I am old in the Han Dynasty

Li Zheng raised his hand and pointed at Xie Lang, "I, you wait for me!" He turned around and left.

"Where are you going?" the pavilion chief asked.

Lizheng paused, pointing to the road to the west, "I'll wait for the villagers here. If I stay with him again, I'll be mad at him."

Xie Lang smiled and followed, "Let me remind you, this is just the beginning. Let me be the head of the village, and you are still angry."

Li Zheng wanted Xie Lang to be his?In no mood.

But Xie Lang is not the head of the village, the women in the village can annoy him to death.In the end, Li Zheng was replaced.

It might be Xie Lang, or it might be someone else.It is that people in other people's silkworm breeding will not be better than they are now, and they are very likely to be poorer than they are now.If it was Xie Lang, the villagers would only get better and better, including his two sons.

Lizheng does not think about himself, but also has to think about future generations.It was also this that prompted Li Zheng to go to the pavilion chief.

It's just that Li Zheng didn't expect Xie Lang to be so disgusted with this matter.

Calm down and think about it, it is not normal for him to accept it readily.Xie Lang could see the virtues of the villagers more clearly than him.But Lizheng knew that at this moment he couldn't confuse himself, and fell into his way.You can't be soft-hearted, "whatever you say."

"When I become Li Zheng, if I do something wrong, you scold me, and I won't answer you." Xie Lang walked across to him, "It's useless for my uncle to say it."

Li Zheng turned his back to him, "I didn't hear that."

Xie Lang couldn't help frowning, how could this person be more rascal than him.

"What happened to your village?" The pavilion chief came over, "Why do you treat a mile as a shoe?"

The family ugliness is not publicized.

Li Zheng said half-truthfully, "The villain I just mentioned is his cousin's wife. I don't want to interfere in this matter. The villagers asked him to take care of this matter. He said that this matter belongs to the head of the village, not him. No matter. The villagers and I decided to let him be Li Zheng. But this child is not willing.”

The pavilion chief thought to himself, I don't want to either.

"But he's only seventeen. Do you really want a 17-year-old boy to be Li Zheng?" The pavilion chief didn't want to interfere in Xie's family affairs, so he turned the topic back to the chief.

Lizheng opened his mouth to say something, "People from the village are here, ask everyone." Then he said loudly, "I agree with Sanlang as Lizheng standing on the south side. As long as Sanlang is Lizheng, the troubles in our village will not be troubles."

Xie Lang hurriedly said: "I didn't agree. Also, thirty households are enough. If you don't want to offend me or Li Zheng, just order troops and generals, and let God decide for you."

Li Zheng quickly said, "Shut up!"

"Then shut up too!" Xie Lang said.

The pavilion chief said, "Shut up both of you."

Let the two of them go on talking, and the length of a mile will become a corrupt official who crosses the street and is punished by everyone.

Officials crushed people to death.

The two of them suddenly stopped talking.

The head of the pavilion turned to the villagers, "Once the head of the village is replaced by Xie Sanlang, he will not make a big mistake himself, or he will resign on his own, so he will have to continue to be the head. He is only seventeen now, so you'd better think clearly before choosing him."

"Don't think about it."

I don't know who said something, everyone cheered and stood to the south.

Xie Guang subconsciously followed, Qin Hong tugged him, and looked at Xie Lang.

"Don't look at him." The pavilion chief stood in front of Xie Lang, "You don't need to look at your current Lizheng either. Follow your heart."

Yao Guizhi hesitated and looked for Xie Lang.

Xie Lang waved his hand.Yao Guizhi took his second daughter-in-law and eldest granddaughter to the north.Seeing this, Qin Hong also went north.

The people standing on the south side saw this scene, hesitated for a moment, and raised their feet to go north.

Li Zheng quickly said: "You are different from them. Sanlang will help them even if he is not the head of the village. One of them is Sanlang's neighbor and the other is his aunt."

Xie Lang opened his mouth to refute, but when he thought about it, he indirectly confirmed Li Zheng's words, after all, he didn't want to be Li Zheng.He whispered, "Ting Zhang, Li Zheng didn't listen to you, I don't accept this result."

"I saw your hand." The pavilion chief found out through the reflection on the ground, "I'll count to three, one, two, three! Alright, let me check the number of people."

Li Zheng: "You don't need to look it up, it's enough to see it."

"The pavilion chief wants to investigate, do you dare not let the pavilion chief investigate?" Xie Lang stared at Li Zheng.

The pavilion chief wanted to laugh, the people in the silkworm farm are really interesting, "Stand in three rows, let me see."

The voice fell, and everyone stood in three rows.

Yao Guizhi couldn't help but said, "You don't need to count thirty households. There are sixty households. Why is Sanlang talking to Lizheng like this?"

"It's not thirty households." Xie Guang whispered, "It's seventy households."

Yao Guizhi opened his mouth wide in surprise, "Seventy households?!"

"seventy?!"

The people standing in the south exclaimed, subconsciously looking at Xie Lang, Xie Lang had no expression on his face, so they turned to Xie Guang, "Why did you tell us thirty?"

Qin Hong also looked at Xie Guang. Didn't you child dream of wanting Uncle Sanlang to be the head of the village?What's going on today?

"Thirty is Lizheng's starting point." Xie Guangdao, "Lizheng was afraid that there would not be enough, so he said that if there were thirty households who agreed, Uncle Sanlang would be the one. Uncle Sanlang was not happy, so he said seventy households. Then let me tell everyone Thirty is enough."

Xie Lang nodded, "It was Li Zheng who pushed me first, that's why I asked Xie Guang to say that."

Everyone turned their attention to Li Zheng, "Don't you know that we all want Saburo to be Li Zheng?"

"Listen to me, Saburo said, he is in charge, the big things in the village are up to him, and you can solve the small things yourself. Don't doubt what he decides, and don't ask him to change it. Neither me nor his uncle. I'm worried. You don’t want to, so you say thirty households.” Li Zheng said, “Are you willing?”

Everyone showed hesitation.

"They don't want to." Xie Lang said immediately, "Forget about it. Let's go back to our homes."

"Wait, we are not unwilling. You can bring big guys to make money, and we can do what you want us to do."

Xie Lang stopped, "Is this forcing me to promise?"

"No no."

Xie Lang: "Then what if I don't have the ability to bring you money?"

"Then it's the same as before. Then there must be a Lizheng, don't you think?" Lizheng asked everyone.

Everyone thinks about it, this is the reason.Besides not being able to make money, Xie Lang could still take the men from the village to hunt in the mountains.His luck is not so good.

"Yes! It's Saburo, we won't change it." Everyone said loudly.

Xie Lang sneered, "If you don't change it, I have an opinion. Pavilion chief, I'll get a pen and ink and a board when I go home, write down what I just wrote, and hang it at my door." He raised his hand and handed Xiao Qi to Yao Guizhi, and returned Take pen and ink at home.

The pavilion chief didn't expect to make money.Reminiscent of the oily skin and tofu that Lizheng said earlier, I couldn't help feeling, "You people..." It's like ganging up to bully a child.However, the pavilion chief said, "It's too late to regret it now. I heard that Xie Sanlang dared to kill people with a knife. Be careful and anger him later, he will kill you with a knife."

"If we don't harm him, he won't cut us down."

Yao Guizhi continued, "You will be angry with him. You all know that Sanlang has a bad temper. He can do it. Neither me nor his uncle can stop him."

"Then we will go to his uncle when we have something to do in the future. No matter how angry he is, he will not dare to kill his uncle."

"Yes, that's a good idea. Let's find his uncle."

Feng Ying was furious, "Are you still human?" Pointing at everyone.

Men may want to save face, but for the sake of a woman who can tear apart needles and threads, thinking of making money in the future, he will not change his mind because of this.

"It's not looking for you, why are you in a hurry. Xie Jianye is not in a hurry."

The pavilion chief couldn't help asking: "Xie Jianye is Xie Sanlang's uncle? What about others?"

"Going to work for the government." Li Zheng said.

The pavilion chief was speechless for a moment, who are these women in the silkworm farm?People are not here, and they can miss them.

"Leave them alone." Xie Lang walked out, "I asked the pavilion chief to polish and write all the things I mentioned just now. I don't dare to chop them up, at worst they will be moved away." As he spoke, he glanced at the crowd.

The women with their hands on their hips and Feng Ying's nagging suddenly fell silent.

All around are the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking.

Before the villagers came, the pavilion chief didn't believe that Xie Lang really had such great abilities.The attitude of the villagers made the pavilion chief realize that this son is extraordinary.It is very likely that he will be mixed into the court in the future.

If you want to make friends with Xie Lang, you add two more on the basis of what he said, making a total of five, exactly filling a wooden board.Then hand it to Xie Lang.

Xie Lang didn't know much about reading, so he could roughly figure it out, so he couldn't help laughing, "Let your villagers go around the city the day after tomorrow."

A wise man can stop talking, and the pavilion chief didn't ask why, congratulated Xie Lang for being the head of the sericulture village, and left.

Xie Jiankang, who was in front of the silkworm farm, couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing in the city?"

"Uncle Lizheng, who is the chief now?" Xie Lang looked at him with a smile.

Xie Jiankang pointed at him, "I will also go to the city the day after tomorrow."

"Whether you like to go or not, who cares about you." Xie Lang turned to look for Xie Guang, "Go and find me something, I'll hang the wooden board at the door of my house."

Xie Guang didn't move, "It will be stolen, you have to hide it well." He glanced at everyone while speaking.

The women were unhappy, "What do you mean? Little Xie Guang."

"You know it yourself." Xie Guang glanced at them, "Uncle Sanlang, put it in the room."

Xie Lang nodded, "Success. Don't leave, I have something to tell you."

"Don't go, don't go, don't worry."

They will not leave even if they are chased away.

Xie Lang paused and continued to go into the house.Put the board and pen and ink in the room, and when I came out, I asked, "A few days ago, I asked you to dry the oily skin, did you dry it?"

"It's dry. You can eat it directly."

I don't know who said a word.Xie Lang wanted to roll his eyes, "That's not doing it! That's ripe!"

"If you do it, you will be familiar with it."

Xie Lang opened his mouth and took a deep breath, "Sister-in-law Qin Hong, are you still going to the city?"

"You have a way, so you won't go today." Qin Hong said.

Xie Lang pointed at the crowd, "If I become Li Zheng, I will lose ten years of my life!"

"We don't understand. If you teach us, you will definitely not be angry with you in the future. Wait a minute, Brother Sanlang, you said before that you only teach men, not us women."

Xie Lang: "The one I said can really succeed and make a lot of money, so I won't teach you. Do you think I look down on you women?"

"Of course not." Qin Hong continued, "I don't know how to do it. My Xiaoguang and his father have learned it. The money I make will end up in my hands and will not be given to outsiders."

"Hey, Qin Hong, all your family's money is in your hands?"

Qin Hong asked without answering, "Your family's money is not in your hands?"

The speaker choked.

"It's good if you can think like this, because I'm afraid that some people think that I discriminate against women." Xie Lang said.

Xiao Qi's second aunt immediately said: "How can it be. Whoever thinks that way wants to learn from Yao Lanhua, secretly use the prescription to make money, or bring the prescription to marry another."

"That's right. A family without a son in our village also has a man who is in charge. It's not that her man is not allowed to learn from her."

Xie Lang felt relieved, "Now some people are going to dig yellow mud on the side of the mountain. Some people are going to get sorghum stalks and firewood, just put them there, just put them away." Looking around, "Uncle Xie Guang has a big open space at the gate. Put it at the door of his uncle, and we will immediately build a mud house that is two feet wide, five long, and two feet high."

"Baked oil skin?" Xie Guang asked hurriedly.

Xie Lang nodded, "I don't know if it will work or not. I tried it with yellow mud two days ago, and I built it so big." He stretched out his arms and gestured, "You can dry things. It may not be so big if you build it. It can be done."

"Then try a few more times. It will always work." Qin Hong said, and couldn't help asking, "If you didn't go to the city with me that day and saw what Yao Lanhua did, would you have told everyone?"

Xie Lang shook his head.

People don't understand, why?

"You are too rude to me. It seems that I should help you." Xie Lang glanced at everyone, "I don't even give up a stone of food. I have never seen you so stingy."

"You were not generous before!"

There were too many people, Xie Lang didn't see who said it clearly, and he didn't bother to ask, "Did I ask you for help before? When your men helped me build a house, did I treat them badly? During the days when my house was built, you guys The family has saved a lot of food, and adults and children have gained a lot of fat."

The crowd was speechless.

Xie Lang rolled his eyes at them, "Let's go now. Xie Guang, come up the mountain with me." Looking at Li Zheng, "Go too if you're old." Then he picked out a few sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys.

A group of people went straight to the bamboo forest, cut a pile of new moso bamboo this year and threw it into the stream where the tigress was buried.

Seeing several bundles of bamboo in the stream, everyone finally believed Xie Guang's words, Xie Lang had been thinking about other ways to make money for a long time.Gein Xie Lang didn't go up the mountain these days, so it couldn't have been chopped down after the incident.What's more, the color of some bamboos has changed.

Seeing the bamboo in the spring, everyone didn't ask Xie Lang what he was going to do.He said earlier that it would take several months, and another "Yao Lanhua" had just appeared in the village, so he wouldn't say it if asked.

The moso bamboo that grew this year on the side of the mountain was cut down in sevens and eights, so Xie Lang took people back.

Those people in the village couldn't help but tell their elders what they saw by the spring.So much so that the women in the sericulture no longer doubted whether Xie Lang, a 17-year-old boy, could do it.

As the sun sets, the adobe for building the earthen house is ready.

In the early morning of the next day, the women in the silkworm farm continued to make oil skin and thin tofu, and Xie Guang's second aunt, Feng Ying, and Xiaoqi's eldest aunt took them out to buy them.

Go again in the afternoon.When Feng Ying came back in the evening, she told Xie Lang that there were two more tofu carts in the city today.

Xie Lang said he knew, and let them continue to do it.

After Feng Ying left, Xie Lang immediately took three pieces of wood to find Xie Jiankang, who was Qian Lizheng, and asked him to write down the recipes and precautions for making tofu, oil skin and thin tofu in detail.

Xie Jiankang couldn't believe it, "You really want to make it public?"

"Sometimes my words are hard to hear, but I, Xie Sanlang, will never speak big words." Xie Lang said, "Write. I will go to find Prince Wang tomorrow."

Xie Jiankang's wife said worriedly, "If the house you built fails, it will be difficult. Saburo, you have to save yourself some way out."

"I have a lot of back ways. Don't worry about it." Seeing that they didn't believe it, Xie Lang could only continue, "I don't have two or three back ways, and I don't dare to tell Yao Lanhua like that."

Xie Jiankang immediately picked up the pen, "You should have said it earlier. You child, you can really keep things in your heart."

"You don't know the virtues of people in our village?" Xie Lang asked.

Xie Jiankang raised his hand, pretending he didn't say anything, pretending he didn't say anything.

Xie Lang arrived home with the plank, the sky was already dark, he fed himself and the two little ones, it was already dark and he couldn't see his fingers.Xie Lang carried Xiao Qi on his back to get some hot water from the map of mountains and rivers, washed up with Xiao Qi, and then went to sleep.

The next day, I took Yao Guizhi's car to the city.

Yao Guizhi went to sell things and bought two bags of salt for Xie Lang.Xie Lang held Xiao Qi in his arms and went to look for Wei Qing with the board.

It was also Xie Lang who took the child and walked slowly with the board, when he arrived at Wei's house, Wei Qing just came back from the palace.

Seeing Xie Lang, Wei Qing asked, "Can you stay at my house for a while today? Last time you left when you came, my mother scolded me very much when she found out."

"No. Something happened in the village." Xie Lang sat down and told her what Yao Lanhua had done.

It took Wei Qing a long time to come back to his senses after listening to him, "How can a village woman be so vicious?"

"It doesn't matter whether it is poisonous or not. She is in the same village as my aunt, and now she has been driven back. My aunt told her natal family the reason, and everyone at Yao Lanhua's natal family knew her intentions."

The intestines are vicious.It is impossible to marry a good man in the future. "

On the second day after the accident, Yao Guizhi went back to her natal home to explain the matter.

Xie Lang came from later generations, and he knew very well that women in later generations would have to bear a lot of pressure if they wanted to be single until old age.Xie Lang didn't understand that women in ancient times were single, but he found it more difficult.

Yao Lanhua is not a woman who is financially independent and has an independent personality in later generations, so the rest of her life must be miserable.Xie Lang felt that killing her would be too cheap for her, so that's fine.

Wei Qing heard his hidden meaning, "What do you mean, will anyone dare to marry her?"

"She has made a lot of money in the past few days. Those who have no money and have evil intentions must want to marry her. But how good can such a person treat her." Xie Lang said.

Wei Qing nodded, "You are right. Then you came to see me?"

"This is for you. But not for the emperor." Xie Lang handed the wooden plank to the servant, and the servant passed it to Wei Qing, "Tomorrow, while you are still asleep, ask your family to hang at the entrance of the vegetable market."

Wei Qing was shocked from ear to ear.

On the day when he first met Xie Lang, Liu Che happened to mention to Wei Qing that the court still lacked talents.Wei Qing noticed Xie Lang's skill and became interested in him, it was not because he wanted to make friends with him.

Wei Qing said that Xie Lang was his good friend, but in fact Xie Lang was far from being a best friend in his heart, after getting along these days, he was at best better than ordinary friends.

Now seeing Xie Lang so easily publicize the method of bean skin and tofu, his admiration for him is beyond words, and he has to believe in his mother's vision, this son is worthy of deep friendship.

Seeing Wei Qing's appearance of "I'm so lucky to know you", Xie Lang's face became a little hot.Gein didn't invent these things, he has a guilty conscience.

Xie Lang deliberately asked, "Is the handwriting too ugly to understand? My handwriting is even uglier than that, let's just read it."

This point is true, Xie Lang didn't think Qianlizheng's calligraphy was ugly until he saw Master's calligraphy.If it wasn't for his master's absence, he would never have asked Qianlizheng Xie Jiankang to write, "It will be difficult for Yao Lanhua to make money if the news gets out."

Wei Qing took a deep breath, calmed the shock in his heart, and asked, "What do you do?"

"We baked the stuff and sold it. The taste is very different from what we just made. People in our village figured it out in the past few days, Yao Lanhua didn't know." Xie Lang said.

Wei Qing smiled and said, "I'm relieved to hear you say that. Leave this matter to me, and I won't tell the emperor."

"You didn't tell the emperor that I made the oil skin and tofu, did you?" Xie Lang asked hastily.

Wei Qing shook his head, "I tell Your Majesty I will ask you first."

"Then I'm relieved." Xie Lang believed in Wei Qing's character, he would not be fooled by it, and stood up holding Xiao Qi after speaking, "My aunt is waiting for me outside the city gate, I have to go back. "

Wei Qing sent him to the door, and when he returned home, he went to find his mother who was resting in the backyard, and asked his mother to come forward.

The next day, after breakfast, when Xie Lang took Xiao Qi to the door of Xie Zhongwu's house, the vegetable market in Chang'an City was crowded with people, including people from Ting Chang's village, and they all pointed at the wooden boards on the wall in disbelief.

Around noon, Yao Guizhi came back and said to Xie Lang, "It's spread in the city."

"Do they believe it?" Xie Lang asked.

Yao Guizhi: "Beans are cheap. I heard some people say that they will try them tomorrow. Sanlang, will they still be sold tomorrow?"

Xie Lang nodded, "Sell. By the way, tell the shopkeeper of the big wine shop that we can make new things in two days."

"Can you really do it?" Yao Guizhi was worried.

Xie Lang pointed to the adobe that would take two days to dry, "This one will come out after it's dry."

Two days later, in the morning, Yao Guizhi and his party did not go to the city again. Because the people in the city made oil skin and thin tofu, the price was cheaper than those in the silkworm farm, so Yao Guizhi asked the big wine shop to buy the food made by the people in the city.

They gathered at the door of Xie Zhongwu's house to wait for Xie Lang's "send".

Xie Lang asked Xie Jiankang to take the young people to build a house, and he and the elderly people used adobe to build two simple stoves, and then asked Qin Hong to move out the tofu from her house.

The thin tofu that Xie Lang asked the villagers to make was actually sliced ​​tofu, also called tofu skin.Before Qin Hong made tofu skin this morning, Xie Lang asked her to make two boards of tofu that was as thick as Xiao Qi's little finger.

Xie Guang brought the tofu and bean curd skin over, and Xie Lang wet the tofu skin with water, then flattened it, overlapped it, wrapped it with a clean cloth, and put it on the stove to cook.

During this period, Xie Lang was not idle, cut the thin tofu into two inches wide and two inches long, put the salt bought by Yao Lanzhi into another clay pot, and when the salt was completely melted, threw the tofu cubes into it.

The industrious Xiao Qi didn't snatch Xie Guang just now, but this time he said, "Master, I'm lighting a fire."

Xie Lang laughed, "You can't light the fire now."

"Ah?" Xiao Qi was very disappointed.

Seeing that the child is so good, Yao Guizhi couldn't help but love him a little more, and picked him up, "I'll tell you when it's time to light the fire. Sanlang, is this the way to go?"

"The rest can only be left to time." Xie Lang looked at everyone, "Did you all see when I tied the thin tofu just now?" He was referring to the tofu skin.

Everyone nodded and saw clearly.

"The salt used in the tofu block was bought with the money from selling stinky tofu. The money from selling bears was not used." The village chief was replaced by Xie Lang, and Xie Jiankang handed over the village money to Xie Lang.

As the saying goes, there are three women in one play, Xie Lang is worried that when they are free, they will have a short chat with each other. come out first.

Everyone laughed and said, "We believe in you."

"I don't believe you!" Xie Lang said very bluntly.