Chapter Forty-Nine: Summer
The summer is scorching and the sun is scorching, Yun Yao is beginning to miss Zhang Nu's ancient refrigerator, but unfortunately she can't afford that kind of extravagant gadget.
In ancient times, the refrigerator first stored ice, and every winter, Ling people would collect ice cubes and hide them in the cellar, and the amount of ice stored was three times the amount used, because the melting factor had to be taken into account.
Then there are the bronzes with their own compartments, and the large double-layer bronzes are not only expensive but also cutting-edge technology.
In short, there must be an ice cellar and bronze utensils, and then you can synthesize a Western Zhou refrigerator, and you can ice fruits and fresh fish and meat, this kind of thing Yun Yao doesn't even think about, it's not something that a baron like her can play with at all.
The weather is hot, and the Zhu River has become dangerous, because there will be people bathing by the river, and if their feet slip and fall into the water, they will basically be helpless. Every summer when the sun is blazing, there are often corpses floating down, and if Yun Yao's father saw a poor person who had drowned before his death, he would fish up the corpse and bury it, which can be regarded as a virtue.
A corpse soaked in water for a long time is a nightmare, Yun Yao had a nightmare for a month after seeing it for the first time, and then got used to it. Even in the era of the popularization of safety education, many people drown every year, not to mention that there is no safety education at all, and there are many unlucky people who drown in order to get into the water for a cool time.
However, in Yunyao's mining estate, she did not allow them to go into the water without permission. If you want to go into the water, you can go together, and you must also bring an empty gourd, and at the same time, you must not go to the deep water area. Yun Yao knows the depth and shallowness of the water on the north shore well, so she specially arranged a shallow water area for everyone to take a bath.
When taking a bath, the role of the reeds is highlighted, because there is a word called 'bad morals', and the picture is absolutely unsightly, because there are no swimsuits in this era.
It is precisely because of Yun Yao's emphasis on safety that the savages in the mining area did not encounter any danger, nor did they go to the deep water area to mess around, they were very obedient, Yun Yao's authority in the mining area is increasing day by day, and since she won the Earl, everything has been accumulating prestige for her.
However, there are no such strict safety requirements in other places, so today Yun Yao saw a face-down corpse floating down upstream.
Yun Yao silently pulled the corpse up and buried it with a roll of reeds.
Since Yunyao positioned the reed mat as a funeral product, the sales of the reed mat are good, anyway, there is no backlog, and you can sell as much as you make. About fifteen reed mats can be sold every month, which is not a lot of income, but this income can improve the public facilities of the miner.
For example, the fence and drying field of the caiyi, if necessary, Yunyao also wants to build a larger caiyi activity room for everyone to hold classes and meetings. However, Shuzai thinks that when you have money, you should buy ritual utensils and sacrificial vessels, which are the most important things.
"The sacrificial vessels of our mining have been used for a long time, and they are old and broken." While helping Yun Yao dig a pit and bury the body, Shu Zai talked about how the money earned from the reed mat should be used.
Yun Yao was very helpless, in the era of national affairs in the era of worship and Rong, the public facilities in her cognition were completely different from the cognition of the Zhou people. She believes that co-working facilities should serve everyone in the village, while Shujae believes that public facilities are needed for collective activities.
The so-called collective activities are nothing more than war, sacrifices, and archery, wars require chariots and weapons, rituals and sacrificial vessels are needed for sacrifices, and clothes and ornaments are needed for archery. Each one is different from Yun Yao's imagination.
Yun Yao hopes to give a lesson to everyone if there is nothing to do, and inspire everyone's wisdom, after all, the wisdom of the people is unlimited, if someone can come up with an idea to improve agricultural production, it is a merit.
But Shu Zai doesn't think so, he doesn't think that it is so easy to improve the wisdom of the savages, rather than enlightening the wisdom, the more important thing now is that the mining needs to update the sacrificial vessels, because only by respecting the heavens, the heavens will give people returns. In his opinion, there will be no other wars in the mining at the moment, because the Mu family bordering them has already been defeated and there is no need to buy weapons. If you shoot a salute, Yun Yao will hit every shot, absolutely no problem. Then the rest is the sacrifice, which must cost money and worship the heavens.
Buying weapons can strengthen the army, buying clothes can decorate the faΓ§ade, what can you do by buying sacrificial weapons?
In Yun Yao's cognition, the sacrificial vessel is the most useless thing, but the Zhou people are most willing to spend money on it.
Yun Yao knew that if she didn't agree, not only would Shuzai be angry, but other retainers would definitely feel that Yun Yao disrespected God, and her prestige would definitely be greatly reduced. It's funny, it's absurd, but that's the reality.
"Okay, then let's customize a small bronze tripod."
Shu Zai was very happy: "That's how it should be, if it's ordered now, it will definitely be able to catch up with the Laba Festival." "It's more fun to buy a sacrificial vessel than to buy a house.
Yun Yao felt bitter in her heart, but she couldn't compromise because the concept of the retainers had not been reversed. Forget it, at least bronze is still appreciating at this stage, and it should be regarded as investing in precious metals.
Back at the grass house, He Ling couldn't help but ask: "If you don't fish people up, he will float downstream and it won't have any effect, why do you want to fish them out and bury them?" β
Yun Yao also has a certain understanding of Heling, and the other party really doesn't have much feelings, so he doesn't understand why he always does something meaningless, or even something that endangers himself.
"As for us people, it is impossible for us to survive alone in this world, so we human races will definitely have to contact each other and communicate with each other, and the result of communication is nothing more than harming the interests of others to promote their own interests, or fulfilling the interests of others and harming their own interests."
"So are you harming your own interests to the interests of others?" Kazuzu thought it was strange: "Isn't that stupid?" β
"No, I'm not that great, I prefer that the Terrans should fulfill each other, and when they fulfill the interests of others, they are also perfected, I think so. In fact, you should also know that these things are just a gesture for me, so why not? Yun Yao felt that she would not harm others and benefit herself, nor would she harm herself and others, but would fulfill each other through positive behavior.
Kazuzu seemed to understand: "But you obviously didn't grasp the degree, and you almost drowned last time." β
"I have to admit that sometimes it does, but I don't regret it, because if I hadn't worked hard to save people, how could I have met you? You see, I have fulfilled Zhang Nu, and you have come to fulfill me, and then you hope that I can fulfill you in turn, and this is how people become stronger and stronger in supporting each other. β
I have to say that the way of survival of the human race is different from all the loose cultivators that He Ling knows: "I am used to seeing people and looting treasures, and I have never thought of such a statement as yours." β
"It's understandable, but times are different. The monks before the Shang and Zhou dynasties certainly did not have the interpersonal concept formulated by Zhou Li, because they only had their own people, and no one else was human, so they naturally killed if they wanted to. But now we want to build a more inclusive and expansive human race, and we must not just think about killing people and grabbing treasures like before. Those murderous scattered cultivators have historical limitations, but the future immortal cultivators will definitely not continue to follow the old path of their predecessors. Yun Yao was optimistic that as long as the human race developed, a new order would definitely be established among the monks, and at the same time, she added in her heart that she might also enter the era of the end of the law. Because whether or not order can be established depends on whether the resources for cultivating immortals are enough, if it is not enough, then it will definitely only be able to continue to maintain the cruel relationship before Yin Shang.