It's such a cold day, walking outside the house and standing for a while, Xiao Su's wind just blows on the skin, and it hurts, and the wind blows into the body, which really makes people's bones tremble, and it is difficult to stand.

As a result, hot springs have become the best haven for people.

At this time, the hot springs in Daliang that were steaming with mist and bubbling on the water surface became a common place for the nobles of the kings and grandsons and the common people and traders in the cold autumn.

In this regard, people living in Guobei County will be no exception.

"Dad, be careful. An old man in sackcloth slowly walked along Dengke Street to the outside of the city, followed by a middle-aged man dressed as a farmer, and the old man's son was respectfully supporting the old man at this time, constantly reminding his father to be careful when walking.

The old man surnamed Wang with a cane, a native of Guobei, his ancestors have been relying on the harvest of heaven and the earth for generations, Wang Lao Han is old, and now the person who grows crops has been replaced by his son.

Xiao Wang, who was born in the year of Lao Wang's establishment, is now more than 60 years old, and if Xiao Wang's marriage is delayed for another two years, Wang Laohan is afraid that he will not have time to see his grandson.

Finding a daughter-in-law for his son and letting his son start a family has become Wang Laohan's concern now.

But these days, it is not easy for the farmer to find a daughter-in-law.

The generations of monarchs of the Great Liang Dynasty are not bad, so most of the land of the farmers is leased to the common people by the imperial court, but after this land has been in the hands of the lord of the county government, the taxes will rise from time to time.

If you want to talk about the little land that each person plants every year, if it doesn't encounter natural and man-made disasters, then there is really a lot of grain produced every year, but that grain has to be repaid.

After the government paid the grain, the families who farmed the land were immediately overstretched.

"What are you afraid of! No more than four generations of poverty!" Every time he thought of this, Lao Wang comforted himself with this sentence, but only at night when he was lying in the house alone, lying alone in the dark, he would finish the words in his own heart: "It's a pity... If you are still poor after four generations... It's going extinct..."

Usually, Lao Wang didn't think about it, and he would engage in some speculative tricks to solve the marriage matter for his son, but he was an old man who was used to abiding by the law in his life, how dare he deliberately defy the law.

Lao Wang felt that he was holding his breath when he stayed at home, so he took advantage of the fact that the autumn was still early today, and when it was just after noon, he called his son Xiao Wang to go to the bathing pool on the outskirts of Guobei County and set off.

The two stopped and walked all the way, went out in the afternoon, and saw that it was almost evening, and then walked to the soup pool on the outskirts of the county for men and people.

The springs in the territory of the entire Liang Dynasty are roughly divided into three types:

The first is called cinnabar soup,

The second is called alum stone soup,

The third type is called sulfur soup.

Sulfur and alum can be used to recuperate from injuries and diseases, and the body of the person who soaks in the pool can wash away the dirt and dirt on the body, but the water temperature is too hot and cannot be waited for a long time. Therefore, cinnabar spring is also widely respected by people who are good at soup bathing.

Most of the soup springs in Guobei County are cinnabar springs.

Among them, the color is green, clean and thorough, like a warm jade-like soup pool, which is specially prepared for the county lords and noble children for rest and outings.

There are about two or three such soup pools in Guobei County, and they are usually stopped to avoid polluting the purity of the spring soup by idle people.

There are also several cinnabar springs scattered around the suburbs of the county, and there are about four of them that have been repaired and used by people.

One of them was reserved for women, and the other three were reserved for the use of men by the common people.

Because the color of the hot soup is warm and moist like jade, and the shape is like a gentleman. Therefore, most of the old man's soup pools have a good name, among which the favorite spring used by the county master is called: Mingxiu Spring, taken from the mirror high hanging, beautiful and lovely.

As for ordinary people, there is no such thing, it is generally called a caustic soup, or a fading spring.

It was a lot late, and in addition to the steaming white mist in the bath pool, only Wang Laohan and his son were left nearby.

Wang Laohan drowned in the hot soup under the service of his son, and then Xiao Wang also entered the soup, the soup pool was not deep, and the medium-sized Xiao Wang entered the pool, and the water surface just covered Xiao Wang's waist.

Wang Laohan put his hands on the edge of the pool, leaning on the inner wall of the pool, feeling the fatigue and cold gradually disappear from his body with the flow of hot soup in the pool, Wang Laohan exhaled deeply, and then sank his two arms into the hot soup together with his body.

Xiao Wang stood beside his father and carefully looked after Wang Laohan, and when he found that his father's eyes had been gently closed, he soaked the rag into the soup, took it out, wrung it out, and began to wipe Wang Laohan's body.

"Dad, Dad!, are you okay? Your hand just touched me, is the soup pool too cool? Want to come out and rest?" Wang Laohan's son suddenly stopped moving, stretched out his hand behind Wang Laohan, and held his father steadily.

The hard-won pleasure was interrupted, and Wang Laohan muttered a little unhappily: "Hmm, I'm afraid of a bath, what can I do, rub you." ”

Xiao Wang nodded, shook his arm, and continued to get busy.

Wang Laohan, who was soaked in the hot soup, did not forget to recall what his son had just said while relaxing, Wang Laohan was stunned for a moment, "Hand, my hand resting on my belly." "Lao Wang is a little confused

"Wait a minute, hand?" Wang Laohan seemed to think of something for a moment, "Just now, your mother talked to me." She said that she felt sorry for you, saying that you go out early and return late every day, and you are exposed to the wind and sun. When you go home, you have to take care of me, an old man, and let me quickly find you a daughter-in-law and start a family!" Lao Wang looked at his son's calloused hands, which were a pair of thick and powerful hands full of ravines.

Wang Laohan looked at his son's tanned face that had been exposed to the sun for a long time, and the care in his son's eyes deeply touched him.

"By the way, where did Dad touch you just now?" Wang Laohan adjusted his mood and asked.

After hearing his father's words, Xiao Wang glanced at his father suspiciously. I don't know what my father meant, but I still pointed to my father the position of his elbow, Wang Laohan saw the position clearly, and he had a plan in his heart.

"Bring me a dry rag and clothes. When Xiao Wang heard his father's instructions, he left the pool and walked quickly to get his clothes.

Wang Laohan is about the same size as his son, but he is old and young.

Wang Laohan lowered his body, opened his hands under the water as if he was blind, and explored under and in front of him, Wang Laohan only left a head and neck outside the soup pool, and his body was facing Gang

Xiao Wang's elbow moved slowly.

After analyzing his son's words, Wang Laohan knew that in addition to him and his son, there was a third person's hand in this pool.

This hand is likely to have something to do with the horrific dismemberment case in the county now, and more importantly, if it is really that hand, it will determine the direction of the gambling game in the city.

The old man knew the value of this hand in his heart, and this hand happened to be by his side.

Wang Laohan has not forgotten what his woman said to him before leaving:

"Lao Wang, I remember that the incense of my ancestors can't be broken, I married you, I didn't live a good life for two days, and now I'm leaving, I don't want to be a lonely ghost again. This is what Wang Laohan's daughter-in-law said to him before he died, he has never forgotten it, he can't let the old Wang family go extinct.

Now the hand around him is incense, the future of Wang Laohan's son, and the future of the ancestors of the old Wang family.