Winter is here, and spring is not far away. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

For most people in Summer City, winter is difficult, except for the green pines and the green colors are not visible, and the eyes are full of wind and snow.

As for Muma, he hopes that the winter will be longer, at least until the spring ploughs the land, so that he can realize his dream.

Starting from chopping cattle sets, he has accumulated currency from a small shell, looking forward to one day he can change from the Mu clan's Mu Ma to the Mu Ma family, maybe there will be one more woman and two children, preferably a man and a girl.

According to the moral system of the tribe in the past, Mu Ma was not a moral person, he turned his back on his own people, thinking that he would go out alone.

However, with the change of the times, the old moral system is also disintegrating, and the private system will gradually replace the public system that has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, thus bringing a new moral system and behavioral norms. A person who clings to the morality of the old era cannot be a model for the new era, nor can he have more wealth than others in the new era.

Good and bad are closely related to the times, the same thing, different times have different interpretations, Chen Jian did not use morality to rely on the behavior of people in the city: because he is about to experience the great changes of the times, morality can distinguish between good and bad, but the morality of clan public ownership? Or is it the morality of private ownership in the home? In the chaos, there is no way to tell.

Mu Ma gladly accepted the guidance of the clansmen, and three of the fifteen people who vowed to go out alone could not bear the guidance and alienation of everyone and returned to the clan.

The remaining twelve people persevered from that day on, each using all the means they could think of, seizing every opportunity that could be exchanged.

Even during the Chinese New Year, they were reluctant to eat the benefits issued by the city, so they took it to the fang market to exchange shellfish, and even thought that the accumulated fertilizer could fertilize the fields, so they made a fire in the winter and dug out their own toilets, so that the fertilizer and water did not flow into the fields of outsiders.

Some people in the clan mocked them, saying that they would have to chew their all over again, and Muma calmly told everyone: "If you can have your quota of food left, he will do that." ”

Towards the end of the year, Mu Ma took a dozen people to make 300 pairs of cow sets, each of which was qualified, and the drilled holes could be worn into hemp rope of sufficient thickness. In addition to these cow traps, several men caught two sleeping bears and a lot of wild animals in the cold wind. In addition to the reward they deserved, Jian Chen also rewarded them with some money.

At the coldest time of the year, Chen Jian led his people to dig a small lake on the south bank of the Caohe River and started winter fishing, which belonged to conscription and labor.

But after completing the number of cities, Mu Ma led some people to learn from Chen Jian's method and continue fishing. Fish can't be exchanged for things in Xiacheng, and several times the fish caught in the winter in the city are enough to eat until the ice melts, so Mu Ma rented horses again, pulled the fish he caught to Echeng to exchange for food, and then exchanged them for money from the wine shop in Echeng, or bought some goods outside the jurisdiction of the city to pull back to Xiacheng, and earn a profit that Weibo and Chengyi goods can't look at. However, some commonly used things such as wine, pottery, salt, etc., are monopolized by the city, and there are not many things that can be exchanged for cassa.

In this way, there are more and more money shells in the hands of Muma, from the original three large shells in hand, to five, and then to two copper coins and two large shells.

During the Chinese New Year, Mu Ma made an exception and did not change the wine he had given him, and twelve people bought a sheep and a few jars of wine, and got drunk.

The sound of popping poplars crackling echoed in their ears, and the children picked up hollow mustard gnocchi, and a small beeswax candle was pressed in the sheltered hole, wearing new clothes, bringing a glimmer of light to Chinese New Year's Eve in Summer City.

Sugar gourds, vegetable lanterns, and red-faced faces, only the one missing is holding incense in one hand and covering his ears with the other to watch the cannon battle, but since the clansmen have never seen it, there is no flawlessness and flawlessness.

Mu Ma's face was flushed when he drank, in addition to the light wine sent down, he also bought some highly concentrated steamed wine, knelt on the hot kang, picked up a piece of fish meat with chopsticks, and arranged two copper coins and a bunch of small shellfish on the kang.

"You all take it out, and see how many we have. Yesterday I asked Yu Qian'er, and she said that if we shared a wall when we built a house, we would save a lot of bricks and mud. You see, if there are three people, only four east and west walls are needed, and twelve people only need thirteen east and west walls, but if we build them separately, we will need twenty-four east and west walls, which will save a lot of money. ”

The men also drank a little too much, and opened the pockets they carried with them, poured copper coins and pottery shells on the kang, and spread a layer of them, although they were not shiny with gold, but they were also intoxicating.

"Except for the public warehouses in Fang City and Ji Xia, I'm afraid that the people of Xia City can't see so much money. Hahaha. ”

A few people laughed, intoxicated by the sound of copper coins hitting each other, and struggled to calculate how much it would cost to build a house during the break.

Some people also had sad faces, and for the first time in their lives, they drank sullen wine, and muttered: "The clansmen don't talk to me much anymore, they all say that I want to run while I'm young, and I want to leave the old people and children behind." To be honest, if Ji Xia hadn't said it that day, I wouldn't have thought of it at all, not that I didn't care, but I didn't expect that there would be these things in here. ”

"yes, that's a bit unacceptable to me, I just want to have a house of my own."

Mu Ma slapped the two of them and shouted, "What are you talking about? Indeed, I just thought that we were strong, and it was good to separate and separate, and I really didn't think about supporting and raising us. But do you think the clan will be the same in the future? It can't be the same, and when everyone learns from us, who will say anything? ”

"Ji Xia does things, you also know, so many pottery plates write what can't be done, but it is not written that it is not allowed to be divided out alone, and there is also the matter of raccoon cat orchid grass, Ji Xia does not prohibit things, it can be done. It's not that what Ji Xia is allowed to do can be done, the rest are not allowed, there is a difference between the two. ”

Mu Ma said confidently: "Look, from that day to now, what has Ji Xia Ke said? We went and asked Yu Qian'er and Hongyu how much they wanted to build a house, can Ji Xia know? He didn't care, so what are you afraid of? ”

The person next to him was still pondering the difference between permission without prohibition and prohibition without permission, Mu Ma had already jumped out of this question and said excitedly: "When we have a house, we are also working, we are no worse than others, who will women choose?" If you want to live in our house, okay, you are not allowed to sleep with others in the future, this thing is the same as the market, it is a business. In the past, women gathered and men hunted, but now men farm, and women can not farm. Men can afford to raise women now, so since they are raising, they have to make it clear that they can't sleep with others. If you want to be free and simple, you go and build a house by yourself to earn food and drink, and no one can restrain you, don't you say? Lancao and tanuki have a faint salute and an oath, and we can have it too, and it's better than the oath, and it's more useful to use eating and drinking constraints than any oath. ”

He waved his big hand and unconsciously learned from Jian Chen's movements to encourage everyone: "I have found someone to calculate, this house is simple to build, and it is not as troublesome as we thought." I've already looked for Ji Xia, and I've measured the land for us, and I'll hand it over for you first, and then we'll finish building the house and count it together. There is wood, before spring comes, we cut enough wood, and as soon as spring begins, we will transport it back to peel it. The bark is not easy to pull out in winter, go to the fang market to buy, the thatch is fed to the horse's hay, I asked the wolf skin, in the spring when the grass is green, you can also buy it. Well, when you look for a few days off, buy a few sheep and get a few jars of wine, and it won't take long to cover them. ”

At this time, he has become the backbone of these people, and someone asks: "How much does a brick cost?" ”

"Let's use bricks for the wall facing the sun, and the twelve rooms on the side walls are connected together, and the two side walls are bricks, and we will surround the back with a wooden fence, leaving only the front door, which won't need much."

"A few of us can do it by dragging mud blanks, but we are tired, and the weather is a little warmer in March and April, so let's start drying, and I estimate that before the wheat is harvested, our house can be built." You see, this is the house I asked Ji Xia to draw for us......"

He turned around and rummaged through the bark paintings that Zhen Zhi had recollected, and said, "Ji Xia said, as long as we don't delay the work in the city, we can toss as much as we want." He also said that if we don't delay the farming work of the city and the clan and build the house, he will also come and sit down when it is finished. ”

Neither for nor against, but these words are enough for these people to take a reassuring pill.

Mu Ma took out the birch bark from a pile of wheat grass, on which were the simple lines drawn by Chen Jian with charcoal, and in the background was the wall of Xia City, like a child drawing, and there was a sun with a mango line on it, and there was a smiling face on the sun.

Under the sun, there are houses, simple thatched huts, with a fence behind and a yard in front.

In the yard, there are birds pecking at the wheat grains on the ground, geese and geese singing with their heads up, and a few clothes seem to be drawn on a clothesline, and under the clothes are a few children with pigtails, pushing small windmills that seem to be running.

There were no women, no men, but this simple charcoal drawing still made the twelve men hang there.

Without a woman, how can there be children?

Drawing a running child, they feel that it is their own bloodline, and they can call their father's own child like Echeng.

"Maybe the woman is mending her clothes in the house."

Some people looked at the painting and fantasized leisurely, but the people next to them couldn't help nodding in agreement with this childish remark, and some people wanted to reach out and touch the house on the painting, but others opened it with force, for fear of blurring the charcoal on it.

The twelve people all took up the wine, and while looking at the painting, they drank the wine, but forgot to eat the plate of fish and cooked beans.

The best appetizer is not fish.

The best appetizer, or story, or hope. (To be continued.) )