Chapter 5 Food, clothing, shelter and transportation

"Fang Nan, Fang Nan, we're here."

"Fang Nan, we want to hear your story."

Just after breakfast, a child came to find Fang Nan to listen to his story, although Fang Nan is already the owner of the village, but the other people in the cottage call Fang Nan the same as before, Fang Nan, the owner of the village, is not important to Qingshan Village.

Children still like to listen to stories very much, they used to listen to the old people tell stories, basically some myths and legends, Nuwa made people, Hou Yi shot the sun, the cowherd and the weaver girl, etc., these myths and legends are passed down by word of mouth by the common people, and in the future, these children who listen to stories will grow up and will tell these myths and legends for their children and grandchildren.

There are many myths and legends, but for ordinary people, there are not many myths and legends to know, children are tired of listening to it quietly a few times, and restore the lively nature of children.

Now Fang Nan brings the story of another world, at first Fang Nan is not very good at telling stories, but as long as the scene of the modern technology world is depicted, the children will sit around Fang Nan and listen carefully to Fang Nan's words, and soon, Fang Nan's level of storytelling has also improved, and the children are even more interested in listening.

"In that world, everyone can eat enough, even if there is a famine, no one will starve to death, and the people are divided into poor and rich, but the poorest and poorest people live many times better than our Qingshanzhai, they can eat meat every day, and they can even buy a new piece of clothing every day, and the children of poor families can also afford snacks......"

"Fang Nan, what is a snack?" A child asked.

"Snacks are food like meals, but meals are eaten at breakfast and dinner, snacks can be eaten at any time, the range of snacks is very large, pastries are snacks, fruits are snacks, sugar is snacks, as long as it is a delicious food that is not necessary to eat at meal time, it can be counted as a snack."

Hearing Fang Nan's words, the corners of the children's mouths drooled, living in the mountains, the things that the children could eat would not be much less than the other children living in the city in this era, but the children in the city ate handmade foods such as pastries and rock sugar gourds, while the children in the mountains mainly ate all kinds of wild fruits, bird eggs and so on.

But compared with the children in the modern world, the children of Qingshanzhai are too far and far away, and the children of Qingshanzhai can't imagine that the children of another world can choose their favorite snacks from thousands of snacks to eat, and how they wish they could also live in the beautiful world depicted by Fang Nan.

"The houses in that world are so tall and big, ordinary houses are dozens of zhang high, and there are houses hundreds of zhang high, for example, Da Niu, your family lives on the lowest floor, then Ergouzi's family can live above Da Niu's house, and Ali's family can also live above Ergouzi's house."

Fang Nan said while using a small stool that the children were sitting on to demonstrate, a small stool represents the first floor of the building, and it is enough to build three or four to represent it.

"Fang Nan, the people of that world live in tall houses, how do they live, cook and eat?" Another child asked.

"Life cooking, people in that world don't need to burn firewood and grass to cook, they can burn something called 'natural gas' to cook, and they don't even need to burn things and don't need to light a fire to cook, it's very magical."

"And what is natural gas?"

"I can't explain this to you, you just think of it as something that can be burned by lighting a fire like firewood and grass, maybe you will be able to get access to natural gas in the future."

Fang Nan painted a scene of another world to the children, the main content is clothing, food, housing and transportation, clothing, food, housing and transportation are the content that everyone has to come into contact with, and it is closely related to people, whether it is modern or the Ming Dynasty in which Fang Nan is now.

For example, the people in Qingshanzhai want to have a house that can shelter them from the wind and rain, and they can wear clothes to cover their bodies, so that they can eat enough every day.

As for travel, most people in Qingshanzhai do not have the idea of leaving the mountains to go to the outside world, so travel is not important, but if you can get cattle and horses, the people of Qingshanzhai will definitely be happy to crack their mouths, cattle and horses are not used for riding, but for pulling plows or carts to transport things.

The children listened to Fang Nan's story with relish, and when they returned home, they would also tell their parents what Fang Nan had talked about today.

At the beginning, the adults didn't care, thinking that Fang Nan was talking nonsense, meaning that those stories were all made up by Fang Nan, after all, Fang Nan was in the Qingshan Village, and he had never left the Qingshan Village to go to the outside world, how could he say those magical things, the only possibility was that Fang Nan was making it up.

The children said that adults just listen, just listen to fun to pass the time, adults also like to listen to stories, otherwise there will be such "professions" as storytelling and singing, of course, the main reason is that there are too few entertainment methods in this era.

If it weren't for the adults being embarrassed to sit with the children, maybe some adults would be sitting next to Fang Nan listening to Fang Nan's story.

After a few days, the adults felt that something was wrong, Fang Nan depicted more and more things, this is not a word that a child can make up, could it be that Fang Nan was really taken to another world by the old village owner to live in another world for thirty years during the three days he was in a coma?

Some people believe Fang Nan's explanation, and many more don't.

Another few days passed, and as Fang Nan revealed more things, there were more and more people who believed that "Fang Nan was brought to another world by the old village owner to live for thirty years".

One of the most important is that "Fang Nan can write", can write, can read and write, this is a reader, there is no one who knows a few words in Qingshan Village, and he can't even write a few words of his name.

The old people in Qingshan Village are the most knowledgeable about the status of readers, and those who are illiterate are born with a status lower than that of readers.

Who doesn't want to have a scholar in the family, even if he can't pass the Xiucai exam, as long as he can read and write, he can earn more money than tenants, poor peasants, and small peasant families.

But it is very difficult for a family to produce a scholar, and even a middle-class peasant family has to sell some land to provide for a child to read and write.

Most of the people who were born and raised in Qingshanzhai have never been to the outside world, and it is useless to read and write in Qingshanzhai, so they cannot recognize the status of scholars.

Nonsense is no longer nonsense, Fang Nan was really taken to another world by the old village owner to live for thirty years, and several old people even thought that it was where the gods lived.

For a while, Fang Nan's status in Qingshan Village continued to increase, and adults basically stopped treating Fang Nan as a child.

It wasn't until the sixteenth day that Fang Nan woke up that Fang Nan found a few village elders and told them that he wanted to teach the children in the village to read and write.