Poor family mother and son

When everyone talked about the "slowness" phenomenon on the island, Chu Qing couldn't understand it: "Slowness? What kind of slowness?"

As a result, everyone started performing one after another. It looked like the elderly were slow to move, and their movements were not smooth enough like a puppet show.

It's just that this kind of performance, because of the influence of everyone's body, personality, language, etc., made Chu Qing not only unable to feel a sense of substitution, but even couldn't hold back his joy: it's too funny!

"When will that situation happen?" Chu Qing asked.

This question is not easy to answer, everyone is talking about it——

"I do not know!"

"I can't say when it will happen."

"Anyway, there is no sign at all, and I have fallen several times!"

"It can only be said every three to five times? We can't figure out the way of it."

There is no rule to follow, so naturally Chu Qing can't give any advice, so he can only wait for the opportunity to experience it for himself, and now let's look at the map drawn by everyone.

Under the light and shade of the fire, the map seems to be moving, very dreamy.

This map is invaluable!
This is not only a topographic map, but also a product map and population distribution map. Although the drawing is not detailed enough, it is definitely of reference value.

For example, now, only based on this picture and everyone's description, Chu Qing can understand the following content: "From this point of view, this is a mainland island with a length of nearly 360 miles and a width of [-] miles. Yang County is much larger;

The local population is less than [-], and they are concentrated in the southwest mountainous area. They mainly hunt, seldom cultivate, seldom fish, and their life is extremely difficult;

But why?Here is obviously rich in products;
Do you say that you saw that they had knives, but did not find a blacksmith?Where did their knives come from? "

No one cared what the meaning of Continental Island was, because from time to time Chu Qing would say some words that baffled them, and also because it was always easier for people to remember the last words, such as the iron problem.

The answers to these questions were guessed by everyone: "According to their gestures, it should be that the ancestors once produced blacksmiths, but after they died, the craftsmanship was not passed down, only the knives were passed down;
As for how they died, I don't understand. It's hard for us to guess what they said. "

Speaking of communicating with the natives, everyone expressed embarrassment, Xiao Sining said: "We have shown our strength and made them afraid, but we can't do anything good!"

To put it bluntly, the "six team spirit" means "one hand with candied dates and one hand with a big stick". Of course, in the mouth of Xiaobao, who is "well-read in poetry and books", it is: "The use of etiquette is the most important thing in harmony."

Xiaobao has always believed in Confucius, and what Confucius said was applied in various scenes by him, including "one hand with candied dates and one hand with a big stick" is equal to "the use of etiquette, harmony is the most important, and it is not feasible to not use etiquette"*, it is true to " "Zi said" as a theoretical basis, "practice" Confucian thought.

It's much better than those court officials who blindly "know and be harmonious" in the court hall. They don't know how to "use etiquette" when facing the Voss people who take "threshing grass valley" as their daily routine.

Not only that, but he also pays special attention to the "corner information" about Confucius, such as the description in "Xunzi Feixiang" that Confucius's appearance is "like a Zhongni, with a face like a mask" and so on.

In Xiaobao's view, Confucius is a "big brother" who eats both black and white.

Xiaobao hopes that he can be like Confucius, two meters tall, with infinite strength, holding a sword in one hand and a book in the other, with three thousand younger brothers (disciples) behind him.

If you meet someone you can listen to, Confucius will explain the truth to you; if you meet someone you can’t listen to, Confucius will directly talk to you about physics.

And the coolest image of Confucius in Xiaobao's mind is: a tall old man in his 60s, racing a chariot without any problems, controlling four horses by himself, holding a bow like a full moon, and shooting arrows like shooting stars, looking for people to "reasonable" everywhere.

When I meet someone who is reasonable, I will talk to you about "The Analects of Confucius", and when I meet someone who is unreasonable, I will talk about "Yuan Yu".

If you can reason, then reason, if you can explain physics, then you are welcome, reason and physics, you have to obey one or the other, right?

But the current situation is that the power of the big stick has been demonstrated, but the candied dates cannot be taken out. Even if Confucius came, it should not be very "reasonable", right?

"Boss, we don't have anything to give them." Xiao Sining concluded: "We want to give them some rice, but we don't have enough for ourselves."

Now these people's ideas are limited to open up wasteland to grow sweet potatoes, because most of the coastal land is saline-alkali land, which is not suitable for cultivating rice.

Chu Qing: "I remember, last time we bombarded wild boars, didn't they grow rice?"

"One mu of land can produce tens of catties, otherwise how could they be so precious?" Xiao Sining said, "I'd rather die of malaria and fever than weed the rice fields, which is far worse than our Daxuan's rice!"

Xiaobao said: "That's not a problem, mother, I sent people back a few days ago to bring some grain seeds and farm tools back. After the new year, I will help them divert water and open terraces."

As for those "glass shards", Chu Qing recognized them without having to find someone to identify them: "Sapphire?"

"What?" Xiao Sining was shocked: "It's really a gem? I thought it was a flint and steel! It's quite easy to use!"

Saying that, Xiao Sining took out a piece of sapphire the size of a goose egg, rubbed it with a scythe, and Chu Qing said softly, "The piece in your hand is worth more than 800 million catties of rice!"

The rough sapphire is ugly in appearance, the skin is black and gray, and the luster can only be seen in the worn places, which is similar to the flint by the river.

There are also some gemstones that are exposed, but they look like dirty glass lumps that were burnt out by the glass factory at home.

Xiao Sining was not optimistic about these rough sapphires from the very beginning, thinking that Xiaobao and the others spent so much effort digging them up, that they would use them as flint and steel.

According to Daxuan's prices at this time, one point of sapphire is worth at least 80 taels of silver. What is the concept of one point?One catty is equal to 16 taels, one tael is equal to ten qian, and one qian is equal to ten cents.

80 taels of silver can buy 800 catties of cheap rice, and the piece of sapphire in Xiao Sining's hand is more than half a catty, enough to buy [-] million catties of rice.

800 million catties of rice, enough to feed the 1 people on the island for three years!
Xiao Sining's hands trembled, really trembling!

He stroked the worn place and was about to cry: "I'm wasting so much food, I'm a sinner!"

Xiaobao glared at him: "Yes! You are not allowed to use it, you prefer to use it!"

Xiao Sining murmured: "This one is big enough, easy to hold, easy to light..."

This is the limitation of knowledge, no wonder Xiao Sining didn't know it, even though Xiao Bao and Chu Qing are from the same world and have never been in contact with rough gemstones, they still don't know it.

Chu Qing changed the subject: "You said that there are only more than 1 aborigines on the island?"

Xiao Siningba had no choice but to worry about the sapphire issue, and quickly answered: "We made an estimate. There is a huge mountainous area in the southwest. We didn't go deep into it, and only visited the low-lying places."

Xiao Sining gestured on the map, the goose-egg-shaped island, except for less than a quarter of the tip in the northeast, the rest are mountainous, and the further to the southwest, the more concentrated the mountains.

Now that he has come, Chu Qing plans to stay for a few days and go to the mountains to have a look.

*Note: The original words are: Youzi said: "For the purpose of etiquette, harmony is the most important thing. The way of the ancient kings, this is the beauty, and the small and the big are left to themselves. If you don't do something, you know how to be harmonious. It is not feasible to do it without etiquette." also."

*This statement was said by You Ruo, a 72-year-old Confucian sage (surname You, first name Ruo, a student of Confucius). You Ruo's temperament and appearance resembled Confucius. After Confucius died, he was deeply respected by Confucian disciples.