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During the latest peeling, Mo Niang let her husband hold down her hands and feet, and the untouched position was the itching of insects and ants, and the skin that was touched was a sharp pain like fire, Mo Niang bit the handkerchief, and her forehead was densely covered with beads of sweat, and she secretly made up her mind that she would never let her Alan suffer such pain!

It was also an idea to pour dumb medicine into Mo Lan from then on, as an outstanding ghost stonemason, Mo Niang knew that her daughter would also receive the attention of the inner door, and when she turned five years old, she would also be sent to the inner door for testing, and the girl who passed the test would be sent directly to the inner door for training, and the girl who failed the test would be tested for the second time when she was ten years old. Mo Niang will notice that there will be a slave in the workshop who will come to deliver the news, they can walk freely in Panlong City, although they are also wearing robes, but their hands are white and pure, I heard that when they are twenty-five years old, they will be sent to the palace and regain their freedom.

Since being an ordinary woman is a luxury, then send Mo Lan to the palace to be a silent slave, pretending to be deaf and dumb for twenty years, and the period of the dumb medicine bought from the food doctor is also more than twenty years, and she can take a lot of money to fly away, during this time, her Mo Lan can also think clearly about her future path, and she does not have to marry and have a daughter in her teens like other women in Panlong City.

Daughter, remember, you are a deaf person who can't hear, no matter what others call you, don't look back, no matter what sound you hear, don't respond, Mo Niang repeatedly warned her daughter, but the young Mo Lan didn't raise her head, Mo Niang was very satisfied with her daughter's reaction.

So, in April of that year, Mo Niang, who was dressed in a crimson robe, led Mo Lan, who was dressed in pink light veil, and set foot on the road to the palace.

The aunt who manages Mo Nu has some friendship with Mo Niang, and she can directly participate in the interview on April 15 without the identity review, and she told Mo Niang that when the nobles in the palace choose Mo Nu, they pay more attention to "deafness" than "dumb", they usually place a piece of copper in the girl's ear, and then beat it hard with a hammer, in addition to seeing if the girl is dodging, there will also be people to observe whether the girl's head and neck have subconscious movements.

On April 15, there was still 7 days, Mo Niang took off the veil hooked by the orchid silver hairpin, squatted down, and prepared to tell Mo Lan some things.

Her daughter's earlobe looked like a piece of translucent amber in the sunlight, and Mo Niang was about to take one last look at her daughter's cheek, but she saw Mo Lan reaching out and grabbing her ear,

Mo Niang immediately grabbed her daughter's shoulders and twisted her around, "Didn't you say that you won't be able to hear it in the future?" “

Mo Lan was frightened by Ah Niang's reaction, she took Ah Niang's hand and wrote an "itch" in her palm.

Mo Lan took a deep breath, folded the clean handkerchief, stuffed it into Mo Lan's mouth, pulled out the orchid hairpin on her head, and aimed it at Mo Lan's ear......

After two days in the room prepared by the housekeeper's aunt, Mo Niang had already packed her bags and left, she thought that she might never forget her daughter's resentful gaze for the rest of her life......

This is Mo Lan's skill to Ah Niang, and later she was chosen by Lord Liangsheng to become a silent slave in her palace, and the silent slave has no name, except for some written instructions, they also need to guess what others want to express by observing other people's mouth shapes.

Lord Liangsheng is also a famous ghost stonemason in Panlong City, and he has often taken Mo Lan with him for many years, and he is used to seeing Lord Liangsheng's monthly peeling process, Mo Lan thought, perhaps, the transaction between Ah Niang and the stall owner is cost-effective.

Until Mo Lan was fifteen years old, Mo Niangtuo's aunt, who had not been in contact with her daughter for a long time, asked for a strip of cloth on Mo Lan's clothes.

Mo Lan seems to understand something, the custom of Panlong City, the younger brothers and sisters in the family can take away the luck of the sister by wearing the old clothes of the sister, but it is not suitable for men to wear women's clothes after all, and in Mo Lan's hometown, it has become the cloth strips on the clothes of the younger brothers and sisters to be sewn on the clothes of the sisters.

Is this an abandonment?

A-Niang hasn't been in touch with her for ten years, and this time she wants to transfer her luck to the younger brother she has never met.

He took out the pink gauze he had placed in the box, and Mo Lan cut the clothes in half with a knife, folded and wrapped them and handed them to the aunt in charge.

……

The dungeon is cold and damp, but outside it is still spring and bright.

Panlong City, is divided into three parts by the river of the "people" shape, two branches and two branches each, vaguely look a little like the word "Jie", from west to east are called: Tao River, Huan River, Li River and Hyun River. Four rivers, the Li River can be drunk directly, the Tao River and the Hyun River are not even watering crops, although the Huanhe River is not as direct drinking as the Li River, but they do not want the Tao River and the Hyun River to let the residents of Panlong City avoid it, and there are often nearby residents who go to the Huanhe River to wash their clothes, which is also the origin of the name of the Huanhe River.

The main venue for the celebration of the Melting and Casting Festival is in Green Bay, between the Huan and Li rivers, where artisans mainly smelt bronze, and the activities of the Melting and Casting Festival are also based on this oldest skill.

Throughout April, the boys of the bronze craftsmen's family will build a small clay kiln in Green Bay, and use their own molds and their own copper materials to make bronze objects in front of everyone, in order to show the children's talent and the quality of the copper materials in each family. However, during the melting and casting festival, there are often some skilled bronze masters who will select their disciples through the children's production process.

It was the fourth month of Huaixu, and there were many boys on both sides of the river embankment who were holding fans and snorting hard at the small stove that melted the copper liquid, which was even hotter, and Ying'er took the mint tea that the guard put in a large clay pot and drank it.

The chrysanthemum in the Qiankun bag was also uneasy, Zhen Xun patted the Qiankun bag as a cat bag, and signaled the chrysanthemum to be honest, Green Bay is full of people, and there are so many mud kilns, it is really not a good place to walk a big cat.

Winter can keep warm, summer can keep cold, this kind of pottery pot sold outside the city at least two shell coins, the pottery pot is the westernmost craftsman to do, there are mainly living there are good at "burning hard pottery" craftsmen, Zhen Xun saw the side of the rice wine stall next to this kind of hard pottery cabinet, the boss lying on the hanging basket nap.

Zhen Xun saw that Ying'er was also a little tired, so he proposed to drink some sweet rice wine to rest.

Sitting in the rice wine stall, Zhen Xun watched with interest an eight or nine-year-old boy not far away who was busy working, and there was a clay mold beside him.

The boy first put some small orange-brown pieces into small jars, put them in a simple mud kiln filled with burning charcoals, then picked up a hollow bamboo pipe and blew vigorously, blew for a while, added a shovel of charcoals, and then puffed up his cheeks and blew vigorously, and then shoveled out some burned-out charcoal ashes, and so on, and after a while, the cat-faced boy used the tongs to pull away the charcoals, intending to clip the jar out.

"Tut-tut, Xiao Liu of the old Liu family, the heat is well mastered, but the mold is almost done." The owner of the rice wine stall glanced at it and commented.

Seeing that the three customers in the stall did not answer, the boss continued: "I'm not a layman, when I was seven or eight years old, I was already able to make a copper spoon by myself, but Xiao Liu's dagger can also be made, but it takes some effort to polish." ”

Ying'er also watched curiously, the boy poured the red copper juice into the mold, but the hot copper water in the mold crackled and exploded, the boy immediately threw the mold lid on the side with tongs, and then ran out for a long time, and finally walked towards the rice wine stall in a gray manner.

"Xiao Liu, do you know what the problem is this time?" The boss brought the boy a bowl of sweet rice soup.

"The mold didn't dry out." The boy named Xiao Liu replied sullenly.

"But the copper hydration is good, you don't need to open the lid in the middle to see." The boss comforted.

"That's it." Xiao Liu said proudly, then drank the remaining sweet rice soup in one gulp, then turned around and returned to the place where he had just made a copper dagger, took out a pitted copper sheet, and took out the sand and gravel that had been prepared long ago and polished it......

"Three guest officers, how long do you think Xiao Liu will have to polish? I don't think I can stop for an hour. "The boss seems to have a bit of a "social cow" attribute on his body.

"Boss, we haven't hit copper." Ying'er explained.

The boss glanced at Zhen Xun and Ying'er's hands, and became more enthusiastic, "Then are you from the west?" This clay pot looks very precious, you see, my refrigerator was bought from you, it's easy to use! If you want me to say, pottery is also very promising, much better than the group of stone-knockers in the east. I heard that you are moving recently, do you have any pottery to deal with? Come on, come on, even if we meet, even if we have a fate, I invited this rice wine, and let's make friends—"

The faces of the three showed some embarrassment, and Zhen Xun had to use some gibberish to prevaricate the boss.

After the three of them drank the rice wine, the chief guard settled the bill. After resting, the three of them have decided to go against the current and find the fork of the Li River and the Hyun River.

The Hyun River is also the easternmost of the four rivers, and the east of the Hyun River is a gathering place for workers who make Xuanshi tools.

Green Bay lives up to its name, compared to the vicious grassy banks of the Hyun River at the time of departure, the vegetation here also looks delicate and lovely: the purple flowers are the asters, and there are large and large flamboyant cockscombs, as for the green grass that is as high as the cat's tail on the shoulders of people, Ying'er and the chief guard don't recognize it, only Zhen Xun recognizes it, the "cat's tail grass" is Tianmendong, and there are already some impatient "cat tails" that bloom sporadic small white flowers.

"Aster can treat cough, has the effect of moistening the lungs, dissolving phlegm and relieving cough, and the craftsman who smelts bronze will inevitably inhale some smoke and dust, so he will also often use aster to make soup. The cockscomb has the effect of stopping bleeding and astringent, as well as stopping the band and stopping dysentery, and the people of Panlong City think that the cockscomb flower is somewhat similar to the burning flame, so every household in Green Bay likes the cockscomb flower very much. The chief of the guard explained.

"The tuber root of asparagus is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, which has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, clearing fire and relieving cough." Zhen Xun added.

But what are these three plants that she seems to have seen on the same page? Zhen Xun thought about it, the three plants are different families and genera, and the cockscomb can be used as flowers, and the asparagus is a little too ...... Uh, is it on the menu? No, wild vegetables cannot be eaten casually, and there may be excessive heavy metals......

That's right! It is a heavy metal pollution poster in the company's exhibition hall!

Asparagus can remove heavy metal particles; Aster, astragalus, tobacco-containing and cockscomb-containing plants can attract large amounts of radioactive elements such as uranium...... Zhen Xun remembered the text on the leaflet.

Don't? A terrible thought came to Zhen Xun's mind, and she grabbed the arm of the chief guard and asked, "The people of Green Bay have the longest life, don't they?" He was also much less sick than the rest of the city. What about the west? What flowers and trees are there? “