Kingdom of Heaven and Han

With hands behind his back, Wang Xiaolie was slowly looking for weeds under the sycamore tree at home.There are few people who eat these in this era, and they are almost everywhere at this time.

Life is difficult, no one eats fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs, and they are flooded in many places.In his previous life, Wang Xiaolie remembered that there was a severe drought in his hometown one year, and the canals were used to irrigate the fields.After a few days, there was less water in the channel and there were crabs everywhere.I had nothing to do, and after more than an hour, I picked up a snakeskin bag of crabs.After picking them up, I didn't know what use these things were, so I threw them all away.

In this era, there is still very little oil in the countryside.Although Wang Xiaolie tried his best to promote soybean oil, many places still eat sesame oil.Sesame oil is not suitable for cooking, not to mention the low yield.Many families cannot eat a few drops of oil a year.Coupled with eating less meat, most people don't have much oil and water in their stomachs.There is no oil in the stomach, fish, turtles, shrimps, crabs, frogs, etc., including grasshoppers, are not delicious to eat.

Wang Qingxiu was in the courtyard, commanding the soldiers to prepare for the wine delay.It's rare for my brother to go home once, so of course he has to prepare more generously.Chicken, duck, fish, whatever food Wang Qingxiu could think of, he had to get some.It's just that Wang Xiaohun is weird, just like a child, he likes to eat beetles and those things.

People were brought by Wang Xiaolie.There are soldiers doing chores, some cooks are cooking, and some are preparing drinks, all in good order.

It is very inconvenient to hire someone at home, and the hired person must have a guild and be supervised by the government.After a long time, the big families are too lazy to hire them.No matter how big the family is, at most they only hire two or three people to do some chores.Unlike before, there were groups of boys and servants in the house, as well as drinking prostitutes, singing prostitutes, and even cooks, of all kinds.

Wang Qingxiu was young, and had never lived in a wealthy family since she was a child, and never hired anyone.Only a few of Wang Xiaolie's personal soldiers often go home to do some chores, but they feel at ease.If there are important events at home, such as chefs, there are naturally people who can use Wang Xiaolie.

The sun is still high in the sky, the moon is already in the east, and the food and wine are ready.Wang Qingxiu asked Wang Xiaolie to have dinner together.

Wang Xiaolie ordered the chef to fry up the weetweed he had just picked up, and sat down at the table.He picked up a bottle of wine and said, "This is the mulberry wine brewed by Xuanfu Division. It's chilled in ice. It's very delicious. Sister, try it."

After speaking, he poured a glass for Wang Qingxiu, and poured another glass for himself.

The wine glass is a newly made glass, and the scarlet wine is poured into it, glowing with a strange color.

Wang Qingxiu took a sip of wine.Putting down his wine glass, he said to Wang Xiaoli: "Is Dalang so busy now? It's been a few days since he came back from Hedong, but he hasn't come home yet. I see that he is an official and has feasts every day. I don't know how comfortable it is!"

Wang Xiaolie said: "It's really busy. There are only two siblings in our family. We moved from Xiangyang to Luoyang, and there are many people to help. My sister has been busy for many days. The affairs of the Xuanfu Department are complicated. Come here, how can you not be busy? It is someone else's business to be an official, so there is nothing to say. And under my rule, no official has a feast every day. Other officials may not be so busy, so they will not be so busy idle."

Wang Qingxiu said: "Under Dalang's rule, which official is uncomfortable? Dalang, you are a big official now, and let the people below do things, so don't be too tired. There are officials in the government. Is it to share the worry of the officer?"...

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "Sister, no one has the same official position as me. I let my subordinates do things. The reason why they are idle is because they don't care about many things. Most things are ignored by the government. Are you free now?"

Wang Qingxiu said: "Why don't you be like others? There are so many things in the world, how can it be possible to take care of everything?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "I didn't take care of everything. People live in this world, if everything is taken care of by others, how boring it is! Compared with other officials, what things do I take care of? It's just too complicated, there's no need for my sister to know."

"Alas—" Wang Qingxiu sighed, staring at the red sun in the western sky.After a while, he said: "Is it really worth it if you are so busy that you have lost your own life? I see other people as officials, but that's not the case."

"Is it worth it?" Wang Xiaolie couldn't help being stunned after hearing Wang Qingxiu's words.Whether it's worth it or not, Wang Xiaolie hasn't thought about it yet.

It is said that the officials are busy and take care of everything, and there are few people like Wang Xiaolie now.But compared with other officials, Wang Xiaolie is really not in charge of many things.But because everything under the rule starts from scratch, and attention must be paid everywhere.

Wang Xiaolie's character is not someone who loves to seize power and never let go of it.If it can be released to the officials below, Wang Xiaolie will not hesitate to let it go, and will not take everything into his own hands.The problem is, the current matter, if Wang Xiaolie lets go, the people below don't know what to do.

Is it worth it to be so busy?Wang Qingxiu asked, Wang Xiaolie had to think about it.

After a while, Wang Xiaolie nodded: "It's worth it. I'm busy, if it can make the world a better place, it's worth it. If one day, I'm too busy, the world won't get better , then it should be free."

Wang Qingxiu said: "You think it's worth it, what else can I say? However, you are not young anymore, it's time to think about your own affairs. Since you have fallen in love with Miss Lin, let's get married this year. In a month or two, I will marry the Zhang family, and you will marry Miss Lin in winter."

After Wang Xiaolie heard this, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

That's right, in this day and age, I'm not too young, it's time to get married.Just remembering this incident, why do you feel a little uneasy?
Compared with other dynasties, the phenomenon of late marriage and late childbearing in the Song Dynasty was more common.Generally speaking, a man who is over twenty and under thirty is not considered a late marriage.As long as a woman is under 19 years old, she is not considered a late marriage.In the general situation in the society of the Song Dynasty, the average age of marriage for women was about 19 years old.For example, Li Qingzhao married Zhao Mingcheng at the age of [-], which was not a late marriage at the time.

In the mid-Northern Song Dynasty, some people said that "when a wife mates with a husband, the earliest one is at the age of 20".If the family is poor and wants to marry a good family and a good wife, the age will only be delayed.For example, Lu You once wrote a letter, "The son is thirty, the daughter is twenty, and I have not dared to marry yet." Please donate an official to get money for the marriage of your children.

This situation is different from the Han and Tang Dynasties before the Song Dynasty, and also different from the Ming and Qing Dynasties after the Song Dynasty.In the Song Dynasty, the marriage of a man and a woman was calculated according to the age of Wang Xiaolie's previous life, and it was not a late marriage and late childbearing.Moreover, the higher the social status and the better the economic situation, the more common it is to marry late and have children late.

Wang Xiaolie is 23 and Lin Xi is [-], which is the normal age for marriage.Moreover, the world has been chaotic in the past few years, and late marriage and late childbearing are even more common.

Wang Qingxiu urges Wang Xiaolie to get married quickly because Wang Xiaolie's status is different, and she needs to leave a good substitute earlier.For example, the emperor of the Song Dynasty married much earlier than ordinary scholar-bureaucrats.If his father was still alive, Wang Xiaolie would only be a servant in Tongju's family, and Wang Qingxiu would not urge marriage at this age.Even asking Wang Xiaolie to wait for a few more years, it is not uncommon to have to be a Jinshi before discussing marriage.Just like Fu Bi, he married Yan Shu's daughter when he was nearly 30 years old and became a Jinshi.