Riding the wind of rebirth

"I heard from Qiao Mu that you have a residence in the capital?" Wei Yi smiled and said, "Then we can go earlier, if the school is not open, we will live at your place."

"That's no problem, you can live wherever you want." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "If school doesn't start, I'll just spend two days in the capital, and Yixiong can be your tour guide now."

"You are really capable, Elbow." Wei Yi praised: "I heard that your book will be published in English?"

"The horoscope has not been written yet. The translation is Fu Xia from "Gourmet Detective". Do you think she is reliable?"

"Let me have a look at the translation when the time comes." Wei Yi was too embarrassed to say that others couldn't do it, and decided to add another insurance to Zhou Zhi, at least he could help check it.

The vehicle drove in the direction of Fawang Temple, and soon came to a small town with beautiful mountains and rivers—Xianshi Town.

Zhouzhi often passes by here, but never stops for a long time, because they are all passing by, and then stop to buy the specialties here-soy sauce and balsamic vinegar.

Everyone got off the car here, and then walked into the town to visit the tomb of a sage.

It is located on the banks of the Hongshui River, with beautiful mountains and clear waters and convenient transportation. Since the Hongshui River has been an important passage for "salt from Sichuan into Guizhou" since ancient times, many villages, ancient markets, and ancient towns have gradually formed along the banks of the Chishui River.

As an important wharf and post station on the Hongshui River Salt Transport Ancient Road, Xianshi gradually formed a market, old street, and shops, and became one of the four ancient markets in Jiachuan.

The street is quiet and quiet, and the townspeople on both sides of the stone road lead a quiet and leisurely life. On the contrary, it is the strange faces of Zhou Zhi and his schoolchildren that arouse everyone's curiosity.

There are two streets in Xianshi Town, one is the "upper street" that passes through the ancient town on the slope, and the other is the "lower street" that connects the riverside wharf and the soy sauce garden.

At the intersection of the two streets, there is a small cemetery. The cemetery is about [-] square meters. It is a small square with bluestone slabs, surrounded by three low walls.

In the middle of the square is an ancient banyan tree, and at the other end is an ancient tomb in the shape of a steamed bun.

In front of the tomb stands a stone stele with strong calligraphy, which reads "Tomb of Xian Wang, the county magistrate awarded by Tang prodigy".

"Are you wondering why there is an ancient tomb in the middle of the town?" Zhou Zhi asked.

Everyone is nodding.

Zhou Zhi began to be a tour guide for everyone: "Because here, in fact, this tomb first existed, and then this town existed."

"In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous general in the state of Jin named Xian Zhen. We did the reading test for excerpts from "The Battle of Chengpu", and he was included in it."

"This Xian Wang is said to be Xian Zhen's grandson. He was enlightened at the age of three, recited thousands of words every day at the age of seven, was elected to the court, was tested by imperial edict, and then he was awarded the title of child prodigy."

"After having this identity, Xian Wang served as an accompanying student in the palace. He accompanied the prince, who was later Tang Dezong, to study for 14 years. A Jinshi."

"When the emperor came to the throne, his companion would have been reused. However, he repeatedly wrote to ask to return to his hometown, and finally came back as a county magistrate. He has an outstanding reputation in governing the city and is very popular with the people."

"Afterwards, I resigned from the official position and gave lectures at Anleshan White Ape Academy, teaching disciples in the village and cultivating talents. I also left a poem describing another famous person in Anleshan."

"This is our first Wenqu star in Jiachuan. Today, I bring everyone here to worship. I hope he can bless us to go through this year well and get admitted to the ideal school in our minds."

After speaking, he opened the incense candle he brought and lit it, and seriously inserted it in front of Xianwang's tomb, and led his friends to bow three times to the tombstone.

The little friends didn't realize it, and they didn't dare to have any arrogance in front of this Jiachuan cattleman of the Tang Dynasty, and followed Zhou Zhi to salute politely.

As a result, this action alarmed the onlookers around the square, and after a while, an old man hurried over: "Excuse me, are you... eh? Are you... the one who accompanied Director Wu to our place?"

"Hehehe, hello sir! We are about to start our third year of high school. This time, we are bringing our classmates here to pay homage to your ancestor. I hope he will protect our Jiachuan culture."

"Oh, all of you are talents from Jiachuan. This is a great honor to my old family." Hearing Zhou Zhi's introduction, there were also college students and graduate students who just went to the capital this year in the crowd, and the old man was immediately in awe: " Then let's go home and talk."

"I'm afraid there won't be enough room at home." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "It's spacious here, let's chat here, and we have to go to Anle Mountain later. Tell everyone about the history of this city."

"What should I do..." Mr. Lao felt very embarrassed, but there were too many people here, and someone happened to pass by with a basket of loquats, so he bought it to entertain his classmates, and then he said: "Actually, this is a loquat. The place that the ancestor indicated before his death, said that after his death, he would be buried here."

"The posterity left one here at that time, and after the ancestor was buried, he opened the field to guard the tomb."

"It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the climate is suitable, there is no drought or disaster, and there are quite a lot of specialties. It quickly developed into a land of fish and rice."

"Because it was developed from this cemetery, as you can see, the tomb of the ancestor is located in the center of the town."

Zhou Zhi added: "Looking at the Qingshiban Road here, you can know how prosperous Xianshi was in those days. It was comparable to Majie Rongshan. What is the best specialty of Xianshi—soy sauce? What is needed to produce soy sauce? A surplus of salt and grain."

"So everyone should know that in ancient places that were famous for vinegar, wine, soy sauce, and sugar, no matter how poor they were, they couldn't be poorer."

"That's right, back then our city was famous for its vinegar and soy sauce, and the elbows said that they would buy it every time they passed by." Speaking of this, the old man frowned: "But this year I'm a little annoyed, the market can only buy it. To Jiachuan soy sauce."

Zhou Zhi's heart skipped a beat: "Why is that?"

"It's difficult to operate!" said the old man, "The soy sauce factory uses old technology, and the soy sauce must be at least three years old. In recent years, the price of food has been rising, but the price of soy sauce has been squeezed by foreign soy sauce manufacturers. I can’t go up, the old sauce three years ago is used up, and the new sauce jars are getting less and less in the past few years, and it seems that I can’t continue to do it.”

"A few days ago, there was a mobilization meeting in the township, saying that the county encouraged private individuals to take over the soy sauce factory. As long as the wages of the workers were settled, and other discounts, it made us listen to the excitement. Just those broken houses, broken steamers and soy sauce jars, Can it be worth 20? The head of the township made a random quotation with the intention of deceiving foreigners!"

Is 20 a lot?For Zhou Zhi, who can normally earn 15 a month in China, this is really not the case.But for township collective enterprises, they usually start with 6000 to 20 yuan, and [-] yuan is an astronomical figure.

Zhou Zhi thought about it. First, the soy sauce and balsamic vinegar is a well-known old brand in the county. It was first established in the Guangxu year as "Jianghanyuan".

Up to now, there is a Sanguan temple in the factory, dedicated to the heavenly officials, local officials and water officials who bless the prosperity of the soy sauce handicraft industry, as well as more than 600 old sauce vats that have been handed down from the Guangxu year to the present. The last two surviving old signboards cost more than 20 yuan!
This matter can definitely be made bigger and stronger, but I have to go back and discuss it with Sister Xiaojuan and Auntie first.