After breakfast, Ziyou was going to find Uncle Wang, who was building a school, and his party.

The school is about to be completed today, and Ziyou is going to discuss the expansion of his home with Uncle Wang.

After catching a few rabbits in the mountains during this time.

Aunt Cui and Ziyou calculated the price of rabbits now, and felt that it was feasible to raise rabbits.

Rabbits reproduce quickly, plus the first rabbit gave birth to a litter of eight.

Lady Cui already has more than 20 rabbits in her family, and she sees that there are more rabbits day by day.

The baby rabbits born also need to be quarantined, and Aunt Cui can't be busy alone.

Ziyou proposed while it was hot, asked the eldest lady to move over, and then changed the yard of Cui's eldest mother into a special place for breeding rabbits.

Aunt Cui also understands in her heart that the problem of the lack of space for rabbits is that Ziyou is worried that she lives alone.

Ziyou and Aunt Cui said that they were two families, but in fact, there were only three of them, they had long treated each other as relatives, and they had eaten and drunk together, so it was convenient to move over.

As soon as I arrived at the school, I saw Grandpa Hu holding a piece of paper in his hand, and when he saw Ziyou, he handed it over.

"I heard that you are going to the town tomorrow, so you just want to help me bring some things, so I will buy them according to this list."

As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his arms and handed it to Ziyu.

At a glance, the list is full of the varieties and quantities of some good pen, ink, paper, and inkstones.

"Grandpa Hu, why don't you buy books?"

Ziyou looked at the list and asked curiously.

"The books in the bookstore are expensive, so it's a lot cheaper to buy some paper and come back and find someone to copy it."

Grandpa Hu replied as he pressed his finger on a simple blackboard made of lime.

"Aren't the books in the bookstore printed? Shouldn't it be cheap? Ziyou asked in surprise.

"Where did you hear that, kid?"

Grandpa Hu turned his head to look at Ziyou, took out the handkerchief from his arms, and wiped his hands.

"Books like the Four Books and Five Classics, and the Three Hundred Thousand Thousand Books in the bookstore are cheaper than other books, but they are also much more expensive than hand-copied."

"I didn't expect ancient labor to be so cheap!"

Ziyou didn't pay attention, and said what was in his heart.

Grandpa Hu understood, "It's not cheap, just take this paper as an example, like the paper you hold in your hand, there is no way to print, the paper that can be printed is a lot more expensive, and the paper is also man-made, isn't it?" Not to mention engravings. ”

As soon as he heard what Grandpa Hu said, Ziyou understood.

In this era, there may already be movable type printing, but even if movable type printing is invented, there is not much that can be changed in the short term.

Ziyou thought of a paper written by a friend of mine who studied the history of printing.

The main thing is movable type printing, which was invented during the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, until modern times, it has not been widely used, and movable type printing is too expensive and laborious.

A more intuitive example is that in the late Qing Dynasty, it took more than 20 years and more than 200,000 taels of silver to engrave more than 400,000 copper movable characters in italics.

Ziyou still remembers a sentence that his friend sighed at that time.

"It seems to be a small step for human civilization, but when it comes to the individual era, it is a gap that cannot be bridged."

"yes, the chasm!"

Ziyu suddenly wanted to jump over that chasm in a gentle way.

In the past, it was difficult for people to cross because they did not know where the ditch was.

It must be like this, Ziyou thought to himself.

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After discussing with Fifth Uncle Wang, Ziyou came out of the school.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the house, I saw Aunt Cui coming out of her house with a rabbit.

"I don't know what you said about eating rabbits cold, it's not easy to do."

Ziyou looked at Aunt Cui with a heavy face and laughed in her heart, knowing that she was distressed about the spices she bought in the town.

I did buy a bit too much.

After determining that the village was going to build a school, Ziyou went to the town.

Mainly inquired about the rabbit market and bought spices.

In this era, there were already spices such as chili peppers and Sichuan peppers, but the current name of chili peppers is sea pepper, and they are not sold as edible spices, and the price is a little expensive.

Ziyou went to Baicaotang to take the "Daqing Law" to Xiao Huai after buying spices at that time, and she now has a general understanding of the official system, military system, legal system, field system, and school system of this dynasty.

Ziyou thought, and his hand didn't stop, and he stepped forward to take the rabbit with one hand.

Holding Aunt Cui with the other hand, she said, "I promise, it will definitely be delicious, and I will let you taste my real craftsmanship at noon today." Ziyou thought to himself that it was time to show the real technology.

After arriving home, Ziyou saw from the window that Ashin was still copying books.

Because Ziyou said that the book was borrowed, and he wanted to find someone to copy it, Ashin said that he would copy it himself.

It should be possible to copy it today, and Ziyou didn't refuse Ashin's crooked words, so he should practice calligraphy.

reminded Ashin to combine work and rest and walked away.

While Aunt Cui was cooking rabbits, Ziyou went to the vegetable garden to pick some greens.

After washing, I studied the seasonings I bought in the town, and smelled them one by one, and felt that it was not a big problem to make a cold rabbit.

After seeing that there was soy sauce and chili peppers, Ziyou always wanted to apply the historical dynasties he had learned before to this dynasty.

She knows that the history of soy sauce has been more than 2,000 years in modern times, but chili peppers were only introduced at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zi understood this dynasty as a parallel world to the Qing Dynasty in his heart.

Although I knew that I might be deceiving myself, my heart was much more stable.

After Aunt Cui handed the cooked rabbit to Ziyou, she went to pickle the rabbit skin again.

After cutting the rabbit meat into small pieces.

Add the chopped ginger, garlic, salt and rice wine and stir well, then prepare to marinate for a while.

After making the rabbit meat, Ziyu began to burn the fire and prepare the main food.

When the rice in the pot was almost ready, Zi Yuxiang stuffed the firewood into the hole.

Ready to start cooking with a pot on the back stove.

She added a lot of oil to the pot, and when the oil began to smoke a little, she poured the rabbit meat into the pot, kept stir-frying, and when the fried rabbit meat changed color and became shrinking, she poured in the chili pepper and continued to stir-fry, and after a while, the whole kitchen was surrounded by fragrance.

"What does it smell like? Why are you so choked? Aunt Cui smelled the smell and walked over.

"This taste is the soul of my dish, you'll know when you taste it." Looking at Aunt Cui's suspicious expression, Ziyou guaranteed her.

After stir-frying for a while, after tasting a piece, Ziyou took out the fried rabbit meat and kept a bowl separately, ready to take it to the town tomorrow.

He fried a green vegetable with the leftover oil in the pot, and beckoned Ashin to come out to wash his hands and eat.

"Sister, what is this? It's weird and good-looking. ”

"This is sea pepper, from the country on the other side of the sea, it's a little spicy, eat it slowly."

Ziyou said, afraid that Aunt Cui and Ashin would not be able to accept the taste, so they put a bowl of cold boiled water in front of one of them.

Ziyou didn't move his chopsticks, looked at them, and saw that after they took a bite, their faces turned red instantly, and Ziyou hurriedly asked them to drink water.

Ashin stuck out his tongue and said, "Sister, this chili pepper is so hot!" I just felt a fire in my mouth! ”

Aunt Cui also nodded and added: "Although my mouth is hot, I still want to eat after eating." ”

Ashin also nodded, and the two of them were eager to try rabbit meat again.

"It's better when it's cold." After Ziyou finished speaking, he also began to eat.

The family's meal ended in a profuse sweat

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