In spring, the season of revival of all things, the vast and desolate yellow earth seems to be dressed in green overnight, accompanied by the slightest morning breeze, yellow and tender fresh grass, yellow and tender tree buds, sparrows chirping and arguing on the eaves, running in the garden with great wealth, rolling on the grass that has just turned green from time to time, cheerful 'whooping' and screaming, and the needle nose sprinting from time to time, simulating the chase and improving their skills in chasing prey. Daily morning exercise can maintain a good mood all day, gossip and dragon palms are not a problem, and the fatal scissor feet are even more elusive, now we must pay attention to exercising the lower body, flying legs, splitting and hanging or something, and from time to time the fun and Wangcai correspond to the 'whoop' call twice, improve the momentum of cultivation, the sound looks like Wangcai but looks like Bruce Lee.

In the garden in the early morning, when the family of three is the most harmonious, all the subordinates avoid the three houses, and the three of them want to do what they want in the huge garden. Ying and the second daughter's radio gymnastics has been superb, the second daughter hurriedly finished playing again and called the needle nose to go to work in a hurry, Ying Jia Wangcai and I fully enjoyed the fun of sports during this time, life is so beautiful.

Out of a sweat, facing the rising sun, sit under the ginkgo tree that is only the thickness of the tea bowl for a while, usually at this time Ying will come to chat with me about some cheerful topics, who marries a daughter-in-law, who has a child on the Zhuangzi, a certain county lord because of the loss of valuable jewelry madness, etc., although they are all rumors that the old man disdains, but between husband and wife, it is also fun, there is a different taste.

"Oh? What kind of solar term is this, I can't be busy working in the field, why do I marry daughters-in-law one by one? Ying happily told me that there were no less than 20 girls and young men who came out of the cabinet in Zhuangzi this month, and most of them were married in the village. Marrying a daughter-in-law has to be calculated as a good day according to the fate of the young couple, and it is rare to gather a bunch of marriages. "Abnormal. It's just a happy event. Give the gifts solidly, let the little couple be happy, and we will also be happy. ”

"That's it, it's very rare," Ying took out a sweat towel and wiped the sweat on her forehead, "It is related to rumors, and now the scorpion tiger in the capital says that the emperor will start to customize the marriage age after changing the year name." Girls under the age of 17 are not allowed to leave the cabinet. Now that the year name has been changed, people are panicking and rushing to marry their daughters, afraid that when the time comes, the imperial court will change the order, and the girl will have to raise her in-laws for three or five more years. As soon as the sweat came out, it was estimated that it was cold, so he got up and took a big coat on the stone table, and said with a smile: "It is passed on with a plate and an eye, and it is the same as the real place." It's really full. ”

"This ......" I can't figure out the doorway inside, I remember that this was said by the two members of Nan Linyuan and the Li family, but Lanling was not in front of him at the time, but now it has spread among the people, I hope it is the big mouth of the Li family that spreads rumors. Don't really let the emperor know. He cautiously asked, "If this is really changed...... What do you think, ma'am? ”

"Oh?" Ying was a little uncomfortable with my respectful tone, and looked at me carefully. smiled and pushed me, "Kill the concubine, why is the husband in this tone." I'm sorry to hear it. ”

"Don't care what the tone is, just say what you think." Ying can be said to be a typical representative of traditional people, and her concept is the idea of the vast majority of the people, and it is necessary to investigate.

"I still think that it's obviously fake, and I believe the rumors." Ying disdained to participate in the rumors, "How is it possible? The emperor is so busy, after fighting this and that. The surrounding area hasn't been flattened yet, can you take care of other people's wedding things? But then again, if the emperor is idle, maybe he will make some trouble, and it is also possible to come out, the emperor of the previous dynasty was not very lenient, and everything was changed, it was all up to his temperament. Speaking of which, he was a little unsure, "Husband, you said this wouldn't be true, would you?" ”

"I don't think it'...... easy to decide. After all, the two members of the Li family and Lanling know each other. The man was naturally difficult to talk about, and he would not discuss this issue with Lanling. But it's hard to say about the Li family's mother-in-law. In case Mrs. Li thinks that what I said at that time is reasonable, and after some opinions with Lanling, it is possible that Lanling will go to the emperor to analyze the pros and cons. "It really doesn't matter if it's true or not, what do you think about this matter?"

"Oh, I don't think anything, it's vexatious." Ying disagreed, "If it's a rumor, then don't comment on it, after all, there are more evil rumors than this." If it's really ......" The little face was a little bitter and frowned, "Then I can't complain about the emperor." How can the emperor bother with this matter, it must be that there is a slander in the court," he bit his lip and said angrily: "Kill a thousand knives, and you won't be able to resolve your hatred if you kill it alive." What can the fourth child do, I just said that I have hope for the big scene, but I haven't reached the age of seventeen! ”

"I'm very depressed about this ......, after all, no one wants to let his wife chop more than a thousand knives and chop it alive." Ying said that the thief, she didn't complain about the emperor because the emperor couldn't be cut by her with a thousand knives, so she took the slander and said something, which could relieve her anger, but what she wanted to cut was the non-essence and sat next to it and listened...... Unconfident, he said weakly: "Maybe it's a good thing, it's not necessarily..."

"It's fake anyway," Ying clapped her hands and stood up, unwilling to say more on this depressing issue. Thinking of something, he leaned over to look at me and said with a smile: "But then again, didn't my husband say the same thing?" A good second daughter, she has to look good, she has to be thoughtful, why do you have to wait and wait......"

"Boring!" Give her a roll of her eyes, don't entangle with Ying, and come over and ask Lanling later. "Eat, eat, eat, hungry."

It's very unhappy, it seems that Ying doesn't support it, and Ying doesn't support it, which means that most of the people don't support it. If it's a rumor, forget it, if the emperor really has such a plan, then he is under a lot of pressure, although there will be no major crisis, but he must fight against tradition...... No matter what, it won't be on my head anyway, roll a pancake first.

Lanling has a very good complexion, since he came back from the Fenghe River, he has been happy, and everything he sees is pleasing to the eye, and even my two broken words are appreciated, saying that I have studied hard and made great progress. I now insist on writing eight to ten words a day, usually 'Wang Xiu's Prince Haoti Gifts...' a few words written over and over again, and I don't practice anything else, and I can't afford to spend that god.

"What good things did you bring today?" When Lanling came recently, he was always empty-handed, and he brought snacks and small gifts from time to time. Today is no exception, Lan Ling carried a small box in her hand, and grabbed it and opened it without waiting for her to speak. A finely crafted copper ruler is presented in front of me, in order to prevent the corners from wearing, and specially wrapped copper clothes on both sides, but it is of little use to me, it is better to bring some dim sum from the palace. "Yes, yes, but I have several ...... in my house."

"Take a closer look before you speak," Lan Ling picked up the pancake I had prepared for her and ate it. She has completely stopped eating breakfast at her own house, in her words: Since she is your mother-in-law, it is natural to feed me, and she has not let you be cheaper from morning to night.

The copper ruler was held in the hand, and it was only when I turned it over that I found the mystery, and the fine scale was finely made, and the unit of "cent" was neatly divided, adding a more accurate unit - milli. It is divided into the breadth of the northern millet and the millet of the millet. In other words, this age is defined as the height of a grain of yellow rice. Lanling ingeniously divided the 'points' into four parts, and made a 'milli' out, divided into inches, inch to ruler. It's all decimal, but this 'milli' to 'minute' becomes a quaternary. It seems unreasonable, but such an accurate measuring instrument is already original in this era, because it is really difficult to average the 'points' into ten parts. In those days, there was no need for such precise units, and the craftsmanship simply did not meet this standard. In particular, this 'millimeter' is already smaller than the length of the 'millimeter' in the 21st century, and I don't know how it is divided.

"Can you be sure of the precision of this 'milli' division?" Dense, I was dazzled to see, this kind of unit can no longer be distinguished by the naked eye, it belongs to the microscopic measuring tool.

"It's not me, it's the Ministry of Works. Now it's just a split in half, and it's not exact. In the future, I plan to put forward this 'milli' as a minimum base measure. Reworked a special weights and measures for the Armory. After eating two pancakes, he took out a handkerchief and wiped them clean, and took a ruler to explain to me: "In the future, the people will still use the ground side with 'points' as the smallest unit," turned it over and pointed to the dense scale, "As for this side with 'milli', it has not yet been formed, and the Ministry of Industry will re-customize a set of weights and measures rules in the future." The 'milli' is proposed to set up a separate method of basic measurement. It's still decimal, and 10 millimeters is 1 'inch'. 10 'work inch' is 1 'work size', which is only used on the instrument, and has nothing to do with the current ground inch and ruler.

Oh understood, I nodded. That is, the folk are still the same, except that the new ruler is used in special workshops, which is not much different from the situation in China in the 21st century. In the 21st century, international standards are used in factories, but tailors still use rulers and inches to measure and cut clothes, and everyone does not interfere with whom.

"It's very powerful, if you can get this set out, the level of production technology will improve a lot in the future." Can't underestimate the creativity of the ancients, if you let me go, there will be absolutely no way to come up with such a thing, "This is not right, your 'caliper' (in ancient times, the iron workshop measured the inner and outer diameter of the measuring tool, the principle of vernier caliper, but the workmanship is much simpler, Lanling and I studied physics when we used to spend a lot of money to build a relatively fine caliper, often take it out to show off, measure the outer diameter of chopsticks, etc.) can be used." ”

"Well," Lan Ling nodded and said proudly, "You didn't expect that, right?" This time, the student has surpassed the master, do you know who proposed it? ”

"Who else could it be, it must be you." I also need to ask, in addition to Lanling, as far as Qin Yu and Cheng Chu and I learn these useless things, although Qin Yu has made rapid progress, most of them rely on self-study, and copy back the information recorded by me and Lanling, even if they have been on the frontier for more than a year, they have not stopped, and they will bring back their learning experience and homework when they are free. Cheng Chu is not learning these materials, and only stays in the link of 'learning', you teach him to learn, you don't teach him to be happier, especially after becoming a teacher, almost try not to mention learning things to me, unless the old man Cheng is forced to do nothing, so he comes to pretend to be a day, and now the old man Cheng is out of the jam, he is even more lawless, it's too late to be happy, and he has time to go to school. One is busy with military affairs, the other is elm pimple, and only Lanling has the leisure time to do these.

"This time it's wrong," Lan Ling blinked and said with a smile: "It's the merit of the inheritance, only those who have been in the military for a long time have this insight," said and sat next to him, and said softly: "The concubine is a woman's family, so she has such a great ability, didn't Lang Jun say that it was better to be stupid?" This time, it's up to you. ”

"It's good to be stupid, but the key is that you know you're a smart person as soon as you see it," he took the copper ruler and put it in the box and cleaned it up. It's a freak, the first product of being influenced by me but having nothing to do with me, the same thing as a future soldier. Out of sight, out of mind, as if it had never appeared. "It's not easy for a fool to pretend to be smart and a smart person to pretend to be stupid, otherwise, how can there be a Manchang people competing for a happy event?" Compared with the new weights and measures, I am more concerned about this matter, and I am very concerned about whether the imperial court has a rigid age for marriage.

"It's just that people have been weird lately, and they've been doing happy events together. Maybe it's the solar term? Lanling looked around and found that there was nothing to do, so he took out a jade headdress from his sleeve and forked it on his bun, shook his head and felt it, and said charmingly: "Does this hairpin take advantage of people?" ”

"Take advantage of," I glanced perfunctorily, there were several hairpins in my bun, and I didn't see which one she was inserting. "I asked you about your marriage. Don't interrupt. Make it clear, don't say you don't know. ”

"This matter," Lan Ling smiled unconcernedly, "Does it have anything to do with the two of us?" Seeing how long my face was pulled down, he reluctantly said, "Okay." Well, the horse's face is average, and it falls to the ground on the board. Have you heard that there is going to be a marriage age to be promulgated? ”

"That's why I'm asking you, don't play stupid." I moved Lanling's head looking left and right. told Lan Ling about the conversation with Ying in the morning, "You definitely know about this matter, and it is definitely related to this matter." For this, my mother-in-law is going to chop me alive. ”

"What does it have to do with you?" Lan Ling listened to my narration and laughed, "Even if I know, just talk about it as idle talk, and it is the Holy Lord's idea." Nothing to do with anyone else. ”

"Don't say what I said about things that offend people. Even if I started it, I resolutely refused to admit it! "Just kidding, it's my bad idea to let others know about this, and if I don't get cut by a thousand knives, I will definitely be accused by a thousand people, and it will definitely be inevitable to go out and get black bricks or something." At that time, the mouth was not closed, and he was angry with nonsense, and the emperor was right if he didn't laugh at it. It's really adoptable. ”

"Joke what. It's serious, not slanderous. "Lanling pulled my clothes neatly. smiled: "Don't worry, this matter can't fall on your head, and it will definitely not fall on my head, even if it is decided, it will not be the same as you imagined." It won't be forced, or how to say that it's hard from the bottom up, and it's easy from the top down? ”

"What's the solution? Tell me, you know for sure. Lan Ling's expression is profound, I have spent more time with her recently, and she has become very gossipy, and I prefer to listen to some ** things.

"Easy, not hard at all." Lanling poured himself a cup of tea, touched the temperature, and took two sips dissatisfied, "Today's saint is a Ming monarch, and he will never issue any decree for this matter to provoke the resentment of the people in the world. To correct this matter, we can't force it, because thousands of years of customs can't be reversed. The empress of other people's families can't control it, but the daughters of the Li family can still speak. ”

"What do you mean?" After listening to Lanling's words, he was a little eyebrows, "Let's make it clear, you have a lot of daughters in the Li family, have you implemented them all according to this method?" ”

"Why not? Forget it if you get married, if you don't get married, you have to wait until you are seventeen years old before you go out of the cabinet, not to mention the royal family, even the emperor also requires himself like this, and in the future, when the princesses become adults, they must also have seventeen-year-old rules. Lanling poured a glass of water and handed it to me, "Drink some, it's dry in spring, and your mouth is dry." Seeing that I drank water, he continued: "The royal appearance has been made, with an example, it is natural and effective to imitate, and it will be imitated layer by layer, although it is not as effective as the decree, it will not affect the emperor's reputation and will not provoke the anger of the people." At most, everyone thinks that the emperor is just playing willfulness in his own clan, which is harmless. Once the climate is emulated, and everyone can see the benefits of it, it is not too late to enact a decree. ”

"Oh, that's right." The common people say that the wind is the rain, and when they hear any movement, they will hurry up to do a happy event, and after a few days the truth is revealed, they don't know if they will regret it. "Okay, good way, my mother-in-law won't curse me now, hehe." In the evening, she said that Ying knew that she would have to go out to inquire about her temper, after all, she was making a lot of trouble for the fourth child's lifelong event.

"You are at peace, and your mother's family will suffer all day in the future." Lanling smiled evilly and blinked, "The girl's family is a money-loser, eating and drinking from her mother's family, and she originally packed up some dowry on the thirteenth and fourteenth days and sent it out quickly, so she has to raise it at home for several more years, hehe......"

"What's the matter, don't have a girl if you have the ability," although Lanling is self-deprecating, it is also true, how many people in this era have this idea, "What should you do if you give birth to a girl?" ”

"Me?" Lan Ling stood up and stretched, and smiled confidently: "How could I give birth to a girl?" Don't talk nonsense, they must all be male babies. ”

"Both...... Be? A little surprised by the quantifier, "One is not enough?" ”

"Yes, it's all! A few more concubines are raised, and Lang Jun doesn't have to worry about this heart. ”

"Cut! When I am what? ”

。 Three Heads M.