Xing'er squinted her eyes and looked at the snow-covered south, feeling for the first time that the word "world" was so close to herself.

After the Mo family took root in Gaoliu, she often heard these two words all over the world.

What is the world?

Apricot couldn't understand it before, and she may have a hazy concept, but she was instilled into it.

Maybe when I was a child, the people in the world were my brothers and sisters, my parents; The majestic mountains and rivers in the world are their own houses, and the canals at the door.

When you grow up, people in the world are the playmates of your neighbors' childhood sweethearts; Li Tianxia is that the life of his family is gradually getting better, and Li himself is that he snatched a small wooden toy from his younger brother.

If you grow up a little more, the world may be Takayanagi City, and the edge of the world is the border fort where your father occasionally sells goods in the north of Takayanagi.

When he was sent to read books, learn poetry, and recognize words, he dimly knew that the world was very big, and Yuding Kyushu, and Zhao was a part of Kyushu, and Takayanagi was only a part of Zhao.

Those concepts of the world that have been instilled into them have only sprouts in their hearts, but they have never come close.

The galloping river, the Surabaya where the cattle and horses on the opposite side are too wide to be seen, the Mount Tai where Mozi and the birds drink and talk about righteousness, the Yangtze River battlefield where the public brigade transforms the warship and the Yue people fight the decisive battle, the Qiaoyi where there is a cannibalistic custom in the extremely difficult place, the Yiqu where the Xirong Mountains are cremated, the Guzhu Mountain where Boyi Shuqi was born, the North Korea where the Jizi was founded, and the Bashu where the cuckoo is mournful......

I've heard all of this, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with her.

At this time, how many people in the world can travel hundreds of miles away? Hundreds of miles away is already a foreign country, but thousands of miles away in the mountains and rivers? Even if it belongs to the world, it doesn't seem to have any possible intersection with itself.

She had heard many stories about Sishang.

Many, many more.

The river full of weeping willows where Zishi and Confucian scholars borrowed willow leaves to fall into the water to debate the will of heaven and the destiny of heaven; The canal that took seven years to dig out to make Sishang dry and fertile for thousands of miles; a city of coal and iron workshops with chimneys, windmills, wooden tracks, and thousands of workshops; It was a city of commerce and commerce, full of speculation, monopolies, gold, banknotes, silk, cotton, and Xuanlin; The cemetery where Mozi and many inkers are buried, and planted with jujube trees and peach trees that can be left for future generations; The cotton field that looks like snow in autumn as far as the eye can see......

I've heard too much, it's a little similar to here, and it's completely different.

The people there also speak the same language spoken by Takayanagi; Use the same words; tied up his hair; Perform the prayer of solemnity; eating cooking cakes, rice, corn, potatoes; Drinking the same wine with a stamp on it; with the same musket that needs to be blown from time to time with an arquebus; They debated what the Tao was and what the heavens were.

The people there seem to be different from here. There are no wool and woollen workshops there; Only occasionally can you see a single snowfall there; The men and women there were forced to go to school when they were young, otherwise they would commit crimes; There is a sea of yellow rape flowers in spring; There were many brick houses of sunset color, and some merchants' windows were inlaid with pale green Xuanlin that could transmit light; The wolves there have basically been killed, and they have been made into military uniforms, unlike here where you can still see them from time to time......

If you listen too much, you will inevitably not be unfamiliar, but with a kind of expectation.

In addition to anticipation, there is also some panic. There are in-laws and uncles who I want to see for the first time...... Sounds like they're all good, but what happens in the future?

I have already told my family about going to Sishang.

So the dowry, which had been prepared a lot, became a silver hairpin; a pair of gold earrings; and some money hidden in a wooden box containing soap and rouge.

"If you don't treat you well, write a letter back, although it is expensive, it can always be delivered in half a year. The law of the Mo family allows divorce, don't learn from the stupid woman in the hooligan. ”

Her mother whispered like this, she only nagged her mother, but she didn't know her mother's thoughts.

"It's going to be good."

Apricot cheered herself up, thinking about those happy things, but she didn't know that the real married life had not yet begun.

Putting away these thoughts, he suddenly asked, "Sishang, are there geese too?" ”

Shu Prisoner nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, I also caught it when I was a child." ”

"Is Sishang the place where the geese that fly away from here spend the winter?"

"Not really. I just stayed there, and I heard my husband say that the geese were going to fly thousands of miles away to spend the winter. You know, the earth under our feet is a ball, and some places have summer all year round, and further south, spring, summer, autumn and winter are the opposite of ours. ”

This is the concept that the Mo family has instilled in young people like Shu Prisoner Mi since childhood, as for whether it is or not, whether there are loopholes, it is not for them to think about it, most people will not, they will only accept it.

Naturally, and of course, this is what Sishang has been doing for the past 20 years.

The earth as a matter of course, the equality as a matter of course, the natural nature of human interest as a matter of course, there is no good and no evil, and the natural boundary theory of the body; The natural difference between the interests of both the human and the decent......

Apricot knew this, and she knew that the metaphor of a magnet and iron was used to explain why the person on the other side couldn't fall, but she still wondered.

She is not one of those sons who wants to go to Sishang to debate with the Mohists, and she cannot understand the cosmology of the corpse that "east, west, north and south are relative concepts, and up and down, left and right are also relative concepts".

So instead of asking the hard question, she said, "I've heard a story like this. said that there was a doctor surnamed Jia, who had been married for many years and shot geese with a bow in order to make his wife laugh. If one day I'm not happy, will you shoot a goose at me? ”

Shu Prisoner Mi heard a trace of worry in Xing'er's heart, and teased her: "Doctor Jia is ugly, and his wife has a cold face." Our husband told this story, saying that if you look ugly and have no ability, then there is really no way, and persuade us to study hard and grow up to have the ability, otherwise we will have a cold face when we marry a wife. I also have the ability, and I have forced a prince to die, I can't lead a bow to shoot geese, but I can definitely hit the ...... with a volley of volleys Since I have the ability, then you mean that I was born ugly? I won't marry you! ”

The two of them laughed and bypassed this section, and the prisoner thought to himself: If Dr. Jia was born now, it would be miserable. Hai Duong is full of sugar cane fields, tea plantations and mulberry fields, where to shoot geese.

I went to the coppersmith to repair the compass, and after shopping for a while, I went to the wine shop where the gentleman had eaten mutton with the prisoner when he came to Takayanagi.

It's snowing today, and it's a period of rest, so there are a lot of people. In particular, the merchant here talked about some things that had been relocated for a while, and the prisoner listened to it with his ears sideways, as if it was the Mo family who wanted to take out a part of the shares of the mutual market franchise chamber of commerce, and let the merchant send a batch of grain to the clouds, but he was not allowed to buy it in Gaoliu, and many businessmen were thinking about whether to cooperate together, saying that there was nothing that the Mo family did not make money in the place where they invested money, and it was a bone gnawed for a while before there was some meat left, and the opportunity could not be missed.

When the gentleman came, he finally vacated the seat and sat down, and the gentleman had already changed his clothes, which was much more pleasing to the eye than when he first arrived here to ward off the cold on the road.

I asked for a shabu-shabu that has just become popular now, some tofu, potato vermicelli and the like, some leek flowers, some potato shochu and a pot of tea cakes and tea.

It takes some time for the thickly sliced mutton to cook, so Shu Zhuqi holds a piece of mutton with chopsticks and says, "It's not the best time to eat shabu-shabu." After a while, it will be colder, and the meat will be frozen, and it will be very thin with the carpenter's planer. ”

"When the public loss class made planers, I guess I didn't expect that we would use it to eat mutton one day."

Although there are already hay bales and straw fermentation methods in the Takayanagi area, once it snows, a batch of sheep still has to be slaughtered, in order to save forage and grain, so this is the cheapest season for mutton.

Zhuxia has always liked to eat mutton, and the gentleman took a few bites and said: "It's not that I said, this mutton is still more flavorful than Sishang." ”

Shu Prisoner Mi held back a smile in her mouth, and she was embarrassed to say in front of Xing'er and her sister, many families in Sishang raised sheep, and they all gave the rams to the gelding, and there were many here, but they couldn't be busy. When he first came, he also had such doubts, and he still heard from others, but he could be a talking point when he drank with his partners and colleagues on weekdays, and it was inconvenient to say it in front of the two girls.

Putting down the chopsticks, Shu Prisoner said, "By the way, I received a letter from home a while ago. He also sent me some money and gave me a sticker. ”

"Are you okay at home?"

Shu Prisoner snorted and said, "It's good." The younger brother was helping Liang's father measure the land, and he looked like a dog, and he also went to Mount Tai to see the place where Zi Mozi and the birds drank back then. That place is not far from the foot of Mount Tai. Originally, I was in the army, and the younger brother was also in Xiliu Military Academy, and the second brother was exempted from service, but my father said that he would let him go for three years. ”

"The village community bought a few horse-drawn head-cutting equipment, and there are not so many people at home, and my parents can still be busy."

However, my father said that this time, it seems that the law prohibiting the import of grain has not been passed, and the price of grain is too cheap, but it is not possible to plant it. It said that the grain of each village community must be guaranteed to be mu, and the people in the village want a variety of cotton, and my father also has a headache every day. Some people in the village said that it was better to plant cotton and then secretly use the money to buy grain, but this time the people from the Supervision and Inspection Department wanted to go to the countryside to inspect, and I am afraid that it will not work. ”

"In addition to giving an order for the village community to guarantee a certain amount of food, he also gave an order. Ships returning from the Chu and Yue countries through the Canal Surabaya must carry a certain amount of grain in lieu of customs duties, otherwise the tax will be doubled. My father said that a lot of barns had been built along the river, and he had been loading grain into them. ”

"Sister, why do you say that the grain prices of Chu, Song, and Yue are so cheap?"

The gentleman raised his chopsticks lightly, shook the mutton on the chopsticks, sighed and said, "Because of the people there...... Eat less. The feudal lords and nobles there could not eat so much by themselves, but we did not receive anything but copper, silver, gold, and grain in Sishang. ”