Chapter 7 To Chang'an
Shi is a good child, he cherishes this opportunity to learn art very much, and he is busy with literature and art all day long, and he is comfortable serving literature and art.
When there is a patient, Wenyi first asks the stone to try to check the pulse, and then tells him what disease the patient has, and then asks the stone to prescribe a prescription, and he corrects it. Going up the mountain to collect medicine also allows the stones to distinguish various animals and plants.
After a few days, the rich man Wang wore a light scarlet official robe and happily brought gifts to see literature and art, and heard him say that His Majesty Li Yuan specially summoned him when he was in the last court, and personally named him the son of Chang'an County in front of hundreds of civil and military officials. Now he has also stopped usury and is ready to concentrate on being a lord. Literature and art gave him an opinion, since there is smallpox in Gaopo Village, and now there is a method of epidemic prevention, it is necessary to fence off the village and not allow outsiders to enter and exit casually, and then deliberately let the cattle be infected with smallpox, which is used to make cowpox powder, and then sell the prepared cowpox powder to those dignitaries, so that they can make money and make many nobles. When the rich man heard this, he was overjoyed, and this time he brought two carts of gifts, and now he was too light, so he sent his housekeeper back to prepare three carts of gifts. Then he took his leave. Literature and art are also happy, and the smallpox matter is over. Not only was the treasury full of gifts, but by the way, he also asked the rich man Wang to help him get a household registration, and now literature and art are finally the real Tang people. Silk, cloth and silk are given priority to the warehouse, and then the silver and copper coins are moved into the studio, it is now the third year of Wude, Li Yuan's Kaiyuan Tongbao has not been circulated in large quantities, and now the copper coins are inferior products of the Sui Dynasty, commonly known as "light money". There are too many impurities, and literature and art are ready to quietly melt them all and refine them into copper nuggets for storage.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the busy season of farming, so let the stones go home to farm. He is also going to help Uncle Bolt and experience the life of a farmer. He got up early in the morning, wearing a sleeveless linen shirt made by himself, navy blue cuffed trousers, stepping on a pair of mille-feuille bottoms, and tying a homemade cowhide belt around his waist. He drove the ox cart sent by the rich man to Uncle Bolt's house.
Uncle Bolt is preparing tools at home, hoes, shovels, plows... Wenyi looked at the nine-foot-long plough body in a daze, how could he turn around in the ground for such a long time? And the plowshare is still a straight triangle type, how deep can it plough the ground? Does this make for good crops?
Seeing that he looked at the plough with a strange expression, Uncle Bolt asked, "Xiaoyi, what's wrong?" Is there a problem with this plow? ”
Xiaoyi replied: "Uncle Bolt, can this plow be used?" ”
Uncle Bolt slapped him angrily: "What nonsense, the plow is like this, why can't it be used." ”
Literature and art were speechless, so he had to follow Uncle Bolt to the ground to take a look, he remembered that it was the Quyuan plow invented by the Tang Dynasty, and this kind of straight plow should have been eliminated a long time ago. Suddenly, Wenyi felt that he was really stupid, it was the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and Qu Yuanli had not yet been shadowed. Taking advantage of the fact that Uncle Bolt didn't pay attention, he hurriedly ordered Xiaomi to search for relevant information about Quyuan plow. He saw Uncle Bolt in the field with oxen pushing the plow hard, and could only plow the shallow layer, so he was anxious for him, so it is no wonder that his family's 20 acres of land were plowed, and only more than 20 stones of grain were collected a year, which was converted into more than 2,000 catties.
When I got home in the evening, Wenyi sorted out a complete design plan of Quyuan Plow. But he began to make trouble again, if the plough was given to the people near the village, it would inevitably make people suspicious, after all, the cowpox and the curved plow were epoch-making inventions, and if they were in the same place, they would definitely cause some people to speculate, and then they would invite unnecessary trouble to themselves. After thinking about it for a long time, Wenyi decided to wait for this spring ploughing to go to Chang'an City to see if he could find a destined person who lacked heart. After making up his mind, Wenyi happily took a bath and slept ......
After more than 20 days of hard work, all the 20 acres of land of Uncle Bolt's house were finally planted. The rough farming technology and the backwardness of the tools saw that the literature and art wanted to take out the Quyuan plow for them several times, and it took a long time to endure this impulse. After everything was dealt with, Wenyi instructed Shi to take care of his home, and then drove the ox cart to Chang'an City.
It is about 130 kilometers from Meixian to Chang'an City, that is, 260 miles, and it takes 4 days to reach Chang'an City at the speed of an ox cart for more than 80 miles a day. Literature and art are not in a hurry, this is the first time he has gone out in ancient times, stopping and stopping along the way, looking at the scenery and catching rabbits. At night, I went into the foot house to accommodate for a night, drinking milk tea made by myself, eating game, and having a good time.
More than 100 miles away from Chang'an, Wenyi was walking into a wood, and suddenly a person jumped out of the jungle on the side of the road. Wenyi was startled, and reflexively prepared to pull out the revolver he made. At first glance, it turned out to be an eight or nine-year-old girl, with red lips and white teeth, a pair of big eyes and bright eyes looking at literature and art, and combing 2 bags on her head, wearing a blue dress, looking very cute. looked at Wenyi and said with a smile: "Someone is going to arrest me in a while, you are not allowed to tell them that they have seen me!" With that, he prepared to run.
If it is in modern society, literature and art will definitely not be nosy, and the little girl will not be in danger no matter where she goes. But now it is ancient times, and the Tang Dynasty has been decided, and there are many rogues, looking at the look of this little girl, you know that chasing her is definitely not a bad person, if he doesn't care about her, wouldn't it be very dangerous to let her run around in case she is touched by gangsters. So Wenyi hurriedly jumped off the ox cart and dragged the little girl a few steps forward and said: "Girl, you can't be willful, what if you meet a bad guy in the wilderness here?" Stay here with me until your family comes to you. ”
The little girl struggled to get rid of literature and art, but the little person couldn't earn literature and art, and was pulled back to the oxcart by the arm of literature and art. The little girl's eyes turned red and said, "You're a bad person!" I managed to get out, you're nosy, it's disgusting! ”
Wenyi also patiently said to her: "Girl, this world is still very chaotic, you are too dangerous like this, you can't be willful, it's too late for you to regret it if something happens." I also care about you, don't be angry, you can't run away, come, try the milk tea I made, it's delicious. "Literature and art have come up with the big killer weapon "food temptation" to deal with girls.
The little girl struggled a few times without success, so she had to give up the idea of escaping, and took the cup handed over by Wenyi angrily, and saw that there was a cup of brown drink in it, which smelled milky, and couldn't help but taste it, and her big eyes immediately flashed with a trace of joy. drank all the milk tea in three or two sips, held the cup and said to Wenyi: "I still want it!" ”
Wenyi smiled and gave her another cup, and when she saw that she didn't run away, she asked, "Girl, what's your name?" Why did you run out alone? ”
The girl twisted her head away while drinking milk tea, her little nose wrinkled, and she "hummed" and ignored literature and art. Wenyi was not angry, so the two of them sat on the ox cart and didn't speak, the girl raised her cup from time to time, and Wenyi also tacitly poured milk tea for her. Just when the little girl drank half of the gourd milk tea of literature and art, a noisy sound sounded in the woods, and three big men in leather armor rushed out on horseback. Seeing the little girl and Wenyi, she hurriedly dismounted and walked over.
Seeing the little girl's expression, Wenyi knew that it should be from her family, so he took the initiative to salute and said: "Brothers, when I passed by this time, I saw this little girl suddenly running out of the forest, and I was afraid that something would happen to her, so I stopped her, did you come to find her?" ”
The man at the head bowed his hand in return: "Thank you, little brother, I am here to find my young lady." He saluted the little girl again: "Miss, the head of the family is very anxious to know that you ran away, and now everyone is looking for you, please go back with the lowly lady." ”
The little girl shook her head like a rattle, and said, "If you don't go back, my uncle treats me so strictly, so I won't go back." ”
Literature and art saw that the man was very respectful to the little girl, so he guessed that the little girl must have been born in a wealthy family and should be an official eunuch's family. The little girl said that she wouldn't go back, but the man didn't dare to use force, so he could only persuade there. couldn't stand it anymore, so he said to the man: "Big brother, why don't you just take this girl back directly, why are you such a mother-in-law?" ”
The man said shyly: "How can I be rude to the young lady if I am a general?" ”
Wen Yile said: "Big brother, you are a general, I'm not, you tell me where to take her, and I'll help you bring her over." ”
The girl was anxious when she heard this, and shouted: "Bad guy, big bad guy, you don't let me run, you have to arrest me back, I must make you look good!" Qin Wu, arrest him for me! ”
The man was embarrassed, in a dilemma, and suddenly sweated profusely. Wenyi smiled and said, "Brother Qin, since you are embarrassed, then I am still waiting here, you leave the two of them here to guard, you hurry back and call the person who can control her." ”
Qin Wuyi thought about it, so he bowed his hand to Wenyi, left the two guards behind, ignored the girl's shouts, and rode back to move the rescuers.
Wen Yile looked at the little girl sulking, and it was okay left and right, so she told the girl the story of Cinderella, the girl was still pouting, and when she listened to it, she recovered the little girl's coquettishness, and she was happy to listen to it, and she had to interject two sentences from time to time.
In this way, after another half an hour, Qin Wu finally came back, followed by a young man in a black power suit, sword eyebrows, starry eyes, and a Chinese face, probably in his twenties. Seeing the girl sitting in the car very happily, she stepped forward and said, "Shu'er, don't come down yet, you're naughty all day long, this time it will frighten your uncle." ”
nodded towards Wenyi with a smile, and arched his hand: "Thank you little brother for your help, Li has thanked you here." ”
Literature and art hurriedly returned the salute: "The effort of raising your hands is not enough to worry about." ”
The young man said, "If it weren't for the little brother who stopped Shu'er, if something happened to her, how would I face her deceased father!" As he spoke, he took off a piece engraved with "Qin" on his waist and handed it to the hands of literature and art, and then said: "Little brother, if there is any difficulty in the future, I will come to Chang'an with this jade pendant to find me." ”
Wenyi's heart moved, and he arched his hand and said: "The kid thanked Mr. first, I don't know if Mr. is His Royal Highness the King of Qin?" ”
King Qin smiled and nodded: "Yes, it is this king, how do you call the little brother?" ”
Wenyi replied respectfully: "The boy's surname is Wen, a single name art, I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Qin!" ”
King Qin smiled and helped him up: "No need to be polite, this is not a place to talk, wait a few days for the little brother to come to the house to sit down, and we will talk in detail then." ”
Wenyi nodded and said, "Follow King Qin's arrangement!" ”
Li Shimin, the king of Qin, took the little girl into his arms, nodded to Wenyi and was about to leave. The little girl suddenly stretched out her little hand and shouted at Wenyi: "Bad guy, pay me your gourd!" Wenyi was not stingy when he heard this, handed over the gourd, saluted Li Shimin, and then got on the ox cart and drove to Chang'an.