warring states careerist

Chapter 681 New Customs and Old Rituals ([-])

The concubine who was still talking about those funny childhood stories stood there, no matter how stupid she was, she understood, her heart skipped a beat for a while, she didn't feel so nervous when she killed someone for the first time, and hurriedly said: "Okay."

The girl didn't bow her head shyly, thinking that she had said it all, she said again: "I heard that the sooner you can catch fish in autumn, the better. When that time comes, you can go to my house, quietly climb outside the wall of my house, and imitate a few bird calls." , and I'll come out."

When it comes to climbing the wall, the girl can't help but think of that song.

Come Zhongzi, don't go beyond me, don't break my tree.How dare you love it?Afraid of my parents.Zhong can be pregnant, and the words of parents can also be feared.

Jiang Zhongzi, never cross my wall, never break my mulberry tree.How dare you love it?Fear my brothers.Zhong can be pregnant, and the words of the brothers can also be feared.

Come Zhongzi, never go beyond my garden, never break my sandalwood tree.How dare you love it?Afraid of talking too much.Zhong can be pregnant, and people can be afraid of talking too much.

The woman in the song tells her lover, don’t climb walls or trees to my house, it’s not good for others to see, and people’s words are scary.Besides, if you do that kind of thing at home, if your parents see it, it would be bad.

According to the rules, at this time, you must have the words of the matchmaker and the orders of your parents before you can get married and fall in love.

Of course, this was originally only the rules of the nobles, but the common people have begun to learn from the nobles, and this kind of rules are getting stronger and stronger.

As in "Rogue", the reason why the gangster Chi Chi embraced Bumaosi had to wait so long was because there was no good matchmaker.

Except for the cities controlled by the Mohists, there are full-time matchmakers in Zhuxia and Kyushu, and the matchmakers are counted as professional officials, called matchmakers.

In the cities controlled by the Mohists, there are also matchmakers, but their functions are different. The official matchmakers of the Mohists only handle three things: registering marriages, asking whether the two parties are willing, and asking whether the two parties are related by blood within three generations.

The difference between the media family, that is, the difference in attitudes towards marriage between the new rules and the old rules. There are too many old rules, which gradually spread from the nobles. "The point.

Originally, according to the rules, men and women can fall in love freely in the month of mid-spring, and the rules of any marriage matchmaker are not included in the month of mid-spring.

But in these years, even the love in the moon of mid-spring has been labeled as "kinky". Originally, it would take longer, maybe hundreds of years, to become rigid and imprisoned to this level. Many theories and rules began to deform early and confronted Mohism.

Girls have learned this song, but they don't care, because here is Gaoliu, there are too few nobles, and the wind of replacing the land has always been open, quite Hu Feng, so that in the land of Yanzhao, there are even "guests meet each other, with On the eve of marriage, there is no difference between men and women, and it is an honor for them to serve women."

Since she didn't know how to chew her tongue, she didn't care about anything, and when she sent out the invitation, she had many things on her mind.

Before leaving, the prisoner Mi said something unintentionally.

"That... I may go to Yunzhong after a while."

The girl seemed to have heard it, but she didn't seem to hear it. She didn't say any sad parting words in advance, but just nodded, not knowing what she was thinking.

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Nine days later, tomorrow is the time to rest and bathe. The girl is shaking the spinning wheel at home and spinning wool yarn, and there are more than a dozen women beside her who are also spinning wool, and her mother is among them.

Wool yarn is very easy to sell now. There are many workshops in Gaoliu City that buy woolen yarn and weave wool. Many women who fled here will choose to work in the workshop first. Some rough wool has also begun to become the military uniforms of Mohist officers, and the price is good.

The girl's father was originally just a peddler. He sold some goods and gradually accumulated some money. Then he bought more than a dozen spinning wheels and began to hire women who had fled here to weave woolen yarn.

These women didn't know it at first, and they were all new learners, but wool yarn spinning is a new industry, and Gaoliu's side has been developing and taking in workshops, so it is impossible to ask too much for private employment.

That is to say, this is an emerging industry, and Gaoliu was the first to cooperate with the division of labor according to the Mohist military industry, and it is in the position of first-mover monopoly. Otherwise, Gaoliu's current employment price will be directly lowered by other places. The nearly free forced labor of slave farmers has been squeezed into bankruptcy.

As the saying goes, three women play a show, and there are more than a dozen women sitting in this room, and those rumors began to spread from mouth to ear.

"Have you heard that a group of former noble women are now working as wool cleaners?"

A woman took off a ball of spun yarn, and the words in her mouth did not hinder her from doing things, and said: "There are still people from our Lord's family inside, I saw it a few days ago, and they were escorted here... "

"It's not easy to do things like washing hair. If you don't talk about being tired, you won't make much money."

The girl's mother picked up the plush, pointed to the pile of wool in the distance, and said, "There are indeed a lot of wool washed in the past few days. Will they do it all? The Mo family doesn't care for idlers. It's not about self-reliance. Well."

"If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people washing wool before, my husband would have bought a few more spinning wheels. The wool is useless without washing, it's full of suet."

The girl's mind was not on the plush, she thought: "Those people are the ones he escorted back last time, right? I heard that those noble ladies refer to the roots of green onions, which are white and tender... On the way, he... He didn't do anything to those women, did he?"

Thinking of this, my face blushed, and I started to think about it for no reason. I slapped my hand a little too hard, and actually broke the woolen yarn.

Fortunately, my mother was busy chatting, so she didn't notice, so she hurriedly reached out to pick it up quietly, thinking of tomorrow's tryst, her face became even redder.

At this time, the woman who spoke just now asked, "By the way, why don't you see your beloved?"

The girl's mother exclaimed, but she couldn't hold back her smile and said, "Isn't it time to transport alkali to the barbarians again? He bought some groceries and sold them there."

After taking Solucan back to fight with the Hu tribe last time, several tribes who took refuge in Gaoliu began to use tribe slaves and shepherds to dig lake alkali, which is more profitable than grazing. The tribe’s nobles We are all rich by this and some trading privileges now.

Every once in a while, Gao Liu will send people to transport the lake alkali.

Gaoliu is the Datong of the later generations, and there are many coal mines here. Sishang sent people to rely on the natural alkali here to open the first kilin workshop north of the Yellow River. Sishang Qilin Workshop is much cheaper.

The woman who asked the question said enviously: "Oh, that's going to make a lot of money?"

The girl's mother had a smile on her face, but she said in her mouth: "Where can I make much money? Ironware and so on are all specialized in the mutual market, that is, selling some gadgets, collecting some leather, wool and so on. They all need to be inspected. Anyone who really makes money breaks the law, so you can’t do it.”

It is said that they do not earn much, but in fact they are not much, especially when her husband heard the news that a large number of people are moving here, and judging from his experience as a salesman that the price of cattle and horses will increase, he is planning to buy some, even I am also planning to take a trip to the clouds after a joint venture with someone.

It was the Mo family who ate meat, while others drank soup. The most lucrative trades were all caught by the Mo family, but the remaining loose things were enough for some people to eat.

Now Gaoliu City is safe and stable, no battle has been fought near Gaoliu, and the battle to participate in the succession dispute of the Zhao Kingdom was a big victory. Gaoliu is on the rise, and there are business opportunities everywhere.

The girl didn't care much about these things, she was thinking about what she might lose, and when her mother stopped, she said, "Mom, I'm going to get up early tomorrow. I have a gathering to listen to justice. Isn't tomorrow a holiday?"

This is not entirely a lie, there will be people who specialize in giving lectures in Gaoliu City during the holidays, and there will be other things in addition to the lectures, which is a tradition of the Mohist school.

Not everyone has holidays, but the leisure class in Gaoliu City has gradually increased, and it is impossible for all people to participate in such holiday activities.

Just like she can go to school, Gaoliucheng is not enough to fully implement the kind of education in Sishang, and it can only be selective.

The mother occasionally participates in it, and she has no objection to her daughter's participation in such activities, after all, the Mo family is now the ruler of Gaoliu.

"Go to bed, then. Do you have breakfast in the morning?"

"No, I will eat it during the party handouts."

The girl put down the yarn in her hand, left the room, and quietly went to her own room to search for her best clothes. Although there were not many, there were still a few.

Searching for a long time, facing a palm-sized mirror, he quietly took some thin cotton threads, bent them into small knots, hooked the fine hairs on his face, pulled them hard, and his brows could not help but frown .

This palm-sized mirror is extremely expensive. When I was 15 years old and became an adult, my parents spent a lot of money to buy it. It was not made of copper, but made of Qilin, with a layer of tin behind it.

This is a technology monopolized by the Mohists. I heard that the workshop that makes this kind of mirror is in a heavily guarded workshop in Sishang. There are troops stationed there, and the people inside cannot come out for the rest of their lives.

Some workshops, including gunpowder workshops, medicine for heartache, etc., are in there. There are thousands of people.

This is not a secret, many people know it, especially in the area occupied by the Mohists, the real secret is the things in that workshop.

Checking in the mirror, I made sure that there were no rough spots on my face, and then I fetched water and untied my hair.

I applied a mixture of lye and suet to my hair and washed it carefully. His father was a grocer, and he still had a lot of these things.

After washing his hair, he went to the small table and took out a toothbrush made of pig bristles. This is also the custom of the Mohists who brought it to Gaoliu. Most of the families in Gaoliu have to serve in the military. It was spread in Gaoliu City, because it was part of military discipline, and the Mo family had extremely strict control over military discipline.

I hold the toothbrush handle made of bones in my hand, dip a little groceries powder mixed with salt, soap powder, and limestone powder from a small clay pot next to it, and clean my teeth as I learned in school.

After doing all this, my hair was half dry, so I lay down on the bed and pulled over a quilt made of cotton cloth with cotton wadding inside.

Taking off his clothes, his face blushed again, and he touched those sensitive parts of his body with his hands. Thinking of what Shu Pu Mi said before parting last time that he might go to Yunzhong, he couldn't help but think of another song Song.

In the wild, there is dead fructus, which is covered with coriander.There is a girl Huaichun, who is lured by Jishi.

There are puckerel trees in the forest, and dead deer in the wild.The white grass is pure, and there are women like jade.

So easy!I feel embarrassed!No matter what!

Humming this song lightly, the palm of my hand gently caressed my body, as if there was a fire burning in my stomach, my face became more and more red, so my legs twisted the warm quilt subconsciously, rubbing gently , couldn't help snorting.

(End of this chapter)