I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 10 Dependence on each other
  When Xia Qingdai was very young, her mother disappeared. Even though her father was a policeman, in that era without much surveillance, it was not easy to find someone.

In China, disappearance cases and murder cases receive completely different attention. Murder cases have a slogan that must be solved, but there are too many missing cases that have been shelved.

In order to find her mother, her father sold the original big house and replaced it with a smaller one, but unfortunately he could not find her.

Later, when she was just about to enter elementary school, her father died in the line of duty.

So only she and her brother Xia Shanglu, who was about to enter high school, were left at home.

My father's funeral arrangements were basically arranged by his colleagues at his work unit with the help of his brother, and his ashes were buried in the Martyrs Cemetery.

After the funeral, my brother seemed to have had several quarrels with his relatives. Finally, the relatives all left and the noisy house became quiet again.

From then on, the brother and sister began to live together, and during the winter and summer vacations, she would go to her grandparents' house to spend time, and she basically did not move around their grandparents' house.

Later, she vaguely heard her aunt mention when they were talking that when her father passed away, her brother had an unpleasant quarrel with her grandparents and uncles over the sharing of the pension.

Her brother is nine years older than her, and her eldest brother is like her father. After the first grade, she can be said to have been raised by her brother.

There is a lot of knowledge that she should have, but she doesn't have it, and neither does he.

When she had menarche for the first time in the first year of junior high school, she panicked and thought she was going to die. She cried while holding her brother, who had just started a police internship, until he died.

In the end, Xia Shanglu comforted her that she was fine, she would not die, she was not sick, she was just growing up, it didn't matter.

After coaxing her, Xia Shanglu asked her to wait for a while and ran out to buy her sanitary napkins and a piece of paper with printed notes on girls' menstrual periods.

After that day, Xia Shanglu arranged accommodation for her at the school, saying that her home would be renovated and asked her to live at the school first.

After one semester, I returned home and found that the original dark and old house had changed drastically.

Although it is still a small house of only 42 square meters, it suddenly seems much larger because it is decorated with warm colors.

The house was originally an old-style house with only two bedrooms and no functional areas such as a living room or study room. I wrote my homework on the dining table.

After some renovations, the mold, water leakage and lighting problems were all solved.

The entrance is transformed into an L-shaped kitchen, and next to it is a bathroom separated from wet and dry. Entering from the washing area is a high tatami.

On the left is his brother's desk and locker, and on the right is a tatami with a mattress, separated by a folding wooden door.

The tatami storage compartment under the bed uses vacuum bags to store seasonal bedding and seasonal clothes that are not commonly used at home.

Stepping off the tatami is a newly renovated small living room. Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs.

Then the balcony was transformed into her study room, with fully enclosed floor-to-ceiling windows and light-blocking curtains, making it a very warm reading area.

As for her bedroom, it is on the right side of the living room. Although it is smaller than her previous bedroom, it has more lockers and the overall color is changed to pink and white, especially for the little princess.

Xia Qingdai never thought that she could live in such a room. It was as if her dream had come true.

Her brother said that when she was living on campus, he took the house to participate in a TV station's renovation program. It was all designed by the TV station's designers and was extremely soundproof and moisture-proof.

This solves the awkward situation where the brother and sister turn over in their own room and each other can hear each other, and it gives each other a good privacy space.

In fact, it is mainly Xia Qingdai's privacy space, because Xia Shanglu's tatami room is connected to his reading area, and that reading area is the only way to enter the house. Xia Qingdai, who was doted on by Xia Shanglu, did not feel that she had suffered much.

After washing the dishes, Xia Qingdai restrained her desire to see the castle and continued to study in the balcony study.

It wasn't until ten o'clock in the evening that she put down her books, washed and went to bed.

In my senior year of high school, weekends are a luxury. Although tomorrow is Sunday, I still have to go to school.

Normally, you should go to bed early after washing up, but as soon as Xia Qingdai enters the bedroom, she will think of her castle and her "Thumbelinas".

So she put on a set of pajamas, and Xia Qingdai lay on the bed, covered with quilt, stretching her head to look at her Lilliputian country.

At this time, the owner of the castle was having dinner.

Gah! What are you eating at this time?
  The real time of the castle and Su Qingqing is reversed day and night, with a time difference of exactly twelve hours.

It was already ten-fifteen in the evening here, so the time in the castle should be ten-fifteen in the morning.

It’s too late to have breakfast, and it’s too early to have lunch!
  While Xia Qingdai watched them eat, she took out the mobile phone that Xia Shanglu had retired and opened the browser to check the habits of the British in the early 19th century.

As a result, I quickly turned to an introduction to "Pride and Prejudice", which is basically a must-read masterpiece for students of English literature.

The article says that in England at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, due to the lack of supplies, people ate two meals a day, namely "breakfast" and "dinner", which are translated as breakfast and dinner, and basically did not eat lunch. Yes, nobles will have afternoon tea and snacks.

In fact, it was the same in ancient China. Lunch was basically not eaten, and two meals a day was common.

The slow pace of life and the lack of supplies have resulted in the habit of eating two meals a day.

In Britain at that time, generally speaking, ordinary people had breakfast at nine in the morning and dinner at three in the afternoon.

Then why does the owner of the castle in Xia Qingdai's little country have breakfast until almost eleven o'clock?
  There is also research in this article, just like the habits of the Bingley family in Pride and Prejudice.

When Jane was ill and staying at their home, Elizabeth had breakfast at home and set off to the manor where Bingley lived. Because there happened to be no carriage at the time, Elizabeth walked.

She walked three miles on a muddy road after rain in the countryside to arrive at Bingley's rented manor, only to find that the family had not yet started eating breakfast.

This one detail shows that Bingley's family's conditions are better than those of Elizabeth's family. The social status of both parties is different from the details of their living habits.

The reason why there is this difference in time is because of wealth.

The sun goes down very early in the winter in the UK. Breakfast is at nine o'clock and dinner is at three o'clock. This can save firewood and lamp oil.

Wealthy families don't need to care about this, such as Darcy and Bingley, they don't care. Daily life is rich, so the time to eat dinner is late.

After reading this article, Xia Qingdai looked at her villain again and said doubtfully: "According to the habits mentioned in the book, my villain should be in better condition, but it is clear that this landlord's family does not have any food. !”

Xia Qingdai could see his dining room through the glass window of the house.

On the huge long dining table, there was a pot of lettuce and a pot of lettuce, the latter of which was given by Xia Qingdai yesterday.

(End of this chapter)