Chapter 8: Wonderland
There is a saying among the people that no matter how much wine you drink, it is also drunk in the stomach of a person, not in the stomach of a donkey, which means that even if you are drunk, you are still a person and should be sensible.
Mu Ziqi is drinking like this now, although he speaks a little incoherently and openly, but his heart is transparent.
He immediately explained, "Don't you see that we are dressed very differently? ”
The three of them nodded.
"Could it be-" Mu Ziqi saw that no one poured wine for him, so he simply took the wine jug himself, and poured it into his cup, and Brother Xiwen hurriedly said to Xiwen: "Why don't you pour wine for the guest officer quickly." ”
Xiwen didn't have a long look, she felt that Mu Ziqi was a little too drunk, and she didn't want him to drink too much, after her brother's mention, she hesitated slightly.
Mu Ziqi stared at her with hazy drunken eyes and asked her, "What, don't you want to drink?" ”
The elder brother hurriedly said: "The guest officer must not humiliate me so much, there is a lot of wine at home, all of it is brewed by me alone, what is there to be reluctant to give up, since the guest officer loves it so much, it doesn't hurt for you to drink more, just a little, pay attention to your body, don't get drunk." ”
Everyone knows that drunk people usually don't want to be told that they are drunk, and Mu Ziqi is the same, he is a little unaccustomed to hearing it, he stretched out his hand, and staggered to Brother Xia Wen and said: "What you said is insincere, you are reluctant, and you still refuse to admit it, right?" ”
He turned to Xiwen and asked her with a hippie smile, the more Mu Ziqi looked at her now, the more he felt that he liked her so much, if there was no presence of her brother and sister-in-law, he would definitely hold her in his arms.
Although Xiwen was happy, she didn't dare to show her admiration too much in front of her brother and sister-in-law, and only said that she should pay attention to his body.
"Even you say that?" Mu Ziqi was happy again, "How do you say you're good-"
He picked up a full glass of wine, drank it all, wiped his mouth, and suddenly remembered a question: "Where did you just go?" ”
Xiwen reminded in a whisper: "You said that the clothes are different. ”
"Oh, that's right," Mu Ziqi patted his head and said mockingly, "So, I'm really drunk?" ”
He raised the wine glass, and when he saw that it was empty, he glanced at Xiwen, who thought that he still wanted to let him pour more wine for him, but Mu Ziqi suddenly put the glass on the table, and said again and again: "You can't drink it, what you just said makes sense, this wine is too strong, it's not good to drink too much, you want to make a joke, it's like this when you meet for the first time, it's not a proper system." ”
As he read, he suddenly turned the glass over again, because he thought that it was extremely impolite for Yizhen to buckle the wine glass on the wine table: "Or, let's have some tea." ”
The elder brother saw it, and hurriedly asked his wife to send the tea over, poured it for Mu Ziqi, Mu Ziqi saw that the tea was poured out and was green, he understood that the tea must be very good, but because he drank so much wine, some of them could not taste good, despite this, after taking a sip, he suddenly felt very different, this tea gave people a refreshing feeling, especially after drinking too much wine, drinking two cups, there must be a decanting effect.
He wiped his mouth and praised again and again: "Good tea, good tea!" ”
Brother Xia Wen was full of joy when he heard this, and said to Mu Ziqi: "This is my family's self-produced tea, selected from the best varieties, carefully cultivated, during which various procedures have extremely strict regulations, such as watering must be before sunrise, to be watered three times, with an interval of not less than half an hour.
"Weeding must also be done at noon, so that after the grass is removed, it will immediately be wilted by the sun and cannot be resurrected.
"Fertilization also follows strict methods and methods, using soybean meal, bran and the like, soaked in warm water for a month, after sunset, poured into the ditch, in order to exert the greatest and best effect......"
The elder brother also seemed to be a little drunk, and wanted to go on, but was stopped by his wife: "Husband, don't continue to talk, let's listen to the guest officer." ”
"Yes, yes," the elder brother came to his senses, smiled embarrassedly, and got up to pour tea for Mu Ziqi.
Mu Ziqi hurriedly said, "Big brother sits, I'll come by myself," he said and took the pot, poured it full, drank it, and praised it again.
After drinking for a while, he felt a little sober, and continued: "I don't know what dynasty you have here, according to the Gregorian calendar, it is already June 2014, and the weather is about to heat up, which means that it is about to enter the summer ......."
Mu Ziqi's words were about to be far away, but as soon as they met, the three people in front of them looked at each other, so they stopped talking and asked them: "You are-"
The elder brother replied with trepidation: "We have lived here for 20 years, and we have only heard from the elders that our ancestors were looking for a treasure of feng shui and were ordered by a warlock to find this place.
When I saw the picturesque scenery here, it was beautiful, and my heart was happy, so my family moved here.
Come to think of it, it should have been about a few hundred years since then, and the mountains here are high and the emperor is far away, and there has never been any disturbance from the government or the like.
Although they are isolated from the world and do not know what year it is, the people live and work in peace and contentment, live a prosperous life, and live a very quiet and comfortable life.
Hearing this, Mu Ziqi couldn't help but think of a verse:
The knot is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses. Ask you how you can be, and your heart is far away from yourself. Under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums, you can see Nanshan leisurely. The mountain weather is good, and the birds are returning. There is a true meaning in this, and I have forgotten to distinguish it.
When I was in school, the teacher once said that there are two ideal societies in human society, one is a primitive society and the other is a communist society.
The teacher said: Primitive society is a type of social organization in the theory of cultural anthropology, based on kinship relations, based on matriarchal society, with a small population and an egalitarian distribution method for economic life. Control over society is maintained by tradition and patriarchy, without customary law and government authority. In a typical primitive society, there is no full-time leader. People of the same age and sex have the same social status. In the event of a dispute, mediation is conducted in accordance with traditional norms, which are generally observed.
As a social form, the ownership of the means of production in communist society is completely public, and the basic means of subsistence are distributed according to needs, that is, everyone contributes to the society to the best of his ability and takes it according to his own needs. In order to realize a communist society, it is necessary to realize the differentiation of families, form a structure unique to communist society, objectively rely on the public ownership of the means of production and the communist mode of distribution, and form a social mechanism for equality for all and a dynamic system for promoting economic and social development.
In both societies, people can maximize what they need to distribute.
But one of the two is long gone, and it is impossible to come back, and the other is unattainable, can only stay in the ideal, and I don't know how many generations it will take to realize it, and now no one is thinking about those things at all.
It's exciting to see that I'm in a dream now, how can I not be surprised!
He happily said to them: "It is a great blessing for you to live in such an environment, which is a blessed land that many people have pursued all their lives and cannot reach.
"Like our society, people are drunk with money, lust for profit, deceitful to others, self-interested, and do not hesitate to kill people and sell goods for the sake of small profits, and kill people for money.
"The current society is already a chronic disease, and it is difficult to return, and people are indignant, but they cannot escape the sea of suffering.
"Okay, this is really a nowhere to find the iron shoes, it takes no effort to get it, since it is in such an ideal social environment, what else to say, so let's-"
I don't know if it's over-excited or what, here, Mu Ziqi only felt that he had completely sobered up, he learned the style of the ancients in film and television, moved the chair, fluttered his sleeves a few times, and then read in his mouth: "Brother and sister-in-law are above, it's not just Mu Ziqi who is polite here." ”
was about to kneel down to his brother and sister-in-law, but was stopped by Xiwen, Xiwen's brother came over in a panic to help him up, and said repeatedly: "Don't be like this, don't be like this, you and I should be peers, won't I be flattered?" Come, come, come! ”
"I am willing to stay here, and I hope my brother and sister-in-law will not be disgusted." Mu Ziqi said excitedly.
The brother and sister-in-law were very happy, and while instructing the family to clean up, they brought Mu Ziqi to the tea table, and the two sat down, let Xiwen pour tea again, and talk to her.
Before you know it, it's night.
At this time, there was a quarrel outside, Mu Ziqi wanted to ask Xiwen's brother, and his sister-in-law said to him: "Don't worry about them, this must be those family members frolicking." ”
The light was a little dim, Mu Ziqi was about to say: Why don't you light the lamp, and when she was looking for a light switch, Xiwen's sister-in-law brought two huge red candles, this kind of candle Mu Ziqi only saw his parents use it when he was very young, and it is rare so far, quite strange, he watched his sister-in-law use a stone to put on the cotton yarn in Xiwen's hand, and hit it, Mu Ziqi immediately understood that this was a fire sickle.
He thought that it would take an unknown number of times to light the fire, but he was very skilled, so he led the rope and lit the candles, and the house lit up.
Mu Ziqi felt very interesting, and thought to himself, although it is not as bright as ours, it is quite interesting.
Mu Ziqi knew that this method of artificial "fire-making" was widely used in ancient times.
In the course of conquest of nature, humans have discovered that some stones can burst into sparks when they are struck, and this spark can ignite plants and trees to form a source of fire. People collected such stones and called them "flints"; I also found some substances that are easy to ignite, "velvet" is one of them, and the cotton yarn in Xiwen's hand is "velvet".
These two things are often put together and used to light a fire at any time. However, once the velvet was wet, it was difficult to ignite and had to be properly preserved, so people made a wallet to store it, and a piece of metal to hit it, which gradually evolved into the later fire sickle.