Wu's house looks like the most luxurious in the village, the house pattern is a bit like the capital of the courtyard, but the door of the row of no rooms, only stone walls, directly opposite the door there are five all stone walls for the wall of the tiled room, the two sides of the room building materials are not extravagant, is a stone wall thatched roof, the courtyard area is very large.
Wu Da's mule cart had just arrived at the courtyard gate, when an old man around fifty years old was welcomed out from the courtyard gate, this old man ran to Wu Da and bent down to salute: "Dongjia! You can come back, the proprietor's mother even went to the port just now to look around."
"Penfold! You feed the horses and mules some hay."
Wu Da flung the reins of his horse and mule to the old man, who was his family's domestic servant, and a domestic servant was not qualified to be introduced to the honored guest, so Wu Da turned to the honored guest and arched his hand after handing over the mule cart to Peng Fu.
"This is my room, please follow me in and have a seat."
Wu Da led Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming just into the courtyard door, from the main house out of the three people, the foremost one is a woman in her early thirties, height 155 centimeters, wearing dark clothes, clothes color and village women like blue and blue, but the clothes are not like the village women, is a color, but printed blue and white crushed flowers. Next to the woman was a child of 6 or 7 years old, dressed in navy blue crushed flowers, with two sky braids on his head, and this woman and child were followed by an old woman in a yellow-white colored jacket jacket, of comparable age to Penfold, who was Penfold's wife.
With joy on her face, the woman curtsied to Wu Da, "Husband has worked hard."
Children of 6 or 7 years old pounced on Wu Da: "Daddy, I miss Feng'er."
As soon as Wu Da picked up his son, he turned his head and introduced himself to the honored guests, "This is the lowly wife, and this is the canine son, Wu Feng."
After saying this, he asked his wife to come forward to pay her respects to the guests, telling her that today's two honored guests were his saviors. As soon as Wu Da's wife heard her husband's introduction, she hurriedly went up to pay her thanks with a big salute, and the old woman behind her also followed the main woman to bend her knees to pay her respects. Wu Feng even kowtowed three times towards the two travelers at Wu Da's command.
The two travelers only have a general understanding of ancient etiquette, how to return the salute of all kinds of people is still not quite understand, all with the ancient rituals of the Heavenly Kingdom to respond to the clasped fist salute. The fist salute is also known as the bow salute.
After all the people met in the courtyard, Wu Da invited the honored guests into the hall to take a seat, and Wu Da's wife personally served tea soup, which is tea boiled with tea leaves, with salt in the tea.
See Wu family people, should send some gifts, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui out of the valley did not carry any modern items, only in the backpack loaded with food and a sleeping bag, in addition there are two red Fuji apples, Zheng Yuming thought for a moment, took out two red Fuji apples and handed it to Wu Feng leaning against the side of Wu Da, in the haystack on the side of Zheng Yuming put back into the backpack of the wood, but also by Zheng Yuming hands on the ground, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, wood. Once on the ground, it slipped to Wu Feng's feet, Wu Feng and the two black children in the haystack are different, the body is clean, the wood is not hostile to Wu Feng, sniffing Wu Feng, but also wagging his tail at him.
Wu Feng looked at the red Fuji apple and just widened his eyes, Wu Da was different, his face was all amazed.
The twenty-first century red Fuji apples are big and fragrant, two apples are taken out, the hall is full of apple flavor, this era also has fruits and apples, but the size of the apples here is very small, basically the size of a duck's egg, like this seven or eight taels of apples, they've never seen it before, the most important thing is that this apple appeared in the wrong season, and it is now the end of the winter, and the indigenous ancients have to wait for another eight months if they want to eat apples.
Seeing Wu Da's surprised expression, Zheng Yuming hurriedly explained to Wu Da that this was a specialty that they had brought from their homeland, and that this kind of apple could be stored for several months, so although it had drifted through several months, it still had not gone bad.
Wu Feng got his father's consent, gladly received the gift from the honored guest, and went down the hall with two apples to find his mother.
Wu Da has seen the apple, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui said overseas homeland has interest, they asked the two about the situation of the homeland, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui discretionary said some, and Wu Da exchanges more, Chu Chao Hui can also speak a few words of Wu.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui even try to say some not too modern things, but Wu Da listen in the ear, but let him envy, straight praise the two overseas homeland is a paradise on earth, is the heavenly gods can only live in paradise, because everyone can eat enough food, and the children of the family to have a book to read in the country, is unimaginable to Wu Da, when he heard that a family has only one or two children, is more wide-eyed, in the hearing of the overseas homeland of the After hearing that the infant mortality rate is extremely low in overseas homelands, it dawned on me that people don't need to give birth to more than one, where people give birth to two or three, basically all survive, while the villagers here in Nambu give birth to five or six children, the lucky ones can survive two or three, the unlucky ones may not be able to survive a single one.
Wu Da had three children, but only raised the second Wu Feng, the first boy and the third girl died before they reached the full week, Wu Da sighs, if there are overseas land of medical skills, his two children may not be unfortunate, he will not need to suffer the pain of loss of children.
Wu Da has a yearning for your guests' hometown, but after the crossing people's description of the treacherous storms at sea, that bit of yearning can only become a sigh of relief, but the heart is more and more sympathetic to Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui's have a home to return to not be able to.
Taking advantage of Wu Da's sympathy for them, the two travelers began to ask questions of the native and began to ask detailed sets of questions about the world's society.
From Wu Da's words, the two travelers realized that they were transported by that blue light to a world whose history was very different from the original time and space.
The world here, the most ancient legend still has Yao, Shun, Yu three saints, there are Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, but Zhou did not divide into East and West Zhou, Zhou Dynasty only existed for more than 200 years, Zhou throne did not have time to pass to the beacon play the lords of the Zhou Yu Wang's hands, it was destroyed by the lords of the Qin land, the lords of the Qin land to set up the Qin Empire, the empire has been continued to the present day, it is said to be inherited for nearly nine hundred years, the present King of Qin is the 51st emperor, this nearly a thousand years old empire is now in the waning days, the empire divided into vassal states increasingly powerful, the Great Qin Empire and the same as the traverser space and space in the Eastern Zhou. Fifty-first emperor, this nearly a thousand years of the ancient empire, now has reached the situation of thinning, the empire of the vassal states increasingly powerful, the Qin Empire and the traveler time and space of the Eastern Zhou, has been reduced to a pose. Wu Da knows that there are six large vassal states, and there are a dozen other small vassal states. The current situation of the world is similar to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States.
The village of Nambu belongs to the jurisdiction of Dacheng, which in turn belongs to the Kingdom of Wu, one of the six vassal states of the Qin Empire. Wu's east side of the sea, the west is the state of Chu, the north is a small vassal state Wei, Tang, the south is the land of barbarians, is the rule of the local natives, the barbarians state is not quite a country, is a tribal system is dominated by tribes, large and small tribes form an alliance. The state of Wei bordering Wu in the north, Lu and Zhao in the north, and another bordering small state of Tang in the northwest are Da Qin and Qi and Chen.
In other words, the six major vassal states were Chu, Wu, Lu, Zhao, Qi, and Chen; the only major vassal state bordering Wu was Chu, and the minor vassal states were Wei and Tang. Dacheng was the fief of the second son of the king of Wu. The second son of the king of Wu was titled Ulsanjun (???), which is a general name for the mountains that surrounded the villa.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui counted on their fingers, according to the twenty-first century time and space history to calculate the era of this time and space, they should be in the era after the BC, the original time and space is the Qin Shi Huang unification of China, but in this time and space, there is no Shi Huang Di, the entire Qin country does not have a guy named Ying Zheng. The current king of Qin in the Great Qin Empire was called Ying Zhai, and Ying was the national surname of the Great Qin Kingdom.
A wear wear to two thousand years ago, wear is not and their own time and space of the same history of the place, in the face of this bizarre crossing, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui face to face.
The only thing that made the two travelers feel relieved was that the social productivity of this era was significantly higher than their contemporaries in that time and space. At this time, people dressed mainly in hemp and animal skins, and cotton cloth had also appeared. Cotton cloth should have been gradually spread to the Central Plains only in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but now it appeared a thousand years ahead of time, but nowadays, cotton cloth has not yet become the main clothing material of people, and only the aristocrats can enjoy it, and because of its preciousness, it is being used as a currency for circulation. The level of artificial iron smelting was very high, and iron was already used in a large number of agricultural tools, and plowing oxen were widely used in farming.
Productivity is a bit higher than the original time and space contemporaries, but the four great inventions, except the compass, the other three inventions did not appear.
People write most of the bamboo slips and sheepskin, cloth and silk, Wu Da heirloom is a sheepskin writing a history of the codex, the text on it is surprisingly a mixture of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese.
This time and space is still only the nobles can enjoy the right to literacy, Wu Da's ancestors were nobles of the Wu Kingdom, because of the offense of the powerful nobles, was exiled to Nangbu, then Nangbu is still barbaric land, after landing in Nangbu and taking root in Nangbu, has not forgotten to cultivate the culture of his children and grandchildren, so Wu Da is one of the few literate one of the village of Nangbu, this is a generation to teach a generation of cultural inheritance, Wu Da is now already in the process of teaching his son to read and write.
Because of this sheepskin handwritten copy at home, Wu Dacai roughly knows the status quo of the Da Qin Empire, those illiterate villagers, in addition to know Dacheng, is to know their own clan state Wu, the other four countries bordering Wu, only know the southern barbarians near the south port and Chu, which is still because there are to those two places of business merchants in the port to stop only to know.
Wu Da looks forty years old on the outside, in fact, he is only in his early thirties, Wu family's old servant Peng Da couple, this year is also just about forty years old, but they both look like they are in their fifties, the hardship of life in this time and space, in addition to the aristocrats, the commoners generally look old, but it is Wu Da's wife, who is only in the house to manage the household chores, and does not go out to run around, she does not look much different from her actual age.
Wu Da's words were filled with emotion as he talked about today's world.
"I don't know why these years, every year the winter is getting colder and colder, the date of winter is getting longer and longer, these two years also have less rain, we are close to the Yangtze River here, the fields lack of water can still be picked up to irrigate, my family's more than thirty acres of land, nowadays, I can only care about ten acres of intensive cultivation or so, thanks to the occasional family trafficking in goods to earn a bit of money, but also barely able to make ends meet. The lack of water elsewhere will not work, many fields in the north of Dacheng are barren, more and more starving people from the north are fleeing here, and there are even people from Wei and Tang fleeing here to survive."
The long river is the one west of the valley, the lake that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui mistakenly thought was actually the wide part of the long river, the long river flows from west to east, is blocked by the Ulsan Mountain, and bypasses the Ulsan Mountain to continue to flow eastward, and leads to the sea all the time, this long river is good like the Yangtze River of the twenty-first century.
"When did the winter start getting cold?" Chu Zhaohui frowned, on the road he noticed that the land was dry, some fields had soil so dry that it cracked, the sparse wheat seedlings in the fields were probably due to the lack of water. Associated with the half exposed riverbed in the valley, Chu Chao Hui had a bad feeling.
"When I was a child, I didn't need to wear a cotton jacket in winter, but nowadays, you can't get through winter without a cotton jacket." Wu Da reminisced.
After listening to the words of Wu Da, Chu Zhaohui and Zheng Yuming two eyes looked at each other for a moment, they coincidentally remembered the Little Ice Age climate, could it be that in this time and space, now is in the original time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty, "Little Ice Age"? If so, they can really catch up with a bad time.
The author has something to say: women's big gift information: ancient Han Chinese women's Manfu ritual is divided into big gift and regular gift. The Great Salute: both hands flat to the left chest (the right hand presses the left hand), the right leg bends back, bending the knee, bowing the head. The regular salute: the right hand presses down on the left hand, the left hand is pressed on the left hip bone, the legs are brought together and the knees are bent, and the head is bowed slightly. General salutation, just the right hand pressing the left hand. The kind that is slightly squatting, with the hand on the side of the waist, is the Manchu salute, which can be called the Hail Mary salute, and is called by the Manchus "squatting peace". But the hand in the left waist. It is also said that the Han Chinese in the left waist, Manchu in the right waist. Fist salute information: fist salute, also known as "arch", "bow ceremony", the traditional Han etiquette in a meet ritual, originated before the Zhou Dynasty, has a history of more than 3,000 years. It is recorded in the Analects of Confucius - Weizi: "Zilu arched and stood." According to the Zhou Rites, according to the status and relationship between the two parties, there were already different types of greetings, such as the earth greeting, the time greeting, the heaven greeting, the special greeting, the travel greeting and the side greeting. Fist-holding ceremony is a traditional etiquette unique to the Chinese nation. Fist-holding is to hold the right hand with the left hand, naturally hugging the right hand, loosely and moderately tightly, and arching the hand naturally in front of the chest, slightly swaying, and it should not be overly strong or too high. The fist can not be chaotic hold, men still left, that is, the man with the left hand holding the right hand, which is called "auspicious worship", on the contrary, it is disrespectful of each other's "fierce worship", mostly used for mourning, to meet with the clasping of fists do not get the wrong direction, it is quite impolite. Little Ice Age information: meteorological history of a "Little Ice Age", referring to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Opium War before (a said before the Kangxi and Qianlong Shengshi), when the whole of China's average annual temperature is lower than now, summer drought and floods occur one after another, the winter is very cold, not only Hebei, even Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other places are wildly heavy snowfall. The winter was extremely cold, not only in Hebei, but also in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other places, where heavy snowfalls occurred. Many people now attribute the end of the Ming Dynasty to this climate.