In the early morning, a ray of dawn enters through the window, and the rooster outside the house announces the dawn.

Li Jing closed his eyes and reached out to touch his mobile phone, and his hand stretched out to touch it for a long time, but he didn't touch anything. Then, suddenly, he woke up, opened his eyes and sat up, and was greeted by a wooden bed surrounded on three sides, and the straw under the sheets creaked as soon as one moved. Even the quilt he was wearing was a quilt cover sewn with homespun cloth and filled with dry straw.

The room is relatively spacious, in addition to the wooden shelf bed, there is a four-fold red lacquered wood screen in front of the bed, and there is a large bookshelf, on which there are nearly 100 thread-bound books. There is also a jujube wood desk on one side of the bookshelf, as well as several Hu chairs. All that was left was a large wooden cabinet that was a man tall.

There was another sound of weaving outside, Li Jing remembered that he had been thinking about how to solve the problem of eating at home last night and went to bed very late, but the sound of weaving never stopped. Unexpectedly, when I woke up early in the morning, the loom was still ringing. I can't help but feel heavy, this year's harvest in the drought land is almost gone, and the whole family relies on a few women to weave and raise silkworms day and night to barely survive.

I have to do something, I have to do something.

There were a few knocks outside the door, and then Wan'er pushed the door open and lifted the curtain to enter.

"San Lang, sister-in-law helped you cook egg custard, get up and eat it quickly." Although Wan'er is a native of Silla, she has lived in the Li family for nine years, and her speech and deeds are no different from that of an authentic local. At home, the Han family has always regarded her as a daughter, so she is also called like a family, and she has always called Li Jing San Lang or brother.

"It's good." Li Jing responded with a smile and got up.

Lifting the quilt, Li Jing, who was only wearing a pair of calf nose pants all over his body, couldn't help but shudder, in the late autumn of October, the morning was already very cold. Looking down at the calf-nosed pants on his body, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. This calf nose pants are very similar to the briefs of later generations, cut with two-foot cloth, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with holes on both sides, just around the crotch of the buttocks. It is said that Sima Xiangru, a talented man who eloped with Zhuo Wenjun in the Han Dynasty, was forced by life after elopement, and bought a wine house in Chengdu, so that his wife Wenjun was the shopkeeper of Lu, and he himself was in the public, wearing only a pair of calf nose shorts to wash wine utensils, forcing his father-in-law to admit that family affair later.

Li Jing took a pair of pants from the bedside shelf, and in the late Tang Dynasty, although the man mainly wore a round-necked robe, there were also pleats inside. Not only men wear pleated hakama, but also women. This hakama is the trousers, which are mainly developed under the influence of the Hu people. However, unlike today's pants, the hakama is very loose, especially the two trouser tubes, which are very fat, so they are also called large-mouth pants. The top that matches the hakama is pleated, but it is made to be tight. These two kinds of hakama were worn together to form hakama, which was originally used for military travel to facilitate marching, and later gradually became a common clothing for the common people.

However, as far as Li Jing knows, the hakama worn by women in the late Tang Dynasty is different from that of men, the biggest difference is that the hakama pants worn by women have tight legs, and it is said that they are not crotch, but open crotch, but there is a tie at the crotch to facilitate toilet relief, as for underwear, women in the late Tang Dynasty do not have it.

After putting on the pleated hakama, Li Jing picked up a rope about three feet long and tied it tightly at the knee of the trouser tube, so that it was very convenient for both riding and walking. But this rope also has a name, and it is called a hakama.

After wearing the pleated hakama, he wore knee pants again. Knee pants are also the shin clothes in Hanfu, and the shin clothes are also called leg clothes, which are leg clothes from the knee to the ankles. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the shin shirt was worn close to the body, but at this time it had been changed to knee pants, but it was worn in addition to the hakama.

Tie your knee pants over your hakama pants and put on your socks again. At the end of the pack are round-necked robes, leather belts, tulle shirts, and black leather boots. It took a lot of time to get dressed. If it weren't for the fact that he had all the memories of Li Jing in his head for twenty years, he would be overwhelmed by his bare clothes.

Li Jing dressed up and went out of the room to the hall, and saw that the sister-in-law who was in charge of the food at home had already brought the meal to Wan'er. A large clay pot of wild vegetable porridge, and a stack of pickles in front of each person's table. The sister-in-law smiled and said to him, "Go and brush your teeth and wash your face, and then you'll come to eat." ”

Li Jing said hello to his sister-in-law and others, and then turned his head and went to the yard to wash his face and brush his teeth. As soon as he passed, Wan'er had already diligently helped him carry a bucket of cool well water from the well, and brought him a face towel and a toothbrush.

Looking at the toothbrush handed over by Wan'er, Li Jing was still a little resistant. At this time in the late Tang Dynasty, there was already a toothbrush specially used for brushing teeth, which was made of horsetail and called toothbrushing. At the beginning, Li Jing didn't pay attention to the difference between this toothbrush and the toothbrush of later generations, and as a result, the first time he brushed his teeth, he brushed his mouth full of blood. The ponytail brush is very hard, and if you accidentally brush your teeth according to the method of later generations, it will be a big loss.

took the toothbrush, took a little green salt from the small wooden box next to it and sprinkled it on it, muttered twice with saliva, and then began to brush his teeth carefully. In the late Tang Dynasty, most of the common people had the habit of brushing their teeth, and brushing their teeth was only one or two pennies, but ordinary people could not afford to brush their teeth. Late Tang salt is more expensive than rice, and the bucket salt is more than 100 yuan, and if it is a good green salt, the price is higher. However, the Li family was also wealthy in their early years, and they had this habit, but they still maintained the habit of brushing their teeth with green salt.

After brushing his teeth carefully, this time he finally didn't get a mouth full of blood. When I returned to the house, everyone in the family had already arrived, and only the second sister-in-law was still reciting scriptures in the house.

In the past, when my father was still alive, the women of the family were not allowed to eat in the hall, but had to eat in the house. But now that the Li family is in the middle of the road, there is only one man left in the family, and after Li Jing said it a few times, the Han family also agreed to come down and no longer abide by those past etiquette and family rules. Cang Liao knows etiquette, and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing. For the Li family, where even eating is a problem now, there is no need to abide by many rules. It is said that the etiquette is not inferior to the common people, and it is good for ordinary people to make a living, so what about those etiquettes.

"A-Niang, I want to go to town today."

Han raised his eyes and looked at Li Jing, put down his chopsticks and said, "It's okay, you have been out of the house since you had an accident last time." It's good to go out of the town for a walk, and by the way, go to Fahua Temple to make incense and make a wish. The last time you had an accident, my mother made a wish to the Bodhisattva. Now that you are well, it is time to make a vow to the Bodhisattva, so donate ten catties of sesame oil! ”

Li Jing does not believe in Buddhism, but he cannot refute Han's belief in Buddhism. nodded and agreed at the moment, although ten catties of sesame oil is not a small number in this family, it can make Han's peace of mind, but it is also worth it.

After eating, Han entered the house, and when he came out again, he held a silk and two cloths in his hands.

"My son, you go up to town and bring this silk horse, and buy whatever you want. In addition, you can take these two pieces of cloth to the grain store in the town to exchange some sorghum and come back, and you can also bring a string of money here. ”

Li Jing looked at these things, but he understood in his heart that this was almost half of the family's bottom line. In addition to copper coins as coins, the use of silk silk was also regulated. The emperor also once issued an edict that all transactions of more than ten times must be traded with silk silk.

At this time, the rice was 200 yuan, and the silk was 800 wen. A bucket of rice is ten liters, which is about seven and a half catties of later generations. A silk horse is forty feet long and one foot eight inches wide, which is twelve meters long and half a meter wide in later generations, which is enough to make two robes.

A bucket of rice costs 200 yuan, which is equivalent to 26 yuan per catty of rice. A horse of silk is worth 800 wen, worth 30 catties of rice. According to the price at this time, three buckets of rice can be exchanged for five meters of millet and six buckets of sorghum. The Li family's silk can be exchanged for six buckets of sorghum, and two pieces of cloth can also be exchanged for ten buckets of sorghum.

Sixteen buckets of sorghum together one hundred and twenty pounds for later generations,

The border army of the Tang Dynasty gave two liters of rice on the day of the soldiers, and one liter of rice among the women and men. According to this standard, the standard ration for the seven members of the Li family should be seven liters and seven hes a day, and five catties and seven taels of rice should be consumed a day. Sixteen buckets of sorghum are only 120 catties of rice, which is enough to eat for 21 days.

However, in today's days, it is naturally impossible for the Li family to eat so much grain every day, most of them are porridge porridge, which is mixed with flour and bran, saving two meals of gruel a day, trying to maintain about one pound of rice a day, and this one hundred and twenty pounds of sorghum can last for four months, and it can be eaten until the end of the New Year next year. The women in the family work hard to weave, and if Li Jing does some more short-term work or something, she may be able to survive until next year's wheat harvest.

"Auntie, I know that I will go early and return early."

PS: Tang "Warehouse Order" grain delivery standard: all grain is provincial. Ding Nan is alone, and he is given two liters of rice a day, two spoonfuls of salt and five pinchs. Wives, concubines, middle-aged men and women, (those who are over 18 years old.) 1 liter of rice, 2 tablespoons of salt. Old and young men, (those who are eleven or older.) Middle-aged woman, (under the age of seventeen.) One liter of rice, one spoonful of salt, five pinchs. Male and female, (Male means over 7 years old, female refers to 15 years old.) Rice nine he, a spoonful of salt. Little men and women are under the age of six, with six meters and five pinches of salt. The old, middle, and young men serve as officials to see the drivers, and they are given by the Ding man, and they are also the students of the Guozijian and the Hammer? Doctors, although they are not Ding, give them according to the Ding example. ”

PS2: Weights and measures in the Tang Dynasty, one foot in the Tang Dynasty was about 30 centimeters, and one step was 1.5 meters. There are two units of the other bucket, one is the volume and the other is the weight. The volume is 10 liters per bucket and the weight is 10 buckets per stone, and the two are not universal.

As a unit of weight, according to the measured weight of Tang Dynasty coins by modern experts, one tael in the Tang Dynasty was 42.5 grams, one catty sixteen taels was 680 grams, and one stone was 120 catties, about 80 kilograms in modern times. This bucket is equal to a bucket of 8 kilograms.

As a volume unit, one bucket is ten liters. The weight of a liter of rice in modern times is 1.25 catties, and a bucket of ten liters is 12.5 catties. However, one liter in the Tang Dynasty was only equivalent to 0.6 liters in modern times. Therefore, a bucket of rice in the Tang Dynasty is 7.5 catties for modern times.

The bucket that ordinary people buy rice is a bucket of wooden measuring instruments, which is 7.5 catties in modern times, which is about 5 catties and 5 taels in the Tang Dynasty.

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