Chapter 118: The people's hearts are like iron, and the official law is like a furnace
"General!"
"Haha, I can fly."
"General again!"
"There's nothing you can do if I pick up the soldier, right? Naha, you should move your car. You haven't left your home yet."
"I don't care, I'll kill your soldiers with cannons."
"Look clearly, if you replace my taxi with a cannon, you won't have a cannon to use."
The old monkey now has a new game, which is to play chess with Naha, and he can win every time.
In fact, Yunchu felt that anyone who knew the rules of chess could play Naha. After playing a few more games with Naha, it would be boring. Only the old monkey was different.
This old guy played chess with Naha with the perseverance of a god, and never tired of it.
Yunchu knew why Naha was so obsessed with chess. It was entirely because as long as she was willing to play chess, she could write a lot less big characters. Therefore, she would rather kill time playing chess than go into the study to practice calligraphy.
Even if she had to have her nose pinched by her opponent if she lost in chess, she would choose to play chess without hesitation.
As soon as the bell starts ringing in the dining hall not far from the Yun family, Naha will immediately give up playing chess and run towards the dining hall.
It's just that this child's appetite is really scary. It's common to eat ten whole-wheat steamed buns in one meal. The most terrifying thing is that even if he eats ten steamed buns, he can still eat a full bowl of noodles and a big bowl.
vegetable.
Because she ate too much, and in order to reduce her guilt towards her family, the child never asked for the extra money that Yun Chu gave her.
That's right, the dining hall outside is the Yun family's large kitchen. Under normal circumstances, the family will eat in the large kitchen. However, except for Yun Chu and Naha, the servants in the family can only wait for the scholars to eat.
Finished, eat again.
Mutton, chicken, and goose meat in Datang are very expensive, but pork and duck meat are very cheap, especially duck meat. The value of this thing is not even comparable to that of eggs. As for duck eggs, because ducks eat meat, the eggs have a fishy smell.
The price is as cheap as dirt.
Every day, the Yun family's cook would fry seven or eight pots of duck meat, three or four pots of roasted pork with soy sauce, and braise the pig heart and liver, which were warmly welcomed by the scholars.
Even eating pig intestines is still a big problem. The reason why the scholars can accept pork is because the cooks of the Yun family made it so delicious that they temporarily forgot about the pickling of pigs. As for serving grains
They are still not sensitive to the pig intestines of reincarnation.
Ms. Cui had no materials to waste. After learning how to make pig intestines from Yun Chu, she took it upon herself to add some fat meat to the pig intestines to improve the quality of the pig intestines. Then,
A coolie delicacy called gourd head appeared.
The low-level ones only add some worthless intestines to a bowl of soup, and charge five yuan for two yellow steamed buns.
The high-end ones are given a bowl of soup with intestines and a piece of fat meat, plus two slices of fried tofu cut into diagonal slices, and finally a pancake, which costs ten dollars, plus soup.
The old women in Jinchangfang are rushing to do this job. As long as they get a pot of soup from the Yun family, some intestines, some fried tofu, some fat meat, and prepare some onions and garlic themselves, they can carry a baby with them.
The stove picker has found a place where there are many coolies to do business.
Whenever someone asks if the gourd head is edible, the old woman selling the gourd head will decisively mention Sun Shenxian's name.
Sun Shenxian never sells fake goods, let alone treats the people badly. As long as it is something that has passed through Sun Shenxian's hands, even poison can be taken. This is definitely common sense in the Tang Dynasty.
The fat intestines are full of fat, and when you take a bite, the oil and water will sizzle. The fat meat only shows the pig skin, not the red meat. The thing itself has been boiled to a pulp by the pork bone soup, even for a toothless old man.
, the old woman can also sip it bit by bit with her toothless mouth.
As a result, when Yunchu was walking around Chang'an, he would hear women shouting from time to time, "Selling gourd heads, gourd heads with plenty of oil and water." Whenever he heard such shouts, Yun Chu felt warm in his heart.
sharp,
Such Chang'an finally looks a bit like Chang'an.
Yun Chu doesn't eat gourd heads. It's not that he doesn't eat this stuff, but he's waiting for the castrated pigs that Cui ordered from farmers and only eats grass and feed.
The people of the Tang Dynasty mastered the castration technology much better than the people of later generations, mainly because they not only castrated sheep, but also castrated people.
There are many such tricks in the Yeting Palace. It is said that there are as many as twenty famous masters who are said to be able to kill with one knife and never leave any trouble. Castrating pigs is a trivial matter to others. If Yun Chu needs it, he can do it.
It is not difficult to castrate the elephants raised in Qujiang Pond and sent as tribute from other countries.
Yun Chu also heard that some of the craftsmen also castrated chickens. He didn't know how to operate it, so he planned to observe it when he had time.
When the scholars came, the most troublesome thing was not the Yun family's kitchen, but the bathhouse. Erniu often cried anxiously because he couldn't serve so many scholars, and left a large piece of white meat that couldn't be rubbed.
Not having money is a life-long pain for this child.
Especially when one can charge five cents for a bath, Erniu had no choice but to suggest to Liu Yi to add two more bathers.
There is no idle person to be found in Jinchangfang... Even the toothless old woman is sitting under the eaves, watching over the child in the cradle and twisting the wool thread, because Jinchangfang has begun to weave blankets and needs
Lots of wool thread.
It's still very cold in Chang'an in February, and even though the willows by the river have begun to sprout new buds, it's still common to get bloody cuts on your face from the cold wind if you don't pay attention.
If you want to feel like "the willow wind blows on your face without chilling your face", you should at least wait until all the willow leaves have grown.
The past winter was considered safe for the people of Chang'an, but money was not very valuable.
However, this is nothing. It’s just one less meal a day, and you can continue to live your life.
Every day, when the city gate opens, there are still a large number of people entering Chang'an City with all kinds of hopes. At the same time, there are also groups of people with withered faces leaving Chang'an City.
An elder at the Hu Renmin Temple in Liquanfang cut his own throat with a knife in front of the residents of Liquanfang. I heard that the blood in his throat traveled more than ten feet and stained the stone steps blood red.
, paid for the life of the old woman who was killed in the sutra hall, and let the matter rest.
Yun Chu arrived a little late and did not see the big scene of bloodshed. He only saw a group of Persian monks surrounding an old Hu man in white and crying sadly. Di Renjie also specially paid tribute to the dead Persian Hu man.
Burned a stick of incense.
Although the green smoke of birds emitting from the stick of incense in the Hu Renji Temple was very inconsistent with the religious atmosphere there, Di Renjie still persisted in expressing his grief with a stick of incense.
Those barbarians are not good people. After Di Renjie expressed his condolences, he asked a few strong Persian men to carry two large boxes full of money, weighing three hundred kilograms, and placed them in front of Di Renjie. Not only
In this way, he even took the initiative to open the box and poured out all the five hundred copper coins inside. As a result, the money almost drowned Di Renjie's legs.
As a result, the originally black eyes of the residents suddenly turned green, and some even turned red.
Yun Chu believed that at this time, as long as one person shouted "Grab the money!", the people in Liquanfang would drown Di Renjie in an instant.
Di Renjie didn't seem to be panicked. He just clapped his hands and a dozen monks with big shoulders and big waists came over from outside.
The monks from Liquan Temple put the copper coins back into the box and carried them into Liquan Temple without saying a word.
Until this time, Di Renjie said with a straight smile: "Money, you have seen it. If you want money, you have to work in exchange for it. Listen to what I say, I don't have to say whether I will use it for food in the future."
All the money.
If you don't listen to me, the lieutenant, you can get away as far as you can, and I'll starve you to death. I, the lieutenant, won't even look at you.
Now, those who are willing to listen to me, please stand to the left, and those who are not willing to listen to me, get out immediately!"
Di Renjie, who has been eating pork like a pig recently, looks like a pig when he is angry.
The glare and the bared teeth are quite powerful and can make people whose eyes turn red after seeing the money slowly wake up.
I also remembered that the chief in front of me was not someone like them, but a proud student of the Tang Dynasty.
I heard that people who graduated from Taixue, even if they did not pass the Jinshi examination, could still get a foreign official, and the worst one could be a scribe in the yamen.
What's more, at this moment, there are fifteen or six imperial students standing behind Di Renjie. It can be seen that each of these imperial students is holding a stick in their hands, eager to find someone to come out and beat him.
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The basic requirement for the imperial students of the Tang Dynasty is to be proficient in all the six arts of the gentleman. Even among the civil servants of the Tang Dynasty, it is not difficult to find a few martial arts masters. For example, Changsun Wuji can fight against Cheng Yaojin.
, and a fierce general who never falls behind.
The villagers who knew what was going on had slowly walked to Di Renjie's left hand side, and there were still a few hesitant ones among them. Before they could react, a group of Tai students, led by Di Renjie, had already rushed forward with sticks in their hands.
They struck hard, with even a look of madness on their faces. For a moment, a few hesitant people could only beg for mercy pitifully. Even so, Di Renjie didn't seem to let them go until these people were taken away.
The man was beaten until he was reduced to a gourd of blood, and then he stopped.
Chang'an County government official Qianhu Cao stood by and watched coldly, and dozens of big-bodied and round-waisted delinquents also watched coldly with their hands folded.
After Di Renjie allowed these people's families to carry the injured people to the hospital, Qianhu Cao came over and took Di Renjie's hand and said, "Just let go and do something."
Yunchu always felt that what he did in Jinchangfang was a bit unreasonable and arrogant. Now after seeing the methods of Di Renjie, a famous native of the Tang Dynasty, he now knows what the true meaning of "the people's hearts are as iron as iron and the official law as a furnace!"
He believed that Di Renjie would definitely make a big difference in Liquanfang. He even believed that Di Renjie would make Liquanfang the star of Chang'an 108th Street after Jinchangfang.
I also believe that all Di Renjie’s actions will eventually benefit all the people in Liquanfang.
However, the way he did it was too crude, too disrespectful, and too arbitrary.