warring states careerist

Chapter 686 New Customs and Old Rituals ([-])

"I'll talk about it when I come back at night. You two, don't choke. If you have nothing to do, go to the market to sell some vinegar, buy a fish, and make me a sour soup to sober up at night, so I won't have to drink. ... I have traveled to many places, but Gaoliu's vinegar tastes the best."

When the girl heard her father say this, she cheered for joy, and rushed over and said, "Father is the best."

The mother who was scolded and went to buy vinegar retorted: "What a fart. He is going to sell you for money!"

The girl didn't care, she laughed and said, "He's willing to sell it, and I like the buyer, so what's wrong?"

After speaking, he ran away in a hurry.

The man collected some money from the family, put it in his arms, and left in a hurry.

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At night, when the drunken man came back, a large bowl of sour soup made of small crucian carp and old vinegar was placed on the table.

He snorted and drank two cans in the earthen pot, and then he suppressed the smell of alcohol going up, and his wife got him some water to drink, and soaked a small piece of dark pressed tea cake.

"Why do you drink so much? Who did you drink with?"

The husband touched the dark earthen pot with tea cakes, took two sips, and said with a drunken smile: "Who did you drink this with? At the banquet today, I heard a story told by those from the Mo family. .”

If the people of Qi have a wife and a concubine and live in the house, if their lover comes out, they will be full of wine and meat before turning back.When his wife asks what he eats and drinks, he is rich and noble.His wife told his concubine: "When a lover comes out, he will be full of wine and meat and then turn back; anyone who asks him about his food and drink is rich and noble, but if there is no one who is prominent, I will leave the place of the beloved."

From fleas, give it to the beloved, and there is no one in the country with whom to talk.When he died in the east of Guoguo, the sacrificer begged for the rest; if there was not enough, he took care of others.This is the way to be satisfied.

When his wife returns, she tells her concubine, saying: "A beloved man is one who looks up to him all his life, and this is the case today." With his concubine, he talked to his beloved, and wept together in the atrium, but the beloved did not know it, so Shi Shi came from outside. , proud of his wives and concubines.

From the perspective of a gentleman, the reason why people seek wealth and profit is that their wives and concubines are not ashamed, and those who do not cry with each other are rare.

The wife let out a chuckle, lightly nodded her husband's head and said: "Listen, listen, from the perspective of a gentleman, the reason why a person seeks wealth and prosperity is that his wives and concubines are not ashamed, and those who don't cry with each other, a few hopes Yea!"

"For those of you who are seeking wealth, money, and officials, there are not many who can make wives and concubines feel ashamed with this method."

"You still have the nerve to tell this story. Instead of thinking about what will happen to my daughter alone in the future, I just want to make a relationship with the Mo family and become an in-law. Do I have to cry in the courtyard?"

The husband touched his wife's hand drunkenly, and said with a smile, "Weeping? You haven't heard the whole story. It's his wife and his concubine, weeping in the courtyard... You still lack someone."

The wife spat and scolded: "How dare you! If you are willing to let those people from the Women's Department of the Mo family block up the door every day to scold you, you can try!"

The husband laughed and said, "You don't need to try. Sishang has already made a law. From now on, taking a concubine is not as simple as people from the women's department blocking the door every day to reason, but breaking the ban and breaking the law. Arrest them and send them to reform through labor." , I don't want to dig coal in Gaoliu for a year..."

The wife frowned and said, "Why are you so strict? The Mo family even has to take care of this matter?"

The husband snorted and said, "You women, isn't this a good thing for you? Why do you dislike strict management?"

The wife smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's just as strict as other things."

"Ah."

The husband nodded and said: "Others are the same, that's for sure. The story of you being a Qi man, one wife and one concubine, is really a joke at the banquet? Advise us, don't make money too expensive. Dirty, it’s a trivial matter for wives and concubines to be ashamed and cry in court, but it’s a big thing to be pulled out and shot. The Mohists say, this is called courtesy before soldiers, understanding before fighting.”

"The people of the Mo family are too good at drinking. They persuaded us to drink. We were all drunk and they wanted to reason with us. The wine of the Mo family is too strong, so I drank some in the past few years. If they only drank sour wine in the past At that time, I’m afraid that one cup will fall down.”

"This time, long-term hired workers are allowed, but they are not slaves. Let us distinguish clearly what is a hired worker and what is a slave. You can't be beaten or scolded, and you have to organize these hired workers to listen to lectures together every ten days. Fortunately, four years , I earned it back no matter what.”

After finishing talking about these things at today's banquet, the husband then talked about his daughter's marriage plans.

"The things you worry about are useless. You think the Mo family only has people in Gaoliu? This time, they have been defeated in Qi State, and they have been defeated in Linzi of Qi State... Do you know Qi State? The Qi State of Taigong Wang, you say What are you afraid of? You are still in trouble... If we really want to reach that point, you and I will die. You have also read about the massacre of Wucheng in the newspaper. Just because Wucheng is too close to Sishang, all of them were slaughtered. Yes, if the Mohist family were defeated that day, we would all be slaughtered. Do you understand if you cut the weeds and root out the roots? Didn’t you and I never hear the saying that no one is old or young, high or low? This time going south to fight, our son didn't serve in the army and went south with him, right?"

The wife muttered: "Is it different? That young man forced the son to death, and his family has a blood debt with the nobles. Don't we still have the blood debt?"

When the husband heard this, he laughed angrily, and scolded: "You have lived in Gaoliu for too long, and you have regarded Gaoliu's law as the law of the world. Gaoliu's law is reasonable, separates people, and does not implicate others. Do you think it’s the same? You forgot, didn’t you?”

The wife thought of her previous fear of the nobles and her fear of looking directly at them, and she seemed to understand in her heart that she was using Gao Liu's method elsewhere, thinking that it was the same elsewhere.

In other words, she has been assimilated by these morals of the Mohists inadvertently.

"But if you marry far away, Sishang is thousands of miles away from here..."

"How can there be thousands of miles? People have said that it is three thousand miles, which is not far away. Besides, if he is in Gaoliu, he can just let his daughter live in his own house..."

The wife pouted: "Isn't that ridiculous? It's not Gui Ning, it's not being divorced. How can there be any reason to live in our house? You have to serve your parents-in-law..."

The husband let out a hey and asked, "Who is ridiculed? What are you afraid of? When you and I were peddlers, weren't we often ridiculed by people? It's not like you haven't heard the song mocking peddlers."

"Commercial peasants, merchants of common peasants, merchants of common peasants, we were originally lower than common peasants. In these days, who is laughing at whom?"

"In these days... no one will laugh at you if you have money, and you are a fart if you don't have money. Blood? Industrial and commercial, with an annual income of tens of gold, eight generations without a noble ancestor, who is laughing at me now?"

"Besides, my daughter likes it. I have heard a lot about that young man's reputation, and he was born in Sishang. I think he is very good."

The wife was helpless, and sighed: "But even so, the betrothal gift has to be given? If not, we will be laughed at. We are flattering the Mo family and giving away our daughter as a gift..."

The husband snorted and said: "The Mo family has always done things decently. I still know about this. Just watch it. If that guy is really interested, someone will come to hire him soon. If he doesn't, then it will save you trouble. Then do as you said."

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a few days later.

It was just dawn, the sun was about to rise, and Gaoliu City was already busy.

Especially in late autumn, when the sun comes out late, it is actually getting late.

At the gate of a house near the market, several people in two carriages slowly stopped at the gate.

First, two young people in their 30s got out of the car, holding a pair of big white geese in their hands. Of course, they were not live, but just slaughtered.

In the car behind, a woman got off.

The woman's attire is obviously the appearance of a witch, but it is not unusual in this kind of place.

The women wore some crooked, weed-like decorations on their heads.

He is wearing a witch costume with many black feathers on the back.

This is the specific dress of the "Spring God" maiden in the north. Of course, the name "Spring God" is called "Jumang" in a taller way. Jumang of the head of the body.

Jumang is the god of spring, vegetation, life, fertility and marriage.

At this time, due to the problem of transliteration and dialect, Jumang was also called Gaoyu, which was found on the outskirts of almost every city, and was also called the God of Suburbs.

The gods, the matchmaker, after the divinity, the female must be transformed into a god.

On the Shangsi Festival, the month of mid-spring, men can't help running, and it is precisely to commemorate the God of Jumang.

At the very beginning, the Shangsi Festival was a large-scale sacrificial event, presided over by special witches and ghosts, praying for smooth spring farming, fertility, and marriage.

Because the essence of planting agriculture is to give birth.

Therefore, the last of the eight dances in "Ge Tian's Joy" handed down from the ancient times of Zhuxia to the present, "Total Animal Extreme", simulates the mating appearance of various animals, of course, including humans.

Later, the sacred meaning of this kind of sacrifice was gradually reduced, and it gradually became a gathering of young men and women. When spring comes to think of spring, when men and women gather together, something will naturally happen, so there is the rule of "the month of mid-spring, and you can't help running around". .

Zhuxia is huge, and the core of the myth is similar, but the statues of Jumangchun gods enshrined in different places are different.

The Jumang of Qi State is a bird, standing on the hibiscus tree, and has many relations with the sun.

The state of Chu is called Dongjun, who is the god of the sun and has a great relationship with Fusang wood.

In the land of Bashu, the sacred tree and the bird on the sacred tree are directly sacrificed.

But in the folks of the land of Yanzhao, the god Jumang is a woman, that is, Jiandi who swallowed the egg of a black bird and gave birth to the Shang Dynasty.

With the destruction of Shang Dynasty in the Zhou Dynasty, the worship of Xuanniao was gradually banned by the government, but the land near the north still retains a lot of Yin Shang folk culture, and combines Xuanniao, Jiandi and the fertility goddess in ancient times, called it Spring God——Different from the official spring gods worshiped in various countries in China, the spring god worshiped here is a fertility god with a huge chest, connected with babies and black birds, and incidentally carries the godheads of Jumang Muzheng and the sun god.

(End of this chapter)