Daming kill

Chapter 56
It was almost noon when Li Ping woke up, and the dream of his previous life once again infiltrated all his will, and the fear and unwillingness to lose made him extremely painful.

It was an unprecedented pain.

The sudden profuse sweat made him drenched again, but he didn't struggle, and lay motionless like a dead fish, his eyes staring up blankly, without a trace of expression.

After an unknown amount of time, the pain from the wound brought Li Ping back to reality, and he felt his whole body was extremely stiff.He moved slightly, but his whole body was sore, and his joints seemed to be almost rusted. He was very dull, and he needed to move around.

Fortunately, he could feel some strength in his body, probably what he ate early in the morning played a lot of role.

When he struggled to sit by the bed, the soldiers guarding the outer room heard the movement in the inner room and rushed in to serve him.

Despite the strong dissuasion of his soldiers, Li Ping insisted on getting up and going out for a walk. He wanted to bask in the sun and change his mood, and lying down all the time was not conducive to recovery.

At this time, Liu Xiaohui appeared with sleepy eyes. She "surprisingly" ignored the expectant eyes of the soldiers, but quickly found suitable clothes for Li Ping and served him to wear them without saying a word.

Seeing this, several soldiers stopped persuading them and chose to leave the room silently after looking at each other.

These days, Liu Xiaohui has been resting in the simple house built for the soldiers in this yard, and only leaves occasionally when she needs to take a bath.Now she seems to have become Li Ping's full-time maid, and everyone seems to take it for granted.

Li Ping didn't say anything, after all, at this time, women's servants are much better than those clumsy personal soldiers, and Liu Xiaohui is still so "good".

Of course, the most important thing is that he has no mood to worry about these trivial matters at all.

With Liu Xiaohui's help, Li Ping put on a light gray collared shirt with a high round neck and narrow sleeves.

Collar collar is the style of official uniforms in the Ming Dynasty, but civilians can also wear it, but they should avoid the green, yellow, purple and other colors commonly used in official uniforms.Liu Xiaohui changed Li Ping's clothes mainly to consider that the neck can be more tightly protected, and the hem is looser and more comfortable, which is most suitable for Li Ping's weak body.

After changing his clothes, Li Ping slowly walked around the yard twice with the support of Liu Xiaohui, and then walked five or six times by himself, and then leaned on the deck chair in the yard to bask in the sun. His physical strength was obviously very weak. adequate.

He hadn't seen the sun for many days, and his face was a little pale.

The mild autumn sun should have been extremely comfortable, but Li Ping felt it was very dazzling, and he was even a little out of breath.It was as if something was pressing on his heart, making him feel even more depressed.

Li Ping used to be a person who was very good at adjusting himself, but maybe he had too many concerns.Since coming to this world, he seems to be the slowest person to adjust.

When he fully understood that there was nothing to change, the distress became even more uncomfortable. He seemed to have lost interest in everything, and the spirit of being forced to fight when he woke up in the early morning had long since disappeared without a trace.

Looking at the simple and simple environment in the small courtyard, the characters in ancient costumes walking back and forth, and the faces that are far more unfamiliar than familiar, a strong sense of distance made Li Ping feel flustered, and he was a little out of breath. Take a breath, it seems that everything is very funny.

Such a scene made him feel indescribably absurd, like a drama, so unreal, and he was so out of place.

In the depression, his stomach began to contract violently, a lot of cold sweat broke out all over his body, and he began to vomit.

Since he didn't have much food in his stomach, he retched more and vomited out a lot of yellow-yellow-green bile.

The soldiers and Liu Xiaohui who had been watching him in the courtyard surrounded him in a panic.

When the cold sweat finally subsided, Li Ping was finally able to control his body. He rudely pushed away and shouted back the anxious people around him, turned back and staggered into the room, closed the door and blocked everyone from the room.

In the house, Li Ping began to beat everything he could see...

When Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue got the notification and arrived urgently, Li Ping was still beating and venting in the room.

Zhao Lanyue blocked Gao Lei's urge to go in first and shook her head at her, then said to Gao Lei in a low voice and hurriedly: "Don't worry, it should be an emotional problem, not a physical problem, let him release it first. "

Gao Lei stabilized her mind, listened to the intense movement inside, and seemed to understand something, so she left the door silently.

Then, the two of them drove the other people out of the yard together, far away, even Song Baolai, who arrived later, also let them drive back.

Soon, when the sound of beating stopped, the whole yard fell into silence.

After an unknown amount of time, the door finally opened gently, and Li Ping walked out of the room expressionlessly.When he saw Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue standing in the yard, he froze for a moment, then forced a wry smile and said to them, "I'm fine."

Gao Lei tried her best to restrain her impulse and stared at Li Ping, "Oh! We, we just came here to see how your injury is doing."

"Oh... let's go in." Li Ping replied casually, seeming to believe Gao Lei's words.

So the three of them entered the room and walked into the inner room.

Li Ping didn't raise any doubts about the re-examination of the wound in just half a day, and Gao Lei didn't continue to explain, only Zhao Lanyue said casually as if adding to the snake: "We are afraid of repetition!"

But Li Ping might have been distracted, and didn't make any response, as if everything was taken for granted, as if he knew quite well about the recurrence of injuries.

But soon, Li Ping still showed his discomfort.

Especially the continuous hot and cold sweat just now had already soaked his underwear, which also made all the bandaged places damp. Not only did he need to clean and change the dressing, but he also had to bandage again.But fortunately, the wound didn't show signs of deterioration, so Gao Lei, who was stretched because of it, let out a long sigh of relief.

It's just such an operation, but the time will not be short, which also makes Li Ping a little embarrassed. After all, it is always a bit awkward to be studied like a guinea pig by a man or a woman.Especially knowing that he has completely lost his privacy in the eyes of these two women, he feels that his face has been completely lost.

The fact that these two women were familiar with each other hand in hand as soon as they entered the house made Li Ping's feeling even more aggravated. He really hadn't gotten used to their familiarity to this extent.

Of course, if the roles were reversed, he might not need to adapt, Li Ping thought darkly for some reason.

But when he noticed Gao Lei's concentration, the swollen circle of blisters on the corner of her mouth, and Zhao Lanyue's earnestness despite the rare playful expression, he felt ashamed again. There are simple and concerned smiling faces.

For many people, he is still very important, and he needs to live well.

When the finishing touches were finished, Gao Lei stood up straight and said softly, "If there is any change or any discomfort in the body, you must tell me in time."

Li Ping gave a "hmm" and nodded solemnly to the second daughter.

Gao Lei and Zhao Lanyue also smiled tacitly and nodded to him lightly, then they turned and left without saying anything.

While slowly getting dressed in the house, Li Ping heard the voices of Gao Lei and Liu Xiaohui talking in the yard. He was curious for a moment, so he pricked up his ears and leaned against the paper window to listen.

It turned out that Gao Lei didn't go away immediately, she called back the soldiers and Liu Xiaohui from a distance, and then explained to Liu Xiaohui in detail about changing medicine, taking medicine and eating, Li Ping was silently alone after hearing this Sit for a long time.

After a long time, Li Ping walked out of the house.

When the soldiers and Liu Xiaohui saw Li Ping coming out, they immediately stopped what they were doing, they probably didn't know what they were doing, stood up straight and looked at Li Ping cautiously.

"Get me something to eat." Li Ping said flatly.

"Ah."

"Yes."

Several personal soldiers and Liu Xiaohui responded immediately, and their expressions instantly eased a lot.

The meal was served very quickly, and it must have been prepared all the time.The staple food is still porridge, and the dishes are still a few small pickles, but there are two more boiled eggs and a bowl of chicken soup.

Li Ping didn't eat in the house, but ate directly in the yard basking in the sun.

He wiped out the bowl of porridge and the two boiled eggs in threes and fives, but he only took a sip of the chicken soup and put it down.His previous living habits made him really not cold about chicken soup, and he couldn't drink it.

Knowing that his stomach still needs to be adjusted, Li Ping decisively rejected the panicked thoughts of the soldiers who wanted to prepare meat and boil a few more eggs, but just ate another big bowl of porridge with pickles, and it was over. Had a meal.

Maybe it was because of Li Ping’s reconciliation. After Li Ping’s meal, the stupid Liu San cautiously reported: General Zhao Shen was brought back to the city, and he will visit Li Ping when he recovers better.

Li Ping didn't say anything, but continued basking in the sun.

With food in his stomach and basking in the sun again, Li Ping's complexion became better.

At this time, Duan Qiang, Ma Yong, and Hu Zhongshan tiptoed to the gate of the yard and looked inside, and the big stupid Liu San kept waving at them.

Li Ping had noticed the three of them a long time ago, and they should have arrived a long time ago, but he never dared to approach the yard, and just waited far away in the woods.They may have been found by the soldiers before, or they may have something to report, but Li Ping had been pretending not to see them before.

Now, Li Ping was not in the mood to talk to them, he looked up at the sky and said softly: "I want to be quiet."

Liu San, who was still in secret communication with the three of them, immediately changed his expression, and without hesitation, he suddenly turned on Duan Qiang and the others, saying incoherently, "I always need to rest more", "What's the matter?" You must be in such a hurry" and the like, made Duan Qiang and the others feel uneasy, and left in a hurry in desperation.

Li Ping looked in astonishment at the stupid big Liu San with five people and six people there. The growth of this guy's temper and courage surprised him a bit. Lamented: "A person's confidence and sophistication really have a lot to do with their environment."

After basking in the sun for a while, Li Ping felt a change in his stomach, and he didn't go to the toilet for several days.When he was having a headache, he suddenly thought of the toilet paper that Song Baolai gave him in the early morning, and his heart was finally filled with anticipation.

The paper is still a bit stiff, making the bottom uncomfortable, but it's better than nothing.Although his body was still weak, Li Ping's mood improved a lot after being able to use these yellow toilet papers.He had a sense of finally returning to civilization, as if nothing was insurmountable anymore.

"No matter what our ending is, we may bring mankind into civilization many, many years earlier." Li Ping thought.

"Who do you look down on!"

Emperor Chongzhen, who was working hard due to constipation more than 1000 kilometers away, suddenly said something, and then he covered his mouth in astonishment, shocked by his inexplicable utterance.

But soon he was not in the mood to think about his own strangeness, the messy situation once again occupied all his thoughts, and then he wiped his butt with toilet paper...

Yes, Emperor Chongzhen was using toilet paper too.

Of course, toilet paper is not only available in modern civilized society, but has already begun to spread on a small scale at this time, but Li Ping doesn't know it.And he didn't know that it was mainly because this was the treatment that only belonged to the nobles, and the level he could come into contact with so far was still very low.

What is mentioned here is popularization, not existence, because it is said that some people used paper for convenience in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but it did not become popular.

Of course, this is all about China, not Europe.Europeans began to use toilet paper on a large scale until the Victorian era (1837-1901), when British pharmacies began to sell toilet paper.

Yes, it's a pharmacy.

Next, we continue to talk about China.

In "Ming Shilu · Xiaozong Shilu", there is a story of a "toilet paper cassock".During the reign of Hongzhi (1488-1505), the palace used a kind of silk tribute from Sichuan to wipe their buttocks. This kind of satin is thick silk woven from the cocoons of wild silkworms, which is probably something like tussah silk.Tussah silk is not a rare thing today, but in that era, it was still expensive.Even if it is a luxury, it is even more extravagant to follow the mission of disposable toilet paper and throw it away after use.

There was a simple eunuch who collected these silks that had been wiped "royal buttocks", washed and dried them one by one, and sewed them up with needles and threads. Over time, he actually put together a curtain and hung it on his in the hut.

One day, when Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty was strolling in the courtyard, he happened to pass by the eunuch's hut, and saw this strange curtain from the window, and he was immediately attracted - because the curtain looked like a monk's cassock, The emperor was curious about what it was, so the eunuch dared not lie, and confessed truthfully: it was made of your old man's "toilet paper".Emperor Xiaozong was a well-known thrifty monarch. He was very shocked and exclaimed that it was a pity, so he ordered that toilet paper be used instead of silk in the future.

Cai Lun’s motivation for making paper back then was that writing on silk was too expensive. History is such a coincidence that paper has always served as a cheap substitute for silk.

Later, the toilet paper of the emperors of the Ming Dynasty was also unusual. It was made from the paper house notes of the internal officials and supervisors. It was light yellow, soft and thick, and was cut into a three-inch square.The three-inch square toilet paper is equivalent to the size of today's facial tissues, and it is relatively crude.But after all, there are special institutions to make it, and it is soft and acceptable, so it naturally has the conditions for popularization, of course, the conditions for popularization in the upper class of the upper class.

In fact, in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, toilet paper was widely used in the palace and among the upper class in the upper class, but the economically underdeveloped areas and the ordinary upper class still did not have this condition.

We can know a little about this from Cixi's flight to the west, which is recorded in the book "Talking about the Palace Lady" published by the Forbidden City Publishing House. In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces attacked Beijing, and the Qing court fled westward.On the way, Cixi and a lot of little masters and princesses had to use wild hemp leaves instead because they couldn't find toilet paper.This is about their embarrassment, but it also allows people to see the habits in the palace.

Before that, the reason why toilet paper was not popular may be fundamentally a problem in the manufacturing process.

According to the "History of the Yuan Dynasty: The Biography of the Concubine", Bo Lan, the "Empress Yuzong Huiren Yusheng", was very filial to her mother-in-law when she was a princess. She wanted to use her face to test the softness of the toilet paper before her mother-in-law wiped it Spend.It is necessary to test the softness and hardness with the face every time, which shows that the early toilet paper is very hard, and the quality is estimated to be unstable. It is no wonder that later generations returned to use "silk cassock".

If Li Ping knew what kind of people could use toilet paper at this time, he would probably be shocked, and then he would have to rack his brains to justify their noble hobby, because it is impossible to give up toilet paper.

(End of this chapter)