felt very difficult. He could only chew two steamed buns and drank a bowl of rice porridge to make do.

"I heard that after Qin Shihuang took power, he made a provision for himself that he would never rest until he approved a single stone of official documents. He would have to wait for a total of 120 kilograms of bamboo slips! How did he do it?"

Lying on the bed, rubbing his sore wrists, Zhang Ran felt sincerely admiration for the First Emperor, and just wanted to shout 666, Brother Zheng is really awesome!

Because he was not restrained yesterday, his wrist was almost dislocated, so after getting up the next day, Zhang Ran dared not touch the bamboo slips again.

I could only place the bamboo slips on the ground, then squat on the small bamboo stool, write and draw on the ground with a thin bamboo stick, write and write the traditional Chinese script written down by these days, and then compare it with the fonts on the bamboo slips.

Although Zhang Ran's progress in reading the book script was extremely slow, he was not slow at all when he was familiar with and using the official script. After nearly two days of adaptation, Zhang Ran was able to write down some simple fonts with fewer gestures and keep them in mind.

Moreover, after nearly a morning of practice, Zhang Ran rarely makes mistakes again after writing a line of words. Only when the sentences are long and there are many words, will he occasionally subconsciously use simplified Chinese characters.

In the afternoon, Zhang Ran ate a little something and was about to continue practicing writing, but suddenly heard a loud "bang".

Immediately afterwards, the gate of the courtyard was violently pushed open, and then Sankui ran to Zhang Ran with excitement, grabbed him, and pulled Zhang Ran out the door, and shouted loudly: "Brother Ran, hurry up, go away! We caught..."

"What did you catch?" Zhang Ran asked in confusion with a mist on his face.

"Catch a fish thief!" Sankui continued to pull Zhang Ran out the door, and excitedly explained Zhang Ran's confusion: "At noon, Zhang Shan and the others caught a thief who stole our fish by the river! At that time, he was caught by his personal stolen goods. Brother Ran, guess who is this fish thief?"

"Fish thief?" Zhang Ran was suddenly surprised, then shook his head and said, "Uh..., I'm not here, how can I know!"

"I can't guess it! Haha~" Seeing Zhang Ran decisively admit defeat, Sankui laughed proudly a few times, then mysteriously approached Zhang Ran's ear and whispered: "The fish thief is either someone else, or the youngest son of the Li Zheng family, Zhang Qi!"

"Zhang Qi?" After hearing this name, some information about Zhang Qi suddenly appeared in Zhang Ran's mind.

The third brother of Zhang Qi in the family is Zhang Wen, the second brother of Zhang Cun, and his father is Zhang Li, a clerk from Zhangjia Village. He is now 21 years old. He is about the same size as Sankui's brother Zhang Erniu, but unlike Zhang Erniu, Zhang Qi has not been married yet.

In this era, people who were not married at the age of twenty-one, but the rare phenomenon is enough to show that this person is definitely not a "normal person". It should be noted that the Han Dynasty had strict regulations on the age for marriage for men and women. If a woman did not marry at the age of seventeen, her parents were guilty. If a husband did not marry at the age of twenty, his parents were guilty. If the worst was fined, labor service would be fined, and if the minor was fined. Moreover, as the age of age, the punishment became more and more serious, especially for women, who were not married at the age of thirty, he would directly fine five times the count of the count tax.

Even ordinary people, even if their families are poor, they will sell their money, and even if they borrow money, they will try their best to get married. If they really have no choice, they will become son-in-law.

However, the risk of being a son-in-law is very high. Once there is labor service or war, these son-in-law will be used as cannon fodder, and the probability of casualties is the highest in the world. So soft rice is not that delicious.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, except for soldiers who are in military service, and who happen to have their close relatives who have passed away and are filial to the point of marriage, ordinary people will basically get married within the prescribed age.

Of course, the powerful are not listed here. As long as you have enough money to pay five times the annual levy, 600 yuan will be enough.

Zhang Qi was neither a soldier nor a relative passed away, and his family was not a powerful family. The reason why he failed to marry was mainly because of this man, who was treacherous and lustful, was a complete gangster, bully, and blind man. He usually did bad things, but almost no family dared to marry his daughter.
Chapter completed!