The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Everyone stepped forward, the country's gravel road was uneven, and there was still some wet withered grass shortly after the snowfall. Several women were jumping on the dry foothold like butterflies in flowers, and Su Jin was pleasing to the eye.

Su Jin suddenly thought of a very serious question, why didn't these women bind their feet?Although their feet are not big, they definitely don't look like they have been wrapped; Su Jin has heard of such an allusion. As early as the Southern Tang Dynasty, there were women who wrapped their feet like a crescent moon, standing in the square inch. They danced on the golden lotus flowers between them to please the emperor; and the Southern Tang Dynasty perished only a few decades ago, so it should have been bound feet. Why didn't Yan Biyun and others bind their feet?

The only explanation is probably that it has not become popular. Maybe the men nowadays are not so perverted that they like to play with women's small feet wrapped like pig's feet, and there is no such thing as Su Jin has heard of pouring women's shoes like water chestnut shells. Alcohol stinks.

Su Jin felt a little regretful. Although he had seen it online, he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. If he could see it, touch it, he didn't know what it would be like. This thought flashed in his mind, and Su Jin quickly scolded I am "animal"; don't you hear that "a pair of small feet, a vat of tears", the wind of binding feet is an act of poisoning women, why do I have such thoughts, has it been a long time since I have traveled, and I have gradually moved closer to the ancients and become abnormal what?

While thinking wildly, I heard someone in front of me shout loudly: "Why is the boss here, why didn't he say hello? The villain can also spend some time to smooth the road."

Yan Biyun smiled and said: "Uncle Xiang, this is just a temporary idea, but this road needs to be repaired, otherwise the carriages and horses will not be able to approach, which is inconvenient."

Uncle Xiang is an old man in his fifties. He is wearing a short jacket in cold weather with his sleeves rolled up. His hands are covered in black mud. A woman stands behind him and smiles honestly. Go to pour tea and serve stools, and the owner doesn’t know how to say hello when he comes.”

The woman hurriedly turned around to make tea and move the stool, Yan Biyun hurriedly said: "Sister Xiang, don't be busy, let's go in and have a look." Then he pointed to Su Jin and said: "Uncle Xiang, this is Mr. Su, this greenhouse for growing vegetables It was his idea."

Uncle Xiang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Su Jin clasped his fists in return, but kept his eyes on the house with straw curtains.

Yan Biyun said: "Uncle Xiang, you lead the way, let's go in and have a look."

Uncle Xiang promised to pull up the straw curtain, and bowed to invite Yan Biyun to enter the room; as soon as everyone entered the room, a gust of hot air came over their faces, mixed with the aroma of soil and plants. Although the sun was shining brightly outside, it was cold, while inside It was as warm as spring, no wonder Uncle Xiang was only wearing a short jacket with his sleeves rolled up.

Uncle Xiang rushed forward to lead the way, and then opened a straw curtain. It suddenly lit up in front of his eyes, and behind the curtain was an endless green vegetable bed.

In this midwinter season, it is not easy to see green everywhere, not to mention the non-cold-resistant vegetables and fruits; but seeing a vast expanse of green, the varieties are different, but the trees are plump and lively. happy.

Among the rows of vegetable beds, there are seven or eight peasant women who are busy weeding and catching insects along the furrows.

Uncle Xiang introduced as he walked: "Boss, this large area is spinach, and the bamboo and vines are lentils, and further forward are courgettes, spring leeks, radish borders, etc., a kind of twelve houses, planted Twelve dishes."

Yan Biyun nodded and smiled, "I didn't expect it to happen. At the beginning, I just had the idea of ​​giving it a try. Uncle Xiang, you deserve a lot of credit."

Uncle Xiang laughed and said: "I just put in some rough effort. At first I wondered how I could grow vegetables in this cold weather, but then I saw them growing up with my own eyes, so I believed it; I have to say that this Su You are really capable, you can think of such an idea."

Su Jin was dumbfounded. At the beginning, he just said it casually. He had never planted a vegetable greenhouse before, so how could he know how to plant it? He just told Yan Biyun based on the principle, but he didn’t expect Yan Biyun to actually make it. How could this be reasonable? go?

Su Jin looked up to the sky, but the roof did not have large transparent skylights as he had imagined, but small fist-sized skylights, densely packed in the air, and the sunlight came from these small holes. Projected down, forming a greenhouse effect.

Su Jin asked softly: "Why didn't you use the method I taught?"

Yan Biyun rolled his eyes at him and said, "Your idea is really a bad idea." Su Jin smiled, remembering that when Yan Biyun asked about the skylight without a large piece of glass, he really made up a bad idea, which was to cut it out of a cow's and sheep's bladder , stitched together to form a plastic film for light transmission; but now it seems that Yan Biyun is useless at all.

"Although large pieces of glass are not imported by Shishi Bosi, small pieces of colored glaze can be fired in our folk kilns in the Song Dynasty. Although they can't be installed in large pieces like you said, the ones as big as a palm only need to open a hole. There are many eyes, but the same can see through the light, can’t it?”

Yan Biyun tilted his head triumphantly and looked at Su Jin, Su Jin raised his big finger and praised: "Sure enough, you are a smart Yan Dong's family, but this big house of vegetables, I am afraid that Hefeng Lou will be squeezed through the threshold during the New Year's Eve." Already..."

Yan Biyun laughed and said, "How much is this? It's not enough at all. Hefeng Lou uses up to two hundred catties of meat a day, and at least four to five hundred catties of vegetables and eggs. It's not enough for half a month to order food; I just want to see Let's see if this method is feasible, now it seems that next year, wherever there are Hefeng Towers, they will be planted on a large scale, and these vegetables are rare in the middle of winter."

Su Jin laughed and said, "This is a way to make money. I can finally help the Yan family make money."

Yan Biyun smiled and said, "Regret? Such a way of making money was actually taught to my slaves."

Su Jin chuckled and said, "Why should we divide each other? If you make money, I will make money..."

Yan Biyun winked, Su Jin hurriedly stopped, but fortunately Uncle Xiang was still leading the way, introducing the vegetable field naggingly, but he didn't hear it at all.

Everyone wandered around the vegetable field for a long time before going back home. Uncle Xiang was very careful, picked some of all kinds of vegetables, put them in big bamboo baskets and put them on the shaft of the car, and let the owner and Mr. Su take them back to try something new. Su Jin Accept it frankly. During this period of time, I ate some meat, tofu, dried vegetables and the like, and almost didn’t see vegetables. As a person in the 21st century, how can I not know the importance of vitamins.

Everyone went back the same way, Yan Biyun went back to Hefeng Building first to arrange business, while Su Jin got off the car halfway and went to his own shop to have a look. After coming back for a day, it would be unreasonable not to look at his own property.

When I arrived at the cloth shop, I saw the shopkeepers sweeping and explaining to the customers that the store would be closed tomorrow, so if you want to buy something, you should come early to buy it. Yang Xiaosi walked straight over.

Yang Xiaosi didn't see Su Jin coming, and the five men with their hips akimbo yelled to make it clean and brighter. When Su Jin patted him on the shoulder, he was shocked.

"Master, why are you here? Why aren't you in the house?"

Su Jin smiled and said: "Why are you in the house, do you want to suffocate me?"

Yang Xiaosi hurriedly said: "No, the prefect went to visit you in your house, didn't you see him?"

Su Jin was taken aback and said, "What is he doing here?"

Yang Xiaosi said: "As soon as we opened the door in the morning, we saw the magistrate's big sedan chair being carried over. He stopped in front of the cloth shop and said a few words to the old shopkeeper, and then went straight to the house. Didn't see the turning, didn't you see it?"

Su Jin shook his head and said: "I went out to the south gate early in the morning, but I didn't see him, and he will return to the yamen naturally before I can wait."

"Oh, then you should go back quickly and have a look, the little one will ask someone to set up a car for you."

Su Jin shook his head and said: "Don't worry about him, first accompany me to Peach Blossom Lane."

Yang Xiaosi opened his mouth wide, the Dadong family's style dared to let the magistrate ignore it, but went to see the little lady first, this is too awesome.

"Why are you in a daze? Get in the car and lead the way." Su Jin shouted.

Zhu Shiyong finally remembered that he wanted to come to see him, this old man might still be waiting for him to visit him first, my young master has even competed with Yushi Zhongcheng, would he care about you, a little magistrate?waiting for you.

While thinking happily, Su Jin got on the mule cart and headed towards Peach Blossom Lane.

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