Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 134 Belonging to the Era of Tuqiu

The sunset is over, beside the road in the mountains.

Two men in short jackets were resting on a big rock beside the road with a basket of stones on their backs.

Under the afterglow of the setting sun, their dark faces could even shine with a gleam of brilliance, and their facial features could only be seen as a rough outline under the cover of soot.

Suddenly, the slightly taller man grinned at his companion beside him, revealing a mouthful of fine white teeth.

"Zigong, I told you so. You have to wear pants when you are working. Your speed of digging stones today is obviously much faster than a few days ago."

Upon hearing this, Zigong glared at him first, and then at the new trousers on his lower body.

Originally a good pair of trousers, after a day of digging, they were all stained black with sweat and soot.

Zigong looked up to the sky and lamented: "Even if I don't pay attention to cultivating virtue, Haotian doesn't have to punish me like this!

What crime did I do to leave the Qufu mansion in good condition and go to Tuqiu to dig stone nirvana with you!
Digging is fine, but I have to change into the pants of a barbarian. "

Zai Yu had done a day's work, and he didn't bother to listen to his complaints. He just took out a piece of bread from his trouser pocket and took a big bite.

While chewing on the cake, he said, "You don't have to wear it, and I didn't force you to wear it.

But if you don't wear trousers, and you only wear a loincloth when you work, then you can't show your naked body when you wield a stone pick?
What, are you going to show off your 'strength' to the big guys?

Don't forget, there are many women and children also picking up stone nirvana in the cave.

If you let the master know that you have made such a rude move, will you still have the face to go back to Qufu? "

Zigong pointed at him angrily and said, "Hey! Look at you now. You don't talk when you eat, you don't talk when you sleep. While eating, you talk at the same time. Do you still have the appearance of a gentleman? Hurry up and grab the cake." Give me half!"

Zigong snatched the cake from Zaiyu's hand, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed fiercely, while eating, he glared at Zaiyu viciously.

It was as if what he ate was not the bread, but the meat of Zaiyu.

Jai Yu watched him eating the cake, and could only lick the cake crumbs left on his hands resentfully.

The two of them were fighting, and on the road beside them, one after another, ordinary people carrying bamboo baskets passed by them.

Some recognized them and even stopped to say hello.

"Master, Duanmuzi."

After hearing this, Jae Yu also greeted them with a smile: "How are the pants I gave you?"

The man grinned and said, "The trousers issued by the lord are all made of silk cloth brought from Qufu, can it be good?"

Zaiyu and the others had been digging the stone for more than ten days, and gradually became acquainted with the people who came here to quarry the stone.

In order to shorten the distance between him and them, Zaiyu specially cut dozens of pieces of silk cloth given to him before he took office into trousers.

Whenever you meet someone without pants, send one.

As the saying goes, treat people with soft hands, but eat people with short mouths.

Although for the upper-class scholar-officials, they disdain to wear such things as trousers.

But for the working people at the bottom, it is not bad to wear silk clothes, what kind of style is it?

Not to mention that it is indeed more convenient to wear pants to work than to tie a loincloth around the waist. Not only do you not have to worry about the scenery, but you can also keep warm every day.

Although it is the end of summer, the temperature in the mine is still not too high.

It's always good to wear extra layers of clothing to keep warm.

There are no more than 2000 households in Tuqiu, and no more than [-] people. These days, most of them are quarrying stones, so it didn't take long for the whole city to know that their master likes to dig stones in holes and wear pants. smell.

In addition, a few days ago, Zaiyu publicly announced that he would buy a thousand stones from the residents of the city at the standard of exchanging two stones for one stone.

When someone exchanged Shi Nie for Huang Chengcheng's millet, the people of Tuqiu finally believed all Zaiyu's previous promises.

Although I don't know what the lord wants to do with Shi Nie, but he seems to really like this thing!
In the past, when they put it on the side of the road, they didn't even look at Shi Nie, but suddenly it became a good treasure to make a fortune.

The most important thing in governing the region and carrying out administrative affairs is the reputation of the ruler, so when Zaiyu's reputation was established, Shi Nie poured it into his pocket continuously.

Looking mournfully at the basket behind him and Shi Nie, who was full of them, Zigong couldn't help asking.

"My son! What are you planning to do? If you don't tell me again, I will go back to Qufu? I am a sergeant from Lu Kingdom, and I didn't come to Tuqiu to help you dig stone nirvana!"

Zaiyu knew that he was really in a hurry, so he dragged him up the hillside and pointed to the mighty Zishui in front of him.

"Tuqiu's treasure is buried in this endless river, and only those who are capable can get it!"

"Zi water?"

Zi Gong observed the rushing water and asked.

"You mean fishing?"

"wrong."

Zigong looked at the forests all over the mountains and plains behind him again, and asked.

"Is that shipbuilding?"

Jae Yu still shook his head: "It's still wrong, but it's a little closer."

Zigong frowned in thought, recalling the direction of Zishui, his frown gradually melted away.

"From Zishui to the east, you can enter Qi State. To the west, you can reach Yiyi, the largest of the Meng family fiefs.

If you don't stay in Yiyi, you can continue westward to join Wenshui until you reach Jishui. On the way, you will pass through Zhuguo, and there are also large cities such as Yiyi, Yangzhou, Suyi, etc., and finally arrive at Weiguo.

And if it goes north from Wenshui, it will enter the main river of Zishui again, all the way to Qi State, and finally arrive at Linzi, the capital of Qi. "

Zigong looked at Zaiyu: "My son, when you said you wanted to attract investment, you didn't intend to let me buy all the family business in Tuqiu, did you?
You are a small Tuqiu, with a population of only [-] households, even if there are some households that have concealed the number of households, even if they are all dismantled, there are only [-] households.

With so few people, why should I put all my family business here?Does Tuqiu have any special products that are not available in other places? "

"Of course there is!"

Zai Yu raised his finger and pointed to the river not far away.

Zigong looked along the pointer, and at some point there was a row of oval furnaces half buried in the ground, and rows of long chimneys erected neatly, and Shi He was leading his disciples Shovel by shovel was filled with something.

Seeing this situation, Zigong frowned slightly, as if he had seen such a situation before.

Suddenly, he asked in a startled voice, "My son! Do you want to burn charcoal?"

Zaiyu smiled and took out a stone nirvana from the box behind Zigong: "Instead of burning charcoal, we burn stone nirvana. And not only do we burn stone nirvana, we also use it to refine evil gold and dollars."

　This is the case with many things: you may not be rewarded for updating, but you will definitely be punished for not updating.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)