Chapter 152: The Lady is Popular
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The ladies were amazed, Mrs. Xu is the family they are very clear, she is the second wife of the Marquis of Qinghe, the Xu family is not a high-ranking family, her father Guannei Hou Xu Shan, in the court as a thousand stone petty officials for a lifetime, when he is old, he was released to Lu as the minister of state for a few years, and then retired with a rank of 2,000 stones.
Mrs. Xu was the eldest in the family, married to the Zheng family as a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to a daughter to the Zheng family when she entered the door, but she was very sad that her husband fell from a horse and died, and had to leave her daughter home to be widowed and wait for the opportunity to remarry.
Coincidentally, that year, the marquis of Qinghe did not harm his wife and died, the old widower in his thirties did not even have a son and a half daughter in private, the daughters of the princes of other families were unwilling to marry the old widowers, and the concubines could not enter the eyes of the king.
At that time, the Marquis of Qinghe had a long face, and he regretted that he had delayed his precious time, and the young Diamond King Lao Wu became a rotten cabbage that no one wanted.
As a last resort, Wang Buxian had no choice but to pick a general from the lame man, and chose Mrs. Xu, who had given birth to a child with normal fertility, as his second wife.
The two are halfway husband and wife, Mrs. Xu is in her early twenties and looks good, and it is very easy for a married woman to serve the king. But the couple have been busy for several years, and they have not been pregnant, which makes the two of them anxious.
Not being able to have children was one of the things that the ancients feared the most.
In order to have children. Wang Buxiao tried all kinds of methods to no avail, and finally when he asked Hou Cao of Pingyang, he borrowed Feng Yigong from the Hou Mansion for treatment for a few months, and sure enough, she was pregnant with a child.
Pregnant with the lineage of the Qinghe Hou family, Mrs. Xu suddenly became a great hero of the old Wang family, and she usually walked with high spirits.
"I also have a lot of thanks to Doctor Feng of Pingyang Hou Mansion, acupuncture and medicine to regulate the viscera. I was busy with all the work, and I had to toss me twice a night. If I hadn't conceived a child, I don't know how much sin I would have suffered. Mrs. Xu complained as she spoke, the expression on her face was smug, and there was a little bit of suffering and suffering.
"Two times in one night? Every day? ”
Mrs. Xu curled the corners of her mouth: "Every day!" My prince has to eat the stuff on the cow every day. There are also sea cucumbers and oysters, which are tossed endlessly, and the most powerful ones are half an hour at a time. ”
The eyes of the ladies are about to pop out, the Marquis of Qinghe is not harmful, he can not wilt all day long, and he can toss his mother-in-law twice a day, and more importantly, the Wang family has a queen, it is the old Wang family who has not given birth to a son and a half daughter for more than 20 years, how many people are sighing that the overall situation of the old Wang family's heir has been decided, and the king will get rid of the feudal country on the back foot of the Qinghe Marquis.
"Don't you believe me? Just ask Princess Yangxin. The medical workers and his wife in Pingyang Houfu are extremely powerful, the female medical workers who treat the diseases of the rich in Sanniang, and her husband Feng Yigong is a senior apprentice of Canggong. Even Pingyang Hou's illness was cured by him. ”
The women turned their heads and looked into the pavilion.
Liu Wan was accompanying several Mrs. Lihou out of the pavilion, and was slightly stunned when she saw everyone's gaze, and then saw Mrs. Xu showing off with a five-month-pregnant belly, and smiled softly: "I heard that Mrs. Xu was in the house a few days ago and couldn't go out, so I estimated that Mrs. Xu should almost come out and walk around these days." Sure enough, I saw you as soon as I walked in the door today. ”
"Thanks to the care of the Marquis of Pingyang, it is too late for the Marquis of my family to be grateful. Before I came out today, I was instructed by my marquis that even if I bought the clothes of the Pingyang Marquis's mansion, I could change them one day. Mrs. Xu's eyebrows fluttered, and she pointed to a few long hangers to wrap them up, fully showing the tyrant side of the ladies and gentlemen.
The ladies recovered from their surprise and saluted Princess Yangxin with a smile on her face.
The ladies present are all noble daughters of extraordinary origins, although they are also the wives of the main house of the liehou family, but the women must also be divided into three, six, nine and so on, which liehou's wife is rich, which liehou's wife is noble, just like the liehou chasing power and interests, women also have to compare ugly and ugly.
Obviously, in the circle of honorable people, Princess Yangxin is the most respected, the daughter of Gaozong, the eldest sister of the Son of Heaven, and the wife of the Hou family of Wanhu, and layers of halos are shrouded in her body, as if her body is painted with golden brilliance.
Golden branches and jade leaves, golden boys and jade girls, golden jade good fate.
There are too many halos on Princess Yangxin's head, and now she enjoys the same treatment as Princess Jiangyi more than 30 years ago, the difference is that her status is higher than that of Princess Jiangyi, her personality is better than that of Princess Jiangyi, and her popularity is also the best one among the princesses who married the princes.
Yangxin princess Liu Wan, one person snatched most of the halo of the princess's three sisters, her happy life and Pingyang Hou Mansion are becoming more and more prosperous, becoming the most beautiful love story in Chang'an City, compared to the Tangyi Hou up and down the miasma, inside and outside the mess, the princess of the pavilion Tao has a very poor and unpleasant reputation, and the Hou Chen Chan is messing around in the willow lane of the flower street, which makes people feel disgusted and disgusted.
Liu Wan is always smiling, maneuvering among many noble ladies with ease, she enjoys such a beautiful life, the satisfaction of making her own clothes and selling them all over the city, as well as the terrifying profits of earning 100 gold a day, and the supreme privilege of the stars holding the moon.
"My aunt's misfit may have something to do with her fate, and my jealousy has something to do with her fate." Liu Wan suddenly felt a little sympathetic to her aunt, the old and decrepit and angry princess Liu Yan, an old woman who had no worries about food and clothing, lived an unhappy life.
In the past ten years, the scenery has never left the big stage of Chang'an City, in fact, her status is just an accessory of the Empress Dowager Dou, and the nobles of the Beijing Division look at her as if they are looking at a noble lady dog raised by the Dou family, although she is very noble and beautiful, but her essence is still not a person with a mature mind and a normal status.
Without the old lady of the Dou family to support her, she would be an unknown wildflower on the side of the road. It withers and withers in the cold wind until it gradually dies.
The princess of the pavilion Tao has never had a smooth day when she arrived since she was a child, and she was treated indifferently by Emperor Taizongwen when she was a child, and she was chosen as the worst and most dishonorable widower when she got married. What's even more strange is that Tangyi Hou Chen Wu also brought an oil bottle Chen Jixu, so that her young bride became a stepmother.
Husband Chen Wu has a weak personality and mediocre ability, which is already very uncomfortable, and he is the most useless and the most disinterested small font in the liehou, and he doesn't even have the confidence to say a word every time he participates, and the circle of the liehou ladies has always revolved around Princess Jiangyi. forced Liu Concubine to simply get rid of the idea of clinging to the Liehou Group, and moved closer to the arms of her mother Dou Yifang. Unexpectedly, the Liehou Group simply deprived Tangyi Hou of his qualifications to participate in the conference, kicked out of the circle and played as much as he wanted.
Since then, Liu Yan's life has completely collapsed, and she can't enter the circle of princes and kings. In addition to attaching to her own mother Dou Yifang and the cousin of the Dou family, she has no better choice, so she is crazy to find a marriage in the palace for her children, and crazy to offer a beautiful singer to Emperor Gaozongjing as a wife, just thinking about serving her younger brother Liu Qi to stabilize her position, so as to keep her right to speak in Chang'an from being suppressed or even deprived.
"Princess Yangxin, can you tell us about the characteristics of Hou Mansion's new perfume?"
Liu Wan came back to her senses and said with a smile: "The newly launched perfumes are roses. Jasmine, magnolia, lilac, musk and other mono-fragrance perfumes, as well as a variety of mixed perfumes. With the exclusive secret recipe of Houfu, it can repel mosquitoes and prevent bites, and the effect from the market feedback is very good. ”
"Oops, there are so many new fragrance types launched, last time I bought a bottle of lily flower fragrance, my family Junhou likes it very much, this time I want to buy a few more bottles."
"I love the jasmine type. The fragrance of roses is too bright and heavy, and I can't get used to smelling it. ”
"I'm the opposite of your preferences. The fragrance of jasmine is too plain, and the woman's family should wear some fragrant perfume. ”
"I'm more traditional, so I'll use musk."
"Lilac type, bring me a bottle."
"Bring me a bottle of mixed incense and try it."
The perfume made by the Pingyang Hou Mansion was snatched up, this batch of perfume was carefully fired in white porcelain bottles, the capacity was the size of a medium cup, the cheapest single fragrance type was sold for 5 gold a bottle, and the most expensive multiple mixed fragrance type was fried to a sky-high price of 1oo gold a bottle.
There are many reasons for the high price, the process of collecting natural fragrances is complicated, and the technology of making zuò perfume is not skilled.
But the profits are also very staggering, and before that, women had to rely on incense and sachets to increase the concentration of aromas in their bodies, which required a long smoking process, which was inefficient and very troublesome.
Perfume is applied to the body, the fragrance is fragrant in a moment, the amount of spray according to personal preference determines the intensity of the smell, and the simplicity and practicality determine the acceptance of the market.
Even if it's expensive.
For ladies who have money and have nowhere to spend, the problems that money can solve are not a problem.
Moreover, the advertising leaflet of the garment factory says that a small bottle of perfume can last from a few months to a year, and the fragrance is applied every day and has an amazing long-lasting charm.
Calculate the incense money invested in a year, in fact, it is not much cheaper than buying perfume, and Chang'an women with a little family resources will buy a bottle.
"Selling 1oo bottles of perfume a day, 2,000 stockings, and 3,000 pieces of clothes, the concubine can make a living, right?"
"From the daily gold to the daily gold, the paper and iron smelting workshop for the husband does not make money in the garment workshop, Xijun is not only smart and virtuous, but also the female god of wealth of my Cao family." Cao Shi smiled and hugged her waist, unconsciously Princess Yangxin's figure was taller and plump, and her body curve was much better than a year ago.
After the New Year, Liu Wan was seventeen years old, and she was only seventeen years old when it was hottest in summer.
"The gentleman's mouth is smeared with honey, and he says something nice to tease me."
"Don't you say that I still forgot that there is this stubble, all the towns outside Chang'an City are equipped with beehives, and there are 5,000 beehives neatly arranged at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, those mountain flowers and wild flowers are harvested into honey, and they are the best nourishing desserts to be taken out in summer and autumn.
Stone honey was so valuable that it was trafficked from as far away as Magadha (northern India) to Chang'an for several years. In contrast, the dignitaries of the dynasty preferred all-natural specialties as a substitute, and honey was the best substitute.
But the price of honey is not cheap, and wild honey must go deep into the mountains. At the risk of being attacked by jackals, tigers, leopards, poisonous insects and beasts, he shuttled through the vast forest and sea to find it, and worked hard to dig out a little bit of honey.
The price of inefficient and inferior honey remains high, and the small honey is also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the inferior honey is as thin as water, the slightly better honey is viscous as fat, and the superior honey is as clear as amber. The best is called royal jelly, and it is a treasure that cannot be bought with gold. The same weight is only afraid of stone honey and honey is not worth much.
Due to the extremely high price of high-grade honey, those rare treasures can only be used as a tonic for the royal family and nobles, and few are used to flavor dishes.
"All the fathers and villagers are optimistic that each acre of land must be rotated separately. Choose three acres of land adjacent to each other, one acre of land to plant corn, one acre to plant beans, one acre of land to plant vegetables, and wait until one season of harvest has passed, you can turn around and plant another stubble, two seasons a year in rotation, and then apply manure and green manure to keep the soil strength is not lost, after the winter. We can grow a new crop of grain again. ”
The construction of the racecourse entered the final stage of renovation, and seeing that there was no need for so many manpower on the construction site, Zheng Tong discussed with Gongbu to withdraw all the Zhuangzi under the Hou Mansion. For the sake of the two or three thousand labor quotas, it is not worth grabbing the head with acquaintances in ten miles and eight townships, and when I returned to the Zhuangzi and had nothing to do, I picked up the crops again, and learned the farming skills taught by the Hou Mansion in a few days.
Today, he took a few villagers from Nanzhuang to the township of Du County, dozens of miles away, to do agricultural promotion, but he could not learn the real skills by relying only on the onlookers who were three floors away from the third floor, and he delayed a lot of time and blocked the traffic to bring criticism. Cao Shi simply asked the Zhuang people under the Hou Mansion to take people to the villages to teach farming techniques by hand.
"Brother Zheng, may I ask a question?"
"Second Brother Lu, please speak."
"We croppers all know the role of crop rotation. As the saying goes, if you plant in the field for two years, you have to abandon the land for a year, plant in the middle field for one year and abandon the land for one year, and plant in the field for one year and abandon the land for two years. ”
"No need to abandon it."
"What?" Second Brother Lu stared at the bull's eye: "Don't you want to tell me that I can't read and write, and if I don't abandon the land, can I survive for three years?" Can you stand the soil consumption of two crops a year? ”
The villagers of Xiaoxizhuang nodded, in the early years of slash-and-burn farming, only one crop of grain was planted and the land was kept by abandoning the land every three or five times, as early as Houji, he taught the ancestors the skills of farming, and said to the farmers that farming would not be abandoned, just like saying to Confucianism that Confucius had not read as absurd.
"That's why we have to use these three kinds of crop rotation, beans and vegetables consume less soil power, corn consumes slightly more soil power, timely application of base fertilizer and fertilizer can keep the soil fertility will not decay, the role of fertilizer is the same as we go down the river to dig the river mud and sprinkle it into the ground."
Although I don't understand how useful it is to dig river mud, but when the river mud enters the land to make corn seedlings grow vigorously, no one will question the tradition passed down from the ancestors, which is the most primitive fertilization method.
Second Brother Lu snapped his fingers and said for a long time: "I probably figured it out, but why do you have to bother with crop rotation, wouldn't it be more convenient to have one season of corn and one season of beans." ”
"No, my family has said, the rotation of crops lies in the different soil absorption of each vegetable and grain, I don't know much about the specific absorption of soil force, in short, the consumption of several kinds of soil fertility is an average decline, with manure and green manure supplement is also enough, less green vegetables consumption is uneven, we must not save trouble on the cultivated land, in case of improper operation to let the field become the field, clay yellow sand is very bad."
Second Brother Lu was frightened, he could hear a lot of interesting stories every year in Guanzhong, it is more common for bastard boys who don't know how to grow crops to spoil Ueda, clay sand is a bit alarmist, Ueda becomes Nakata is enough to be sad, there is no careful care for three years and five years, don't think about raising the broken Ueda again, the cost of investing back and forth is as high as the sky.
In order to protect their cultivated land, the peasants would rather cultivate less land than blindly increase production, and it is better to endure hunger than to have nothing to eat after the land is finished.
"Combined with the manure rotten biogas digester, the dead branches and rotten leaves of Nanshan, and the silt in the canal are enough for ordinary field farming, but considering that the soil fertility of each county is different, and the water quality introduced is also different, it cannot be guaranteed that the land of each Zhuangzi does not need to be fallowed.
The villagers laughed, and a few pungent women shouted: "If Datian is also fat, thin, beautiful and ugly, then my Datian is a strong young man, and the corn grown is full of grains." ”
The old people grinned with few teeth, and smiled: "Daughter-in-law of the Li family, how do you know that your Datian is a strong young man?" Old man, I said, that is a little daughter-in-law who can give birth to and raise, how can there be so much food if she can't give birth and raise. ”
Now the people laughed more happily, the women smiled back and closed their mouths, and the unbridled folk customs in the countryside did not care about taking advantage of their mouths.
Several women were teased and did not care, but proudly boasted of their strong land.
Ten miles away from another Zhuangzi, hundreds of villagers gathered in front of the big pit at the head of the village, staring at the men in the Zhuangzi building a pond.
"The biogas digester must be built with good green bricks, and must not be replaced by cheap red bricks in order to save trouble, green bricks are moisture resistant and corrosion-resistant, red bricks have no other benefits in addition to being strong, and red bricks can be used to build houses, and the construction project must not cut corners, otherwise the rotten manure and unclean things will bring trouble to the land."
Zheng Laozhi explained endlessly with his hands behind his back, and from time to time pointed out the sweaty busyness of the 100th man in the big pit.
"In principle, it is better to use clinker cement, but considering the high cost of cement firing, the pollution is large, and the slightest accident will hurt the villagers, my family Junhou will promote raw material cement, sand and clay lime is easy to take local materials, mix and beat and compact in proportion, and it doesn't matter if the surface layer is thicker and more knocked."
"There is another one, the sewer dug for you must be used, every household has a water storage tank to use, all the domestic wastewater is discharged from there, don't be too troublesome to dump outside, the manure is poured into the biogas digester by domestic wastewater, if you don't do this, the pool will be empty in a few years, and there will be no fertilizer available." (To be continued)
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