Seeing Cui Sheng ask about his son's studies, Cui Mazi seemed very excited, when he was in his hometown before, he never dreamed that his son would have to go to school one day, and he felt that his ancestral grave was already smoking.

"My son's studies are ordinary in the school, and the arithmetic is quite reluctant, and the scriptures are really unsuccessful, Brother Cui is here this time, and he will definitely help him make up for it when he has time!"

Cui Sheng sat cross-legged in front of the table, nodded, looked at a few dishes in front of him, and said with a smile: "I thought you would suffer outside, but I didn't expect your life to be good!" ”

"It's all ordinary dishes, and you'll be clear after a while in the valley", Cui Mazi had a smug smile on his face, and he said lightly in his mouth, but he knew very well in his heart that his current conditions could be compared with some big households outside, but he couldn't be happy when he compared with others in the valley.

"How about a taste of this wine?"

Cui Sheng looked at the small wine cup in front of him, which contained transparent wine syrup, and a spicy and pungent taste rushed to the top of his head, he forcibly took a sip, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he drank the wine cup in his hand and said: "Good wine!" ”

Cui Mazi smiled and helped Cui Sheng pour another full glass and said: "You can't drink such good wine anywhere else, there are many such wines here, this is a year of cellaring drunk three autumns, get a pot outside worth two or three thousand yuan, and have another glass?" ”

Although Cui Sheng is not a good drinker, such wine is indeed rare, and after drinking three glasses in a row, his face is already flushed.

"Is this wine really everywhere in the valley?"

"Of course, I can still lie to you!" Cui Mazi shook the wine jug in his hand proudly and said: "This kind of wine is not a good wine in the valley at all, you just came and didn't know, if you catch up with the Yuanri celebration in the valley early, even if it is a monkey wine that is hard to find, you can taste a cup, that is really good wine!" ”

Cui Sheng didn't believe Cui Mazi's words, but he couldn't believe that this place was extravagant to such an extent, it was already rare for him to be able to drink a hundred pieces of wine before, Cui Mazi actually drank two or three thousand yuan a pot of good wine, which made Cui Sheng wonder if he was dreaming.

When I thought of the soldiers I saw, three hundred pieces of chain mail that could be worn by ordinary soldiers, the royal roads that winded through the mountains, and the luxuriously decorated high-rise buildings, it seemed that two or three times and a pot of wine seemed to be unremarkable.

"It seems that Cui Qilang has a lot of good here!"

"That's a good fart!" Cui Mazi is the seventh in the family, and there are many brothers and sisters in the family who can't support him, so he has to come out and wander outside. Cui Mazi stuffed a piece of fried fish into his mouth, spit out a few fish bones and said: "You don't know, the most worthless thing in this valley is the craftsman, there are eight craftsmen in ten households, my craft is a fart here, otherwise I wouldn't have signed up to go to the Northland?" ”

"To the Northlands?" Cui Shengleng paused, and said with some uncertainty: "Are you going to the north, or to the frontier?" ”

"Neither!" Cui Mazi took a sip of wine and said, "Are you going to the land of Mobei?" ”

"The Land of the Desert North?"

"It's the land of Mobei", Cui Mazi sighed and said: "You just don't know, but it's useless to know, it's not easy to sign up to go to Mobei, you must have a family in the valley, and you have to live in the valley for at least three months, people who want to go to Mobei have broken their heads, and I finally won this opportunity this time?" ”

"Isn't the land of Mobei a land of bitter cold? Why are there still people vying to go? ”

Cui Mazi said triumphantly: "Who said that the land of Mobei is a bitter cold land, what is said in the book, or what you saw with your own eyes?" Hearsay is believed by a reader like you? ”

"The northern barbarians themselves said it, do you still doubt this?" Cui Sheng said without thinking: "Since ancient times, the north has been a place where barbarians gather, the climate is abnormal, thousands of miles of people are uninhabited, and in winter, it is even dripping into ice, otherwise the barbarians will not invade the Central Plains from time to time!" ”

"Barbarians!"

Cui Mazi's tears of laughter were about to stay, and when he found that Cui Sheng's face was not good, he couldn't help but say: "You also believe the words of a group of ignorant savages, even if the vast and rich Tang Dynasty is given to the barbarians, do you think they will govern the Central Plains well?" The valley lord said that no land in this world is barren, and the key is to see who lives on this land ......".

Cui Sheng opened his mouth to refute Cui Mazi, feeling that Cui Mazi's words were not rough, in addition to burning, killing and looting, the northern barbarians would also raise cattle and horses, and they could not talk about governing the country at all.

"It's always true that the weather in the north is cold!"

This time, Cui Mazi did not refute, but pointed to the earthen kang where the two of them were sitting cross-legged and said, "Have you seen this thing?" ”

"Isn't this the earthen kang?" Cui Sheng was halfway through his words, and suddenly found that he was a little wrong about what Cui Mazi meant: "This heated soil kang is really rare, and it is also a unique thing in the valley?" ”

Cui Mazi was even more proud, and continued to pour wine: "I understand this time, why do you always say that everything is inferior, only reading is high, there are really a lot of truths in this book, that is, craftsmen must also read and read, otherwise just a brainless craftsman, now the same as you say, that is, you can't finish it for three days and three nights, so let's talk to you, the kang we sit on has been updated for three generations, and now as long as you use four or five catties of charcoal a night to warm up a house, do you say magical?" ”

When Cui Sheng walked into the house, he already felt it, but he didn't think much about it, and thought it was the reason why the brazier was burning in the house, but now it seems that it is not what he thinks at all.

"Listen to that stupid boy in my house, the clay kang looks simple, and the heated air goes around the room along the pipe, which is nothing, but the knowledge in it is great. After the charcoal is heated, it will produce poisonous gas, and people will die after breathing, and there are still problems such as thermal efficiency and air flow, anyway, there are more of them. I don't understand these knowledge, so I can only let my stupid son learn it, do you think this is the truth? ”

Cui Sheng was speechless with his mouth open, what kind of person is Cui Mazi, in addition to leather shoes are not bad, the whole person is a mallet, one stick can't beat three stuffy farts, now he can boast in front of himself, and one truth after another, even he doesn't understand, how not to surprise Cui Sheng, I really can't understand what Cui Mazi has experienced these days?

Cui Mazi smiled proudly and said, "Look at what I've said, let's continue to talk about my trip to the Northland!" Da Lang is right, the climate in the north is indeed cold, and it snows for most of the year, but things can't be seen like this, do you think if you have such a warm kang at home, do you still have to worry about the cold in the north? We can't be afraid to go to the Northland because of the bitter cold, because the Northland is not as desolate as we think, not to mention the cattle and sheep raised everywhere, and even the extent of the richness and vastness of the land is not what we can think ......."