Chapter 182: Four People (2)
After the woman finished speaking, the lotus wind swung away, and the old man let the two into the house!
The house is not big, but the decoration is quite luxurious! All the furniture was new, and the fact that there was bronze and lacquerware that only the rich and noble could afford on the low table surprised the scribes and men! Seeing the surprise on the faces of the two, the old man's face was colorful!
After a while, the woman turned around, holding a huge copper kettle in her hand, looking at the woman's forehead sweating slightly, the copper kettle was quite heavy!
The old man didn't look like he wanted to help, he sat in his position, pointed to the two guests, and said, "Mother-in-law, pour water for the two guests!" ”
The woman glanced at him angrily, and in the blink of an eye, she turned into a charming smile and poured a bowl full of cold boiled water for the man and the scribe!
The two hurriedly thanked them, and then picked up the bowl and drank it in a big gulp!
The woman stood by and saw how fast they were drinking, and knew that they were thirsty, so she filled them up!
After drinking four bowls, the two of them said that they had drunk well, and the woman gave up!
She put down the copper kettle and said to the two: "Two guests, hehe, you wait here for a while, the slave family will go to sell wine and meat, hehe, now the weather is hot and sultry, you guys, eat and rest enough before leaving!" ”
After speaking, she ignored the opposition of the two, glanced at the old man, turned around and walked out of the house!
The old man had been sitting there without saying a word, and at this time, seeing the two guests get up and want to stop his mother-in-law, he got up, grabbed the two, and said, "Two brothers, don't be polite!" Hehe, the weather is too hot today, it's really not a good time to hurry, you guys, just rest here with me, and when it's late and the weather is cool, it's not too late for you to go! ”
The two were helpless, and when they thought about this nasty weather, they had to respond!
The three of them sat in the house, drinking water and chatting, and after a while, the scribe and the man realized that this inconspicuous person in front of them also had a great background!
Geezer...... No, don't look at the wrinkles on his face, as if he is sixty or seventy years old, in fact, he is less than forty years old! It's just that he looks a little old-looking......
This one...... Old man, it's called Chen Liangdao! The reason why he has such a sharp name is that he has a wonderful hand of gelding, gelding, and gelding!
The so-called "gelding" is actually "castration", which is called "castration"!
The gelding has been around since ancient times, especially during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to expand the scale of the cavalry in order to fight against the Huns, the war horse grew to a certain size and castrated! Castrated horses do not estrus, have no temper, and are easier to control. Naturally, cavalry is easier to train!
This kind of work sounds not difficult, but in fact, it is not trivial! After gelding, you can't get inflamed, otherwise the horse will die, and you can't lose too much blood, otherwise the horse will be weak, and so on, pay a lot of attention!
This Chen two knives are powerful, he castrates horses, pigs, cows and other animals, only with two knives, and there will be no adverse effects!
Originally, he was just an ordinary farmer, his home was in Yanzhou, and his family did not have a few acres of thin fields, and his life was very tight! At that time, horses were a scarce resource, and generally only military horses would be gelding, and ordinary people would not gelding at home, so he generally did not need such an ancestral job. Moreover, this job is not a good job, and it is considered to lack yin virtue, so he has not been able to marry a daughter-in-law until he is thirty years old! This may be the reason for his old looks.
I don't know whether to say that he is lucky or unlucky! In the drought the year before last, he almost starved to death, but with his tenacious vitality, he walked to Xuzhou! On the way, he used the only remaining half of the wheat cake to save his current wife, Du Shi, a widow whose husband had just starved to death! The two stumbled all the way, went through many difficulties and dangers, and came to Xuzhou! …,
Just in time for Xuzhou to engage in Tuntian, when the two of them were on the road, Du Shi was infected by his kind heart and already planned to marry him, so the two were assigned to one place.
When they were ready to start their lives again, it was also his fate, just in time for Xuzhou to start raising a large number of pigs! The families that cooperated with the Mi family and the Tian family in various places took out a large amount of grain to make wine, and the two families produced the technology, and the rest of the families were responsible for the fermentation process. After the distillation was completed, the remaining large amount of distiller's lees could not be used by the two families at all, so they sold it half and gave it to various farmers nearby!
As a result, Xuzhou began to raise a large number of pigs! Pork, if it is pork that has not been gelding, tastes very bad, naturally, in this case, someone needs to do this kind of work!
The second spring of Chen Liangdao is coming! He has a gelding foundation, learns nature very quickly, and learns it well! After the gelding killed the two pigs in Mintun, his skills improved by leaps and bounds, and after a few days of hard work, he already had the level of a gelding!
Last year, the recruitment hall was completed to recruit all kinds of talents. Chen Liangdao also went, and, it was an honor to get Tian Fan's personal interview! After Tian Fan learned about his ability, he also attached great importance to it, and immediately transferred people from all over the country who were willing to learn this kind of partial technique to be his disciple!
He is kind and honest, and without the slightest concealment, he passed on the technology in his hands! In this way, in Xuzhou, he already has hundreds of disciples, and he can be regarded as a great character!
As soon as the words came out, the pork you ate was all from me, or from my disciples! How bullish?
In this way, his identity soared rapidly in this small Mintun, and at the end of last year, he was elected as the tun chief!
At the beginning of the year, Liu Bei summoned the commanders of the military and Mintun in Xuzhou who had made outstanding achievements, as well as some famous Lizheng people in various regions, to rush to Xiapi for a banquet...... The so-called "outstanding achievements" and "famous", that is to say, those tun chiefs and lizheng who handed in the most grain!
Chen Liangdao was also fortunate to participate, and what made him extremely excited was that the great nobleman in his heart, Tian Fan, still remembered him and drank a bowl of wine with him! And Liu Bei, another noble person in his heart, also nodded to him and said two words!
At the banquet, Liu Bei specifically said that if there are strangers passing by in Xuzhou, whether they are literati or warriors, even if they are craftsmen, you should pay more attention, if you want to take refuge in Xuzhou, you should give more convenience, if you want to spy on Xuzhou information, especially agricultural information, you must be more careful, do not leak, if possible, you can be captured, the government has a reward!
This is the reason why Xuzhou agriculture's advanced agricultural farming technology is difficult to be known by the outside world! It used to be the unconscious protection of the peasants, but now, it is conscious protection! is also the reason why Chen Liangdao entertained the two so warmly!
He was not rushing for that reward, but for Tian Fan and Liu Bei who gave him a good life!
He had caught a few spies, of course, he was tricked into the tunzi and let those young men catch them, so he naturally saw that the two people in front of him were not spies! If it was a spy, he would have started to ask about farming a long time ago!
And the song "Hoe He" was also made by Tian Fan with the strength of wine at that banquet...... Raid the ground! He said at the time that this poem was written for these peasants, and it is not easy to write about peasants!
Therefore, Chen Liangdao loves it very much, although he doesn't understand the meaning of the poem, but he knows that he writes about farmers like himself! He was illiterate, and it took a lot of effort for him to memorize the four sentences, a total of twenty words of poetry, but ...... He often recited the wrong order......
Of course, in the latter paragraph, Chen Liangdao will not tell these two people. But from these words, the men and scribes have learned a lot of information! …,
Although they didn't understand the reason for Chen Liangdao's enthusiasm, they could feel that Chen Liangdao didn't seem to have malicious intent!
The three of them talk about it, but it's also happy! Unconsciously, half an hour has passed, but the Du clan still hasn't come back!
Chen Liangdao couldn't help but be a little anxious! If it was normal, she should have come back a long time ago?
Don't look at Chen Liangdao's vicious appearance in front of the Du family, showing the style of eleven big men, in fact, it is only like this when there are guests! If there are no guests, the situation between the two is just the opposite! Du's is the sky, and Chen's two knives are the earth!
He was almost forty years old, and he married such a wife, who was diligent and beautiful, and naturally, he was very darling! However, he thinks that he is already a figure with a head and a face, so he discussed with Du Shi in private, closed the door and opened, the two of them can do whatever they want, as soon as the door opens, he must be the head of the family! Du Shi also understands him, and she also thinks that her man does have a head and a face, so she naturally wants to give him a long face!
Just as Chen Liangdao was getting more and more anxious and impatient, and was about to go out to look for it, he suddenly heard a chaotic sound coming from far and near!
I heard one person shout, "I'm not a spy!" I'm not a spy, I just want to ask how this land is grown! Oops, you let go! ”
One man rebuked: "You are not a spy, why are you asking about these agricultural matters?" Don't talk nonsense with me, do you think I'm a fool? ”
Another shouted, "Little brother, don't do it!" Hehe, this, we are really not spies, but we are very curious about Xuzhou farming! Oh, I said little brother, don't you do it? ”
"Don't talk nonsense! Our tun chief said that if you see anyone asking about farming, you should bring it to him and let him see it! If our tun chief says that you are not a spy, I will apologize to you, if you are a spy, hehehe...... We'll send you to the government! Let's go, don't grind! I'm telling you, our eyes are very poisonous, don't try to play tricks! ”
Du's voice sounded, "That's it, I'll just say, they must be spies!" When he saw me, he didn't have a few words to ask about farming, he must not be a good person! ”
The previous voice said: "Okay, little brother, this lady, I'll go with you, don't do it!" Hehe, I want to see your tun chief too! ”
Hearing this voice, the men and scribes in the room suddenly understood! They looked at Chen Liangdao, and the man asked, "Chief Chen Tun, you don't think that we are also spies, right?" ”
Chen Liangdao's face was colorful, and he smiled: "No, hehe, if I thought you were also spies, then your treatment would be the same as the two outside!" ”
The two of them laughed, and the scribe said, "In that case, let's take a look at these two spies together?" ”
Chen Liangdao nodded and said with a smile: "That's very good!" ”