Ji You was also interested in visiting the tofu workshop with Ge Hong, but after watching a few processes, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The jade board is respected as the coagulation of snow cream, and it is pure as the virtue of a gentleman, it turns out that in Ji You's imagination, he either wants to pick jade in the mountains, or he wants Qionglou to inherit nectar, but after he really enters the workshop, he has a sense of disillusionment that is contrary to his imagination.

A group of women put up their arms and soaked the grain with bamboo tubes, and the soaked grain was transferred to the water bowl with bamboo rafts, and the muscular strong men poured buckets of grain into the stone mill, and under the steps, there were bamboo pipes that opened up the joints and flowed out of the scum and the remaining soybean milk.

Everything seems to be in order, but it's unremarkable. Soon Ji You was tasteless, which is far from the scene described in "Jade Plate Fu", what "Cardamom Wu Wa picks lightly, and the twenty-eight virgins pray for heaven and dew", they are all deceptive!

Ge Hong was very interested in each process, and even asked a woman to ask for a basket of sifted soybeans with full grains, and washed and soaked them by himself, planning to experience the process himself.

The women didn't know the identity of this old gentleman, but since they were Xiao Langjun's guests, they also laughed and occasionally laughed at Ge Hong's unfamiliar actions. This old gentleman is what Xiao Langjun said, and nobles are all clever and clumsy people.

Ji You didn't have Yaxing who made tofu by himself, and after a walk, he left the workshop, and Liu Chang, Shen Zhezi's loyal servant, hurriedly walked up and followed Ji You to listen.

Outside the tofu workshop is a river embankment, the river embankment is full of willow trees, the willow leaves are withered and yellow, not as green and lovely as spring and summer. Walking along the river embankment for a distance, Ji You saw that there were houses in front of him in an orderly manner. It looks neat and uniform, but it loses the interest of the manor's changing architectural style.

"That's where Wei Zhou lived?"

Ji You raised his hand and pointed to the row of houses and asked, a little surprised in his heart, in his opinion, Shen Zhezi was a person full of fun and elegant bones, and it was not very harmonious to live in that kind of place.

Liu Chang looked in the direction that Ji You was pointing, and then said with a smile: "Ji Langjun misunderstood, my Xiaolang lives in Liquan Valley, which is just a house for his servants. ”

"Servant house?"

Hearing this, Ji You was surprised in his heart, he has a grange in his own house, although he will not go to the courtyard of the Yin household servant in person, but he will always understand if he goes in and out more. But that piece of house is very different from his own, the tamped dirt road is flat and wide, the houses are continuous and orderly, and there is no chaos and crampedness at all, so Ji Youcai misunderstood that it was the master's garden.

With curiosity in his heart, Ji You walked over to look, and when he walked closer, his heart was even more shocked. These houses are square and neat, there is no civil material to be seen outside, the mortar wall of the courtyard is only up to the chest of an adult, and the situation in the courtyard can be seen outside the wall, the courtyard is wide, there is a sparse branch and leaf tree in the courtyard, there is a pigeon cage on it, the chicken pen and goose coop below are all available, and occasionally children play outside the front door of the court.

As far as the eye can see, there are hundreds of houses, all of which are in such a uniform pattern.

"To build such a house, the loss of materials should be quite huge, right?"

Ji You was not interested in these chores, but he was the only one left in his family, and whether he wanted to or not, he had to take on the responsibility of the family business, so he asked this question.

Liu Chang couldn't answer this question, and only explained from the perspective of his own understanding: "It took more than a month to dig and burn bricks during the slack time, and it took more than a month to build them in succession. ”

Hearing this, Ji You was shocked again. Unexpectedly, the Shen family was so extravagant that they built houses with bricks and tiles as the shade, and built such a large number of houses, regardless of labor, fuel alone is also a great loss! Although the Shen family is rich, they are willing to treat the people well for this, and they can indeed be regarded as one of the few good families in Wuzhong. There is no virtue and no way to build a family, and it seems natural to be able to sit on thousands of acres of fertile land and family business.

While Ji You was still thinking in his heart, Shen Zhezi had already walked lightly, and said with a smile from afar: "When your guests come to the door, I still have to be entangled in trivial matters, which is really rude." ”

"Haha, this time I came to Wukang, I was prepared to bother for a long time, Wei Zhou, why should you be polite, because I abandoned the business alone, then I am the real villain." Ji You also said with a smile.

"It's okay, it's just an idler. Literature you have been tired, I have asked people to prepare meals, and eat first. ”

Shen Zhezi led Ji You to the main courtyard of the manor, but Ji You didn't want to delay Shen Zhezi's affairs because of himself, and persuaded him not to accompany him.

Shen Zhezi didn't lie, the previous visitor was Wukang Yao's family, and it was not once or twice that he came to Longxi to visit, so he asked the Shen family to help print some albums.

The printing business was carried out more smoothly than Shen Zhezi imagined, and now there are printing tools similar to engravings, mostly for the Heavenly Master Dao printing talisman seals and other distribution to the villagers, but the inscription is the same as the inscription. The reason for this unexpected discovery is that Shen Zhezi couldn't screw his mother Wei a few years ago, so he went to donate to the Qingyang Temple that he worshipped at home, and found that there were a group of carving craftsmen in the temple who were doing such things.

Shen Zhezi was naturally not polite, and even dug the corner of the road gate, and dug dozens of craftsmen to improve the technology. The technology of this era cannot be called printing, similar to stele extension. The ink is also not up to standard, and it is good to print some messy rune pictures, but it is still not enough to print the text clearly.

A few years ago, it didn't work very well. In addition, at that time, the Liquan real pulp stirred up a lot of aftermath in Wuxing, so Shen Zhezi simply used it, borrowed ready-made technology, printed a batch of door god New Year paintings regardless of the workbook, and added a supernatural story by the way, and distributed it to the villagers in Wukang.

Nowadays, there is no custom of pasting the Spring Festival couplets during the New Year, but the peach Fu New Year painting has this custom, the peach wood carving villain hangs in the courtyard, the tiger is painted on the door panel, and there is the ritual of worshipping the door, in order to seek good health.

Shen Zhezi naturally couldn't cheapen others when he did this, so he recommended Shen Ying, the old Wu Danyang Taishou who is the most famous in the Shen family, and named him Wukang Mountain God. The short story under the portrait explains that after Shen Ying died in the country, he became the Yin God, so he sealed Wukang Mountain and entrusted his dream to future generations, so the Shen family dug out a liquor spring in the mountain and prospered the family business.

This kind of story is very in line with the interests of the people, even after Shen Zhezi's father Shen Chong conspired to die, the people pushed it as the yin god, curing diseases and dispelling evil, and the deeds can be seen in the wild books.

Shen's hometown has been able to improve, and this move has contributed a lot. The villagers are simple and superstitious, and their ancestors have become the gods of Wukang Mountain, so it is not good to meet them in front of them and scold them behind their backs, so as not to cause trouble for their own family.

The Yao family has visited the Shen family since Qingming, hoping to use the power of the Shen family to promote the fame of their ancestors. Although his family claims to be descended from Emperor Shun, after all, it is too old, absurd, and there are no strange things to circulate, which is difficult to convince the villagers.

The Yao family is more atmospheric than the Shen family, directly going back to ancient times, sealing the god lord of Kyushu as their ancestor, and then feeling that it is too empty, and lowering the standard one by one. When I came to the Shen family again this time, I didn't dare to seal Emperor Shun anymore, so the ancestors of that generation were turned out in the pile of paper, and they were fabricated as the king of Wuxing Yinfu.

This is unreasonable! Shen Zhezi is so good at playing, he only dares to give his ancestor a Wukang Mountain God, and the Yao family wants to let the ancestor of the Shen family be his subordinate, Shen Zhezi is too lazy to take care of them, so he just sends them away. Of course, the main reason is that the Yao family is stingy and unwilling to spend money, only saying that if the Shen family is willing to help, the matter of marrying the Shen family can be discussed.

Shen Zhezi sneered at this condition, even if he got married, then Wu Xinghanlian was not a daughter-in-law to marry himself, and now the Shen family does not need to marry the Yao family at all to raise his head.

Ji Youshang was in mourning, so the meals prepared by Shen Zhezi were all vegetarian meals and a tofu feast. After eating, the luggage of the servants of the Ji family was also transported to Longxi Manor. Shen Zhezi had already asked Ji You to vacate the courtyard of his residence in the manor, and after the arrangements were made, he went to take a look at Ge Hong, who was lingering in the tofu factory.

Ge Hong was grinding soy milk with a small hand-cranked mill, looking full of interest, deaf to Shen Zhezi's greetings, and gladly seemed to have found the true meaning of life. When Shen Zhezi saw this, he let him go.

Living in the countryside has its own wild interest, when Ji You woke up in the early morning, he heard the smell of chickens and dogs outside the yard, and the words of people greeted each other, which made him feel infected and feel much happier.

Walking out of the door, Ji You saw that Liu Chang, a servant of the Shen family, was chatting with his servant Yu under the porch, walked over and asked with a smile, "Where has your family Langjun gone?" ”

Liu Chang hurriedly got up and replied: "My Xiaolang doesn't live in the village, and he is in Liquan Valley right now. ”

"Liquan Valley? Could it be that there is really a spring of nectar gushing out? I'm going to take a look. ”

Hearing Ji You say this, Liu Chang hurriedly asked people to prepare the ox cart, and then led Ji You out of the house to the Wukang Valley not far away.

Nowadays, it is time to harvest late rice, and the Shen family has a bumper harvest year this year, and many farmers in the large rice fields harvest rice. Ji You raised the curtain on the ox cart and saw that the farmers were busy, some were harvesting in front, some were then bundling, and the bamboo row cart shuttled between the ridges of the field to transport the bundled rice seedlings out in an orderly manner.

This small valley, known as Liquan Valley, has now been developed and is surrounded by bamboo hedges, and the roofs of tiled houses can be seen from afar. When the ox cart drove through the fence, two Zhuang Ding stepped forward to stop him, and Liu Chang, who was in charge of driving the car, turned around and explained apologetically to Ji You: "My Xiaolang has made rules, and only walking is allowed in the valley, so don't be surprised by Ji Langjun." ”

"It doesn't matter."

After hearing this, Ji You got out of the car, and the guests were as they pleased. As soon as I got out of the car, I heard a loud shout from the valley: "What is benevolence and righteousness?" ”

"Strengthen my body and protect my country! Mess with my homeland, and the swords will punish it! Flesh and blood, fat my acres! Words must be practiced, no merit is not human! ”

The uniform voice responded, and the sound penetrated the sky, so shocked that Ji You was on the spot. Then, in his slightly dull vision, he saw a well-organized array of squares bending their elbows and jogging from the other side of the stream. The members of these teams are all teenagers, all of them have solemn expressions, uniformly dressed and close to the mouth similar to a robe, their steps are neat, and they make a very rhythmic sound of "pop, pop" when they step on the ground. Although the age is still immature, the momentum can already be called calm.

And at the front of the first phalanx, there was Shen Zhezi, dressed in the same way, leading the queue along the stream to the valley.