It’s not that I don’t want to marry your sister, it’s just that my family is poor now and there is no fertile land, and you will definitely suffer hardship if you marry me. It’s better to wait until I find a title, have a family business, and gain fame before we talk about this matter.
The allusion about finding a feudal lord is from Ban Chao.
But at this moment, it is okay to say that the champion is a marquis. The champion is awarded the title of marquis at the age of eighteen, which is the pride of a young man.
"What Brother Bai said is true, it's my fault..."
Zhou Yuan's flushed face softened. Although he wanted Bai Gui to be his sister-in-law, he made a mistake just now. He said how much the dowry was, and he regretted it after saying it.
He was afraid that Bai Gui would take him seriously and would not be able to go back and explain.
Of course, if Bai Gui really becomes his sister-in-law, the dowry he will give will definitely be quite large. Not to mention such big words as "Ten Miles of Red Dowry", but it is still several times higher than the dowry that an ordinary rich man would pay to marry his daughter.
Young people are rich and kind!
But I am also afraid of being unfilial and disobeying the elders in the family.
"What a pity! What a pity..." Bai Xiaowu, who was on the side, sighed, "It's a pity that the Lingling baby of the E family has just been born now."
As soon as this joke came out, the cold atmosphere just now disappeared immediately.
Bai Ling is young now, less than one year old. Therefore, he is not afraid of ruining the girl's family's honor by what he says. If he is eleven or twelve years old, he needs to be careful.
"What are you talking about? There is such a big age difference..."
Lu Zhaohai rolled his eyes.
A few people were enjoying the cool breeze blowing on the hills, and they couldn't help but feel much more relaxed and comfortable. I don't know who suggested it, why not touch the bird's nest, shoot some pheasants, and have a picnic after returning.
Even if children from the countryside read poetry and books, they are still from the countryside at heart.
Some birds are protected animals in later generations, but in the countryside, they are harmful to crops. In your spare time, catching birds is also a way to ensure a good harvest.
You can rely on mountains to eat mountains, and you can rely on water to eat water.
The land of the villagers on the edge of the Qinling Mountains is poor and the taxes are heavy, so some mountain people can barely survive by hunting.
"Eh, I have eaten braised pork made by cat pandas. The pandas became fat from eating them. I didn't know that eating bamboo could make me so fat... That day, I was still studying. I saw the cat pandas brought back by the hunters and bought one.
Large pieces of meat, made into braised pork, not to mention how fragrant it is..."
Zhou Yuan swallowed, his chubby face looking at Qin Ling full of longing.
"The panda is deep in the mountain, don't dare to enter."
Some people are greedy.
"Does it really smell that good?"
Bai Gui's eyelids twitched. Cat pandas are protected animals in later generations. Cat pandas are also giant pandas. Killing giant pandas is against the law. However, in the late Qing Dynasty at this time, giant pandas were still a delicacy on the dining table.
There are also giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains, which are a subspecies of giant pandas. Compared with the giant pandas in Shu Province, the giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains have rounder faces, more like cats than bears, so they are called pandas.
"Why are you lying to me!"
Zhou Yuan raised his chin high and said disdainfully.
"Then let me ask my father to buy some cat bear meat from the mountain people next time he goes to Panlong Town to buy medicinal herbs." Bai Xiaowen wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth.
There is also a town in the mountains near Bailuyuan, about thirty miles away, called Panlong Town.
The Bai family has been in the medicinal materials business since Grandpa Bai Jiaxuan's generation. There is a stone-printed encyclopedia of Qin medicinal materials hidden in the family. With this book, we can go to the mountains to purchase medicinal materials and open a medicinal materials shop in Panlong Town.
The biological mother of the Bai brothers, Bai Wu, is a mountain dweller. Their father, Shopkeeper Wu, was an apprentice in a medicine shop with Grandpa Bai Jiaxuan. Later, he gave the shop to Shopkeeper Wu, and the Bai family received dividends every year...
As they spoke, they entered the willow forest by the river.
This willow forest is not large, with dozens of acres, and there are no dangerous animals such as wolves and tigers. However, there are many small wild animals such as hares, pheasants, and badgers running back and forth.
As soon as I entered the willow forest, I saw a gray rabbit running into the forest.
Everyone chased him.
"Look, this is a pile of pheasants. It seems that we have found the place where the pheasants lay their eggs." Bai Gui walked to a remote place in the willow forest and pointed to a piece of eggs in the weeds.
said.
There are about thirty eggs, which is quite a lot.
"Let's bake these eggs and eat them..."
Bai Xiaowu, who was about to move, suggested. As he said that, he was about to pick up the eggs and prepare to light a fire to roast them.
"These are pheasants' eggs, which can hatch into little pheasants. Who knows how many days it took them to hatch? They might be hairy eggs..."
Bai Gui thought for a while and said.
"What? A hairy egg?"
Several people quickly put down the eggs in their hands.
Thinking of the horror of raw eggs, they have no desire to eat them.
"Mencius: King Hui of Liang, Part 1" said: "If the farming season is not violated, the grain will not be enough to eat; if the grains are not put into the pond, the fish and turtles will not be enough to eat; if the ax and catty are brought in according to the season,
In the mountains and forests, the timber is incompetent.'"
"Now you and I can't bear to eat these eggs that are about to hatch."
Bai Gui recited a chapter from Mencius, one of the Four Books, without thinking.
This kind of preaching speech is useless to ordinary rural children, but for students who are familiar with the scriptures, it can have a dissuasive effect.
Regardless of whether one is kind-hearted or not, one can turn a blind eye to the sage’s teachings. Once this spreads, it will have a great impact on one’s reputation...
Confucian benevolence and etiquette not only restrain the people at the bottom, but also restrain the Confucian scholars themselves.
""The First Chapter of King Hui of Liang" also said: A gentleman is far away from the kitchen." Lu Zhaopeng also began to show off his achievements arrogantly. He recited softly: "It said: 'There is no harm, this is the art of benevolence. Seeing cattle
There are no sheep in sight. When it comes to animals, a gentleman can’t bear to see them alive when he sees them alive. He can’t bear to eat their meat when he hears their sounds. This is why a gentleman is far away from the kitchen.'"
There is the horror exaggerated by the hairy eggs, and there is also the theoretical support from the scriptures.
Several people put the eggs back to their original places.
"No! Haven't you heard the story that once you encounter a rabbit nest and catch a rabbit, you can't put it back? Rabbits can smell popularity, and the same goes for pheasants. If they find that these eggs have been touched by us, they will definitely peck them
It breaks the shell and pecks the little pheasant to death."
Bai Gui stopped them again. He deliberately entered the forest just now and placed them here when no one was paying attention. These eggs were all white-feathered chickens and could hatch into white-feathered chickens.
Extremely precious in this era!
Despite the fact that white-feathered chickens have been passed down from generation to generation, and are not as nutritious as old hens, white-feathered chickens are a truly superior breed that is bred quickly, has a high meat yield, and is easy to survive.
In the late Qing Dynasty, white-feathered chickens were no less expensive than domestic chickens. After small-scale breeding, they were like luxury goods and could be sold at high prices.
The reason why I didn’t raise it before was because I couldn’t keep it!
In the Lu family, once discovered, it becomes the Lu family's own. Even if the Lu family upholds benevolence and justice and does not rob, there will be other families. However, it is different now. He has a certain status, although this status is not very solid, and some
Vain...
But in two months, he is confident that he will pass the county examination, not to mention the friendship with his classmates. No one will take advantage of him by force. Besides, small-scale breeding is a petty profit.
The family will not fall out.
When the time comes for large-scale breeding, he is confident that he can keep this property.
