Chapter Nine: Wild Dreams Far Away and Disasters Near (Part II)
There is no rooster at home, and the morning sun will still pierce the darkness.
Regardless of whether there is a rooster crowing or not, it is the most fair way to shine all things.
Before dawn, Shi woke up.
Awakened by hunger.
There was oil for three meals a day before the crossing, and after coming over, there were two meals a day at the civilian's house, basically no oil and water, and the large amount of food was scary, but I couldn't eat enough.
Last night, he dreamed of the big white steamed bun, and he didn't know if he was hungry or because the white steamed bun looked like something on a woman's body.
In this era of lack of entertainment, having a good dream is a story that can be shared with others, but this story can't be said, because my brother and sister-in-law and even the entire Shangqiu people don't know what steamed buns are.
Wheat needs to be ground off the outer bran to become flour, and with flour can steamed steamed bread, at this time the grinding disc has not yet become popular, and wheat can only be boiled and eaten like rice.
When he went out to wash his face, he smiled helplessly.
Last night's dream of buying two for a dollar in a cheap previous life is now a fantasy that is even unobtainable even if you are a son of heaven.
The cold water hit his face, and all the little sleepiness that remained was wiped away.
Carrying a clay pot to a well in the city to fetch water to fill his large clay pot, a simple orange lever does not need to bend down, and a strong press of the rope will obediently lift the clay pot from the well at the other end.
There were already people on the street who were busy trying to live, and I thought that I would go to soak hemp today, so I went back and ate the cold corn rice left over from last night, and said to my brother and sister-in-law and went out of the city.
At this time, there was no cotton, and the flax that came from Central Asia had not yet taken root in the middle of the country, and the primitive flax supported the underlying clothes.
The pond outside the city emitted an unpleasant smell of hemp, and a large number of microorganisms were reluctant to decompose the lignin and gum on the hemp day and night, leaving behind fibers that could be spun.
This is a common soaking pond in the city, and each family is assigned a small area, and they are not afraid of being stolen by others.
It's not that the road is not left behind, but soaking hemp is the first process, and the subsequent drying, slitting, rubbing, and spinning are the most troublesome.
The two dollars and one pound of hemp skins mentioned by the old man in the field yesterday refer to the hemp skins that have been completed before the rubbing, not the raw materials soaked in stinky water.
Standing on the edge of the pool, slightly stirring the bundled hemp, a disgusting smell disturbed the tip of the tongue, and the chest was extremely tight, although he was also "less cheap and more despicable" in his previous life, but that time was not as despicable as this time after all.
Many women also stood bare-legged in the stinky pool water, scooping up the hemp that had been soaked a few months ago, pinching their noses to endure the smell, and finding their own hemp and dragging it upward.
When the sun rises very high, there are more people, and an atmosphere called joy also warms up with the sunshine, and the common girl of the warbler Yanyan and the peasant boy with all his strength, wearing occasionally wet clothes, always ripple when the skin touches intentionally or unintentionally.
A young man standing next to Shi stared at a woman opposite and couldn't help but sing.
"The pool of the east gate can be soaked in hemp. Bi Mei Shuji, can meet with the song. ”
"The pool of the east gate can be soaked. Bi Mei Shuji, can talk to each other. ”
"The pond of the east gate can be soaked. Bi Mei Shuji, can talk to you. ”
The bright voice pierced the somewhat stagnant air forced by the stinky hemp water, attracting the laughter of several girls opposite, and the bold and pungent deliberately twisted their waists, kneeling in the posture of arranging the hemp bundle to outline a ripe peach.
The singing voice and eyes converged in one place, the girl boldly raised her head, looked at the young man singing opposite, Xu was satisfied, did not bow her head, but stood up straight and raised her petite chest, as if asking again: "I stand up, you take a good look, am I good-looking?" If it's good-looking, keep singing......"
After a while, the yellow warbler's bird-like song floated from the opposite side of the pond, and the heat made the traveler blush a little.
"It turns out that this is the case with the woman at this time. Did my ancestors meet like this at this time in my previous life? ”
The illusion of interlaced time and space made Shi a little dazed, and it took a long time to shake his head and shake off these strange thoughts.
The girl on the opposite side also noticed Shi, giggled and sang a few words, Shi neither sang back nor was very comfortable, so she had to bow her head and blush and drag her own hemp away, causing the singing woman to look up and laugh non-stop, like a rooster who has won a fight, pointing at Shi's back, I don't know what to say to the sister next to me......
It is a good season for Yehe, but it is suitable to abandon the armor and drag the hemp away.
I didn't think of those blushing and hot songs, but I was thinking of what Uncle Ma once said...... The more people at the bottom who have nothing, the more they can have real love and sex that comes from love, not dolls or transactions, they have nothing else to trade except love and attraction to each other.
The hemp in her hand was dragged and spread out to dry in a spacious place, and now it was wet, and when it was dry, the sister-in-law would use her rough hands to break it into linen skin and spin it into hemp thread and weave it into linen cloth for new clothes.
When I think of the new clothes, I think of the new clothes of myself yesterday, the workmanship is very good, and this is the only thing he can exchange for money.
There are a lot of things I want to do, but there are not many things I can do, but now the little money at home is the easiest way to make tofu, and I have to get a grinding plate first, and I can't support it without dozens of dollars, let alone running water to buy beans, large clay pots, filter cloths, etc.
Thinking about it, that new dress can be sold for twenty or thirty yuan, and it is definitely not enough to make tofu, so you have to think of other ways.
I thought about it for a long time, but I had no clue.
Reluctantly, he got up, sorted out the soaked linen, carried it back, and decided to listen to Mozi's lecture again.
……
In the afternoon, there were already cicadas, but there was no Mozi under the juniper tree.
Shi held a small wooden stick, and was about to draw a grinding plate, an ox plow, a ridge and something like that, even if it was falsely claimed to be given by a hermit when he was chopping wood in the mountains.
Thinking about it, with Mozi's technical level and those talents of the Mo family, it is a matter of enlightenment to figure it out according to the map.
At this time, Lu Ban has passed away for a long time, and when it comes to the level of carpentry, Mozi can be called the first person in the world, if he can't get it, he won't think about others.
However, after waiting for a long time, I met a few people who listened to the lecture together yesterday and asked, and I faintly heard the rumors.
After carefully asking what happened, Shi felt that a thunderbolt exploded directly above his head, and the wooden stick in his hand fell to the ground with a click, and he stood there stupidly like a turtledove in winter, with a sad face.
Yesterday was still imagining the future, who would have thought that today would be a catastrophe, and it is a disaster that is close at hand!
"I'm going to die......"
muttering, recalling the rebellion of the Gongsun Society in Qi State, he could only make an evaluation of his situation in these three words.
The big event that happened in the Qi Kingdom didn't seem to have anything to do with him, but it was actually about his life.
This trivial incident, which seemed to be the civil strife of the Tian clan at this time, was the beginning of a series of events in the early and middle Warring States period.
The story of the horseshoe loosening and the death of the country that he knew was just right here.
Because Gongsun would stand on his own and ask for help from Zhao, the Three Jin Dynasty sent troops to defeat the Qi State.
Because of the victory of the Three Jin Dynasty, he coerced Wei Chao to see Zhou Tianzi and got the name to crusade against the Tian family who did not abide by Zhou etiquette and killed the head of the family.
Because of the reputation, the countries of the alliance jointly attacked Qi, and even the Yue country also sent troops.
Because of the alliance countries sent troops to the Yue country, Jiang Qi Kanggong could only drive to the king of Yue to ask for surrender, measure the material resources of the Qi country to make the Yue country happy, and send the Qi people slaves thousands of cities and two cities, all the basins are buckled on Jiang Qi's head, the Tian family is clean, Jiang Qi's prestige is gone, and the last trace of face is gone, and the last small work for the last Tian family is Qi.
Because the last trace of face was gone, the Tian family and the Han, Zhao and Wei families joined forces to force the mascot of Qi Kanggong and the weakened Jin Lie Gong to follow the Three Jin Dynasty Song Zheng Zhuguo to meet Zhou Tianzi. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Song, Zheng, Qi, Jin and other countries to go to the court, please make the three Jin marquis.
Because the three Jin Dynasty were marquis and there was a great victory in Xiaqiu, the Song State rebelled against Chu and the Jin, which caused the Chu State to be dissatisfied with the siege of the Song Dynasty in October, and Shangqiu starved to death countless times, and finally forced the Song Duke to submit and take the Song people to help the Chu State repair Daliang City and Yuguan, and be the support point for the Chu State to dominate the Central Plains.
Because the three Jin Dynasty were marquis and there was a great victory in Xiaqiu, the power of the pro-Jin faction of Zheng State rose sharply, and the struggle between the pro-Chu and pro-Jin factions became white-hot, and the Chu State had to intervene for the sake of hegemony.
During this period, King Chu Sheng was stolen and killed, and Chu was in turmoil. Xiong was suspicious of ascending the throne, and Xiong Ding, a younger brother with strong claims and inheritance, went to Zhengguo and borrowed his teacher to seize the throne.
Because the power of Zheng Guo's pro-Jin faction rose sharply, he took advantage of the opportunity of the civil strife in the inheritance of Chu State, and angrily attacked Chu State with eggs and stones, and resolutely supported Chu Gongziding.
Because the State of Chu forced the State of Song to renovate the Great Liang City and Yuguan aggressively, and was scolded by the State of Zheng again, the connotation of Jin Yu was leaked again, and the Sanjin side had a strong claim of Gongziding, and the contradictions between the two sides were inevitable. Therefore, Wei, Han and Zheng jointly attacked Chu, the Song State once again jumped against the pro-Jin, Wuyang was defeated in the first battle of Chu, and Gongzi Ding took the opportunity to incite Chen Cai to restore the country and stand on his own, cutting off the connection between Chu and the Central Plains.
Because of the defeat of the Chu State, the four powerful vassals of the Chu State died in battle, many nobles were killed, and the strength of the Jing Zhao clan was greatly reduced. Therefore, a Chu version of the Battle of Agincourt allowed the king of Chu to clean up the powerful feudal lords in the country by the hands of Wei and Han, and finally had the possibility of strengthening the centralization of power and changing the law, and also laid the groundwork for Wu Qi to set up a counterattack before his death, which led to the decline of the Mo family.
Because of the defeat of Chu, the restoration of Chen Cai, internal instability, and the struggle for centralization and decentralization, Wei took the Central Plains Liang, and lost the foreign enemy of Chu......
All these things that seem to be far away from each other, each stroke is a few lines written on bamboo slips with the blood of thousands of people.
And it is very clear that with his own status at this time, he is likely to become a pinch of blood in these bamboo slips.
Once the Song State rebelled against the Chu Dynasty and Zhou, it would inevitably attract the revenge of the Chu State, and when the time came, a small person like him had to defend the city, serve the conscription, and build the city wall.
Do you have enough food for 10 months in your family for the whole month of October?
Even if you don't starve to death by besieging the city, if you go to Yuguan to build the city wall for Chu in the future, it will be a life of nine deaths. At this time, the labor intensity was extremely high, and the people of the Song State were not distressed......
Even if he didn't die when he repaired Yuguan, the Song State rebelled against Chu again, and the Chu State really couldn't defeat the Three Jins, but the ability to retaliate against the Song State to intimidate those vassal states still exists, and then it will be another war.
The little people have no right to choose, so they can only passively get involved in it and accept it silently, and there is no other way.
Moreover, this crisis is so near, a year at most!
I thought about it last night, and today I am in danger.
He really panicked.
In this troubled world, it is not easy for little people to live.
How many of the young people who soaked in linen and sang duets in the morning survived the siege of October?