Liu Jing sat there for a long time, until the afternoon sun set in the west. Seeing that it was getting late, he got up and walked down the grass slope, walked into the bamboo forest, walked through the winding and deep bamboo forest paths, walked onto the country road, and walked home.
In this life, he has a good skin. Even after recovering from a serious illness, he still can't hide his elegance in plain linen clothes. He is seventeen years old and is already seven feet four inches tall, which is about 1.7 meters.
His appearance can also be said to be extraordinary, especially his forehead, which is broad, full, smooth and smooth, making his whole person full of energy, which is much higher than the image of the skinny man with glasses in his previous life.
Nowadays, it is the busy farming season, and there are many people working in the fields on both sides of the road. As Liu Jing walked along, he saw that most of the land he saw belonged to the Liu family, and Liu Jing's own family owned seventy stones.
Stone is an old system in Jingnan area, that is, one stone is the place where seeds are sown. Liu Jing's family's field is a middle field. On average, three buckets of rice seeds are needed per mu, and one stone is needed for ten buckets. One stone of rice seeds can be sown in more than three acres, and seventy stones is about the same.
With more than 230 acres, it is considered a middle-class family among the Liu family.
Those with bare upper body and bare feet, who are described as humble, are mostly servants and guests of the Liu family; those who wear bamboo hats, single clothes and poor trousers, and have a peaceful demeanor are mostly Liu family members.
There are both wealthy and powerful families in the same clan, as well as small families of ordinary people. A wealthy family will naturally have slaves and guests to do the work for them. An ordinary family cannot afford to keep slaves and provide for guests, so they can only cultivate their own land.
In addition, there are also some poor households who have no land and no land, and rely on servants in the clan for their livelihood, almost like slaves.
At that time, the efficiency of farming was low. People used two oxen and three people to plow together. That is, they used a beam of more than ten feet to ride on the necks of the two oxen. One person led the oxen in front, one held the plow shaft, and one was responsible for plowing. This method can be said to be the fastest nowadays.
This method is just too consuming of manpower and animal power, and not everyone can afford it.
The middle family had no choice but to settle for the second best, using a single ox to pull the plow, which was equally fast. As for the small family, due to the lack of oxen, they only relied on manpower to plow the land, and their farm tools were made of different materials, so their methods were extremely backward.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, you can see a rammed earth wall as thick as a city wall rising from the ground. This is the outer wall of Liu's Wu. It was originally limited in scale. It was added and repaired in the fourth year of Yongshou (158 AD).
That is, thirty-seven years ago, the original intention of expanding the dock wall was to resist the increasingly serious Jingman invasion.
Since Guangwu revitalized the Han Dynasty, the Han population south of the Yangtze River in Jingzhou has grown rapidly. Among the four counties in Jingnan, the population of Changsha and Lingling has exceeded one million. You must know that the seven counties of Jiaozhou in the south add up.
It's only a little over two million. The population in Liang North and the two prefectures is only a few hundred thousand, which is less than the population of Changsha and Lingling counties.
When the Han people opened up wasteland and expanded their land, they inevitably infringed on the interests of the local indigenous people. As time went by, the conflict between the Han and barbarians gradually developed to an irreconcilable point.
During the more than a hundred years since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han and Barbarians fought a small war every three years and a big war every ten years. Every inch of land in the four counties of Jingnan was stained with the blood of warriors from both sides.
This confrontation did not fundamentally change until the Wuling Barbarians, the main force of the Jing Barbarians, were constantly attacked, appeased, divided, and increasingly declined by the Han court. Since then, no barbaric rebellion broke out in Changsha for more than thirty years.
Although there is no longer any threat from Jingman, Wubi has not lost its usefulness. Eight years ago, Changsha hero Ou Xing claimed to be a general and led more than ten thousand people to attack the city and plunder the countryside. The momentum was so great that Sun Jian, a famous general at the time, took office.
The governor of Changsha, before the chaos was quelled, many places were looted by thieves, but the Liu family was able to stay safe thanks to the Wubi.
Liushiwu and its surroundings are collectively called Longqiu, Qiu, which is the same as Juluo, which means a place where people gather to live. It is the prototype of the "village" in later generations.
Stepping into the mottled and old gatehouse, you can have a panoramic view of the inner world. This is his home and the place where the nine Liu clans live together.
These nine clans are different from those of later generations. They refer to the ancestors (great-grandfather, ancestor, father), down to the great-great-grandson (great-grandson, grandson, son), plus their peers, collectively called the nine clans.
Due to the limited scale of Wubao, many tribesmen live in various places in Pingxiang and Linxiang City. Only when they are fatally threatened by barbarians and bandits will they hide in Wubao to avoid disaster.
Within a group, there are some rich and some poor. The shapes of the houses are very different. The big houses are grand and grand, while the small houses are simple and shabby.
Soon Liu Jing saw his own mansion. His house was easy to identify. There were two large locust trees on both sides of the gate. They had experienced more than a hundred years of wind and rain, and their branches and leaves were luxuriant, and their crowns were like clouds.
Since generations of people in the family have been in officialdom, the accumulation of wealth is considerable, and the scale of his family's mansion is at the forefront of the entire family. The building complex faces north and south, in the shape of a "sun", and consists of two front and rear courtyards and six rows of houses.
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As Liu Jing walked toward his home, he suddenly saw a group of boys using bamboo as horses and cloth as flags, galloping toward him.
Taking a closer look, Liu Jing suddenly burst into laughter. The proverb goes: "When a child is five years old, it is called the dove chariot play, and when he is seven years old, it is called the bamboo horse play." Riding a bamboo pole to make a horse is a game among children, but the leader of this group of children is one and a half years old.
juvenile.
This young man has dark skin, moves quickly, and runs like a leopard. His name is Liu Liang, nicknamed Ayu. He is fourteen years old this year. He lives next to Liu Jing’s family. Because they are close to each other and their ages are not far apart, he always used to
Playing behind Liu Jing, not wanting to be separated for two years, this kid got more and more active and became the "King of Children".
"stop!"
Liu Liang rushed to Liu Jing first, raised his arms and shouted loudly.
"bye!"
When all the boys heard Liu Liang's orders while running, they all stopped and stepped aside to greet him.
When Liu Jing saw the children arranged neatly and with solemn faces, he couldn't help but feel a little different about Liu Liang. Naughty children are playful and active, and it is not easy to train them to obey orders and prohibitions.
Liu Liang did not immediately come forward to greet Liu Jing, but strode towards one of the boys, scolded him for not standing in line, and hit his butt with a bamboo pole under his crotch.
The boy who was beaten only had his mouth deflated, neither whining in pain nor crying. The rest of the children were not squinting, as silent as a cicada.
Historically, Tao Qian and Xia Houchen showed such talents in their youth. The latter died early, but Tao Qian eventually achieved success. Who dares to say that the young man in front of him must not be good?
Liu Jing watched in amazement and boasted: "The strictness of the army is nothing more than this. Ah Yu is really good at it. He will definitely be a general commanding tens of thousands of troops in the future."
Hearing the compliment from his neighbor's brother, Liu Liang couldn't help but feel secretly happy in his heart, but his face remained calm and he dismissed the song with a tigerish face.
When the children dispersed in a hurry, he changed his serious look, put a smile on his face, held Liu Jing's hands tightly, and asked with concern: "Brother Cong, where did you come back from? Could it be that your body has been damaged?"
Completely healed?"
The two of them have been on the fifth server for a long time, but they still call each other brothers. This is generally the custom in the world.
Liu Liang's palms were clammy, and it was very uncomfortable to hold them. However, Liu Jing did not break away and said: "I have been lying on the bed for more than ten days. Now I finally recovered. My body is a little stiff. I can go out and walk around."
"God bless you! Our ancestors have spirits!" Liu Liang recalled the scene that day, and he still has lingering fear in his heart. He said: "Brother Cong, you don't know that you were carried back by everyone that day. Your face was bloodless, and you didn't wake up no matter how you called. You looked really scary.
I thought Brother Cong would never wake up again, eh."
Realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Liu Liang hurriedly stopped talking and froze in place at a loss.
"It doesn't matter. Don't tell me about you. Even I feel that my life is not guaranteed this time. I am extremely lucky to survive."
Liu Jing did not feel dissatisfied, and looked at Liu Liang carefully, and said with a smile: "We haven't seen you for two years. Ah Yu's stature has grown greatly, and his eyebrows have opened up. It seems that you have become a different person. I can hardly recognize you, brother."
"Brother Cong has changed even more." Liu Liang was very envious of Liu Jing's slender and tall figure. In the land of Jingnan where the average height of men is less than seven feet, Liu Jing's seven-foot-four-inch figure is definitely considered tall. If
In the future, he will grow so tall that he will wake up laughing even in his dreams.
Then Liu Liang said with a worried look on his face: "Brother Cong, I didn't visit you when you were sick. Do you blame me?"
Xuan Er couldn't wait to explain: "This was not my original intention. My mother was afraid that I would get sick and would not allow me to come to the house."
"It's enough for Ah Yu to have this intention. As a brother, you won't be surprised." Liu Jing waved his hand indifferently. This is human nature and he can understand it. When he was sick, even his family members avoided him.
Not to mention the neighbors.
Liu Liang frowned and said, "Mom is so worried. I am as strong as a calf. How can I get sick easily?"
How could Liu Jing not know the young man's ambition to show off his ambition, so he smiled and said nothing.
"By the way, brother Cong, is Xiangyang City prosperous? Is Linxiang City as prosperous?" Liu Liang couldn't help but asked curiously.
Linxiang, the county seat of Changsha more than ten miles away, was the only city he had ever visited in his life, and he wanted to know what Xiangyang was like.
Liu Jing searched his guts and was about to tell him, when a woman came out of a "one house and two interiors" building next door. She was dressed in plain clothes and had a bun on her back, and her face was full of vicissitudes of life. She leaned on the door and called Liu Liang home. He looked at her.
The nervous look on his face made Liu Jing look like a savage beast.
Liu Liang felt that his mother had embarrassed him in front of his brothers. His face turned red for a moment and he hurriedly said goodbye to Liu Jing: "My mother called me home. It's time for me to leave. Brother, please call me if you need anything in the future."
"Okay, you and I will talk in detail another day." Liu Jing watched Liu Liang run away and shook his head with a smile.