Mizhi County, Shaanxi.

The garrison mountain village in the south of Mizhi is not large, there are only 300 households, but it is still relatively famous in the local area, and it is said that Bai Qi once stationed troops here, so it was named.

The mountain village faces the Shajia River, a branch of the Wuding River, backed by Baiyu Mountain, the mountain is prolific in stone carbon clay, there is a post road to pass here, there is a post station, and several post stations will be raised

Although there is a great drought in Shaanxi, there are still large areas of watered fields on the platform of the river beach in the garrison mountain, and there are also production in previous years, but most of these are the industries of Zhang Laocai, a big household in the village, most of the people in the village rent Zhang Laocai's land for farming, only a few scattered pieces are still in the name of a few post soldiers, and when the year is good, you can also make a few buckets of wheat, and the intermittent post money and grain make a family not die.

But this year, it will not work, there will not be a single snow flake in the whole winter, the sky is cold and cold, and there is no rain in the spring, and the draft has to be carried to the Shajia River three miles away.

The Shajia River, which has to flood in previous years, has lost its temper this year, the river is three miles wide, and it has to rely on ferries in the past.

The weather is very dry, other mountains can not be planted, just count on the good water on this platform to water the ground can have some harvest, but the water level drops, the river surface from the platform has ten zhang high (and about 30 meters) The slope of the river embankment is steep and difficult to climb, and it is difficult to carry water to the field around a large part of the road, not to mention, it can only go back and forth three or two times a day, and when the water reaches the ground, a bucket of water will dry immediately, and it will not play any role at all, only the eyes are abandoned to go down.

At the beginning, Zhang Dahu called some long-term workers to help with idle work for a few days, but he didn't come up with a reason to see it, but he put in a few buckets of food and the food was not worth the loss, so he was deflated, sent everyone away, and waited for God's face.

Even Zhang Dahu is like this, and those who have few people and little land have no land, and they are reluctant to take out food and hire people to help water the land, so they can only watch and have no way.

It seems that this year's harvest cannot be counted on, and it is certain that it will be another famine year, and I don't know how many people will leave their homes and become displaced people and eventually starve to death in the ditch.

Zhang Laoshi's family is a craftsman in the military household, and the low status is not as good as even ordinary tenants, but inheriting the Taizu's reward to his ancestors at that time, there are more than 20 acres of thin fields at home, and other military fields have long been bullied and robbed by Haoqiang and officers.

Zhang Laoshi usually draws and apportions, serves the fields and properties of thousands of noble families in the county, does some miscellaneous labor, and leaves some effort, takes care of his own fields with stars and moons, and then builds some furniture and other things for the neighbors to subsidize the family, and barely raises four babies and his wife immortal.

However, the days are indeed getting more and more difficult, originally the military households do not pay for the land, but I don't remember when they slowly began to increase the levy, and in their own generation, the levy exceeded the regular tax by a lot, and the conscription also began to increase, and two-thirds of the year was spent dealing with these conscriptions, and the day was endless.

But the days were originally difficult to endure, but to catch up with these years of drought and no rain, the fields can only dry up there, seeing that it is already after the mango planting, and there are more than ten or twenty days without planting, it must be a dead harvest, how not to make Zhang Laoshi anxious and desperate?

Fortunately, Zhang Laoshi has craftsmanship after all, although he is low, but he needs to be tinkered with around and can earn some copper coins, but also this craftsmanship and character, and he made friends with Zhao Tou on the post station.

When Zhang was working hard for his family's food, Xiao San brought back a monk and made him very embarrassed.

The monk was tall and big, and he had to look up his face when he looked at it (ancient people were generally short in stature due to nutritional problems. A person like Lu Shi, who is 1.85 meters tall, is absolutely outstanding, like a camel in a flock. Zhang Laoshi couldn't help but cry out in his heart, and drove away, that was to offend the Buddha and Bodhisattva, but if he didn't drive away, he made his rice bowl really unbearable.

The four children did not know the suffering of the adults, and when they saw that San'er and the monk had brought back a fat pheasant, they thought that they would have a good tooth sacrifice at night, so they cheered and showed the pheasant to the old lady happily.

Mrs. Zhang Laoshi was also happy in her heart, after all, several of her boys had meat stars tonight, which was something that had not happened for a few years, but for the sake of the Buddha's vegetarian face, he still said sins again and again.

Lu Shi hurriedly smiled and said: "Sister-in-law, don't sin, I am also a monk who has eaten dog meat, the Buddha said, wine and meat through the heart of the Buddha, as long as there is a Buddha in the heart, it is the avenue." Since he was regarded as a monk, Lu Shi was also happy to pretend to be an identity, Lu Shi didn't want to deceive people, but he didn't want to break this matter either.

Zhang's honest mother-in-law was also plausible when she heard Lu Shi's Buddhist language, but the children had meat to eat, so they pretended to be deaf and dumb, and hurriedly put Lu Shi into the house, and then took her youngest daughter to cook and clean up the food.

In fact, Lu Shi knew that the fact that he was treated so favorably was related to the background of this era.

In the Ming Dynasty, the most popular profession was monk, because of the origin of Taizu Zhu Chongba, Buddhism has unconsciously become the belief of all dignitaries and people.

Officials and nobles are rarely allowed to give alms in the temple, and the people in the countryside ask God to ask divination and regard monks as living Buddhas in this world, which one dares to offend? It's too late to worship, let alone offend.

Since Lu Shi was called master by everyone with short hair, he was also happy to be confused.

Zhang Laoshi greeted Lu Shi to sit down politely, and there was a cliché without a sentence, but where to become a monk, where to be ordained, and why he did it here.

Although he was tempting to ask, he was still cautious and did not dare to offend the master in vain.

Who is Lu Shi? That's an out-and-out traverser, isn't it a simple old man who is holding a handle? What's more, such an honest person, so, in a fog, the ultimate goal is to be cheeky to eat and drink.

What the two were talking about was tasteless, and San'er took out Lu Shi's wooden longbow and excitedly showed off to his father: "Daddy, look at the master's bow and arrow, it's this simple, and it doesn't take much effort, and with a whoosh, he shot down the pheasant seventy steps away, which is stronger than the compound bow that you made for the official family for two years to become one." ”

Zhang Laoshi's face turned red, and he took a sip of his third son and said, "What do you know?" There are hundreds of means and skills to make a compound bow, and the materials are not casually available, they are extremely exquisite, and their power is not comparable to this stick when it is bent, hundreds of steps, laughing. The words saved Lu Shi's face.

When Lu Shi studied history, he knew that the craftsmen in the military households at this time were the most miserable, and as soon as they entered the craftsman's ranks, they went to hell.

Lu Shi remembered that it seemed that the artisan household system began in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty followed the artisan household system of the Yuan Dynasty.

In terms of legal status, these craftsmen and military craftsmen who are included in the special household register have a lower status than ordinary households, and they have to be inherited from generation to generation, and they are not allowed to divide their households in order to make up for it. It is extremely difficult for craftsmen and military members to break away from their original household registration, and they must be approved by the emperor.

Want the emperor to nod and get rid of a craftsman? You just dream about it.

At the same time, subordinate craftsmen and military members are not allowed to take the examination and rank among the non-commissioned officers. The labor of the shift craftsman is unpaid, and he has to be controlled and exploited by the head of the worker, and the craftsman will resist by means of sabotage, concealment, and escape.

San'er saw that his father didn't believe what he said, so he was unhappy at that time, and argued stubbornly with his little face: "If Daddy doesn't believe it, let me show you, and you will know whether the monk's brother's bow and arrow power is stronger than that Fuhe bow." ”

As he spoke, he dragged Zhang Laoshi out of the yard.

Zhang Honest hindered Lu Shi's presence here, and couldn't refute the monk's face, so he had to laugh and follow out of the house, but he also complained to Lu Shi who was following behind: "It's all childish, but the master can't be taken seriously." ”

Lu Shihaha smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay to let the child try." ”

In fact, Lu Shi shouldn't have been so flamboyant, he knew that his longbow would definitely convince an honest and simple old craftsman like Zhang Laoshi, but he didn't want to hurt people's moods, and he wanted to use this bow and arrow to lay the foundation for himself to eat and drink in Zhang's house, so he followed out of the house.

Eating enough to survive first, face to face second, what will happen in the future? It's all up to him.

Zhang Laoshi knew that if he wanted to hunt in 100 steps, he needed at least a strong bow of three stones, and with the strong body of this monk, it was not difficult to open a strong bow of three stones and launch it, but with this stick, he wanted to shoot a hundred steps with a belt? That's a joke.

Simple people also have the little cunning of simple people, their own family is already the last meal and the next meal, leaving a fake monk at home, that is, there is one more mouth against three mouths, and it is not immediately bankrupt? If the longbow trial fails this time, then the monk will have no face, and can only walk away in shame, which is better than wiping his face and leaving the exit.

Out of the courtyard, the three of them came to the foot of the mountain, outside the foot of the mountain, close to a hundred steps away, there was a broken arrow target, thinking that this is the place where Zhang Laoshi did the bow experiment.

At that time, Lu Shi smiled and picked up the bow and arrow, but San'er snatched it and said loudly: "Don't let the monk master do it, I'll show you it." ”

The two elder brothers laughed together and said that San'er has a small body, fifty steps? It's a stone bow that can only be shot, and a child is just a big fart, and it is still two to say that he can't open and pull it.

San'er didn't argue, asked for a long arrow from Lu Shi's waist, and puffed out his cheeks to prepare for the performance.

It's just that the bow grew up, and it was half the height of this kid's body, and after a while, he couldn't put the arrow in the middle, which caused the two brothers to laugh.

San'er was also stubborn, thought about it, and turned the longbow sideways, the bow was not sinking, so holding it also solved the problem, and then grinning and pulling the longbow open, aiming, and releasing the arrow.

With his strength, the arrow that was more than one meter long was only pulled halfway, and then let go when the strength was exhausted, and with a bow sound, the long arrow flew out like a meteor, and in the surprise of Zhang Laoshi and his two brothers, it hit the target.

"It is worthy of being born in a craftsman, this unique skill is definitely not comparable to my own two hundred and five, which really refers to which to fight." This was Lu Shi's surprise.

The surprise of the Zhang family's father and son was that their third son could easily get on the target in five steps at a young age, they knew that this was not the explosion of San'er's character, Yang Jian possessed the body, this was the power of the bow and arrow. If the craftsmanship is fine, it is definitely not a problem for an adult to wear Yang in 100 steps.

Zhang Laoshi immediately ceased to be honest, because he saw that the skills of this bow-maker, the monk, were extraordinary. Once you learn the art of making a longbow with such ability, it will be the food of your own family for generations.

At that time, he changed his lukewarm attitude and warmly invited Lu Shi back to the house, saying that even if he was bankrupt, he would support this skilled craftsman until he learned all the skills that were not in this world.

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