Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"Very good." Ding Tian kept smiling at Old Zheng Shu and the others.

In fact, he was already complaining in his heart that he couldn't help himself.

He has seen the ancient prison cells.

When I was in the county seat before, because it was a newly rebuilt county seat, everything was new and blank, so of course he could clean it up casually, but here is a prison cell that has been used for an unknown amount of time... Dirty, messy, and bad. portrayal

This is the prison cell in Fucheng!

Not to mention the filthy prisoners inside, the prison clothes can't even see their true colors!

Maybe it was closed for a long time?

Some prisoners were already very decadent and sloppy sitting in the cell, their eyes were lifeless and full of lifelessness.

The most important thing is that people in ancient times had long hair. After a long time, they even grew beards... And from their beards, hair, and necklines, there are some small creatures crawling around from time to time, which makes people creepy. !

There was also a prisoner who caught the lice and threw it into his mouth without even thinking about it. The creaking sound made Ding Tian's Wu Zang Temple almost rebel... He really wanted to vomit....

What Ding Tian is afraid of is that if these lice, fleas and other small things are allowed to continue to run rampant, if there are some infectious diseases, a large number of them will die?

In this era when everything depends on bitter medicine soup to cure diseases, Ding Tian really does not want to die young.

The way to deal with plague and other severe infectious diseases in this era is very simple. Close the plague area, and then burn it up. No matter whether it is a person or anything inside, it will be burned to ashes, and it will be over.

Safe and effective…….

Compared with the three "prisoners" he once received and the 36 kidnappers he caught later, what kind of life do the people here live?

Ding Tian has a villain in his heart, and he is already jumping to tidy up this messy prison cell!

Of course, it is impossible for Ding Tian to say that, he just watched today, with his eyes, the place that will soon become his work.

At the same time, the small calculations in my heart have been making non-stop.

There were not only the 36 prisoners "captured" by Ding Tian in the cell, but also six other prisoners, all of whom were said to have cases....

After looking around, it was already past noon.

In the end, Uncle Zheng led Ding Tian to a separate small courtyard. This small courtyard is where everyone works. The others are all room by room. Only this is a separate small courtyard, not big, but The independent courtyard, just this one, is quite special.

There are three large rooms facing north and south in the courtyard. The middle is obviously the living room, the east is a cleaned-up bedroom with a heated kang inside, and the west has tables, chairs, bookshelves, etc. It looks like a small study.

And the layout is quite good, there are pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and a mahogany paperweight. Next to the desk is a half-person-high painting jar. There are many grades.

"This is where you do business. You can stay overnight in the East Wing. There is no way, the prison is heavy, and sometimes you have to live here." Uncle Zheng pointed to the study and said: "We are all rough people, no Understand these, if you need anything else, just ask."

"It's very good. My office is here. It's very convenient. As soon as I go out, it's your duty room... cough cough cough... your duty room." Ding Tian still has a bit of a modern habit: "I'll also go to the kitchen. Let's see."

He only stood outside just now, and he hasn't gone in yet.

"Oh, good." I don't understand why I want to go to the kitchen, but Uncle Zheng still takes Ding Tian to the kitchen again》

The sanitation of the kitchen is slightly better, after all, it is a place for cooking.

Only relatively speaking, if it is according to Ding Tian's request, this is definitely not qualified.

The stove is okay, but there is dust on the eaves... The window paper on the windows has changed color, and it looks like it hasn't been replaced in a year or two.

Ancient windows were made of paper instead of glass.

The kitchen is very big, there are four large iron pots that can accommodate Ding Tian to take a bath, four medium pots, and eight small pots and small stoves.

"Small" is relative. The food cooked in a small pot can at least feed a family of four.

The big pot is enough for at least 30 people. If it is stick noodle porridge, the big pot is enough for the prisoners in the prison to drink.

Next to the kitchen is the firewood room, and on the other side is the place where the ingredients are placed in the kitchen.

Ding Tian also took a look. There are ten sauerkraut vats lined up in a row, quite imposing.

There are also four cellars for potatoes, at least a thousand catties of storage capacity, and two cellars for radishes, but now there is only a little left to eat.

There is not much cabbage left, and there are some carrots that have wilted, etc... especially pickles.Potatoes, cabbage and radishes are the most stored vegetables in winter.

Pickles and other things are also indispensable, all pickled black... I guess a lot of salt was added.

Two hangs of salted bacon were hung on the beams of the house... probably not willing to eat them. There was also some boiled pork suet, which was placed in oil jars. There were several big jars, but only half of them were filled. Half empty, out of oil and water.There is a lot of food, but there are only three types at most, cornmeal, sorghum rice and millet.

White flour is less than [-] catties, and rice is only about [-] catties.

The remaining soybeans and mung beans are less than [-] catties... It is estimated that these miscellaneous grains will not be used in the cell, and they are basically thrown in the corner. There, you can usually "make up for it" ^

Seeing Ding Tian check the food, the two cooks were a little nervous: "Ding Si prison, we didn't embezzle the food, really Yang Yong!"

The other also nodded nervously: "Yes, the two of us eat and live here, and never go out..." Old Uncle Zheng also chimed in: "Aunt Taohua and Aunt Xinghua are honest people, and they won't be greedy." take public property

Only then did Ding Tian realize that they were all very nervous, not only dumbfounded: "I just checked the food reserves, you also know that thirty or so prisoners suddenly came to the prison, although they won't stay for long, but this time After all, I have to stay in prison for a few days, and I have to give them food so as not to starve to death. If the ingredients are not enough, I have to ask the higher-ups to order. Let’s not talk about whether the prisoners eat or not, at least we have to eat It’s better, otherwise how can we have the strength to manage the prisoners?”

Hearing what he said, several people smiled with relief, and the expressions on their faces improved a lot.

"That's right!" Old Zheng wiped his sweat off his head: "We eat the same, and the prisoners eat the same. This is actually the case here in the cell. No one will... that... fill their own pockets."

It's hard for him to be a big bastard, at such an age, he still talks about words.

I don't know where I heard this word, but it can barely be used here, right?

"Hehe..., I think everyone is a responsible person." Ding Tian smiled dryly.

He really didn't come here to see if they were corrupt... Corruption is useless, after he came, this cell must be changed!

Whether it is the internal work, or the external image!

Especially the hygienic state, I really can't stand it anymore!

This is the weather in February, and when it was still chilly, he could smell the smell... If it came to March and the river opened up, would the smell still enter people?

Even if it is a prison cell, you have to pay attention to hygiene, right?

After reading it, it was getting late, Ding Tian's first day at work in the government office prison, just passed by, familiarized himself with the site, and he was about to leave work.

After leaving the cell, bypassing the second gate, the Yi gate, and the main gate, he left the government office at the side gate and went straight to his new home.

There are already meals prepared by Mrs. Jin at home.

After opening the door for him, Aunt Jin smiled: "I thought it was time to go to work, so I made dinner."

"It smells so good? What are you eating today?" Ding Tian smelled a strong miso aroma as soon as he entered the door.

Different from the uniform taste of miso made by modern machines, this is a real farmhouse miso made from green soybeans, which has a natural and rich miso aroma.

No matter what kind of miso is used, it is very delicious.

As the saying goes: "The saucer is the general of all flavors, and the handsome is the one with all flavors."

This strong sauce can make all the food it encounters better in terms of taste.

"I saw that there was frozen tofu in the storeroom, so I made stewed tofu with miso sauce, pasted stick noodle pancakes, and boiled cabbage soup. There was no salt in the soup, but a few slices of bacon." Aunt Jin gave it to Ding Tian The feather duster swept the dust off his body, and helped him take off the big clothes he was wearing outside: "Taste the saltiness, if it's salty, I'll put less salt in my cooking tomorrow."

Cooking on the first day, I don't know whether Ding Tian's taste is light or heavy.

In the morning, the breakfast was porridge, pickles and the like. She estimated how much salted duck eggs and pickles the employer ate, and cooked dinner, hoping to suit her appetite.

Aunt Jin attaches great importance to this job. It is close to home, right next door, and the salary is generous.

"Okay." Ding Tian took off his big clothes, washed his hands and face, changed his shoes, and then sat on the kang. Dinner was already set on the kang table, and the sun was setting outside.

Aunt Jin saw that he started to move her chopsticks, and was about to leave, when there was a knock on the door outside, the sound was quite loud, as if knocking on the door, Ding Tian's first chopsticks stewed tofu with miso did not even enter his mouth .

Aunt Jin happened to be standing on the ground, she wanted to open the door, but was stopped by Ding Tian, ​​instead he stretched his legs, put on his shoes and got off the ground.

Opening the door of the room, he yelled towards the gate of the yard. His gate is also quite close to where he eats, and he was so loud to let people outside know that there is someone in the house, and it is a The man... wanted to slip the door and pick the lock, but he went to the wrong place.

"Who is it?" Ding Tian felt that even if he was here in the government office, he must be vigilant, knocking on the door at this time, who knows who is standing outside?

Besides, how could he let Aunt Jin open the door and sit on the pit to eat with peace of mind?

"It's me!" A deep man's voice actually answered Ding Tian's casual question.

"Who are you?" It sounded familiar, but Ding Tian hadn't come to the gate yet.

It was probably people outside who had never encountered such a situation before, so they fell silent for a while.

Ding Tian walked up to the gate, looked out through the crack of the gate, and saw a piece of... vermilion clothes.

The background color of the clothes was vermilion, and the pattern of auspicious clouds was embroidered with gold thread on it... Even in the afterglow of the setting sun, it was still shining brightly.

Just a corner of this piece of clothes made Ding Tian unable to calm down.

In this feudal era, the clothes of ordinary people were either long or short, or shirts, or skirts, which basically inherited the tradition of the Ming Dynasty. There was no such thing as "making hair and changing clothes" in this Qing Dynasty.

And in the color and variety of clothes, it has enriched a lot.

In terms of clothing colors, ordinary wives and daughters can only wear purple, green, peach red and other colors, so as not to mix with official colors; working people are only allowed to wear ordinary colors such as brown, primary colors and black, white and soap colors, absolutely not Only officials can wear this kind of scarlet clothes...not to mention the auspicious cloud pattern on it, not everyone can use it.

Now that Ding Tian saw such clothes, he had to open the door if he didn't.

When he opened the door, he was stunned: "You...?"

Before the master could speak, the person next to him greeted Ding Tian enthusiastically: "Oh, boss Xiao Ding, it's really destined! We meet again..."

□The author's gossip: Jianghu saw the real appearance of the ancient prison cell...didn't eat dinner...