Ding Tian's Ancient Life

There were three heavy snowfalls in early winter, and every time it snowed, it had to be cleaned up, otherwise it would be blocked and the road would be blocked.

In the vast expanse of whiteness, the entire Northeast became silent, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets, and many people began to formally go to winter.

Ding Tian also got a vacation from the yamen. In the winter when there is nothing to do, he can go back to the yamen after he clicks a dick. Anyway, there are only a few in the cell, and they are well-behaved and dare not cause trouble, but Ding Tian He still insisted on going to work, but he gave Uncle Zheng a holiday. The old man was really tired from walking back and forth, so when he had something to do, he asked Zheng Dang to go home and invite Uncle Zheng to come.

However, Maodong also has the benefits of Maodong. This time, Jin Buhuan will give everyone extra lessons, so that these people can learn to read numbers and calculate abacus.

Not to mention, there are a few who have learned quite well.

"This man, you need to know how to count. If you don't even know how to calculate the accounts, why don't you have someone sell them and pay back the money?" Mr. Buhuan said so, so the guards studied hard one by one.

There are those who are good at learning and those who are not good at learning, but at least they have learned addition and subtraction. They really can't learn multiplication and division, and there is no way to change it.

When Ding Tian was resting, he wanted to go to the street.

"Go to the street?" Wang Zuo disagreed: "It's freezing cold outside, you go to the street?"

"Go to the paper and pen shop and buy some pens, inks, papers and inkstones." Ding Tian was wearing big clothes.

"Don't you have any pens, inks, papers and inkstones to use?" Wang Zuo stopped reading: "I still have a lot in there, and I'll send you two sets.

Where can I buy it and use it well? "

His things are all used by the government, internally made, and used by the emperor, not to mention the best, but they are almost the same.

Ding Tian shook his head: "It's not for me. The jailers have learned to write for almost a year, and few of them have actually written by hand. I thought, give each of them a set of this pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so that they can at least know how to hold a pen in the future. , how to write."

"Then how much do you have to spend?" Wang Zuo didn't quite agree. Ding Tian first subsidized the cell because the cell wasn't perfect, but now that it's on the right track, why would he add money to it?

"Really?" Ding Tian scratched his head: "I'll go and see if the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are expensive. If it's too expensive, forget it..."

There are more than [-] people in the cell, and he can't even afford it.

Wang Zuo didn't say anything after hearing this, but he still dressed neatly, ordered his men and horses, and went to the street with him.

On the streets in winter, pedestrians are in a hurry, even small vendors, there are a lot fewer, and the most sold are some winter vegetables.

Frozen cabbage, or frozen tofu, because of the cold weather, these things are not afraid of melting outside.

There are also fresh cabbage, radishes and other vegetables that are stored in winter wrapped in torn quilts. This has to be a little harder. It needs to be protected from freezing during the day, and it has to be moved to a warm place at night, otherwise it will freeze.

There are also small vendors selling dried vegetables, such as dried eggplant, dried beans, and dried radish, which are arranged in a row.

There was still some falling snow on the top, and the shouting was weak. There were really no people on the street, so this business was naturally not easy to do.

Ding Tian's family has dried vegetables and winter vegetables, especially spicy cabbage. Aunt Jin can cook them easily now, and not only sell them outside, but also people in the Governor's Mansion eat them. Wang Zuo's morning side dishes include spicy cabbage.

When he arrived at the pen and paper shop, Ding Tian asked Xiao Er after entering the door: "How much is a set of pen, ink, paper and inkstone?"

"The cheapest set costs four taels of silver. If you make it yourself, the cheapest one has to be five taels. The better ones are worth ten taels or eight taels." Xiaoer said: "Especially paper. The best rice paper costs two taels of silver for one knife!"

When Ding Tian heard the price, it was more expensive than the price in the county!

And the complete set must be the cheapest one, and the quality... cannot be guaranteed.

Most importantly, it's so expensive!

Although he wanted to popularize knowledge, he didn't want to be taken advantage of.

Ding Tian turned around and took Wang Zuo out, and complained to Wang Zuo after he came out: "It's so expensive."

"The pen, ink, paper and inkstone are only four taels of silver, so cheap!" Contrary to his Yiyi, Wang Zuo had never used such cheap things.

"What's cheap?" Ding Tian almost rolled his eyes.

At that time, if the schoolbag used by someone's children was worth 4000 yuan, it was either a bragging, or a real local tyrant

rich.

He didn't buy a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Ding Tian wanted the jailers to know how to write. Sand table practice alone is not enough, and the handwriting is not good.

How to do it?

At this moment in Yihao, there were two carts passing by pulling coal. Where could the carts pulling coal be clean?Black marks were left on the white snow.

Wang Zuo walked along the street with Ding Tian, ​​and he felt pretty good, in a good mood.

But... Ding Tian saw the black trace, and he thought of something!

"What are you looking at?" Wang Zuo took two steps and found that Ding Tian hadn't followed. He turned his head to see that he was still looking at the dirty ground: "Is that important?"

"No, it's nothing!" Ding Tian quickly followed him: "Let me treat you to dinner!"

"You do?" Wang Zuo raised his eyebrows.

"No, no, no!" Ding Tian shook his head very timely: "I mean, I'll take you to the small stall next to me to eat a bowl of noodles^"

"Can't you say that you cook for me yourself?" Wang Zuo was very dissatisfied. He seldom ate food from small vendors. A little scared, for fear of eating something good or bad.

"I only have those hands. They are all home-cooked dishes. Are you tired of eating them?" Ding Tian pulled him to sit on a roadside noodle stall. This kind of noodle stall is surrounded by burlap on three sides, which can be regarded as shelter from the wind. , but the front is wide open, not warm at all.

Wang Fugui looked around: "This place...is there food?"

"Do you like to eat or not!" Ding Tian glanced at him, "I want to eat anyway, boss!"

But when I turned around, I found that the boss and the boss's wife were squatting in the corner and did not dare to move!

"What are you doing?" Ding Tian asked loudly, "Both male and female are sitting there hatching eggs?"

The corners of Wang Zuo's mouth curled up slightly, what he said was too funny.

Two honest people, seeing so many people coming in, I was a little scared.

"Don't be afraid!" Ding Tian also saw it, and waved towards them: "Come here, we each want a bowl of noodles, the kind with extra chili oil."

The couple came over tremblingly: "Hey, how about putting garlic?"

I'm afraid that the service will not be good, and the stall will be smashed by someone. Most of the people who still open the stall in winter are pointing to this noodle stall to make money to support their families.

Ding Tian also knew this, so he said kindly to him, "Let it go! Don't worry, we are not good people."

The couple's eyes widened.

Wang Fugui smiled and his shoulders trembled.

The corner of Wang Zuo's mouth curled up even higher.

"Ah embryo!" Ding Tian embryo took a sip: "I mean, we are all good people, we don't eat your food for nothing, let's do it."

"Hey hey!" The boss quickly got up and pulled his wife to make noodles.

Of course, Bai San'er and the others watched the two of them make it without blinking an eye, and after more than [-] big bowls came out, it was uncertain which bowl was for the prince. This was learned from Ding Tian. of.

While waiting, Wang Zuo looked around and said, "There are not many pedestrians here in winter."

"It's Dumaodong, who likes to come out!" Ding Tian picked out two pairs of chopsticks from a chopstick cage and gave Wang Zuo a pair: "Let's just go out for a stroll, most of the common people's homes are cleaning the chopsticks. The snow on the house, the front and back of the house also have to be careful..."

It is not easy for the common people here. Earth embryo houses have wooden beams, and snow has to be swept down on the house, but they dare not put it there to accumulate, because once it melts, the house cover may be easily mixed with mud...

Here comes the noodles, more than [-] bowls of noodles, out of one pot, hand-rolled noodles in hot soup, half a bowl of noodles, half a bowl of soup, sprinkled with chopped green onion, ordered sesame oil, chili oil, white pepper, etc. There are three or five slices of stewed mutton in each bowl.

In fact, two pieces are usually put in a bowl, the palm is big, the chopsticks are thick, enough to eat, but isn't this because these people are not easy to mess with?

I just added two or three slices more, I hope this group of people can eat more happily.

A bowl of noodles only costs [-] copper coins, and now whether this capital can be earned back is another matter.

But this taste is really good. It uses beef bone soup, put chicken skeletons in it, and fresh fish. After the milk is white, make the soup base, thinly sliced ​​noodles, and mellow stewed lamb, not to mention how good it is have eaten.

The most important thing is that after eating, the whole body is warm.

There were no. 30 of them, surrounded by a noodle stall, eating steaming hot noodles, and killed all the noodles that they wanted to sell for a day.

When paying the bill, the noodle stall owner didn't dare to ask for more: "It's five taels of silver in total."

In fact, it should be more than six taels, but I didn't dare to ask for that much, which means I gave a discount.

"Isn't this too little?" Ding Tian directly gave him ten taels of silver: "I can't let you pay for eating so much stewed mutton from you.

Ten taels of silver, excluding the capital, is enough for the couple to earn for three months.

"Thank you, thank you!" The couple sent the gang of uncles away with great gratitude.

A group of people continued to stroll on the street, and saw a jewelry shop selling curly flowers. Ding Tian went in and bought four curly flowers for the two cousins ​​at home. Thinking of the cousins, he bought four very small jade pendants , the one worn by a child is only the size of a fingernail, but it cost him ten taels of silver. Only then did Ding Tian know what "gold is priceless and jade is priceless" means.

"Don't want this." Wang Zuo threw the jade pendant back: "The color is not good, and the carving is rough. If you like it, I'll send someone back to you two."

The shopkeeper of that shop is a man with good eyesight, without even a word of rebuttal, he sent him out respectfully, and turning around, his waiter muttered: "Who is this? What's wrong with my jade pendant?" gone."

In the eyes of the waiter, there is nothing wrong with their own goods.

"What are you muttering about? That man from a high-ranking family doesn't like these little things..." The shopkeeper clicked his lips: "Oh, you have high eyesight!"

Ding Tian's vision is not high, but Wang Zuo's.

After returning, Wang Zuo personally selected eight jade pendants of different sizes and sent them to him. All of them were carved from high-quality jade materials, some were hollowed out, and some were embossed. Xipai and Pingan Fudou are all the same, even a person like Ding Tian who doesn't know much about jade can tell that the ones sold in the jewelry store are almost a distance away from the jewelry store.

After Ding Tian returned home, he was looking for Ma Liu: "Can you do carpentry?"

"The younger ones are better at repairing carriages. If you want to talk about carpentry, you have to find Zhao Laosi. He is good at carpentry and bricklaying. He used to come to Fucheng to find work." Ma Liudao: "If it is not a big If it’s a piece, I’d better ask him to do it more carefully, if it’s a big piece, the small one can also be done well.”

"Then let Mr. Zhao come over." Ding Tian said, "Bring me your carpentry tool, I'll use it.

"

"Okay." Ma Liu hurried to get his stuff.

When the item was delivered, Ding Tian accepted it and sent someone back. He still had important things to do.

After Wang Fugui came back, Wang Zuo was playing chess with Meng Xianchen in the study, and saw him come back: "Did he like it?"

"I like it, but it's rare." Wang Fugui said: "I said at the time, it's much better than what I saw in the shop."

Wang Zuo was in a good mood: "Then he won't be happy to chat with you for a while?"

"He is in a hurry to do carpentry work, how can he have time to take care of the younger ones? Just now he called the groom of his family to find him a carpenter." Wang Fugui took the opportunity to sue: "And it seems that there will be no time at night. Going to cook!"