I help you cook and wash clothes every day, but you are getting engaged and separated from me. You have no conscience!
Zhou Ronger sat in front of the stove in a daze, and unknowingly, two tears fell from her eyes.
In the reflection of the stove fire, Zhou Ronger, who was as beautiful as jade, sat. Zhou Xing saw it and was already crazy. When he saw a teardrop rolling out of the corner of his eye, Zhou Xing felt a pain in his heart and said softly: "
Sister Ronger, what’s wrong with you?”
Zhou Ronger was startled, Zeng stood up, wiped her face quickly, then turned around and said angrily: "You're so scary, you don't even say hello when you come in?"
Zhou Xing saw that Zhou Ronger was slightly annoyed and said hurriedly: "Sister Ronger, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, did I scare you?"
Zhou Ronger rolled her eyes at Zhou Xing and said: "I'm not that timid, don't be sorry. The food is ready, hurry up and eat."
Zhou Xing hummed and went to wash his hands and face. Zhou Ronger quickly brought the food bowl to Zhou Xing and placed it in the room. Zhou Xing sat at the table, smelling the aroma of the food floating up, and his stomach couldn't help but growl. Zhou Xing
I was very embarrassed and said with a smile: "It smells so good. I'm really hungry."
Zhou Ronger sat aside, looked at Zhou Xing, and said quietly: "Brother Zhou, will the food cooked by the new sister-in-law be more delicious in the future?"
Zhou Xing laughed and said: "New sister-in-law? The new sister-in-law brought here?"
Zhou Ronger said in a low voice: "My new sister-in-law, of course you are the one you just got engaged to, my new sister-in-law?"
Zhou Xing was surprised: "Get engaged? Who got engaged? When did I get engaged? Why didn't I know?"
Zhou Ronger said hurriedly: "Aren't you engaged?"
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Are you engaged? Who said I was engaged? Sister Ronger, tell me and I will ask her!"
Zhou Ronger heard clearly this time and was extremely happy. All the worries she had just had had already been thrown away to Java. She lowered her head and murmured to herself: "Sister Ronger, sister Ronger! I'm not engaged yet."
Zhou Xing saw Zhou Ronger whispering to herself, but couldn't hear clearly what she said, so he asked, "Sister Ronger, what did you say? Who said I was engaged?"
Zhou Ronger blushed and said in a low voice: "No one said, you go ahead and eat, I'm leaving, Brother Zhou." After saying that, she turned around and ran out briskly without looking back.
Zhou Xing looked at Zhou Ronger's jumping back and was very confused. He shook his head and said, "What kind of tricks is this girl doing? Who said I was engaged?"
When Zhou Ronger returned home, it was completely dark. Uncle Zhou had already finished his meal and went to find Uncle Zhou. Seeing Mrs. Cui sitting at the table and the neatly white food on the table, Zhou Ronger felt very embarrassed and said: "
Mom, you haven’t eaten yet.”
Mrs. Cui looked at her excited daughter and said angrily: "She is still running around at such a big age. If you don't come back, my mother will just wait for you."
Zhou Ronger stuck out her tongue, made a face for Mrs. Cui, sat at the table, and started to eat. Maybe she was hungry, maybe she was happy, it was still the same food, but Zhou Ronger felt that the food cooked by her mother today was really delicious and very good.
eat.
Mrs. Cui was eating her meal and looking at her daughter who was happily feeling relieved. She married into the Zhou family and gave birth to such a girl. Since childhood, both she and the child's father have loved her very much. Although the villa is
Although she is poor, the child has never suffered any grievances due to the care of the couple. Seeing her daughter getting older day by day and thinking more and more of her younger self, Mrs. Cui is full of pride, no matter in appearance or demeanor.
, including all the girls in the villa, who can be half as good as Rong'er?
Rong'er is about to turn seventeen, and it's time to talk about marriage.
In the past two years, no matter it is the Zhou family, the Wang family or the Chen family, they have secretly revealed their intention to get married. If you want to talk about it, it will be fine with others. As for Wang Tong, needless to say his character and appearance, he is also smart, but he can count well.
Uncle Zhou is very fond of the child. But Mrs. Cui has always been hesitant. For some reason, she always feels that her Rong'er is not the one who digs the lives of villagers and village women.
Rong'er should not have to live and die in this remote valley all her life, unknown. It was this hesitation that made Uncle Zhou and his wife politely refuse anyone's overt or covert proposals for marriage.
Zhou Xing was in the Villa this week. Without the help and support of the Zhou family in the beginning, it would have been impossible for him to be so prosperous. Watching Zhou Xing transform from a desperate and fleeing county king to gather the Villa around him step by step,
Becoming the master in everyone's mirror and the biggest person in charge of the villa, Ms. Cui received surprises one after another. She has concluded that Zhou Xing's future will definitely not be limited to this remote valley, and the future of the villa will also be Zhou Xing's.
will be closely linked in the future.
As a person who has experienced this, Ms. Cui has seen her daughter’s emotions and changes these days. Seeing her daughter’s concern for Zhou Xing, her care and consideration for Zhou Xing, Ms. Cui understands her daughter’s vague little thoughts better than her daughter herself.
.The reason why she never made it clear to her daughter, and did not try to promote or eliminate the weak feelings, was because Ms. Cui could not yet conclude that if she really promised her daughter to Zhou Xing, the life of her daughter would be as good as hers.
Is it a curse or a blessing?
Seeing her daughter's happiness today, Ms. Cui thought to herself: "Perhaps it's time to make a decision."
During the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, when productivity was relatively low, a self-contained small environment like a villa could basically be self-sufficient in other aspects, such as food, planting, clothing, linen, weaving, and medicine.
Go up the mountain to collect. But there is only one thing that must be brought in from outside, and that is salt.
Salt, in addition to seasoning, the most important thing is that once there is a lack of salt in life, not eating salt for a long time will make people weak and sick. This is mainly because the sodium ions in salt are necessary for the body's electrolyte balance. Without sodium
The intake of ions can cause human agency disorders.
In the past, although this villa was closed, it was not completely isolated. People from the villa would occasionally go out to the county towns to sell their leather goods and buy some salt and other items back.
Since the last time many mountain people came to the villa, everyone knows that the nearby outside has become a battlefield. Zhou Bao went to buy paper and ink, and was almost arrested by the officers and soldiers. Everyone knew that it was impossible to go outside. Besides, it was also time to settle down.
Newcomer, another member of the drill team. Even if occasionally one family ran out of salt, firstly, they had no time to go out, and secondly, they were unwilling to take risks. They all borrowed some from neighboring houses to make do. After going back and forth, many families soon appeared.
Solve the problem of salt cutting.
Nowadays, this villa, especially the new mountain residents, have regarded the villa as a backer. The villa is not only a place where they live, but also their own organization and support. It is the backbone of their own family. If there is a problem, don't go to the organization.
Who is it? So this matter naturally began to be reported to Uncle Zhou and Uncle Wang.
When Zhou Xing heard about this, he was scratching his head. He never thought that this salt would be a big problem. It is no wonder that in later generations, this salt is very worthless. Although he has never cooked in later generations,
But I also know that whether I go to a supermarket or a small store, I can just buy a few bags and use them back. When I came to this villa, I was eating at the east and west, and I didn't remember that this person wanted to eat salt.
Speaking of this now, Zhou Xing also vaguely remembered that there seemed to be several types of salt. One was sea salt, which was boiled with seawater and sun-dried salt. It was not clear how to make it. The other was pool salt. The salt pool in Yuncheng, Shanxi, was
Of course, the most famous place for Chi Yan is, of course, I remember that there is a salt lake in Qinghai, which is said to be used to build roads. It later became a very important chemical industry base. There is also a kind of well salt in Sichuan, which is boiled with brine from the well.
.This place in Hanzhong is surrounded by dangerous places and far away from the sea. The salt is probably either well salt or pond salt.
Everyone gathered in Zhou Xing's room and stood in a circle. The commanders all had grim faces. They discussed for a long time, but they didn't have any accurate ideas. The key was that the situation outside was unclear and they didn't know the outcome of the battle between the troops outside.
What's going on? If one side wins, no matter which side it is, as long as the battle lines are not in this area, then the county here will be open, and the road will not be so dangerous. It can still be done if you can buy some or exchange for some salt.
. I'm afraid it's still the same as before. There's chaos here. If you go out, the better ones will be captured and used as cannon fodder in the war. If you're unlucky, you might be treated as the enemy's spies and beheaded.
This Zhou Xing vaguely remembers that in the original history, this battle belonged to Wang Jian, the former Shu lord of Sichuan, who sent several of his godsons, headed by Wang Zongbi, the governor of Dongchuan, in the name of welcoming the emperor and borrowing the road.
Come to seize the territory of King Zhou Maozhen of Qi. In the end, Wang Zongbi was known as calm and wise. The Shannan West Road Jiedushi here seemed to have won a few times at first, but in the end he was really no match. He was defeated like a mountain and the territory fell.
He was robbed by Wang Jian. This battle seems to have been fought for a long time, almost a year.
Everyone talked about it, but there was no definite idea. Uncle Zhou said: "No matter what, we have to find a way to get salt. This salt is not something that any household can have. We can only go to the county or big cities."
Let’s go to the town to buy it. Tomorrow we’ll send two people who are smart and alert to the outside of the mountain to find out what’s going on. As long as we can get through to the county town, it will naturally be easier to arrange for people to buy and transport salt.”
After hearing this, Zhou Xing nodded, and couldn't help but said to himself: "If there is a private salt shop somewhere, it would be great if we could get some to sell it."
Everyone was silent after hearing this. Huang Hai opened his mouth and was hesitating. Before he spoke, Uncle Zhou said softly: "Master, I don't dare to say this. How can I sell this private salt? This is a sin of beheading."
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Just talk about the war outside, who is fighting whom? That family is not the ministers and generals of the Tang Dynasty, but the land grab is not an outright fight. Not to mention the county officials and the state government, it is the emperor's decree.
Which of these two parties will listen? Now that the world has lost its royal laws, what does this accusation mean?"
Zhang Jiang responded: "Sir, what you said is right. Outside, you are just farming honestly, so why don't you arrest you as soon as you say it? Anyway, if we don't arrest you here, it won't be a good thing if the army comes over there. You are running away from the disaster in order to survive."
, The purpose of transporting some private salt is to survive. If there is nothing to be afraid of, just do what you have to do. You can’t let the people of Yizhuang live without salt like this."
Uncle Wang said: "What you said is true, but apart from knowing that there must be salt in the big cities of the county and state capitals, I don't know where the salt is elsewhere, so it's not just empty talk."
Everyone nodded after hearing this. They didn't know where to buy salt. Isn't it in vain to say that salt is not sold privately?
Seeing that everyone was silent, Huang Hai hesitated for a long time and then said softly: "I know someone who has done some secretive things."
Zhou Can immediately jumped up and shouted: "You still have this way, tell me quickly, let's go find him!"
"Yes, yes, there is this way, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Everyone in the room immediately felt hopeful after hearing what Huang Hai said. They all looked at Huang Hai eagerly. Only Uncle Zhou sighed softly.
, bowed his head and remained speechless.
It turns out that there is a clan brother from far away in the Yellow Sea. He likes to wield swords and guns since he was a child. He is very aggressive and fights hard. He does not do his job properly. However, he has made a few friends. When he was eighteen years old, after his parents died, he became even more impatient to live in the village.
He left his family's fields to Huang Hai and the others to take care of, and went out to work on his own. In less than two years, he became known as "Man Shan Fei" in the Sanquan area. He once told Huang Hai that he and a gang
Brother, I built a small business by selling private salt.
Huang Hai and others have been honest farmers for generations. The appearance of such a person is considered a great shame and humiliation by the family and they never mention it to outsiders. Although they know where this person is based, they
They would rather go to other places to escape disasters, and no one would want to seek refuge with their brothers in the clan to find a living.
But today, I saw that the village was worried about the salt. The village was so kind to people like me that they couldn't just ignore it. Besides, my family would soon be out of salt, so I didn't care about my skin and put this person away.
The matter was told.
Zhou Xing came from a later generation, so naturally he would not think that smuggling salt was a big deal. From a historical point of view, the salt and iron monopoly has been the supreme method for the government to amass money since the Han Dynasty. To put it bluntly, it is the government's
In order to earn this monopoly profit, selling and buying private salt is poking holes in the country's finances. Naturally, it will be attacked and suppressed by the government. But in essence, compared with killing people, setting fires, and robbing the people, then
What a crime!
Seeing that everyone except Uncle Zhou was in favor, Zhou Xing immediately decided to let Huang Hai take a few people and go out of the mountain tomorrow. He tried every means, one was to inquire about outside news, the other was to find a way out, and tried to contact his brothers to see if they could
Solve the problem of salt in the villa.
Seeing that there seemed to be hope of resolving the matter, several young people were very enthusiastic and wanted to go with Huang Hai. Zhou Xing immediately assigned Huang Hai, Zhou Bao, Zhou Can and Wang Tong to go, while the others stayed behind.
In the villa, they should train and work. Zhou Dahu and Tuesday Hu were very unhappy when they saw that they were not allowed to go. They shouted together, but Uncle Zhou scolded them and kept silent.
Zhou Xing and Uncle Zhou gave them detailed instructions, and the five of them agreed and dispersed to prepare.
When Uncle Zhou returned home, Mrs. Cui was lighting up the pineapples and making some women's red wine in the bright light.