From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian didn't think these people would be so eager to learn, I'm afraid many people came to test Xia Cheng's attitude.Before yesterday, Xia Cheng had been hiding his attitude. Apart from giving lectures with no political attitude and gaining the favor of everyone, he didn't say a word about who he swore to support and who he opposed.Such a trick came suddenly yesterday, which caught many clans by surprise.

"How long have they been here?"

"I came very early. They told you to sleep for a while and asked us something. We wanted to wake you up, but they said no, we were very polite and were drinking water inside. .”

Blown by the cold wind, Chen Jian grabbed the snow and wiped his face, and said to everyone: "You guys keep sweeping, it's good to be smiling like just now, this snow comes at the right time, and next year will be a bumper harvest year , that is, if it is spring when we return to Xiacheng, it will be a little muddy."

Just as she was about to go back to the house and put on a leather jacket, a sweet greeting came from her ear. The voice was particularly crisp in the cold wind. It was originally as soft as water, but now there were some jingling bells like ice and jade.

Yuemei was standing in the snow in a fur suit, with a cloak with emerald green feather patterns on her back, her hands were coldly rubbing together, she kept stamping her feet to shake off the snow under her feet, her cheeks were a little red from the cold, Jumping back and forth like a frightened rabbit, he kept breathing on the palm of his hand.

"Jixia got up late, is this going to give a lecture at the academy? Many people are waiting, and I am waiting too. I have learned a lot these days, but Jixia still didn't tell me why the fire went out that day. ?”

She said cheerfully, she may not really want to know why the fire went out, but that fire was the first time she and Chen Jian met, and it had a different meaning in the girl's heart.

While talking, he jumped over the snowdrift and came to Chen Jianjian. Seeing that Chen Jian's hand was still running after rubbing it with snow, he subconsciously wanted to take out the cloth handkerchief to him.

Chen Jian wiped his body casually and said, "I won't go to the academy today, it's snowing heavily, and there needs to be cleaned up."

Yuemei didn't care if she went to the academy, she said with a smile: "That's just right, I heard that when the snow falls, the persimmons on both sides of the river have not yet landed, and they are hung on the branches one by one. Wine, you don’t need meat and deer cane, you can drink it while sitting on the bow. It’s windy today, you can put the sails down, ask Su Yue to borrow some slaves to pull the fibers, and walk slowly, with the big river in your ears, and the snow behind you , It’s very beautiful when you think about it, let’s go and see it together?”

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "I still won't go. Some people are waiting for me to discuss something."

Yuemei felt a little unhappy, and murmured: "It started to snow last night, so I thought about the beautiful scenery after the snow, the emerald feather cloak, the light white footprints, the yellow persimmon and red fruits... What did Jixia think of when she saw the snow? ?”

"Uh... I'm thinking, the wheat in my field will be a good harvest next year, how many slaves will freeze to death, and whether the grassland tribes will be unable to survive the winter and take the risk to go to Yangguan to plunder..."

Yue Mei, who was expecting Chen Jian to say those weird but charming snow scene sentences before, was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to answer.

Chen Jian didn't know what to say for a while, and suddenly felt that compared with the refreshing Yue Mei, he had become the kind of vulgar person who burns zithers and cooks cranes.

In the depressing silence, Chen Jian looked at the snow and the busy people around him, somehow thought of a classic reunion and dialogue in a snowstorm in a book in his previous life, and suddenly realized his own feelings when the beauty was by his side these days. Numbness, and the regret I once thought in that book.

After a long time, he sighed and said tactfully: "Mei, when I see snow, the first thing I think of is that next year's wheat harvest will be abundant; when a hunter sees snow, he thinks of the most suitable day for trapping; What I think of is the beauty of yellow persimmons and red fruits. The same eyes see a different world, just like the sun, moon and stars that were arguing yesterday."

Yue Mei didn't seem to understand, she nodded blankly and said: "That's great, the world you see is the same, and there are many interesting things missing. You can tell me your world, and I can tell you mine. , just like your drama in Xiacheng, it’s only interesting if it’s different.”

Chen Jian didn't say any more, and seemed to be unable to explain some things for the time being, so he nodded casually and said, "Maybe. Then I'll go in first."

Slightly nodded at Yuemei, turned around and left, until Chen Jian entered the room, and Yuemei, who was standing in the snow, whispered to herself: "Could it be that... that red fish sees the same world as you?"

……

Red Fish is not Chen Jian. There are no two identical leaves in the world, so naturally there is no one who can truly connect with each other. What's more, it has already snowed in Xiacheng, and Red Fish will definitely not think about next year's wheat harvest at this moment.

The sun in Xiacheng is more than half an hour later than that in Sucheng, and the sky is still a bit dark. Most of the men are still sleeping soundly because they were too tired to clean up the snow yesterday, while the women got up early to do housework. The house gradually has a hostess, and the concept of home is no longer the whole clan, but a certain house based on the common life of men and women.

The women wore galoshes filled with thatch leaves, drove away the cat that squatted near the Tao Weng wooden box and watched the mice all night, scooped out the beans from the inside with a half-pick gourd, carefully picked up the beans that fell on the ground, and picked them up. The small scales made by the children in the school held two catties of beans, and they had to go to the tofu shop to exchange for soy milk and tofu.

Before leaving, he took a look at the half-cut mouse head that had been bitten by a cat nearby, put down the earthen pot full of beans, took a small ladder from the beam of the house and threw a small piece of dried fish to the cat as a reward .

When going out, close the door carefully, lest the cold wind disturb the man who was still sleeping, changed back to tofu, cooked corn porridge, ate a few mouthfuls, pulled out the charcoal and laid it around the earthen pot, walked to the kang and pointed at it. The man who was still sleeping said: "Red Fish asked us to learn spinning and silkworm raising, I have to go first. You get up and eat later, go talk to Lisi, find some people to fry the beans, Feed the cows that were given to us well, we will go to the mountains to cut wood tomorrow, put more meat on them, if they lose weight, you will be punished by Yu Qianer."

The man responded indiscriminately, and the woman thought for a while, then grabbed a handful of salt and said: "Feed some more salt, I saw that the cow licked the pickle urn yesterday, and I put it away for you. Don't eat the jerky in the house first. Take it with you when you go to the mountains to cut wood, and when other people eat meat, our family eats cakes, and you will be ashamed."

Before leaving, the woman skillfully took the grease from the stove and wiped it on her lips. It seemed that she had just eaten meat and forgot to wipe her mouth. Being down-to-earth and capable, working hard for a few years, is no worse than those who have more slaves for their military exploits.

There were already people in twos and threes on the snowy road that had already been cleared, and they greeted each other, and walked into the big house built by people of a mile according to the establishment of a mile. Many spinning wheels inside were already creaking. When I entered, I heard a woman crying, and the sound of Red Fish scolding.

"You say you, if you like that young man, don't marry. Ah, seeing your man has made military exploits and got land slaves, so he married him, but he disliked him and broke his leg, so he secretly hooked up with the young man The rich family of the east went to eat, and the young one of the west went to sleep. How could such a good thing happen? They don’t want you anymore. If you want me to say no, that’s right! After you get married, you’ve become a lot lazy. , Now there is only the little land allocated to you, but you want to learn weaving again? The young man is with you because he doesn’t need to support you for food. Now you two are together, one has just grown up You don’t have any land yet, you don’t even learn how to weave or spin a thread, not to mention having children in the future, even if you don’t have children, what do you two eat?”

The woman cried bitterly: "Sister Hongyu, I also know I was wrong. Now that I have a child in my stomach and the clan is gone, what should I do? Didn't I violate the laws and regulations, Ji Xia?" I didn’t say that I wouldn’t let this happen, and I didn’t engrave it on the clay board. How could I have thought so much? Please tell him that I won’t do this again in the future. After all, he is also your Ji surname, and you are Ji Xia's woman, he always listens to what you say... This child really belongs to him, and you know that it's snowing early, and the young man and I just want to do it, so we can't be in the snow..."

The women watching from the side patted their foreheads, thinking that this woman is really stupid, talking about children in front of Sister Hongyu, is it because you are showing off that you can give birth and raise them?

Red Fish felt a little sour, a few days ago he only thought he had one, weaving the baby's swaddle, but he didn't think it was just a few days late, but he still didn't have it after all.

Suppressing the unhappiness in his heart, he sighed: "I can't control this matter, and I don't want to. Spinning thread and weaving will never starve to death. Even if the child is not raised in the city, they will take it back. It's just going to the city. Just buy a female slave to feed. Don’t cry, it’s useless to cry. Let’s not say that yours makes me sick. , What is it like? Either you don’t care or you don’t care, even if you are going to starve to death, you will never get a bread from me.”

The woman cried even more after hearing this, and shouted: "If the clan was still there before, I would have slept with whomever I wanted, and Jixia separated the clan, so would we starve to death?"

Hongyu slammed the board and shouted: "When the clan was still there, you still ate grass. It's still the same sentence. If the east family is rich, you will eat, and if the west family is handsome, you will sleep. All good things are yours? What's the matter? Cry again Just get out!"

After scolding a few times, the woman went aside sobbing, and sat in front of the spinning wheel, Hongyu shook her head, and said to the women: "This is a lesson, you can sleep with whoever you like, I don't care. But it’s not right to eat other people’s food, be too lazy to spin and weave, and sleep with others. Ji Xia didn’t engrave this on the pottery board, but you have also watched the play played by Shi Qi. Isn’t that the case? I’ve done my best for you, and I’ve won half of the land for you. If you don’t work and have no land, how is it different from domesticated pigs and sheep?”

The crying in the distance faded, and Hongyu pointed to the spinning road: "Today I will learn how to spin, and tomorrow I will teach you how to raise silkworms. You are all trustworthy people in Xiacheng, so I might as well tell you that The way to raise silkworms is that I went to the wine shop in Echeng a few days ago and tried to find out. I secretly got back some silkworm seeds. Jixia said that soaking silkworm seeds in Artemisia Artemisiae can prevent them from being bitten by insects and ants and will be produced next year. It’s a good silkworm, I told the people in Echeng, but I still can’t get the silkworm seeds back, he is a man who can’t go and ask for it directly, so I will find a way to get it back.”

"There are not many silkworm seeds. Just like beekeeping, you need to learn clearly before you can distribute them. You also know the value of silk, and the market is open to harvest. Bowstrings, clothes, silk, and military uniforms are all needed. Well done , comparable to five or seven acres of land, and my back at home is also a little harder."

The women all know that silk is expensive, and the pancake is very round, and each of them is secretly delighted. It doesn't necessarily mean that they must have the ability to be independent as Red Fish said. At least they can eat more meat when they eat, so as not to get some oil before going out. Wipe it on.

When the spinning wheel squeaked and turned, a woman whom Hongyu trusted quietly approached Hongyu, and said in a low voice: "That woman is still sobbing, she is indeed pitiful, should I ask Miss Yuqian'er to help her and give me some help?" Grain?"

Hong Yu glared and said: "No, if she is thrown out because of her aging face, I will help her. Now that she looks like this, why help? I don't care if I say it, I don't feel so sad Qiu's mind is pitiful seeing this, and shed tears when seeing that, it's sour like vinegar, it's meaningless."

The man knew Red Fish's temperament, since he said so, there must be no way to change it, listening to the sobs in the distance, he felt a little pitiful, but there was nothing he could do.

After a while, the woman whispered again: "Sister Hongyu, if in the future Ji Xia thinks you are old and ugly and doesn't want you anymore, what will you do?"

Without even thinking about it, Hongyu said, "If it's really because of this, kill him."

The woman stuck out her tongue in fright, she only thought it was a joke, and joked a few more words.

Red Fish somehow thought of the woman's words, said that in his mouth, but he might not be willing to part with it in his heart, and he didn't know if all this would happen, but then he thought about the snow now, and wondered if the leather that was brought with the boat last time had arrived ?Is Sucheng cold?What happened to the alliance?Did you know that I got the silkworm seeds, and Yu Qianer took people to those mountain tribes to collect fur and teach them to hunt?

Sighing, the hemp thread in his hand broke again, and he lowered his head to twist the thread, but he couldn't connect it together.

"Sister Hongyu will also disconnect? You must be thinking about Jixia and your mind is unstable, right?"

"My man, why don't you want to? It's been nearly two months since I left, and it's cold to sleep at night, don't you want to?"

He replied with a smile, finished twisting the thread, just pretending that the low sobs in the distance did not exist, and only thought in his heart, what is Chen Jian doing?

Chapter 20 Throwing wood to report Qiong

Chen Jian was naturally discussing the alliance with the chiefs of those clans, but not long after the discussion, someone came in and said that the leader of Suyue had brought some jade gifts for Xiacheng, and that the leader of Suyue had prepared a banquet , please Jixia go over in a moment.

After the envoy left, Chen Jian secretly laughed, saying that Su Yue was also a person who used to use petty tricks.

Don't come early, don't come late, but come with great fanfare when I am discussing things with the leaders of the other clans. This is to tell the people of the other clans that I am on the same line with him.

As for whether the truth is so unimportant, the rest of the clan believe it, but if you slap him, you must give him a sweet date. Besides, Chen Jian did him such a big favor yesterday, so he doesn't know what the sweet date will be.

Several clan leaders in the house wondered if Xiacheng and Sucheng had secretly formed an alliance, and then recalled what they said yesterday, each of them felt that they knew everything, so they left.Or I think it’s time to discuss it again at night, or I think it’s unnecessary to pull it down.

The matter has come to this point, and it is irreversible. Both parties are people who are good at taking advantage of the situation and making the best use of the situation. This kind of thing is unexpected and reasonable.

Put on your clothes and call a few people from Xiacheng to get them ready to return the gift.