Chapter 14 Small achievements get a little name
The black husband's family has a grudge with Li Zheng, which has to start from seven years ago, when his eldest brother married a woman from a neighboring village that Li Zheng's son fancied......
However, now is not the time to worry about the family, the two of them didn't eat in the morning, they were hungry for most of the day, and they were already hungry in their stomachs, after walking through a crossroads, Ji Ying's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the front and said: "The restaurant has arrived!" ”
Restaurant, is for pedestrians to eat and rest, Anlu County is the north-south traffic artery, vehicles and boats come and go frequently, although there are post stations and guest houses outside the city, but in the city, restaurants are also indispensable.
However, this restaurant is a little simple, with a thatched roof and white walls, only a cloth flag with the word "food" written on it hangs listlessly on the pole, and there are a few wooden tables in the store, which are not even painted, and the side of the table is a rough straw mat, and the inside is also deserted, and there are only five or six people eating.
"During the Chinese New Year, everyone has returned home to reunite, and only the servants and merchants who really can't help it will make do here......"
Ji Ying was still angry, he had served in Anlu County twice, and he was more familiar with this place, so he invited Heifu to go into the restaurant, kneel on the straw mat near the door, pat the wooden case, and shouted: "Shopkeeper, can there be a millet man?" ”
The owner of this restaurant was a middle-aged man with a turmeric complexion, and when he heard the shouting, he came slowly.
Because of the special national conditions of the Qin State, whether it is a reverse travel or a restaurant, the two major industries of food and accommodation are arranged by the government, so the enthusiasm of the shopkeeper to greet guests is not high, just like the public hotel during the Cultural and Revolutionary periods, which waiter have you ever seen who will make money for the public with a smile on his face?
Seeing that Ji Ying was just a small sergeant, and Heifu was just a mere servant, the shopkeeper suddenly showed contempt on his face, and said coldly: "There is a small soldier, but the price is ......."
He looked the two of them up and down, meaning something, watching them wear brown clothes and step on straw sandals, not like rich people, don't come to cheat and cheat.
Ji Ying is waiting for him to ask! immediately laughed: "What, are you still afraid that we won't give money after eating?" As he spoke, he opened the blanket in his hand and slapped a large handful of strings of half taels on the case! Crackling!
The shopkeeper was slightly surprised when he saw that the money was worth thousands of yuan, and said with a suspicious face: "Where did you get this money?" "If Ji Ying is stubborn, he is already planning to report to the official to accuse him of adultery!
"Don't worry, the shopkeeper is right!"
Ji Ying stood up and said loudly: "We captured the thief, and we just received the reward in the official temple!" ”
He deliberately shouted it, as if he wanted the diners in the restaurant to hear.
Sure enough, the few customers in the store all looked at this side when they heard the words, and began to point fingers at the two.
The shopkeeper was a little surprised, and looked the thin monkey-like Ji Ying up and down: "Aren't you the black man who uses one enemy to three and captures the thief?" ”
It's all out there?
Ji Ying hurriedly shook his head, pointed at Heifu and said, "How can I have this ability, Heifu is this public servant!" ”
The shopkeeper was amazed and said to Heifu: "In the past few days, this matter has been circulating inside and outside Anlu County, saying that you are eight feet tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, subduing thieves with your bare hands, like capturing a three-year-old baby, and you don't want to see a strong man today, you are really strong and good-looking!" ”
"What a strong man!"
Several diners in the restaurant also clapped their hands, and Heifu had to smile awkwardly and salute and thank them.
"I just did what I had to do, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."
"You can't say that." The shopkeeper suddenly became enthusiastic, and said with a smile: "We Qin people, the most advocating meritorious service, the two of you wait for a while, I will personally cook, make the millet and add more meat, to feast on the warriors!" ”
The shopkeeper caught Heifu off guard, and it was not because of his newly acquired title of public servant, but because of his heartfelt admiration.
But it's right to think about it, the people of this era have great admiration for the warriors, not to mention the chivalrous assassins revered by the world such as Yu Rang and Nie Zheng, let's just say that in Anlu County, the young people worship the most is a "tiger fighting hero" in Yunmengxiang, who is famous in the county because he shot a tiger in the mountains and forests.
Thinking about it this way, it is also a miracle that he captured three thieves by himself and grabbed the white blade empty-handed, and it can indeed make the people in the county talk about it for a long time.
Ji Ying smiled at Heifu, that means nothing more than that, how about brother, I helped you become famous......
Heifu shook his head helplessly, in fact, he also understood that people in this era, regardless of status, pursue nothing more than two things in life, one is wealth and the other is fame. In the eyes of rural farmers like Ji Ying, if you have fame, you have to speak out and enjoy the feeling of being looked down upon and praised.
But today's Heifu, who only makes small contributions and has a small reputation, can boast in this small county, but can be placed in the context of the entire era of "six kings, one from all over the world", is it a fart?
He has different visions from Ji Ying and others, and his thoughts are naturally different.
While waiting for the food, Heifu had been pondering what "黍臛" was, and he was embarrassed to ask, for fear of making another joke about not knowing that the first day of October was the New Year, and he could only take it literally.
After the millet is peeled, the northerners call it yellow rice, or soft rice; 臛, is meat soup. It should be a meat porridge made of yellow rice mixed with meat.
After the things were served, sure enough, the shopkeeper did not break his promise, and a lot of fatty pieces of meat were added to the steaming meat porridge, which greatly increased Ji Ying's appetite, but Heifu shook his head after tasting it.
He was accustomed to eating all kinds of delicacies in later generations, and the rough food of this era always felt tasteless. And in this meat porridge, there was a suspicious piece of meat that I didn't know whether it was pork or dog meat, and there was a fishy smell, which made him almost nauseous. It's just to satisfy their stomachs, and in order not to embarrass the shopkeeper who is watching them eagerly, they have to take small bites and praise the deliciousness......
After returning to this era, the most difficult thing for Hefu to adapt to is not only the language and writing, but also three points.
One is that there is no underwear under the crotch, and the wind blows the ass and the farts are cold, and when you sit with your legs crossed, the black murder weapon below will be accidentally exposed, not to mention how embarrassing it is, otherwise do you think, why do people in this era want to kneel with their legs together?
The second is that there are only one or two pieces of clothes all year round, and there is no way to change and wash them often, and after a long time, whether it is others or yourself, there is an unpleasant smell of sweat. You know, these days the productivity is low, clothes are not cheap, and when people die, they will even write better clothes as real estate in their suicide note......
Thirdly, that's what I eat.
"If only I could have a bowl of rice noodles or steamed buns."
Hafu thought so and licked his lips.
But he knew that this was just a fool's dream, although the mill had appeared in the north in this era, it didn't seem to have reached Nanjun, which was embarrassing. At present, the main way to remove chaff in the Qin State is to scoop, and there is also a kind of torture specially set up for criminal women, also called scooping, which has to be scooped all day and night, and you can imagine how tiring this work is.
"When I return home after serving the service, I have money and leisure, so I have to try to find something that can satisfy my appetite." Heifu didn't want anything else, just for his own temple.
Ji Ying was very satisfied, gobbling up the clay bowl, gulping down the millet and chewing the greasy fat. In this era, poverty limits everyone's imagination, and in the eyes of ordinary people, a prosperous life is to be able to eat fat meat (paste) and polished rice (liang).
Thinking about it this way, Heifu looked back at his more than 20 years of life in his previous life, although he was a dick, but in the Warring States Qin Dynasty, he was already a "child of anointing".
Of course, with meat, how can you have without wine?
Ji Ying sighed while eating: "It would be nice if there was millet wine, no crowds are allowed to drink on weekdays, in previous years, I only looked forward to the New Year's Day and the Wax Festival, and I could drink a little with the township party, but now it ......"
The wine that the Qin people drank during the New Year was also made from millet and was called millet wine. But as far as Heifu knows, the people don't have a chance to drink it on weekdays, because the Qin State is so strict that there is no one before or since!
Since the time of the Shang Dynasty, because of the waste of food in winemaking, the people are easy to be bold and make trouble after drinking, so the Qin State deliberately raised the price of wine ten times! It is equivalent to a heavy tax on tobacco and alcohol in later generations. In this way, in Anlu County, only officials or wealthy families can afford to drink.
Even restaurants are not allowed to sell alcohol, otherwise why do you think that wine shops and restaurants in other countries have become "restaurants" in Qin State? Quite simply, this place doesn't sell alcohol!
You may say, isn't it just rice wine? What's so hard about making your own brew?
However, Shang Ying had long considered this, and the Qin State clearly stipulated in the "Tian Law" that "the common people who live in the fields should not dare to drink alcohol, and the Tian Sifu and the Ministry Zuo strictly forbid them, and those who do not obey will be guilty!" ”
So the people want to drink a sip of wine can only be sneaky, for fear of being denounced, as for the lobby to drink in a crowd, only the first day of October and the two days of the wax festival are allowed, the New Year, it has to make people happy.
Heifu was not interested in the millet wine, which was as light as a drink, and smiled disapprovingly.
At this moment, he suddenly heard a pair of businessmen talking about things behind him.
"The people from Guanzhong said that the king has issued a message and sent troops to attack Yan!"
Hearing these key words, Heifu's ears couldn't help but prick up!
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PS: The correct answer in the previous chapter is A, according to my Daqin law, there is no reward for answering correctly, and the punishment for answering incorrectly will leave a word in the comment area.