On February 2, Zhangjiagou built a land temple to shape the body of the father-in-law.
In March, Zhangjiagou built another temple, the City God Temple.
After the Cold Food Festival, it is the day of Qingming, sweeping the tomb and worshiping the ancestors.
The Tang people believe in the god Chenghuang very much.
But the original city god was not a god, but only the moat of the city.
The ancients first believed that the god of the ditch was the god of water, and later gradually became the guardian city on the outskirts of the city, the god of the city god.
It has even become a god in Taoism to cut off evil and protect the country and protect the country, saying that he can respond to people's invitations, rain when it is dry, sunny when it is waterlogged, and protect the grain and the people.
Moreover, it is said that the god of the city god is the lord of a city in the underworld.
There is a city in the Tang Dynasty, and there is generally a city god temple in the Tang Dynasty, although Zhangjiagou is not a city, but now it is also very prosperous, quite a lively market town.
After the last land temple was built, the incense was very vigorous, and this time the villagers proposed to build the City God Temple, and Zhang Chao did not object to it when they came to Zhang's house to talk about it.
It doesn't cost much to build a small temple, but the villagers are very concerned, so let's build it.
With the Land Temple and the City God Temple, the temple fair can be held in the future and the market in Zhangjiagou will be active.
During the Qingming season, plant melons and beans.
This is a good time for spring planting and planting, and every household is busy.
After the Qingming Festival, Ke Ma was woken up by his father very early.
He slept on the same kang with his father, and the whole family slept on the same kang.
The family went to this big kang in winter, and slept warmly at night.
However, it costs a lot of food to burn the kang every day, and it costs firewood to burn the kang every day, so there is only one kang at home.
There was only a curtain in the middle of the big kang, and the parents slept on one side and their siblings slept on the other.
During the Qingming Festival, the day is already very warm, but it is still very cold in the morning and evening, and it is most comfortable to sleep in the morning.
But every morning, his father would wake him up early.
His father's way of getting him up was very simple and straightforward, a few slaps on his buttocks, and the horse woke up.
If you don't wake up, your father will beat him until he wakes up.
After only a few blows, the horse had opened its eyes, and a spirit sat up.
"It's dawn."
The father spoke, turned and left the room.
His father smelled of earth, and he knew that he must have gotten up early to work in the fields again.
In the past, when I woke up in the morning, the first thing I did was to go to the cowshed at home to fetch the cows.
Every morning, my mother would make a bucket of material for the cow, usually with some wine residues from the winery, some grass that their brothers and sisters pulled during the day, and then some chaff, then a little salt, and mix it with boiling water and rice water, so that the cow could eat a bucket in the morning.
Although the owner said that in fact, the cows only need to be led out for a walk every day, eat grass, feed them with water, and give them some salt or chaff every day.
But the family is very precious to the cows, not only to build him an impermeable cowshed under the wall, but also to give the cattle a clean straw washer every night, but also to give him a few straw to make forage for the evening, a bucket of feed in the morning, and a second feed in the evening.
Really regarded this cow as a treasure.
Every day the horses have to lead it to graze, and in winter there is no grass to eat, so they have to lead it to the slope to eat the leaves.
Parents always said that if the owner gave the cattle to them and gave them back to use, then they had to take good care of them.
Otherwise, if they don't take care of it well, there will be no cattle to raise for them in the future.
This cow has been matched before the Chinese New Year, and it has been matched, and in more than half a month, it will give birth.
The owner said that after the cubs are raised, there will be another reward.
It can even be sold to them cheaper in the future.
But from today onwards, there is no need to herd cattle again.
The task of herding cattle will be handed over to his third sister in the future.
Starting today, he is going to work as an apprentice lettering in the printing workshop.
In a few days, the horse will be twelve years old and will eat thirteen.
At this age, he is already a big guy.
Many partners of the same age as him in the village also entered the workshop as apprentices, and some went to work as buddies in the Zhang family's shop in Chang'an City.
Ke Gouzi next door to him went to the Drunken Immortal Building to be a running boy, but he was only an apprentice for the time being.
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It is the turn of mid-spring and late spring, and the air is clear and bright.
The horse glanced at his brother, who was lying next to him, and every time he woke up, he was still sleeping.
However, the younger brother does not often sleep at home, and the younger brother is now studying in Bailu Academy, thanks to the blessing of the Zhang family, free of tuition and various expenses, and the younger brother does not spend half of the family's money when he studies in the academy.
It's just that my younger brother usually studies for five days and takes two days off, and he has to eat and live in the school for those five days, and he can't even go out of the academy door.
However, my younger brother always said that the food in school was very good, and there were several dishes for every meal every day, and there was always a portion of meat, either meat or fish.
The younger brother has indeed gained some weight, and his face is ruddy.
Half a year ago, my little brother was still thin.
It's a pity that he missed his age, and the academy only accepts six-year-old children to study, and he is twelve years old and can't read.
My father was very kind to my younger brother, who was studying, and every time he came home for two days, he had to add vegetables to the house, even in the morning, and let him sleep late without waking him up.
My father always said that let my younger brother study hard, concentrate on reading, and make a name for himself, and in the future, he will shine on the lintel of the Zhang family, just like Xiao Zhang's bachelor.
The horse got out of bed, and he slept wearing only a pair of shorts, and the less he wore the kang, the warmer he slept.
After getting out of bed, it was still a little cold, so he hurriedly put on his coat.
Because he was going to the workshop today, his mother prepared a new set of clothes for him.
It's not my father's old clothes, and they haven't been patched, but they're made of fine linen fabric, or they're laminated.
This fabric was given by the Zhang family during the Chinese New Year, and my mother kept it.
I made a set of clothes for my younger brother, and I didn't want to make a set for my father for the rest.
Wearing this new outfit, the horse felt that he was much more energetic, and he felt that he had become an adult.
After putting on new cloth shoes, the horse felt that it was windy to walk, and when he reached the outside of the cave, he went to the hut to relieve himself.
It turned out that their thatched house was directly in the pigsty, with people squatting on top and pigs below.
But later the Zhang family said that this was unhygienic.
The Zhangjia family sent people from the Zhangjiaban engineering team to help the villagers build new thatched houses and build several public toilets in the village.
It does feel much better not to be convenient in the pigsty, at least when it is not convenient, you have to beware of pigs arching.
Standing in the hut to pee, the horse looked down at his little bird, which had not yet grown a single hair, and he felt depressed when he thought of the fact that several people of the same age in the village were already different.
Grow up quickly, I want to be an adult.
When the urine was finished, the horse returned to the yard, and when he was about to enter the house, he retreated and went aside to wash himself with half a spoonful of water.
This is what my younger brother would tell them every time he came back after entering the academy, washing his hands before and after meals, brushing his teeth before getting up early and going to bed at night, rinsing his mouth after meals, and so on.
The horse house is very small, only two holes.
It was very old and narrow, and there was even a lot of grass growing on the door of the cave.
One of these two caves was lived by the family of my grandfather, grandmother and uncle, and the other was lived by their family, which was quite crowded.
Fortunately, now his two sisters and one of his uncle's sisters are working in the Zhang family's workshop, and there is also a dormitory to live in.
Although it is a wooden house, there is also a warm kang and a bunk to sleep on, but they are all girls, and it is convenient to live together.
My sisters even ate in the cafeteria over there, and now they don't come back much.
The main thing is to be busy, especially recently, because the spring ploughing has begun, there are many fewer people in the workshop there, and many men and women have to go home to be busy with the work in the field, and they have to start raising silkworms, and they have no time to work in the workshop anymore.
There were now a few young girls and boys left in the workshop, many of them apprentices of twelve or thirteen years of age like him, or some of them in their fifties and sixties.
However, the sisters have been dressed differently since they worked in the workshop.
Although most of their wages have to be given to their parents every month, they can still leave a little pocket money, and the workshop sometimes gives out some flower cloth and other prizes, and when they have free time in the evening, they will make clothes and shoes for themselves.
There is also a younger sister in the family, nine years old, less than the age of working in the workshop, who usually pulls some pigweed, and now has to take over his work to herd cattle.
They are a family of seven, and they are living a pretty good life now, at least they don't have to worry about eating and drinking.
My father often said that all this was brought to them by the Zhang family, and they should be engraved in their hearts and grateful.
Ma Er also likes the Zhang family, especially Xiao Zhang, who treats people best, even if he is a poor child like him, Xiao Zhang will sometimes chat with them, sometimes reward them with some dried fruits and meat, and even sometimes tell them some stories and tell them some stories about Chang'an.
What Ma Er admires the most in his heart is Xiao Zhang, who has built such a big mansion, married so many beautiful daughters-in-law, thousands of acres of fields at home, several workshops, and herds of cattle and horses.
He thought that when he grew up, it would be good if he could be a follower for Bachelor Zhang.
In fact, their family used to have more than five brothers and sisters, and there used to be a younger brother and a sister and a younger sister, but they all died.
My younger brother is five years old, and he caught a cold in winter and kept coughing, coughing to death.
The elder sister was more than ten years old, and went to the mountains to collect firewood, but then she didn't come back, and then she only found some bones and clothes that were left over from the wolf's eating.
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In the past, life at home was very hard, and in the memory of the horse, not to mention wearing new clothes and new shoes in the New Year, and even not having enough to eat twice a day, and often having a dry meal and a thin meal, and even sometimes two meals a day were thin.
But now, life at home is really better.
Parents and two sisters have been working for the Zhang family last winter, and the salary they finally got made the family unbelievable.
The Zhang family also gave them cattle to raise, and this year they lent them two piglets, and they didn't have to give the piglets money first, and when the pigs were fattened and sold to the Zhang family, they were directly deducted.
The Zhang family also promised their parents that Ma Er would go to the printing workshop today to be an apprentice in lettering, and when the parents were not working, they could also go to the Zhang family to help work.
Although the family's land is still the same, the money and grain earned by the family working in the Zhang family is much more than the family's income from farming.
The cave was too small, so the Ma'er family built a shed outside the cave, which served as both a kitchen and a dining room.
The huts made of trees and thatch were very simple, but they were quite large, but they were very cold in winter and hot in summer, and they could not be inhabited.
There was a new type of wood-saving stove in the house, and there was an iron pot on the stove.
This was all purchased after receiving wages during the Chinese New Year, and it turned out that his family only had clay pots for cooking.
Although this iron pot is not as big as the workshop canteen, it is an iron pot after all.
There is also a large wooden table in the house, which was made by the horse's father himself, and it is somewhat rudimentary.
My mother was cooking, and my sister was lighting the fire.
At this time, my father pulled his trouser legs and sat at the table to rest.
"Horse, are you ready?"
asked the father.
Ma Er felt that his name was not good, and his younger brother was originally called Mule'er, but as soon as he entered the academy to study, he got a scientific name, called Ke Yunqing, which is said to have been given by Xiao Zhang himself.
Horses also want to have a big name, and the horses and horses don't sound good.
He stepped aside to get a bucket of water and prepared to fetch water from the village.
His family does not have their own well, so they used to draw water from the well at the head of the village.
Later, Zhang's family set up a well and used mules and horses to carry water from the well every morning.
People in the village can also go directly to fetch water, so they don't have to bother to fetch water from the well.
Usually, it is the horses that carry water.
"The shortage is full, so you don't have to pick it."
Father said.
The horse looked up, and sure enough, he saw that the big water tank at home was full, and that water tank could fill three loads of wooden buckets of water, which he was usually responsible for picking.
"When you go to the workshop as an apprentice, I will have to pick the water myself in the future."
The apprentices of the workshop lived and ate in the workshop, and the apprentices were also paid, although not much.
Ma Er was very envious of the tap water of the Zhang family, he felt that it was unimaginable, wherever the Zhang family was, as long as he turned the faucet, the water would come out.
The Zhang family has running water, there is also it in the academy, and I heard that there is also it in the workshop.
It would be nice if they had running water at home, so they wouldn't have to fetch water every day.
Breakfast is not a trust.
The dough sheet is wide and torn into sections.
I don't usually eat it at home, and I eat more millet porridge.
"Eat more."
His mother filled him with a big bowl.
"When you arrive at the printing workshop, you must be obedient and hard-working, be diligent in your hands and feet, listen to your eighth uncle's words more, and learn lettering skills well.
If you learn this skill, you won't have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life, and you can have ten dollars for carving a board.
If you can carve a piece a day, the prize money for January alone will be 300 Wen.
If you become a skilled worker, the basic salary starts at least 1,000 yuan a month, not including commissions and bonuses.
"My father was very optimistic about the job of the horse, and he learned the craft, which was the job of a lifetime.
There are a few families who can be as good as Xiao Zhang, and they will be paid as apprentices.
If you work as an apprentice in someone else's workshop, you can only pack food and housing, and you can pack two sets of clothes, shoes and socks a year, which is very good.
If you don't study for five or six years, you won't even want to get paid.
I'm almost done, and I get paid very little, and I have to work for several more years.
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You have to work for the owner for at least ten years before you can really have a chance to make money.
"They are all neighbors in the same village, and the Zhang family is a good family, so they will have such a good opportunity.
Don't go into the workshop, try to cheat, if you let me know then, I'll break your dog's legs."
The horse lowered his head and said honestly, "I know, I will learn the craft diligently." ” "Also remember the good of the Zhang family, always remember" t1706231537: