Ding Qi smiled bitterly: "It's nothing, it's just that I went out for a walk at night, and everyone was alarmed." Go in first, or they won't get up, and I have something to explain." ”

When I returned to the back courtyard, I saw that some villagers had picked out the toilets in their houses, and were wearing cloth masks and gloves. I don't know if these masks and gloves were originally available here, or if they were specially made according to the instructions of Brother Zhuang Tian or Brother Tan Tian. Seeing several heavenly brothers walking in, the two social citizens hurriedly put down their burdens, dodged to the side and saluted, not daring to get too close to them.

The three disciples had just gotten up, and they didn't know what was going on, so they ran to the door of the shrine to take a look, but they were startled, and when they returned to the room, they found that the washing things were ready. The new wooden basin has warm water inside, and there are bamboo cups and toothbrushes on the shelves next to it, and there is a small box next to the toothbrush, and a bucket is placed on the ground, which should be used to pour water.

The people here also know how to clean their teeth and make toothbrushes. In fact, the toothbrush was invented in ancient China, Ding Qi also saw the real objects of the Song Dynasty in the museum, the nobles used ivory, cow bones, tortoiseshell to make toothbrush handles, and the commoners used bamboo and wood, the style is almost the same as the modern toothbrush, and the top drills small holes to insert animal manes.

The toothbrush here is made of bamboo, and the bristles are supposed to be the mane of the elk. The small box next to it is supposed to be toothpaste, made with fine salt and a gel-like substance, which must also be a specialty here. Of course, there are combs, bandanas and headbands on the side.

The comb is made of jujube wood, the turban is made of silk dyed with ginger, like a handkerchief, and the head rope is made of red and white silk threads, which is very delicate. Ding Qi and the others didn't have long hair, of course they didn't need this kind of thing, they just simply combed their hair. And in Meng Huiyu's room, there was actually a hairpin.

The hairpin is not of gold and bronze, but is made of wood and jade. Of course, the so-called jade is not the Hetian jade or Lantian jade outside, but the beautiful stone with a warm texture found locally, and the shape is a slender flying cloud-like ruyi shape, and the craftsmanship is very exquisite.

Of course, the girl's family likes this kind of thing, Meng Huiyu specially braided a few pigtails and coiled them in a bun, tied them with a head rope and inserted a hairpin, so it took a little more time, and she was the last to walk out of the house. At this time, breakfast was ready, and Ding Qi and the other three were sitting at the table in the front hall and waiting.

As soon as he saw Meng Hui's words, he exclaimed: "I said, how can it be so long, I used to dress up in the house!"

Ye Yanxing: "Girls, it's understandable. Senior sister, your hairstyle is quite chic!"

Meng Huiyu said a little shyly: "Is it good-looking?"

Ding Qi nodded: "Well, it's pretty good." Let's eat. ”

Meng Huiyu lowered her head, and exclaimed in a low voice: "Bubble wontons, I like to eat them the most!

Ding Qi smiled: "This is not a poor country, let alone a remote wilderness, many things are exquisite, even much more exquisite than the outside world!"

Bi Xuecheng: "What kind of dishes are these two plates?" He pointed to two plates of vegetables with chopsticks, one plate is fried young leaves, and the other plate should be a young stem with the skin torn off and salted.

Ding Qi straightened his face and said two words: "Hogweed." ”

Ye Yanxing: "Hogweed! Is this feeding us as pigs?"

Ding Qi: "There are two kinds of so-called pigweed, one is called Houttuynia cordata, and some places are also called folded ear roots. The other is sweet potato, which is called yam in the lake, and the leaves and vines can be fed to pigs, and the rhizomes are of course better. These are the leaves and vine stems of the yams, which are all freshly sprouted and very tender. There are no pigs here, so they are used as vegetables. ”

Bi Xuecheng: "There is also a plate of meat, eat meat early in the morning, meat roasted in sauce...... Ah, it's delicious!"

Ding Qi: "Most of the people here go out to work after dawn, so they have to eat a good breakfast, rush back before dark to have dinner, basically two meals a day, and eat some dry food when they are hungry outside at noon." ”

This plate of meat is really delicious, it is roasted with soybean paste, and seasoned with spicy grass root and local wild garlic, in fact, it cannot be said to be wild garlic, which has been artificially cultivated and planted for many years. The meat cut into small pieces is grilled with the skin, and the skin is so thin and tender that you feel like your tongue is melting when you bite into it.

Ye Yanxing: "Master, what kind of meat is this? I've never eaten it, but it's really delicious!"

Ding Qi also ate with relish, shook his head and said, "Eat slowly, don't burn your mouth...... I haven't eaten this meat either. Then he called out to the outside of the hall, "Is there anyone?"

While they were eating, the rest of the local people had withdrawn, and when they heard the call, Chen Rong, the military advisor of the East Battalion, hurriedly came in and bowed down and said, "What do you have to say about the Heavenly Brothers?"

Tintzy: "What kind of meat is this?"

Chen Rong replied: "This is pork, isn't it to the taste of a few heavenly brothers? ”

Ding Qi hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, no, no, it tastes very good, I'll just ask." ”

After Chen Rong withdrew again, Ding Qi smiled and said, "I just said that there are no pigs here, and the result is there." The pigs the locals are talking about, but obviously not the pigs we know. ”

Bi Xuecheng: "I remember, this is rabbit meat, a local short-eared rabbit, and the people here call it a pig. ”

Ye Yanxing: "Pure nonsense, it's not like I haven't eaten rabbits, how can rabbit meat be so delicious?

Bi Xuecheng: "If you don't believe me, I'll show you the evidence." He immediately ran back to his room, took the seventh volume of the Chronicles of the Heavenly Kingdom, which he had read last night, and turned one of the pages, and there was a picture and text on it, drawing an animal like a rabbit, and the text next to it was about a pig.

Meng Huiyu frowned and said: "It's not like a rabbit, the ears are so small, if the mouth is sharper, it looks like a big mouse...... Hey, how do you look like a Dutch pig you've seen at a pet market?"

Ye Yanxing leaned his head and said, "This thing...... I know, it's obviously a bamboo rat. If you look at the text next to it, it's not that it 'digs holes and likes to eat bamboo', but the people here actually call bamboo rats pigs. ”

A lot of things here are really interesting, according to the Chinese tradition, there are no six animals, but there are three animals, which refers to three types of domestic livestock: chickens, cows, horses, and pigs.

The so-called chicken is a wild bamboo chicken that has been domesticated in captivity, and this thing can still fly, so when the young chicks grow up to a certain extent, they have to cut off the hard bristles on their wings, which provide both meat and eggs. The so-called cattle and horses are not two animals but one animal, that is, the domesticated elk, which is a large animal that mainly replaces manpower.

The locals had also heard of pigs, but they had never seen pigs outside, so they called the captive-bred bamboo rats pigs. Bamboo rat meat is delicious, and it is even more delicious to eat with the skin, of course, this way of eating is more wasteful, because the bamboo rat skin can also be used to make clothes.

After eating, rinse your mouth with tea, there is actually tea here. The marshals, military advisors, and Sima of the Eastern Battalion all came, stood in front of the door and asked, "What are the orders of the Heavenly Brothers?"

Ding Qi: "I want to visit the neighborhood today, although I walked some places at night, but after all, it is not very convenient, and I can't see many things...... Also, I want to get in touch with the other heavenly brothers from the major battalions as soon as possible to see when we can meet?"

The marshal replied: "A few heavenly brothers want to visit, so I will order someone to prepare a sedan chair." Early this morning, I sent someone to deliver a letter to the Zhongda Camp, and then passed the news to the South, West, and North Camps through the Zhongda Camp, informing them that four Heavenly Brothers had arrived in the East Camp, and that they had performed miracles last night, and I believe that there would be a reply soon.

Today coincides with a small market, and the people of the various societies in Dongdaying come here to worship your heavenly brothers. In 11 days, it will be the Great City of Heaven, and then all the Heavenly Brothers will be able to gather in the camp of the Middle University......"

According to the Heavenly Calendar, today is the 21st day of May, and people from other villages and communities will gather at the main shrine to trade goods. In another eleven days, that is, on the first day of June, many people from the major camps will gather in the big camp to trade in the big market.

There is no other festival in the kingdom of heaven, a small city is a small festival, a big city is a big festival, and the big market on January 1 is the most solemn festival of the year, which is equivalent to the New Year outside.

It is very inconvenient to pass the news here, and they all have to transit through the Zhongda camp, and the messenger will set off after breakfast, and hurry up without delay, and can almost arrive at the Zhongda camp before dark. This has to be physically strong, not old, weak, sick and disabled. The reason why the location of the main shrine of Dongdaying is so close to the foot of the mountain is to make this distance as short as possible.

If it's raining, it's troublesome. According to the local conventions, if the market is postponed on a rainy day, everyone will start again after the rain stops, and when the people from the major camps have gathered and traded, the market will be over. At the most exaggerated time, there was a big market that was postponed for a month, two big markets and one big market.

Ding Qi didn't want to ask someone to prepare a sedan chair, did he still have to take a sedan chair when he went out for a walk? But after thinking about it, today is a small market, and there are too many people in the village community, and according to the "edict" promulgated by Zhuang Mengzhou, everyone must be at least four feet apart from Brother Tian when they talk, and they can't touch Brother Tian's body, so it is indeed more convenient to sit in a sedan chair, so they didn't stop it.

Meng Hui whispered: "I feel so embarrassed, being treated as a heavenly brother with delicious food and drink, and going out to ask someone to be too sedan chair, it's just too **!"

Ding Qi: "For the time being, let's follow the customs, some things are not easy to say, and some things will be discussed after meeting a few uncles and uncles." Don't just worry about comfort here, you also have to suffer. In the past few nights, just go out with me to practice. ”

Ding Qi walked through the darkness last night and walked to the Dongying Second Society, feeling that the consumption of divine qi mana was extremely high, and he set off and returned after resting there, and when he walked to dawn, he suddenly felt that in fact, this method was extremely helpful for cultivating divine consciousness! This is a good opportunity, it is difficult to find this kind of natural cultivation environment outside.

At that time, he was thinking that after the three disciples' Outer Secret Method cultivation broke through the Hidden Realm, they could also exercise their divine sense through this method. It's just that he, as a master, may have to work a little harder, and he has to follow with a stick to prevent accidents, and it's best not to go too far from the village community.

When he returned to the shrine and saw a few disciples, Ding Qi changed his mind again and decided to advance this kind of cultivation. Walking through the night can exercise the divine sense, and it can also help the cultivation of the divine sense.

The subtlety of the realm is to sense the subtlety, to see the world that ordinary senses cannot see, and to entrust the mind to refine the jingwenshi, with the help of the jingwenshi to maintain this state. Isn't this the highest state of synaesthesia, if you can transcend the ordinary senses to grasp the ability to extend the sense of induction, and condense a clear self, in fact, it is the so-called condensation of the original spirit, which means that you have broken through the hidden realm.

Walking through the night is a good cultivation for them, which helps them reach the highest level of synaesthesia, and they can break through the hidden realm as soon as possible. Ding Qi originally brought three disciples to find the Qin Gaotai in the Outer World, what was the purpose? Isn't it just a trial? First, he didn't expect that the current situation would occur, but he couldn't forget the original purpose.

After explaining to the three disciples what they wanted to cultivate, the four sedan chairs had been prepared in the front yard of the shrine, and they boarded the sedan chair and went out. The entrance to the shrine is a large road, and across the road is a vacant lot, where the small market is located twice a month, and many people have gathered today.

Seeing the four heavenly brothers coming out in a sedan chair, everyone stopped what they were doing, knelt down and kowtowed to the four heavenly brothers, and the noisy sound disappeared in an instant, and the scene was solemn and silent.

Ding Qi sat on the sedan chair and said loudly: "Everyone get up, if it is not necessary in the future, you don't have to always kneel down and talk, this is too troublesome! Today's small market, I just came to observe, you don't want to be disturbed, what to do or continue to do something, I can see it clearly." ”

Marshal Xiao Bozhi also said loudly: "Brother Tian, have you all heard it clearly? Get up, continue to do what you usually do, Brother Tian wants to take a good look." ”

Everyone thanked them and got up, and continued to do what they had just done according to Brother Tian's instructions. Ding Qi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the scene was okay, everyone didn't hug all of them, and even many curious children were pulled by adults. Ding Qi sat in a sedan chair and began to visit the bazaar, with the marshal leading the way in front, Ding Qi pointing in which direction to go, and the military advisor and Sima following on both sides.

Everywhere they went, everyone consciously withdrew four feet away, and although they did not kneel, they also bowed and saluted. Seeing this posture, Ding Qi simply ordered the palanquin man to stay away from those trading stalls and not to hinder everyone from doing things. The small market sells mostly the products of each family, as well as handicrafts and daily utensils.

Ding Qi found that the goods here are actually very rich in a sense, especially the bamboo weaving process is very developed. All kinds of bamboo-woven daily utensils such as baskets, baskets, flats, tubes, bowls, cups, chairs, stools, hats, umbrellas...... There is everything, and a lot of beautiful decorative patterns are braided, and each piece is exquisite.

There are also many bamboo ornaments, carved or braided, made into various animal or human figures, as well as children's toys, which shows that bamboo is a very important material here.

According to the Chronicles of the Heavenly Kingdom, there are a total of 13 species of bamboo, each with different forms and uses. Bamboo is better obtained than wood, as long as a bamboo forest is limited to a certain amount of felling, there will be bamboo production every year, and bamboo shoots are edible, and the delicate branches and leaves can also raise bamboo rats.

Ding Qi saw the bamboo rat, that is, the "pig" here, after a long period of artificial breeding, it is very large, like a little piglet, and one is estimated to weigh more than ten catties. The bazaar sells bamboo rat meat, bamboo rat skin and bamboo rat oil, among which oil is the most expensive.

There are two ways to buy and sell here, barter and currency, and if the two sides happen to be able to exchange things that can be exchanged for the most convenient, otherwise they are bought with gold coins. Interestingly, bamboo eggs also have some kind of monetary function, and many people exchange bamboo eggs for things, such as Ding Qi saw someone buy two tubes of cherry paste with a small blue bamboo egg.

There are also people here who make cherry paste, which is not made into translucent solid lactose like Tinzi, but boiled into a paste and sold. Solid sugar is also available, hawthorn candy, and even sugar gourds in the bazaar. There are actually kang potatoes sold in the market, kang potatoes are actually roasted sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes are very cheap here, mainly because the roasting work is valuable.

The most crowded stalls are those selling tofu, as well as dried tofu and tofu skins. Sweet potatoes, rice, wheat, soybeans, sunflowers, pumpkins, and watermelons should be the species brought in from the outside, and it is impossible for an army of tens of thousands of people to be without grain and grass, and grain and grass are also seeds, and all kinds of melon seeds may be snacks brought by some people.

The total population of the entire kingdom of heaven was more than 4,300 people, and the population of the eastern camp was 726. Today, because of the arrival of Brother Tian, everyone came, even the baby in swaddling clothes was carried by adults to the main shrine of Dongdaying, and the other three village communities were completely empty. While Ding Qi and the others were visiting, residents of the other three villages were coming one after another.

With such a small population, it is amazing to have such a large variety of products. According to Ding Qi's own eyes, the life of the residents here is much more comfortable than that of his hometown mountain village outside.