Chen Jian knew that Song would never see what he wanted to see, and that he would always lose in order to gain, and that the trade-offs would be re-existed in his heart and in things. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Since he was leaving, Chen Jian chose more than a dozen children in the school who were about to become adults to follow, and they didn't learn much in half a year, but at least they could count and express some of the things they wanted to express in words.

Song wants to see another possibility, while Jian Chen, who knows that there is no other possibility, wants to see what the tribes in the lower reaches of the Cao River are like, and wants to make the world he know a little bigger.

Going down the river, there should be no such wild tribes that can't communicate, and he gave the jade Jue that Eyue gave to him to Song, which is an identity in the cultural circle around the river.

Several ships were prepared for Song, and in addition to food there were plenty of exchange goods, as well as the easiest hard currency salt of the era.

On the first day of September, when the clansmen were busy cultivating autumn wheat, Songshun went down the river, and only Chen Jian was the only one to see him off.

The time set by Jian Chen for them is to come back at the beginning of spring next year, this time don't go too far, there will be many opportunities in the future.

In addition to the newly grown children, there were more than a dozen riders on the shore who had to follow all the way to Echeng to inform them of the victory, even though Jian Chen knew that the messenger had already run back the day he returned.

Before Jian Chen returned, Yu Qian'er asked the messenger to bring back a foot of silk silk with a plant of millet painted on it, a sickle and an ear of wheat below.

She was telling Jian Chen that the corn planted by the Eyue tribe had been harvested, and that the time after the harvest was just right to plant wheat, and she remembered that when she planted autumn wheat last year, it was already the time when the dew was frosty.

This silk painting was painted about the time of the full moon in August, and there are two simple villains holding hands, looking at the moon together, because Chen Jian asked Yu Qian'er how often the moon can be round a long time ago, and the moon in August is the roundest and brightest, Yu Qian'er may have remembered what happened on Luo Island that day when she saw the moon.

She had been hostage in Echeng for more than a month, and a few rooms in the north of Echeng had become temporary residences for her and her people.

At first, the people in the city were a little curious, although they were accustomed to seeing merchants coming and going, but they had never seen one of them who had lived here like Yu Qian'er.

It's just that I know that there is a small girl, who is Ji Xia's sister, and the rest don't have much impression, and after two days of telling a story, they faded away, thinking that the next time we discuss this woman, it will be time for the hostages on both sides to come back.

But after a few days of silence, Yu Qian'er's name spread all over Echeng again, because Yu Qian'er opened a simple small wine shop in the place where she lived, as Chen Jian said.

There is wine in Echeng, but there is no story that people in the same city don't know, so at first, just some people walked into the wine shop curiously, chatted with the people in Xiacheng, listened to their stories, and drank their own corn wine.

In front of the hut were planted some flowers dug from outside, and a flag was floating, on which was written a word that the people of Echeng did not recognize, and Yu Qian'er said that the word was wine.

The people in the city will ask, "You don't have wine here." ”

But the next day they stopped asking, and there was a lot of wine-related things in this little wine shop, except that there was no wine.

The people of Echeng, accustomed to eating soy sauce and corn, saw many new foods, such as yellow dough, white dumplings floating in the water like white geese, fish sauce mixed with vinegar and mustard seeds, and soft pastries made with pea flour and honey......

In addition, there are stories about 300 miles away, so gradually some people come here with their own wine to sit down after the evening break.

Wealthy families come more often, poor families rarely come, but sometimes they catch rabbits, and the women in the wine shops will make rabbits taste different, just a rabbit skin.

And these distinctive flavors come from a somewhat similar but different thing called a pot, which is made of copper, which their tribe cannot make, and it is impossible for them to have this cooking method called "stir-fry".

The people of Echeng asked a few women who were cooking, and the women said that Ji Xia had taught them.

The reason why Jian Chen was preparing for the expedition in Xiacheng until the end of July was that he spent a lot of time preparing for these things, which in the eyes of the clansmen were just small things for his brother to give his sister some toys, and maybe it was just for his sister to eat better in Echeng.

A few days later, even Shujiu, who had been busy, came to this small wine shop early in the morning, not for drinking, of course, but for breakfast.

A bowl of sour soup after starch thickening, with daylily and finely chopped gourd shreds, which the people of Echeng are also very envious, they don't have the kind of kitchen knife called iron, so naturally they can't cut so fine, although these people call this kind of kitchen knife fish intestines, but in fact, it is still a kitchen knife.

A copper-coloured dough pan is served in a small wicker basket lined with lotus leaves, and inside is a chopped dish called a leek.

The spicy soup without pepper and pepper and the leek box without eggs made the number nine praise.

After eating, he pretended to ask Yu Qian'er unintentionally, what was he going to change? Yu Qian'er said that she just wanted to change the thoughts about the city in her mind and do something to pass the time. Change is a change, but it has a different meaning.

After observing for a few days, Shu Jiu found that Yu Qian'er did not plan to change her tribe's method of burning black pottery, because she had asked the people who burned the black pottery to eat it a few times, and Yu Qian'er didn't even look at them more.

"Maybe she's really just homesick and wants to pass the time?"

Since there is less hostility and the food is so delicate and delicious, you might as well come and eat it a few more times, anyway, it's just a little corn, and the asking price of Yu Qian'er is not high.

The adults in the city are also gradually coming, because the children of the family are always clamoring for sweet pea cakes and begging cakes - flour cakes printed with wooden cards and filled with sweet fillings. Occasionally, a wealthy family will exchange a few grouse, and they will bring it to these people to "stir-fry", and the taste is indeed different.

A few days later, a few mutes from Xia Cheng came to the wine shop, and it is said that since he was a child, he could not speak or hear others, so he might as well do more things here.

The original few people in the liquor store were sick, so the mute man held some small signs made of wooden boards and asked them what they wanted to change.

It's all distorted symbols, nothing more than a few things, but these things are always long to write in the words of this era. Wheat, cakes, fish, deer, rabbits, and other characters are written on wooden signs, and they are hung in the rooms of the liquor stores every day.

After the original women recovered, the children in Echeng had already recognized the words pea cake, wheat flour, one, two, three, four, five, and so on. Sometimes, adults will look at the wooden signs that they didn't know a few days ago and sigh, "Today's bread is gone." ”

After seeing more and more, those complicated symbols gradually became able to recognize what it was, at least the words deer, fish, and so on, and they knew what they were at a glance.

Later, a few of the wounded soldiers of the war who came by boat to deliver flour and food also stayed here, and there was more to the wine shop.

Each of them had a story to hear from Jian Chen, and since there were only so many stories in the city, tell stories about imaginary breakthroughs—myths about ancestors, or rumors that would make you cry or laugh when you think about it.

The hand of the girl named Incisor who peeled the nettles, the pain of the ancestors who tasted all the plants and trees on the earth in order to find the fruit they could eat, the smile of the ancestors after tasting the food cooked in the mountain fire, the ancestors migrated from distant places little by little to the surrounding areas and finally had the long road of E and Xia......

When I first heard it, I thought it sounded good, but after listening to it a lot, I thought it made sense, and then the story spread and became true.

A man with a scar on his face swore that this was the story told to him by his grandmother: there was a drought a long time ago, and the locusts were everywhere, and the land was dry, and the tribe could not survive in its place, so the two most prestigious brothers of the tribe and the tribe separated from each other, and they found a great river with abundant water and grass. The elder brother wanted to stay, but the younger brother said that there would be water here, and the two brothers separated, one along the river to the east, and the other to the northwest across the river......

Speaking of which, the people who listen to the story vaguely feel that they seem to be the descendants of that brother, and these people are the descendants of that brother, but is that river the big river of their homeland?

The storyteller recalled what Chen Jian had taught him, and at the end of the story added a younger brother who dreamed of the guidance of his ancestors, and the scene in the dream was a wide river with no banks, and every time the water was discharged, it would be muddy, and the land on both sides of the bank would often be flooded, but after submerging, the corn seeds sprinkled there would grow extremely vigorously, far higher than the yield of planting after burning......

The people who listened to the story opened their mouths wide, they had heard the old people of the clan talk about these things, but the people of Xia City had never seen the river at all, they knew this, and they must have really told them in their dreams...... So, in fact, the two races were brothers a long, long time ago? Even if there were no people from Xia Cheng in Hwaseong back then, they were still brothers and relatives?

Many trivial stories are connected together, and after all, they are no longer stories, but have become a dusty and real past......

In this way, after a month, there were more and more stories in the wine shop, and it gradually became the most lively place in the city.

Yu Qian'er sat in the wine shop every day, sometimes chatting with the people of Echeng, or occasionally giving the children some pea cakes to eat, listening to each other's stories.

At night, when the oil lamp in the wine shop is lit, Yu Qian'er will write one, two, three, or four on a piece of silk to remind herself to remember.

For example, the younger brother of Shu Jiu was fined a few donkeys by Shu Jiu for saying more things that should not be said more than a month ago, and he was unwilling to give them, and Shu Jiu said that he disobeyed the orders of the priests and deprived him of slaves and most of his livestock. was taken away when he went on the expedition, and Eyue also took away most of the clansmen of the number nine, but let the number nine be in charge of overseeing the city.

For example, a few days ago, the corn harvest began, and Yu Qian'er knew from the casual chatting of those people that the yield of corn was about seventy catties per acre, which was a case of setting fire to the wasteland, and if the land was reclaimed like Xia Cheng, more could be harvested. The harvest time is just before the tribe plants the wheat, and if it can, it is possible to harvest the corn and plant the wheat again.

For example, most of the wealthy families in Echeng come from four different tribes, the surname E has the most people, and only a few brothers are here, and Eyue's third wife is from Dongyi, basically no clansmen are here, and gave birth to a son to Eyue, this son is in charge of a lot of things in the tribe, but he can only rely on his father.

These are all things that are said inadvertently, not secret, but they are the things that Yu Qian'er wants to hear the most.

In the past, the clansmen only knew that Echeng was three hundred miles east of Xia City, vague and broad. Echeng is just Echeng.

And Yu Qian'er saw a real Echeng with her heart according to Chen Jian's teaching, and by the way, let the words and stories of Xia Cheng become the words and stories of Echeng. (To be continued.) )