I am old in the Han Dynasty

Li Zheng wanted to ask what they were talking about, when he saw Xie Lang and Xie Guang staring at him, waiting for him to say, "Master will come over tomorrow, from morning till noon, don't let Xiao Qi go too early."

"Understood." Xie Lang responded, realizing that he still hadn't left, "Is there anything else?"

Li Zheng gave Xie Guangnu a smack.

Xie Lang immediately wanted to roll his eyes and give Xie Guang a wink, tell me.

Xie Guang could only tell him what Xie Lang said just now.Seeing that Lizheng frowned, he had an idea in his mind, "Are you also worried that Uncle Sanlang's uncle is soft-hearted?"

"How do you talk?" Li Zheng glared at him, "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first." Turning around, he turned east and then south.

Xie Guang opened his mouth to call him, but Xie Lang grabbed him and said in a low voice, "Follow quietly and see if he goes west or east."

"I see." He ran to the entrance of the alley, bent his head against the wall, and saw that Li Zheng didn't go east to return to his house, but turned and went west.

There are only three families in the west, Xie Jianye and his two sons.

Xie Guang ran back and asked, "Why didn't he go directly from here?" He pointed to the road in front of him to the west.

"I'm worried about you, I'll follow, and I'll quarrel with my uncle again." Xie Lang said.

Xie Guang: "Is what is being said there useful?"

"For the time being."

Xie Guang let out an "ah" and couldn't believe it, "Is what Li Zheng said only for a while?"

"The country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. Do you know what it means?"

Xie Guang nodded, "I probably know." Looking to the south, he couldn't help but say, "Why is your uncle like this?"

Xie Lang thought to himself, you only know.

An outsider, Xie Yuan, who was not familiar with him, died, and he could make me, my own nephew, pay thirty.If his own sister cried a few words in front of him, he could cut off his head and give it to his sister.

Xie Jianfen is also stupid, knowing that her elder brother is soft-hearted, sympathizes with the weak, and is a good person, so she doesn't know how to show weakness.On the contrary, they believed that Xie Jianye's family was weak and could be bullied, and directly bullied the weak.

It's a pity that the Xie family had an accident like Xie Lang.

If Xie Jianfen brought two pieces of mutton over, one for Xie Lang and one for Xie Jianye, and then cried and complained in front of the two, Xie Lang would be hard-hearted, and he would not be able to ignore her.

"Are you worried about my uncle's bad things?" Xie Lang asked.

Xie Guang nodded, "Very worried."

"The oily skins you are making now are one by one, try making the skin on the soy milk into strips, and then dry it with something." Xie Lang said.

Xie Guang: "Then they are stuck together?"

"Have you tried?" Xie Lang asked without answering.

Xie Guang shook his head.

"Then give it a try. If it really works, you can make oily skin even when it rains heavily, and you don't have to worry about mold." Xie Lang said, "It's still unique to your family."

Xie Guang raised his finger and pointed to the south, subconsciously not even mentioning your eldest brother and second brother?

"Just tell them what I said, and leave them alone if you can't do it. Otherwise, over time, they won't appreciate you and me, and think that I should help them." Xie Lang said, "Even if it's my grandson Xiao Qi, I'm not used to him either."

Xie Guang continued, "It's okay to get used to them and think of you. But like your sister-in-law, if you give her the whole family, she probably thinks it's too little."

"You just need to understand." Xie Lang also said this to Xie Guang.It's a pity he didn't hear it.Probably thought he wouldn't become what he hated.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xiaoqi and Xiaohu come out, Xie Lang said, "Go home and help your mother with your work. My Huzi is hungry."

Xie Guang couldn't help asking, "Didn't you eat this morning?"

"It's eaten. It has grown up and has to eat several meals a day." Xie Lang said.

Xie Guang: "Eggs every meal? How much do you have to eat that day?"

"It's also good luck. I don't need to save eggs to exchange money when I catch up with the prince. Otherwise, I can only feed it water." Xie Lang looked inside with a smile.

Xie Guang followed his line of sight and saw that the little tiger was approaching the door, so he stopped talking nonsense and let Xie Lang in.

Xie Lang bolted the door, let Xiaoqi and Xiaohu play in the courtyard, and went to the kitchen to stew a sea fish.

Xiao Qi, who was not very hungry, drank soup, and the little tiger ate meat. Xie Lang watched the two little ones eat and drink enough, put Xiao Qi to sleep, put the little tiger in his arms, and then took the machete to chop bamboo. .

After chopping eight bundles and throwing them into the spring where the tigress was buried, and chopping down a dead log, Xie Lang carried the dead log back.

When he got home, Xiaoqi had already woken up and was playing with the little tiger.Seeing Xie Lang, he immediately abandoned the little tiger and rushed towards him.

Xie Lang picked him up and went out for a while, and when he came back, he split the dead wood into firewood and piled it in the stove, then sneaked into Jiangshan Map to dig some coal and iron, preparing to light the fire and forge the iron to make an iron pot.

Xie Lang has never used an iron pan. When he was a child, he used aluminum pans at home, even the pans for cooking were made of aluminum.Thinking of this, Xie Lang sneaked into the Jiangshan map again, found a piece of aluminum ore, went to the ironware room, and got some yellow mud from the Jiangshan map to make molds.

Xie Lang still remembers that when he was ten years old, he often saw people making aluminum pots out of clay molds.Once he gave the broken aluminum spoons and drawers at home to someone who made aluminum pots. The guy melted the broken pieces and poured the liquid aluminum into the mold. It didn’t take long for the mold to open and a good one was obtained. Aluminum spoon, or aluminum pan.

Much easier to do with aluminum than iron.But cooking still needs an iron pan.Because iron can be bought, if someone finds out later, Xie Lang can explain it easily.

Xie Lang decided to use aluminum to make a pot first, and then slowly pondered over the iron pot.

"Third Master."

Xie Lang put the soil in a sack, opened the door and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I want to go out and play." The child hesitated and stretched out his index finger, pointing outside timidly, his eyes fixed on Xie Lang.It seemed that when Xie Lang shook his head, he would take back his little hand.

Xie Lang was very surprised. It was the first time the child asked to go out after being with him for so long, "Go. Come back when it gets dark."

"Okay." The child ran out.

Xie Lang hooked his head to look, and there were several children standing outside the door, including Xie Erlang's son, Xie Zhongwu's son, and a few others he didn't know. When he saw Xiao Qi passing by, he grabbed Xiao Qi's arm and ran away .

Xie Lang smiled, moved the yellow mud out and started firing the molds.

Xie Lang had never done this kind of thing, and he couldn't burn it until dark.Xie Lang simply used the discarded yellow mud to build a three-foot-high square platform between the outside of the stove and the room where he lived, near the wall.Put another bluestone slab of the same size on it, and then put the washbasin on it.

When Xiaoqi came home, he saw the extra things, he couldn't eat or play, so he glanced at them and went back to the house to find his good friend Huzi.

Humans live in groups, and Xie Lang is no exception.His occupation in his previous life caused him to get used to living alone, and he couldn't do it alone 360 ​​days a year.That's why Xie Lang wanted to adopt Xiao Qi and find someone to chat with.

If Xiao Qi was in his teens, Xie Lang would not have adopted him.Because he was young, didn't remember anything, and didn't know Xie Sanlang before, Xie Lang's various differences seemed the same to him, so Xie Lang dared to raise him.

For example, the bluestone slab, if he was three or five years older, he would definitely ask Xie Lang where he got it.When Xie Lang explained it, it was really not easy to be fooled.

Xie Lang saw that Xiao Qi was not interested in the extra things, so when he came out, he still explained it to him - when Xiao Qi went out to play, he went up to the mountain to dig the soil.

When Xiaoqi grows up in the future, he will not doubt anything when he recalls his childhood.

The next day, when the sky was bright, Xie Lang woke up naturally and repeated what happened yesterday.

Clean the yard, the stables, feed the family, and continue to study his earthen molds.When it was almost time, Xie Lang locked the door, took the wooden box containing the pen, ink, inkstone and bamboo slices, and carried his eldest grandson to the school.

When Xie Jianye saw it, he asked, "Xiaoqi is going at such a young age?"

Xie Lang wanted to live a few more years, so he didn't want to talk to him.But he has kept Xie Jianye cold for so many days, and he is not angry. If he ignores him, outsiders will see that he is ignorant.

Xie Lang said: "I will go with Xiaoqi."

"Are you going too?" Xie Erlang exclaimed.

Xie Lang frowned, and asked back, "Didn't you hear what Xie Guang said? He's going too."

"Him?" Xie Erlang was about to say something when he saw Xie Guang running over, "What are you doing in the school?"

Xie Guang: "Follow Master to learn how to read." Reaching out his hand to take Xie Lang's box, he said, "Uncle Sanlang, wait for me from now on, let's go together."

Xie Lang nodded, "Let's go."

The two drifted away under the suspicious eyes of Xie Jianye and Xie Erlang.

It wasn't until the two big ones disappeared that the father and son came back to their senses and exclaimed, "Sanlang is going to school too?!"

Xie Erlang's neighbor came out of the courtyard just to hear this sentence, and couldn't help saying: "What's wrong with Sanlang going to school? Xiao Qi is so young, it's only human for Sanlang to worry about him on the first day."

The look of making a fuss and never seeing the world is really not like Saburo's relatives.

"No. Saburo also wants to learn Chinese and calligraphy from Master." Xie Erlang said.

"what?!"

Xie Guang staggered in fright, "Uncle Sanlang, why don't we send Xiao Qi there and go back?"

"Why do you want to go back?" Xie Lang asked.

Xie Guang: "It's not as big as the two of us. It will be surrounded by big guys as monsters."

"That's because they don't understand. Does the emperor's brother-in-law know?" Xie Lang asked.

Xie Guang nodded, "I heard that the son of Princess Guantao, I forgot his name."

Xie Lang subconsciously wanted to ask who Princess Guantao was.Suddenly remembered that she was Queen Chen's mother.

At this time, Wei Zifu was not the queen, and Wei Qing was not the general of the great man.The world's impression of him is still on Mrs. Wei's younger brother, a riding slave from Princess Pingyang's mansion.

"I'm talking about Wei Qing. Mrs. Wei's younger brother."

Xie Guang blurted out: "Is he also the Emperor's brother-in-law?"

"It is. After all, he is the princess' uncle. He didn't understand anything before. I heard that you learned from the master when you were your age, and now you are all Taizhong doctors."

Without thinking, Xie Guang said, "He doesn't understand anything, he has a good sister, and he will be able to become a Marquis and a Prime Minister in the future."

"You underestimate the emperor." Xie Lang thought to himself, Liu Che now is not the Liu Che 30 years later, "I heard that there are no fools around the emperor. It is the singer who is the best singer in the world. If he knows everything I don't understand, Marquis Feng is also a Marquis without power. The emperor will not bring him by his side."

Xie Guang couldn't help asking, "How does Uncle Sanlang know?" Without allowing Xie Lang to answer, he said to himself, "The prince must have told you. He lives in Chang'an and has money at home. He must see those princes every day." My lord."

"Yes." Seeing that he wanted to say something again, Xie Lang quickly said, "Here we are."

When Xie Guang looked up and saw the school, his calf immediately twisted and his knees became weak.

Seeing his timid face, Xie Lang hugged Xiao Qi with one hand and dragged him in.

Going in naturally provoked cross-examination by the master.Xie Lang expressed his eagerness for knowledge and said that he really wanted to study and practice calligraphy with his master, and also hinted that with him and Xie Guang around, the students would not dare to make trouble.

A man in his 30s, teaching for the first time and not knowing how to get along with students, looked at a room full of children ranging in age from four to 12, and welcomed Xie Lang and Xie Guang with pleasure.

As the master opened the bamboo slips he brought and hung the wooden boards full of words on the wall, the perimeter of the school was full of people.

With the special existence of Xie Lang and Xie Guang, the master subconsciously thought that they were the same as Xie Lang, so he invited them into the room to listen to the lecture.

They all came to see Xie Lang and Xie Guang, the thin-skinned ones ran away immediately, the thick-skinned ones came in, rubbed against Xie Lang, and asked in a low voice, "Do you understand?"

Master stopped.

Xie Lang frowned slightly, and said coldly, "Don't talk, sit upright, and listen carefully."

The child who secretly looked back was sitting upright.Those who were trained by Xie Lang didn't dare to refute and wanted to leave, but when they saw the master picking up the bamboo slips, they didn't dare to move.

The master was very surprised, he remembered that Li was an old man in the silkworm farm, not a young man.

It's rare that this young man is Li Zheng's grandson?

At noon, the master put away the bamboo slips and went home. On the way, he met a woman herding sheep and asked, "Who is that Xie Sanlang? Why do people in your village listen to him so much?"

"Uncle Sanlang? The most powerful person in our village. Even stronger than Lizheng. Why do you ask him?" the woman asked back.

The master doesn't believe it, a boy of sixteen or seventeen is not powerful enough to make grown men fear him, "Can he walk through Yang with a hundred steps?"

"What's the matter?" That kind of power is his own power, and it can't benefit the villagers.Seeing that her master was curious, the woman continued, "My Uncle Saburo can make a plow, a rake, tofu and oil skin."

The first master knows it, and his family has it.The latter three have heard about it.But he always thought that these three people made it, "Is that sixteen or seventeen-year-old Xie Sanlang?"

"The only one in our village is Xie Sanlang." The woman said.

The master turned around and walked towards the village. After taking two steps, he suddenly remembered that he had told his family that he would be home at two quarters in the afternoon.If the family can't wait for him, they will definitely think that something happened to him.

Xie Sanlang is in the silkworm farm, he can't run away, and it won't be too late to look for him tomorrow.Then go home.

Seeing the master walking away, the woman suddenly remembered what happened a few days ago, Xie Lang called everyone together, and reminded them, don't make a fuss about something big and make it known to everyone, it's not good for silkworm rearing .

Quickly tied the sheep to a tree and went to apologize to Xie Lang.

After hearing her finish, Xie Lang resisted the urge to curse, and said, "It's okay. My wife is nice, and won't cause trouble for us."

"Really?" The woman was still a little worried.

Xie Lang shook his head and said affirmatively: "No. Even if there is, he took the initiative to provoke us. I will go to find Mr. Wang, and Mr. Wang will help me. If I provoke him, Mr. Wang will reprimand me if he doesn't help me."

The woman felt relieved, and quickly said, "I won't talk too much in the future."

"You just know you're wrong." Xie Lang said, "Go ahead. Xiao Qi is hungry, I'll get him something to eat."

The woman nodded and ran back to fetch the sheep.

But as she walked forward, several people came to look for Xie Lang, this time not to make amends, but to ask Xie Lang why he suddenly remembered to go to school.

Talking too much today, Xie Lang didn't bother to explain, and just used the contents of Song Zhenzong's "Encouraging Learning Poems" to fool them, "Young Master Wang told me that there is a golden house in the book, Yan Ruyu in the book, and chariots and horses in the book." Lots of clusters."

"What do you mean?" Several people didn't understand.

Xie Lang said: "The meaning is to study and practice calligraphy. As a petty official, you will naturally have money, a house, and a car."

"You can become a petty official just by learning a few words?" You are fooling a ghost.

Xie Lang: "Why did Li Zheng become Li Zheng?"

"High seniority."

Xie Lang asked again: "His uncle's seniority is higher than him, why not his uncle?"

"Why else. His uncle is illiterate—" Several people opened their mouths wide, and instantly understood what Xie Lang meant.

Xie Lang also understood that they understood, "If you know a few more characters, it's easier to find a job in a wine shop than someone who can't read."

"Then we can go tomorrow too?"

Xie Lang said with a smile: "Master has no objection, whoever wants to go can go."

"Then if the room is full, the master has no objection?"

Xie Lang thought for a while, "Probably not. He has something to ask of me."

"Ah? Uncle Saburo, when? Why don't I know?"

Xie Guang saw several people went to Xie Lang's house, but they didn't come out, so he was worried about him, so he lay outside the door and eavesdropped.Hearing this, Xie Guang couldn't bear it any longer, and pushed the door open.

"I also just found out. As for what to ask me for, I don't know yet." Then he told several people what the woman said just now.

Xie Guangdao: "I must be looking for you to be the plow and harrow."

"If that's the case, Saburo, don't take money from your master."

Xie Lang nodded, "Okay. Each of you will give me twenty catties of noodles."

"This, this..." These are all words from somewhere.

Xie Lang scoffed, "If you don't charge money, what will Xiao Qi and I eat? Go beg at the door of Prince Wang's house."

Several people were speechless.

"Then you have to charge a little less. If your family has anything to say in the future, let's all help you and it's over."

Xie Lang smiled and asked: "I don't have money to buy cloth another day, will you pay for it?"

A few people were speechless again.

Xie Guang who was reminded by Xie Lang couldn't help but said: "Uncle Sanlang is not the head of the village, nor your elders, and he doesn't owe you anything, so why should he charge you less money? You should tell Li Zheng about this, tell Li Zheng more Give the master some money."

Several people quickly looked at Xie Lang's expression.

Xie Lang was expressionless.

A few people were very embarrassed, and said with a sneer, "We also said it casually. Yes, just said it casually, Saburo, don't take it to heart."

"I didn't take it to heart this time, so it won't be the case next time." Xie Lang glanced at the few people, "My family only has 150 cash this month. You really want me to give my wife a little bit cheaper. I have an idea. I’ll give you a cheaper pair of plows and rakes, as long as forty renminbi a pair. Today only. Tomorrow it will be restored to [-] renminbi. Do you want to buy it or not?”

"Then what, I still have something to do at home, so I'm leaving first."

"By the way, my sheep are still outside, and I have to go pick them up."

"I have to go home and light the fire, it's time to cook."

It disappeared immediately.

Xie Lang snorted coldly, looked at Xie Guang, "How do you feel?"

"Shameless!" Xie Guang spat out three words.

Xie Lang: "Go back and tell your parents to quickly pay back the money your family owed before. It's best to let everyone know when you pay back the money. Later, someone will take care of your family's borrowing money, so you can say you have no money. Or replace them all with blue bricks."

Xie Guang couldn't wait any longer after hearing this.Turn around and run home.He almost bumped into Yao Guizhi when he got to the door, but he missed Yao Guizhi and continued to run.

"Auntie, what's the matter?" Xie Lang asked.

Yao Guizhi said: "When you cook the chicken, I heard you say that you use chicken soup to stew the oily skin. I guess your home's oily skin should be finished, so ask your second brother for some, eat it first, and then tell me after eating." Thank you Lang stuffed his arms, turned and left.

Xie Lang was stunned for a moment, then he called out, "Auntie, what happened?"

"I have to ask your uncle to pay back the debt. I will go to the city tomorrow to buy some dowry for your sister, and then I will ask your elder brother and second elder brother to exchange the family's money into bricks and tiles." After finishing speaking, he ran out of Xie Lang's house. .

Xie Lang was tongue-tied, what was it all about.

"Third Master, shall we also buy bricks?"

Xie Lang turned around and saw Xiao Qi hugging Hu Zi, staring at him curiously, as if asking, what is the purpose of buying bricks when the house is ready.

Xie Lang sighed, "We'll buy iron and make plows and harrows for your master."

In the early morning of the next day, Xie Lang took care of the good family, and the master came in when he was washing clothes.

"Want to be a rake?" Xie Lang asked.

The master smiled embarrassedly: "I want to see it. I have always heard that it is very useful, but I have never seen it."

"Wait a minute. Xiaoqi, bring a straw mattress for Master." Xie Lang called into the room.

Xiao Qi hurriedly stuffed the little milk tiger into the quilt, and came out holding a straw mat, "Here you are."

"Stop sitting." The master smiled, and stared at the direction where Xie Lang disappeared.

Xie Lang first took out the rake and then the plow, "The people in the village told me what I can do if you ask her. I did these two things myself."

The master wanted to touch the rake, but seeing that the plow was very different from his own, he couldn't help turning to the plow, "Why is this one curved?"

"It's easy to turn when plowing. With a curved plow, one person can plow the field." Xie Lang said, "Try it?"

The master nodded repeatedly and moved the plow to the land.Xie Lang tied a rope and pulled it in front of him. The master supported the plow and walked two steps. Even without the plow, he felt that it was better than his family's. "How much does it cost?"

"You have prepared wood and iron, fifty cash. This price is only for our village. People from other villages are all eighty cash. Both are one hundred and fifty." Xie Lang said.

Master: "How about using yours?"

Xie Lang didn't lie to him either, and gave him an honest price.

The master hesitated for a moment, "You make me a rake. I need to discuss this kind of plow with my father."

"Yes." Xie Lang said with a smile, "If you can introduce one to me, I will charge you five less. Ten is fifty."

The master was secretly happy, and then looked at Xie Lang, "You are so smart."

"Only a little smart." Xie Lang said modestly.

The master shook his head, "Because you are illiterate. If you can read and write, it will definitely benefit one party."

"I don't have that much ambition. I'm satisfied if the people in the silkworm farm become rich."

Xie Bowen paused, and when he got home, he told Xie Guang and Xie Guang's mother what he had heard.

Xie Guang said with emotion: "My Uncle Saburo is really a good person."

"San Lang, this child has really changed." Xie Guang's mother couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Xie Bowen didn't think it had changed, but when he thought about it carefully, he changed a lot, "Yes. I wouldn't have noticed it if you didn't tell me."

"I didn't find out either." Xie Guang's mother said.

Xie Guang: "I found out."

The couple looked at him at the same time.

"Ever since I met the prince, Uncle Sanlang has changed. His speech is different from before. I think that prince is a real nobleman. Could it be a relative of the queen mother?"

The couple said at the same time: "Impossible!"

"The prince's mother is still alive. How old is the queen mother's mother? Besides, there is no one in the queen mother's natal family. Once the queen mother gets married, they can force the queen mother to reconcile and marry the first emperor."

Xie Guang frowned, "Who could that be?"

"There are a lot of nobles in Chang'an City. A brick fell down to ten of them, and seven of them were related to the royal family. Don't even think about it. Remember, you can't imitate Da Lang's wife and make your Uncle Saburo angry." Xie Bowen road.

Xie Guang shook his head, "I won't be so stupid. Uncle Sanlang will become more and more powerful in the future, just give me an idea, and it will be enough for me to eat and wear for a lifetime. By the way, Dad, why did you bring this thin tofu back again? gone?"

"It's time for Saburo to talk to the master, you send it over." Xie Bowen handed it to him.

When Xie Guang went to the next door, he found that there were only one big tiger, one small tiger and one cub in the courtyard.

In order not to expose his father, Xie Guang didn't ask the master why he came here.

"Uncle Sanlang, my mother said to let you cook the soup."

Xie Lang smiled and said, "There are in the kitchen."

Xie Guang went to the kitchen and saw a pot of oil skin, a pot of tofu and a pot of thin tofu.He ran out quickly and looked west.

"What's wrong?" Xie Lang was puzzled.

Xie Guang turned to the east, frowned and said, "Does the sun come out from the east? Those two families are crazy, and they are still causing trouble. They asked you to beg the prince, but they gave you so many things."