Eat in Song Dynasty

Chapter 5 Night Fire
After he left, Wen Tai had time to ask his daughter, "How is it? Didn't anything go wrong with your work today?"

"No, it went very smoothly." Wen Shu smiled proudly: "And the errand was temporarily transferred, and the salary was [-] cents more."

Wen Tai shook his head helplessly when he heard the words: "I don't know who you are following, you girl, you seem to fall into Qian's eyes all day long."

Wen Shule giggled and said, "It's not like you, of course it's like your mother."

"Go, your mother is not as shameless as you." Wen Tai cursed with a smile, and drank the boiled water in the bowl.

After drinking the boiled water and seeing that it was getting late, Wen Shu thought about cooking earlier so that he could go to the night market after eating earlier.

But when I told his father, he shook his head and said, "I don't have time today. Someone from Li's family came at noon and said that Li Dazhuang's old mother was confused. Maybe it's just two days. I have to hurry him up." The longevity of the family is getting better."

"Ah! So suddenly!" Wen Shu put down the bowl in surprise, "I passed by his house two days ago, and saw the old lady basking in the sun in the courtyard."

Li Dazhuang is the owner of a grocery store in Qianjie. There is an old lady who is almost seventy at home. A month ago, Mrs. Li accidentally fell while walking and lay down.

Seeing this, the Li family was in a bad mood, fearing that something might happen, they rushed to the shop to order a coffin, who knew that the coffin was halfway up, and Mrs. Li started to improve again. , and let go of the Li family's work first.

"Who says it's not, life and death are impermanent." Wen Tai sighed, and waved her away: "Okay, if you have nothing to do, go do other things, don't stand in my way here."

Wen Shu, who was disgusted, responded with a groan, and went to work in the backyard.

The golden crow is falling in the west, the sky is full of sunset, and the smell of food is wafting from the backyard of Wen's family.

Because Father Wen had to catch up with work and couldn't go to the night market, Wen Shu could only eat some casually in the stove, warmed her father's food on the stove, and then went back to the room to warm the book for a while.

When it was time to light the lamps, the sky completely dimmed, and Wen Tai came back from the front shop, went to the kitchen to eat on the stove, said a few words to Wen Shu, and then went back to his room to rest.

It was night, the wind was strong, and the black clouds were silent.

The strong wind swept the wood chips and flowers in the backyard that were too late to clean up and flew down to the four houses, and the glowing lightning surged like a dragon in the clouds.

In the plain curtain, Wen Shu closed her eyes and laughed like a raving. In her dream, a lot of jiaozi and gold fell from the sky like rain. She stood on the green grass and looked at the falling gold. Jiaozi and Jinyin couldn't contain their excitement.

Just as he was about to reach out to pick it up, suddenly a thunderbolt rolled past his ear, and then a dazzling lightning struck down from the air, smashing the gold and silver bills on the ground that were too late to pick up.

At that moment, Wen Shu only felt that his heart was also broken!

"It's not good, it's not good, it's out of water"

In the melancholy, there was a loud noise in my ears, and not long after, I also smelled a thick smell of burning smoke, and Wen Shu frowned uncomfortably in his sleep.

This is too real, even the smell of burning, she thought to herself, but a moment later she sat up from the bed in shock and looked out the window in horror.

At this moment, the flames were already raging outside, and billowing smoke poured in from the door, covering the entire room with clouds.

Oops, it's on fire!

Before she had time to think about it, Wen Shu grabbed the clothes on the bed and ran out, shouting loudly: Dad, Dad! "

In the east room, Wen Tai, who had always been a heavy sleeper, heard his daughter's voice and sat up abruptly from the bed. Looking at the blazing fire outside, his complexion changed drastically. Before he had time to get dressed, he jumped up from the bed and ran out the door. .

"Aning!"

The moment he opened the door, Wen Shu had already rushed to his door. Seeing that the other party was safe, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that when they looked at the head of the fire source, they both froze in place!
Because the place where the fire is the biggest is her shop.
"Quick! Get all the available barrels in the kitchen!"

After all, the elders have experience, Wen Tai was only stunned for a moment and then came back to his senses, mocking Wen Shu and roaring, while quickly running to the well to fetch water to put out the fire.

"Hey..." Wen Shu came back to her senses, and immediately ran to the kitchen, but she already knew in her heart that her shop could not be saved.
An hour later, the sky gradually turned white, and the thunderstorm that had been brewing all night finally fell when the dawn broke and the rooster crowed three times.

The disgruntled diving team, who had been busy all night, sat limply on the ground as they watched the pouring rain.

It's finally raining, if it doesn't rain again, the whole alley will be burnt down!However, this is the case, and many shops and houses have been burned or demolished at this time.

Wen Shu helped Wen Tai stand under the eaves across the street to shelter from the rain. The heavy rain crackled on the tiles above her head, just like hitting her heart.

Gone!

She and her father had lived frugally for more than ten years, and the shop they bought last year was gone!
Three hundred strings!

Thinking of this, Wen Shu's heart twitched, and tears fell down uncontrollably.

Wen Tai on the side looked at the ruined wall opposite him, and felt very uncomfortable in his heart, but he was a man after all, and he didn't show his emotions on his face.Seeing the daughter crying into tears, he sighed, patted her on the back and comforted her: "Okay, don't cry anymore, we can rebuild the shop if it's gone, at least the backyard will be saved."

Because of the wind and the principle of fire fighting by the diving team, the backyard of this long house was preserved [-]% to [-]%.

Wen Shu choked up and said, "It can be rebuilt, but it will cost a lot of money."

"That can't be helped." Wen Tai pointed to the surroundings and said, "Look at these neighbors, which one is not like this, and we are not the only one. Our family has kept the backyard after all, which is a great fortune among misfortunes."

Those who even burned their backyards are really miserable. In this bleak and rainy season, there is not even a place to stay.

Thinking of this, Wen Shu slowly put away her tears, but looked at the scorched shop across the way, still feeling tight in her heart.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the untimely heavy rain finally stopped,

The wailing people hiding under the eaves rushed out one after another and searched through their burnt houses.Searching while crying, to see if there is anything useful left, especially the silver money hidden at home, that is the first thing to look for.

The Wen family's father and daughter are no exception, but only the part in front of the well is burning in the backyard of her house, and the living quarters behind are still intact, so they are not in a hurry to get money.

On the contrary, although the shop was severely burned, it was basically impossible to keep anything, but the set of tools used to make the coffin had to be retrieved no matter what.

Thinking of this, the father and daughter went straight to the shop.

Sure enough, half a quarter of an hour later, the father and daughter gathered together the iron sheets in twos and threes, and the wooden handles or the outer edges on them had long been reduced to ashes. After picking up these iron pieces, they were already very content.

Surprisingly, besides the iron sheet, Wen Shu picked out an unfamiliar iron box from the ashes.

"Father, look, what is this? Wen Shu lifted the iron box and shook the ashes.

Wen Tai glanced at it, and saw that it was a boxy, pitch-black iron box, only the size of an adult's palm. He couldn't help asking, "Where did you find this thing?"

"That." Wen Shu pointed to the place where leftovers were placed by the door.

Hearing this, Wen Tai put down his things, took the iron box from Wen Shu's hand and looked at it carefully.

The whole body of the iron box is dark, with patterns of birds, beasts, landscapes, flowers and birds engraved on the surroundings. What is strange is that the shape of the whole box is somewhat like a coffin, so I can't help but frown.

"Father, is this something from our family?" Wen Shu asked after a while.

"No."

"Then why did you get out of our house?"

Wen Tai thought for a moment, then hesitated and said: "Maybe some guest accidentally left it behind when passing by. You should put it away first, and if someone comes to ask later, return it to them." As he said, he handed back the iron box to she.

"En." Wen Shu responded lightly, and took the iron box over.

After packing up the iron sheets, the father and daughter went back to the backyard seeing that there was nothing more to use.

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　　Reading tips: The "submerged fire brigade" in the text is the fire brigade of the Song Dynasty.

　　Due to the highly developed commercial economy in the Song Dynasty, many people settled and worked in the capital.

　　The total area of ​​Tokyo City is 53 square kilometers, but its population is close to one million. Its population density is astonishing even now.

　　What's more, the houses were low at that time, and the density of population and buildings can be imagined.Once a fire breaks out, the fire spreads easily and is often difficult to extinguish overnight.

　　The loss of fire is always painful, Song Ting had to pay attention to it, and formulated a series of management measures to prevent and control. First, set up a special urban fire brigade, called "submerged fire brigade", usually composed of the army.

　　There is a military patrol shop at [-] steps per square, and a "fire watch tower" is built on a high place, and there are dedicated people upstairs to watch the fire.There is a "fire station" downstairs, with more than [-] firefighting teams and various fire fighting items, including "big and small barrels, sprinklers, hemp pads, axes and saws, ladders, fire forks, big ropes, iron cats and the like. .”

　　Whenever there is a fire, the fast horse "Watching the Fire Horse" that specializes in reporting fires quickly reports, and the master of the army, the Sanya Army, and the Kaifeng Prefecture Submerged Fire Team quickly dispatched to fight the fire.

　　After reading these, do you feel that the Song Dynasty is so advanced!
　　If you want to know what are the advanced places in the Song Dynasty, please continue to pay attention to this book. While pursuing the fun, Xiaogu will also popularize science along the way.

　　
　　


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