"Who are they?" The two golden lacquered stone lions in front of the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion are majestic and majestic, staring majestically at them with big copper bell-like eyes.His servant also has the essence of a stone lion, and he doesn't look at people when he speaks.

It was the first time for the two brothers of the Xiong family to meet such a high-ranking official, and they were still apprehensive in their hearts.

"I, we are from Xinghua Village. My brothers in my family used to be subordinates of the prince. Today, I have the honor to travel to Tokyo. I am entrusted by my brothers to come and pay a visit." He said and took out a letter, which was dictated by Tang Shou and written by Ji Xiucai. Written in the name of Xiong Zhuangshan.

The servant held the letter by the corner, and said with the corners of his eyes hanging: "Okay, go back, if my prince wants to see you, he will summon you."

When Tang Shou left, he told the Xiong family brothers that it would be best if they could see each other, and if they couldn't see them, don't bother them.Tokyo is no better than Yulin Town, so be cautious in your words and deeds.

After the two brothers of the Xiong family came back from the palace, they gave the Jin family a kang.The Jin family is the fashion vane of Tokyo, and they also intend to guide them, and soon the kang in Tokyo is a good thing, and the two brothers of the Xiong family are invited to go to the kang.

In order to protect the safety of the Xiong family brothers, Jin Jincheng did not specifically emphasize the identities of the two brothers. The other big families thought that these two belonged to the Jin family, and no one dared to think about it for a while.

Those who want to work on the kang go to the Jin family to ask for Jin Jincheng, and Jin Jincheng looks at the friendship and takes over the work for the two brothers of the Xiong family.As for the two brothers of the Xiong family, they don't care about reputation, the main thing is to make money.The standard of living in Tokyo is good, and prices are naturally doubled.Each person can earn 360 wen just by laying the kang, which is three times the salary in Yulin Town. The two brothers earn [-] wen a day, which is quite a lot.

The soil in Tokyo is not frozen, and there are plenty of soil embryos, so you don’t need to spend money to buy it. In the eyes of those noble families, this wage is like free money, and it is not even as precious as a penny in Xinghua Village. Jin Jincheng only helped out of favor.So the two sides cooperated happily. One side took this opportunity to make friends, and the other side made a lot of money.

The kang is popular in Tokyo, and the King of Zhenbei soon learned of the news. Sitting drinking tea in the Nuan Pavilion today, a confidant servant said unconvinced: "My lord, what does the Jin family mean? Those colleagues in the court are all confused I was put on the Kang, but I passed you, doesn't this mean that we don't take our Zhenbei Palace seriously?"

In this regard, in fact, the prince of Zhenbei also has some criticisms.It doesn't matter whether he has a kang or not, but it is mainly the attitude of the Jin family.

The king of Zhenbei has a close relationship with the same mother and compatriot of the current official family, which is different from the brotherhood of the plastic emperors next to him.The mother of the two of them was a little court lady with a humble status.Therefore, the two have been bullied and endured humiliation since they were born.Once, the King of Zhenbei almost died in Huangquan for the sake of his fellow brothers, and only after narrowly escaped death did he save the current official family and help him rise to power.Therefore, it can be said that the official family is the first in the world, the King of Zhenbei is the second, and everyone else has to be in the back row.

Even if the Jin family doesn't open their eyes, it is impossible to offend King Zhenbei, and the Jin family is not a family that wants to die.Then there is only one possibility left, that someone in the mansion has a different heart and is bribed by someone who wants to sow discord.Then this is a big deal, someone dared to put his hand into his palace.

King Zhenbei narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed, "Check."

After an order was issued, it was quickly found out that everything was just a misunderstanding.It turned out that the Jin family thought that the Xiong family had a letter written by King Zhenbei in their hands, so the relationship must be extraordinary. This kind of relationship came to the door, but the prince didn't let them go to bed, presumably he really didn't like this thing.

Little did he know that the concierge saw that Xiong's family was in tatters and directly blocked him, so that letter was treated as one of many relationship-seeking letters.

"Xinghua Village?" Zhenbei Wang heard the name of the village a little familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Listen, I heard it was your former subordinate." Fang Men knelt on the ground tremblingly. He never thought that he would cause such a big disturbance because of his daily contempt for others, and he would be involved with the Jin family.The same goes for those men, leaning on the Jin family behind their backs and saying that it's over, he handed it in a long time ago.

"Subordinates?" King Zhenbei asked thoughtfully, "Are his brothers surnamed Xiong?"

"Yes, it is."

"It turned out to be him!" King Zhenbei smiled, "Call them over to work on the kang tomorrow."

After the two brothers of the Xiong family left, Xiong Zhuangshan's family did not stop, instead, waves of people gathered together.

Those who know how to cook a kang are all working in the yamen and don't know when they will finish.Tang Shou naturally refused to take care of them at home, and refused all of them.

This is the third wave of people who have been sent away. Tang Shou was spread out on the hot kang in a disfigured manner, and he was exhausted and lethargic.

Xiong Zhuangshan didn't know what to do on the ground, and that big stupid bear was always restless, as if he could find work for himself at any time.One is busy, the other is lying down, unexpectedly also gave birth to a little warmth in the winter afternoon.

"It's almost time to grow mushrooms, and there is nothing interesting here. If I were in my hometown, it would be the season for watching ice lanterns and skiing." Money, indeed, is a little richer, and the plan to make money is not so urgent. With spare money, Tang Shou is more interested in having fun. "I haven't had fun here yet, what fun are you doing here?"

Xiong Zhuangshan stopped what he was doing, and thought about it seriously, "There is nothing to do in this cold weather, only the hunting grounds kept by the government can be hunted at this time, but only those noble families can go."

"What's the use of that, we can't play." Suddenly Tang Shou opened his eyes wide and said: "This is a good time for skating, do you have an skating rink here, let's go skating?"

"Ice skating? What's that?"

"Well, it's an ice show." Tang Shou put it another way.He remembered that there was a record in "History of the Song Dynasty" "Xinghouyuan, Watching Ice Show", which is about skating.

Xiong Zhuangshan shook his head slowly, and said hesitantly, "I don't know if there is one in Tokyo or other places, but I haven't heard of it."

Tang Shou turned around on the kang in disappointment, it was so boring, there was no entertainment at all, and he stayed at home all day.

Suddenly, he straightened up like a corpse, his eyes shot an abnormal light.

"God helped me, Erlang, why didn't I expect that food and drink would not attract the gentlemen and young ladies of the noble families in this winter, so what about playing?"

There is so little entertainment at this time, and there are fewer entertainment items in winter, he feels suffocated, thinking that those young gentlemen and ladies from noble families who are idle and idle are even more boring.

If they were looking for fun, they thought Xinghua Village would have come.After all, in order to travel, people of later generations can also go by plane.

"Erlang, let's open an ice arena. It's just for the young ladies of the noble families to play. They will definitely make money."

Xiong Zhuangshan nodded, "OK."

The two did what they said, and first called the women in the village who were good at needlework in his house, and asked them to transfer their work to others, and first helped them make a batch of very thick cotton-padded clothes, trousers and cotton hats.This kind of clothing can not only keep out the cold, but also act as a buffer when you fall, so as not to damage it.

As for the skates, it is relatively simple, that is, to nail the iron bars to the wooden boards, and then tie the wooden boards under the soles of the shoes, so that they can run as fast as birds.

There are two types of skates, a single skate and a double skate.The single ice blade is placed in the middle of the sole, and the speed is fast, but the balance is difficult to control.The double skates are pressed on both sides of the soles, the speed is slightly slower, but it is easy to master the balance, suitable for beginners.

After that is the layout of the skating rink, too far away is not conducive to supervision, Tang Shou is afraid that the ice rink will be on fire, someone will be jealous, and if he stumbles casually, it may hurt those noble families, or even break his leg. In severe cases, it may even take life.

On the contrary, Xiong Zhuangshan said: "Why don't we build it on the open space behind our house, we can see it through the back window. It just so happens that the land is unowned now, I went to tell Li Zheng to buy it, and we can continue next year use."

The north is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many wastelands. The houses in the village are not arranged one by one as in the later generations.

"Buying land?" Li Zheng was stunned, no wonder he didn't expect that there were only two young couples in the Xiong family without children, and the three rooms were completely enough.Furthermore, even if you want to buy land, you should also buy arable land. What can you do with buying homesteads in the winter? You can’t build a house, and it’s useless to buy it back. It’s better to buy it now.

Seeing Lizheng's doubts, Tang Shou smiled and said, "Erlang and I want to build an ice arena, but it's too far away to keep an eye on it. The best direction is in the backyard of my house. Open a window and you can see everything."

"Ice rink?" Lizheng didn't know what it was, anyway, Tang Shou met a lot, he didn't know, and he was used to it.At most, they just talk and ask, but they don't think about anything else.

"Well, it's for entertainment." Tang Shou explained: "Those little gentlemen and young ladies from the noble families don't have anything to play in this winter. They are probably bored at home. I will build an ice theater to make them happy." Attract them here. When more people come, the villagers can follow suit and make some money.”

Nothing is as effective as money, and when it comes to money, Lizheng's eyes glow green.In the past, not to mention winter, even summer could not earn so much money. During these days, hardworking people earn, and they already have half a year's income of working hard.Now Tang Shou is going to come up with a new trick. I don't know how much benefit this new trick will bring them.

Immediately, he stopped asking, changed his clothes, greeted his family members, and took the two of them to the yamen.That speed seemed to be more anxious than the two real masters, Tang Shou and Xiong Zhuangshan.

With the lesson learned from last time, the servants in the yamen were very polite to Xiong Zhuangshan and Tang Shou, and dealt with the nice words, and the efficiency was so fast that I couldn't believe it.I was afraid of being dissatisfied when I left like this, so I asked again and again.

It is best to build an ice arena, and there is no need to spend money, but the only bad thing is that the technology is not developed at this time, and it all depends on manual work, and the ice needs to be poured by a little manpower.

When Lizheng said hello, most of the villagers mobilized, and the rest of the idlers and pastry sellers didn't help, and the rest almost all arrived.

Tang Shou didn't expect so many people to be willing to help. In the first few days, the villagers still walked around him and Xiong Zhuangshan, as if they were afraid that Xiong Zhuangshan would go crazy and beat people.Now he is willing to work for their family and delay his own work.

It seems that the two things he did for a few lonely elderly families in the village for free and taught a few men how to make a kang for a fee still won the hearts of many people.

"You all have work in your hands, and now you let us do your own work. I can't let you do it for nothing. I will pay you five cents a day."

An old man waved his hands repeatedly, shaking his head like a rattle, and almost lost it.

"No, no, how can I ask you for money for this little help? How much contribution you have made to the village, if you don't give Grandma Zhang and the others a free kang, whether they can survive this winter is still a question. This is human life, it doesn’t mean that you don’t care about your own life, it’s human heart, everyone in the village should remember it. Besides, let’s talk about how many jobs we have taken from you, how much money we have earned, without you, Where do we go to earn so much money, let alone eat some oily and watery dishes every now and then, in the past it was not a matter of whether we could eat enough."

The old man's eldest son was selected to learn the Tang family's kang kang skills. Although his family was poor and had to ask many families for the tuition fee of one tael of silver, it was precisely because of this that he felt that the opportunity was hard-won and cherished it all the more.

Now that his son has finished his studies and works for the yamen, he can earn 45 pennies a day, which can be earned back in less than a month's tuition fees. If you own your own, the wages can be higher.

Now the whole family is full of expectations for the future, and I am especially grateful to Xiong Zhuangshan's family.

Other villagers agreed one after another: "It should be done, it should be done with little effort, but I dare not talk about wages."

They were determined not to do so, so Tang Shou no longer insisted, and some things should be properly accepted by the villagers' kindness.

The husband and wife of the peasant family can carry such things as carrying water, and they don't feel tired at all, and they pour a load of water from Xiong's house on the ground.

The land that Tang Shou bought was as big as an acre, but the ice rink was not that big, only [-] square meters, and the thickness of the ice was about three inches.Only the people in this village poured water for seven days. Later, I heard that the Xiong family had work, and many Hanzi pastries were sold out, so they came to help.

Zhang Pan, who was bigger than him, was also busy back and forth. He couldn't carry a bucket bigger than himself, so he used his own small wooden basin to pour water on the ground.The children are so busy that their faces are covered with sweat, and they are never tired from arguing.

Tang Shou felt sorry for him, and would give him a piece of walnut cake after work every day. Zhang Pan never ate it, and kept it to take home to enjoy with his grandma.

Tang Shou felt warm from the bottom of his heart as he looked at the villagers who were working in full swing and still smiling. This place seemed to have really become his second hometown, and he felt a sense of belonging inexplicably.

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