Chapter 279: New Customs and Old Rituals (1)

The prisoner who was still talking about those childhood anecdotes was stunned there, even if he was stupid, he understood, his heart jumped for a while, he was not so nervous when he killed someone for the first time, and hurriedly said: "Okay." ”

The girl did not bow her head shyly, thinking that it was all like this, and then said: "I heard that the earlier you catch fish in autumn, the better, and when the time comes, you go to my house, quietly climb outside the wall of my house, learn a few bird calls, and I will come out." ”

Speaking of climbing the wall, the girl couldn't help but think of that song.

Will Zhong Zixi, no more than me, no fold my tree. How dare you love it? Fear of my parents. Zhong Kehuai is also afraid of the words of his parents.

Will be Zhongzixi, no more than my wall, no fold my mulberry. How dare you love it? Fear my brothers. Zhong Kehuai also, the words of the brothers, can also be feared.

Will be Zhongzixi, no more than my garden, no fold my tree sandalwood. How dare you love it? Fear of many words. Zhong Kehuai also, people have many words, and they can also be afraid.

The woman in the song told her lover not to climb the wall, not to climb the tree to my house, others will not see it well, and people will be terrible. Besides, if you do that kind of thing at home, if your parents see it, how bad it is.

According to the rules, at this time, there must be the words of the matchmaker and the order of the parents before they can get married and fall in love.

Of course, this was originally just the rule of the aristocracy, but the commoners have begun to learn the nobility, and this rule is getting stronger and stronger.

As in "Hooligans", the reason why the hooligans hugged the cloth trade silk was because there was no good matchmaker.

In addition to the cities controlled by the Mo family, 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 Mo family, there are also matchmakers, but the functions are different, and the official matchmakers of the Mo family are only responsible for three things: registering marriage, asking whether the parties are voluntary, and asking whether the parties are related by blood within three generations.

The difference between the matchmaker is also the difference between the new rules and the old rules about the attitude towards marriage, there are too many old rules, which gradually spread from the aristocracy, and soon it will be to the point of "no matchmaker, no money, no shame and prostitution".

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

But over the years, even the love of Zhongchun has been labeled as "lewd", and it will take longer and perhaps hundreds of years to be ossified and imprisoned to this extent, but because of the emergence of the Mo family, in order to oppose the Mo family, many doctrines and rules began to deform early and confront the Mo family.

The girl has learned this song, but she doesn't care, because this is Gaoyanagi, there are too few nobles, and the wind of the land has always been open, quite Hu Feng, so that the land of Yan Zhao even has the custom of "guests passing by, staying with women, on the eve of marriage, men and women are no different, but proud".

Since she didn't know how to chew her tongue, she cared about anything, sent out an invitation, and thought about many things in her heart.

Before leaving, the prisoner said something unintentionally.

"That...... I'll probably have to go to the clouds in a while. ”

The girl seemed to hear it, but it didn't seem to hear it, and she didn't say anything sad in advance, but just nodded, not knowing what she was thinking.

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Nine days later, tomorrow is the time of rest, and the girl is swinging the spinning wheel and spinning wool yarn at home, and there are a dozen other women spinning wool next to her, including her mother.

Nowadays, woolen yarn is very good to sell, and there are many workshops in Gaoliucheng to buy wool yarn textile woolen, and many women who have fled here will choose to work in the workshop first, and some woolen wool has also begun to become the officer uniform of the Mo family, and the price is good.

The girl's father, who was originally just a merchant, sold some goods, and gradually accumulated some money, so he bought a dozen spinning wheels and began to hire women who had fled here to weave wool yarn.

These women didn't know it originally, they were all new learners, but wool yarn textile was originally a new industry, and Takayanagi had been cultivating and sheltering workshops, so there was no way to ask too much for private employment.

That is to say, this is an emerging industry, and Takayanagi was the first to cooperate according to the division of labor of the Mohist military industry, and it is in a first-mover monopoly position, otherwise Gaoyanagi's current employment price will be directly squeezed out of bankruptcy by the cheaper and almost free forced labor of subordinate farmers elsewhere.

As the so-called three women in one play, there are more than a dozen women sitting in this room, and those rumors began to circulate in their mouths and ears.

"Have you heard that a group of noble women from the past are now working as wool washers?"

A woman took off a ball of spun woolen yarn, and the words in her mouth did not prevent her from doing things, and said: "There are also people from our original feudal family, I saw it a few days ago, and I was escorted over......"

"It's not easy to wash your hair. Not to mention tired, I can't make any money. ”

The girl's mother took the plush, pointed to the pile of wool in the distance and said, "There is indeed a lot of wool that has been washed in the past few days, will they all do it, the Mo family does not raise idlers." It's not about self-reliance. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that there were too few people washing wool before, my beloved would have bought a few more spinning wheels, and this wool can't be used if it is not washed, it is all mutton fat."

The girl's mind was not on the plush, and she said in her heart: "Those people are the people he escorted back last time, right?" I have heard that those noble ladies are like onion roots, white and tender...... On the way, he ...... He didn't do anything to those women, did he? ”

Thinking of this, his face turned red, and he began to think about it for no reason, and when he snapped, he used the strength of his hand a little more, and he actually broke the wool yarn.

Fortunately, my mother was busy chatting and didn't notice it, so she hurriedly stretched out her hand to pick it up quietly, and her face turned even redder when she thought of tomorrow's tryst.

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

The girl's mother sighed, but she couldn't hold back a smile on her face and said, "Isn't it time to go to Hu Ren to transport alkali again?" He got some groceries and sold them there. ”

Since the last time he came back from Suo Lu Shen and fought with the Hu tribe, several tribes who took refuge in Gaoliu began to use the tribe's slaves and herdsmen to dig the lake alkali, which was more profitable than grazing, and the nobles of the tribe now rely on this and some mutual market privileges to get rich.

Every once in a while, Takayanagi would send someone to transport lake alkali.

Gaoliu is the Datong of later generations, there are many coal mines here, Sishang sent people to rely on the trona here to open the first Xuanlin workshop north of the Yellow River, when it comes to the cost, it is much cheaper than relying on boiling seaweed ash to get alkali.

The woman who asked said enviously: "Oh, then you have to make a lot of money?" ”

The girl's mother had a smile on her face, but her mouth said, "Where can I earn how much?" Iron and other things are all inter-market franchises, that is, selling some gadgets, collecting some leather, wool and so on. It's all to be checked, and those who really make money are all illegal, and they can't do it. ”

said that she couldn't make much money, but in fact it was not a lot, especially when her family heard the news that a large number of people were going to move over, and judged that the price of cattle and horses was going to rise with the experience of being a merchant, and she was preparing to get some, and even prepared to go to the clouds with someone for a while.

It is the Mo family that eats meat, others drink soup, and the most profitable business is caught by the Mo family, but the remaining loose things are enough for some people to eat.

Now Takayanagi City is stable again, the battle has not been fought near Takayanagi, and the battle to participate in the battle for the succession of Zhao is a big victory, Takayanagi is on the rise, and there are business opportunities everywhere.

The girl didn't care much about this, and she pondered about the gains and losses in her heart, and when her mother stopped, she said, "Mom, I have to get up earlier tomorrow." If you want to meet and listen to righteousness, tomorrow is not a day off. ”

This is not entirely a lie, there will be people who specialize in handouts in Gaoliu City during the rest of the day, and in addition to the handouts, there are also some other things, which is a tradition of the Mo family.

Not everyone has a holiday, but the leisure class in Gaoyanagi City has gradually increased, and the people participating in this kind of holiday day activities cannot be the whole people.

Just like she was able to go to school, Takayanagi Castle was not enough to fully implement the kind of education in Sishang, and she could only have a choice.

Mothers occasionally participate, and there is no objection to their daughters participating in this kind of activity, after all, the Mo family is now the ruler of Takayanagi.

"Then go to sleep. Eat in the morning? ”

"No, I'll eat it when I get a handout."

The girl put down the wool yarn in her hand, left the room, and quietly came to her room to rummage through her best clothes, although there were not many, but after all, there were still a few.

After rummaging for a long time, he quietly took some thin cotton threads in front of a palm-sized mirror, bent them into small dead knots, hooked the fine and slight hairs on his face, and pulled hard, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

This palm-sized mirror was extremely expensive, it was bought by his parents at the age of fifteen when he was an adult, not copper, but Xuanlin's, with a layer of tin on the back.

This is a technology monopolized by the Mo family, and I heard that the workshop that made this kind of mirror was in a heavily guarded workshop in Sishang, where the army was stationed, and the people inside could not come out for the rest of their lives.

Including gunpowder workshops, medicines for heartache and so on, some workshops are inside, there are thousands of people, there are a lot of food and drink in it, and the treatment is good, but the world is such a small place for a lifetime.

It's not a secret, many people know it, especially in the Mojia occupation area, the real secret is what is in that workshop.

Look in the mirror to make sure that there is nothing unsmooth on your face, and then go to get water and untie your hair.

He smeared a paste mixed with alkali and mutton fat on his hair and washed it carefully, his father was a grocery man, and there were many of these things.

After washing his head, he walked to the side of the small case and took out a toothbrush made of pig bristles, which is also the custom that the Mo family brought to Gaoliu, most of the families in Gaoliu have to serve, and the habit developed in the army soon spread in Gaoliu City, because this is part of military discipline, and the Mo family is extremely strict with military discipline.

Holding the handle of a toothbrush made of bones in his hand, he dipped a little grocery powder mixed with salt, soap powder, and limestone powder from a small clay pot next to him, and cleaned his teeth as he had learned in school.

When he had done all this, his hair was half dry, so he lay down on the bed and pulled over a quilt made of cotton cloth with cotton in it.

took off his shirt, blushed again, touched the sensitive places on his body with his hand, and thought of the words that Shu Prisoner said before parting last time that he might go to the clouds, and couldn't help but think of another song.

There is a dead moose in the wild, and the white grass is wrapped in it. There is a woman with a spring, and Jishi tempts her.

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

Relax and get rid of it! I don't feel like I'm embarrassed! No envoy barks!

Humming this song gently, his palm gently stroked his body, there seemed to be a fire burning in his stomach, and his face became more and more red, so his legs subconsciously twisted the warm quilt, rubbed gently, and couldn't help but hum.