Wentang

Chapter 8 Integration
"Mother, let's cook these little fish." Yue Lao Si put the fish on the ground and said.

"I don't work at night, and I'll be gone after I sleep. I cook whatever I want, and I'll eat it tomorrow morning." Yue Shanniang said unhappily.

The ancient people were poor and ignorant. They didn’t have to work at night and went to bed after eating. The next morning they woke up hungry again, and the food was wasted.

They think that it is not so good to eat at night, just have a drink of soup, and they don't even need to eat rice.Yue Shanniang also thinks the same way, that's why she objects to cooking fish now.

Such an idea seems funny to modern people, but it was the mainstream in that era.It contains the sadness and helplessness of a nation. If there is a surplus, who would like to go to bed hungry.

After speaking, Yue Shanniang was about to put the fish away, and then she found that the piece of cloth wrapping Xiaoyu looked familiar, and after a closer look, it was indeed familiar, and then looked back at her son, and suddenly opened her eyes wide and yelled at Fourth Yue. road:
"Okay, fourth son of Yue, are you blind to see that your son is not wearing a coat? If you freeze him, you will compensate my mother and son?"

Then there are words such as one-stop pension for the end of life, family inheritance and so on.Fourth Yue was so scolded that he couldn't lift his head.

Usually, Yue Shanniang would not dare to scold her husband like this, but Yue Shan is her only reverse scale, and anyone who dares to touch her dares to fight desperately.And Yue Laosi also knew that he was wrong, so he could only do it next to him.

Yue Shan has seen this kind of scene a lot in the 21st century, and he doesn't think there's anything wrong with it, but instead feels warm.So I found a piece of wood and sat aside and watched the excitement.

His gaze inadvertently swept over to his side, but he saw the little girl hiding aside and shivering.The joy in my heart was immediately extinguished, leaving only distressed.

I couldn't care less about watching the excitement anymore, so I hurriedly stopped: "Stop arguing, I'm so hungry."

Yue Shan's words seemed to touch the switch button, and Yue Shanniang's voice stopped abruptly, and the anger on her face instantly turned into a friendly smile: "My dear son, wait for your mother to serve you a meal."

After speaking, he walked to the kitchen next door, and when he reached the door, he still didn't forget to turn around and reprimand Yue Laosi: "You wait for my old lady."

Soon she came in with two pottery bowls, and she knew what was in them without looking at Yueshan—corn soup with wild vegetables.

The corn was provided by the imperial court, and the amount was not much. On average, only two meals of porridge could be boiled a day, which was definitely not enough.In order to fill the stomach, everyone will add some wild vegetables to cook together.It is such a meal, and only the strong laborers in the family can eat more, and other people can only drink clear soup.

For example, now, Yue Shanniang only brought in two bowls, which meant that neither she nor Xiaoya had anything to eat.

Looking at the bowl in mother's hand, the little girl swallowed hard and made a small 'gudong' sound.However, this sound was like a hammer, hammering hard on Yue Shan's heart, his nose was sore and tears came out of his eyes.

"Shanzi, why are you crying? Tell mother if something is uncomfortable." Yue Shanniang panicked when she saw her son crying.Wanting to wipe it for him, he found it inconvenient to hold the bowl in his hand, so he pointed his gun at Laosi Yue again in a hurry:

"What are you still doing, you dead man, hurry up and take a look."

"It's okay, I'm okay. Mother, let's cook fish and eat it. I want to eat fish." Yue Shan rubbed his face vigorously and said with an ugly smile.

"Okay, cook the fish, mother will cook the fish right now." At this time, Yue Shanniang didn't care about waste, and hurriedly responded.Not to mention eating fish right now, even if she wanted to eat her meat, she would not even frown.

"Cook all these small fish, and our family of four will have a good meal tonight." Yue Shan continued.

"Okay, cook it all, cook it all. Just wait, mother will cook it now." Yue Shanniang agreed, then turned her head and shouted to the little girl: "What are you doing hiding there, why don't you hurry up Make a fire? You lose money, you know how to eat and eat..."

Seeing the little girl running to the kitchen in a hurry, Yue Shan stretched out his hand to stop her, but he didn't say anything with his lips moving, and his arms drooped feebly.

He can't change the idea of ​​patriarchy, especially for families with two lines and one lineage, this kind of thinking is even more extreme.If you want to change the situation of the little girl, you must improve the living environment of the whole family, otherwise protecting her is just empty talk.

And protecting her from working now will only make her parents hate her even more.

It seems that I have a long way to go, Yue Shan sighed.

He didn't even notice that when he wanted to protect the little girl, he also found a small goal for himself.

What people fear most is not being poor, but losing their goal.In his previous life, his goal was to work hard to earn money to support his family, and then to be a keyboard warrior on the Internet to get his account book and talk to his ancestors for eighteen generations.

After time travel, the alienation from the times made him even less aimless.The acquaintance with Li Shimin is just a coincidence, and there is no clear purpose.

Get promoted and get rich?Maybe he'll follow this path, but that's just for survival, not a goal.

A name left in history?If it was the previous life, he would definitely fight for it.But this world... As a traveler, he always feels that this world is false.

When you feel that the whole world is false, you naturally don't care about such things as leaving a name in history and leaving a bad reputation for thousands of years.

The little girl accidentally touched the softest part of his heart just now, and the pain from the heart made him understand that this world is not fake.In front of him is a group of living people, with their own lives and thoughts.

He wanted to give the poor little girl in front of him the childhood she deserved, just like the children in the previous life.

When he had such an idea, he had already found a goal for himself, and the illusion that this world was false also disappeared.At this point, he can truly integrate into this world and regard himself as a part of the world.

Right now, Yue Shan didn't realize that the compassion he felt for the little girl was actually helping him unintentionally.

Yue Shan's family is very poor, the real house is bare, and there is no other furniture in the house except a bed.The kitchen is not much better, just a bucket and a half-foot small pottery pot for rice, and the cooking pot is actually a pottery pot.

This is where Yueshan is ignorant, and the iron pot did not become popular until the Northern Song Dynasty.The highest iron output in the Tang Dynasty was during the Yuanhe period, and it was only a mere [-] tons.

In the early Tang Dynasty, it was estimated that there were only a few hundred tons or even dozens of tons.With this output, it is not enough to make weapons. Who would be willing to use it to make iron pots.

In this era, rich people cook with copper utensils, while poor people cook with pottery.This is normal.

Small fish are easy to clean up, you only need to squeeze out the internal organs, and you don't even need to scrape the scales.After the water boils, throw it directly into the earthenware pot and cook it.

There is no onion, ginger, garlic or anything else, and there is no need to think about spices. The seasoning is only a few grains of coarse salt.One can imagine the fishy smell of the fish soup cooked in this way, but Yue Shan almost didn't spit it out anyway.

This kind of fish soup is already a rare delicacy in the world in the eyes of Yue Laosi and the other three.They gobbled it up, and after a while, a big bowl of fish disappeared, and finally wiped their mouths.

I don't know if this is the first time the little girl ate meat in her life. After drinking the fish soup, she hugged the bowl and licked it clean.

Yue Shan didn't want to eat this kind of food very much, but he knew he had to eat it, so he poured the cold fish soup into his mouth while suppressing the fishy smell, and swallowed it without chewing much.

Fortunately, the little fish was not big and could be easily swallowed after being boiled, otherwise he might really become the first traveler who choked to death by the fish soup.

(End of this chapter)