Chapter 2 Prosperous Folk Customs
After living for two lifetimes, Li Su finally encountered a food crisis.
This is the helplessness of the poor. Survival has become the biggest problem. Li Su lived a very rich life in his previous life. He has never tasted what it feels like to be hungry.
The taste is really bad.
Li Su felt that he should be considered a smart person, and smart people can always use the simplest and most effective methods to solve the most difficult problems.
So Li Su decided to use a simple and effective method to solve the stomach problem.
Li Daozheng was still lying on the bed with his clothes in his clothes, facing his head inward and his back outward, bowing his body like a big shrimp, and even making a snoring sound.
"I'm so big..." Li Su was a little envious of his father.
Theoretically, at this time, my father should be looking for rice to be cooked with a frown, and Li Su, a child who is only fifteen years old, should be lying on the bed without worries and snoring.
This family atmosphere is very abnormal now.
Li Su bluntly knocked the empty pot in his hand and the noise quickly disrupted Li Daozheng's snoring rhythm, and then the snoring stopped and his breathing became heavier.
Li Su's eyes twitched, this was a bad omen that his father wanted to suck him.
So Li Su hurriedly said, "Dad, the food at home is out of stock."
"Hmm?" Li Daozheng didn't get up, but just turned his head and looked at Li Su.
"What kind of food is in the house..." Li Su had no choice but to repeat.
Li Daozheng nodded again, continued to look inward and outward, and said, "Scary kid, why are you hungry? I'll borrow some food from Shi's family tomorrow (I'll get hungry if I don't have food, I'll borrow some food from Shi's family tomorrow)....”
Li Su: “…………”
What an irresponsible father. Li Su really wants to find a physical ex to learn from his physical ex and ask him how he survived in the past fifteen years.
"Hungry?" Li Su was not very satisfied with the answer.
With a soft look as weak as the cool breeze, Li Su Meng looked at her father cutely: "I'm still a child..."
This time, Li Daozheng was too lazy to even turn his head back, shook his hand at him, and made a standard movement of chasing flies, and then continued to sleep.
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After three days in the Tang Dynasty, Li Su gradually understood a truth.
If the father is not reliable in a family, then the one who is a son must be reliable.
So Li Su decided to make herself a reliable person.
It is already night now, and the villagers slept early, and the village was dark and silent, and only occasionally heard a or two barking dogs.
It was a foregone conclusion tonight. Li Su sighed and went out of the door in the dark. He searched outside the wood door and found a few straight wood, a wooden stake that was thick with the hug, two very round pebbles, and a small piece of sheepskin that had been stored for a long time.
He scooped a jug of water from his own water tank and drank it. His stomach, which was so hungry that it finally relieved a little. Then Li Su rolled up her sleeves and started working.
The only tool at home was a hatchet that had been broken. He couldn't afford the oil lamp, so he had to light a few firewood in the yard, swaying red fire. Li Su used the hatchet to scratch the wood he found one by one. The red firelight reflected his young and tender face. In his bright eyes, two balls of fireworks were vaguely jumping.
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It was dawn, and Li Su got up with her sleepy eyes rubbed her sleepy eyes.
Li Su was still growing up and it was still difficult to bear if she didn't eat a meal. Her stomach was so empty that she felt uncomfortable. She got up in the middle of the night and fed cold water several times before she suppressed her surging hunger.
Li Dao got up earlier than Li Su, and he couldn't find anyone inside and outside the house, so he didn't know what to do.
Li Su's masterpieces were quietly placed in the yard, and some of the strangely carved objects were used for unknown purposes.
He tied the pile of things tightly with a hemp rope, and Li Su carried them out and walked out of the door.
The Li Su family is a farmer, and simply put it as a tenant. The tenant has no land and can only help the landlord farm and pay the rent on time every year.
There are tenants, and there are landlords. The head of Li Su and his son, the surname of Hu. It is said that their ancestors also came to Taiping Village with those who fled in their early years. However, the Emperor Gaozu of the Hu family had the highest IQ and the most restless among the group of people who fled in Taiping Village. After settling in Taiping Village, they not only farmed, but also sold some small things such as needles, threads, and iron hairpins from the city to sell them. The villagers had no money to buy them and bartered them with food, and then sold the food into the city.
After a while, the Hu family quickly accumulated original capital and the transactions became bigger and bigger. It is said that three shops have been opened in Chang'an City. In more than ten years, a few more natural disasters happened to occur, so nearly half of the land in Taiping Village was bought by the Hu family, and many villagers inexplicably became tenants of the Hu family, including the Li Su family.
Li Su's destination after leaving the house is the Hu family.
I was a little nervous. Along the way, Li Su's mind kept looking like Ge You wearing a melon-skin hat. He opened his mouth and said, "The landlord's family has no surplus food either."
If Landlord Hu really looked like this, Li Su decided to give him a middle finger in front of him. Anyway, he would definitely not understand what it means.
The Hu family's house is not far from Li Su, and it is about two miles away. Although it is a wealthy family in the village, the Hu family looks only a little more grand than ordinary houses. There are two stone lions standing at the door. The lion carving is very poor, small and vulgar, and curls around the door timidly. In terms of its majesty, it is even worse than the local dogs guarding the door.
Li Su felt a little comforted. It was so vulgar that posing a stone lion was so naughty. It showed how unwilling the Hu family was to leave the masses and how approachable it was. The Hu family must not be a cold and erotic route. Finally, they saw some dawn in the matter of getting food.
The main gate is not allowed to go to the village households. This is a rule agreed upon by classes. Unless the Jingyang County Magistrate visits, ordinary people are not qualified to go to the main gate.
Li Su walked around the main door sensibly and came to a small side door open to the west of the Hu family. In front of the door, a middle-aged man in linen clothes was slowly sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground. Li Su narrowed his eyes and looked at it, and was delighted. He knew this person, the butler of the Hu family, so he hurried forward to salute.
The butler looked up at him: "What are you doing here, boy from the Li family?"
"Come and find the cottage..."
"What?" The housekeeper was a little disbelief.
"Look for a cottage."
The broom swept towards Li Su's head with the wind and thunder. Li Su's eyelids hopped and quickly dodged.
"There is no rule for me to be cowarded. I will go to the old man to find a cottage and ask your father to kill you when he goes back." The butler pointed at Li Su and cursed.
"There is something, there is something!" Li Su hurriedly said: "But, please calm down, there is something really wrong."
"Say, what's the matter? I can't tell you one by one. I'll discipline you for your father." The butler was angry.
Li Su was not angry either. After experiencing too much in the past few days, he found that although the men in Guanzhong had a bad temper, they still felt a sense of intimacy and straightforwardness from their words and words splashing with sparks. Li Su liked to deal with such people and was not tired.
"Renovate your house and go to the thatched cottage from now on, your Hu family will enjoy it..." Li Su started an advertisement.
The housekeeper was stunned: "What enjoyment?"
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It would be better to explain it to him directly, so the butler had to take Li Su to the Hu family's thatched cottage, then frowned and stared at him with a bad expression.
Li Su ignored him and presented his masterpieces that he had done for half a night.
The middle of the wooden pile has been hollowed out and is placed directly on the pit. A wooden water tank is connected behind it. The sheepskin is sewn into a leather tube to connect the water tank and the wooden pile. The water tank is blocked with a small round stone, and the other end is tied with a hemp rope to extend outside the water tank, and connected to a simple wooden handle.
The water tank was filled with water. Under the surprise gaze of the butler, Li Su gently pulled the handle, loosened the round stone blocking the water outlet, and the water flowed rustled the toilet made of wooden stakes.
A simple version of the Tang Dynasty toilet was born in Li Su's hands.
"This... what is this..." The housekeeper became more and more surprised. He couldn't help but put his head into the wooden stake, making a very upset move. Anyway, Li Su would never have the courage to stuff his head into it in his life.
"Uncle Butler, look, as the saying goes, "eating, drinking, defecating, scattering," I took care of all the "pulling" and "scattering" in your house..." Li Su explained softly.
"'La' and 'Sa'?" The butler finally realized how inappropriate it was to put his head in it, so he hurriedly pulled it out.
"Yes, butler, you just need to sit on it and pull the hand next to you after finishing the work..." Li Su was demonstrating. After a long time, the butler finally figured out the purpose and method of the toilet, and his unkind face gradually turned from shade to sunny.
"Courage kid, is Man Ling awake?" He tapped Li Su lightly and burst into tears. The butler praised him and turned his head to look at the newly installed toilet. The butler looked moved, and it seemed that he had the urge to come to the spot.
"Uncle Xie, Mr. Xie, praises you, your comfort is the boy's happiness..."
The housekeeper laughed: "What a boy, I used to be a slutty porcelain, and I want to beat you when I see you. Now I like you and say, why do you come to my house to do these things?"
Li Su scratched her head and smiled shyly.
The housekeeper pointed at him and cursed, "The matter was done, the dough was thin. If you don't say anything, I'll tell you, the food at home has been eaten up? This year, the village households have not harvested much food. You should come to count the days. The master has prepared grain for you and will pay it back if the scenery is better next year. Or go to the west of the village to dig a ditches and turn it into labor. Your father and you are a half labor force, and you don't dare to starve the villagers to death. The officials are going to ask for punishment."
"Ah?" It was Li Su's turn to be stunned.
This is not right!
What about the sharp opposition between the local tyrants and evil gentry who are incompatible with the proletariat and the proletariat? How did it become so warm and gentle in the Tang Dynasty? It is not that a family is better than a family.
"What, I'll get three liters of millet in the front yard and get out of here." The housekeeper waved.
Li Su suddenly realized that the toilet was in vain. The reality was just like this. He originally planned to exchange this invention for food, but it was not necessary at all. He prepared the food before he even visited the house.
A little moved in his heart, Li Su felt that he should have a good understanding of the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. What kind of picture was the Emperor under the rule of the Holy Emperor? The prosperous era may not only refer to national strength and military strength, but more importantly, people's hearts.
"Thank you, Uncle Butler. Since that's the case, I'll move the toilet home first..." Li Su's ability to break the bridge across the river was very strong, and he immediately bent down to take the toilet and leave.
Another thunderous sound came from the head, and the butler's unfriendly shout came from the top of his head: "Put down the things, how can you go back to the things you give to others? There is no rule! Get out after taking the food!"
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