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Zhao Tuo carefully looked at the article on the plaque. It means that the King of Qin does not stick to one pattern to accept talents, and those who have a skill can enter the building and be tested. Those who pass the test can meet the King of Qin, and if they fail, they can also get a bounty.

After thinking about it, Zhao Tuo entered the building.

As soon as I stepped in, someone stepped forward to greet me.

The person who came was a middle-aged man, wearing a soap-colored robe, with a crown on his head, looking at Zhao Tuo, who was in tattered clothes and stuffed with hay in his arms, with a disgusted expression on his face, and said, "Who are you?" How dare you come in! ”

Zhao Tuo frowned, but still introduced himself: "Under Zhao Tuo, he is also a scholar, and he looks at the recruitment list posted at the door, and wants to try it." ”

The comer laughed sarcastically: "Just like you, you dare to say that you are a reader, don't think that knowing two words is a reader, get out quickly, don't waste my time." ”

Zhao Tuo had no choice but to continue to explain: "I have also read less Confucius and Mencius in Xia, and I am proficient in the subset of scriptures and history, why don't you take the test for the knowledge below!" ”

"!"

It was really a little ghost who was in the way, and Zhao Tuo was kicked out by him.

Sighing and shaking his head, Zhao Tuo felt that he couldn't get the reward, and was about to leave.

A team of people came from a distance and stopped at the entrance of the Zhaoxian Pavilion, blocking Zhao Tuo's way.

The leader was a rich boy riding a tall horse, he looked at Zhao Tuo condescendingly, and asked suspiciously, "You also came here to sign up?" ”

Zhao Tuo bowed and replied carefully: "I am also a scholar, but now I am shy in my pocket, and I want to get this reward, and I never want to be kicked out." ”

"Hahahaha!"

The rich boy laughed, lowered his head and said to Zhao Tuo: "I never thought that the second brother's person was so snobbish!" ”

"Since you are a scholar, come to someone, reward!"

After saying that, he rode and turned away.

A guard walked up to Zhao Tuo and gave him two pieces of money, and at the same time said: "You are also fate, the one just now is His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Zhao Tuo, who took the money, saluted and thanked him.

Unexpectedly got a fortune, Zhao Tuo came to West Street again and bought some daily necessities.

I threw out the hay stuffed in my clothes and put my newly purchased padded jacket inside, and I felt much warmer in an instant.

When I left, I found that someone was killing pigs in the alley, and when I walked over to take a look, I found that they actually put the pigs in the water and threw them at the door.

Zhao Tuo checked left and right that there was no one, thinking that the family was too wasteful, so he picked up the basket and ran away.

After a while, the head of the house came out and found that the dirt that had been placed at the door to be thrown away was gone, and he went back without much thought.

On the way back from Chang'an City, he found a small river, smashed the ice, and put the pigs in the basket into the river to be washed.

When I took out the pig manure in the large intestine and small intestine, I was particularly disgusting, but when I thought of the delicacies I made, I endured the cold and washed it several times.

When I got home, I immediately boiled the water and blanched the pig with boiling water several times.

Finally, use a newly purchased kitchen knife to cut into small pieces, put them in a clay pot, add hot water, add spices, and simmer over low heat.

Just this handful of spices, it cost Zhao Tuo a whole hundred dollars, he really didn't expect that the spices of the Tang Dynasty were so expensive, listening to the introduction of the merchants, this was still transported from the Western Regions, and the Tang Dynasty did not have this thing.

Pour water over the frozen soil and let it melt. Add hay, start and mud, Zhao Tuo prepares the pankang.

The winter nights are too cold, and the bamboo mat and hay are not warm at all, so you should plate the kang immediately!

It wasn't until it was dark that the kang was ready.

Take out a small basket of charcoal that you bought, put it under the kang and burn it, and let them slowly dry it.

Bring the stewed pig into the water, eat it in a big gulp, and eat it warmly after eating.

It wasn't until the second half of the night that the kang was dried and barely able to sleep. The tired Zhao Tuo lay on it and slept comfortably until dawn.

In the morning, in the soup left over from yesterday, continue to cut into the pig water and put it on the fire to simmer.

"It's so fragrant, what are you doing at home?"

There was a voice outside the door, Zhao Tuo opened the door and looked, it was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child!

He was warmly invited into the room, and a piece of pig's intestine was taken out of the crockpot for him to taste.

"Is it delicious?" Zhao Tuo asked

"Hmm!"

The kid nodded his head after eating.

Zhao Tuo took out a bowl, sandwiched some pork belly, and gave him the large intestine, but he didn't expect him to run away with the bowl.

Shaking his head, he didn't chase it. Zhao Tuo took out a bowl and ate it himself.

"Knock knock."

There was a knock on the door, and Zhao Tuo opened the door to see that it was a big man with a missing left arm.

I saw him say apologetically: "My child is not sensible, he came to you to beg for food, I specially brought him to apologize!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled the child out behind him, and the child lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry! ”

Zhao Tuo hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, the child just ate something!" ”

Dahan continued: "No one's surplus food is enough this winter, and this child dares to come to your house to beg for food, he really deserves to be beaten." ”

Zhao Tuo felt that this person was really too real, invited him into the house to sit on the kang, brought a crockpot with stewed meat, and said with a smile: "I'm just some pigs in the water, it's not a good thing, let's try it together." ”

Under Zhao Tuo's warm greeting, Dahan took a bite embarrassedly, and nodded again and again.

Zhao Tuo asked with a smile, "I don't know what this big brother's name is?" ”

Dahan hurriedly said, "Don't dare, don't dare." My name is Sun Erniu, and this is my son Sun Puppy. ”

Zhao Tuo smiled, this name is also called his son puppy.

Sun Erniu said: "You only moved here before the cold winter, right?" ”

Zhao Tuo nodded and replied, "My name is Zhao Tuo, and I was moved by the government with a group of displaced people."

Sun Erniu touched the kang and asked suspiciously, "Brother, why is your bed hot?" ”

Zhao Tuo explained: "This is the kang I plate, and the stove is connected to it below, so it is not cold to sleep on it. ”

Sun Erniu asked in surprise: "This is what my brother did?" Can you get one for our family too? I treat you to a meal of corn. ”

Zhao Tuo waved his hand and said, "Brother Sun, you are too polite, it's just a kang, I'll go to your house tomorrow and help you make one." ”

Sun Erniu immediately stood up and expressed his gratitude.

Zhao Tuo looked at his broken arm and asked suspiciously, "Brother Sun, what's going on with this arm?" ”

"Alas!"

Sun Erniu sighed and replied: "I used to be a soldier under King Qin, and in a battle, I obviously won the war, but I didn't expect to be cut down by a wounded soldier. ”

"Fortunately, King Qin was merciful and rewarded me with two acres of land and a mother-in-law."

Zhao Tuo nodded when he heard this, expressing regret.

The two chatted for a while, and Zhao Tuo said that he would go to his house tomorrow to help him pan the kang, and Sun Erniu left with his son.

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