Thinking of the purple jade flute, he recalled the time when he first met Xiao Mo: how Xiao Mo threw the flowers that Zhixin gave him into the water, how he jumped into the water stupidly when he couldn't swim, how he encountered the killer, and how he subdued them with the flute.

He saved my life, carefully cooked my favorite food, and devoted himself to planning a unique crown gift for me...... Xiao Mo is really good to me, and the days with Xiao Mo are really happy.

It's just that he has a very strange temper, not only a strange temper, but even more strange behavior. Shu Yan lay on the bed and thought, I have been in the same room for so long, I have never seen half an inch of his bare body, not only is he not naked, but I am not allowed to be naked, and I am never allowed to enter his door. It's unbelievable that a person who walks through the rivers and lakes is so shy.

Shu Yan thought about Xiao Mo's smile, his outfit, the tantrum he had lost with himself, and his weirdness...... All sorts of things.

Xiao Mo has been gone for two months, and in the past two months, Shu Yan has felt an emptiness and loss that he has never felt before. Somehow, they are also good brothers, and they and Ruoxin are also like brothers, and Ruoxin and herself grew up together, and they have been friends for more than ten years, but they have been separated from Ruoxin for almost a year, and they have never had such a sense of emptiness and loss. This feeling is similar to when Zhixin just left......

Thinking of this, Shu Yan struck a clever slap - ah? Could it be that he really has a dragon yang fetish with Xiao Mo as outsiders say? No, it's horrible! Not only horrible, but disgusting. He jumped down to the ground, ran to the courtyard, scooped up the cold water in the water tank with a water scoop, and poured a few mouthfuls of it.

A scoop of cold water went down, looking at the bright moonlight, remembering the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, "Zhixin who walked down from the moon", Shu Yan felt a little calmer. How could you have such a dirty idea? I obviously like Zhixin, although we didn't mention it legitimately until Zhixin's death, but that feeling is real, real love between men and women. I would never have thought this way about a man - even if he was good to him, even if he was born like a woman. He is just a good brother to me, and I miss him because I am worried about him. But what to worry about? Worried about whether he is in danger on the road, or worried about whether he will come back? I can't tell, in short, it's because of worry, and when I think about it, I can feel at ease.

For Xiao Mo, Shu Yan mistakenly regarded the opposite sex as the same sex; On the contrary, the seventeenth princess mistakenly regarded the same sex as the opposite sex for Xiao Mo. Of course, the seventeenth princess just regarded this "opposite sex" as a big brother who could play the flute and cook good food, in order to relieve the boredom in the palace. Before Xiao Mo left, he brought a note to the seventeenth princess. But the seventeenth princess was angry because Xiao Mo was ridiculing herself, so she didn't open the note at that time, thinking that it was just an apology to herself. It wasn't until the next few days that she didn't see Xiao Mo, she felt that something was wrong, and when she inquired, it turned out that Xiao Mo had gone home. She hurriedly opened the note, but it was too late. Without Xiao Mo, the life of the seventeenth princess in the palace returned to boring and monotonous.

On weekdays, the seventeenth princess will work with other unmarried princesses to learn some poetry, calligraphy and painting, and female red from the female scholars in the palace. Recently, the female scholar in charge of Professor Shiwen has left the palace due to her age, and Empress Yang has not arranged someone to replace her for the time being. can't learn poetry, and can't listen to Xiaomo playing the flute, these days, the life of the seventeenth princess is very boring.

When the seventeenth princess was bored and bored, she heard a news - now it is the season when spring ploughing is about to be ploughed and spring silkworms will be born, and the emperor and queen are going to plough the fields and bow the sericulture respectively, which can bring her a lot of excitement. The emperor led the ministers to plough the fields, which was the men's business and had nothing to do with her. But the queen bowed to the sericulture, and she, as a princess, had to participate. She doesn't care what the meaning of this activity is, as long as she can go out of the palace to play at that time, it's good.

The emperor's personal cultivation and the queen's silkworm are two important annual royal auspicious activities, which have been actively pursued by most of the rulers of all dynasties since the Zhou Dynasty. Entering the era of agricultural civilization, based on agriculture, all political, economic, and military behaviors in the country are supported by agriculture, and all dynasties are no exception, agriculture is the first major event, so the rulers who have made a difference attach great importance to persuading agricultural work.

The emperor personally cultivated, that is, in the spring ploughing season, the emperor led hundreds of officials to personally demonstrate cultivation and production in the home field, so as to serve as an example of the hard work of the people in the world; Similarly, the queen of silkworms, that is, in the spring silkworm season, as the queen of the mother world, led the harem concubines, princesses and other relatives and the princes' wives and other relatives to pick mulberry and feed silkworms in the silkworm room, in order to persuade the world's female red. The emperor's personal cultivation and the queen's silkworm are a microcosm of the whole society, and the male farmer and female weaving are the advanced production methods at that time, and the embodiment of the diligence of the ancients and an important means of self-sufficiency.

Of course, the emperor did not go to cultivate the land at will, the royal family has its own land directly managed, called Jitian. In the Jin Dynasty, the royal family had thousands of acres of land, in the south of the eastern suburbs of Luoyang City, and the north of Luoshui. The royal family of the Wei Dynasty was in decline, and Jitian did not have such a scale. After Sima Yan established the Jin Dynasty, he expanded the scale of his native land, but he did not take coercive measures to seize land from the peasants, but obtained it by way of exchange or purchase.

At that time, the tools used for cultivation were called plows. With thousands of acres of land, the emperor and the ministers only symbolically pushed the old man a few times. As for the number of pushes, there are clear provisions in the ancient etiquette system: the emperor pushes three pushes, that is, pushes three round-trips, and the princes and ministers are five pushes, seven pushes, and nine pushes according to the size of their official ranks. After the monarchs and ministers set an example, the rest of the cultivation was handed over to the person who was in charge of the farm. There are thousands of acres of land and a lot of grain grown, so what is it used for? It is mainly used for the festival of the temple during the year. Sacrifices can not be made with only one type of grain, but with several major grains, which heralds a "good harvest". Therefore, this determines that the crops in the field cannot be one, but are diverse, and there are all kinds of grains.

On that day, Sima Yan led hundreds of civil and military officials, drove out of the east gate of Luoyang to the south, and went straight to his hometown. The car Sima Yan rode in was called the Cultivator Car, which was specially built for pro-farming and was driven by four horses. According to their respective grades, the officials also have their own cars. The three princes and princes rode in a three-horse carriage, and the Qing doctor and the two thousand stone level were all two-horse carriages, and those who did not have a special car shared a car with several people. According to the practice of the five-season costume - not limited to the crown clothes worn by the previous dynasty, blue, red, yellow, white and black, and the spring corresponds to cyan, so except for the military guards, all the people who participated in the pro-ploughing wore cyan clothing. Even the emperor Sima Yan was no exception, he wore a crown of heaven on his head, covered with a piece of green curtain, wearing a cyan gown, and the corresponding cyan flags were inserted on the root cultivators, and even the four horses that drove the car had to correspond to the cyan color, and if there were no cyan horses, their manes and tails would be painted cyan.

Shu Yan and Shi Biyu were at the end of this mighty convoy. Originally, those who could participate in the pro-cultivation should be officials with more than 600 stones, and Shu Yan and Shi Biyu were minor officials at the level of 400 stones, so they were theoretically not eligible to participate, but just like being able to participate in the imperial banquet, the two of them were loved by the emperor and were specially allowed to participate. Neither of them is qualified to ride in a carriage, and as a secretary Lang, Hiyu, his standard car is a deer cart. As Shu Yan, who is Shang Shulang, his standard car is a calf car.

Shu Yan had never had the opportunity to learn the imperial car technique before, which was also the only aspect he had not dabbled in in the "Five Classics and Six Arts". Since he became Shang Shulang and had the opportunity to get in touch with the calf cart, he began to learn how to drive. After all, as a man, mastering driving skills is not only very necessary for face, but also very convenient for yourself in real life. Although the "royal" in the six arts requires the driving of the carriage, the carriage is the same as the driving principle of the calf carriage except that it is faster. Moreover, the calf cart had become a common choice for the noble class to go out at that time, because those nobles were unwilling to endure the bumps of the carriage, and preferred to ride in a relatively stable ox cart. However, as a major ceremony of the imperial court, the carriage and calf carriage are symbols of status, and everyone must ride according to their own standards, and they cannot come randomly.

To be able to participate in such an activity, Shu Yan is very willing in his heart, not only to be able to see the world, but also, after all, this is a good thing to persuade agricultural skills. But Biyu was not very happy in his heart. He had a headache when he heard the word "ploughing", for him, ploughing land was a physically demanding task. Indeed, for a person who has never even touched a rag, it feels terrifying to think about it.

Yesterday, he complained to his father: "Ploughing the land is the business of those farmers, and what does it matter to us whether to plough or not to plough? The emperor has to do something pro-farming, do some example, and he has to drag us ......"

Shi Hui scolded him and said: "Petty officials of your level are everywhere in Luoyang City, and it is a great honor to be able to participate in such an auspicious ceremony, which many people can't ask for." I'm worried that there is nothing remarkable about your next review, and you have this good opportunity to perform well in front of everyone, and you dare to complain here! ”

Biyu didn't dare to argue, and returned to his room angrily, and after Ah Miao and Ah Yan waited for him to wash up and go to bed, they didn't wait for him to fall asleep as usual, but didn't know where to hide secretly. Biyu was irritable and wanted to find two maids to vent, but he exhaled for a long time, but no one answered, only two old maids agreed outside, and Biyu was so angry that he told them to get out. It turns out that Ah Miao knows that Biyu is weaker, and tomorrow he is going to try the "heavy work" he has never done, and his physical strength must be exhausted. So she took Ah Yan and hid to other maidservants. Not only should she not consume his physical strength, but she must also replenish his physical strength: she instructed the kitchen to make a bowl of cheese for her son for breakfast tomorrow morning, because cheese can effectively increase his physical strength. Ah Miao finally put a little snack: In this way, tomorrow's son will not be too bad!

Biyu, who ate minced meat and cheese, and Shu Yan, who ate corn porridge, followed the holy car to the edge of the field. Except for the emperor, all the officials got off here. Shu Yan saw that the 1,000 acres of land were very neat, vertical and horizontal, and well organized, worthy of being a royal field, which was different from ordinary farm fields. It's no wonder that there is a county-level official in charge of this 1,000-acre land, can it be neat?