I am old in the Han Dynasty

The 50-year-old woman stopped in her tracks, turned around and looked at Xie Lang, "Hey, have I seen you before? Why does it look familiar?"

"This is my home." Xie Lang pointed to the house to the north.

The woman suddenly realized, and said repeatedly, "Look at my memory. When one is old, it is impossible to refuse to accept old age. You must be Saburo."

"I am. You are?" Xie Lang vaguely guessed, but he was still not sure.

"This is my aunt."

Xie Bowen came out of the room, "Gu, why are you here alone?"

"I came alone, and some people are not happy."

Xie Bowen looked around subconsciously, "Who is it?"

"You!" The woman pointed at Xie Bowen, "don't think I'm old and dim-sighted. Suddenly there is such a big yard next to your house. I didn't dare to recognize it for a while. Ask the people over there if this is Bowen's house. Turn around and go Run around the house. Do you want your wife to hide the good things at home and take out all the rags to fool me?"

Xie Lang couldn't help exclaiming secretly, what a smart woman.

Xie Bowen showed embarrassment, "No, no."

"What good things do you have at Brother Bowen's house?" Xie Lang asked curiously.

Qin Hong came out, "There is nothing good. Thanks to Brother Sanlang, the debts owed have been paid off, and the money left over for New Year's Eve is just enough to buy bricks. Auntie, it's cold outside, let's go in."

"I think so." Xie Lang said with a smile, "When your family bought a donkey, they almost borrowed the whole village, and wanted to borrow it from your aunt. By the way, did you borrow it later?" Turning to Xie Bowen's aunt, eyes All curious.

Xie Bowen said: "No. My aunt's family doesn't have much money either. Auntie, let's go in." Grateful for Xie Lang, he invited the woman into the room.

Xie Lang watched the door close slowly, shook his head and smiled, turned around and saw the woman who was leading her family to this side, his eyes lit up, "Xie Guang's aunt?"

"Brother Sanlang?" A woman around 30 years old came over, "What are you doing standing here alone?"

Xie Lang went up to welcome him, pointed at Xie Bowen's house and whispered, "Your aunt is here. Go in and argue with your elder brother and sister-in-law, go and have a look."

"What?" The woman ran eastward.

Xie Lang looked at Xie Guang's uncle, "You go in quickly too. I always feel like we have to fight later."

"Thank you." The man strode after him with his things in his hands.

Seeing this, several children also hurriedly followed.

Xie Lang saw the door was closed and opened, opened and closed again, clicked his tongue, and shouted when he entered the room, "Xie Xiaoqi, come out and light the fire."

"Make vegetables?" The child ran out from the houses of his three friends.

Xie Lang lifted the straw mat that covered the vegetables, and saw that the vegetables were not frozen, "Okay, I'll fry the vegetables for you."

"The third master is the best. I like green vegetables the most." The child happily put his arms around the golden monkey's neck, "Do you like green vegetables? Brother Monkey." Worried that the golden monkey would not understand, he pointed to the west vegetable field.

The golden monkey gave him a profile, staring at the fish hanging under the eaves of the hall.

Seeing the golden monkey's movements, Xie Lang almost burst out laughing, "Xiao Qi, let go of your monkey brother, let him lead the tiger and the little wolf up the mountain to hunt."

"Now?" The child pointed to the thick snow on the roof.Don't go when it's so cold.

Xie Lang: "It's okay. Their fur is thick and keeps out the wind. They are wearing the clothes I made for them, so they are not cold."

The tiger cub is nine months old, and the little black wolf is eight months old. Together with the golden monkey, the three of them want to be full every day, so they have to go up the mountain to hunt by themselves.

"You send them to the intersection." Xie Lang pointed to the north, "Otherwise I have to kill the chickens."

As soon as this remark came out, the child stopped persuading him and waved to his three friends, "Follow me."

Xie Lang picked up a handful of vegetables, covered the straw mat, and went to the house to boil hot water to wash the vegetables.

As soon as the fire was lit, Xiaoqi came back.

"Go?" Xie Lang asked.

Xiao Qi: "I told Brother Hou that the third master gave him stewed meat, and he went."

"Then when it comes back, I'll cook meat for it." As soon as Xie Lang finished speaking, he heard a bang, and ran out quickly, "What's wrong?"

The child turned to look and shook his head.

"You didn't hear—"

boom!

Xie Lang followed the sound and saw only a blue brick wall.

The wall of his house is too high, blocking outsiders from prying eyes, and also blocking his own sight, "It must be Xie Guang's house."

"Third Master, the firewood is about to drop." The child pointed to the stove.

Xie Lang turned his head to the east, hurriedly ran in and stuffed the firewood into it, "Go and see what's going on."

"Where are you going?" The child didn't care about other people's affairs, and he wanted to eat vegetables so much that he didn't even move when he asked.

Xie Lang: "Xie Guang's family. I think it's a fight."

"fight?"

Xie Lang nodded.

The child became interested, and said while running outside, "I'll go and have a look."

"Don't run too fast." Xie Lang quickly reminded.

"I know, third master, I've grown up."

Xie Lang immediately wanted to roll his eyes, "It's not as tall as the stove. You have grown up. It's almost the same when you grow up with courage."

Wash vegetables in warm water.Xie Lang waited for the handful of bark he had just stuffed under the pot to burn off, then closed the pot tightly and went outside.

Seeing that there were many people standing in front of Xie Guang's house, Xie Lang was very worried, "Nothing happened, right?"

"Xiaoguang's aunt is arguing with her aunt." Feng Ying came over and asked curiously, "Didn't you hear it so close?"

Xie Lang shook his head, "It should be arguing in the room. How do you know?"

"We were all over there just now." Feng Ying pointed to the drying room in the southeast, "there was a water leak in it when the snow melted last time. They were chatting at my house just now," pointing to a few women not far away, "Speaking of the drying room, we were worried that the snow would collapse the roof, so we came here with a shovel and a broom to sweep the snow away. We didn't expect to see Xie Guang's aunt and her aunt going east when we got there."

Xie Guang's grandparents live in the east.

Xie Lang: "Look for Xie Guang's grandfather to comment?"

"It should be." Feng Ying said, seeing that Xie Lang had no plans to go there, "As the head of the village, can't you go and have a look?"

Xie Lang really wanted to give her a supercilious look, "Have you heard that it is difficult for an upright official to settle housework? What's more, I'm not an upright official either." Seeing that the fight didn't start, he yelled at Xiao Qi, "Come here."

The child didn't move, "I want to play with the calf."

"Don't play with the snow." Xie Lang reminded.

The child nodded, "I don't play in the snow. The snow is cold."

Xie Lang immediately turned around and went back to the house to wash the vegetables.

It was still early before noon, after washing the vegetables and putting them in the cabinet, Xie Lang went back to the main room to continue making clothes for the golden monkey, the tiger and the little wolf.

There are clothes sellers in the city, Xie Lang doesn't want to ask Yao Guizhi to do it, and there is no need to do it by himself.But there are no panties sold in the city.You can trouble Yao Guizhi now, when he turns 20, he will ask Yao Guizhi to do it for him, and Yao Guizhi will definitely find him a wife.

For the sake of the future, Xie Lang decided to do it himself, so that he could have enough food and clothing.

Finally, he sewed a waistcoat that was equally long from left to right and densely packed with needles. Xie Lang got up and stretched, when he heard a splash from the yard.

Xie Lang ran out in a hurry, saw the things in the courtyard, opened his mouth wide in shock, and pointed at his three "ancestors" helplessly, "You three are really good. When I die one day, you three will be mad at me."

The big white tiger jumped in front of Xie Lang.

Xie Lang took two steps back in fright, "Stop! Hu Zi."

The big white tiger stopped.

Xie Lang walked over to tear off his bloody vest, "I let you hunt, not play with them." Pointing to the two suckling pigs and a roe deer covered with wounds, "Don't do this again next time. And you two, come here."

The golden monkey dawdled over and stared at Xie Lang, magical weirdo, if you hit me, I won't hit you, but I will get angry.

"Afraid that I will hit you?" Xie Lang glared at it, then took off its vest.Then came the little black wolf.

Seeing that the golden monkey was about to go into the house, Xie Lang quickly said: "Stop!"

He dug out the bath tub of the three of them, filled half a basin of hot spring water in it, and then dug out the comb he made for the three of them, "Come here!"

Fantastic weirdo, you're crazy.On such a cold day, you let us take a bath?You are still not human.

The golden monkey stared at Xie Lang with wide eyes.

Xie Lang directly waved at the big white tiger, "Come here!"

In the eyes of the big white tiger, Xie Lang and Xiao Qi are its relatives, they will not, and it is impossible to hurt it.

The big white tiger didn't want to take a bath either, seeing Xie Lang call it, it still sat down obediently beside Xie Lang.

Xie Lang took a face towel and dipped it in some water to wipe off the blood on his body, then combed it with a comb.After repeating it countless times, Xie Lang tired his hands until he cleaned up the big white tiger, "Wait!"

Go into the house and find out the vest of the big white tiger and put it on, "Let's play." Pat it on the buttocks.

The big white tiger roared happily, scaring the animals in the silkworm farm to lie down on the ground, and the people who were arguing stopped in fright, and the big white tiger also found its own father Xie Xiaoqi.

Xie Guang looked at the frightened few people, and deliberately asked: "Why are you not arguing?"

"The tiger has gone down the mountain!" Xie Bowen's aunt shouted, "Didn't you hear?"

Xie Guang nodded, "I heard it."

"Why don't you run quickly? What are you looking at me for? Run." Xie Bowen's aunt ran out as she spoke.

Xie Bowen sighed, stopped her, and explained to her the origin of the tiger.Seeing that she didn't believe it, she pointed to the outside, "Go out and have a look and you'll know."

When the woman came to the door, she saw a child lying on the tiger's back, and there were many children around the tiger. She was dumbfounded, "Then, isn't that a tiger?"

"Yes. He was raised by Xie Sanlang's family." Xie Bowen said, "He is the head of the village now, and he doesn't allow us to teach outsiders to make dry oil skin. If we dare to teach it secretly and provoke him, the white tiger beast will punish us."

The woman opened her mouth and said with difficulty, "Isn't that a big dog?"

"His family also has a golden monkey and a pure black wolf." Xie Bowen said, "The three of them always like to be together. Those two didn't show up, so they must be with Xie Sanlang. They should come out later."

The woman still didn't believe it, she stood at the door for half an hour, seeing the golden monkey and the black wolf, it was still like a dream, "Is Xie Sanlang not human?"

"Of course it's human." Xie Bowen said, "He has a good heart, so the golden monkey lives in his house. Because he has a good heart and good luck. I go hunting, and I hunt three times at most out of ten times. He goes hunting, and he is lucky. When I hunted adult stags, I could get a few rabbits too. It’s been cold recently, we didn’t go to the city, and his family’s fur has piled up into hills.”

The small mountain is fake, but dozens of large and small photos are real.

Thanks to the big white tiger, the villagers who didn't know how to deal with difficult relatives were so blessed that they pushed Xie Lang out in unison.

People at this time especially believe in ghosts and gods. They have only heard of wild animals in captivity when they grow up, but never heard of free-range animals. Wild animals do not hurt people.Even if he didn't want to believe it, he had to believe it. Xie Jiasanlang was the one that the white tiger beast took a fancy to.

Around Shen time, when Xie Lang was giving him three "ancestors" stewed suckling pigs with a simple stove and pottery urn in the courtyard, the doorway of his house became lively.

Xie Lang only heard people's voices but no one came in, and couldn't help feeling that these idiots had finally learned to be smart.

Putting the lid on the pot, Xie Lang pointed to the monkey, "Don't eat it if it's not cooked yet." Then he pointed to the tiger and the little wolf, "Watch them both." Then he went out.

Opening the door and looking at dozens of doors, Xie Lang was startled, "The sky has been pierced?"

"The sky is not broken. But the sky in our silkworm farm is about to fall."

Xie Lang turned to the person who was speaking, and looked at him, "Are you looking forward to my early death, or are you looking forward to my early death?"

"That's what you said, not me saying that you are the sky in our silkworm farming."

Xie Lang was amused, "So you were waiting for me here. What happened?"

"Let me tell." Xie Bowen came out, his face full of embarrassment, "Brother Sanlang, I'm sorry for you."

Xie Lang immediately wanted to roll his eyes, "Speak directly."

"The tiger scared my aunt, she stopped making trouble, so I called her to my house for dinner." Xie Bowen glanced at Xie Zhongwu, "Everyone in our family has gone. My aunt went to the main room and saw the bamboo slips on the desk. Asked, where did it come from. The kid from Zhongwu's family said, Xie Guang's.

"My aunt said that my family was a big deal, and I had enough money to hire a wife for Xie Guang. We said that it was your kindness that invited the villagers. Your sister-in-law wanted to praise you, saying that you had hired the villagers for two years. I As soon as Gu Gu heard this, she would send her grandson over to go to school with Xie Guang."

Xie Zhongwu nodded, "My sister also wants to send some of her children here."

"Our relatives listened to the children's recitation and asked who taught us. We casually said that the master taught it. They knew that they would send the child away. Saburo, we really didn't expect this, otherwise, otherwise we would Definitely lock the child up."

Xie Lang let out a long sigh.

"Sanlang, don't sigh yet." Yao Guizhi said anxiously, "Your sister means that when her child is as old as Xiao Qi, send the child over and ask Xiao Niu to teach him."

Xie Lang turned to Yao Guizhi, "My sister is not pregnant yet?"

Xie Jianye's daughter was married last fall.When I came here before New Year's Eve, Xie Lang still heard Yao Guizhi nagging that she had been married for several months and why she is not pregnant yet, could it be that she is not feeling well.Yao Guizhi wanted to hire a wizard for her, but Xie Lang stopped her and advised Yao Guizhi to wait and see.

"She came over this morning and said that she might have it." Yao Guizhi said, and couldn't help sighing, "She is the only girl in our family, and she helped your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law make tofu for more than half a year. I didn't give her too much money, so I can't say no."

Xie Lang rubbed his forehead, "The big and small ones in our village add up, I think there are nearly thirty. How many relatives do you have?"

"I have four here." Xie Bowen said.

Yao Guizhi continued, "I don't have any for now."

"Do the math, do the math." Xie Lang said.

Everyone hurriedly called Xie Guang over, they said one, and Xie Guang added another one.

After a cup of tea, he figured it out, but Xie Guang didn't dare to speak, "Uncle Sanlang..."

"35? More than the people in our village." Xie Lang pointed at them, "You guys, where is the cleverness of counting my family's money? What kind of money should I use to hire a wife? Is it money from selling paper? Who made the paper?"

Xie Bowen said: "We only care about preventing her from borrowing money and preventing her from inquiring about the drying room and your paper-making shed. I really didn't expect that my aunt would ask her children to come here to learn how to read and write."

"Your aunt is a smart person, really smart. When her child comes over, you can't talk about baking oily skin at home, and you can't bring paper home. Otherwise, the child will listen to one ear today and one ear tomorrow, and think about it when he grows up. I can also figure it out." What Xie Lang seemed to say to Xie Bowen was actually telling everyone.

After Xie Lang's words fell, everyone's faces showed worry.

Xie Lang sighed, "Fortunately, when we were making paper, the school was on holiday."

Everyone wants to ask, what kind of holiday is it?Thinking back to last year, the paper was made after the busy farming season, and it was only made for two months. After the autumn harvest, they would not make it when the school resumed. At the same time, they let out a long sigh of relief.

"It scared us to death."

Xie Lang: "I didn't scare you. Paper is not a rare thing in the first place. Listen to it from your side, and ask someone who knows how to make paper when you get back. It's like playing with it."

"We won't tell."

Xie Lang smiled and said, "Where are the children at home?"

Everyone is speechless.

"Go back. Tell the children well. Don't scare them. Otherwise, if the children get angry and confront you, they don't want to talk about it, so they have to shake it off." After Xie Lang finished speaking, he waved to everyone.

Xie Bowen couldn't help asking: "You mean to let them come?"

"Can't you come?" Xie Lang looked at him.

Xie Bowen couldn't help rubbing his forehead, "What's all this?"

"Misfortune comes from the mouth, that's what it means." Xie Lang said, "In the past, I didn't let you be fooled, but you thought I was scaring you. Now be honest." After glancing at everyone, he closed the door and went back to the house to continue the stew.

Xie Lang stewed the suckling pig with large ingredients, while the tiger and the little wolf had grown up, so there was no need to stew it too badly.Taste it.

After the two suckling pigs were fished out, Xie Lang stewed the roe deer with water.The silly roe deer has been stewed, and half of the two suckling pigs have been removed.

Seeing that the golden monkey still wanted to eat, Xie Lang slapped its paw, "It's almost done."

The golden monkey stared at Xie Lang.

Xie Lang turned around and went into the house, and when he came out again, he had a big durian in his hand.

The child sniffed, raised his head, and exclaimed, "Master!"

"Hush!" Xie Lang put down the durian and looked around, "Keep down."

The child put down the brush and ran over, "I want a big piece."

When Xie Lang was cooking durian stewed chicken on New Year's Eve, the child was so angry that he wanted to run away from home.In his opinion, stewing such a smelly thing with chicken is a waste of chicken.

But his third master insisted on going his own way.

Xiao Qi thought Xie Lang was a prodigal, so he ran out the door, intending to find Xie Jianye, but suddenly realized that no one should know that there were strange things in his house and came back.

Xie Lang didn't care about him, when he peeled the durian meat into the plate and gave the fork to the child to eat, he didn't know that the food on the plate was durian, the child couldn't stop eating it.

It’s not good to eat too much.

Xie Lang made an appointment with the child, once every three days.Xiao Qi also reminded Xie Lang of the durian this morning, Xie Lang ignored him, Xiao Qi thought the mountain was gone.

At first glance, Xie Lang was not surprised when he took it out.

"Third Master, where did you put it?" He couldn't find it no matter what.

Xie Lang smiled and said, "A place you don't know."

Wrapping his hands in sackcloth, Xie Lang broke open the durian, left two pieces for him and Xiaoqi, and gave the rest to the golden monkey.

After the golden monkey finished eating, Xie Lang stuffed the durian shells into the fire and burned the corpse to wipe out any traces.

Xiao Qi showed reluctance, "Is it gone? Third Master."

"There are a few more. We have to eat slowly." Xie Lang rarely used the map of mountains and rivers in his previous life, so he never took care of it.

Now it is often used, so Xie Lang dug a few holes in the middle of the mountain, and put all kinds of food, melons and fruits into it.But the map of mountains and rivers is not static, durians can be stored for a long time and there is a time limit.

Xie Lang then said: "Eating once every three days can last for a month."

"Let's do it for a month." After eating some, Xiao Qi was happy, wiped his hands and continued to practice calligraphy by the stove.

A month later, when the weather became warmer, Xie Lang personally invited his master to teach in silkworm breeding.

The bundle has not changed, if someone's child goes to school, Xie Lang asks someone's child for twenty catties of bean curd sticks, and gives it to the master every five days.

If you can't finish eating yuba, you can sell it, and you can exchange it for a lot of money. The master is very happy that there are dozens of children in the school.Anyway, with Xie Lang around, the children didn't dare to make trouble, teaching one was no different from teaching sixty or seventy.

Under the atmosphere of hello, me, everyone, the wheat of Xie Lang's family grew more and more prosperous, and a group of villagers came to watch every day.

On February 24th, a holiday, Xie Lang didn't have to go to school.Taking care of the good family, Xie Lang planned to buy lambs from the villagers for a few days, but when he went out, he saw people standing on the road to the west.

Xie Lang walked over, "Did you see anything?"

"Your wheat is so lucky. It hasn't died after three snowfalls in winter." Xie Jiankang's uncle in the front pointed at the wheat seedlings. food."

"Fifty stone?" Everyone exclaimed.

Fifty stones are three thousand catties for later generations.

Xie Lang calculated it and said with a smile: "It's an exaggeration. The land here is not as good as the one in the east, at most forty shi. However, the wheat grains must be full, better than yours."

"Sanlang, can this be used as a seed?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Xie Lang.

Xie Lang: "Yes. But when this is collected, all your wheat has been planted. If I change it with you, I will have to wait until next year to plant it."

"We're talking next year."

Xie Lang nodded, "Okay. However, I plan to plant some other things in the east, and you have to help me plant them in a few days."

"Okay. Plant what?"

Xie Lang shook his head, "I can't say. Because it didn't grow out last year, I want to try again this year."

Xie Jiankang's uncle understood, "It's because you asked people everywhere last year, why didn't the flower bear fruit?"

Xie Lang nodded, "Yes! That's the one. My family has so much food that we can't finish it, and the six mu of land is enough for us to eat. I want to try it over there. Even if it doesn't work, I can feed it to the cows."

The villagers are happy to see Xie Lang using his own land for farming.He also heard that he was ready for no harvest. In March, the villagers in the silkworm farm planted wheat and went to help Xie Lang grow things.

Some people wanted to secretly take a few seeds home to plant, but they were worried that Xie Lang would find out, so they didn't exchange wheat seeds with them, so they didn't even dare to steal one.

When Xie Guang saw cotton seedlings and sweet potato seedlings, he recognized them immediately, "Uncle Sanlang, you made these on the mountain, right?"

"Yes." Xie Lang was thinking about how to explain to the villagers, when Xie Guang said this, Xie Lang swallowed the words back, "Worry is grass?"

Xie Guang nodded, yes.

"You don't blame the grass. Keep planting." Xie Lang stood up and rubbed his waist, "I also got a few fruit trees from the mountain and put them in my yard. After planting them here, go and help me dig holes and plant trees. "

Hu Zi and Xiao Lang have grown up, Xie Lang doesn't need to call Xie Guang to go with him again when he goes up the mountain.Xie Guang had no doubts, and neither did the villagers.When he saw apricot, peach and persimmon trees, he couldn't help but ask him, "Did they grow for Brother Monkey?"

Xie Lang nodded directly, "Yes. Hurry up and plant."

Everyone also thought so, and then saw that there was an extra shed above Xie Lang's chicken coop and duck pen, and there were many canes on it. Xie Lang said it was a fruit tree, and the villagers didn't ask about any fruit.

Asking can't reach their mouths.Because they are all the rations of Brother Monkey.

Seeing that Xie Lang saved so much trouble, it was the first time that he didn't think the three foodies in his family were bothering him.

After resting at home for two days, Xie Lang took the villagers up the mountain to cut moso bamboo.

The moso bamboos were thrown into the spring water, and the pavilion chief also came to inform Xie Lang that it was time to do something for the court.

The men in the village went out like last year, but the women no longer worried, no longer panic, what to do.During this period, Xie Lang's family's wheat was ripe, and the women in the village cut it for him.

Xie Lang had previously promised the villagers that he would exchange it for them if he took it, and kept his promise, so he didn't send it home.

It's also Xie Lang who is so forthright, his family's four acres of cotton bloom white flowers, and the women in the village don't need Xie Lang's reminder to go to the fields to collect cotton for him every morning.Older women gathered under Xie Lang's bamboo paper shed to peel cotton for Xie Lang.

Xie Lang researched cotton-lotting stuff.

At first, the villagers asked Xie Lang what was the use of that thing.Xie Lang said that it is possible to make a quilt, but the cottonseed must be extracted, otherwise it will kill a person.

After that, the villagers didn't ask any more questions, and just stared at him all day long for making cottonseed cotton.

Xie Lang has only seen one that plucks cotton, but never one that removes cotton seeds, so he can only do it by imagination.As a result, all the men in the village came back, and Xie Lang couldn't make it.

Xie Lang wanted to wear cotton clothes and cover the quilt, so he did not give up and continued to study.

The villagers also hope that Xie Lang can do it, so they don't let their men disturb Xie Lang.

Emperor Tian paid off, at the end of May, Xie Lang finally made it.

On the first day of June, Xie Lang took the peeled cotton outside and called out to the villagers, "Send one person from each household, and then go to Qianli Zheng to bring the scales. Each family has a catty of cotton seeds. I will teach you tomorrow." You grow cotton. In autumn, let you all wear cotton-padded clothes and quilts."

"Really?!" Everyone shouted in unison.

Xie Lang nodded.

"Why are you so nice, Saburo!"

Xie Lang thought to himself, it's a human thing to say, "Who told me to be your Li Zheng. It's what I should do to let you live well. Go!"

"it is good!"

Xie Lang hurriedly shouted: "Wait, Qianlizheng's house is on the east side, not on the west side."

"We'll go north and pick cotton for you."

Xie Lang wanted to curse again, "In such a hot day, the leaves on the cotton husks are all dry, and they fall to the flowers as soon as you touch them. How do you pick them? Come back to me!"