Chapter 154: Li Tang's Secrets
Shi Bufan watched a few beauties divide the flower goose that they had done with great difficulty, so that Shi Bufan was not depressed. This goose that he made with great difficulty, after plucking the feathers, he found that there was no suitable seasoning here, so he could only make a goose called flower goose. However, this flower goose is simply a good thing for people in this era, and ordinary people may not think of it during this Tang Dynasty, even if it is a wealthy family, breakfast is actually a bowl of rice porridge and some soup cakes such as noodles. Even many officials don't have meat dishes for breakfast, that is, some ordinary steamed steamed buns or something. In fact, the living standards of ancient officials, regardless of the theoretical price, but only in terms of material types, were actually much worse than those of ordinary office workers in later generations.
As for the legendary big fish and meat, they can only be eaten during the New Year's Festival. However, if you are not ordinary, your status is not low, and with a woman who can make money, at least your life will not be reduced too much. However, when these women ate the extraordinary flower goose, it was obviously very delicious.
"Well, it's delicious, Shi Xiannan, how do you make it so delicious, I almost swallowed my tongue!" The county lord of Dingxiang said.
There are also a few Loli next to her, that is, Li Lizhi and several other princesses, such as Princess Runan, who was just gradually recovering from the extraordinary "Liuwei Dihuang Pill" last time, and they also came over to eat these things together. Princess Runan was born with a congenital kidney deficiency, so she had abnormal kidney deficiency, but Shi Bufan gave her the formula of this six-digit rehmannia pill, which made her face gradually recover. If nothing else, then Princess Runan should not die early.
"Princess, how can you eat more, so that you can recover faster!" Shi Bufan said to Princess Runan.
However, Princess Runan smiled reluctantly and didn't eat much.
"Princess Lizhi, what's wrong with your sister?" Shi Bufan asked.
Li Lizhi was a little hard to say, but in the end, Dugu Daxue, the fiancée of Shi Bufan, said: "Recently, the imperial doctor showed the princess, although she is not in danger of life, but she is ......."
"Heavy snow, what's wrong?" Shi Bufan asked.
"The princess can't be a mother in her life!" Dugu Daxue sighed and said.
"What?" Shi Bufan exclaimed.
When Shi Bufan heard the news, he also felt that this was a very big blow to a woman. Especially ancient women, an ancient woman can't have children, that's a real tragedy! Even if the women of later generations are unable to have children, then I am afraid that few men are willing to marry. For men, the most fundamental use of women is to be able to have children, and if women are unable to have children, then men really won't take it seriously.
In the final analysis, men and women are together, and the main thing is to reproduce, if they can't even reproduce, then it is completely unnecessary for human men and women to be together. Even if later generations married and had children later, the biological instinct of human reproduction did not disappear. Even if some women with good financial ability, even if they don't get married, they will not reject themselves to adopt one, or give birth to one. Therefore, any life is to reproduce, but for a woman, it is a tragedy that she cannot reproduce!
"Hey, I really didn't expect that I saved her life, but I couldn't save her body. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Shi Bufan also thought helplessly.
If it was a later life, of course at that time, Bufan thought that as long as it could save lives, even if it affected fertility, it would be fine. But in ancient times, women in ancient times were more used to continue the offspring and continue the role of incense, but feelings were secondary. The role of women in ancient times is also a tool used to continue the family inheritance, so a woman who cannot give birth to offspring, even if she is a princess, will not be able to have too high status.
Although Shi Bufan saved Princess Runan's life, she may really be "orphaned" in the future. Ancient men would not be willing to marry a woman who was infertile, even if the other party was a princess. Even the emperor can't force a princess who can't have children to marry someone else, isn't this making the other party die?
So Shi Bufan also felt a little speechless, he saved Princess Runan's life, but he couldn't save her from making her a real woman. Maybe she is really destined to be lonely all her life, and no man wants her. Although he was born in the royal family, he will not lack food and clothing, but the distress in this is definitely not something that ordinary people can understand. If you live a life, but suffer a lifetime of mental torment, then it may not be as good as being dead!
The values of ancient times are different from those of later generations, even if later generations are not very optimistic about women who are unable to have children, let alone ancient times?
"Princess, don't worry, I think you will be able to meet a man who doesn't mind in the future!" Shi Bufan said soothingly.
Princess Runan smiled reluctantly, apparently she knew it was impossible. Because no matter how she is, she is also a princess, and the princess either does not marry, or she can only be a wife. Although there were not many princesses in the Tang Dynasty who really married, they were all wives. Otherwise, it would be impossible to let the princess be a concubine. So it's embarrassing because she's a princess, it's okay if a concubine can't have children, but if a wife can't give birth, it's troublesome. Her status as a princess is destined not to be a concubine, which is embarrassing. Li Tang would rather raise her for the rest of his life, and it is impossible for her to be someone else's concubine.
"Shi Xiaoshulang, can you cook something for me often in the future? I've eaten what you made, and I don't even want to eat the Imperial Chef's! Li Lizhi said.
Shi Bufan touched Li Li's head and said, "Little gluttonous cat!" Okay, I can send it to you when I have time later! ”
Li Lizhi nodded and expressed satisfaction.
"Shi Xiannan, do you know how to ride a horse? Did you go hunting with me? This winter hunt, if you don't get some results back, it will be a shame! The county lord of Dingxiang said.
In fact, this hunt is nominally involving the nobles and the army, but the real hunting task is mainly the army. The task of the army in this hunt is to hunt enough birds and animals, and the feathers on their bodies are used as down bedding, so that they can be used by the people of the Gyeonggi area. As for what to say to exercise the martial spirit of the nobles, in fact, the nobles are more of a fun-based hunting method, which is actually a camping activity at public expense.
However, these hunts are often also a time for the nobles to compete with each other. Some of the results of comparing descendants are also a kind of competition between the descendants of the nobles, through the competition in the hunting process, showing the strength of their descendants, saying that there are successors in their families. There are even some who simply look for candidates during these hunts, choose a son-in-law for themselves, or also become a parental blind date between the elders of the nobles to meet and talk.
Of course, the main decision of this blind date lies with the parents, and even the parents have absolute influence. This is different from the kind of parents who are busy with work in later generations, but this kind of real parents are replaced, and they have the right to decide the marriage for their children. The Tang Dynasty was the order of the parents, although theoretically the children could decide their own marriage when they became adults. However, the premise is that the parents are not engaged to their children. However, all aristocrats will arrange their children's future destiny before they reach adulthood, and even get engaged before they reach adulthood. This is also a policy and a countermeasure, not to mention that this kind of marriage between nobles is not based on feelings, but also on family interests.
So wherever here, any man is like a rooster, taking the initiative to show himself to the future father-in-law and mother-in-law, which is also the need of the family. Show yourself the younger generation, so that you represent that there are successors in the family and have the capital to protect the interests of your family. A young and promising offspring represents the future of the family, so it is a long-term strategic deterrent, so everyone will try their best to show themselves.
If a young man doesn't get anything from this hunt, it's a shame. This is what Dingxiang County mainly told Shi Bufan, if he can't take any prey to deal with, it will be looked down upon.
"County Lord, what about me? I'm a literati and can't even open a bow, what should I do? Shi Bufan spread his hands and said.
However, the county lord of Dingxiang did not see outside, but said: "Come on, I will teach you to ride a horse!" ”
The county lord of Dingxiang directly pulled Shi Bufan to her horse, looking at this horse, it looked good, obviously a group of horses of war horse level, better than those horses rented by Shi Bufan. No matter how you say it, she is also Li Shimin's adopted daughter, and she is also the county lord, so it is impossible to ride a horse!
Shi Bufan finally stepped on the stirrup, and suddenly felt a shaking, obviously the county lord of Dingxiang also followed. There are actually two people sitting on such a horse, and I don't know if the war horse can stand it.
"Hold on tight, don't be thrown down!" "Smack!"
Shi Bufan was not ready yet, and the county lord of Dingxiang also began to whip the horse stocks, and the war horse directly began to rush forward. Only then did Shi Bufan realize what the Dingxiang County Lord's "hugging" meant, and Shi Bufan hurriedly hugged the Dingxiang County Lord's slender waist with both hands. Although it seemed a little inappropriate to do this as a man, he couldn't care about it. With his junior high school level of physics knowledge, he also quickly estimated how serious the consequences would be if he fell from this fast-moving war horse, and the huge potential energy would be converted into kinetic energy, and Shi Bufan, a literati, would be crippled if he did not die.
So although it is a bit embarrassing to hold a woman like this, but losing face is a small matter, and losing your life is a big thing. I'd rather lose face than lose my life! I'm not good at horseback riding, so don't be foolish. Never casually for no reason to save face, this is an extraordinary way of dealing with the world.
However, several women in the same place watched that Shi Bufan was actually taken away by the county lord of Dingxiang on horseback, and Shi Bufan was still so intimate with the slender waist of the county lord of Dingxiang on the horse, and suddenly showed all kinds of strange looks.
Dugu Daxue's face was dark, obviously this is simply not giving himself face! The county lord of Dingxiang actually took away his fiancé in front of his fiancée, who was not ordinary and justifiable, and didn't even ask, which made her of course unhappy. Is this really not treating female officials as cadres and not giving her the face of this main room?
"Sister Daxue, it seems that Sister Dingxiang took Shi Xiaoshulang away?" Li Li asked.
"Hmph, I hope they don't make any trouble!" Dugu Daxue said angrily, obviously feeling very unhappy that her husband was intimate with other women, not to mention that she still made such an ambiguous gesture in War Horse, obviously which woman can easily accept it?
Shi Bufan rode a war horse with the lord of Dingxiang County, and then ran quickly to the hunting area. This hunting area is divided into shards, with different units hunting in different areas to hunt those birds. If it were a later generation, this kind of hunting would probably not be possible at all, because in later generations, wild animals will be protected and casual hunting is prohibited. But in ancient times, on the contrary, there were many wild animals in ancient times, and just entering the forest, there were birds and animals everywhere.
Of course, this is the periphery, and those beasts will not have it. This area was for the nobles to hunt. The aristocracy's hunt was for fun, not really for survival. So just take some harmless small animals, and don't make any tigers or anything, so you're really going to die. Not everyone in this world is Wu Song's and can fight tigers.
After entering the dense forest, the county lord of Dingxiang skillfully picked up his bow and arrow and shot towards a deer in the distance.
"Whoosh-"
There was a sharp thud, and one of the wild deer was shot to death.
"It's a sika deer? It is an endangered animal in the next generation! But he was shot like that? Shi Bufan thought.
However, Shi Bufan still said: "The county lord is good at archery!" ”
"Nothing, in fact, my father is better at archery, and I have always wanted to be like my father and fight on the battlefield. Unfortunately, I was only able to enjoy hunting. The county lord of Dingxiang said.
"Father? Oh, it's the Emperor! Only then did Shi Bufan remember who the county lord of Dingxiang said his father was.
In fact, when Wei Guifei took the county lord of Dingxiang to marry Li Shimin, the county lord of Dingxiang was only six or seven years old, and she had no father since she was a child, Li Shimin's influence on her was far greater than that of the so-called father. It is normal for people who raise people to have far more influence than people who give birth. Therefore, the county lord of Dingxiang may directly call Li Shimin his father, and he almost doesn't know his father Li Min. And Li Shimin had an absolute influence on the shaping of the "three views" of the county lord of Dingxiang, who was only six years old at the time.
"Can't fight? When Princess Ping was not ......", Shi Bufan wanted to ask, but was stopped by the county lord of Dingxiang.
"Princess Pingyang, it's a pity, she is a heroine. It's a pity that Princess Pingyang was jealous of the Emperor Taishang back then, otherwise she might also be Mrs. Xian. The county lord of Dingxiang said.
Shi Bufan exclaimed: "There is a secret! ”
Shi Bufan didn't expect that this Dingxiang County Lord would actually say a secret, maybe it was the secret of Princess Pingyang, the female general of the Tang Dynasty, this is really amazing. (To be continued.) )