warring states careerist

chapter 122
The two talked and laughed and continued to move forward, and when they were about to reach Peiguo, they were no longer the two of them.

From two to four or five to twenty or thirty, go together.

Before I could see the newly built houses clearly from a distance, I heard a noise first. I don’t know whose bull took advantage of the warmth of spring and lay down behind the cow, surrounded by a group of people laughing there.

"Get on the ground, if you don't get on the ground, I will drive you to the shelf!"

"It doesn't matter if you are a cow or a horse, let him see that you are not lying, he will definitely torture you... If you are not worthy, you must be worthy."

"Don't be like rhubarb. It grows so big that female cows can't stand it. Every time you breed, you have to put it on the shelf. The wooden shelf made by Mr. Mo Di is very strong..."

Many people were watching there, teasing a few words, and burst into laughter.

In the distance stood a wooden frame, on which was tied a very strong bull.The bull is too big and the cow is too small, so this thing like a torture device was created.

The businessman said to himself, this ink man really cares about a lot, even the trivial matter of cow mating.

Amidst the laughter of a group of people, the not-so-big bull finally completed his task and mooed a few times, regardless of the many people around him.

But look at the extremely strong rhubarb tied to the shelf, it was driven away in a desperate manner after two barks.

Wei looked at it with enthusiasm, and thought that in this way, there will be another calf next year.It's a pity that it wasn't matched by the strongest bull, I'm afraid it might not be the best.

The cow was not born to him, but it belonged to Pei County and the Mohists after all, and it was for the benefit of the world.

The crowd of spectators did not leave, talking about who will get a cow and horse next year in each village, greeting each other, or telling which township or pavilion they are from if they don't know each other.

Wei also leaned over and chatted a few words.

This has nothing to do with him, but he likes this kind of conversation looking forward to a better future, because he has often fantasized about it for more than a year, and he dared to think about it.

"There are quite a lot of people today. People from the five townships and eighteen pavilions have sent people here?"

"The wheat will be harvested immediately, and the Mohists will teach to stack the wheat stacks to prevent a burst of rain."

"Yes, yes, it turns out that the wheat harvest season is in autumn, so how can there be rain? If you can't learn this, you will have sprouts all over, and you can only sell them to wineries at a low price."

"The last time Gaosunzi and Shi were here arguing on the stage because of the wine shop, in the end Shishi won. I don't understand Gaosunzi's words, but I can understand Keshi's words. In the end, the Mohists agree with him more .”

The person next to him laughed and said, "What do you understand? If you understand it, please explain it clearly to us. Let's learn how to stack wheat."

Laughing loudly for a while, Wei Xin said, I learned the method of stacking wheat when I was in Shangqiu, so I don't need to learn it.

Feeling slightly complacent, he asked again: "Why are there so many people in Peiguo Township today? Are they all here to learn how to stack wheat?"

A few people nearby said: "That's not true, just go to the kiosk to learn from a few people. Today I'm here to collect the order of mills used by kiosks in the township."

"Yeah, I've eaten wheat flour, and I'm thinking of collecting wheat and eating wheat flour. Who wants to eat steamed wheat? Today I'm going to draw bamboo sticks, one by one. It's too chaotic over there. Wait outside."

"The children at home are also looking forward to eating fried Tianti again, so I had to buy some instead of wheat flour. This year, the fermented manure taught by Mozhe was used in the fields of the village commune, and it seems to be more useless than those. Next year I will use it This method. If there are more dung from chickens, pigs, dogs, cows and horses, and those seeds that yield several stones per mu, there is plenty of land. As long as you have the strength, and the tax does not change, I can see this paradise soon.”

Wei thought for a while, then smiled and said, "That's true. After eating wheat flour, no one is willing to eat steamed wheat. There was no such annoying thing a year ago, and there was still competition for the priority of the mill."

Everyone around laughed, and thought of the fineness of the wheat flour, and the benefits of the Mohist, and said many other things one by one.

But no matter what we talk about, Mo Zhe seems to be indispensable.

The businessman who followed Wei thought to himself: "It's strange, why draw lots for this kind of thing? Wouldn't it be good to just choose someone at random and ask the pavilion chief to tell him to go down? Mohists are sometimes a little stupid when doing things."

He was thinking about it, when he heard a person in the distance hold a strange pottery cage like a morning glory and shouted: "From Xiaocaoting! From Xiaocaoting! It's time to smoke the order of the mill."

Several people who were talking here responded one after another, and then squeezed over there.

In addition to the people here, there are many similar people gathered along the roads of Peiguo. Unlike the farmers in other places, all of them have smiles on their faces.

The entire Peiguo area looks chaotic, but there are often villagers wearing leather armor and holding spears patrolling, although it is chaotic, no one dares to take the opportunity to make trouble.

There are several logs standing in the distance, and more than 20 dried dead people are hung on them.

Some have obviously been hung for half a year, while others have obviously been hung only recently, swaying back and forth in the wind, but no one around them takes it seriously.

The businessman wanted to take another look, so he asked Wei, "Aren't you going to deliver dung? I'll go with you, and I want to buy some seeds."

When Wei heard this, he had no doubts. People often come here to buy the seeds of the new valley, wiped off their sweat and said, "The delivery will be delivered at noon tomorrow. At this time, they are busy doing other things. Let's find a place to sleep and eat something. Since you are the first If you come to Peiguo once, you might not understand the rules here, so come with me."

"You have to buy grain seeds until the tenth day of the lunar new year. The Pei County government is newly built and there are not enough people. It is not possible every day."

The merchant quickly said, "Thank you so much."

Wei pushed Mo Zhe, bypassing the chaotic crowd here, and walked towards a big mud house.

There were quite a few people inside, and a few people were sharing the wheat grass inside, and the floor was covered with wood to separate the wet ground. It was obviously a place to sleep.

Wei explained: "Every pavilion has them. If you are on your way, you can rest here overnight. The wheat grass inside cannot be moved at will. If you want to make your own food, you can go outside to collect firewood. If you want to eat outside, you can also go outside."

The businessman looked at Wei, and saw that he didn't seem to have any rice balls or corn on him, and there was no clay pot in the car.Wei scratched his head and said with a smile: "It's rare to come to Peiguo once, so I eat something good. It's not worth a lot of money. I will harvest wheat soon and plant beans again. I will use it for two years a year, and there will be no tax increase. eat once in a while."

The businessman also said: "I have heard that Mozhe has wheat flour, deep-fried dough sticks, Tianti, soy milk and other foods. I really want to eat them."

The two chose a place to sleep, inserted the wooden sign on it, and brought some straw for sleeping at night from the side.

He went out again and pushed the ink cart to an open space, where many ink carts, double-shafted carriages or ox carts had already parked.

An old widower was sitting there, and Wei parked the cart in a shaded place with a reed mat in case it rained, so he went to the old widower to get half a contract.

The old widower handed over half a deed with strange symbols written on it by the businessman and said: "Don't lose it, you can't get it back if you lose it. Don't make trouble, the soldiers next to you are very strict about this. Someone was whipped twenty lashes just yesterday. .”

Wei took it with a smile, thinking that those who got whipped must have come here less, and the rules are strict.

After carefully putting away the half of the deed, I walked about [-] steps towards the north, and heard shouts and scents wafting from far away.

In a mud house, there is also a reed mat in front, boiling water is boiling in several large pottery tanks next to it, and a helper who is pulling the leather stick is bare-chested and sweaty.

Wei pointed to the sweaty helper and whispered: "Wu Zhu's disciples, they are serving here. These catering business people hope that someone will make a mistake, otherwise they are busy farming now. People come to do this kind of work?"

Seeing that the man had no chains or ropes on him, the merchant thought he was different from those slaves, and asked in a low voice, "Why don't you run away?"

"Fleeing from enslavement, the service period will be doubled. He has nothing to do, if he escapes, he can be killed. This is the rule set by Wanmin, how dare he escape? There is food and drink here, where can he run? Shan Linpei How can you be so comfortable in the middle of the lake?"

Wei explained some rules again, looked up suddenly and saw the words written on the wall, slapped his head and laughed, "You asked me before if I could read, but in fact, although I can only write those words, I can't read them well. A lot. I can recognize all the words on the wall, such as rice, wine, wheat cake, soup, and fish."

The businessman also laughed, looked up at the words on it, and thought that the words were really strange, it looked like a word, but it didn't look like it.If there were no three dots on the side of the word "wine", it would be very similar, but it is not after all.

Looking at the people who were eating next to me, I felt even more strange. These people didn't sit on the ground or have small tables, but sat on some crossbars.

The higher part of the crossbar is made of a row of wood, wide and long, which looks like a horizontal pestle shield.

Those who eat are obviously used to it, sitting on the crossbar, chatting with the people next to them while eating, talking more about the wheat harvest in a few days, or what they have seen and heard in the village.

Although it says wine on it, they seldom drink it because it is expensive, and it is really beyond the reach of these villagers. Even though the year is good this year and it seems that they can harvest two seasons, there are still few.

Wei took the businessman to find a place with few people to sit down, and each asked for his own food.

Merchants don't recognize many of them, they only have a few things they heard about in Taoyi and Shangqiu, but most of them don't.

Wei asked for a large bowl of fish ball soup, that is, the fish in the nearby river, all of which were smashed with stones, mixed with wheat flour, and thrown into the hot soup.

I also ordered two baked hard wheat cakes to soak in them, ate a few mouthfuls, and said: "This soup does not cost money, but the fish balls cost money. If you have no money, just bring rice made of corn to beg for money. A bowl of drink is fine."

After taking a few sips, he was talking with the businessman about getting fish baskets in Shangqiu Village a year ago, when a woman behind him shouted, "Brother, why are you here?"

While the woman was talking, she turned her head and said something like wait a moment to the people behind her. Wei turned her head and saw that it was her younger sister, Lu Hua. She didn't answer her sister's question, but asked the same question.

The brothers and sisters looked at each other without answering, and first laughed.

The man dressed as a businessman looked at the woman whose complexion was a little dark because of the sun, and felt that her eyebrows and eyes were beautiful, but she was dressed in an extremely weird way.

He is dressed in a white robe called ghost cloth or cotton cloth in Peixian people, and there is a strange crown hat on his head. Women rarely wear crowns, which is very unusual.

The fabric of the crown is very long, and all the hair is gathered inside, so it is impossible to see what the hair inside looks like.

A burlap bag was slung over his shoulder, and it was bulging and filled with unknown contents.

The businessman felt that it was a bit like the costumes worn by Chu people and witches, but it was not the same. In short, it didn't look like normal women's costumes.

The businessman didn't know that such a strange costume was loved and respected in all parts of Pei County.This is the garment worn by a man who can cure ailments, perhaps only a few, but at least it can.

Even if it is small, no one has tried to cure it before.Having the least is also countless times higher than not having one.

The businessman faintly heard the conversation between the brother and sister, probably this woman is the witch doctor of the Mohist.In his opinion, witch doctors are not separated, but he doesn't know that they are already separated within Mohist.

Those cloth pockets slung over their shoulders contained some herbal medicines, and some merchants had never heard of them, but according to this woman, they could treat poisonous snake bites.

It sounds like this woman is going to go to various village pavilions with the witch doctors of the Mohists behind to prepare for the poisonous snake bites during the wheat harvest, and at the same time collect some herbal medicines passed down from various village pavilions to treat diseases and sort them out.

The businessman smiled secretly, thinking that these Mohists are really weird, they seem to care about everything, as long as they pay taxes, what does these things have to do with the rulers?
Now even if they have learned this, even if Xiheshou and Ji Chongjun want to use this method, who will do it?
There are many people in Peiyi who can spare their lives for the benefit of the world, so where can they find them?Besides, if such a person is born like this, why not go directly to Mo Zhe?
At the end of the hearing, he seemed to vaguely hear that this woman seemed to be very familiar with He Shi, and she didn't hide the meaning of lovesickness, which is the case for most women at this time.

It's just a little sad when I mentioned it, it seems that it is rare nowadays, and everyone is busy.

But this gloom quickly dissipated, and in exchange for a businessman's never-seen-before, women should not have, the mind of doing things and being busy.

The card chattered about the money, grass, beautiful clothes, bristle brushes for brushing teeth, etc. last month, or even learned to write a few words. Any one can be talked about for a long time. Being an older brother doesn't sound dull either.

After the brothers and sisters spoke a few more words, they finally separated, and the woman left together with the Mohist who were dressed like Chu people and witches behind them.

Wei seemed to be still remembering the rare words about lovesickness and admiration that the younger sister said just now, finally heaved a sigh and shook his head.

For some reason, the businessman suddenly thought of a poem in "Guofeng", and sang silently in his heart: "When you are a girl, you have nothing to do with scholars! You can still talk about the delay of scholars. You can't talk about the delay of women. .”

I also thought, if you can take off, you can do things and become famous. The woman just now had the idea of ​​doing things and getting a career, so I'm afraid she can't take it off.

(End of this chapter)