Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"You can spend a new year in your hometown when you go back, and you can come back after the spring of next year." Wang Zuo had planned a long time ago. Going back to his hometown is an introduction. If he can celebrate the New Year in his hometown, Ding Tian will definitely go back. alright.

He must return to the capital before the Dragon Boat Festival, but being able to return to his hometown for half a year is enough for Ding Tian's heart.

Sure enough, Ding Tian was moved: "Then what about my errand?"

"I think it's good for them not to exchange gold. Isn't there a Li Shu in your place?" Wang Zuoman said indifferently: "Just let the emperor pay more attention to the past. Now everyone is busy with the autumn harvest. No matter what, no one will still think about Li Shuren at this time, he can no longer become an existence that attracts attention."

They are all common people, what else should they care about?

There was a lot of emphasis on "etiquette" in ancient times, "You can't punish a doctor, and you can't show courtesy to a common man", which means that you don't even have to practice etiquette when treating common people.

Not to mention a common man locked in a sky prison.

"Okay, when are you leaving?" Ding Tian couldn't help but want to fly back to his hometown.

"We're leaving in ten days. You have plenty of time to prepare. How many people will you bring to serve you? Take the frame as well. I usually ride in my king's car. It's more comfortable there. Take your frame back and show it off in front of your family. ’” Wang Zuo encouraged Ding Tian: “Let the folks know that you now have a title and an official status.”

"But pull it down, I don't understand my guards of honor, the frame and so on, let alone my family members." Ding Tian was not fooled: "I'll go home with you at public expense Let’s pay homage to our ancestors, and we’re not going back to show off. What’s there to show off? It’s not like you haven’t been to our house. It used to be poor, but it’s better now. Every year our grain store doesn’t make any money, so it’s just There is a place to sell food for the villagers.”

The grain business of Lao Ding’s family has always been lukewarm, and they don’t make much money throughout the year. However, the nearby villagers are no longer bothered by the exploitation of grain merchants. They are much richer, and they are closer to the border, where a large amount of leather goods are traded with cattle and sheep every year, and they can also get a little benefit from it.

The days are better, and everyone is happy.

The gifts that Ding Tian sends back every year are very suitable, and the things brought to him by his hometown are also very interesting. They are all hometown specialties. The meaning of the vocabulary, since then, when the two uncles gave him New Year gifts, they always had two hundred catties of rice, enough for him to eat alone; and one hundred catties of dried vegetables.

This happens every year, as if he might not have enough to eat in Beijing, and there is also a hundred catties of salted bacon that must be sent every year.

Judging by the weight, it is enough for Ding Tian to feed himself for a year.

Of course, they didn't know that Ding Tian was not alone in his family.

Moreover, Ding Tian usually cooked the dried vegetables and salted bacon that he brought for Emperor Yongqing's family, because they had never eaten dried vegetables and salted bacon from the Northland.

In addition to all kinds of dried mushrooms, black fungus.

In winter, a plate of eggs fried with fungus and chives can make Emperor Yongqing eat two bowls of rice.

Your majesty the emperor is very easy to support.

"I know you have good intentions, so you need to have a posture. Only when you go back can the people of Beifeng Mansion not underestimate your Dingjia Village, or even Niujiao County." Wang Zuo said, "You are the most promising person in your village. , your county magistrate probably never forgets you."

"It's more than that? County Magistrate Xu and Prefect Du visit me every year and write letters. It is said that our place is doing well now, and life is better. Not to mention that there is meat to eat, but every family has surplus food. , there is no shortage of fat pigs and big ducks, and we can trade some cattle and sheep with the border gate in winter."

It is extremely cold in the winter in the Northland, and the consumption of mutton is huge. Soup made from mutton bones, mutton soup is especially popular.

"Hey hey...." This kind of compliment, which was like teasing, made Ding Tian a little embarrassed: "It's okay."

Now that you have decided to go back to your hometown, you must first arrange your work.

Jin Buhuan heard that he was going back: "It's just right, take the New Year gift home for me, and say hello to my aunt and brother-in-law, as well as my nephew."

"Okay!" Ding Tian readily agreed.

"Also, you are back, and I want to go back next year to have a look." Jin Buhuan said: "Although the tomb at home is entrusted to my uncle to take care of it, I have to go back and look at it myself."

"Okay, I'll come back for you, and my sister-in-law will also go back to visit my relatives." There is no problem with this request.

The work was left to Jin Buhuan, and Ding Tian greeted him. After the work was arranged, he went home.

He is very relieved to leave the affairs of the family to Old Wang, the housekeeper. The ceremony is the same every year, but he just takes back the things that are given to the family this year.

"However, when you go home, you can't just bring the usual things, you have to prepare more..." Old Wang Butler nagged on the preparations: "Eat, drink, everything is indispensable."

As a result, when Ding Tian went back to his hometown, he dragged almost fifty carriages for all kinds of things and gifts.

But compared with Wang Zuo, that's nothing.

His Royal Highness King Ning went to the north of Beijing this time, which was different from the last time. The border was not peaceful last time. This time he was going to intimidate the other party, so he not only had a complete ceremonial guard, but also brought [-] carriages, all kinds of gifts, reward the army with money, etc.

In addition, his own things are also pulled by three hundred carriages, plus Ding Tian's gadgets, thousands of carriages travel mightily, and Ouchi guards follow him back and forth, three thousand imperial guards accompanying.

Including his own troops, there are almost five to six thousand people.

The movement of leaving Beijing can be said to be shaking the earth.

Because it was already late autumn and we were heading north again, we lived in the post station on the road for the third time after staying there twice. When we got up the next morning, it was frost outside.

"It's early winter, isn't it?" Ding Tian got up early in the morning, dressed and went to wash, then opened the door, stretched his arms and legs in the open space, and stretched his muscles and bones.

Just as soon as I opened the door, I saw hoarfrost outside.

"Yes, is it cold? Come out so early." Wang Zuo was right behind him, took the cloak from Wang Fugui and wrapped it around him: "Let the mutton soup boiled in the kitchen drink some later to warm up your body. I’m afraid I’m going to sleep on the road.”

Because of the large number of people, not every station can accommodate so many people.

"Okay." There were a lot of them, and they brought a lot of things. Sleeping in the wild was not a problem. Anyway, the two of them lived in the king's car.

Just walking around like this, from the end of August to September, it was almost the fifteenth of September, and they finally arrived at Beifeng Mansion.

Ding Tian no longer has a mansion here, and he has dealt with it, but Wang Zuo still has a mansion here, which is the other courtyard of the Wangfu that was once converted into the Governor's Mansion. After Wang Zuo left, the Governor's Mansion also moved away, but The name of the Wangfu Bieyuan has been preserved, and Wang Zuoyou sent someone here to take care of one or two.

In addition, Aunt Jin is still here with her little grandson, so it is really embarrassing to meet the old people.

Aunt Jin is still the same, and her grandson, Jin Shule, has grown into a young boy, more bookish, but because Aunt Jin has been raised well in the past few years, the young boy has grown up quite strong.

There is also Cui Jiu's family, who are now big bosses. There are dim sum shops of him in the three northeastern prefectures. They gave birth to a son, and now their daughter-in-law still has one in her belly, just pregnant.

After knowing that Ding Tian and the others had returned, Aunt Jin had already prepared meals. Ding Tian and Wang Zuo did not eat at the palace, but went directly to Aunt Jin's house.

The food in the palace is just that, let the people who come with you eat it, and the two of them will eat home-cooked food.

Mrs. Jin's house has been renovated, the house has been refurbished, the doors and windows have been replaced with new ones and painted, and the window papers are all freshly pasted.

The vegetable fields in the yard are still there, but half-height walls have been built around them, and the vegetables grown inside have been collected, but there are frozen cabbages on the walls, and dried vegetables are placed under the eaves.

In the past few years, Mrs. Jin has brought dried mushrooms, dried frozen cabbage and some miscellaneous grains to Jingli every year. They are not many, but they are all her wishes. Yes, I was afraid that the grandparents and grandsons would not be able to keep it, so I gave a purse every year, which contained two gold ingots weighing one or two yuan, one Ruyi pen ingot, one three yuan and the second, and a bag of Zhan Zhanxin copper coins, one thousand The ones with [-] pieces, and the rest are cloth and fur, as well as an old wild ginseng every year.

Now Aunt Jin's life is much easier, and occasionally Cui Jiu's family will come to visit their grandparents and grandchildren. The two families live like a family now, and Cui Jiu and his wife even recognized Aunt Jin as their godmother.

He recognized Jin Shule as his godson.

Now that the two of them came back, Cui Jiu's family also came. After everyone met, they were supposed to salute, but Ding Tian and Wang Zuo excused them.

"Come inside quickly, it's very cold outside." Aunt Jin happily let Ding Tian and Wang Zuo enter the house when she saw Ding Tian and Wang Zuo: "The house that was newly built last year, even the kang was newly built, and it was Cui Jiu's help. Zhang Luo, now is a good day."

The house of Mrs. Jin’s house is no longer like a snow cave with nothing left, but the doors and windows are strict. The house has a new heated kang and new furniture. The old furniture that has faded is gone. up.

As soon as you enter the room, there is a sense of warmth and the aroma of food.

"All the food is ready, wash your hands quickly, eat, eat!" Aunt Jin smiled so hard that she couldn't see her eyes. She was able to become a high-ranking official and still missed the little friendship. She is really nostalgic. It is worthwhile to help her every year Take care of the yard next door, and rent some local land.

"Hey, is it stewed goose? Stewed goose with dried vegetables?" Ding Tian has a good nose. Ever since he left Beidi, he has never eaten such authentic stewed goose with dried vegetables in the capital.

"Yes, there is also stewed chicken with mushrooms. I'm afraid it will spoil the taste. I will eat stewed chicken with mushrooms tomorrow." Aunt Jin instructed her grandson with a smile: "Go and bring the fruit wine I brewed last year. I used to point out the fruit and sell it for some money." Buy salt, now there is no shortage of salt to eat, so I didn’t sell the fruit, and brewed fruit wine, come and taste it.”

The benefactor came back, Aunt Jin was so happy that she couldn't be herself, and Ding Tian was not polite to her. The guests at this table were all her own people, except Cui Jiu and his wife, Aunt Jin's grandparents, Mrs. Ding Tian and Wang Fugui, He is where Wang Zuo went, and he followed wherever he went.

Two big geese and a pot of dried vegetables were placed in the middle of the table in a large coarse porcelain basin. In fact, there were other small dishes, but they were all things like cold potato shreds and garlic eggplant. They were not precious, but they were very homely.

Ding Tian took a mouthful of dried vegetables: "It's delicious!"

"Eat meat, eat meat!" Cui Jiu used his useless chopsticks to pick up a goose thigh for Ding Tian, ​​and frightened Wang Zuo to pick up another...My lord, in this life, he thinks it was the old Cui's family who burned the meat. It's so fragrant, I actually met the prince.

Then it was Cui Jiu's family who smiled and gave Xiao Le a goose leg, what a son, you can't treat him badly just because of the prince and Tian Shao, right?

"Have you been living well these years?" Ding Tian said, "After I left, have I been bullied again?"

"No, no!" Aunt Jin and the others were all happy: "You are here enough to take care of us, and Mrs. Du also takes care of us. Over the years, because the court has always won battles, the barbarians have to pay the court every year. It is a tribute, so there is no shortage of beef and mutton, and it is sold cheap!"

For ordinary people, no matter what kind of meat it is, as long as there is some meat, they will be very happy. What's more, the beef and mutton outside the Great Wall are really delicious. The mutton is not fishy at all. , Drinking a bowl of mutton soup, the warmth is indescribably comfortable.

Knowing that everyone is having a good life, Ding Tian is happy.

It's just that Cui Jiu hesitated to speak, and was secretly pulled by his wife, after all, he didn't say anything, so as not to spoil the fun.

Cui Jiu swallowed the words he was about to say, and ate a chopstick of cold potato shreds instead.

But Wang Zuo saw his expression and looked at the couple thoughtfully.

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