Chapter 31 The Life of Demons

It was early in the morning, and the eastern sky was white.

When he got up so early, he woke up to the smell, which was actually a smell.

Ancient Chinese houses pay great attention to feng shui, what is the orientation, line method, messy and exquisite.

Of course, the predecessor was a third-generation Tian Shehan, and he was poor, where can he afford to look at the old way of feng shui to set the wind and distinguish the water for his house?

If you have the money to ask for feng shui, you won't be a mess in a mud and straw house.

But the simple feng shui pattern can also be seen from the mud and straw house and yard layout.

It is necessary for the mud and straw hut to sit north and face south, and the thatched latrine is located in the northwest.

This is nothing, ordinary people are like this.

The bad thing is that the mud and straw house is in disrepair, and the predecessor has no extra money to ask the mason to repair it, the wall is full of cracks, and the top is full of wormholes, and the east wall has been tilted, so it can be said that it is ventilated everywhere.

In summer, the southeast wind blows, and people are naturally cool in this leaky mud and grass house.

But now in early autumn, the northwest wind came last night, and it was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, and the windy mud and straw house was penetrated by the northwest wind.

There are straw and broken bedding on the body, and I don't feel cold at this time.

The bad thing is that the thatched toilet located not far from the mud and straw house, in the northwest, with the northwest wind, pours the strong smell of the thatched toilet into the mud and straw house.

The taste is so sour that Gao Sheng and Gao Yue, father and daughter, don't want it.

Building a new house from scratch must be on the agenda.

Stinky, let's not talk about whether Gao Sheng and Gao Yue can bear it, after winter, the ability of this dilapidated mud and straw house to withstand the cold is basically zero.

Building a brick and grass structure house that is exactly the same as the Gao family's is less than the usual money, and it can basically withstand the cold wind in winter.

But he still has more than six copper coins in his hand, which is enough for him to use the existing materials in the Tang Dynasty to build a "mansion".

If you can build a mansion, why should you lower your requirements for your residence?

When the sun rose, Gao Yue got up, Gao Sheng steamed a basket of steamed buns, took the steamed buns, and led his daughter to the neighbor's Zhang Dazhu's house.

Tian had already made a breakfast for the family, and when he saw Gao Sheng leading Gao Yue to come, he was naturally overjoyed, and hurriedly beckoned the two to sit down.

Although Tian was born in a scholarly family, his family was in the middle of the road when he was young, and like her husband Zhang Dazhu, she also suffered from hunger and poverty.

Her mind is different from Zhang Dazhu's, she has always saved this money, she wants to send her son Zhang Shi to Mengxue when she is studying the "autumn harvest" in Shanghe Village.

Knowledge changes fate, and only the Tian family, who came from a scholarly family, has such an idea.

And Zhang Dazhu, a poor person, does not have a far-reaching ideal in life, thinking that he will save his usual money and give it to his son Zhang Shi for his daughter-in-law in the future.

After breakfast, Zhang Shi led Gao Yue to play in the courtyard, and Gao Sheng explained his intention to Zhang Dazhu and Tian.

"The third brother wants ink, paper and inkstone?"

Tian looked at the Martians and stared at Gao Sheng, he was very handsome, and he was not half a point stronger than his black bull-like husband, but a world of difference.

As long as the ink, paper, inkstone, and pen alone, why is this?

"The slave family will go and fetch it for the third brother."

After Tian said that, he got up and saluted, and was about to leave, but he heard Gao Sheng say: "Brother and sister, go slowly, I still want to ask, is the book of my brother and sister's family still there?" ”

"It's all here, the slave family will go and get it."

How could it not be, when she married Zhang Dazhu, the old gentleman's only dowry was these pen, ink, paper, inkstones, and four or five bamboo baskets of books, and of course, there were skinny old gentlemen and old ladies.

Back then, when the old gentleman was poor and couldn't support his wife and daughter, the old gentleman was reluctant to sell these books.

After the old gentleman and the old lady passed away, Tian married Tian Shehan, in addition to farm work is housework, and there is no need for these books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so it has been preserved as a relic of the family.

This is also the reason why Tian's single-minded mind let her son Zhang Shimeng learn, she and her husband have no hope in this life, and only leave the old man's last wish to her son Zhang Shi to be a scholar.

When Zhang Dazhu's family was poor, they never had the idea of these books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, so they kept them.

"You don't have to take out the scroll at this moment, I mean that if the younger brother and sister have leisure, teach the third brother to read and write, and go back to Shanghe Village Village to open the market, and the third brother will go to the bookstore to buy some pen, ink, paper, and inkstones and come back."

Most of the characters of this era are not known to Gao Sheng, and learning the cultural knowledge of the Tang Dynasty must also be put on the agenda, otherwise, a paper agreement is placed in front of him, and his eyes are black, which is a bit embarrassing for a traveler.

The sky is not afraid, the earth is not afraid, and the Tian Shehan is afraid of culture.

Tian's heart was extremely shocked, a Tian Shehan wants to read and write, learn culture, what else can stop him from making a fortune?

When Tian came out and brought ink and paper inkstones, Gao Sheng thanked him, and then took them one by one and began to add water to grind the ink on the inkstone.

Tian was surprised again, didn't he say that the third brother is uneducated, why is he so skilled in grinding ink?

Well, in order to run business, Gao Sheng often accompanied this leader and the rich businessman, these people have a stinky problem, that is, they love to write and pretend to be forced to write calligraphy, regardless of how they write, as soon as these big people write, Gao Sheng will be next to assist, grinding ink, which has become his craft of grinding ink.

"Third brother, let's let the slave family grind." Gao Sheng grinds ink, or writing or painting must have a use, Tian hurriedly proposed out of curiosity.

"Thank you." Gao Sheng is also not polite, Arida took a hand, and he couldn't ask for it.

Take out the knife you carry, take a chopstick, sharpen one end to a half-point, and grind the half-pointed bamboo chopsticks on the stone, and finally use the posture of holding a pen, try the feel, satisfied, a simple bamboo pen made.

When he took out the knife, Tian and Zhang Dazhu were a little frightened, and the sharp knife that was more than a foot long was brought with him, if the third brother was robbed?

Rob?

Don't be funny, Gao Sheng is now worth almost seven yuan, which is definitely a small landlord class in the Tang Dynasty, although the Gao family is a well-off family, they can't hold the consistent money, at most two or three hundred copper coins are deposited, and the family is mainly to save grain.

So rich, he can't think of robbing unless he's crazy?

Gao Sheng carried a knife with him, out of the habit of an outdoor enthusiast, and after drawing the picture in his hand, he also had to go to the mountains to see if the lasso trap he had laid out had any gains.

Yesterday when he went up the mountain with Gao Yue, he found that the hemp rope of a lasso trap was broken, and he was looking forward to it, how much did the big wild boar with a head of two hundred catties have to sell?

The mainstream meats of the Tang Dynasty were mutton and goose, and although there were a small amount of other meats, pork and dog meat, which were rarely eaten.

However, not eating pork and dog meat is also said to the upper class.

For ordinary people who only have two meals a day, if they have a mouthful of meat to eat, they will burn high incense, no matter what kind of meat they have.

When Gao Sheng used the bamboo pen he made, in a way that Tian had never seen before, to draw straight lines on the paper, Tian's brain was completely blank, and there was only one thought in his mind, third brother, is it a demon? ……