I seek longevity in Datang

Chapter 13

Fang Shu slept until the sun rose again that day.She simply liked the sunlight shining straight into the room, bright and warm.

Get up, wash, eat.

The weather is getting warmer, Fang Shu should not save too many buns, dumplings, and wontons in winter.

According to the eating habits of Northwesterners, I made dumplings in sour soup. Wow, what a fairy taste, give yourself a thumbs up.

Continue to work, continue to move supplies, busy until the afternoon, finally moved into the main cave.Another handful of things were dumped onto the shelf on the large platform and put away for storage.

The stone stove has three holes, and Fang Shu installed another pot and earthen pot.

Clean two wooden barrels, one for clear water and one for dirty water.

After cleaning the water tank, fill it with clean water, cover it, and let it settle.The water pool is so close, it is simply too convenient.Looking back on the days when I went to the village to fetch water with a water jar in my arms, I feel a sense of happiness now.

Use the potter's wheel to draw water so that it can swing the bucket to pour the water, and then use the potter's wheel to lift it up.For Fang Shu, this technical waste is simply a death proposition, not to mention how heavy and difficult it is to walk three miles with a half-filled water jar.

The past is so difficult, it doesn't matter if you don't mention it.

Ignite the fire to clean the earthen pot and boil water, clean the kettle and water jar with boiling water, and use it for boiling water.Wipe the hot earthen pot dry, apply vegetable oil, boil it, let it stand for three hours, and then wash it.The new iron pot is also opened with the same formula.

Cleaned a wine case, put it in a jug filled with boiling water, and moved it into the living room.This is Fang Shu's direct drinking water. The water quality is clear, delicious and satisfying.I can't be elegant, and I'm not in the mood for the time being.

Because of boiling water, Fang Shu remembered what she had overlooked, tea!In the future, it will be picked up, and the seedlings will be planted.She remembered that there was a shrub on a slope with a fragrant smell. Could it be a tea tree?
He cleaned up the large stone basin in the bathroom, filled it with clean water, and put a large ladle in it.

Cleaned the new tub and put the lid on.I cleaned the old tub and laundry tub and put the washboard away for later use.

A small broom was placed against the wall to scrub the pits, and the cleaning agent was plant ash.Perfect!
After tidying up, Fang Shu's wishes were everywhere.

Go back to the living room and look outside, the sky is full of stars.It's already late at night.

The next day, Fang Shu first turned on the martial arts mode.

He took the hatchet out of the east gate, climbed to the top of the mountain, found a flat place, and stretched his arms, thighs and calves.Bathed in the twilight, breathing in the fresh air, I began to squat, and stretched again when I was tired from squatting, squatting again, and stretching again until I was powerless.

Fang Shu also prepared a sandbag and hung it on the bald branch, punching and kicking, planning to practice first.After training, take off the sandbag and hide in the bushes to make a camouflage.

Back to the main cave, after breakfast, start the master mode again.

First read the enlightenment textbook "Three Character Classic", and stumbled and stumbled to recognize all the traditional characters.

I took the copybook again, observed it first, and then learned to write.The copybooks are the Four Books and Five Classics, first look for "The Analects of Confucius", and copy the characters you know.

Fang Shu has a foundation of calligraphy for several years, and this body also has muscle memory. I copied regular script and cursive script with the slightly transparent paper I bought specially, and after thinking about it for a long time, I feel that these two calligraphy can be written independently. , practice chant.

Physical memory is very familiar with facial features. Fang Shu copied two articles and wrote a few words by herself. It is not satisfactory and needs more practice.

Fang Shu decided to learn to write some of the "Analects" that she was familiar with that had been included in textbooks.Then learn to write the "Three Character Classic".Then there is "Herborist", which is the reference book for Fang Shu to settle down at this stage.

One morning passed.

In the afternoon, Fang Shu turned on the manual master mode.

The measuring ruler is cut to reserve the share of shrinkage after washing.The denim cloth is cut into two sets of mattress inners, one set of quilt inners, two sets of pillow inners, one set of square chair cushions, and one set of rectangular stool cushions.

Cut out two sets of quilt covers, two sets of sheets, and four pillowcases from muslin.Two sets of curtains are prepared to be used as a windshield for the second cotton.A set of bed curtains.Set of chair cover and stool cover.

Sew and sew, my fingers are about to sew, I miss the small electric sewing machine I used in my previous life infinitely.

In the evening, I took a hot bath with a new bathtub, and my sense of happiness was overwhelming.

Don't want to go to bed too early, stretch and do yoga on the living room bed.

Then he went down to squat on the ground again, and when he squatted on the horse, he had an idea and adopted the abdominal breathing during meditation.After ten minutes of persistence, it was indeed easier than in the morning.

Stretch again when you are tired, squat again, empty your mind, take a deep breath of fresh air, and slowly exhale the exhaust gas that has been accumulated for a day. Your metabolism follows the rhythm of nature, and you gradually fall into deep meditation and forget to breathe. , forgetting thoughts, forgetting time, nothingness.

When Fang Shu woke up again, the time had passed.There is no trace of fatigue all over the body, and it is extremely relaxed.She knew in her previous life that this phenomenon was called stream of consciousness, and it was very difficult to do.

Fang Shu returned to the bed, began to meditate, meditated, adjusted her breathing, let go of her thoughts, and entered the state of meditation again.

I don't know when she fell asleep, Fang Shu was completely unconscious, she just felt very refreshed when she woke up in the morning.

In her previous life, Fang Shu liked to meditate, and it was often a very short moment, like a long time in a daze, because she really couldn't control the flow of thoughts, and it was difficult to let go.

Fang Shu decided to get up in the morning and go outside for stretching, running, jumping, exercising her hands and feet, and kicking sandbags.Breathe fresh air and relax.

Then go back to the platform of the main cave and squat on horseback. If you fall into meditation during the process, it is very unsafe to be outside.

In this way, the cycle went on and on every day, exercising, martial arts, reading, calligraphy, sewing, yoga, squatting, and meditation. It lasted for five days, and Fang Shu completed the sewing task.

On the afternoon of the sixth day, Fang Shu first boiled acacia water in a large pot, and soaked the coarse cloth series in an idle bathtub.

After soaking for a quarter of an hour, the water was still warm, so I added some hot water to it.Fang Shu took off her shoes and rushed, rolled up her trouser legs, stepped into the bathtub, and turned on the scrubbing mode again.

Fill the laundry tub with clean water and rinse.Put ready-made crossbars between the shelves of the platform and dry them in the shade so that there is wind circulation in the cave.

Taking advantage of the fine weather, Fang Shu took the semi-wet sheets out to dry on the bushes outside the east gate for an afternoon, and then they were completely dry and usable.

Remove the old quilt, take out the inner cotton and still have [-]% new.First used old cotton as a chair pad and then as a stool pad.

Make a mattress.

When Fang Shu sewed the mattress cover, one side of the plug was left open, turned inside out, and spread flat on the bed.A layer of old cotton was laid first.The bed is so big, two meters two by two meters six.

About ten catties of cotton were reserved for quilts, and about four catties were reserved for quilted curtains in the living room.The pillowcases were stuffed with balls made of cotton balls, and they were tapped flat to seal. Two of them used more than five catties.A total of [-] catties of cotton was bought, and the rest was put on cotton mats.

The wadding was laid flat, but it was not as thick as imagined. Fang Shu took a big thick needle, and sewed the large cotton stitch up and down with a straight needle to fix it.

Then carefully and carefully turn over the side that is close to the bed board, it is not easy.

Fang Shu was a little obsessive-compulsive, and she was not at ease. She really got into the quilt cover and smoothed out the cotton before she felt at ease.

Thinking of that joke, Fang Shu burst out laughing, and almost sewed herself into the quilt.

If there was a second person present, Fang Shu would have to be judged as crazy.Talk to yourself frequently, entertain yourself.Don't you just say it's scary?
First, the mats are plugged and sealed, and then the mats are quilted up and down with straight needles. It takes a busy afternoon to make the mats.

Another coarse cloth cover of the same style was put on the cushion, it was slightly larger, and the shrinkage rate could not be calculated, so it was just right.Fix the four corners with needle and thread, shake it, pull it, and shoot it flat.The opening left by the plug is in the middle, about one meter long, and a string is sewn on both sides, and it is tied, and you're done.

The quilt is the same process, the inside of the coarse cloth, and the quilt cover is made of fine cotton.The pillow is also covered with a muslin pillowcase, and the other two muslin pillowcases are used as pillow covers and changing.

To put it bluntly, the Babu bed is actually a bed room with a roof, sealed on three sides, and one side at the end of the bed is made of drawers, and there are also several horizontal grids, which can be used for storage.There are three steps on the side of getting out of bed, and the width of the top step can sleep one person. This is the place for the maid on night shift to sleep.

Fang Shu spread out the mattress, smoothed and pressed the muslin sheet on three sides, and let the side of the bed hang down.When I bought the cloth at the beginning, I chose the true color of the linen for the coarse cloth, and the white was slightly yellowish.I chose the same light green color as the window screen for the muslin.

If she still felt that it wasn't warm enough, Fang Shu was going to buy two more big blankets, one to spread on the bed sheet and the other to put on the quilt.The steps are prepared to be paved with punctual felt, which is more comfortable to step on.I don't know if they are sold in this era, there should be some in Chang'an City.

The exit of the bed house is a moon gate, with hollow patterns on the left and right of the gate, carved with crabapple flowers, flower branches and leaves.

In the moon gate, there are protruding rivets on the left, right and top. Fang Shu made a bed curtain according to the pattern, and the middle was superimposed by about ten centimeters according to the distance between the rivets.

In the longitudinal middle of the bed curtain, Fang Shu made a cloth belt with two holes hollowed out at both ends, and hung one end on a rivet. Pull up the bed curtain, and hang the other end on the same rivet.The bed curtain on the other side was also closed and hung up.

Fang Shu clapped her hands, Anle's nest was completed.Stand behind the desk and sit down to appreciate, fresh and natural, beautiful.

Afterwards, Fang Shu resumed her daily routine, exercising and studying, and changed it to going out to explore and pick up in the afternoon.She wanted to find a valley and open up wasteland for planting.Ximenwai takes priority.

The small goal of the next stage is to enter the city of Chang'an.Experience the prosperity and customs of the Tang Dynasty.

Every day is busy and busy, Fang Shu went to the town again, bought cotton cloth of the same color as the coat Lanshan, and sewed a large simple backpack.

The closure is by drawstring.Outside seam pockets on both sides, inside divided into two areas.On the divided fabric, inner pockets are sewn on both sides.

I bought a short dagger at the blacksmith's shop and put it in my backpack.I prepared a few more packets of chili powder and put them in the pockets on both sides of the backpack.

Fang Shu also inquired about how to get to Chang'an City. There are ox carts and horse carts specially for pulling people.

To enter the city, you need to bring your household registration or road guide, and pay the entry fee.The road guide needs the user to register in the area in charge of Chang'an city to handle the road guide, indicating where it is from and where it is going.

Fang Shu rubbed her forehead, this matter is difficult, Wang Baochuan ran away from home without caring about anything.No wonder being trapped in a square inch.In ancient times, the household registration management was quite strict.

Otherwise, he lied that he lost it and didn't take it with him, so he could find a solution from the shopkeeper of Jishitang Li?Or maybe a little money can be used as a bribe?
there's always a solution to any problem.Play by ear.

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