The day after Fan Jin's wedding, Dajiang returned to the valley from Wu Wangdu, who had come back for the Spring Festival. Yu Kui did not come back, but only asked Dajiang to bring back a letter.
Yu Kui's letter first expresses his gratitude to his two lords, thanking Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui for sending him the New Year's goods, and states that he will do his best to move around the capital of Wu for his lords, and has now become a guest at the residence of Dr. Jiang.
The Spring Festival is a good time to make good relations with the king of Wu, this time can not be let go, so Yu Kui said not to go back to Nambu New Year's Eve, next year in the spring, he will think of a trip back to the city of Dar. In addition, the letter is also attached to the latest news of Ripple Ji, Chu refused to marry this matter, only let Ripple Ji in bed for three days, three days later, Ripple Ji on the full state of resurrection, this year's Spring Festival, all the festivities in the Palace Exam matters are still chaired by the Ripple Ji to organize.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui knew that Wu's request for marriage had been rejected even earlier than the King's Court of Wu. Their news came directly from the Chu Royal Court, the Wu Royal Court only knew when the emissaries returned home, and Dacheng knew even later, waiting for the ears and eyes of the Wu Royal Capital to send a letter back.
As soon as Zheng Chu and the two of them knew the exact news, they decided that they would properly console the great meritocracy that had gone undercover in the royal capital of Kang. Yu Kui is a man who is not greedy for money, he only wants to have a bright master, he only wants to have a stage to implement his talent, and of course, what he wishes for the most is to bring down the King's Court of Chu, and to take revenge for the misfortune of his family's entire family. For such a talented person, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui, in addition to letting go of everything in Wudu City and providing a constant stream of logistical support, in addition to the subtle ways to send care.
Before the winter solstice, Yu Kui in the capital city of Kang received a mule cart of things sent by the South Port, no gold, silver and jewelry on the mule cart, only clothing and daily necessities and New Year's goods. Clothing is in accordance with his body sewing, look inconspicuous, but inside there is a dry world. The most representative is an undershirt, fabric peculiar, hold in the hand is very light, wear on the body is like wearing a stove, undershirt inside is down.
This time and space to make down is very laborious, the down produced has a smell that can not be eliminated. With down, there is no fabric for down, Nambu can't produce down fabric that doesn't run hair. So know that down is very warm, but can not make the twenty-first century down jacket.
The undershirt that was sent to Yu Kui was converted from one of Zheng Yuming's down jackets. The body was converted into an undershirt, the two sleeves were converted into knee pads, and the converted knee pads were also sent over, Kangcheng was much colder than the Dacheng area, and with these two types of clothing to protect from the cold, Yu Kui would not freeze.
The stove-like clothes made Yu Kui feel the Lord's strong concern, and the new year's goods sent to Yu Kui were even more comforting. There were several jars of high-grade green wine in the New Year's goods, which was Yu Kui's favorite wine. There was also an altar of crimson wine, which was sweet and sour and very tasty. This kind of wine was wine, made from the grapes in the villa's yard, and there were only three altars in total. One altar was for Zheng Chu's two personal use, one altar was given to Ulsan Jun, and the last altar was given to Yu Kui, who was a good wine drinker. In addition to the wine, there was also japonica rice, gnocchi and dim sum, glutinous rice and japonica rice mixed and ground into rice flour to make gnocchi, gnocchi wrapped with different fillings. The snacks were pumpkin and sweet potato cakes.
Jung Yu-ming emphasized on the secret letter sent along with the mule train that the annual goods on the mule train were for Yu Kuei's own enjoyment, and that Yu Kuei was not allowed to give them to the nobles of the capitol as a solicitation gift.
Yu Kui received the gift, read Zheng Yuming's handwritten secret letter, on the spot in tears, after the loss of loved ones, no one cared about him again, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui heart to send things, so that Yu Kui revisited the warmth of loved ones.
Dazhuang back to the valley, Dazhuang father rushed to find a matchmaker to go to Ge carpenter's home for his son's marriage, ready to this year's Spring Festival before the wedding, next year after the spring harvest to his son to finish the marriage.
Dazhuang didn't make it to Fanjin's alternative wedding, and he was very interested in the Bermuda wedding that his old man was talking about, thinking that he would have a Bermuda-style wedding next year when he got married. As his own old man's description is not three-dimensional enough, Dajiang goes directly to the groom, Fan Jin, to inquire.
"Asking for a kiss is a bit simple and not discreet enough!" Da Zhuang scratched his head, his hair was already a bit long, almost ready for pigtails. The slaves were forced to shave their hair when they entered the valley, and after that, there were no requirements for their hair, leaving it as long or short as they wished. Unless the hair grows lice again, then it has to be shaved again.
The wedding of the Da Qin nobles is quite elaborate, roughly to go through the six main steps of Nacai, ask the name, Naji, Naji, please period, pro welcome, etc., but the common people do not have the energy and financial resources to toss, simplified a lot, but not as simple as Bermuda.
"I think this is good, this couple is neutralized before they are married, so that they can live better in the future."
Fan Jin obviously very much in favor of such a pre-marriage simplified procedures, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui made up the Bermuda wedding, engagement is very simple. It is the girl and boy agreed, both parents do not object to become, on the bride price what no requirements, bride price how much depends on their respective family situation.
Fanjin's wife, Ge Dainou, met Fanjin at night school and they got along for a short time. When Carpenter Ge wanted to find a good son-in-law in the valley, Dainou Ge quickly and secretly told her mother what she wanted. Fan Jin and Ge Dainou are considered to be in free love.
"On the day of marriage, besides worshipping the high altar, you have to answer the questions of the officiating bride?" Papa Dajang told his son that the questions asked by the officiating bride were peculiar.
"That's not called answering questions, that's called taking vows." Fanjin pulled out that marriage process and looked at it, it said that regardless of the comfort and hardship, wealth and poverty, or good or bad, or health or sickness, you respect him/her, help him/her, care for him/her, love him/her with all your heart; and faithfully build a beautiful family with him/her for life, and do not leave him/her, and spend the rest of your life together.
"Right! That's how couples have to be! I'll have a Bermuda wedding next year too!" Da Zhuang slapped his thigh.
"Are you sure?" Fanjin's mouth suddenly quirked.
"Of course!"
"Then you won't be able to have concubines in the future when you're rich!" Fanjin snickered.
"Huh? Why?" Da Zhuang was dumbfounded, in this time and space, having a concubine is a symbol of wealth and status, some wives still sincerely hope that their husbands will have more concubines, concubines are under the management of the wife to make use of.
"The country of Bermuda is about monogamy, only divorce is allowed, no concubines."
"Huh?" Daejang wondered what the Bermudian nobles thought.
"Actually, Jin feels that it doesn't matter if he takes a concubine or not, if he hadn't met the Lord's family, Jin wouldn't even know when he could start a family." Fan Jin was again generalizing about his previous life.
"Right, if it wasn't lucky enough to meet the master's family, where could Dajiang possibly have a family." Dazhuang felt that if he sold his body elsewhere, not only would their father and son not be able to see each other, his own treatment would only be a little better than that of a pig or a dog, a slave in his landlord's house, sleeping at night with the domestic animals, and the thought of getting married was simply a luxury. "Mr. Fan, when I get married next year, I'll have a Bermuda wedding!"
Ge family Erniu learned from her sister that she would have the same wedding as her sibling in the future, and could not help but smile with her eyes.
"Don't worry, Dajiang will be just like your brother-in-law in the future, he won't have a concubine." Fan Jin's wife pursed her lips and smiled, three days into her marriage, her face was even more radiant, radiating a sense of contentment.
"But what if Da Zhuang changes his mind and wants to take a concubine in the future when he's capable?" Ge Erniu suddenly thought of this problem.
"Then divorce him!" Ge Dainiao was full of vigor. "The Bermuda country marriage has a rule, the breach of contract is the party at fault, the wife can bring up the divorce, and after the divorce the family property can be divided more."
"Bermuda is so nice!" Ge Erniu envied.
"With the family lords here, this place is Bermuda." There was adoration for the two family lords in Ge Danyou's eyes.
"Yes, our family lords are like heavenly deities." Ge Erniu had lived until she was fifteen and had never seen anyone better looking than the two family lords, much less a nobleman who was even more benevolent and capable than the two family lords.
On the night of New Year's Eve, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui both made offerings to their ancestors in the villa's lobby. For his parents, Zheng Yuming did not know how to locate their life and death instead. According to Zheng Yuming's imagination, his parents should be alive like him, living in another parallel space. But in this time and space, his parents could only be considered future people. Zheng Yuming and his parents were equivalent to yin and yang, but he still couldn't locate them as passed away. The ancestor tablets that Zheng Yuming enshrined could only be written in general terms as Zheng's ancestors.
Zheng Chu two family ancestor tablets are placed side by side, the sacrificial ceremony is carried out at the same time, according to Chu Chao Hui's meaning, the two of them in this space and time have been dependent on each other, do not distinguish between you and me, the same as a brother, this offerings ancestor will not be separated from the sacrifices, anyway, trace up, are the children of the Yellow River, is a common ancestor reproduction down.
Da Qin is no gunpowder, no gunpowder there is no firecrackers, no firecrackers, New Year's Eve seems a little cold, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui to observe the New Year's Eve to the second half of the night, and then go back to their respective rooms to rest.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the gate of the villa opened early. Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui with their three children, dressed in dark clothes and gowns, were in the courtyard to receive the New Year's greetings from the slaves. Fortunately, New Year's money only appeared in the Han Dynasty, Zheng Chu and his two men did not have to distribute red envelopes to press the New Year's Eve, saving a small amount of money.
When the slaves had almost finished paying their respects, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui took the Huo siblings and Wei Qing to the Nambu governor's residence, where the two of them were to receive the New Year's greetings from the people of the village, and that night they would stay in Nambu, and the next day they would arrive in the city to pay their respects to the Ulsan ruler.
Weiqing will be fourteen after the new year, Huo Si Zhong thirteen, and Huo Si Hua ten. The three children entered the valley, and their living conditions changed drastically. All three grew fat and drew taller. Wei Qing's height was the fastest growing, and is now a head taller than when he entered the valley. Huo Sihua didn't grow as fast as Wei Qing, but he was also the height of a normal child in this time and place. Huo Sihua, on the other hand, looked eight or nine years old.
Once the living conditions are good, the face will be raised rosy and good-looking, wearing a beautiful jacquard cloth made of deep clothes, the feet are leather cotton boots. The three children do not have the appearance of vagabonds, they look like the children of a noble family.
There were more villagers than slaves, and it wasn't until noon that the villagers who came to the governor's mansion to pay New Year's greetings came to an end. Zheng Chu and his two men held a banquet at the governor's mansion, entertaining Wu Da's family, the Wu patriarch, the two villagers who taught at the ancestral hall, the chiefs of the factories and workshops, and the chief of the Eagle Tribe who came over on a boat to pay his New Year's respects, Tuohsiung, his son Tuosu, and his daughter Tuoyu.
The Eagle Tribe has had a productive year this year. Tuo Xiong father and son, listen to Zheng Chu two teachings, Tuo Xiong to the surrounding small tribes lobbying, with food in exchange for many cheap labor to help the Eagle Tribe mining. Tuosu with the tribe's warriors behind his father force deterrent, who want to refuse this grain for labor trade, Tuosu will use the hands of weapons to make them agree.
Most of the small tribes are difficult to mix hunger and food, this kind of trade can solve their food problem is basically very welcome, not welcome to weigh their own have no with the eagle this big tribe of the strength of a battle.
With more manpower and better digging tools on hand, the Eagle Tribe's monthly iron ore production doubled six or seven times. The selling price of iron ore was raised again by Zheng Yuming. The Eagle Tribe exchanged the iron ore in Nambu for enough food, daily necessities, and Nambu cloth. After the beginning of spring, the Eagle Tribe is ready to go to Nambu to buy bricks and tiles to go back to build the Tribal Sacrificial Temple, the dilapidated place of worship will be a tall and beautiful brick house. Sacrificial temple house pattern, Tuoxiong ready to refer to the style of the house of Nambu stores, in his eyes, two-story building means tall.
Because it is winter, eat fried vegetables what is too cold, the feast will use the hot pot form, four, five people use a hot pot, the governor's residence hall set up a total of five hot pot stove. Zheng Chu two people share a, Wu Da and Nambu village people share a, factory and workshop supervisor share a, Tuoxiong family use a, Wei Qing, Huo family siblings and Wu wife Wu Feng use a.
The hot pot used a lot of seasonings, the dishes tasted good when they were swished in the hot pot soup, and the hot pot was so hot that halfway through the meal everyone in the hall started sweating.
Wu Da's family had already enjoyed hot pot in the governor's mansion and respected this new way of eating. The others in Nambu Village and Tuoxiong's family were all seeing it for the first time. From initially not daring to move their chopsticks, they later shook their arms and ate. The more they ate, the hotter they got, and the more they ate, the better they felt. Especially Tuoxiong's family, who had always been primitive in terms of eating and drinking, this flavorful hot pot immediately fascinated them.
"Two Lord Governors! Please reward the Eagle Clan with a hot pot, in the future, when the Eagle Clan eats such delicacies, mining will be more powerful!" As the feast ended, Tuoxiong burped and made a request as he took his leave.
"En! Since the warriors of the Eagle Tribe like hot pot, bring two sets of hot pot utensils back." Chu Chaohui smiled, he liked the Eagle Tribe's pursuit of life, there was a pursuit, only then would they desperately think of creating wealth, that is, desperately digging for minerals.
"The Eagle Tribe would like to buy that very large rice from Nambu, and I ask the two governors for permission." Tuosu transported mines to the valley, had eaten rice in the valley, that kind of rice is fragrant and delicious, much better than the taste of corn. The Eagle Tribe consumes all the food they get from Nambu, and they want to buy that kind of rice but can't, the village people don't sell it, and the stores that specialize in supplying them with food don't have the goods.
"This kind of rice is not much, in the future you can special supply some to you." Zheng Yuming nodded his head and agreed, the grain store in Nambu is the governor's office opened, the grain acquired from the neighboring countries in addition to the grain placed in the valley storage, the other are sold in that store, to ensure that the Nambu area food supply. If not, the Light Eagle Tribe does not engage in agriculture, a tribe needs food, Nambu can't supply, a shortage of food will cause the price of food in Dacheng to rise, causing all sorts of unnecessary trouble.
A hot pot meal took a long time, sending the guests away, it was dark and the people of the governor's house were ready to rest.
Zheng Yuming in the planning of the governor's house drawings, is mainly office function, bedroom set up not much, only prepared two master bedroom and a study, tonight in addition to him and Chu Chao Hui, and Wei Qing and Huo siblings to live here. Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong live in the study, the study is Huo Sizhong often live in the place, a bedroom to the little girl Huo Sihua rest, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui crowded one.
It was just getting dark, and this hour was too early for the two travelers to go to bed.
"The two of us will drink some more rice wine." Chu Chaohui held an altar of rice wine into the room, and ordered the slaves to send some small dishes for drinking to the bedroom, and had the posture of tasting wine with Zheng Yuming on a snowy night.
"Is this rice wine good enough to drink?" The rice wine in the governor's mansion was made from glutinous rice, a secret brewing recipe contributed by Chu Chao Hui, a type of rice wine that Chu Chao Hui's father's hometown must brew at the end of the year.
"Time enough, this wine needs to be drunk at such a time." Chu Chao Hui smiled and took two porcelain bowls, placing one in front of each person.
"The flavor is good!" Zheng Yuming took a sip, it was very sweet and flavorful, it went down better than green wine.
"In my father's hometown, this is the kind of wine used by my grandparents there for wedding receptions."
"My grandfather also brews rice wine, but he blends it with white wine, and the wine flavor texture is fiercer than this." That kind of rice wine gave the feeling of wine, unlike the one brewed by Chu Chao Hui, which was similar to sweet fruit juice.
"Drink more if it tastes good." Chu Chao Hui's eyes narrowed even more.
"How many altars do you have to drink if you want to get drunk on this kind of wine?" Zheng Yuming tilted his head and drank half of the bowl, and as the rice wine entered his belly, a warmth rose from his belly.
"Try it and see how much you can drink to get drunk." Chu Chao Hui didn't take a big gulp of forehead pouring like Zheng Yuming, but savored it.
"I think this wine is just like low-grade beer, it doesn't get you drunk, it only makes you go to the toilet non-stop." Zheng Yuming shrugged his shoulders.
Zheng Yuming said big words, this rice wine is not a low-grade beer, not just to make you keep going to the toilet, but to make you drunk as a dream, to have a drenching aphrodisiac dream.