Chapter 39: The Temple Fair
On the twenty-first day of the lunar month, Su Huawen and the Wang family, with Su Tianran, left Pingyang Mansion and returned to Taiyuan, Su Tiancheng still insisted on his own opinions, and did not follow him to Taiyuan, the relationship between him and the Wang family and Su Tianran was still very tense, or that sentence, only if he could seek fame, he could really have a status in the family.
The night before leaving, Su Huawen talked to him about a lot of things, most of them were about the rise and fall of the family, and the most recent was about his marriage.
Su Tiancheng was a little flustered, the order of his parents, the words of the matchmaker, he was seventeen years old, and after the beginning of the year, he was eighteen years old, at this age, he hadn't said the next family affair, it was actually a very embarrassing thing, but he really didn't want to set up a family affair for no reason, and he hadn't even seen each other.
Therefore, Su Tiancheng found a reason very cleverly, the implication is that the township test is about to start, but more than seven months of preparation time, during this time, he has to seriously review his homework, and he doesn't want to be involved in other things for the time being.
Su Huawen also thinks it is very reasonable, according to Su Tiancheng's identity, he is the concubine of the Shangjia family, thinking that he can find a girl from the official family, there is almost no possibility, although Su Tiancheng is a student, but if he can be admitted to the examination, the situation will be different, maybe he will be able to climb to a big household.
Su Tianhao and Su Tianran's marriage, Su Huawen is not satisfied, although the other party is a big family, but they are all businessmen, they are not too prominent in social status, speaking of which is also to look at other people's faces to do things, now, Su Tianhao is already the prisoner of the country, but unfortunately he has already started a family, thinking about continuing to find the girl of the eunuch's family, it is impossible, no girl from the eunuch's family can be a concubine for a prisoner.
After Su Huawen and the others left, Su Tianchang breathed a long sigh of relief.
Although Su Huawen is his father, he still has a little bit of discomfort, and now he is fine.
Pingyang Mansion City is already very lively, after all, it is close to the Spring Festival, whether it is officials, or ordinary people, the Spring Festival is very important, strictly speaking, from the twentieth day of the lunar month to the twentieth day of the first month, this month's time is regarded as the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, the management of the government is also much easier, and if it is not a big thing such as murder and arson, no one will go to the yamen to complain, after all, everyone is going to celebrate the Spring Festival.
Su Tiancheng came to think that he could recruit some talents, at least to establish a team of nurses, but unfortunately when he saw the Spring Festival, he was a little funny, it was originally a festive festival, but he delayed his own affairs.
After the twentieth month of the lunar month, the most lively place in Pingyang Mansion City is not the Qinglou Restaurant, nor the government office, but the City God Temple.
The city god temple has a certain origin, the city refers to the high wall built by digging the earth, the god refers to the moat without anyone, the city god is combined, it is built into the city, the city protects the safety of people, so that everyone can live a peaceful life, so that the city god is slowly worshiped as a god by the people, on this basis, the city god temple naturally appeared.
The City God Temple is the temple of the people, and it is also the temple closest to the life of the people, there are not so many rules of the Buddhist temple, and there are not so many rules and precepts of Taoism, although Taoism has incorporated the City God Temple into its own system, but it has not been recognized by the government and ordinary people.
Outside the temple, there are many small business merchants, selling their own goods, dim sum, sugar gourd, rice cake, rice wine, wonton, fried meat, barbecue, etc., inside the city god temple, there are many people who worship and pray for a rich life in the coming year.
Just like this, the area around the City God Temple is not so lively, and the government designates and determines the location of the temple fair in the City God Temple, and the situation has changed dramatically. The temple fair was originally a sacrifice, but now, it has already become an economic behavior, has become a kind of bazaar, the ninth day of the first month of each month is the day of the temple fair, at this time, the merchants are very busy, to the city god temple around, to occupy stalls, to promote their own goods.
In the month from the wax moon to the first month, the merchants are even more energetic, thinking of making a big profit.
It is impossible for Su Tiancheng not to go to the temple fair.
As soon as Su Huawen and the others were sent away, Su Ertong muttered in Su Tiancheng's ear.
"Young master, the temple fair in the south of the city has begun, you must go to see it, there are a lot of juggling, last year, the small one even saw it, someone stepped on a knife, climbed on the bamboo pole, it is really amazing, and some people spit fire out of their mouths, is it really blessed by the Bodhisattva."
"What, Ertong, these are all things that take a long time to train, if you start training since you were a child, you can do these movements now."
"Young master, you're joking, the little ones don't have that kind of ability, and they don't dare to do such things."
"Okay, I know, don't you just want to go to the temple fair, prepare today, early tomorrow morning, we'll go shopping, but I have something to say first, it's okay to go to the temple fair, don't make trouble for me."
He already felt that Su Ertong, this guy, may have entered the period of youth rebellion, and he followed himself and did some out-of-the-ordinary things, and his courage became a little bigger, on the surface, he was honest, but in fact, he was very impulsive.
According to Su Tiancheng's habits, he didn't want to join in the fun, he had been thinking about Su Jun, he had been out for more than a month, what was the situation, although with the help of the old man, but the sweet potato seeds were transported to Pingyang Fucheng, and he could be completely relieved.
Time passed quickly, after the Spring Festival, it will be very busy, especially maize and sweet potato, all need to raise seedlings, and then transplanting, only after this procedure, can the yield be increased, according to the current planting technology, it is estimated that planting maize will become a big joke, directly planted, how much harvest can be had.
There is another problem here, now there is no film, and it is impossible to produce film, that thing, the last years of the Qing Dynasty only appeared, and it will take hundreds of years, so don't play the idea of film, however, straw and straw, at this time, can play the role of heat preservation, chopped straw and straw, can not only keep warm, after rotting, can also become fertilizer, of course, there is another way, that is, after the maize and sweet potato germinate, before transplanting, burn these straw and straw, use fire ash as fertilizer, it is also good.
Su Tiancheng has great self-confidence, as long as these planting methods are truly mastered by tenant farmers, there will be no big problem in pursuing high grain yields.
The biggest problem is still the problem of protecting food, the rogues are rampant, they are also because there is no food, they are forced to be helpless, if they can't organize a strong armed force, who knows if they can keep these food.
There are two paths of development, one is a benign track, that is to say, the grain output has increased, the stored grain is enough, can help many people cope with the famine, stabilize the people's hearts, as long as there is food, will not starve to death, China's peasants, no one will think of rebellion, in such a situation, gradually expand the planting area, a large area of the promotion of sweet potatoes, so that Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places, can cope with the coming famine.
The second is the vicious development track, that is to say, in the process of development, encountering too many insurmountable difficulties, it can only rely on force to maintain, this road is very difficult, but also full of unpredictable factors, but such a situation exists, a large amount of land is annexed, princes and nobles are selfish, only think of their own interests, regardless of the life and death of the peasants, some peasant rebels, in the process of development, slowly changed their nature, thinking of burning, killing and looting, passing through the place, will be in ruins.
Thinking of this, Su Tiancheng had a headache, there were really too many things, it seemed that everything was very urgent, but it was impossible to completely roll it out, and there needed to be a suitable time.
Go to the temple fair, relax, maybe a good choice, the boat to the bridge is naturally straight, sometimes, don't think too much, it seems that communism will be realized tomorrow, in fact, it is impossible.
Twenty-two of the lunar month.
Before the hour, Su Ertong got up, Su Tiancheng was not so anxious, got up slowly, and after breakfast, set off slowly.
Although Su Ertong was in a hurry, he also knew the rules of the road, followed behind Su Tiancheng, and slowly walked in the direction of the temple fair.