17 Ignorance and Poverty, Hope (1)

"Alas!" Nizi won briskly and flew out like a bird. But soon, Nizi, who was wearing a light skirt, flew into the stove like a swallow. was in the stove room, washing his own Wei rice with water, and was startled by Nizi: "Why are you here again?" "Are you hungry?" Nizi didn't care about the embarrassment of Wei Qin, who was washing her body, and just asked with a concerned face. Looking at Nizi's innocent and concerned face, Wei Yang had no choice but to hide and answer: "A little." Nizi is a very sincere person, looking at Wei Yang with her eyes and saying, "I didn't eat last night, and I vomited again this morning, why aren't you hungry?" Nizi said as she blew the fire that Dingxia had kept yesterday to start the fire. Maybe it was last night's carelessness, and the fire couldn't be blown out. Nizi took out a fire-boring device to start the fire. As soon as he dragged the firearm to the ding, Wei Ying walked over, took out the fire sickle and handed it to Nizi. Nizi didn't know what this thing was, and she didn't know what Wei Yang was doing with it, so she asked, "What's this?" ”

Wei Yang smiled: "This is a fire sickle. ”

Nizi took it and asked as she looked at it, "What is this fire sickle for?" Wei Yang took the fire sickle from Nizi's hand, taught Nizi hand in hand, and learned the use of the fire sickle: "Nizi, this is the same thing as the firearm you commonly use, specially used to ignite fire." Look! Come, I'll teach you! Just take it, yes! This hand holds a sickle, right! You knock up! Look, it's a spark. Connect the lead to Mars, and the Mars will ignite the lead, and the fire will ignite. Don't panic, don't rush, take your time. Hold it steady. Right! Knock ...... again, "Wow, the fire is burning." Nizi saw that she used a small sickle to knock on a stone, and the fire was ignited, and the little girl's temperament made her jump up happily, and after holding the guard squatting in front of the ding, she cried out ecstatically: "Mom-, Momβ€”β€”! It's so strange! While shouting, he ran into the kang house, and dragged the family into the stove room rawly and forcefully. Fu and his daughters were so happy that they didn't know what to say, and after learning how to make fire with a fire sickle from Nizi, they all scrambled to beat the flint. The assistant pavilion chief snatched the fire sickle from the hands of several women, and after learning to lead the fire, he dragged the guard into the kang house with the fire sickle, and said with a look of admiration and excitement: "Noble! You're a nobleman. How can you get into the stove house? Come! On the kang, on the kang. You, can you give me more of this divine fire? "What does he want the fire sickle for? Wei Yang thought in his heart, and asked, "That's it." Alas! What do you want a fire sickle for? "I'm the pavilion chief! How can the pavilion chief just have a divine fire in his own house? I ask the nobles to give one to each family of Chongquan. "The assistant pavilion chief naturally told Wei Yang his own thoughts. Wei Ying had a good impression of this pavilion chief, so he asked: "How many households and how many people do you have in Chongquan?" ”

The chief of the auxiliary pavilion casually said: "We are a military town. According to ten households and one party, ten parties and one mile, and ten miles and one pavilion. There are 1,000 households in Chongquan, and each household is strong, oh, that is, 16 to 45 years old, there are three people, and the total should be more than 3,000. Plus the defenders are thousands of people, nobles! You give me so much, I don't see you have any, just give me a hundred or ten. ”

Wei Yang listened with a smile on his face, but in his heart he was surprised by the vast and sparsely populated land of Qin! One is Chongquan, which is still an important military and border town, which is one-third the size of Wei Zhan Hexi, but only a few thousand people, while Wei Zhan Hexi has 200,000 people, which is still the least populated place in Wei State. Wei Yang was thinking about something, so he forgot about the assistant pavilion chief who was talking to him.

The assistant pavilion chief who was asking Wei Yang for a fire sickle, seeing that he was constantly lowering his requirements, this Wei man was still silent, only after lowering it to the minimum requirement of ten, this Wei man still did not react, and he was in a hurry, knelt down on the ground and begged loudly: "Noble!" How about you say something? This divine fire, in the end, will it be given or not? ”

Wei Yang came back to his senses at this time, and quickly pulled up the auxiliary pavilion chief who was kneeling on the ground, and said as he pulled: "Auxiliary pavilion chief, auxiliary pavilion chief!" Why do you kneel at every turn? I didn't say no, I just thought 、、、、、、"

The assistant pavilion chief was anxious: "What do you think?" You say! It's really tiring to talk to you nobles. ”

Wei Yang wasn't thinking about whether to give the divine fire or not, but seeing that the assistant pavilion chief cared so much about this divine fire, he suddenly thought of using this divine fire to do something, but he hadn't thought about it for a while. Now that the chief of the auxiliary pavilion was so anxious, he suddenly remembered that he was most stimulated by him: the two things of stinginess with water and no family ethics. So he said to the chief of the auxiliary pavilion with a stern face: "This divine fire is called fire sickle in the Wei Kingdom, and it is the fire given to people by God, ensuring that people eat cooked food, drink hot water, and resist cold, so that people's lives are better and better, so that all those who want to accept the divine fire must agree to a condition before the divine fire can be used, otherwise this divine fire will slowly fail." When the Pavilion Chief heard that he only needed to agree to one condition to use such a good divine fire, he nodded again and again and said, "Okay." Wei Qin was afraid that in order to save the emergency, the assistant pavilion chief would first agree indiscriminately and then talk about it, and then get the fire sickle, and forget about the promised things, after all, it is still a bit unreliable to rely on a fire sickle to change the living habits of people in a place. So, for the sake of his own peace of mind and the dead horse, he followed up and asked: "Is it a good idea?" "Who knows this sentence, annoyed the assistant pavilion chief. The assistant pavilion chief thought that this Wei nobleman was bullying the Qin people and looking down on the Qin people, so he was furious, patted his chest and shouted: "What? Do you look down on me? The words spoken by my Qin people are gold. Wei Yang looked at the annoyed assistant pavilion chief, and hurriedly said good words to appease, and the smiling Su arrived: "No, no." How could I look down on you? I believe. I believe that what you said is golden. Futei chief! The conditions for using this divine fire are very simple, that is: from the day you start using it, first, the whole family must be dressed in the house, and there will be men and women. Because it is a great blasphemy to be exposed to the divine fire without wearing clothes is the same as worshipping the ancestors without wearing clothes.

Second, Shenhuo loves cleanliness. People who wish to eat the food cooked by the Divine Fire should use it in clean utensils, pick it up with clean hands, and use it with a clean mouth, so those who use the Divine Fire should wash the utensils containing the food and use it, and wash their faces, mouths, and hands before and after eating. Just like you worship your ancestors, you use clean utensils to serve sacrificial food before worshipping your ancestors, and after each ancestor worshipper has washed cleanly, they come to worship their ancestors. 、、、、、”

When the assistant pavilion chief heard this, it was so complicated to use a divine fire, so he hurriedly stopped: "Noble, noble!" You wait. You said there was only one condition, how did you say two? It's so troublesome and complicated, I, I'm 、、、、、、."

Wei Qin snorted and sneered: "What? Afraid of trouble and complications, what you say is not gold? Besides, I'm talking about only one condition. Hear me clearly! Is it a family affair to dress up at home? What can't you do? ”

The assistant pavilion chief nodded again and again: "It's a family matter." This is the trouble point, you still have to wear clothes in your own house, but Shenhuo is the same as the ancestors, you should wear it, you should wear it. I did it. ”

Wei Yang snorted: "Okay." Then let me ask you again, when a family eats at home, is it a matter of the family, washing their hands and face, and serving food in clean utensils? Can you do it? ”

Under Wei Yang's step-by-step questioning, the assistant pavilion chief followed Wei Yang's train of thought, and the wolf bΓ¨i returned: "It's a family matter, it's a family business." But the ancestor is only worshiped once a year, and that eating is twice a day. Washing twice a day, more, more trouble、、、、、、"

Wei Yang slapped the kang table, and suddenly asked, "Since it's all a family matter, how many things do you say?" ”

"One thing, one thing." The assistant pavilion chief was suddenly slapped and asked by Wei Yang, and he recognized that it was a family matter.

Wei Yang didn't let go of his hand, grabbed the end of the auxiliary pavilion chief's words* and asked, "Then should you do it?" ”

Under Wei Yang's question, the chief of the auxiliary pavilion was afraid of this noble man of the Wei State, and replied tremblingly: "Should, should." It's just wearing clothes, it's too expensive. A household has to spend more food and make several sets of clothes a year, which can only be done in rich households. ”

Wei Yang's eyes widened, and the triangular eyes were straight * Fu Pavilion Chief: "Then the water that is washed twice a day shouldn't cost money and grain, right?" Anyone who wants to use the Divine Fire should be able to do it, right? ”

The assistant pavilion chief gritted his teeth and returned: "It can be done." ”

Wei Yang's stiff face suddenly relaxed, and he smiled slightly: "Auxiliary Pavilion Chief!" If you want to use the Divine Fire, you have to do these two things. I don't * you either, if you want to use it, you can do what I say, if you don't want to use it, I can't do it. ”

As soon as the auxiliary pavilion chief heard that the nobleman was relieved, he hurriedly said: "Nobleman! We promise to do it. Then when will your divine fire be given to us? I'm going to call someone to move it. ”

Wei Yang smiled: "No. You see! This is the Divine Fire Stone. I saw it in the cave in the cave in the mountain pack when I came by the woods in front of your town. You take this piece of fire, oh, just call your son and knock them down with a hammer. Does every house have a sword? It's good to have it. Send one of these divine flints to each house, and knock them a few more times with your sword, and the divine fire will ignite the clothes line. As for you, take me to see the farmland. Okay? "OK. But you are a nobleman, why do you care about that work? When the assistant pavilion chief heard that the nobleman was still concerned about agricultural affairs, he asked very puzzled. Wei Yang waved his hand: "Farming is the basic of a country, why do you do it?" Don't you ask about farming? "Don't ask. This is managed by Dang Zheng (Dang Zheng, the party is the subordinate of the pavilion chief, so the auxiliary pavilion chief is talking about the official position here). I'm the pavilion chief, how can I farm the fields? The chief of the auxiliary pavilion seemed to be greatly humiliated, and explained to Wei Yang that he was an official. Only then did Wei Yang know that the grassroots officials of the Qin State did not ask about agricultural affairs, and agricultural affairs were managed by the officials at the lowest level, so he smiled: "That assistant pavilion chief!" I invite you! Are you going? How could the assistant pavilion chief not go, and agreed with a smile: "Go." It's not too late to go after the morning meal! Wei Ying nodded with satisfaction, agreed to the assistant pavilion chief, and then took the morning food (breakfast) handed by Nizi. When I took a look at the bowl and the knife in my hand, I knew that Nizi had washed the utensils according to her own requirements, and she was really a teachable person! So he smiled as if praising Niko......