Chapter 1015 A Room Full of Snowflakes

Now, Su Shi, who "picked up all the cold branches and refused to live", fell asleep "lonely", the furniture in the room was poor, a room of women, and the children were not big, obviously it was not the time to stay guests, the place to stay guests, the students put the goods, and Zhao Xing had to return to Huangzhou City.

The next day, Cheng Xia brought his classmates to the morning ceremony, and seeing that Zhao Xing was still in a daze, Cheng Xia made a gesture: "Teacher, should we go to the government office or go to the Bachelor's Snow Hall first, or study at home?" ”

"The government? …… Let's wait for the afternoon, Xu Zhizhou asked us to do it in the afternoon, where is the bachelor...... Let's wait until we come back from the street. Let's go, let's find out where the chalk and gray stone are first", Zhao Xing blinked his eyes and made a decision.

At this time, Huangzhou was still a simple small county town, and the market was not large, so Zhao Xing asked several shops in a row, but no one knew what the "white gray face" he was talking about was. But since Su Dongpo can find lime here, there must be something for sale on the market. Zhao Xing refused to stop and continued to wander the streets, thinking as he walked.

Lime is not a painting pigment, it can't be a painting pigment, now, all the calligraphy and painting shops have been shopped, Zhao Xing is looking for them one by one along the shop surface, no matter what goods the other party sells, he will go in and ask...... Finally, in a cloth shop, Zhao Xing obtained a vague message.

"Is the customer asking for 'white ash powder'? There are two kinds of white ash powder in the small shop, one is used to vomit numbness, and the other is used to bleach, which kind of customer needs? The old courtier in the cloth shop asked Zhao Xing rhetorically.

There are two kinds of white ash powder?

"I want both, two catties for each", Zhao Xing replied without hesitation.

The old worshipper looked at Zhao Xing in surprise, as if he wanted to say something, but he immediately suppressed his impulse, without saying a word, and instructed the man to meet the guest's requirements - 4 catties of ash powder, a total of one penny, and the old courtroom also gave Zhao Xing two cloth bags.

The impatient Zhao Xing ignored the white eyes of the shop guy, he returned to his residence with the cloth bag, and immediately closed the door to check the two "white ash powders". This thing is not complicated, it is common in modern life, and after a simple identification, he confirmed: one of them is alkaline surface, and the other is lime.

That is to say, the people of the Song Dynasty bleached raw silk with alkaline noodles; Repeatedly soak in lime and bleach the raw hemp. How much hemp can be soaked in two catties of lime? It's no wonder that the old courtier wants to stop talking - such a small amount is probably the smallest business in the store.

Both of these are bases. The people of the Song Dynasty actually knew that the properties of these two alkalis were different and they were used in different industries, which could not help but make Zhao Xing admire.

What is even more admirable is Su Dongpo, this person is really a very jumping person, he can use bleaching hemp drugs as pigments to paint white snowflakes on the wall, this extraordinary jumping thinking, is amazing.

Others don't know, but Zhao Xing knows how useful the two alkalis are. Especially alkaline noodles, with which there is a modern industry.

Looking at the white powder on the table, Zhao Xing faintly felt that he had caught something, he closed his eyes and pondered, his mind was in turmoil.

In fact, he didn't know that "China's first lime kiln" was near Huangzhou, and its kiln opening time was just the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the application of alkaline noodles made the silk weaving industry of the Song Dynasty reach the peak of Chinese civilization. And this kind of silk bleached by the soil method, after a thousand years, is still brightly colored.

In thought, time flies. After a while, it was nearly afternoon. Cheng Xia knocked on the door softly and reminded in a low voice: "Teacher, let's eat." We're going to the government office. ”

Zhao Xing's thinking was interrupted.

According to the agreement, Zhao Xing went to Xu Zhizhou's mansion first, and made a few rolls in advance under Xu Zhizhou's "care...... In fact, Zhao Xing knew in his heart that these test papers might be - no, they must be this year's solution test questions.

But these are no longer important, Zhao Xing perfunctorily coped with the test papers, left enough wine for Xu Zhizhou, and completed the naturalization and entry procedures of Cheng Jiaao at the government office, and immediately led the students to the "snow house" by the river.

Today, there is more than one group of guests in the igloo...... It is said that Su Dongpo is usually full of friends, but when he lived in Changzhou, he was cold, but today the situation is not right, and it seems that there are still people who give gifts to him.

When Su Mai saw Zhao Xing, he said hello calmly, and didn't care whether he followed or not, and just buried his head in the courtyard. At this time, several chamber men were still moving things into the courtyard - four large bamboo baskets, which seemed to be very heavy, and the two chamber men were struggling to carry them. Zhao Xing stopped at the gate of the courtyard, and immediately picked up a basket and walked in without seeing it, exclaiming as he walked: "It's so heavy, I'm afraid there are 50 kilograms in one basket." ”

Kilogram, not the word of this era. But everyone was busy and no one was paying attention.

It was very quiet in the snow house, Su Dongpo was writing poems, and a person dressed as a master was standing next to him, as if waiting for Su Dongpo to reply. Mrs. Wang was dressed up very neatly today, she was also standing at the table, and naturally nodded to Zhao Xing, which was regarded as a hello, and then lowered her head and continued to polish the ink quietly.

When Su Dongpo was writing poems, his expression was focused, he didn't pay attention to Zhao Xing's arrival, Zhao Xing didn't dare to alarm him, he slowly rubbed to the table out of sight, and looked sideways at this great writer writing poems.

Su Dongpo's writing is rich and up-and-down, and he has unique experience in using ink. Although it is very intentional, it is innocent and does not show any traces. Perhaps it is precisely because his writing has abandoned all the previous rules and regulations and is ingenious, so later generations have called him "the first of the four great calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty".

What he wrote - "The cold official portal day is depressed,

The old music book is half lonely.

Only Taiyuan Zhang County Order,

Grapes are sent every year. ”

After the poem "Xie Zhang Taiyuan Sends Wine" was written, Su Shi handed it to the master and said: "Go back and thank Zhang Taiyuan for me, saying that I Su Zizhan confessed my feelings." ”

"Oshi" seems to be the name of the master class in the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty did not have a "master" system, only "curtain friends". "Master" has only become popular since the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, the imperial court imposed stricter restrictions on the shogunate system, and the employment was changed from self-establishment to central appointment, and a large number of shogunate positions were incorporated into the main officials, so they became small officials such as "charge secretary" and "head secretary".

The silver of the moon is about 2 taels to 225 coins of silver, plus "one liter of rice per day (ten liters in the Song Dynasty is equal to one bucket, ten buckets is one stone, one stone is about 59.2 kilograms, and one liter of four is equivalent to 828 grams of rice)". From November to the first month of winter, the whole family will add 5 yuan per person per day, and the child will be halved - the latter two are not hard and moratory, and it is up to the chief official to give it or not.

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