Chapter 121: Those People, Those Years (2)
"I know everything after that, it's written in the history books. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info What I want to hear is the story of you and your mother, what does it have to do with this? ”
The child felt a little strange and asked with some curiosity. Thinking of my father's old age, or his fondness to reminisce about the past, I had to endure listening to it.
"How can it not matter? If there had been a fight at that time, I would not have married your mother. At that time, our three cities were prepared for the worst, and no one knew how long it would take, so they all gave orders at that time, try not to get married and not to have children. ”
"Because once the fight starts, maybe the woman will have to do what the man does. Things like farming and grinding gunpowder, once they really fight, it will depend on women, and men may have to go to war. At that time, some people had to train every day, and another part of the farmers had to practice the bow and arrow of the army during their leisure time. ”
"Once the fight starts, how can a woman work with a big belly? How do you work when you just give birth to a baby? The king and the old leader have made it clear, even if they are born, they will be born, but they will always be blamed by everyone. ”
It was the first time the child had heard of such a thing, and he asked incredulously, "How strict was it at that time?" Even having children? ”
"Don't talk about having children, at that time, how much did the workshop produce every day, what workshop was built, where the land was cultivated, what was allowed to sing when you were in the army, what was not allowed to sing, and even where to go to the toilet...... At that time, I had to manage it, and I have been in charge for a long time. ”
"Our city was pretty good at that time, but Xia Guo was strict. At that time, what the Xia people should plant, how much grain, how much vegetables, and how much cotton and linen should be planted by the people in a mile had to be approved by the Planning and Statistics Department. ”
More than ten years, too many changes have taken place, the child can't believe what happened at that time, and feels that if he lives in that era, it is boring and tight, especially the name of the Planning and Statistics Department, which has become a thing of the past, and makes him travel through time and space to fantasize about despair and daily repetition - in his opinion, it seems that the first day of the new year will know how to spend the last day, which is like watching a play that has already been seen, which is a little scary.
"And then?"
"Later, there was no fighting, the order was lifted, but the governance was still not relaxed, and things like wine became rationed, private brewing was not allowed, and money could not buy it. I found out that on our side, we have to pay a fine for land, and on the Xia side, we will directly demote the lord and so on. ”
"In the spring of the second year, the soldiers along the Grass River had to go to Xia County to get acquainted with each other so that they could cooperate in future battles, and practice siege and ladder climbing. There is also a brand of A, B, C, D after the blood is pierced, and everyone sends a piece that says what your blood is, so that you don't die because of too much blood when you fight. That was the first time I saw glass, and at that time they said that if the glass could be bigger, it would be installed on the window in the future, but unfortunately it is still not large. ”
"Speaking of which, I think of it, you have been in school for so long and know a lot more words than me, so what is going on with this blood?"
The child shook his head and said helplessly: "I have read the booklet "Medicine", but I am not a medical class, so I can't understand it at all. Besides, even now there will still be people who die because of blood exchange, even if the relatives within five suits are the same blood transfusion after the blood is pierced, it is easy to die, and you can only find someone with a foreign surname, which the king has not explained why. Moreover, use your eyes to see if the red blood is condensed into a clump, and some of them are always difficult to see, and there are often cases where people are mistaken and even die. No one in the new edition of the booklet "Medicine" is thinking about this every year, they are all looking for herbs everywhere, and if they find an effective herb, they will give a lot of money and rewards, who will ponder this. ”
"The king said, if you don't understand, you have to find a way to understand, but if you don't understand, you can use it as long as it works. When my father crossed the Henan expedition, the king used stinky artemisia to mash and squeeze the juice to treat the hot and cold epidemic in the army, in fact, according to the theory of yin and yang, the epidemic must be yin, and the hot soup is yang, so it is said that it should be boiled in hot soup, but it is soaked in cold water, which shows that some things may not be yin and yang can be said clearly. The people in the medicine class were now just busy looking for herbs everywhere, asking the various clans hidden in the mountains what could cure the disease, and how many of them were trying to figure out why they could cure the disease. ”
E glared at the nonsense child, those people in the Xia Guo medical class had saved his life more than once, and he had several goose feather tubes inserted in his arms for blood infusion, and he still had a lot of respect for those people in the medical class.
The child also knew about this, so he had to change the subject with a hippie smile: "Father said that he went to Xia County, what about after that?" ”
As soon as his train of thought was interrupted, he forgot the emotion of blowing his beard and glaring at his eyes, and fell into the public of memories, and sighed: "When I went to Xia County in the spring of that year, it was the spring ploughing time in February and March, and those of those spears were still busy helping to farm in the field, and we in armor went first, otherwise we wouldn't have met your mother." ”
"A few days after I arrived in Xia County, it was the Pregnancy Festival, but I couldn't find the girl who picked up my comb back then, and I couldn't find out if I inquired, so I simply found a time to beg those who were acting, and taught me to sing the wind song of Xia County, and changed some words, but the tune was still the tune of Xia Feng."
"I stood by the river and sang and sang all morning, and many of the girls from Xia County sang with me, but I told them that I was waiting for a bone comb, and they laughed and ran away. Later, until I sang the hungry grunt, I thought to myself that she must have married someone else, and just as I was about to leave, your mother sang with me right behind me. ”
"When I saw that your mother was holding that little bone comb in her hand, I recognized it at a glance. Her sisters laughed evilly and took her across the river in a boat. It was still spring, and the water was still cold, so I didn't think much about it at the time, so I swam over, and when I reached the other side, her sisters ran away laughing, leaving me and your mother alone. ”
"You will know what happened after that, I went to the little chieftain and went to propose marriage with my gift. And because at that time I was already the best young man in our city, and I was the partner of the little chief, and your mother was surnamed Ji, which was also a major event between the two cities, and it was also one of the few marriages of Eji at that time. At that time, the king's grandmother had passed away, and Ji still found a lot of people who are difficult to see now to preside over the wedding, and temporarily lent us a mud house to make a new house. ”
The child couldn't help but ask, "Who are those who are married?" ”
"A lot. At that time, it was easy to see, but now they are all county guards in Gyeonggi and various cities. Although our family's merits are not much different from theirs, they are still worse after all, and I will ask someone to write them down, and you can go and see them after you arrive in Gyeonggi, there is always some origin. ”
"Later, your mother became pregnant, and then there was a war, and it was sudden. Later, I learned that in my most beautiful days in the army, your mother gave birth to you prematurely and died. If it weren't for the people in the medical class who put you in the steaming wet grass, and there happened to be nursing women in the nursing home, I'm afraid I wouldn't even see you. ”
"I told you these stories, both because you asked, and because they are related to your future marriage. Although the king said that the marriage match is not divided into officials and titles, he did not say that the marriage between the nobles and nobles must not be allowed. ”
"The woman I found for you, you also saw when you were a child, and she was born when you were born, that is, the one who nursed you when you were a child. Speaking of which, it also has some connections with our family, and now her father is also a figure in Gyeonggi, that is, Shi Quan, who is in charge of farming. If it weren't for the bone comb that Shi Quan's sister threw me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have met your mother. ”
"The monarch may not like us to marry those civil officials in charge of affairs in his own city, and I am in charge of many military affairs, so it is also excellent to marry a Gyeonggi woman. Wang Shang is old, and Shi Quan doesn't want his daughter to be involved in those storms in Gyeonggi. Our country is also a marquis country, east to the sea, west to the river, north and mountains to the south and silt thousands of miles of land five uncles, nine sons and seventeen males, anyone who does not abide by the rules of the founding covenant can be conquered on behalf of the king, it is always a stable place. ”
"The king said, "A generation has a generation to do. Our generation has seen too many battles and suffered too much to have the size of today. My affair with your mother sounds wonderful, and you don't have to envy that you have to meet such a woman and have such a story. Just as I fought to shed blood to live a good life, not to shed blood for the sake of bleeding. You have to be clear about the stories you have encountered with your mother, not just for the sake of remembering them. ”
"You're grown up now, and I've heard that you also had a good story with a girl when you were in the school. But none of this is for you, and you should listen to me, for your future good. ”
The child pouted, inevitably saying that I may not like that girl, but I really hope that there will be a story of you and your mother meeting each other and getting married.
E's guess was in the child's mind, and she didn't make any big senses, and said coldly: "You are my son first, and then yourself." You are different from those civilians, they can be themselves, you can't. You don't have to pout either. I only ask you, if you are not my son, can you go to Gyeonggi School to fight in the military based on the results of the book exams you studied in the academy? Can you go to Jixia School Palace to study? Why are you? Didn't everyone force the king to make a name order, and set aside half of the quota for those of us who had made meritorious contributions to the war? ”
The child was silent, recalling the girl he vaguely saw when he was a child, as well as the girl's father Shi Quan, and he was still stunned after all.