The first chapter is subtle The seashore of calamus is covered with calamus, but more of it is reeds that have been planted in the past two years.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, copper picked a lot of calamus, some were used to hang on the door to ward off evil spirits, some were used to make sachets to give away, and the rest were dried and stored, and after the mosquitoes appeared, they were used to smoke mosquitoes.
When he returned to Loulan City, he found that there was no calamus on the lintel of the neighbor's house, so he was very kind to help him hang it.
The neighbor is a new family, a Hu person, but he can speak a little Song dialect, although it is not very clear, but he can barely guess what he means.
Before the Great War, there was not a single Hu people in Loulan City, all of them were Song people, but I didn't expect that this spring, many foreigners suddenly migrated to the city, including stupid people from the Western Regions, green-eyed Uighurs, and some Tubo people who like to shrink in the corner of the wall all day to bask in the sun.
I don't know what the government thinks, but instead of getting these people to live together like in Tokyo, they are specially dispersed and neighbors with the Song people.
Tongzi's neighbor is called Xia Ke, and there is a long list of strange words in front of these two words, Tong Zi can't remember, so he calls him Lao Xia directly, Xia Ke is not angry, but agrees with a smile all day long.
Xia Ke is an officer, and he made good military achievements during the Loulan War, and accumulated merit to become the city gate official of the west gate of Loulan City, and the position of Marquis Yu.
The government rewarded him with a courtyard, moved his wife and three children to Loulan, and allocated a small piece of land outside the city for him to cultivate.
The Hu people would not be able to farm, if it weren't for the fact that the field of the Lao Xia family was on the edge of the field of the Tongzi family, he would not have bothered to look at this person who farmed indiscriminately.
When hanging calamus on the lintel of Lao Xia's house, Lao Xia's wife, who always likes to cover her face, stood in the yard stupidly and watched, and when she saw Tongzi looking at her, she immediately ran back to her house.
"I don't know what it means to be so ugly and like to cover my face."
Tongzi muttered and went back to his house.
My father was lying on the recliner basking in the sun, which was specially explained by the doctor, and he had to bask in the sun for an hour every day, saying that in this way he could pull out the cold in his body.
My wife is wrapping rice dumplings with reed leaves, and there is no Wakaba here, so I have to use reed leaves, and the taste is almost the same anyway.
There are a lot of dried fruits in the Western Regions, but there are no red dates, and the red date seedlings of the Tongzi family have just grown the leaves of the first year, according to the agricultural proverb that the peach three apricots and four pears are five years, and the jujube trees will pick up money that year, and those few jujube trees will bear jujube this year.
However, this is impossible, these jujube trees are cultivated by the germination of jujube kernels, and there should be no hope in the past two years.
Zongzi without red dates is not delicious or sweet, which is an obsession of copper.
Dried apricots, preserved peaches, dried figs, and raisins are still available at home, but I don't know what it tastes like when wrapped in zongzi.
The ginger tea in my father's hand ran out of water, so the copper filled it up for my father, and after thinking about it, he grabbed a handful of raisins and threw them in, so that the ginger tea should taste better.
When Tongban heard his son's footsteps, he took off the wet cloth covering his face, took a sip of the tea bowl, looked at the raisins inside, frowned, and said, "It's rare to buy some dried fruits during the holidays, what to do in my bowl, and keep the gold and silver as snacks." ” Tongzi's wife Wang said with a smile: "Dad, you can drink it, there are more here, not worse than the point you drink, the old lady of the Zhao Sijia opposite has to knock an egg every morning to make up for his body, our family's situation is much better than that of the Zhao Sijia, you are reluctant, let the neighborhood laugh at the daughter-in-law." ” Tongpan opened his mouth and smiled: "Silly baby, enjoy happiness in the dark, and suffer in the light."
Our family is not short of your father and my mouthful of eggs to eat, but our family is different from the Zhao family, this winter, the first season of reeds will be harvested, and we will start making paper soon, and then the family's silver money will flow out like water, and that little savings are still a little thin in the end. ” Tongzi squatted beside his father and said with a smile: "The official said that our papermaking and book-printing workshops can enjoy a certain subsidy, and the child will ask Liu Kongmu when the time comes, I don't know how much the subsidy can be." ” Tongban shook his head and said, "Don't subsidize." ” Tongzi looked at his father in surprise and said, "Why?
This is money from the government, and we didn't rob it. ” Tong Pan sighed and said: "One word into the yamen, nine cattle can not be dragged back, since ancient times, only the official family occupies our people's money, there is no reason for us to take advantage of the official family, our paper workshop and book printing workshop, will be passed on to gold in the future."
Since you want a long-term one, don't take advantage of the extraneous branches, and pass on the family business you earn to be stable. ” The father and son were talking, when they heard the child's crying next door, Tongzi listened carefully, and only then did he understand that the child was crying and asking for zongzi to eat.
"Hu people don't even eat zongzi?"
Tongzi asked his father in a low voice.
Tong Pan nodded and said, "Yesterday, Elder Liu called us old guys over for a meeting, and he said that he would help these poor Hu people to change their barbaric temperament and let them live a peaceful life like us."
He also said that this is the king's will, daughter-in-law, see that you have wrapped a lot of zongzi, cook them now, and send some to the neighbors in the evening. ” Wang reluctantly looked at the glutinous rice in the basin and whispered: "The glutinous rice in the Western Regions is expensive." ” Tong Pan frowned and said: "Send, send more, can make the official family solemnly make the will, it means that this matter is very important, my family has received a lot of favor from the official, there is no other way to repay it, it can only be like this." ” Tong Zi naturally ignored the matter of a few zongzi, and asked his father in a low voice: "Elder Liu really went to Qingxiang City to see the king?"
” Tong Pan nodded and said: "Nuo Da Loulan City went to the two oldest years, and I heard Elder Liu say that he not only lives in the palace of the official family, but also greets him with six dishes and one soup every day, and enjoys the blessings and evils.
That's it, and the king, the prime minister, and the generals sit together to discuss national affairs, and they sit back and forth in the carriage of the post station, and the treatment that only the new science and technology jinshi have. ” Speaking of this, Tong Pan sat up straight and continued happily: "When our paper-making workshop and book-printing workshop are completed next year, Daddy will go to Qingxiang City. ” Tongzi said depressedly: "Didn't Elder Liu just go to a private school for a few years and know a few words?"
Daddy, you know more words.
Why didn't the government invite you there?
” The copper plate slapped his son on the head and said, "What nonsense?
We are craftsmen, and Elder Liu's family is a farmer, how can this be compared. ” Without saying a word, Tongzi rushed into the back room, rummaged through the cabinets and found the yellow household registration of the whole family, opened it and showed it to his father: "That word on this says that we are craftsmen?"
In Hami, there is no distinction between artisan households and peasant households.
The child also heard that in the country of Hami, the camp of the generals was full of strange people with superb skills, and their status was higher than that of the officials. ” Tong Pan looked at his son with a smile and said, "Don't you also want to enter the camp?"
” Tongzi blushed and said, "I heard that Shui'er, Huo'er, Ling'er, and Fu'er are all inside......
However, our workshop ......"
As he spoke, the glint of excitement in Tongzi's eyes gradually dissipated.
Tongban smiled: "Let's set up our family's workshop first, this is the foundation of our family, Daddy guards, and when Daddy doesn't do it, and you don't get out of the mix, come back." ” Tongzi stood up suddenly, and said with tears in his eyes: "Dad......"
Tong Pan shook his head and pointed to Wang, who was busy in the kitchen, and said, "This is a good woman, don't forget her, otherwise, you won't have to come back." ” Tongzi wiped the corner of his eye and smiled: "How can it." ” The copper plate smiled, and then put the wet cloth on his face again, and lay on the recliner to absorb the heat of the sun violently......
When it was dark, the last group of camel riders to enter the city were put in the gate of Loulan City, and after Shak finished his inspection, he saw that this group of fierce camel riders had paid their taxes, and it was already completely dark, so he handed over his errand and walked along the avenue in armor to his home.
When I passed by a mutton shop, I bought two cooked sheep's heads, and when I went back, I asked my wife to unload the meat and sandwich it in a hu cake, which was enough for the whole family to eat.
The smell on the street today was very good, sweet and sweet, which made him very curious, and when he saw that every house had been closed, he forcibly suppressed his curiosity and sniffed the fragrance all the way to the door of his house.
From a distance, I saw the lights on in my house, and my wife shrank behind the door and quietly looked down into the street.
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"Agul, I'm back."
Shak screamed and raised the head of the sheep he had bought, which was the happiest time of his day.
Aguli opened the door, but did not come out to greet her, Xia Ke frowned, his wife is good at everything, but she doesn't like to go out.
I walked quickly to the door, but found two bunches of calamus hanging on the lintel, who hung the grass on the door?
Xia Ke raised his hand and was about to take it away, but was stopped by Aguli and said in a low voice: "The eldest brother next door hung it, saying that today is the Dragon Boat Festival, and hanging up the calamus can ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters." ” Shak jumped off the door, found calamus hanging on the lintels of Tongzi's house and the neighbors' houses, and entered the house with a smile on his wife.
The three children sat obediently on the ground floor waiting for their father to return, but their eyes were fixed on a wooden basin on the table.
In the past, the children who died when they saw the sheep's head, but today they don't seem to be interested in the sheep's head, Xia Ke put down the sheep's head suspiciously, but smelled the sweet smell on the street, and there is also it at home.
Seeing his wife happily remove the lid from the tub, Shack saw six triangular fist-sized green things steaming in the basin.
"What is this?"
Shak picked up a strange one and asked, he had never seen this thing before, it seemed to smell delicious.
"This is zongzi, sent by the girl next door, saying that you should eat zongzi every year today, otherwise, there will be no good luck for a year."
Xia Ke nodded, and after carefully studying the zongzi, he felt that the reed leaves outside should be inedible, so he used a knife to pick up the upper string, and after peeling off the reeds layer by layer, a large piece of crystal clear rice cake appeared in front of him, and a huge fig was flowing out with honey......