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The house of Mr. Wu seems to be the most luxurious in the village. The layout of the house is a bit like a courtyard in the capital, but there are no side rooms in the row of courtyard gates, only stone walls, and there are five tile-roofed houses with stone walls facing the gate. , the building materials of the wing rooms on both sides are not as luxurious as the main house, they are stone walls with thatched roofs, and the yard is very large.

As soon as Wu Da's mule cart arrived at the courtyard gate, an old man about 50 years old came out from the courtyard gate. The old man ran to Wu Da and bowed to salute: "Master! You are back, my host just arrived at the pier Went to have a look."

"Penff! Feed the mules some hay."

Wu Da threw the reins of the mule to the old man. This old man is his servant, and a servant is not qualified to introduce to the distinguished guest. Therefore, after Wu Da handed the mule cart to Peng Fu, he turned around and bowed to the distinguished guest.

"This is the humble room. I invite two strong men to come in and sit down with me."

Wu Da led Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming into the courtyard, and three people came out from the main room. The first one was a woman in her early thirties, about 155 centimeters tall, wearing dark clothes, the same color as the village women. It is blue and blue, but the clothes are not the same color as the village women, but are printed with blue and white florals.Next to the woman was a child of 6 or 7 years old, dressed in navy blue floral clothes, with two sky braids on his head. Behind this woman and child was an old woman wearing a yellow and white ruyi ruqun, who was about the same age as Mrs. Peng. The old woman is Peng Fu's wife.

With joy on her face, the woman bowed her knees to Wu Da: "Your husband has worked hard."

Children aged 6 and 7 rushed towards Wu Da: "Daddy, I miss Feng'er."

Wu Da picked up his son, turned his head and introduced to the honored guest: "This is the bitch, this is the dog Wu Feng."

After finishing speaking, he asked his wife to come forward to meet the guests, and told his wife that the two distinguished guests today are his saviors.Upon hearing her husband's introduction, Wu Da's wife hurried forward to bow and thank her, and the old woman behind her followed the housewife and bowed down.Wu Feng kowtowed three times to the two time travelers under Wu Da's order.

The two time-travelers only had a general understanding of ancient etiquette, and they still didn't quite understand how people of all colors reciprocated.The fist salute is also the bow salute.

After everyone had met the ceremony in the courtyard, Wu Da invited the distinguished guests into the hall and took a seat. Wu Da's wife personally served tea soup, which was tea boiled from tea leaves, and salt was put in the tea water.

Seeing the Wu family members, they should have given some greeting gifts. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui did not bring any modern items when they left the valley. They only packed food, a sleeping bag, and two red Fuji apples in their backpacks. Zheng Yuming thought for a while, He took out two red Fuji apples and handed them to Wu Feng who was leaning against Wu Da, and Zheng Yuming put them back on the wood in the backpack beside the haystack, and Zheng Yuming also took them out and put them on the ground. At Wu Feng's feet, Wu Feng was different from the two black children in the haystack. He was clean, and Mu Mu had no hostility towards Wu Feng. After sniffing Wu Feng, he even wagged his tail at him.

Wu Feng looked at the red Fuji apple, but just opened his eyes wide, and Wu Da was different, his face was full of surprise.

The red Fuji apples in the 21st century are very fragrant. As soon as two apples are taken out, the hall is filled with the aroma of apples. In this era, there are also fruits and apples, but the apples here are very small, basically the size of duck eggs, like this seven They had never seen eight taels of apples before. The most important thing was that the apples appeared in the wrong season. It was the end of winter, and the ancient aborigines had to wait another eight months to eat apples.

Seeing Wu Da's surprised expression, Zheng Yuming quickly explained to Wu Da that this is a special product they brought from their homeland. This kind of apple can be stored for several months, so even after several months of wandering, it still hasn't broken.

Wu Feng got his father's consent, happily accepted the gift from the distinguished guest, and went down to look for his mother with two apples in his hand.

Wu Da had seen Apple, and became interested in the overseas homeland that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui mentioned, so he asked them about the situation in their homeland. I can also speak a few words of Wu dialect.

Even though Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui tried to talk about less modern things, Wu Da listened to them and made him envious. He praised their overseas homeland as a fairyland on earth, a paradise where only gods in the sky can live, because It is unimaginable for Wu Da to imagine a country where everyone can have enough food and every child has books to read. When he heard that a family only had one or two children, he opened his eyes wide. After the death rate was extremely low, it became clear that people don't need to have more children. There are two or three children there, and they can basically survive. However, the villagers here in Nanbu have five or six children. If they are lucky, they can survive two or three children. Bad, maybe none of them survived.

Wu Da had three children, but he only supported the second child, Wu Feng. Both the first boy and the third girl died before their full week. A child may not be unfortunate, and he does not need to bear the pain of bereavement.

Wu Da has a longing for the hometown of the honored guest, but after the people who travel through the country describe the dangerous storm at sea with eloquence, that longing can only become a sigh, but his heart is more and more sympathetic to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's homelessness.

Taking advantage of Wu Da's sympathy for them, the two time-travelers began to ask this native a detailed question about the social situation in this world.

From Wu Da's words, the two timetravelers found that they were transported by the blue light to a world whose history was very different from the original time and space.

In the world here, the oldest legends still have the three saints Yao, Shun, and Yu, and the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, but Zhou is not divided into Eastern and Western Zhou. The Zhou Dynasty only existed for more than 200 years. In the hands of King Zhou You, who played with the princes, he was wiped out by the princes of Qin. The princes of Qin established the Great Qin Empire. The millennium-old ancient empire is now on the verge of fading away, and the vassal states entrusted by the empire are becoming stronger and stronger. The Great Qin Empire, like the Eastern Zhou Dynasty that traveled through time and space, has been reduced to a decoration.There are six big vassal states that Wu Da knows, and there are more than a dozen small vassal states.The current situation in the world is similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Nanbu Village belongs to the administrative genus of Dacheng, and Dacheng belongs to the State of Wu, which is one of the six vassal states of the Great Qin Empire.The state of Wu faces the sea in the east, the state of Chu in the west, the small vassal states Wei and Tang in the north, and the land of barbarians in the south, ruled by the local aborigines. Small tribes form a confederation.The state of Wei bordering on the northern part of Wu state has Lu and Zhao in the north, and the other bordering small state Tang in the northwest is Da Qin, Qi and Chen.

In other words, the six major vassal states are Chu, Wu, Lu, Zhao, Qi, and Chen. The only major vassal state bordering Wu is Chu, and the small vassal states are Wei and Tang.Dacheng is the fiefdom of the second son of King Wu.King Oh's second son was titled Lord Ulsan, and he was named after Ulsan. Ulsan is the general name of the mountains surrounding the villa.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui pinched their fingers and calculated the age of this time and space based on the historical chronology of the 21st century. They should be in around AD. The original time and space was when Qin Shihuang unified China, but in this time and space, there was no Shi Huangdi , There is no guy named Ying Zheng in the entire Great Qin Kingdom.The current Qin King of the Great Qin Empire is called Ying Zhai, and Ying is the surname of the Great Qin Kingdom.

Once he traveled to 2000 years ago, he was not in a place with the same history as his own time and space. Facing this bizarre time travel, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui looked at each other in blank dismay.

The only thing that makes the two time-travelers feel gratified is that the social productivity of this era is significantly higher than their contemporaries in that time and space.At this time, people mainly dressed in hemp and animal skins, and cotton cloth had also appeared. Cotton cloth should have been gradually popularized in the Central Plains during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but now it appeared a thousand years earlier, but today’s cotton cloth has not yet become the main clothing material for people. Only nobles can enjoy it, because it is precious and circulated as currency.The level of artificial iron smelting is very high, iron has been widely used in agricultural tools, and cattle are widely used in farming.

The productivity is higher than that of the original time and space, but except for the compass, the other three inventions did not appear.

People wrote mainly on bamboo slips, sheepskin, and cloth. The family heirloom Wu Da held out was a manuscript of historical records written on sheepskin. The text on it was a mixture of simplified and traditional characters.

In this time and space, only aristocrats can still enjoy the right to read and write. Wu Da’s ancestors were the nobles of the Wu Kingdom. They were exiled to Nanbu because they offended the powerful. At that time, Nanbu was still a barren land. He has not forgotten the cultural cultivation of his descendants, so Wu Da is one of the few literate ones in Nanbu Village. This is a cultural inheritance taught from generation to generation. Wu Da is already teaching his son to read.

Because of the handwritten sheepskin at home, Wu Dacai has a rough idea of ​​the current situation of the Great Qin Empire. Those illiterate villagers, apart from knowing Dacheng, know their own clan Wu. Nanman and Chu, this is only known because some merchants who went to do business in those two places stopped at the port.

Wu Da looks 40 years old on the outside, but in fact he is only in his early thirties. The old servants of the Wu family, Peng Da and his wife, are just about 40 years old this year, but they both look in their fifties. Life in this time and space is difficult, except for the nobles, Ordinary people generally look old, but Wu Da's wife only manages the housework at home and does not go out to run around. She looks not much different from her actual age.

When Wu Da talked about the current world, his words were filled with emotion.

"In the past few years, I don't know why, every year the winter is getting colder and colder, and the winter days are getting longer and longer. In the past two years, there has been little rain. We are close to the Changhe River, and the fields are short of water. We can carry water for irrigation. My family's [-] mu of land , Now I can only focus on intensive farming of about ten acres. Fortunately, my family sells goods to earn some money, and I can barely make ends meet. Other places lack water, and many fields in the north of Dacheng are barren. The more hungry people fleeing here from the north There are more and more people, and even people from Wei and Tang fled here to survive."

The Changhe is the river west of the valley. The lake that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui mistakenly thought was actually the wide part of the Changhe. The Changhe flows from west to east and was blocked by Ulsan. To the sea, this long river is like the Yangtze River in the 21st century.

"When did winter start to get cold?" Chu Zhaohui frowned. On the road, he found that the land was very dry. In some fields, the soil was dry and cracked. The sparseness of wheat seedlings in the fields was probably caused by lack of water.Thinking of the half-exposed riverbed in the valley, Chu Zhaohui had a bad feeling.

"When I was a child, I didn't need to wear cotton jackets in winter, but now, I can't survive the winter without wearing cotton jackets." Wu Da recalled.

After listening to Wu Da's words, Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming looked at each other, and they both thought of the climate of the Little Ice River. Could it be that in this time and space, now is the "Little Ice Age" in the original time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty?If so, they really caught up with a bad time.

The author has something to say: Women's gift information: The Wanfu ceremony of ancient Han women is divided into big ceremony and common ceremony.Dali: Put both hands in front of the left chest (right hand presses the left hand), bend the right leg back, bend the knee, and bow the head.Normal ritual: Press your right hand on your left hand, press your left hand on your left hip bone, keep your legs together, bend your knees, and bow your head slightly.General etiquette, just press the right hand over the left hand.That kind of squatting slightly, with hands on the waist is Manli, which can be called Wanfuli, and Manchu people call it "squatting an".But the hand is on the left waist.It is also said that the Han people are on the left waist, and the Manchu people are on the right waist.Information on fist-holding ceremony: The fist-holding ceremony, also known as "Gong" and "Yi Li", is a kind of meeting ceremony in the traditional etiquette of the Han nationality. It originated before the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 3000 years. There is such a record in "The Analects of Confucius Weizi": "Zilu stands arched." According to the "Zhou Li", according to the status and relationship of the two parties, there were Tuyi, Shiyi, Tianyi, Teiyi, and Brigade at that time. The difference between bow and side three bows.The fist-holding ceremony is a unique traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation. The fist-holding is to clasp the right hand with the left hand, which is naturally closed, moderately tight, and naturally shakes slightly in front of the chest. It should not be too strong or too high.Do not hold fists indiscriminately. Men should hold left hand, that is, men hold right hand with left hand. This is called "Ji Bai". On the contrary, it is "Ji Bai" which disrespects the other party. , that's pretty rude.Information about the Little Ice Age: There was a "Little Ice Age" in the history of meteorology, which refers to the period after the end of the Ming Dynasty and before the Opium War (or before the prosperity of Kangxi and Qianlong). Droughts and severe floods appeared one after another, and the winter was extremely cold. Not only Hebei, but also Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other places experienced blizzards.Many people now attribute the end of the Ming Dynasty to this climate.