Chapter 16: Xu Qi'an's Diary
"Today is the year of Gengzi, the month of Cixu, the day of A Wu what a mess, in the past, I would have been confused. Good thing I inherited the original owner's memory.
According to my speculation, it should be the Year of the Rat, the 18th day of the 10th month of the solar calendar, hmmm, I'm going to start writing in my diary, I'm not much of a decent person anyway.
Uncle Two is right, I need to change the way I live.
In this shit society, it may not be a good thing to be too high up in the hierarchy. In ancient times, there were many officials who were copied out of their homes. What kind of people can lead a nourishing life? I've done some research. It's the middle class.
Than ordinary people live in affluence, and not involved in high-level fights, it does not matter if you suffer a little bit of small losses on weekdays, this class of people is the most nourishing.
BTW: Picked up a penny of silver at the fair today."
"October 19th, the weather is cloudy, I must have money, what is more reliable than silver in this world is gold, although merchants have no position, I can only say that there is something to be gained and something to be lost. I intend to resign in a few days, not in the Yamen as a constable, two taels of silver and a stone of rice a month, when can I go to the Church Department to sleep with the flower girl?"
"October 20, the weather is cloudy, I'm not in a hurry to resign first, get the business up and then resign. Today I saw my fellow officers taking license tickets to extort merchants, my heart is not very comfortable. But I know this is the social norm, heh, if I was back in the day, I would have been hot-headed and heckled, life has rubbed off my edges. When you can not change anything, please learn to be silent.
In addition: today in the Yamen picked up a penny of silver."
"October 21st, the weather is sunny, today Sheriff Wang took me to play in the hookah, my impression of the hookah has changed, it's a place to listen to music and opera cum spirit and flesh mingling. I am still in the realm of refining essence, I can't break my body, so I am very disappointed.
After looking at half a day, there is no one more beautiful than the aunt, aunt is the kind of rich and beautiful, but also with the dignity of the good family beauty, the women in the hook bar is too frivolous, too heavy dust air.
At a glance, Ling Yue and her aunt's face value is very capable of beating ah.
Then, I picked up a penny of silver in the hookah, just in time to pay for listening to music and eating food recently is it not a piece of bad luck?"
"On October 22nd, the hookah listened to the song."
"October 23rd, Hookah listening to music."
"October 24th, Hookah listening to music. Sheriff Wang asked me why I'm so happy. Because whoring makes me happy."
"October 25th, Xu Qi'an, how can you be so depraved? You can't go on like this. Have you forgotten your goal? Set a small goal first, make a hundred million dollars."
"October 26th, listen to music at the Hook Rail."
"October 27th, hookah listening to music. I didn't pick up any silver today, I paid a penny of piao money. Yuck, pandemonium, never come again."
"October 28th, this world has gunpowder and a cannon, soap horn is also available, and it works surprisingly well. That puts the soap plan out of the window, too, and I hate alchemists. Oh yeah, glass!
I can burn glass, glass is a good thing, these ancient people must never have seen it."
"October 29, oh, glass too, I'll have to find another way. I picked up Uncle Two's personal money at home today, a penny of silver."
"October 30th, hooker listening to music."
"October 31st, I found another money-making plan today, I can improve paper, the Dafeng Literary Way is flourishing, if I can make better paper, I can make a lot of money day in and day out, eat the best food, and sleep with the most beautiful flower girl.
Let's see, the process of making paper is (whole paragraph crossed out).
Well, not to worry about a little thing like paper, I've got a better idea for making cement.
The ingredients of cement are known to me, calcium carbonate, silicon dioxide, aluminum trioxide, and iron trioxide made according to specific physical and chemical standard specifications. Well, I picked up a penny of silver at the fair today.
??? What's going on, am I picking up money too often. It's making me uneasy."
"November 2, the cement plan failed, theoretical knowledge and hands-on ability are two different things, mmp, too true."
"November 3, these days the deposit tossed out, looking for the second uncle to borrow money, the second uncle, a poor man also has no money. Xu New Year knew, first expressed his disdain, then mocked me, and finally gave me five taels of silver In addition to some venom and arrogance, this cousin of mine is actually still good. Heaven does not give birth to me Xu New Year, Dafeng Wanqiu like a long night I so return the honor. Xu New Year blushed and whisked his sleeve away.
Erlang ah, if it were not for the fact that we are worshipping, I would have made you a heroine."
"November 5, today with the government office of the constables to go to the teahouse to touch the fish, the first time I heard Mr. Hearing storytelling, I suddenly thought, if the latter days of the martial arts novels, the four great masterpieces, the net writing, I lie can also make money ah, I'm really a little wit.
Today, I saw another penny of silver. I have the money to go to the hookah tomorrow."
"November 7, I'm too damn naive, a novel hundreds of thousands, millions of words, I write it with a brush? Well, I can make charcoal pens, but, but I can't remember the content of the novel ah.
Crossing over for a decade and accomplishing nothing, ah ah ah, I'm going to crack."
"November 8, the weather is rainy, just like my mood at the moment. I obviously know a little bit of everything, but when it comes to actually converting them into silver; from nothing to something; I realize that I'm still so far behind. I truly realize the failure of examination-based education.
Chatting with my second uncle today, listening to him talk about many things in the officialdom, and what I myself saw and heard when I was a constable at the Yamen, I suddenly realized that this world is worse than I imagined; corrupt officials are running rampant; a small amount of greed is a good official, and a clean official is even rarer than a virgin in a hookah."
"November 9th, cloudy, why hasn't the Caiwei girl from the Si Tian Supervisor come to me yet, doesn't she want to get the legendary alchemy secret art? That girl's face value is no worse than Ling Yue's sister, cute and delicate goose egg face, eyes are big and nice, with my fire-pure flirting skills, I can't say I can chase her to my hand. It doesn't matter if she's a disciple of the Supervisor of Justice, the main thing is that she longs for a love in this cold society.
Come find me soon, I don't want to struggle."
"November 10th, I'm still not willing to abort the novel plan, so I told my two sisters the general plot of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the story is very sketchy, after all, I forgot a lot of details, after listening, Ling Yue's sister's eyes reddened, but Suzume didn't cry, I punched her, she cried, I think this is what she should bear at this age."
"November 11th, today I was drinking with Li Dianshi, and when he was slightly drunk, he said that the king of Zhenbei's princess was the first beauty of the dynasty. I asked him how beautiful she was, and he couldn't describe it, because Li Dianshi had also heard it from the county magistrate lord.
When I got home from work in the evening, I quietly asked Uncle Er to ask him, and Uncle Er's expression was very strange, and he did his best to describe the beauty of the princess with his barren vocabulary, and I extracted the core elements: crouch, Nai Da.
This made me a drop of interest and anticipation for the Crown Princess"
"November 12, to this day, nothing has been accomplished, I have disgraced my country, I have disgraced the traveler."
"November 13th, this is my first month in this world, my salary is paid, I intend to work hard and take my time in business."
"November 14th, Hooking up to listen to music."
(End of chapter)
