Great Tang Idyll - Chapter 590

[Chapter 215]

The secret is fruity and fragrant.

Yizhou has been busy picking for six until the rich are looking forward to the snow field.

Yishou, Zhang Zhong, who was confused by Shard Six

, refused Qiang Hu’s stay before the night came, and took Qiang Hu’s son and daughter to leave the stockade to prepare for related matters.

Early the next morning, Qiang Hu, who had sobered up, remembered what he said yesterday, and hurriedly summoned the adults and children in the stockade to go up the mountain to pick the ripe fruit, so that he could help Zhang Zhong’s family make wine.

On the one hand, Zhang Zhong found three old men to discuss sending invitations to invite all kinds of playboys and rich ladies to play here. On the other hand, he found craftsmen in nearby places to burn kilns to make fermented fruit jars. Notices were also posted in the city, asking the people in the city to try their best to go there. Let the people who burn the kiln start to learn this craft.

Burn it later.

With Qiang Hu taking the lead, his few people worked hard, and it was difficult not to disturb others with such a movement. Qiang Hu, who was wondering how to get other stockades to help pick fruits, didn’t wait to take the initiative to go. Look for others, and others will come to you one after another.

People from nearby stockades know that wild fruits can be exchanged for money.

The officials who were able to help them eat, drink and dance happily joined in.

Three days later, piles of fruit were delivered to the Fucheng in Yizhou. Zhang Zhong’s family also hurriedly repaired the temporary living place. The adobe city wall was torn off, and it has not yet been spared to rebuild it, waiting for the fruit. The harvest is almost over, and after the autumn harvest is over, the local people will be asked to do it.

A day later, the people Zhang Zhong sent out in advance came back from the outside, pulled a cartload of daily necessities, and began to pay the local people to buy fruits.

This is all because the local people are accustomed to barter.

When Zhang Zhong received the fruit for money on the first day, Qiang Hu was worried. He didn’t know how to go out and use the money for shopping. He was afraid that others would deliberately ask them for more money. He told Zhang Zhong that it was better to exchange things for things before. it is good.

They all know how much their things are worth and are not afraid of being cheated.

Zhang Zhong no longer had Jiang at that time, could he still be deceived by exchanging things for things?

When he heard Qiang Hu say that they had a fixed person to exchange, Zhang Zhong understood more, that was being controlled by others, and seeing Qiang Hu looked embarrassed, he had to send someone out to buy something.

As a result, the largest and most complete store in Yizhou City was created. It was specially responsible for exchanging with the locals, and purchased various furs and medicinal materials according to the 80% price of the goods outside, and the remaining 20% belonged to the transportation fee. among.

When the people in the nearby plugs learned about the market outside and what the price of the things they had exchanged in the store, they all quarreled and went out to kill the person in the store that they exchanged with.

I lost,

I lost a lot. A bearskin can be sold for 15 kuai, or even 20 kuai for a better one. The salt bought for this amount of money is enough for a village of 100 people to eat for two years. There is still leftover bacon, they used to only get a bucket of salt, and they thought it was cheap, so they saved some food.

It can make the people in the stockade eat for more than a month.

How could Zhang Zhong let them go out to find trouble, he stopped him anyway, and made a guarantee that the shops in the city would continue to provide various daily necessities in the future, and he was responsible for collecting money to go out to purchase designated items.

Of course, this requires the local people to get used to using money as currency in the future.

The people resisted the grievances of being deceived, and began to work harder to harvest fruit for Zhang Zhong. They acknowledged Zhang Zhong’s arrogance in their hearts. What a good official, he even told himself and others about such an important matter.

At the same time, a few people who are most proficient in Mandarin have been cleaned up. They are people who often take people out to exchange items. In Yizhou Mansion, they actually have a large house and many good places outside. Needless to say, everyone Also understand what happened.

After solving the income problem of the people in the nearby villages, Zhang Zhong began to prepare to let people farther know what was going on here, but he didn’t wait for him to go to the villages farther in the mountains to find a way to convince them. People know what happened here by accident.

Gong Shi is the son of Gong Mu, the patriarch of Little Bear Saizhong. His father is getting older, and he is going to give himself the position of the patriarch, but this year doesn’t seem to be very good.

The continuous rain made the grain in the field not half as good as last year.

In addition, a fire was accidentally caught in the stockade.

A lot of sackcloth and fur for exchange have been burned, and I don’t know how to spend this winter.

I need to think of a way for the people in the stockade.

Take the people in the stockade and go outside to see if you can find some work that you can do with your strength. When winter comes, you can change some of the grain and cloth and come back.

At that time, the winter may be able to survive, and people will not be cold and sick with the rain.

With this thought in mind, Gong Shi looked back at the person who was the strongest among the twenty stockades walking behind him, and then looked at the sky again, seeing that it was about to get dark.

I thought that there is a stockade not far from here.

Maybe go there and have a good rest.

Or hurry up and go to live in the city.

“Hurry up, hurry up, you don’t have to sleep outside today, hurry up.” Gong Shi shouted twice to the people in the stockade.

He started to speed up, looking down at his feet.

The people in Xiaoxiongzhaizi also know the mission that came out this time, and they have never done it before.

In the face of the unknown, there is a little worry in my heart, and a little excitement and expectation.

Get ready to go out and do things well, and when you come back, it’s time to be a stopper hero.

Therefore, after traveling for more than ten days, they didn’t care about their physical fatigue at all, and walked behind the future patriarch, hoping to get a good night’s sleep in the city, and then eat a full meal, so as to save enough energy to work. .

By the time night was approaching, it was overcast.

Anyone familiar with the weather knows that there will be no rain.

In the middle of the night, you may be able to see the stars, and you don’t have to worry about getting soaked like a few days ago.

Just when the crowd speeded up the trot again, a lot of light spots suddenly appeared in front of them, shaking to illuminate the people in the vicinity. It turned out that many people were holding torches and swaying over there, and they didn’t know what they were doing. .

With curiosity in his heart, Gong Shi couldn’t help but stop, looking at the front in a daze, the people behind also stood up and pondered together, the people in front didn’t leave early in the evening.

What to do in the mountains.

After thinking about it for a while, Gong Shi, who really couldn’t understand, began to move forward slowly, and when he got closer, he breathed a sigh of relief. The person in front of him knew, the person in the Gaozhi stop who was planning to stay overnight. Not only adults, but also Sun Shanxun Shuxun ridiculed Qi Yu.

When he found the other party, the other party also noticed that there was a figure shaking in his place. Since they didn’t have a torch, the other party couldn’t see who they were. A group of people gathered together and shouted at them in a chaotic voice.

“Is there Qiang Mountain? It’s Gong Shi from Xiaoxiongzhai.” Gong Shi didn’t want to misunderstand, so he let a bunch of arrows shoot from the opposite side, and quickly shouted at the top of his voice, his voice echoing in the mountains.

After shouting, Gong Shi motioned the people behind him not to move, and walked forward alone, and when the torches illuminated the area, the people on the opposite side finally relaxed their guard.

A man with a bow came out of the crowd, came to Gong Shi, laughed and said:

“Shi Shi, why are you running here? Are you tired? Come on, eat some fruit, and come to my place for a drink later. Wine, good wine, wine for sale at the house of the newly arrived Guan’er surnamed Zhang. When picking fruit yesterday, I took a deer. Except for half of the Guan’er surnamed Zhang, I haven’t eaten the remaining half, which is just right Let you taste, the new seasoning, the taste is different from before.”

Qiangshan is very enthusiastic, making Gong Shi as if he doesn’t know Qiangshan. The exchange of things, whether it is deerskin or venison, is more than the usual thing. If you catch a live deer, it will be even more incredible. Why would you be willing to eat it?

What confuses Gong Shi the most is that an official came and gave him thousands of them. Could it be that this new official is so powerful.

Can you control the people here?

With doubts in his heart, Gong Shi first waved to the back, let the people in the stockade come over, and asked Qiangshan inexplicably, “What kind of official is this new? Are there many people?”

“The high official, the biggest official, the whole Yizhou must listen to him, even the horse surnamed Fang in the past has to listen to him when he sees him, and there are many people. There are almost two thousand people, and the city can’t live in it. If the city wall is torn down, a house will be built there. Once the net is covered, it will be able to live in people, and it will have to be rebuilt when the weather is cold.”

Qiang Shan handed one of the fruits in his hand.

He also took a bite, chewing and talking.

After Gong Shi heard this, a trace of sadness appeared in his eyebrows. He looked at the people who were picking wild fruits in Gaoshan Village, and said sympathetically, “Is there a lot of generals in his family? There are a lot of things, I have nothing to eat, go to the mountain to pick wild fruits to eat? I don’t know if I will go to my little bear village to grab it, if I do, I will fight with them.”

“Fight. He also shouted with enthusiasm.

“Haha.

Qiang Shan spit out all the fruit he hadn’t swallowed, pointed at Gong Shi and laughed loudly, with the other hand covering his stomach, it seemed really funny, and even the people behind him laughed too.

Gong Shi didn’t think there was anything funny, and his face turned red when he was laughed. At this moment, a seven-year-old child in the mountain plug took out a piece of candy from a small pocket hanging on his body and handed it to Gong Shi. In

front of Shi said:

“Uncle Gong, I’ll give you some candy. The new official is called Zhang Zhong, and the youngest child in his family is called Xiaobei. Xiaobei is fun, and there is a lot of candy. This is called maltose. The taste of wheat, Zhang Zhong is a good official, the deerskin from my family made a cushion for him, and I brought it to him, and his family also let me eat a meal called hot pot with such a big meal. Shrimp.”

Little Wazi said while drawing, looking very excited.

The doubts in Gong Shi’s heart were even more intense. Looking at the things handed over by the Qiangshan family’s child, he wanted to refuse.

Wanting to figure it out again, I had to take it in my hand and squeeze it carefully. I found that there was a layer of wrapped things on the outside, so I peeled off the outside things.

Inside is a translucent thing with a layer of sticky rice paper stuck on the outside.

He knew that this thin layer of paper could be eaten, but it was only wrapped around something delicious.

Unable to hold back the doubts in his heart, under the expectation of the little boy, he threw the sugar into his mouth, a sweet, honey-smelling feeling that filled his mouth immediately.

“Uncle Gong, is it good? I still have a few pieces. The little boy is looking forward to others sharing the joy of candy with him.

Gong Shi suddenly has a feeling of recalling the candy he ate as a child, and he is so happy. This candy is obviously more delicious than the one I ate when I was a child. I want to take it out and put it back into the little baby’s mouth. I feel that it is not good to do so, so I can only hold back the thought. I ask,

“Is this candy expensive?

”

I don’t know that one of Xiaobei’s older brothers, called Xiaoman, said that this candy is made by himself and can’t be bought or exchanged. I know that Xiaobei’s house is very beautiful, and there are bright lights in it. .

Unfortunately, I can’t get in, there are three floors in total.

The blanket inside feels nice to the touch.

”

How does Xiaowazi know the value of this candy, only know how delicious it is, and also know that Xiaobei’s house is beautiful, the courtyard where the house is placed was the first to be repaired, and the ground inside is very smooth stones, which can reflect the shadows of people. Gong Shi couldn’t understand when he asked Xiaowazi for a while

.

He had to look at Qiangshan and wait for Qiangshan to talk about it.

Qiangshan’s recent life has been better, and the fruit has been exchanged for many things that are usually needed, as well as beautiful porcelain bowls. It’s all good. Seeing Gong Shi coming over, he laughed twice and told Gong Shi about the past few days.

From Zhang Zhong bringing people over, to eating, drinking and having fun outside the city, then to harvesting fruits and making wine, and The newly opened store and the fact that people were often deceived when changing things in the past have all been revealed. Gong Shi and the others were more surprised as they listened, and the more they listened, the more they couldn’t imagine how could such a good official be? The former surname was Fang. But I have never found someone to drink, sing and dance with, let alone exchange things for wild fruits that no one wants in the mountains.

Every year when the winter is approaching, the surnamed Fang starts to walk one by one. If he doesn’t look pitiful, he won’t give it at all. The piece of land that he owns can’t produce much at all, the worst kind of land.

Li Ji, a newcomer, didn’t even mention the renting and paying tribute. He just picked up the fruit and sent the good things from outside to open a shop in the city. How did he plan?

“Stone, since fruit can be exchanged for other things, we don’t need to go outside to find work. People outside are not good, they always bully us, and let the people in the stockade pick the fruit and send it.”

A person from Xiaoxiongzhai Smarter.

I immediately thought of the crux of the problem and moved to Gong Shi’s side to propose.

Gong Shi is not a fool, how could he not have thought of this, but he had other thoughts in his mind, so he asked again:

“Neng, who paid tribute, this year Gao Shanzhai is going to pay more tribute, and the rest will be left to the surname Zhang. officials themselves.

Qianghu’s stockade also said that even if other stockades are not handed in, they will take care of them all.

”

Qiangshan said generously.

” So the official surnamed Zhang is the same as the official surnamed Fang.

He also played with us, for fear that we would make trouble for the court if we didn’t pay tribute, but only to give benefits first.

Gong Shi branched off.

”

You melon child, are you really the same as the official surnamed Zhang and Fang?”

The person surnamed Zhang is not afraid of not being able to hand in the things. When I brought someone to deliver the fruit yesterday, the official surnamed Zhang stood in front of the shop and watched. It happened that the imperial court had rushed over to deliver the imperial decree, the imperial decree.

Something written by the emperor.

Guess what, if you change to another official, you can’t set up incense cases, kowtow with family members, etc. The official surnamed Zhang doesn’t care at all, he just took it over, opened it, and threw it directly to the servant behind, who sent the imperial decree With a smile on his face, he didn’t dare to mention anything disrespectful to the emperor.

Are you afraid that you won’t be able to pay tribute?

and also.

After delivering the fruit, I’ll ask someone to inquire. Guess what, he’s not the only official here this time.

There are several officials of the third rank and the fourth rank.

Later, I heard that the imperial decree was written to appoint an official to the old man in his family.

All are second-rank officials, as well as the mother in the family, who is also second-rank, what is the official life.

Even a little boy named Xiaobao who has never seen before has a sixth-rank official position.

The people I sent out listened to the three old men.

The emperor felt that there was a long way to go, so he would not give Feng Shang’s money.

He didn’t even give him the official uniform, he only brought a few goldfish bags, saying that he had to bring other things for his family.

He pretended to be mysterious and said the gossip, and everyone listened to it mysteriously.

After

listening to one of the bears, one person said: “Is it possible that the emperor is not good to his family, and he didn’t even give him a reward.

”

Wu Kan, you are also a melon child… Qiang Rang glanced at this man, and then continued: “This means that the emperor is not outside of his family, so it’s not good to give him an official title? It’s not good that he dares to treat the imperial decree like that? Throw it to I can see clearly when I’m with others, it’s like throwing a rag.

Listen to my words, this year, you don’t have to pay the rent, and you can pay it to the official surname Zhang. He may not be able to eat it, and he doesn’t care about the food. , but the tribute can only be more or less, don’t use the tribute to blackmail him, otherwise he won’t be angry. A few stockades on my side will not agree first

, “That is, pay, must pay, there is less food, but more tribute. It’s useless to keep it in your hands, it’s better to give it to him, as you said, he really doesn’t care if he can send tribute to the capital. Didn’t the emperor also give him the title of Shang, the two have been paid, but we won’t give it to him, He was unhappy, thinking that we didn’t treat him as a brother, talk to the emperor, and change the way.

Who else will harvest the fruit?

Gong Shi finally figured it out. As for whether Qiang Shan lied to him or not, he will not know if he looked down. As

soon as he

thought about it, Gong Shi moved his mind. He said to Qiang Zhi, “It’s better than this. I’ll take a part of it and carry a basket for each person to see if it can be replaced. Oh, we have to wait until tomorrow, so let’s pick the fruit together first.

Go again tomorrow.

”

No, there are people at night, I can deliver it once in the middle of the night, and once before dawn, one person and one basket for you, go and have a look.

This shop is closed for twelve hours, and there is a place called the hospital, which is also closed for twelve hours.

When you go down, go to the hospital first.

Let the doctor inside take the pulse, and if you are sick, you will be given medicine directly. This medicine does not cost money.

It was said that it was included in the 20% of the profit when the fur and other things were exchanged.

Qiangshan introduced the situation in the city to Gong Shi and others, and signaled to the people in the stockade to pack a large basket of wild fruits for each of them.

Gong Shi, with the hope of a good life in the future, led the crowd and Qiang Mountain to thank him and headed down the mountain.

After walking for a long time, they were already tired and felt that they were full of energy at this time. They walked one by one for more than half an hour, and finally came to the foot of the mountain. They could see the Fucheng in front of them from a distance, and they had already listened to them. Arrived at the bursts of singing and musical instruments coming from the brightly lit places outside the prefecture.

Occasionally there is wind blowing from there, and the aroma of meat and wine can still be smelled, making them sniff their noses after walking for a long time.

A group of people couldn’t help speeding up, wanting to go down to see what was going on.

When they got close, Gong Shi and the others finally heard clearly. It turned out to be a kind of toast song that they had never heard before, but it really was the song that should be on their side, and they didn’t know what musical instrument they were. The cooperation is very good, and people have an urge to jump to a paragraph when they hear it.

Wait until you can see people’s faces clearly with the light.

Gong Shi found another acquaintance who was squatting beside the person who was using the musical instrument. It seemed that he wanted to learn.

The man also felt that someone was looking at him, turned his head and saw that it was Gong Shi.

Immediately stood up and approached.

“Stone, you also heard the news and came running. It’s just right. I’m on the way, drink a glass of wine first, this wine is good. I’ll be dizzy after a glass, and then eat two grilled fish, then I’ll take you to find a place to rest

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Going down at night, Gong Shi put down the basket full of wild fruits, rubbed his shoulders and looked around curiously.

“Just come down today and take a look at my two children. After they have eaten dinner and fell asleep, I will come out to join in the fun.” Qiang Hu waved vigorously to the person in charge of delivering the wine and said.

Gong Shi also didn’t understand why the two children of Qiangji’s family wanted to go down the mountain to look. His eyes swept over the people who were dancing and singing in front of him, then looked at the people around him, and asked Qiang Hu, “Is it not that there is one The official surnamed Zhang is here, where is the person?.

“You didn’t come out today, do you want someone to accompany you all the time?

That’s an official. I have official business. I’ll be fine here in the future. Except for the rain, the outside of the city will be like this every night.

If you want to sing, you can sing, and you can dance if you want, but it is said that after the New Year, you have to prepare your own wine, as well as food.

Qiang Hu took the

wine brought by others and handed it to Gong Shi, and he was very emotional about the situation here.

Gong Shi also likes to drink, but he usually doesn’t want to drink it. He raised his head and poured the wine into his mouth, then he coughed hard, his face flushed and he insisted on boasting, “Good wine.

[End of this Chapter]