In the garden behind the county government office, the trees were shabby and the winter plums were blooming alone. Xiao Chong stood in the pavilion, with one hand behind his back and a wine bottle in the other. The west wind blew, making his robes rustle, looking carefree and unruly.
state.
"Da da da!"
Not long after, a burst of fast and steady footsteps came, showing the person's profound internal skills.
"Mr. Lang, I have found clues. In the back alley of Wang's house in the west of the city, eight slaves disappeared the night before yesterday. It is very suspicious." Shuqi stepped forward and reported back in a low voice.
Xiao Chong said lightly: "The Wang family? The one with the spice shop?"
"yes."
"Then what?"
Shuqi continued: "The bad guy went to inquire. After receiving rewards from the master's family, the families of those families without men wore new clothes, pasted Spring Festival couplets and hung peach charms. They visited to pay New Year's greetings and had wine and banquets. They were very lively and without any sadness at all.
color."
Xiao Chong sighed, raised his hand to pluck a plum blossom, and sighed: "Human life is as cheap as grass, not as good as this broken plum blossom in my hand."
Shuqi stood by the side with his head lowered, saying nothing, silently alerting the surroundings.
Yesterday, as soon as they set foot on Linjiazhuang, they noticed something was wrong. One of the two dilapidated fishing boats originally docked at the pier had been dismantled and was said to be converted into a sampan.
Why is it necessary to convert fishing boats into sampans on New Year's Eve? Moreover, there are clearly residual blood stains on the boat wood that penetrated deep into the wood grain. The entire village road is also inexplicably wet. It has not rained at all in the past few days.
Entering Lin Wanwan's yard, we saw that the cobblestone path was as smooth as a mirror, but the flower beds on both sides were damp and muddy, and they had obviously been scrubbed hard.
With the few servants in Lin Wanwan's family, how could they keep the paths spotless and shine? It's not their first time here. If they were here to welcome the New Year, they would never come here.
More importantly, Xiao Chong also saw some splatter-like blood stains on the wall of the pool beside the yard. Those were the traces of blood that would only spurt out of the body of people who were cut or stabbed. Martial arts practitioners were concerned about this.
most sensitive.
Of course, it is possible that it is not human blood, but the blood of livestock. It is common to slaughter sheep and chickens during the New Year. But such cooking tasks are absolutely impossible to be placed in the courtyard in front of the main building of a noble house to welcome guests.
Shuqi also noticed something strange, and when he told Xiao Chong in a low voice, Xiao Chong just said indifferently: "I am a guest today."
In the feudal dynasty, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the people did not hold officials accountable. Xiao Chong did not have that much free time to find work. There were so many political affairs in the county government that it was difficult to have a moment of leisure, especially after he built Wanghai Saltworks and other mountain weirs, he was even more busy.
With my feet off the ground, I finally breathed a sigh of relief on New Year's Eve.
The reason why Xiao Chong later sent Shu Qi and a group of people to investigate for clues overnight was just a habit of taking the initiative, and he did not want something difficult to control to happen in the area under his jurisdiction.
He can turn a blind eye to certain things, but he cannot be ignorant. As a county magistrate, it is a basic requirement to know the situation of the people below.
"What a good man Wang Dashan is, he is very courageous." Xiao Chong muttered to himself playfully, and suddenly asked, "Is that street in Xicheng dirty and messy?"
"Yes, Mr. Lang, there are many traces of dried mule and horse dung, and there are also many dead branches and leaves on the street trees. Every time I walk by, there is a strange smell."
Xiao Chong turned around with a loud smile and walked towards the house: "After the Chinese New Year, the road should be clean. After all, our Wang Dashanren is a good man who is willing to give charity."
"The husband is wise."
Lin Wanwan and Lin Mengbo's family stayed together for most of the night at Lin's Manor in Wanghai Countryside, and it was only at dawn that they could fall asleep. It was almost noon when they woke up, and the yard was already filled with the happy laughter of children.
Eleven new children have been raised, and these eleven children have not yet been taught the rules, so the home is not much different from the kindergarten. Fortunately, Lin Wanwan's sleep quality is excellent, and the sound of the children playing is not disturbing at all.
to her.
Opening the window and looking downstairs, I saw Xiao Qingyu driving the elephant into the yard again, leading a group of real followers to play the game of Queen and Soldiers. The elephant is the Queen's mobile palace.
Little Qingyu, who no longer had the horse leader, once again favored the naive little elephant.
Wearing new clothes and eating Tusu wine on Yuan Day are all customs of the Tang Dynasty.
Lin Wanwan followed the local customs, washed up, put on a pomegranate skirt made by Yunshang herself, put on a fake bun, inserted a jade bow, put on light makeup, printed a flower between her eyebrows, and drank a cup of rhubarb created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the late Han Dynasty.
The Tusu wine made by adding Atractylodes macrocephala, cinnamon twig, Sichuan peppercorns and other traditional Chinese medicines into wine, is the authentic taste of a fashionable aristocratic lady of the Tang Dynasty!
Most of the children in the tribe have a new sheepskin coat, which is warm and soft. Looking at it, it's like seeing a group of lambs.
Although Mrs. Lin is sometimes serious, today is New Year's Day, so she shouldn't get slapped on the palm with a ruler! The children had to come to pay New Year's greetings just for that delicious bite. But in order to share the risk, everyone cleverly became
Act in groups.
Lin Wanwan asked Huanong to prepare a lot of candies, and the cakes were placed in the main room. The children came to greet her in a noisy manner. When she left, although there was no lucky money, which had not yet become popular in the Tang Dynasty, she could take away the candies and cakes.
, all with satisfied smiles on their faces.
This year is so happy! We have meat to eat and candies and pastries to eat. It’s really great to have Mrs. Lin here!
Lin Wanwan spent the whole afternoon happily shouting New Year greetings. The children in the clan now respected and feared her. This distance was just right for Lin Wanwan.
If she is too friendly, she will easily be surrounded by naughty children. Seven or eight-year-old children are always naughty, even if they are separated by thousands of years. Children are just like villains, they are not inferior when they are close.
A distance leads to resentment. The majesty of the teacher is a necessary deterrent.
In addition to the children, the villagers in Lin Wanwan's farm also took advantage of the first day to come and kowtow to her with the only good things they had at home.
Lin Wanwan smiled and accepted the wild mushrooms and vegetables one by one, and rewarded them with rice and noodles. However, she refused to accept the pork that several villagers had collected.
The dealers were ashamed of this, but they really couldn't come up with anything better. Pork was already the best gift they could give since they couldn't eat meat.
But Lin Wanwan was determined not to want the Tang Dynasty's pork, and she didn't even want to do superficial things. It was already on her own territory, and she didn't have to live to please others, so why bother to socialize hypocritically? If you don't like it, you just don't like it, just do it directly
Show that it is.
Because even if she keeps the pork, she will throw it away. In this case, it is better for these villagers to take it back and add more meat and vegetables.
Ever since Lin Wanwan saw the pig pens where farmers raised pigs in Lujiazhuang, Linjiazhuang, Dafengzhuang and other places, and they gave her money, it was hard for her to eat Tang Dynasty's pork, and she felt like it was left with a shadow in her heart.
Otherwise, the things that were fed to pigs in the Tang Dynasty were so shocking. The pig pens of the Tang Dynasty people were built under the latrines, and the waste was directly used. I wonder if it was awesome.
This is also the reason why the somewhat decent Tang people don't like to eat pork and call pigs "dirty pigs".
Compared to the dirty dolphins raised by farmers in the Tang Dynasty, Lin Wanwan would rather buy fat pigs that grew up on feed from modern times. And she has no intention of engaging in breeding in the Tang Dynasty, so she just keeps it out of sight. Anyway, in modern times, beef and mutton are not available at all.
purchase.
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