Chapter 20: Tearful Parting
Chen Yi told the villagers about the method of pan clay kang, Chen family village set off a pan kang movement, every household according to Chen Yi told them the method, are in full swing of their own kang, just say not to practice the fake style, in actual operation, all kinds of big and small problems constantly, there is more water when there is fire mud, there is a kang plate up because there are gaps, leaking smoke to the house, anyway, there are all kinds of strange things, only you can't think of things, there is no villager can not do things.
In the past few days, Chenyi Dog Egg and Aquatic have to go out early every morning to help deal with problems from door to door, but they are tired, and when Chen Yi walks on the road, there will be villagers who greet them warmly.
Three days later, every family in the village has prepared the kang of the soil, the Goudan family is the first to sleep on the hot kang, the rest of the people are late, every day a large group of villagers, by visiting the father of the dog, sit on the hot kang buttocks, do not move.
The dog's father's illness has also improved greatly, Chen Yi wipes the wound every day, and sees that the wound is getting better day by day, the wound has scabbed, and at noon when the sun is right, Chen Yi will let the dog's father go around the yard for a while and bask in the sun. Exercise a little.
On the second day after the operation of the dog's father, the aquatic father planned to transport the black blind man to the town and sell it, exchange it for silver taels, and then distribute it to his hunting partners, and the aquatic also went to the town, before leaving, he specially ran to ask Chen Yi if he was still grabbing a few pieces of medicine for the dog's father, and he also inadvertently told Chen Yi the news.
When Chen Yi was inspecting the wound of his father, when he saw the black blind man in the corner of the yard, he already had the idea of wanting to buy it, and he had the urge to take it for himself, fantasizing that he would wear a warm bearskin coat in the cold winter, which was called a handsome man.
After Chen Yi heard the news, he took Shui Sheng and ran to Shui Sheng's house, and after feeling the courtyard, Shui Sheng told his father that Brother Chen Yi wanted to buy the black blind man.
Hunting a black blind man in ancient times was difficult and often fetched a high price.
"Since it's Brother Chenyi who wants to buy it, what do you think of 70 taels, everyone, the father of the dog will take 20 taels, and we will divide the rest equally between each of the 10 taels."
"As you say, binary and I agree." Da Yuan glanced at the two yuan and said to the aquatic father.
"We don't have a problem either." Xiao Liu and Xiao Ran also readily agreed. If there was no dog father this time, they would have to say whether they would be able to return to Chenjia Village alive. Thinking that the dog's father was in danger and was seriously injured for this, he was very upset, and as for the dog's father to take an extra ten taels of silver, everyone had no objection at all.
In the Yuan Dynasty, one tael of silver could buy two stones of rice of general quality, and one stone at that time was about 94.4 kilograms, and one tael of silver could buy 188.8 kilograms of rice, which was 377.6 catties. At present, the average family in China eats rice between 1.5 yuan and 2 yuan per catty, and the median price is 1.75 yuan, which can be calculated as one tael of silver in the Ming Dynasty = 660.8 yuan. (One tael of silver = 1,000 copper plates).
Chen Yi knew that in ancient times, this money seemed like a lot, but not every time he went out hunting, he could have such good luck, and he might not be able to hit anything next time he went out, and he might lose his life, and the life of ordinary people in ancient times was still very hard.
took out the beautifully crafted purse given to him by Boss Su from his arms, took out a silver ticket of 100 taels from it, and handed it to Shui Sheng's father.
"Brother Chenyi, you give 100 taels, we won't have any money to find you for a while, you see it's okay. Wait for a few of us to go to the small town money bank to exchange cash, and I'll be looking for you when the time comes. "Although the aquatic father was hunting, he had never seen a silver ticket. During the Great Yuan period, the "Great Yuan Bao Banknotes" issued by Yuan Taizu during the Great Yuan Dynasty used leather paper as the banknote material, and the official bills issued by the household department were divided into one tael, three taels, five taels, ten taels, fifty taels and one hundred taels in silver taels. The top of the middle of the ticket is written in two languages: full and Chinese; Official Ticket of the Ministry of Households; Four words. Chinese book; Quasi-two taels of flat foot color silver one tael; There is a note script below the face of the ticket; Anyone who is willing to exchange the official ticket for silver money will be allowed to hand over the official ticket in accordance with the regulations of the ministry, and those who forges it will be punished according to the law. On the back of the official ticket of the household department, the pledge is signed in turn in the market circulation. Silver paper such as: the Yuan Dynasty used "楥皮" Sichuan paper specifically for printing money, and private procurement was not allowed. The complex pattern is composed of "house wood figures", and the outer pattern is framed. The graphics are complex, and counterfeiters are not easy to imitate. In addition, "auxiliary household charges, their own secret inscriptions, first ink knots" is an effective means of anti-counterfeiting, multi-color overprinting, "silver ticket" printing, for safety and anti-counterfeiting, has begun to use red, blue, black and other colors, set of printed patterns and official seals. Due to the relative lack of technology, the government attaches great importance to it, and also sets up professionals in the private sector, and a large number of manual certifications of authenticity. and legislation punishing the death penalty for counterfeiting. Banknotes of the Yuan Dynasty can be seen with the words "Counterfeiter shall be executed (beheaded)". Therefore, there were almost no counterfeit banknotes on the market in the Yuan Dynasty, so Shui Sheng's father and the others would not suspect that Chen Yi was deceiving them with a fake silver ticket.
"Don't look for me anymore, I still have to trouble a few of you to separate the skin of the black blind man and help me separate it, I only need the bear skin, and the rest of the meat, you can give the village a name." After the father of the dog takes 25 taels, the rest of you will have 15 taels each. "The aquatic father did not shirk either, after all, it is a fool's thing to do if you have money and not make it.
Shuisheng's father and the rest of the people are very grateful to Chenyi, and when skinning a bear, they are very careful, and according to Chenyi's request, the skin of a dog and bear is perfectly peeled off with almost no trauma. Shuisheng's father also specially left the bear whip for Chen Yi, and handed it to Chen Yi together, insisting that eating this is good for the body, after being known by the people in the village, when people look at him, there is always a sense of meaning in their eyes, and Chen Yi is uncomfortable when he looks at it. For this reason, Chen Yi was depressed for several days.
After getting the bear skin, with the help of aquatic and dog eggs, it was washed six or seven times, until there was no smell on the bear skin, Chen Yi stopped cleaning with satisfaction, so Chen Yi took care of the bear skin every day like his own child, after rising in the morning, he took it to the yard and took it back in the afternoon, and the time was unconscious, five days had passed.
Five days later, Chen Yi removed the stitches for the dog's father, and the dog's father's illness was finally completely cured, so the family celebrated a lot, and let the dogan buy it from the market, wine. Chicken, fish, this time Chen Yi personally cooked, made a dish called flower chicken and steamed fish, the dog egg family was deeply impressed by Chen Yi's cooking skills, after a wild sweep, the chicken and fish bones on the dinner table, Chen Yi understood that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and specially told the dog's mother about the practice of two dishes.
The next morning, the people in the village knew that Chen Yi and Goudan were leaving, so they all went to the entrance of the village to bid farewell to Chen Yi, and they all took out the best things to bid farewell to Chen Yi. There are hard-boiled eggs, there are hot cakes, and in the end I can't shirk it, Chen Yi took a few eggs, and three cakes, the dog's mother with tears, kept telling to take care of Chen Yi, to take care of yourself, to listen to Cheng Yi's words, otherwise don't recognize him as a mother in the future. Hu Niu hugged her brother and cried that her brother must come back to see her in the future, and he will buy a lot of things for himself when he comes back next time.
Looking at this group of simple and hospitable villagers, I felt very uncomfortable, and unconsciously Chen Yi liked it here, if it wasn't for the fulfillment of Xiaozhu's promise, not to find Xiaozhu, maybe he would live in this beautiful place.
"Father, mother, and children are gone, sister, you have to listen to your father and mother more in the future, and learn to take care of your mother." Dog Dan knelt down, kowtowed three times, got up, and stood behind Chenyi.
"Brother, I will be obedient, I will take care of my father and mother, brother, don't worry." Hu Niu stood next to her mother, took her mother's hands, and said in a choked voice.
"Uncles and aunts, big brothers and sisters, Chen Yi will say goodbye, I believe that today's separation is for a better reunion tomorrow, I will come back, farewell."
Turning around, Chen Yi seemed to walk away in style, but in fact, when he turned around, a crystal tear rolled down from his eyes.
The dog turned back step by step, and the figure of his family became farther and farther away from him, until he disappeared, dried his tears, and never looked back and set foot on the road to Luoyang with Chen Yi.