[Comprehensive] Be with Ancient Celebrities

No matter how busy the yamen is, life should be done as it should be, and those who should ask for leave still have to ask for leave. For example, Ayu asked for a full ten days of leave before the Chinese New Year. The reason is very legitimate, because his elder brother married a daughter-in-law ah!Can such a big event be played without him?Of course, you have to go, and asking for leave in a society where people rule the imperial power is justified and cannot be corrected.So even though the Kaifeng mansion is so busy recently, even though the matter of adding people is becoming more and more noisy, Ayu still spread his hands and left the messy things in the mansion very neatly, and returned to that place in the heavy snow. The home I haven't been able to get close to for months.

It is said that the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as the grass nest at home. Ayu feels this way at the moment. Even though he has traveled for so long, the time spent in this house is not much longer than that of the Yamen, but home is home. Rest assured, I feel sweet when I fall asleep.

Of course, asking for leave at the busiest time like years ago would still come at a price if it took as long as ten days. For example, the matter of staying behind during the Chinese New Year fell on Ayu.On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, I will go back to the Yamen to spend a cool year with other people on duty.For this reason, ever since Ayu came home, she hasn't seen her father in a good mood once.

"Father, you have already expressed your displeasure clearly. You don't need to change your face every time you see me. This way, the flesh on your face is too tired and prone to wrinkles."

Early in the morning, Ayu, who was helping his grandfather move out the newly painted cabinets to air dry, had just finished his work. When he turned around, he saw his father driving home in an ox cart.Ayu's father, who was originally cheerful and greeted people all the way, immediately changed his expression when he saw Ayu, and the corners of his mouth pulled down several degrees in an instant. The speed was so fast that Ayu wanted to laugh.

Why is Papa A Yue unhappy?Ayu knew that it was because Ayu agreed to be on duty to let her family celebrate the New Year this year. This important moment of the new daughter-in-law's first year in the house, it is very regrettable that the whole family cannot be reunited.But what can Ayu say?Follow him to offend his colleagues?

Mindless violation of the rules?How can it be.Even Ayu was secretly amused, feeling that the on-duty event this time came at a coincidence, it was wonderful, and it happened at the right time.Why do you say?Don't forget, how many people are eagerly watching the matter of adding people to the yamen?How many people want to draw relationship calculations?When is the best time to start a relationship?Isn't it a stall for relatives and friends to visit during the Chinese New Year?It would allow him to live a clean year, Ayu felt that he would be happy even if he wanted to be an old man guarding the gate for a few days.

It's just... It's said that old children are old children. Why did his father start to change before he was old?Less than [-], is it already the menopause?Or would it be a loss if he couldn't pull him, an official family member, to look good in front of his relatives during the Chinese New Year?No matter which one it is, there are all parents in the world, and a son can't bear to hate his father, right, so it is necessary to pass a step or something.

Besides, he doesn't know if he doesn't go home, don't look at how fast he takes money every time he gives Dad Qian, making it seem like the whole family is waiting for him to raise him, making him feel very good about himself, only thinking that he is very important .But in fact, he was not the only one who worked hard in this family, and Ayu's father was also very difficult.

Without Ayu, there will be one less strong laborer in the family, but what work to do?Because I bought ten more acres of land, the work will naturally be more.It is definitely not an easy job to plow deep in the frozen soil for the purpose of planting winter wheat.Although Ayu's grandfather is strong and can still help with the work, but after all, Ayu's mother and sister are women, and their strength is weaker. In this way, most of the farm work on the [-] acres of land fell to Ayu's father. and Brother Ayu, one can tell how tired they are just thinking about it.

But even though he was so busy, Ayu's father didn't stop. He waited for the work in the field to be done, and when he was free, he began to drive the family's ox cart outside. It's just pulling people to earn a few feet, and I don't have a day free.

In addition, because Ayu's grandfather is an old carpenter, and Ayu's father also knows some carpentry skills, so the family never thought about spending money on furniture from the beginning of the house. They all depended on their own trees. homemade.In this way, saving money is naturally very enviable, but the work has also become more and better.Not to mention being the main force of the carpenter, Grandpa Ayu, who was working at home, tossed and tossed about. It was Ayu's father, who was busy moving his head around in order to move wood.

In the end, because Ayu’s elder brother Qin Lei’s marriage day is getting closer and closer, Ayu’s father, who is obsessed with embracing his grandson, took over many other household chores, such as transporting water, such as grinding stones, in order to let the eldest son take care of his body for a few days. What, it's hard to say how tired you are.

From Ayu's point of view, she was much thinner than the last time she went to the city, and her complexion was a little bad, which made Ayu really unable to say anything disobedient.Not only would she not be disobedient, she was afraid that her father would be sad, but Ayu also had to speak lightly, trying her best to make her father happy, that is filial piety.So, there is the previous sentence.

Ayu's father is also a second person. When he heard his son say pleats, his first reaction was to reach out and touch his old face, and then said with a bit of regret:

"I'd like to think that if the folds are too skinny, the future generations will be more resistant to wind? What a pity, your father and I are tender, and the folds haven't come out yet."

Hehe, with such a father, no matter how distressed and sentimental he is, he can wash away the shameless words.

"Come on, let's not talk about this, I said Dad, I can't talk about it today, you are..."

"Why am I so busy? Look, what is this?"

"what?"

Ayu poked her head and looked into the frame. When she saw this, her eyes widened and her brows frowned.

"Old clothes? It's muslin, not even a patch. Where did it come from? Such a luxury, but the clothes are still in good condition."

"It's just old fine cotton clothes, you boy, your eyes are very sharp. The new year is coming soon, and many rich families make new clothes. When the new clothes are available, the old clothes will naturally be eliminated, and some are given to the poor. Relatives, some of them were sent to second-hand clothes shops to exchange money. Your father and I found such a way to pick up leaks behind several families in the county town. It was just spent the money of ordinary linen. What a good thing, change it Change, when your brother got married, there was a lot of news about it."

"Why do we need this? We don't have money to buy cloth? We don't have to worry about wearing silk... Wait, fine cotton cloth? This..."

"That's right, fine cotton cloth. If you want me to say that those merchants are really weird, they can find fine cotton cloth to wear if they don't allow you to wear silk. It's fine and smooth, and it's no worse than silk. It is very sweat-absorbing and docile, and does not drill eyes. I heard that some people who have land at home have already started to find ways to find seeds and plant them by themselves. If you say that if they are really planted and weaved by themselves, then those merchants will make a fortune. This thing is now Same price as silk."

Where is Ayu's father happily looking at the muslin clothes? Ayu just realized a very important realization.That is, in the Song Dynasty, or before the beginning of the Song Dynasty, people's clothes, except silk, which is a special fist product, other ordinary people generally only have two kinds of Gebu and linen that can be cut.The only thing that can match cotton is kapok that can be used to fill pillows.As for cotton?According to textual research, cotton was introduced into my country by sea in the mid-Song Dynasty.

Even before the Song Dynasty, China only had the word "cotton" next to silk, but not the word "cotton" next to wood. The word "cotton" only began to appear in "Book of Songs".It is said that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were plantations in the frontier.As for the widespread promotion and utilization, it was introduced to the mainland in large quantities. According to some textual research, it should be in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.

There is a record that says: "It was first passed down from the Song and Yuan Dynasties to China, and the Guanshan, Fujian and Guangxi first reaped the benefits. It was built by the foreign barbarians, Fujian, Guangxi and the sea, and Guanshan and the Western Regions." From this we can understand that cotton There are two ways of introduction by land and sea.Cotton in Quanzhou was imported by sea, and it was quickly spread in the south. As for the promotion of cotton in the whole country, it was as late as the early Ming Dynasty, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang who pushed it away by force.

But what does Ayu see now?It is the merchants in Kaifeng who are already wearing muslin cloth made of cotton as daily household clothes.Could it be that the book made a mistake?Ayu couldn't help but think back to the worlds he had traveled in the past. Yitian happened to be in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. At that time, he remembered... Fuck, remember, at the beginning, he lived poorly by hunting and used clothes from time to time. It seems that they are all made of linen. Anyway, as long as he covers his body, he doesn't care. As for the later?Didn't they all become the Eighth Hero of Wudang? Whether it's silk or fine cotton, he doesn't need to buy it himself, what does he know?

As for the Song Dynasty?He had mixed with Yang Guo. He was also poor at the same level as a beggar at that time. He could barely eat. Can he pay attention to fabrics?It would be nice to be able to dress warmly, but what about the others?There is no need to think about anything in the world of ancient dragons, and there is no way to connect with history. So, at this moment, in the serious Northern Song Dynasty, he discovered for the first time that he used to think it was very common, and he should belong to the ordinary people. Muslin cloth, which is not looked down upon, is still an imported product that is in short supply!It is a silk substitute for well-connected and financial merchants!

Then... those books... Wait, he seems to understand that the history we know in later generations is more of the history in books, the history in the eyes of a certain book writer.Due to traffic restrictions, there are only so many areas that book writers can travel around, and only so much information about people they can contact, so the news they can know and everything they can see actually have certain limitations.In this way, what is written in their books can only represent the scope of one person and one place, and even because of the strict hierarchy in ancient times, there is also a certain class discrimination, etc., so it is not possible to generalize that era. It really is like this.

If you add merchants, who are clearly the most well-informed and the most sensitive to material flow, they belong to the bottom among scholars, farmers, businessmen, and have the least right to speak. In this way, information such as cotton cloth that is a little far away from the privileged scholar class, It is understandable that there is a delay in the time when it is transcribed into a book.

Now that he understands it, then looking at the fine cotton cloth in turn, he naturally followed his father to show a smiling face, and cheerfully agreed:

"Indeed, this cloth is quite nice."

As for his heart?Hehe, Quan Dang has been taught a lesson again. Sure enough, the ancients said it is good, it is better to have no books than to believe in books!