Ding Tian's Ancient Life

Ding Tian persuaded the two uncles that they planned to send their two children to Hujia Village after the Chinese New Year. There was a private school opened by Uncle Ding Tian, ​​so it would be easier for his relatives to take care of them.

As soon as the matter was settled, Ding Tian's uncle came to the county the next day.

"I dared to come here because I heard that all the nobles in the county had left. Are you okay?" Uncle Hu Wei was afraid that something might happen to Ding Tian. As for Mr. Ma, he didn't care.

"It's okay, Uncle." Ding Tian turned around deliberately: "My nephew has gained a lot of weight in the yamen and followed the adults who came up to eat and drink spicy food!"

Isn't it a little bit fatter?

Seeing that his nephew was doing well, Hu Wei felt relieved: "That's good, you are better than anything else."

Ding Tian smiled and told his uncle about the plans of his two uncles, and told his uncle that he had two shops.

Unexpectedly, the uncle said angrily: "You are a petty official, and now you are involved in merchant affairs, will your children still be able to study and improve in the future? In merchants, you can only pass the imperial examination after three generations. Take a look at the Gao family. , I would rather not do business, but also provide for my eldest son to study, just to take off the businessman's hat, and you still put it on your head, are you trying to piss me off?"

"No, uncle, listen to me, this shop belongs to me, it doesn't mean I run it, these four shops are managed by my two aunts, our Lao Ding's house, except for me is a prison Boss, everyone else is a dutiful family, not to mention that I am inheriting my father's career, and my father is a man of military exploits!" Ding Tian told him: "My descendants will be able to take the imperial examination in the generation of their grandsons, and there is no need to do it again. Wait as long as three generations."

This was two days ago, when he was drinking with Xu Xiancheng, he heard what Xu Xiancheng said after drinking too much. The inside story here, to be honest, Ding Tian didn't know, but Xu Xiancheng did.

He also bragged that when Ding Tian got married and established a business, his son must be taught well, even if he could not be an official through the imperial examination, he had to be a landlord.

Then he also talked about his grandson... Ding Tian was very embarrassed at the time, but now he feels very good, at least these words are PJ^Uncle 彳inch.

"Well, as long as you can arrange it well, you can't delay future generations because of temporary greed." Hu Wei knew that his nephew's personality had changed a little since he was divorced, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

Ding Tian, ​​on the other hand, heard that his uncle always cared about his children and grandchildren, and Fuzhi guessed mentally: "Uncle, is there any good news from my aunt's side?"

"What do you know, kid?" Hu Wei blushed, and greeted the two elders of the Ding family: "I have a wife."

Ding Dajiang and Ding Dahe immediately congratulated him, it will be different after having it, and now they are thinking about the grandson.

Hu Wei's arrival, the family will immediately prepare something to entertain relatives, the beef brought by Ding Tian is good, radish stewed beef, bought a big fat goose, stewed potatoes, two meat dishes, a piece of cabbage in vinegar , a plate of fried peanuts in soybean oil, four good dishes, served with a pot of tofu soup, big white rice, this rice is still kept at home by Ding Tian, ​​who knows that the family doesn’t eat rice very much, most of the time they eat it For pasta, there are still many noodles, and pure white noodles are rarely eaten.

It is inappropriate for peasants to eat such fine rice and white noodles in their lives.

So only when distinguished guests come, they will eat rice and white noodles. Usually, they eat steamed buns with double noodles. More often, they eat steamed pancakes and steamed buns with corn noodles.

After a good meal, Hu Wei stayed here that night. The two uncles talked with their uncle all night, probably talking about things in the county.

Ding Tian returned to the yamen, and found four chickens in his "huge inventory", all of which were hard pullets that had been slaughtered and frozen. Tian sent it to my uncle early in the morning: "There are still things to do here, and I don't have time to see my aunt. I will take these back to my aunt's body."

"Okay." Hu Wei accepted the things: "I know that you are working in the yamen, and there are many ways to gain benefits, but don't overdo it, you are still young, you need to accumulate some sinful virtues, and also, don't get involved in the affairs of Shangguan. Forget it this time, Mr. Ma is not a good person, he deserves to be cleaned up, Xu Xiancheng has already taken office, and Niujiao County will be peaceful in the future."

"I know, Uncle." Ding Tian helped him put his things on the carriage: "Go back quickly, Aunt Cui and Aunt Cui are at home, waiting for you. I will send you there to teach with Ding Yi.

Ding Cheng and Ding Ji were still too young to leave home, so they sent the two older ones to study and read first.

"Well, it was agreed yesterday that the two of them will live with me at that time. You can go back and have a look at one day off every ten days." Hu Wei said: "You have to be careful yourself. In two days, I will ask someone to send you some Come here with bean buns and rice cakes."

A ten-day period is ten days. In ancient times, "ten days" were generally used as a unit, and a month was divided into early, middle and late ten days, and one day off for ten days was a very reasonable arrangement.

"Okay." Ding Tian sent Hu Wei away before returning to the yamen.

Now the magistrate of the county government has the final say, so Ding Tian went to sell his vacation with him. Seeing that he was still living in the original small courtyard, he was a little depressed: "Why don't you move to the back house?"

The house at the back is big, okay?

It can completely pretend to be Xu Xiancheng's family.

"Before I'm officially appointed, I won't go to the back house. That's where the county magistrate's family lives." Xu Xiancheng smiled lightly: "As long as the case is settled, the credit and reward will be mine sooner or later." ,No hurries.

Ding Tian said "Oh": "That's right, sooner or later it will be yours. I'm here to sell the vacation, so I'm going back to my cell."

"Go, it's Dongyue, and I'm going to steam bean buns to make rice cakes." Xu Xiancheng looked at the gloomy weather outside: "It seems to be snowing."

Ding Tian went back to his cell, he didn't come back for a day, someone in the house came and burned him a hot kang, now he came back and lit another fire to heat up the room.

After resting on the kang for a while, they got up. Those people left, but their belongings remained. When the prisoners were escorted away, those people did not take anything with them.

Ding Tian tidied up his things and found a lot of jewelry inside, both men and women.

He didn't need it, so he thought about it, picked things up and put them away, picked out a pair of big gold bracelets, wrapped them in red silk, and put them in a beautiful purse. He planned to give them to his aunt as a pregnancy gift .

Then, among the pile of things, he picked out a silver long-lived lock of "Kirin giving birth to a child", and wrapped it in red silk. This can be given to the little cousin who will be born in the future; but if it is a cousin... I bought a palm-sized silver longevity lock that says "Longevity and Wealth", and matched it with a pair of small bracelets and a pair of small anklets.

After tossing for a while, I felt that it was not interesting, so I went to make dinner.

He found that many of his ready-made and semi-finished ingredients were gone, yes, they were all eaten up, and now the rest of his place was either rice or white flour, cornmeal and other coarse grains, all of which were gone.

Ding Tian had no choice but to eat a extravagant meal of rice, and stewed a little stupid chicken for himself. Well, in this day and age, he just wants to eat broiler chicken... and there is no place to buy it.

The stewed chicken with mushrooms was delicious. After eating, he cleaned up and checked his money.

Now that there are two shops, there is a place to make money. Although the profit of grain trading is thin, this business has never been outdated since ancient times. People always have to eat.

That Wang Zuo left and left him a large amount of wealth, except for food, it was the things that were taken off the prisoners, such as clothes, Ding Tian decided to exchange some old ones for prison clothes; Like, he stayed, and then he could slowly give it away as a gift.

He didn't plan to sell it, there is not even a silver house here, who will sell it to?

So to stay, he packed it in a box and put it in the innermost part of the wardrobe.

The next day, Ding Tian brought four big fat geese to the kitchen: "Come on, potatoes, stew!"

"This is?" The original chef had already left with those people, and the current chef is the one used by the county government.

"Add a dish for everyone, those people didn't finish it, it's cheaper for our brothers." Ding Tian smiled: "Soak some dried mushrooms today, and tomorrow there will be chickens, chickens stewed with mushrooms."

"Okay!" The cook was happy: "Let me just say, Tian'er is not the kind of person who eats alone."

Everyone in the co-authored yamen knows that Ding Tian has good news, envy, no envy, let alone hatred, he serves the people above him well, and anyone who knows something inside knows that Ding Tian has saved everyone Well, if he really did something to that imperial envoy, everyone would be unlucky, not just the family surnamed Ma who fell into it.

Even the families of the two masters were unlucky.

Only these three families were folded in, and everyone else was safe and sound. Master Xu was killed and became auspicious. He went one step further and became the county magistrate.

"Am I that kind of person!" Ding Tian thought in his heart: fortunately, I only think that there are so many things, and it is impossible not to take them out to eat. Since ancient times, those who eat alone will not end well.

He is here to deliver something to the big kitchen. Tomorrow it will be chicken, and the day after tomorrow it will be replaced with mutton.

After eating for a few days, I will fall down when I run out of food.

When he came back to get things for his uncle that day, he found the envious eyes of these people. If he didn't give some more oil and water, it is estimated that this envy would soon turn into jealousy. ".

The ancient workplace is also a workplace.

"Okay, let's stew a big goose with potatoes today, this goose is really fat!" The cook yelled at the worker: "Go, peel a sack of potatoes!"

The little worker quickly went to move the potatoes.

In the evening, sure enough, Ding Tian ate big cranes stewed with potatoes in the big cafeteria. Although there were a little more potatoes, there were a lot of big geese. It turned out that there were two big geese stewed together in the kitchen.

The next day, Ding Tian deliberately went to the big kitchen with the packed chicken when there were many people...

On another day, I went there with mutton. That day happened to be the Lunar New Year holiday, and the big kitchen made a meal of dumplings stuffed with mutton and radish.

Sure enough, the men began to get close to him again.

At home, the second aunt gave him a basket of bean buns, at least two hundred; the third aunt gave him a basket of rice cakes.

The bean buns and rice cakes in the Northeast are different from those in the South. They are made of yellow sticky rice mixed with cornmeal. They are golden in color and filled with bean fillings. They are sweet and delicious.

On the uncle's side, he also asked someone to bring him a basket of bean noodle rolls.

There was also a large bag of rice cakes baked by his aunt. After Ding Tian received it, he looked at the winter snowflakes in the sky and said, "It's really the winter moon!"

When the winter moon enters, it will be the beginning of winter, and the snowflakes in the northeast are getting bigger and bigger every day.

The real cat winter has begun.

Ding Tian is also living in the yamen, eating well every day, living a nourishing life!

It’s a custom in Northeast China to eat sticky rice to stick your chin to during Laba. Southerners eat Laba porridge, but northerners don’t. They eat lard mixed with sticky rice.

After Laba, the imperial court's reward came down.

Xu Xiancheng became the magistrate of Xu County; other personnel who cooperated with the case were also rewarded.

The three classes of yamen servants were finally assembled, because the first order of Xu County Magistrate was to recruit personnel to fill up the establishment.

"The same thing as before can no longer happen. In a cell, only the head of Xiao Ding prison is alone!"

These are the exact words of magistrate Xu, and after that, many people were promoted one step further.

Ren Qing became the chief arrester, in charge of all the arresters in the county;

Cheng Da became the head of the team, in charge of the county's grain collection and taxation;

Liu Sen became Zaotou, in charge of executions in the county.

The yamen servants are divided into three classes of yamen servants, referring to the fast class, the strong class, and the soap class.

Kuaiban, that is, fast arrest, specializes in civil and criminal cases, which is equivalent to the current criminal police team;

Zhuangban, in charge of grain collection and taxation at that time, is equivalent to the current tax bureau;

Zaoban, the yamen servant standing next to him when he was promoted, was in charge of beating the board.

And Ding Tian is the one everyone here admires the most, but when Ding Tian saw his reward, he couldn't believe it: "Are you sure, this is about me?"