Chapter 300: The First State in the Southeast

Bianshui flows, Surabaya flows, flows to Guazhou Gudutou, Wushan is a little worried.

Thinking about it, hating it, hating it until it is time to return, and the moonlight people lean on the building.

The Bianshui mentioned in Bai Juyi's poem "Sauvignon Blanc" is the Bianhe River, and Surabaya is another river parallel to the Bianhe River, which also flows into Hongze Lake in the end.

Hongze Lake, as the name suggests, you can understand it as a lake formed by flooding. Indeed, at present, Hongze Lake is still only composed of small lakes that are not connected to each other, and has not yet formed a large lake surface.

Thirty years later, that is, in 1128, the Yellow River was diverted, migrating south through Surabaya to seize the lower reaches of the Huai River into the sea, the Huai River lost its inlet channel, and the water was pooled to the east of Xuyi, and the original small lake was expanded into a huge Hongze Lake.

Yang Yi and his entourage passed through Yingtianfu, Hongze Lake, Gaoyou, and Yangzhou, and came to Guazhou Gudutou, where they stayed in Runzhou for two days.

The first day was to go home with Thirteen Niang to meet her eldest brother, second brother, fifth and sixth brother, plus seven aunts and eight aunts, I have to admire my father-in-law Su Song, who has almost developed a nation in the past few decades; There are so many people! Yang Daguan sent gifts to vomit blood, and he doubted that the old man could call all the names of his grandchildren; And this is just the tip of the iceberg, there are many more in Beijing and Fujian.

Seeing that the Su family is so prosperous, and the Yang family is still the only one now, the Yang family began to talk about the thirteen mothers again, and clearly persuaded the Yang officials to hurry up and have a round with Qing Niang.

Thirteen Niang and they are at a loss (it is a woman's responsibility not to have children in this year), one by one they lowered their heads and did not dare to say anything, so they could only wait until the evening, and did their best to squeeze the seeds of hope in Yang Daguanren.

The next day is to go to the Shen family's Mengxi Garden as a guest, pay homage to Shen Kuo, and lend Shen Kuo's brilliant masterpiece "Mengxi Writings", Yang Yi is ready to bring this book back to Hangzhou (Hangzhou's printing technology is currently the world's first), and he funded the best engraving workshop to print 10,000 or 20,000 copies of it, half give it away and half sell it for the benefit of the people.

Printed together with "Mengxi Writings", there will be another book, which is the manuscripts collected by Thirteen Niang who has followed Yang Yi in the past few years, involving knowledge in medicine, agriculture, equipment, navigation and other aspects; For example, surgery, sepsis prevention and control, crop grafting, rice seedling throwing technology, engineering equipment production, navigation sextant, etc., which also included the poems of Yang Yi and Qing Niang, and named this book "Qingqing Pen Talk".

The reason why it was decided to include the poems of Yang Yi and Qing Niang is to use the fame of Yang Yi and Qing Niang to increase the sales of "Qing Qing Pen Talk"; Nowadays, people are not very interested in encyclopedic books, and the addition of Yang Yi and Qing Niang's poems is different, and readers must rush to buy them, which invisibly increases the popularization of science and allows more people to understand these knowledge.

Once each of these technologies is promoted, it will bring huge benefits to the Great Song Dynasty, take the simplest rice seedling throwing technology as an example, if it is transplanting, a person can bend down and work hard for a few days to plant an acre of field, if you use throwing seedlings, a person can easily throw an acre of seedlings in half a day, at most one day, which greatly saves manpower and enhances the growth ability of seedlings.

Of course, in order to convince the people immediately that these technologies were impossible, the Yang family also had fields in Hangzhou, and Yang Yi planned to conduct experiments in his own fields, so that the people could see the results, and then let the government promote them to promote agricultural production in the Great Song Dynasty.

Stop and go, and finally return to Hangzhou two days ago.

At this time, Hangzhou, as the largest state in the southeast, has entered the carnival of the festival in advance, and the prosperity is no less than that of the capital, and all the restaurants and shops are newly decorated to welcome the New Year.

After entering the city, Qing Niang's eyes will see flowers, and the names of those restaurants and tea shops are elegant, such as Sitangchun, Lanling, Lanqiao Fengyue, Qiyun Qinglu and so on; There are also strange and terrifying names to attract customers, such as the famous tea shop opened by Wang's mother's family is called "a cave ghost" tea house.

It is indeed creative and extremely eye-catching.

In order to satisfy Qing Niang, Yang Yi simply asked his mother Yang and the others to go back first, and he took Qing Niang and Li Xiangxian to roam around and then go home.

The crowds on the street are shoulder to shoulder, all kinds of juggling plays abound, those who play "holding gongs and pretending to be ghosts", wearing green and gold flower short clothes, gold soap pants, barefoot with big gongs, pretending to be ghosts, stepping on dance steps and advancing and retreating.

There is also a touching "martial dance": one person dances the flag, and one person somersaults; People flutter in the flag, and the flag rolls in the people.

The "lion and leopard brute card" is another style: many athletes wielding wooden knives, guns and beast-faced shields are stabbing and fighting, and in the "brute card order" played by the band, they change their formation and dance in pairs...... In particular, stunts such as fish jumping over the knife door, calling bees and butterflies, and chasing ants are popular viewing programs in Tokyo, and such wonderful performances can also be seen in Hangzhou, attracting the applause of the people.

The fish jumps over the knife door, that is, the trickster stands in front of the fish tank, as long as the sound is used, the carp in the tank will jump high out of the water and jump over the knife door.

This kind of acrobatics is a long-term training, not illusion, like training to dance the ao, that is, to heat the ground, put the ao on the ground, and suddenly slap the slap to order it to jump the beam, over time, the ao will form a conditioned reflex, even if the ground is not hot, as long as you hear the applause of the same rhythm of the servant, the same will jump the beam. Probably the method of fish jumping knife door is similar to that of training dancers.

To increase the festive atmosphere of the festival is indispensable to the brothel of the green building, the girls wipe their heads and faces, dress up, and the warbler Yanyan performs music and dance in the open space in front of the building, which can attract guests and increase their popularity, and secondly, they can also integrate into the folk and enjoy the joy of the festival with ordinary people.

Hangzhou's fireworks industry is not much worse than the capital, from the upper and lower Baojian Camp, lacquerware wall, Shapi Lane, Qinghefang, Ronghefang, Jianqiao, Xinjie, Houshi Street, to Jinbo Bridge and other two rivers to Washi, there are 36 flower willow lanes; When Su Dongpo was the governor of Hangzhou, he was able to gather thousands of prostitutes to travel at a time, because Hangzhou had a prosperous fireworks industry as a support.

The three of them walked around and took a look, and when they were tired, they ate some tea cakes on the side of the street, such as small wax tea, Qibao tea, and green onion tea; Tofu soup, boiled snails, grouting steamed buns, goose and duck buns, Huai bud Wentao, Yunying noodles, from a few pennies to hundreds of the same diet, you can choose.

The 'He Jiashu' in Houshi Street sells for 500 yuan, which is equivalent to 150,000 yuan a pastry, which can scare the poor eggs into hemiplegia.

The reason why these things are sold so expensive, it is definitely delicious, and the preparation is extremely delicate.

He Jiashu is the secret of the He family, others do not know its production method, but it can be seen from the fine complexity of the production of "Yunying noodles".

The production method of Yunying noodles is: lotus root, lotus, water chestnut, taro, chicken head, water chestnut, mushroom, lily, mixed together, choose clean meat, rotten steam. Dry it with the wind for a while, pound it very fine in the stone mortar, add the sugar and honey from Sichuan, steam it, and then pound it into the mortar, so that the sugar, honey and various raw materials are mixed evenly, and then take it out, make a ball, wait for it to be cold and hard, and then cut it with a clean knife and eat it casually.

The three of them played in the city for a long time, during which they also went to Yang Yi's lacquerware shop to sit down, the Yang family's industry in Hangzhou was managed by the original two guys Song Xiaoan and Tang Guizi, because there was no shortage of funds, the shop expanded a lot more than before.

At dusk, Yang Yi took Qing Niang and Li Xiangxian out of the west gate to go home, last year the old housekeeper Li Gui returned to Hangzhou, the original Yang family's original house expanded, although the original small courtyard remained, but became a small courtyard in the mansion; The new house is extremely elegant, built near the lake, the sorghum Biwa horse head wall, the pavilion water pavilion reflects the lake, the whole compound covers an area of more than 20 acres, a typical Jiangnan garden-style building.

In these years, people have a strong sense of the countryside, pay attention to the fallen leaves and return to the roots, once developed, whether they go back to live for the time being, they will build a house in their hometown, and the Yang family is no exception, she asked Li Gui to come back to build an old house is understandable.

But this elegant new house made Yang Daguan very depressed, if only there was only the original small courtyard, how good it would be!

There is no need to live in separate rooms, anyway, there are two rooms upstairs and downstairs!

One is my mother's, the other is my mother's.

When the time comes, Thirteen Niang, Li Xiangxian, Ming'er, and Qing Niang ....... uh, Qing Niang forget it, let her sleep with my mother first, and all the rest will be slept together, just think about it...... Li Gui, who suffered a thousand cuts! It's okay to expand what kind of house, there is more money to burn? I've worked hard to make money, how easy is it?

"Mother, isn't this newly expanded house going to be re-opened before you can move in?" Yang Daguan is still a little unwilling.

"You don't need to worry about this, your Uncle Li has done everything that should be done, but my son can live in peace." Yang's gaze was kind.

Yang Daguan couldn't help but sigh secretly, alas! It seems that it's not a real mother and son.,There's no heart-to-heart connection.,I don't understand my hardships at all.。

Of course, if Yang really understands his 'hardships', I don't know if he will find a broom to beat him.

Thirteen Niang came back first, she had already gone to see the original courtyard, as shrewd as her, she vaguely guessed the intention of Yang Daguan, and the smile on her face was extremely gentle.

Yang Daguanren swore with his ten-point vision, and he clearly saw the embroidery needle on the cuffs of Thirteen Niang flashed.

According to Yang Daguan's research, in the past, when Thirteen Niang was a daughter of her mother, she never touched the embroidery needle, but now after discovering the special use of the embroidery needle, she has played with the embroidery needle is already the first in the Great Song Dynasty and the second in heaven and earth. She modestly gave the first place to the Weaver Girl in the sky.

Yang Daguan was awe-struck in his heart, and hurriedly asked Ming'er to help change his clothes and go out to pick up guests.

Don't get me wrong, the Yang family is not a green building, the guests he picks up are all visitors from the neighborhood, as the saying goes, no one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and now Yang Yi is developed, back to his hometown, everyone is naturally competing for the icing on the cake.

The world is like this, Yang Yi doesn't care about their previous actions, and everyone who comes to the door treats each other politely and warmly greets each other.

His disregard for past suspicions made some people who had bullied Yang's mother and son feel ashamed before.

(To be continued)