Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 284 Ye Weiyang

After dinner, I remembered the spring bed that I had only experienced a little before, and went to the back house again, but did not immediately go to the master bedroom in the east house, but the warm pavilion in the west house.

Still surrounded by fragrance.

After worshiping the Kitchen God at sunset, Zhu Yuan was suddenly afraid of being alone.

According to Zhu Yuan's previous instructions, Xieyi called a large group of women from "Xunxun", "Mimi" to "Diandian" and "Didi", mainly because they were designed by Zhu Yuan when he was in Mingzhou. Those modern clothes, or skirts, or dresses, or shirts, or denim.

The moment we first met, it was like traveling through time and space.

On the low couch by the window in the warm pavilion, Wutong is wearing a shirt, denim and high leather boots. Because the leather boots are also high-heeled, at first glance, the level of 1.9 meters is the 'Supermodel' on the Victoria's Secret runway. '.

However, as soon as Wu Tong saw Zhu Yuan, he was like a kitten that had been neglected by its owner for a long time.

The feeling of supermodel is gone in an instant.

It's true that they haven't seen each other much during this time, so Zhu Yuan patted Wutong and sat down before asking, "Are you hungry?"

Wutong shook his head abnormally this time, with loose brown hair swaying and swaying, his blue eyes were full of water, and he said in still not very fluent Chinese: "Wutong... miss... Daddy."

Zhu Yuan: "..."

The other girls, no matter how old or young, yelled like this, Zhu Yuan didn't feel anything, and at the moment there was... such a big one, it was immediately out of harmony.

Simply ignoring the address, Zhu Yuan smiled and said: "I asked them to get you something to eat, what do you want to eat?"

Wutong still shook his head, his slender body crawled beside Zhu Yuan, and continued to rub his head: "Wutong, don't eat... I'm afraid... Daddy, don't, me."

Zhu Yuan pulled the girl beside him, and with a little force, Wu Tong got up obediently, but he was sitting on his knees, and tried his best to bow his body down.

Zhu Yuan looked at it carefully.

The girl in front of me...although her size is a little exaggerated, she looks like she is only about 20 years old, and she came to me from a faraway place in northern Europe. To be honest, this era...is definitely a fate. kind of.

Perhaps, Wutong also knew in his heart how lucky he was to be here, so that he had such a reaction just now.

Touching the fair face of Wutong, which is not very beautiful but also very attractive, Zhu Yuan said: "You are mine, of course I won't want you. Besides, after so long, I still can't speak well. That's not okay, it's because they didn't Shall I teach you well?"

Indus nodded.

around:"……"

"It seems that I was really wronged," Zhu Yuan laughed, turned to Lou Lan who was standing beside the couch, skipped over, and looked at the others, but didn't think it was suitable, either Ruxiyi and the others were too busy, or...not Too familiar, but suddenly remembered, and asked Xieyi: "Where is Nuan Niang, I haven't seen her for a long time, go and call her."

Xinyi agreed, and ordered a maid to call for someone.

Zhu Yuan then motioned to Wu Tong beside him: "I will find you a good teacher later, and you will follow her from now on... Well, Nuan Niang also goes out to teach every day, you are so big, you just happen to be her female guard, I understand ?"

Indus seems to understand but not understand.

Zhu Yuan didn't say much for a while, but just signaled: "Take off your shoes and go inside."

Wu Tong understood now, raised his hand and unbuttoned his shirt.

Zhu Yuan: "..."

Loulan winked very much, and took the initiative to go forward, chatted with Wutong a few words, and motioned to Lihua beside her to help Wutong take off her high leather boots.

When Wutong, who took off his shoes, crawled into Zhu Yuan and sat down, Zhu Yuan said to the others: "Come here, find a place to sit, if you can't squeeze in here, go outside, read a book, chat and eat melon seeds. Well, Loulan, you And Xiaoyu, go to the opposite side, tell me what you have done recently?"

After Zhu Yuan ordered, all the girls started to move.

Wu Siniang dragged her younger sister to occupy Zhu Yuan's left hand side. There was Wu Sanniang next to her. There was no place, so she just stood there.

Inside the phoenix tree, Yaoluo, who was called at lunch before, took over.

There are also Zhuang Liuniang and Zhongli Watermelon on the side of the square table in front of them... There are also a few girls from the previous batch such as 'Corn' and 'Sweet Potato'.

On the opposite side, apart from Lou Lan and Xiao Yu whom Zhu Yuan pointed out, there were also girls who were squeezed two floors apart.

The room next to it was full of people either standing or sitting, obviously there was no place, and some girls were unwilling to go outside.

Only Xieyi, Liubai, Luoshui and Qingniang did not compete with a group of people, big and small, and they took the initiative to retreat after making arrangements here.

The thoughts of the four girls are also very obvious, in front of them... they may not be able to see their adults once in a while, but they have the opportunity every day.

What's more, competing with these girls is almost a bit of a drop in price.

Zhu Yuan patiently waited for the girls around him to finish making arrangements. Seeing that Mrs. Zhuang 22, who was not very gregarious, was vacated, she stood blankly by the door leading to the outside room, and called over with a smile, hugged her in her arms and kissed her. Get confused.

So it was sent to the arms of Wutong on the side.

The big Wutong also put his arms around the little girl in front of him, imitating his lord, and kissed her too. A certain girl had never seen such a beard girl, and she was obviously a little scared, so she was even more confused.

Seeing this, Wutong didn't dare to bully her anymore, and even made a protective gesture, hugging Nizi in her arms.

Zhu Yuan sent Niang Zhuang to the side, then took the first book in a stack of new books that Lou Lan had brought and placed in front of him after sitting down: "Novgorod Chronicle".

Similar to the same series of "Swedish Chronicles" before, while flipping through, he asked: "Is this written based on Xiaoyu's experience?"

Lou Lan nodded, then shook her head again: "The main thing is, besides, Indus and Diandian, and two Didi girls, they are also from what the adults said...Northern Europe, I also learned that Wutong...or the northern part of Novgorod. A person in an extremely cold place, but she doesn't remember where she came from, just like she doesn't remember her age, she just says it's a village, and there will be long, long days and long, long days in a year. night."

"It's the extreme day and the extreme night," Zhu Yuan added subconsciously, and said, "It's really to the north."

With emotion, he turned his attention to the book in front of him.

According to Loulan's summary records, the Principality of Novgorod has a history of 500 years. However, this country was first ruled by the Grand Duke of Kiev, and it was not until 200 years ago that it was separated from Kievan Rus.

to now.

Not only that, because this country was too far north, when the Mongolian army attacked Europe, it was lucky to be preserved.

Of course, they were not unscathed, otherwise, Xiao Yu and the others would not have come here.However, Novgorod was not on the main conquest route of the Mongolian army. Compared with many exterminated countries in the south, it was lucky to survive for various reasons.

A general introduction to the history, followed by the political, economic, military, cultural and other aspects of the country.

Basically, Zhu Yuan's feeling...is not as good as China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States.

In fact, this is the truth.

The development of history has a certain rhythm.

The history of Europe, before the Western Expedition of Mongolia, was actually a typical Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and even until the Industrial Revolution, it was also in this state.

Europe's politics, economy, and culture before the 20th century can be compared with China's Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period.

For example, a group of small countries have been fighting for hundreds of years. For example, there are always people who want to unify the European continent. Another example is the European aristocratic system. Even, the two world wars, to a certain extent, are similar to the great melee in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. place.

Fortunately for Europe, it was just an accidental location of a technology tree that far surpassed its own system, making each country stronger rapidly.

Then, the civilization of science and technology, unknowingly, becomes the ruler of human civilization.Similar to what Zhu Yuan thought before, if you have money, you are a good person. Otherwise, why should someone be rich?

That's the logic.

Why are they powerful? Because they are civilized!

In fact, not to mention China's backwardness in modern science and technology, the Chinese civilization, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has a rich foundation that far surpasses any Western civilization.

Of course, it's useless to say this.

Zhu Yuan understands another truth, a rather cruel fact: the winners are right, and the losers are wrong.

Thinking about this randomly, while chatting with Lou Lan, while finishing reading "Novgorod Chronicles", Zhu Yuan turned to the second book in the stack of books in front of him.

Some surprises.

This is a grammar book, and it still introduces the Greek alphabet.

It is... according to the pronunciation...the long string of Alpha, Beta, Gamma....

Compared with the later widespread use of the Latin alphabet, which is the English alphabet in most people's subconscious, the Greek alphabet seems to be marginalized, but... it is actually everywhere.

In various science and engineering sciences, Greek letters are used as symbols everywhere.

Zhu Yuan didn't intend to learn a new knowledge immediately tonight, but he looked through it with great interest and asked, "Where did this... come from?"

Lou Lan pointed to a red-haired girl wearing a water-blue silk pleated skirt on a round stool in the room: "My lord, it was her... Your lord named her 'Light Wine', and she said she came from a country called Byzantium, slaves and light wine The book that is being written is "Byzantine Annals."

Greece, now belongs to the Byzantine period.

I probably remember that the demise of Byzantium should be the fall of the famous Constantinople in the next century, and then entered the period of the Ottoman Empire.

As for when Greece will become Greece again, Zhu Yuan is not quite sure.

Zhu Yuan nodded while thinking: "The writing is very good, but you don't have to do it all by yourself. The other sisters should also come together. It's not good to eat alone."

Lou Lan nodded: "My lord, yes, slaves don't... eat alone."

Zhu Yuan just clicked a sentence, and continued to turn to the next book, which has a very interesting title, "Northern European Tales".

Zhu Yuan immediately thought of 'Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio', which is a column in Daming Monthly.

Obviously, Loulan extended the title of the booklet in his hand based on this column, so it is also conceivable that the general content of "Northern Europe Tales" is.

Opening it with great interest, Zhu Yuan originally thought that he might be able to read "Andersen's Fairy Tales" or "Grimm's Fairy Tales", but the contents were "witches", "ghosts" and the like, which were also some ghosts.

After reading one of the articles "The Witch and the Black Goat", Zhu Yuan said to Lou Lan: "This is interesting, you can choose it when you have time, and publish it in the column of "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" in "Da Ming Monthly", as a way to open up our novels. The vision of the Chinese people."

Lou Lan nodded: "I think so too, I'm afraid the adults will look down on you."

"The sea is open to all rivers, as long as the writing is good."

Having said that, Zhu Yuan just opened the next article, the door curtain was lifted, and Xinyi brought in a thinner woman who hadn't been seen for a while but showed more temperament, it was Nuan Niang.

After entering the room, Nuan Niang subconsciously glanced at Lou Lan, lowered her gaze, and said to Zhu Yuan Wanfu, "I have seen you."

Zhu Yuan looked at the past and joked: "I always avoid me. It turns out that I have gone to cultivate my body and mind, and I look more beautiful."

Nuan Niang tugged at the hem of her clothes: "Slave...is old and decrepit."

"When talking nonsense, at least close your eyes."

Nuan Niang: "..."

Zhu Yuan said again: "If you continue to respond in such a negative way, I won't promise to change your name again, um... Gua Niang, how are you?"

Nuan Niang was puzzled.

Zhu Yuan said: "The twisted melon is not sweet, but it quenches your thirst."

Nuan Niang still didn't dare to look up, but her face turned rosy.

This……

A certain little man, before, seemed to... said.

Moreover, she...probably...perhaps...has already been twisted...a melon.

Zhu Yuan stopped teasing a certain woman, turned serious, and asked, "How does it feel to teach at the affiliated elementary school?"

Nuan Niang was stunned for a moment, unable to react for a while, subconsciously answered the wrong question: "Slave... will do my best."

Only then did I understand Zhu Yuan's question.

It's just... It's not easy to add.

As for the feeling of teaching the girls in the affiliated elementary school... Nuan Niang thinks, probably, she found one... she feels at ease.

She loves it.

Those children... also respected her very much, and they were willing to say anything to her, a lady, and even asked her to help send letters to the family, and even...as if they regarded her as their mother.

This also made her feel that she was not useless.

She is still useful.

Nuan Niang is obviously very uncomfortable here, and Zhu Yuan has no other intentions, and directly motions to Wu Tong: "I will introduce you to a student who is also a guard. From now on, you will take her with you and call her Chinese. Hmm... find time to talk to Wu Tong again." Find a few girls who know kung fu, teach her, maybe it will be even better, it's too wasteful to not be able to ride a horse-drawn bow with such a big body."

Zhu Yuan didn't know much about martial arts in this era.However, according to normal logic, it can be inferred that it is very powerful.

Just one.

bow and arrow.

Zhu Yuan has seen ancient arrows no matter whether it is now or in later books or museums.

Just say arrows.

The arrowheads of the past dynasties are actually not as sharp as most people imagine, but rather blunt, similar to the bullets hundreds of years later.

So, imagine that the archers of this era, drawing bows and shooting arrows, can shoot arrows with the effect of later guns, such as piercing the throat with one arrow, you can imagine the power of it.

Zhu Yuan himself couldn't imagine it.

Therefore, if you want to describe it in one word, it would be - fierce!

In ancient times, someone who could shoot a bow and shoot an arrow through his throat at a distance of a hundred steps, in Zhu Yuan's conception, was definitely a fierce person, and in this era, there are actually quite a few such people.

Just like Zhu Yuan encountered it personally in Mingzhou.

Ok.

My own sack, I haven't learned any martial arts, but it's quite powerful.

Thinking about it, I looked around, the sack was not in this room, probably the same idea as Xie Yi and the others, Xiao Nizi also wanted to show her identity.

Then, let’s talk about finding a few girls who know kung fu to teach Wutong, maybe even sacks can be taught together.

There is no shortage of this kind of girl in this day and age.

The daughters of many generals' families often learn some martial arts from their father and brother.

Thinking this way, when Nuan Niang carefully glanced at a certain girl and nodded, Zhu Yuan turned to Xie Yi again and explained a few words.

Xieyi also agreed to come down, saying that she would give orders tomorrow.

Xieyi also knows that finding a few girls who can fight...is not difficult, but...doesn't know if my lord has other ideas, such as...appearance?

Zhu Yuan didn't say anything, and Xie Yi didn't ask much.

Sent away the reluctant Wutong to go out and communicate with Nuan Niang first, she can live there directly tonight, and then follow her, Zhu Yuan kissed Zhuang 22 Niang who was next to her, causing Xiao Nizi to fall into a daze again , then turned back to the front, roughly read the few books Lou Lan brought, and then changed the light.

According to Zhu Yuan's request, the girl collected a lot of tea-related information.

Zhu Yuan took a few glances at noon.

However, I am not in the mood for work at the moment, but turned to painting, about the "Zhuangzi" series that has been confirmed for the new year.

According to the style of the previous "Shan Hai Jing" series, I also drew a picture, which contains only one sentence, which is the opening chapter of "Xiaoyaoyou": There is a fish in the north, and its name is Kun. The size of the Kun is unknown. Thousands of miles also.

On the turbulent sea, a terrifying giant kun, just looming indistinctly, rolled into boundless waves, shaking the seabirds in the air and the fishing boats in the sea to the distance, as well as the nearby islands. In front of Kun, it was like a tiny mushroom growing in the sea.

However, it is indeed an island.

Therefore, it can also be seen how huge the giant kun is.

The two-foot-long picture scroll adopts the combination of freehand brushwork and blank space, which not only shows the artistic conception of the opening chapter of "A Happy Journey", but also gives the audience enough room for imagination through the blank space.

It's amazing.

After appreciating it for a moment, Zhu Yuan couldn't help but praise: "Your painting skills are better than Luoshui's."

Lantern shook his head quickly: "My daughter is no match for Sister Luoshui."

"Competition is competition," Zhu Yuan said with a smile: "There is always someone who is better than you, and everyone should admit this. Of course, for others, you are still not as good as Luoshui."

Picking up the lamp, he asked, "My lord, what is it?"

"you guess."

Picking up the lamp and shaking his head with a smile.

In fact, you don't need to guess, because you probably know that even if your painting skills are better than Luoshui's, in this mansion, you will definitely not be able to threaten Luoshui's status.

My lord is not a person who loves the new and dislikes the old.

Picking up the lamp to see this, I think it's good, but I can't help but feel resentful.

If you like the new and dislike the old, you... have a chance.But...if he likes the new and dislikes the old, in the future, he will inevitably replace the old with the new.

For Zhu Yuan's side, he had seen the painting of lighting up the lamp, and thought it was very good, so he decided on it directly.

After saying a few more words, he turned again.

There are a large group of women and bearded women around, mainly, the clothes they wear are all kinds of, very time-traveling, very emotional, and they all shouted to admire them.

Still a little worried, I don't know if I will gradually forget it.

Probably not.

Zhu Yuan has popularized a kind of tooling, which is not only used by fishermen in Mingzhou, but also in the industrial area north of Xuanwu Lake.

Old Zhu agreed.

After all, clothes like tooling are really convenient to wear to work.

As for the dress etiquette of this era.

Speaking carefully, in the past dynasties, those clothing styles that can be passed down generally have little to do with the lowest level of civilians.

At the bottom level, many people may think that it is an exaggeration to say "naked clothes".

In fact, it is not an exaggeration at all.

I remember seeing an old photo in the late Qing Dynasty. A family took a photo. Several children, male and female, were all bare-legged, and the upper body that was barely covered was just some tattered pieces of cloth.

Therefore, under the conditions of this era, it is lucky to have clothes to wear.

As for Huaxia's traditional costumes, they can't be sloppy, but Zhu Yuan feels that as long as they are worn on various formal occasions, it is enough.

After watching the fashion show, recalling the past that is destined to never go back, I found another interesting thing.

couplets.

This is an idea that came into being last year. Regarding the Spring Festival couplets, I remember that Lao Zhu once advocated them.

Because of various scruples, it was not easy to bring up this matter last year, but this year it will be fine. I plan to talk to Lao Zhu in these two days. Perhaps, just like the good talk about "filial son saves father" linked to penicillin yesterday, this matter, Lao Zhu Word has spread about Zhu's role in it.

Besides the Spring Festival couplets, you can also copy the legend of Lao Zhu who wrote pairs to the butcher.

That couplet.

Ok……

After thinking about it carefully, I remembered it.

Split the road of life and death with both hands, and cut off the roots of right and wrong with one knife.

Very domineering.

Unofficial History doesn't know if it's true, but this sentence, in terms of momentum, is similar to the song "Killing a Million Soldiers in the South of the Yangtze River" that is also rumored to be Lao Zhu's.

At the moment, my family and the women are facing off against each other, so we can't be like swords and swords.

Spring Festival couplets.

Zhu Yuan came first, and he remembered the one very clearly, because it was very common.

Days increase and years increase life.

Spring is full of heaven and earth, happiness is full of doors.

My lord is so ordinary, and the women, big and small, who were a little worried at first, lost their temper and made up all kinds of couplets.

Most of them are also quite common.

Zhu Yuan called for Xieyi again, and personally selected a few...Of course, one of them was his own, and told a certain girl to write it on red paper on the 28th and stick it on the door of his house.

This is also a nostalgia that transcends time and space.

In addition, there is also the word 'Fu'.

At that time, you must also write a lot of blessings, and then you must paste the blessing characters upside down in the house.

'Fu' has arrived.

Xieyi remembers that last year, the adults in my family said a few words, but for some reason, they didn’t do anything concretely.This time, since the adults ordered this kind of thing, of course I have no objection.

Zhu Yuan then thought of firecrackers again.

Last year, I thought that there were no firecrackers in this era, but in fact there were. However, it happened to be this year, and the root cause is still here in Zhu Yuan. Due to the strict control of saltpeter and sulfur, firecrackers disappeared in a blink of an eye. If you want to set off, you can only burn one Burn the most primitive 'firecrackers'.

Did not expect ah.

once……

Zhu Yuan did not quite agree with certain prohibitions.

Instead, he crossed over, and he made some prohibitions indirectly by hundreds of years in advance.

Maybe it will be more relaxed in the future.

For example, official organizations make fireworks and set them off.

In the short term, forget it.

Saltpeter and sulfur are currently strategic materials and cannot be messed with. Even if there is no major war in the next few years, the gunpowder needed for various infrastructure projects, breaking mountains and breaking rocks... is also huge.

Anyway...

The lanterns are also good.

For example, it’s the one by Jiaxuan again: Dongfeng puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, and it blows down, and the stars are like rain.

This is actually the scene of the Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty.

Just imagine the bright scene where the world is like an inverted galaxy, in fact, it is no worse than fireworks.

So I called for freehand brushwork again.

This year's lanterns should also be well prepared, and you don't need to worry about expenses.

Lively is the most important thing.

Inside the warm cabinet.

Xinyi agreed, but this time she didn't leave again, reminding softly: "My lord, it's almost Haishi, it's time to rest."

Zhu Yuan didn't drink, but felt a little drunk, shook his head and said: "It's not yet nine o'clock, today... don't worry, um, Hongsu, Huangteng, the two of them, come and give me a dance."

Xieyi didn't know why tonight, but after thinking about it, she ordered to go on.

Soon, Hong Su and Huang Teng, a pair of girls who are good at soft dancing, arrive.

There is also Lan Shan holding a guqin.

Zhu Yuan ordered again to blow out a few candles in the house, leaving only a dim light, and let Lan Shan come to the opposite side.

No nap at noon today.

originally……

I don't feel tired yet, but for the question of freehand brushwork, it's almost nine o'clock in the evening, so I feel a little more sleepy.

I don't plan to move.

It's warm here.

The two girls set up a posture at the side, and Zhu Yuan signaled that it was time to start.

Under the dim light, the faint sound of the piano, and the soft dance, Zhu Yuan asked Zhuang Erniang to move in, and called Wu Sanniang up, leaning against the woman's arms: "Tonight, it's you."

(End of this chapter)