Chapter 16: Distant Relatives and Neighbors

Traumatized people rebuilt their homes, villages with broken arms were revived, the blackened earthen walls were replastered with new loess, and on the eaves, residents who could not afford to buy rubble were bundled into bundles of glutinous rice straw, each of which was fastened to a wooden frame with hemp rope, and nailed to the frame of the roof in rows, which was used as a roof to protect from the rain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, there was no perfect supply system, not the Central Army (referring to the Northern Army of Chang'an), so everything needed to rely on the local people, these people were not like the people in the Guannei, they had the responsibility to live, and they used their hands to rebuild the homes that were destroyed by the aliens every time, and they also paid for the supply of the border army.

In fact, the people in the border area are not strictly divided into responsibilities, the army lays down their arms and it is the people, and the people take up arms as the army, if necessary, the army wants to help the people build their homes, and when the aliens invade, the people are conscripted and become the army, so they are both soldiers and people. 'Military and civilian' was originally a term used to describe the living conditions of the border in ancient times, and later it was passed down by people and became a part of the military and civilian culture of the Chinese nation.

Lin Bin has been paying close attention to the work and rest of the border people, and found that they have become accustomed to this kind of life, at this time the people are generally friendly, they always try to keep themselves busy, so that they will not think of those bad things, they are also happy to help their neighbors, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors is used to describe the relationship between neighbors in the Han Dynasty.

Lin Bin and the three of them came to their own home, this place is the ownerless land temporarily divided by Han Zhu, so it is a little far from the market between the pavilions, but because of this, this new home is very large, not that the house is very large, but that the vegetable garden that belongs to them can be cultivated is very large.

It is a typical Biansai dwelling, with walls of loess mixed with weeds, and its south facing east, that is, its gate facing east. Directly in front of the gate of the house is the front yard, a vegetable and fruit garden of about 30 square meters, although nothing has been planted in it, but according to Han Zhu, it is indeed a vegetable garden.

To the right of the garden is a gazebo, which looks like a miniature version of a hut, but it has no walls, and is topped by two rows of sticky rice straw racks, apparently to shelter from the rain and light. In the center of the pavilion is a low table, surrounded by straw mats. Dou Shiyan said that Lin Bin is a good man, and he will be a bigger official in the future, and he can't have a place to receive guests, which is very rude, which finally let Lin Bin know that the gazebo is not used to take a nap after eating.

Lin Bin was very curious about everything he didn't know, he came to the door of the house, gently pushed the door open, and at a glance, there was a window about 1 meter 2 to 65 cm wide on the south wall, so the light in the room was very good, and there was an inner room on the left and right sides. The floor of the main hall is obviously raised, and the straw couch is covered with a decoration format that looks like a Japanese wooden house...... wrong! It was the Japanese who copied the Hanok format and learned how to build a house.

"Wait......" Dou Shiyan grabbed Lin Bin, who was about to walk on the straw mat, "Brother, take off your boots!" ”

Lin Bin touched the straw mat that looked like a tatami mat, and found that the grass was woven and spread on the bamboo frame, which became the floor, because he was afraid of getting wet, so he raised the ground, "Oh! He seems to have seen only a few families who would have the luxury of weaving straw mats for flooring, and most of the houses were only trampled on relatively flat dirt floors.

"These? It was bought by the big families and merchants in the county and township, and Li Dahu also brought some glutinous rice and chestnut rice, saying that he asked his brother to accept them and put them in the firewood room outside. Dou Shiyan was completely excited, "Shang Lihu also sent a few game, saying that it was for Lingzi to replenish his body more, and the children of the family did not eat meat and did not grow tall, and Aunt Yan ......"

Lin Bin smiled happily, after coming here, he began to understand one thing, the neighbors usually don't want to give you things, but out of the neighbors' mutual care. And the so-called luxury loans of large households and traders, in fact, do not need to be repaid, as long as they take care of some things, it can be regarded as a return, this kind of thing is also tacitly approved by the army, as long as it is not an unkind officer, it will generally not be blocked, after all, the food is too little, and everyone has a family to support.

"I love the Han Dynasty!" Lin Bin said from the bottom of his heart that he really likes the Han Dynasty very much, likes the simplicity of this era, and likes this kind of neighborly relationship of mutual assistance and friendship.

In the next afternoon, Lin Bin was busy, he learned how to mend the roof, and also learned to use a wooden rake to throw the ground, and experienced a water lifting, which was very torturous to lift water, and now people have to do what they have to do every day to fill the three large water tanks in the firewood room, and the average person has no such thing as a well at home, and the well is arranged next to the market, there are only three.

Every household will mention it once in the morning ~ evening, and the process of lifting the water this time is very interesting, the men will talk about some of the things that happened today next to the well, and the theme of today's attention is the death of Emperor Jing, the government after the new monarch ascended the throne, although it will take at least eight days from Chang'an to Biansai, but people still pay attention to everything that happened in Chang'an City.

"Now we are going to suffer again, as soon as the Karasuma people leave, the Huns are coming!" The topic caused the men to start talking worriedly. At this time, there was no such thing as "don't talk about the country", and ordinary people could talk about what they liked at will, and in the era of lack of entertainment, people really didn't know what to say except to talk about neighbors, the situation, and national politics.

Lin Bin has gradually been accepted by the people, and the neighbors no longer ask why he is so tall, let alone those strange questions. The neighbors accepted Lin Bin for a very good reason, they said that Lin Bin was willing to raise Lingzi, he must be a good person, a good person is also a good person, and a good person is generally very popular, especially this good person is so eye-catching.

Lin Bin was attracted by the topic and listened carefully, it turned out to be a great funeral of the country, and the royal Liu family, who pursued filial piety, ordered that no sword soldiers should be used, and every time the Xiongnu took advantage of the Han State to mourn and invade, the border people had not recovered from the pain experienced more than two months ago, and now it was going to make matters worse, and they were very worried.

"Chief Linshi, what did you hear from the army?" The person who asked the question was called Gou Mazi, who used to be a ruffian scoundrel in the pavilion, and there was an old mother and a fourteen-year-old sister at home, since Lin Bin came to the pavilion and saw him bullying Lingzi and beating him up, it seemed that he didn't dare to make trouble anymore, at least Lin Bin hadn't seen him make trouble again......

Lin Bin shook his head, thought about it for a while, and said up, "There is no news, and the officer of the Han team did not issue a conscription order in the pavilion, otherwise everyone would definitely have to assemble again." "It's because everybody is watching him.

The neighbors also think that it makes sense, every time there is a storm, they can always receive a call order, and they seem to have forgotten that the pavilion chief Xiao who was in charge of the recruitment died in battle, and the pavilion has not yet appointed a new pavilion chief.