After the whole network was hacked, she traveled through the small fishing village of Datang

Chapter 5 Jingyesi Thoughts in the Late Tang Dynasty

After Su Qingqing finished memorizing a section of the "Three Character Classic", the excited mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took Su Qingqing to the table for dinner, and their attitude towards her was even more respectful than before.

Perhaps it was because it was getting late and the light in the house was not good, and the family could not bear to part with the oil lamp, so the dining table was moved to the threshold, using the remaining twilight in the sky for illumination.

In the late Tang Dynasty, there were already many beds and high stools, and this family also had them. Everyone did not sit on the floor when eating.

Su Qingqing observed silently and found that the bowl of rice porridge placed in front of herself and her children on the dinner table was slightly thick, while the porridge in the bowls of Zhang and her mother-in-law was very thin.

There were a total of five dishes on the table, a plate of pickles, a bowl of wild vegetable soup with egg drops, a pot of brine shrimp, a pot of crab, and a steamed green fish.

In addition to seafood, it is also a dish. It is indeed a dining table for people on the seaside.

Mrs. Zhang said: "Sister Su, please raise your chopsticks first."

Su Qingqing was so hungry that her chest pressed against her back. At this time, she couldn't care less about being polite and immediately picked up the chopsticks and the bowl to eat.

Then Zhang's mother-in-law used her chopsticks to put a pickle into the bowl, then Zhang, and finally the child.

It can be seen that although this family is poor, they are quite well behaved, with a clear order of honor, guest, elder and younger.

Combined with Zhang's rather polite manner of speaking, their family should be considered somewhat educated, perhaps from a poor and poor family.

Mrs. Zhang and her mother-in-law wanted to chat with Su Qingqing, but she was so hungry that she just immersed herself in cooking.

After finishing the bowl of porridge quickly with pickles, Mrs. Zhang gave her another bowl, but neither her mother-in-law, daughter-in-law nor the children added any more.

Two bowls of porridge were eaten with wild vegetable egg drop soup and a few bites of pickles. There was no oil or water at all.

Fortunately, the amount of shrimps and crabs on the table was relatively large. The shells Su Qingqing peeled off formed a small mountain on the table, and she was half full with the seafood.

Crabs are thin this month and can't get much essence.The fattest crabs are undoubtedly in September and October of the golden autumn, the so-called "autumn crab fatness".

In modern society, because the shameless islanders dumped nuclear sewage into the Pacific Ocean, the value of seafood in the Pacific Ocean has been greatly reduced, and many fishermen have no choice but to sell their boats and change careers.

It had been a long time since Su Qingqing had eaten Pacific seafood of such high quality. Even though the crabs were very thin, it didn't stop her from eating them.

But, it’s not enough!Still want to eat!

But she was too embarrassed to ask for it again and silently put down the bowl.

Chatting again after dinner, Su Qingqing excused herself with the lies she had thought about in her mind, saying that she used to live in seclusion in the mountains with her master, but later her master passed away and she decided to go down the mountain and join the world.

The decision to travel around the world as a hermit in the mountains was mainly due to the three, six or nine classes of the Tang Dynasty.

The hermits in the mountains are still recognized by the court, although they are not as valued as they were in the Zhenguan period.

If she couldn't return to modern times, Su Qingqing thought that she would at least have to rely on modern knowledge to become a good citizen and not live in a lowly status.

The Tang Dynasty currently lacks the population to pay taxes, so mountain people and refugees are sometimes included as long as they can afford to pay the tax, let alone educated hermits.

In this kind of world, it is difficult for good people to be regarded as human beings by the court. This is basically the fate of leeks. A farmer has five people to pay for his debts, and his lowly status is directly stipulated by the official as "law is better than livestock."

In any case, they cannot be classified as refugees.

Su Qingqing put on a dejected look as if she couldn't bear to look back on the past, and only gave a brief summary.

If you encounter details that are difficult to answer, just stay silent.Zhang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not doubt Su Qingqing's words. Judging from her dress and conversation, what she said was quite convincing. What's more, she had just taught their son a section of the "Three Character Classic" before the meal, which he couldn't do. Fake.

Because Su Qingqing "just came down from the mountain" had nowhere to go, so she was naturally enthusiastically persuaded to stay at Tian's house that night.

Among the five stone houses of the Tian family, one is the bedroom of Zhang's mother-in-law, one is the bedroom shared by Zhang and Zhizi (two beds), and the remaining three are the firewood room, study room and main hall.

Su Qingqing didn't want to share a bed with Mrs. Zhang, so tonight she slept on a simple temporary bunk in the study.

Being able to let her sleep in the study instead of the woodshed also meant that the Tian family was indeed very grateful and respectful to her.

For most people in the Tang Dynasty, the study room was like a treasure house. Outsiders were not allowed to enter, and only distinguished guests had this treatment.

After one night of communication, Su Qingqing already had a little understanding of the world and this family.

Before traveling through time, she was in Xiaoxiang, the modern capital of Hunan Province, but now the land beneath her feet is a small fishing village in Guishan County, Xunzhou, Lingnan Road.

She had no memory of which body of water the first point of crossing was, but judging by the speed of ancient carriages and horses, it couldn't be too far from this small fishing village.

In other words, she traveled from modern Xiaoxiang to Xunzhou, Lingnan Road in the late Tang Dynasty. This distance is really far enough.

Su Qingqing had no idea what the modern equivalent of this small fishing village in Guishan County was.

But since it belongs to Lingnan Road, in the eyes of ordinary people like Chang'an and Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty, it must be a barbarian land where no one can shit. They have been exiled and demoted since ancient times.

It's also good, it's farther away from the central court and less troublesome.

Su Qingqing has traveled through thousands of years and has no obsession with going to the ancient city of Chang'an to see historical celebrities.Being able to live well and fill her stomach is what she wants to solve most at the moment.

Zhang's mother-in-law, whose surname is He, has no name and is known as He. She lost her husband in her prime and her son in old age. She was also a hard-luck person.

Zhang's husband was a medical officer during his lifetime, and he used to work in the county government.In layman's terms, he is a doctor who is established in Datang and mainly treats civil servants in the county.

Later, he died of illness. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were able to identify and prepare medicinal materials, but they could not treat the disease with acupuncture.

Without the monthly wages of the mainstay of the family, it was difficult to survive in the county town with only the weaving and washing of the orphans and widowed mother. So they simply packed up, quit the rented house, returned to the ancestral home in the countryside, and relied on the tribe to survive.

Because their family and Tian’s clan leader’s family have not yet released five medicines, and Zhang has learned some simple medical skills from her husband, she can treat nearby villagers with headaches and fever, and then pick some herbs and sell them to the medicine shop in the town for money. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law The two of them were able to eke out a living in the village with their young children.

Su Qingqing rashly traveled to this unfamiliar place, with no power, no legal status, and good looks, but the situation was not optimistic.

A late Tang Dynasty biography shows that the human trafficking in Lingnan Road was very serious, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was the hardest hit area.

Even though the central government of the Tang Dynasty made great efforts and promulgated laws to curb the human trafficking phenomenon in the Lingnan area, it had little effect.

On the one hand, the arable area in Lingnan is small, miasma is widespread, and the harsh living environment leads to low productivity. In addition, local wealthy families covet the huge profits from human trafficking. As the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, local bureaucrats impose many exorbitant taxes on the original tax basis.

With various unfavorable factors gathering together, the people in Lingnan struggled to survive and had to sell their sons and daughters.

Thinking of this, Su Qingqing understood that she was betrayed when she just woke up.

People trading has become an industrial chain here. If you meet a duckweed-like beauty like yourself, isn't it a valuable commodity?
Wealth is moving!

(End of this chapter)