Tang's dining table

After Yun Chu expressed his worries, Wen Wen looked at Yun Chu with disdain and said, "A weak mother will become a merchant, a rich and powerful person will become a minister, the family will stay in the place of origin, and the poor family will go to another place. Do you understand these principles?"

Yun Chu shook his head.

Wen Wen sighed and said: "This is the truth that our wealthy family has summarized over countless years.

The father's family and the mother's family are both weak. If future generations want to stand out, they must become humble merchants.

When both the father's and mother's families are strong, the descendants will have to become officials no matter what.

When the family is large and prestigious, it is necessary to stay in the place of origin and continue to carry forward the family's power.

If your family is poor, you must move away from home and see if you can become rich in another place.

The above are the general rules for everyone.

Sometimes, you have to know how to use the big rules. You know, these four points are changing at any time.

Our foundation in Chang'an is already full and is about to overflow, so it is natural to move out at this time.

Wherever there is danger, more manpower must be deployed. Instead, Chang'an must hold an empty fist and promote manpower at any time... to win people's hearts.

This kind of thing doesn't allow you to pick your time. Things can only push you forward. What we have to do is to go with the flow.

You are not as good as me in this regard. After all, you were a savage when you were a child. Although you are not a monk when you grow up, you have a father who is a monk. It is natural that you do not understand the knowledge of these high-ranking families. "

There was really nothing Yun Chu could do about the arrogance shown by Wen Wen. Whenever this guy suffered a setback from him, he would never humbly bow his head and admit that he was inferior. Instead, he would look for every opportunity to regain his lost face.

"Have you also arranged for manpower in Baiqisi?" Yun Chu ignored Wen Wen's nonsense.

Wen Wen shook her head and said: "I'm not crazy yet, it's a forbidden area set up by the emperor, and even the queen can't interfere.

We can get information from Baiqisi and get some conveniences, but we cannot interfere with Baiqisi. "

Hearing what Wen Wen said, Yun Chu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Wen Wen, "I have to attend a wedding today, will you go?"

Wen Wen pointed at the dancing girl who was still panting at the other end of the big house and said, "Is the bride as beautiful as her?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "It should be worse."

Wen Wen then pointed to the snacks and fruits on the table and said, "Is the banquet there as rich as the food here?"

Yun Chu shook his head impatiently and said, "It's definitely not as good as that. It would be nice to go to their wedding banquet and get a bowl of stewed pork."

"Since nothing is as good as what I have here, why should I participate?"

Yun Chu said: "The smiles of the people there are prettier."

Wen Wen waved to the dancer and musician, and the two beauties ran over as quietly as kittens and crowded into Wen Wen's arms.

Wen Wen grabbed the chin of a beautiful woman with one hand, turned her face towards Yun Chu and said, "Does their smiling face look good?"

Yun Chu had no choice but to say honestly: "If the female workers in the cotton spinning mill get married and they can smile like these two women, they won't work hard in the cotton spinning mill."

Gentle said: "You need to win people's hearts, but I don't. Why should I follow you and hang out with that group of people for half a day?"

When Yun Chu saw that Wen Wenwen was not going anyway, he left the room.

Wen Wen pointed at Yun Chu's back and said to the beauty in his arms: "Look, that's Yun Chu, the magistrate of Wannian County who is shunned by everyone in Chang'an City. He has nothing to do with me..."

After a while, Yun Chu came in again, holding a rope in his hand.

Wen Wen couldn't help but curl up, pushed the beauty up and stood in front of her and said, "You can't do this."

Yun Chu grabbed the beauty and threw it aside. Seeing the beauty sliding far away on the smooth wooden floor, Wen Wen simply collapsed and said shamelessly: "It's shameful to tie me up with a rope."

Yunchu saw that the dancer's dress had two excessively long flowing cloud sleeves, so he untied the dancer's belt, tore off the dancer's dress, folded the dress with his hands, and then wrapped it around a few times. This silk dress was made of silk. The beautiful clothes immediately turned into a tough rope...

Gentleman also has a very good advantage, that is, he never resists indifferently.

If you argue with Yun Chu, he can quote from classics and say that you don't feel tired all day and night.

When Yun Chu doesn't reason with him and directly takes action, at this time, he will behave extremely well-behaved.

When the two of them came out of Pingkangfang talking and laughing, the afternoon sun was shining warmly on the earth.

When passing by the West Market, Yunchu bought a chicken and helped Wenrou buy a duck. Each of them held a poultry in his hand and went straight to Anrenfang, talking and laughing.

“What if I get a body full of lice?”

"Just go back and take a good bath."

"Can I take off my clothes at the banquet of those weavers?"

"Okay, if you don't take it off after a while, I will help you take it off."

"Why do you have to drag a scholar-official like me to attend the banquet of slaves? Am I shameless?"

"Your biggest problem is that you can't see who you are. If you really think that the Wen family is unattainable, I don't mind making you Wen family more down to earth.

Of course, it starts with you. "

"If, I mean if, if I didn't go with you just now, would you really use that shirt to tie me up and take me away?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "The words you just said have successfully angered me. Do you think I will do that?"

Wen Wen said angrily: "Reckless man! You just want to use the reputation of my Wen family to elevate the status of those lowly women."

Yun Chu chuckled and said, "You saw it."

Wen Wen said: "The reputation of a scholar-official is not used in this way. There are nearly 20,000 female textile workers in Chang'an City, and women are getting married every day. With my reputation, you can only use it a few times, and I, Wen Wen, will become a scum among the scholar-officials. "

Yun Chu smiled and said: "You and I are just the first one. From then on, whenever a textile woman gets married, two officials will come to congratulate her.

As time goes by, I think this good family in Chang'an City might marry a good woman from the cotton mill. "

Wen Wen let out a long sigh, held up the duck in her hand and said, "You are still worried that I will do something irrational. I wonder if you have discovered it. You are the one who dug up the roots of the Li family.

If scholars, farmers, industry and merchants each stick to their duties and do their own things well, the country will be stable.

Now you want to raise the status of farmers, industry and commerce, and lower the status of officials. The final result will be that there is no distinction between superior and inferior in the world. "

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Aren't you quite smart?"

Wen Wen put one hand around Yun Chu's arm and said, "Seriously, what do you want to do?"

Yun Chu said: "Being idle is idle, why not do some sowing seeds and hope that something different will grow in the future."

Wen Wen laughed and said: "Sow seeds among textile women, and I wish you a fruitful harvest."

Today was the day when Hou Qiniang came out of the palace. She got up early in the morning, boiled a large pot of water, cleaned herself up, and then sat quietly in her small dormitory for female workers, waiting for the groom to come to marry her.

She didn't have many things, a box three feet long and one and a half feet wide, and a bundle wrapped in a thick quilt, which was basically all she had.

The fact that she didn't get married until she was twenty-two speaks volumes in itself.

Therefore, her father and brothers did not come, and because of this, she had to walk from this small dormitory to the groom in person. Without her brother, the younger brother was willing to carry her and hand her over to the groom.

The reason why such a problem arises is that she wants to get married... A twenty-two-year-old woman who is not married yet has a very bad reputation.

Hou Qiniang remembered clearly that she entered the cotton textile factory to work at the age of fifteen. At that time, it was the time when many girls from ordinary families were getting married.

Her parents hoped that she could earn more for the family, and promised that as long as she worked until she was eighteen, they would prepare a good dowry for her to get married.

As a result, she was twenty-two years old this year, and her father and brothers still asked her to continue working in the cotton textile workshop, preferably as a housekeeper.

This time, Hou Qiniang did not follow the arrangements of her father and brother. She gave up the opportunity to become a housekeeper and prepared to marry herself.

The copper hairpin on her head was a gift from the groom, and the copper ring on her hand was also a gift from the groom. Hou Qiniang had worked day and night in a cotton textile factory for seven years. She didn’t even have a new set of clothes, and the shoes on her feet were made of textiles. Cloth shoes worn by female workers.

This pair of shoes was new and was issued by the factory last year. She was reluctant to wear it and kept it until today.

The eldest lady of the Chen family walked in with a smile, put her arm around Hou Qiniang's shoulders and said, "I saw Erlang of the Heike borrowed the chicken bus and was washing it with water. The chicken bus should be covered with linen in a while. He wants to use it." The chicken bus came to marry you, although it doesn’t look good, but it’s very thoughtful.”

Hou Qiniang smiled at Mrs. Chen. They were the same age. Mrs. Chen got married at the age of seventeen and now has two children.

After hearing the news that Heijiro was planning to marry her, Hou Qiniang's hanging heart finally fell to the ground. She didn't care about chickens and buses. As long as Heijiro was willing to marry her, even if he walked out with a baggage, she would get married today.

Looking at a pair of rough hands, Hou Qiniang knew that if she didn't get married, she would have no chance to get married in her life. She could only wait for the official media to come and put her in a sack together with other sacks, waiting for a bachelor. Untie the sack and fight her away... The Tang Dynasty did not allow a twenty-two-year-old woman to remain childless, which was a waste of resources.

Although Chang'an enforces this law very laxly, the age of twenty-two is basically an upper limit.

Mrs. Chen tied a red cloth strip to Hou Qiniang's money bag, and together with the box and the new quilt issued by the cotton spinning factory, they made three kinds of wealth.

"The money is short after all. It's true that your grandpa and grandma won't give you any money..."

Mrs. Chen shook her money bag, which was obviously light. She felt a little worried, so she took out five pieces of money from her sleeve and put it into the money bag. The money bag was still deflated and not festive at all.

There were more women in the room, and they were chattering away. They were all talking about Hou Qiniang's cruel parents.

The female workers in the textile factory actually had some money, so if you had one for each of us, she would add two for makeup, and soon the deflated purse became bulging, with handkerchiefs, necklaces, etc. Embroidery and other small gifts.

Mrs. Chen counted the money she had brought in with satisfaction, patted Hou Qiniang on the shoulder and said, "Just get married."

Hou Qiniang looked at the room full of sisters and said with tears, "Yes, just get married."