Chapter 330 Simple Requirements

Chapter 330 Simple Requirements

When she woke up in the morning, Mo Shao on the right was still sleeping as usual. She didn't know what dream she was having. She smiled at the corners of her mouth, the muscles at the corners of her eyes and lips were all relaxed and soothing. The morning glow of youth shone on the beautiful face, showing a crystal clear look, like a drop of dew hanging on the rose bud.

Huh? Why is there a drop of crystal dew beneath her fan-like eyelashes? Is she still sad?

In her sleep, her tender little mouth moved slightly, gently spit out lilac and moistened her lips. The tip of her tongue slid across the lip, making her soft and charming. She frowned slightly, her sandalwood mouth lightly opened, and her neat and white teeth were embedded on her tender red lips like shells. A trace of fragrance in her mouth was even more delicate and charming.

Shi Chuan slowly approached her pink face, smelling the breath she vomited, it was an extremely seductive female aura. Shi Chuan suddenly wanted to kiss her tender red mouth... But he looked back at the sky and finally gritted his teeth and got up.

When Ling Fei arrived here, several long wooden boxes were already placed in the yard. Shi Chuan had already packed himself up. He put on the general's uniform, with a waist knife and a pistol hanging on his waist, pointed at the wooden boxes in the yard and said, "This is the musket you want to bring to Shuyang. Click it lightly, and then go pick people. After two days, Liu Xu's younger brother arrived, you bring the man and muskets and go back to Shuyang with him."

Ling Fei asked with a smile: "Master, aren't you going to climb the heights today? Recently, they are tigers and bandits, so don't you need to protect your disciples along the way?"

"You stay here. The case in the city was about to ferment yesterday. Today they will send people, maybe to me, or to Huang Magistrate... If you are looking for Huang Magistrate, then you must set off in advance and escort Huang Magistrate back to Shuyang-to prepare."

"What case was yesterday?" Ling Fei asked in surprise.

Shi Chuan came back after handling the assassination in the city. Huang Dad and Liu Xu were not aware of it. Of course, Ling Fei, who rushed back last night, didn’t know it. Shi Chuan briefly explained what happened yesterday and continued: "Two big yellow crossbows were found on the scene. The only one who wanted to harm us, was the Lianshui Army who could take out the big yellow crossbow. When the county sent people, you can pretend that you didn’t know anything."

"I didn't know anything at all," Ling Fei complained: "Master, do you still have to go out to climb the mountain like this? Or, bring a few more guards?"

Shi Chuan shook his head: "Although Baihu Mountain is different from Cuizhuang, it is still my clan after all. Most of the entire village is my clan. Wherever I go, something will happen, that's really..."

Ling Fei thought about it and agreed, "Yes, then... Master, I'm going to find someone."

Because they were about to climb altitude today, Huang's father and Liu Xu's family got up very early. Liu Xu's newlywed wife knew that Liu Xu's goal was not to give him but to propose marriage to his younger brother. After he asked for marriage, his attitude became more and more friendly. In the future, the two families would be in-laws. Taking this opportunity to get familiar with each other in advance is the right thing to do.

Liu Xu's wife is a merchant and is best at silver bullet attacks. The servants who serve their daily life in the morning have received generous rewards. Compared to the generosity of the Liu Xu family, Wang is a little stingy.

In any case, shortly after the sun jumped out of the horizon, the two families moved in a mighty way.

The road leading to Baihu Mountain has been repaired, and the hardened road makes the carriage go very quickly. The street trees on both sides of this road are the favorite cherry blossom trees of the poets of the Song Dynasty, so this road is also called the Cherry Blossom Avenue. The Cherry Blossom Avenue is 21 miles long (one mile in the Song Dynasty is about 415 meters), and the road is covered with resting pavilions... Of course, these pavilions are also out of the evil spirits of being worn by time - they are all made of cement stone structures.

"Creation of the Fa" published ten years ago was compiled based on the "Mujing" by Yu Hao, a craftsman in Liangzhe. Unfortunately, the above two books are still empiricist works. They include different architectural models, telling people how to do it but not why they do it. Shi Chuan wrote a very bad idea of ​​"Creation of the Fa" and the book specifically tells people why they do it.

For example, "bracket", the windows that run across the two columns are called "upper string", "waist string", "lower string", etc. These things that have always been used as decorations, but they carefully point out their roles - balancing the building center, wind resistance, and earthquake resistance, and giving corresponding calculation formulas.

Lu Da and his three people who took these three books have gradually been exploring and learning in practice in recent years. Because they teach methodology in books, as long as they read, they basically follow the experimental methods described in the book, and conduct some small experiments by themselves, they can learn basic building methods through the experiments. What is the so-called experiment is some separate small buildings.

Shicheng is very frightening to describe a variety of architectural styles in the book, including typical Tang and Song architecture, as well as Mediterranean architecture, Arabic architecture, Byzantine architecture, etc. The shape of the Tang and Song architecture is divided into southern schools and northern schools according to the region. After the completion of Sakura Avenue, the Xuejiao Pavilions that need to be built along the road meet the experimental needs, so these small pavilions were usually undertaken by the three-star team.

A twenty-one-mile journey, two miles and one pavilion, requires a total of ten pavilions. The three-star class experimented with ten architectural styles along the way, fully demonstrating the changing design power of its own. Of course, the apprentices who were taught by Shiteng were not people who did good things and didn’t like to be known. After each pavilion was built, literati and poets wrote a plaque. The three-star class always had to erect a stone tablet next to the pavilion and wrote the name of the contractor. Therefore, with the completion of these ten pavilions, the three-star class became more and more famous.

But the cherry blossoms on the road and the elegant pavilions with different styles are not the main contributors to the Sakura Avenue. The most exciting thing about the Sakura Avenue are those wine tasting stalls. The Shi family in Baihu Mountain has a valley to prepare for grapes to make wine. It takes a while for the cultivation of grape seedlings to be cultivated, but the construction of the winery only requires manpower. The Shi family in Baihu Mountain, who only has a winery, is unwilling to be idle at Shizhang's suggestion, so they purchase fruit wine to study winemaking technology.

There are millions of fruits in the mountains and fields, and the wines are made from them. In order to find the best taste and ingredients ratio, the ten resting pavilions along the Sakura Avenue have become the booths of the Shi people. They take out their own brewed wine for free for passers-by to taste, and ask for their opinions... Of course, some foods with wine are still charged, but the price is very cheap.

This free tasting of wine attracted many idle people. Gradually, literati and scholars were greedy for the beautiful scenery on the roadside. Of course, they also greedy for the wine on the roadside. When they were idle, they regarded the Cherry Blossom Avenue as a good place to take a walk. When they were tired, they took a rest on the roadside, drank a few glasses of free fruit wine, and said a few random words to taste it. This made the originally remote Baihu Mountain area begin to become popular. Although the Whitehu Valley has not yet planted grapes, its reputation for making wine has spread throughout Haizhou.

"When I send you under the cherry blossoms, my heart will break the branches at once. After parting, I miss you the most, and thousands of trees hang around the forest." Since I am going out for a trip, every beautiful scenery on the roadside is different... Well, the important thing is that in every pavilion, the wine that people can taste for free has its own advantages. This group of people will naturally rest at the pavilion and taste wine every time. When literati drink too much, they like to recite poems. In front of me, Huang's father brought a bowl of wine to recite.

"This is a poem by Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty." Liu Xu despised the old senior's stealing of posts.

"The cherry blossoms fall all over the steps, and the moon is like a bed that leans against the sorrow of the fragrance cage.

It's far from last year today, and the hatred is still the same.

The two maids were untidy and the clouds were haggard, and tears were stained with red breasts.

Where is the pain of longing for love? Drunk in the dream in the screen window - this is the poem by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty." Huang Dad added the original author as he followed the flow of kindness. Then, Huang Dad looked at the new Jinshi Liu Xu with contempt: "You have a song?"

Shi Chuan suddenly sang a song, which is the Japanese folk song "Sakura": "The most beautiful sea in life, / clusters of singing, expectation. / When flowers bloom, they also come when flowers fall. / Because, / There are many stories, / Begin to move, and the ending is more adorable."

"What kind of poem is this?" Liu Xu frowned.

Song language is very similar to Japanese. At this time, Japan is trying hard to get closer to Song State. Japanese women often cross the sea to Song State, pursuing a night of joy, and returning to China after pregnancy - this is called "Duansheng". The children born are called "Chinese people", boys will be adopted by ministers, and girls will marry into the family of ministers. At this time, Japan is proud to learn the language of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and modern Japanese call this "Tang system, rituals, music and Chinese articles."

Liu Xu could understand this vague Song language, but this Japanese haiku seemed to be in line with the appreciation habits of the Song people.

Shi Chuan was thinking about how to answer, and a chanting poem was relieved. He heard a man who looked like a scholar on the roadside chanting loudly: "After the plum blossoms fade, the cherry blossoms bloom, and the redness is light and even. Try to use the work of heaven. A hundred flowers and thousands of flowers are connected. The rest of the cold has not yet bloomed, and I complained about the rain and the wind. The cranes are filled with lunar cages. Thousands of round and round are surprised to be together."

The poet is a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, and there is another young man of the same age walking with him. While reciting the poem, he looked at the three seemingly current officials who were drinking and stealing poems from previous generations with contempt. His poem is not as good as the top, but he is fully qualified to laugh at the thief.

"Hey, who is this?" Huang Dad and Liu Xu were already impressed by this person's talent. Talented man, this word is made of... Not to mention that I can't make it even if I don't drink.

"Zhao Shixia, whose courtesy name is Jiezhi, was the seventh-generation grandson of Zhao Dezhao, the son of Taizu, King Yan," Shi Chuan muttered in a low voice.

This person is famous not because of his poetry and talent, but because he wrote a postscript in "Dream of Tokyo". The latter is the main reference book for studying the people's sentiments in the Song Dynasty.

"The descendants of King Zhao Dezhao of Yan did not live in Xingan (now Jiangxi has recently practiced this person's poems. Huang's father and Liu Xu first came forward to chat with each other, greeting each other according to the etiquette between literati. When it was time to introduce it, they would wear it. Shideng said this loudly.

What, Prince Yan’s descendants... Huang’s father Liu Xu was shocked. However, what surprised them even more was that Zhao Shixia seemed very calm. He calmly replied: "What are the past events in the past? Come on, I will introduce you to you. This is King Shu, the Ensourcing Chengshu, Wang Yizhi."

The official title of Chengshilang is on par with Chengxinlang and is both ninth rank.

A prince had a ninth-rank official title on his head, which was not surprising in the Song Dynasty. This person was Wang Anshi's great-grandson. King Shu's title was inherited from Wang Anshi, but was just a false title. The Chengshu Lang paid him a salary on behalf of the court - the ninth-rank official salary. This person's father, the former King Shu, only served as a real ninth-rank official in his lifetime - in charge of the salt storage warehouse.

In the Song Dynasty, titles were not guaranteed to be arrogant and prosperous. In this era, my father was Wang Anshi, but he was not as good as my father was Li Gang.

"I have heard of Shi Changqing, Haizhou," Wang Yizhi smiled and greeted: "Although the few female books you compiled are mixed, they are generally taught to learn intelligence. If a woman learns, it is expected that the family business will prosper."

"Of course." The other party was dating a princely guy, and Liu Xu's father looked even more respectful. But when Liu Xu heard Wang Yizhi's topic, his complacency almost overflowed. He couldn't help but interrupt: "I just asked for a recruitment for my youngest brother in my family... Hehe, fortunately I got permission."

"Congratulations," Zhao Shixia and Wang Yizhi bowed together. Then, Zhao Shixia replied: "I am traveling to Haizhou. I heard that the Ten Pavilions of Sakuras have their own characteristics, so I couldn't help but come over to play... Brother Shi is going out to climb the high place?"

Zhao Shixia is a guy who likes "strange and clever yin skills". He is not concerned about the imperial examination articles. As a wealthy and idle person, he is more interested in the various aspects of the market, otherwise he would not have written an inscription on "Tokyo Dream Hualu". For such a guy, Shi Chuan was not afraid of him, and he gave a slightly ashamed answer: "Shame, ashamed, and random things, I didn't expect to fall into the eyes of the Fang family."

Zhao Shixia's eyes suddenly widened: "I don't know that this is actually Cheng Xinlang's work."

"It's my apprentice," Shi Chuan replied humbly, and immediately added: "It's all taught by me."

"It's really, very..." Zhao Shixia struggled to think about a word to express his current mood. Wang Yizhi felt that there was no need to work hard, so he immediately smoothed out: "Where is the destination of Chengxinlang's trip?"

According to the habits of literati, this is asking for peers.

Shi Chuan quickly greeted: "I'm going to Baihu Mountain and browse the Baihu Mountain Grape Valley by the way. Are the two brothers free? Let's go with you."

Wang Yizhi followed the flow and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I heard that Baihu Mountain is good at brewing wine. When I go to Baihu Mountain, I will try some of the good wines from somewhere."

Why is the free wine on Sakura Avenue attractive? Because this wine cannot be found in the market - they don’t care about takeout. The reason why they don’t care about takeout is that Shicheng has not yet obtained a wine license. The wine tax in the Song Dynasty was very high. Before the wine was brewed, Shicheng didn’t want to pay taxes for nothing, so he didn’t get a wine license. This also means that the wine brewed from Baihu Mountain cannot be sold to the public. If you want to drink it, you can only come to the Sakura Roadside for free to taste.

The immature winemaking techniques on the Sakura Road have already made the varieties of wine dazzling. So what wines are available in Baihu Villa... When the alcoholics think of this idea, they can't stop saliva.

Unfortunately, Baihu Villa is not open to the public now, and because there are too many unsafe factors, Baihu Mountain's group training and investigation are particularly strict, and most people cannot enter the village. Now, sometimes they pass by this leading party, so what else can they say - the two princes go together.

With the two princes accompanying him, the speed has accelerated a lot. At about noon, the group entered the range of Baihu Villa. Shi Chuan's eyes were immediately welded by a room on the slope.

The house was not luxurious, it was just an ordinary house, but there was only a half-finished large gatehouse built in front of the house. This was the Jinshi archway, and the only Jinshi in Baihu Mountain was the only one.

Huang's father didn't notice the strange clothes he wore. Before stepping into Baihu Villa, he was still sighing: "I think the lives of the people along the way seem to be very different. Since Cuizhuang came out, he became more and more poorer than Cuizhuang. When he arrived at the foot of Baihu Mountain, it seemed a little better, but it was not much better. Look, this Jinshi family has stopped working after half of its cultivation. What's going on?"

Shi Chuan replied absent-mindedly: "In recent years, Haizhou City has been uneasy. At first, the Peach Blossom View incident broke out, and the kidnappers wandered outside the city, and the city was stable. At the end of the year, the bandits rebelled and a large number of refugees entered the country. In addition, last winter was very cold and the summer was particularly drought, so everyone's harvest was not ideal. Although the court reduced taxes for this, the county and prefecture had to provide a large number of soldiers, and the money and food were naturally tightened.

Besides, this year, due to the cold winter, many tea trees have frozen to death, the production of tea is also low, and the government has lost many taxes. Most tea merchants have lost all their money, and they have less regular income for refugees during festivals, so the people are a little depressed."

Huang's father asked tightly: "So how can Baihu Mountain and Cuizhuang be slightly better? Haven't these two places been affected by disaster?"

Shi Chuan replied: "That's because there are many projects started in Cuizhuang and Baihushan this year. These two places have hired a large number of refugees, and they have hired a large number of soldiers because of road construction. With more soldiers, fewer people will cause trouble. If the young and strong nearby are tight, they can just go to the workshop on that construction site to do some work and earn some money to make a living... Farmers are the most gentle. As long as they have stutters in the pot, they will never leave their hometown."

Huang's father was absent-minded when he saw Shi Chuan's words, so he looked over with Shi Chuan's gaze. Zhao Shixia, Wang Yizhi, and Liu Xu, who were traveling with him, also noticed Shi Chuan's abnormality. They looked at the Jinshi archway, slapped the palm of their palms with folding fans in their hands, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that there was a Jinshi here? It's a pity... why did the Jinshi come out in the village. Do the villagers dare to stop people from repairing the archway?"

Shi Chuan sneered: "The villagers have never stopped him, but his family has no money."

After hearing this, the two princes felt that Shi Chuan seemed to be involved in this matter, so they quickly lowered their heads and said nothing. Huang's father was not easy to speak, so they could only shake their heads in wonder: "If you pass the Jinshi, there will naturally be people who will be recharged to come over. How can you lose money? Besides, a Jinshi in the village is also the feng shui of the village, and the villagers should be eager to build a archway to show off. If the Jinshi family has no money, are the villagers unwilling to sponsor? Jinshi, the villagers are embarrassed like this. Are you not afraid that he will become an official in the future and make things difficult for the villagers?"

Shi Chuan Haha, laughing very arrogantly: "I don't know that the Jinshi cannot build a archway. It turns out that the people of the whole village are wrong. Brother Liu just thinks about it in reverse: the people of the whole village are unwilling to help this Jinshi, so what is his character?"

Wang Yizhi knocked on the folding fan and interrupted: "Indeed, I have never heard of such a thing... It's really..."

At this time, Wang Yizhi had already seen a woman standing under the broken archway. She was wearing a green sack with green sacks and had no jewelry on her body. Only a pair of arm bracelets were hanging on her arms. Jewelry was actually an auxiliary tool for work. Now the pair of arm bracelets were hanging up the cuffs at both ends with cloth strips, revealing white tender arms. There were some red scratches on the pair of tender arms, which made people feel heart-wrenching when they saw it.

Such beautiful arms are not easy to grow, so why don’t you know that your heartache?

The ropes hanging from the arms tied the cuffs tightly. The woman looked beautiful. She stood under the archway like a statue, with one hand on the pergola. She looked at her as she walked in and felt a little as she looked through the autumn water.

The Shi clans who were accompanying the team saw the woman standing under the archway bowing from a distance. They were respectful, but did not say hello. The beautiful woman under the archway did not reply to everyone's etiquette. The Shi tribe who was walking with him seemed to have not noticed this kind of rude behavior. They put down their hands of ceremoniality in a casual manner. As soon as they were wearing a cough, the group trainers immediately spread out. They walked around the archway, formed a wall of people around it, posed a warning posture, and blocked the everywhere with their bodies.

Wang Yizhi, Zhao Shixia and others were startled by the movements of the group training, and Liu Xu immediately exclaimed: "It turns out that they are well-trained. It is said that Cuizhuang's group training is powerful. Look, it is prohibited..."

What's the use of practicing well? If you can't go on the stage, it's just a "queue group gymnastics" performance. However, at this time, Shi Chuan didn't want to bother with this problem. He turned over and dismounted, strode to the archway, his tall body half bent down, and asked softly: "Miss Chu, it's broad daylight, what are you doing here... Oh, I've sent someone to Xuzhou to pick up Brother Luo. I heard that Brother Luo used up his money and was trapped in Xuzhou. Fortunately, Xuzhou is not far from here, and Brother Luo will be able to come back in a few days."

Huang's father was a little confused. When he saw the woman under the archway looking at Shi Chuan with watery eyes, he felt a little uncomfortable and immediately snorted heavily, but Shi Chuan seemed to be unable to hear anything at this time. He only looked at Chu Suzhen in his eyes.

Chu Suzhen under the archway smiled sweetly: "Changqing treats me as Meng Jiangnu, looking at her husband's stone. I am here by looking at the door, not looking forward to my husband's return home. Miss Cui sent me here yesterday. I knew that a few sisters got married. I thought that they would finally have a sister. It's a pity that I am not afraid to go and congratulate me, so I had to stand here and pray for them...

Alas, I am as lucky as them. With Brother Changqing here, I will never end up in such a situation like me."

In the human wall made of group training, Shi Chuan looked around and outside the human wall. Outside the human wall, Wang Yizhi Zhao Shixia and the Huang family and Liu family were all looking at this place curiously, while Huang's father was still whispering something to Wang.

In front of the human wall is a archway, behind the archway is the Luo family portal. Shi Chuan asked carefully: "Miss Chu has been doing well recently?"

Chu Suzhen gave a gift and replied with a smile: "I'm very good. I don't make noise, I don't show off, I don't say aggrieved or complained... My mother-in-law and my uncle have never made any more trouble since they went to the city. Later, my uncle got married and heard that Changqing lost money in business. The shops I dowry lost all their money, so they changed their faces and started to make fun of. When I came back yesterday, although they no longer assigned me to do this or that, they always had no good face.

Alas, I am very satisfied with this, and I finally have time to take a breath. Compared to the past, it is a difference between heaven and earth."

After a while, Chu Suzhen frowned again and asked carefully: "How could Luo Wangjing run out of money and be trapped in Xuzhou? Have you asked? What is going on? I gave the capital 600 guan a hundred guan a month ago. How could I spend all the money in just a few months?"

Chapter 330 Simple Requirements,
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