Chapter Sixty-Eight: The White Rite of Old Age
After the father and son went back, Xiao Zheng's courtyard quieted down.
There are no more girls who come to see Ruoyi, it's like watching a giant panda, it's just like watching it for a long time, and besides, who girl does this boring thing on a cold day.
Counting nine days, Xiao Zheng could only practice calligraphy in the house, and outside was Xue Rengui and Gong Ruoyi. In the cold morning, the two of them turned the courtyard into a martial arts training ground and tossed and plopped, after getting up, they often saw Xue Rengui practicing martial arts in the courtyard, and Ruoyi finally found an opponent, although he couldn't beat Xue Rengui, he was still happy to greet him, sometimes he was beaten by Xue Rengui and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, but he didn't care about his handsome face at all, and Xiao Zheng applauded when he saw it.
In the end, Jin'er couldn't stand it anymore, and told Xue Rengui that he didn't hit people in the face, which made Gong Yi lose a few fewer chances to be beaten, so this little guy still came to Xue Rengui every morning. In just two months, Ruoyi's kung fu has improved by leaps and bounds, and archery has also entered the realm of entering the house, although there is still a gap with Xue Rengui, but it is much stronger than others, it seems that this kid has not been beaten in vain for more than two months.
I have seen the martial arts of two people, and if you lose in a single fight, Ruoyi can't beat Xue Rengui alone, but you can really scare everyone when you talk about going through the house and crossing the spine. After watching it, Xiao Zheng knew that if he didn't scare him that night, coupled with Xue Rengui's presence, a group of people really couldn't catch him, this kid's escape kung fu was worse than that of a world-class cool running champion, Xiao Zheng didn't doubt that he would be able to fly if he put wings on this guy.
Wuhua is also familiar with Ruoyi's routine, no matter how much he tosses, he will no longer care about him, and go to the village to pick up a few babies early as soon as he opens the door. Xiao Zheng laughed at the public loss Ruoyi and didn't have much of a bull's eye, and the angry public loss Ruoyi turned his head and stopped talking to Xiao Zheng.
When Xiao Zheng taught Ruoyi's arithmetic, he could only start from scratch, and Lou Shide couldn't help but laugh a few words when he watched him clumsily write "1234" with a quill pen, and finally relieved the hatred of grabbing his own sugar.
Gong Yi Ruoyi felt that he was no more than eight or nine years old when he was a teenager, and he was inevitably a little discouraged in his heart, but when he looked to the side, Xue Rengui was sweating profusely, and the numbers he wrote were like chicken planers, and he instantly regained his balance in his heart.
I took a break to Zhang Shun's side, more than a dozen households also used stoves and ondols, the pharmaceutical workshop has stopped, ready to start next summer, and the brickyard has also stopped because the water is frozen and the mud can't be stopped, but the bricks have been saved a lot, and the yard in the distance is the same as a small city wall.
Lao Zhang Shun took dozens of people to take off coal cakes in the coal yard, and Xiao Haigang led a group of people to be busy in the iron control workshop, and the sales of stoves and briquettes skyrocketed in winter.
After the two workshops were transferred, Xiao Zheng sent a lot of workers more or less frostbite, one is that everyone is wearing clothes or jackets to protect against the cold, and the other is that the weather is too cold to contact the water when working and does not pay attention to freezing, Xiao Zheng patted his head and said that he was careless and let the villagers suffer, and the old Zhang Shun also said that it is normal for the croppers to have a little chilblains in winter, so that the owner should not care.
Three days later, Xiao Zheng held a jar full of chilblain cream and put it in the two workshops and asked everyone to pay attention to keeping warm. Let Xiao Hai buy a few dog skins, Xiao Mu and Jin'er took a few skillful women to make a pair of boots and gloves for each of the children, and those who did not have hats made a hat, so that the children could at least not get frostbite when they were outside, which moved the villagers who worked.
Chang'an City Yishitang was quiet for a while, and now there are more people again, after a few heavy snowfalls, the poor or the rich, the temperature plummets and there is inevitably a frozen hands and feet, the new chilblain cream of Yishitang is placed on the counter again, this time there are two kinds of chilblain ointment, the good ones are packed in a small copper box, and a delicate wooden box is set outside, and there is a faint fragrance when opened. The low-end packaging is very simple, with a bamboo tube, twenty dollars a can for a winter.
With the good reputation of the former jack-of-all-trades, this chilblain cream is also sold to a surplus of customers, and the wealthy families in the capital naturally disdain to use the same thing peacefully, so they let the guy take the high-end goods, and turn around and leave.
After finishing the afternoon, Bai Chuanli took out the ginseng tea medicine bag made by Xiao Zheng and put it in the tea bowl, picked up the iron kettle on the side of the stove and poured boiling water and rushed down, waited for a while to lift the tea lid, and a faint medicinal fragrance floated out of the tea bowl.
After sending chilblain cream some time ago, I sent a set of tables and chairs to Bai Chuanli by the way, the shape is a little weird, saying that it is a stool and more atmospheric than a stool, what is it called the Taishi chair Eight Immortals Table, and when I sat on it, I found that it was much more comfortable than the previous kneeling posture, and it was also convenient to diagnose the pulse of the patient.
Just put the tea bowl down the door and opened the door to bring in three people, the middle is led by a young man, only to see that the person is light and slow, his face is peaceful but heroic, the clothes on his body are like the children of a noble family, the two old men next to him are tall and short, and they are also wearing a leather hat and a round neck robe, a light fur coat, and their demeanor is also an old and serious person, and the short old man looked up after entering the house and saw the three words "Yishitang" hanging in the main hall and exclaimed: "Good words!" What a momentum! ”。
Bai Chuanli let the three of them to the table, and asked the guy to move a few chairs over, only to see this young man sitting on the Taishi chair, patting the armrest of the chair curiously, and after the three of them sat down, Bai Chuanli asked, "What do the three nobles need to serve?" ”
I saw the tall old man smile and said: "Mr. Bai, I recently heard that Yishitang has a panacea and chilblain ointment, and the literati have rumored that there are ink treasures in the hall, so I came to your store to ask for a look, I have no other intentions, please forgive me."
"It's okay", Bai Chuanli waved his hand to the guy, and after a while, the guy brought up three bowls of brewed ginseng tea, and as soon as the tea was entered, the three of them praised it together, "Good tea!" ”
"That's nature", Bai Chuanli twisted his beard and said with a smile: "This tea is a ginseng tea that the old man has studied for decades, which has the effects of greatly replenishing vitality, nourishing and strengthening, calming the mind and intellectual, etc., especially suitable for the elderly and frail women to drink, this tea is harmless to take Baili for a long time."
Lao Bai shook his head and looked very much like the old liars who sold fake drugs on TV in later generations.
The young man smiled and said, "Mr. Bai, you first made a panacea balm and then made chilblain ointment, a medicine that is beneficial to all the people in the world, which shows that Mr. has profound pharmacology, cares about the common people, and admires it."
Bai Chuanli said with a smile: "I have been practicing medicine for decades, and now I am old, and I am studying a few medicines to pass the time in my spare time.
At this time, the old man who had been reading the words asked: "Mr. Bai, I would like to ask you who inscribed the plaque in this store, and I have seen a scale and a half claw in the words used in this plaque before, but unfortunately I haven't seen it?" ”
"You said this plaque, this is written by my nephew when I went to my nephew's house in Yushan County, and I have never seen this person in the next, but I heard the younger generation say that he is a person who likes calligraphy, such as Mr. can leave the ink treasure, and the nephew will be transferred to him, presumably the two sides can learn about it."
The short old man heard that the other party was also a good calligrapher and happily said that he had met a confidant, walked to the table, studied the ink and wrote down the four words "high water and flowing water", and took the meaning of the high mountain and flowing water to meet the bosom friend, and put the pen after writing.
"Mr. Bai, do you know if the master of writing fonts has ever made a new type of cocoon and plow?" The young man asked, putting the tea down.
"The old man you said really doesn't know, the old man has been practicing medicine since he was a child, and he has never done anything about crops, and he doesn't know anything about this new style of cocoons and plows."
"Have you seen this person?" The young man asked again.
"I have never seen this person, the old man's nephew and this person have some intersections, then the old man will convey this text to the master, please rest assured."
A few people chatted in the shop for a while, drank two cups of tea, and then left the house.
Bai Chuanli saw the three of them walking away and looked at their backs and said, "His Royal Highness King Qin, Fang Xuanling and Yu Shinan, you don't know me, I don't know you yet?" You Li Shimin and the crown prince Jiancheng don't care how you pinch me, but you can't involve Xiao Zheng, this kid, once you know that you take a wrong step, you will be broken bones, and you will be an old man all these years in the capital for nothing."
Then he muttered: "Xiao boy, the old man helped you shop for a painting today, and the old man who can protect you has helped you, look at your boy's future creation."
After saying that, the old man turned around and went back.