Wu Da couple entertained the VIPs with their best efforts, took out the best meals at home, and the altar of a green cloth exchanged for green wine was also placed on the dining table, even if the Chinese New Year, the Wu family dining table was not as sumptuous as it is today, but the travelers couldn't help but regret that the food they had brought with them had been given to the black children after tasting the ancient delicacies, and this meal really didn't allow them to work up an appetite.
This time and space people have not learned to extract vegetable oil, cooking is the use of animal oil, people cooking are mainly boiled, steamed, Wu everyone's dishes on the table, in addition to a fresh fish is steamed, the other are boiled in white, seasoning is also very little, in addition to lard, salt, is the Cornucopia, at that time chili peppers have not yet been imported into the Central Plains, the people used to have a pungent smell of aromatic Cornucopia as a seasoning.
Wu Da spent a pi of Dacheng cloth in exchange for green wine, in the mouth of the two travelers, but also just ordinary rice wine, look at Wu Da squinting eyes tasting wine intoxicated look, such ordinary rice wine good as a jeweled liquid.
The hardest thing to eat is rice, Wu Da's rice is indica rice, the threshing is not complete, the cooked rice is only worthy of feeding pigs in the eyes of modern people, but listening to Wu Da, only one tenth of the villagers in Nambu Village can afford to eat this kind of rice on a regular basis, and the rest of the villagers eat it mixed with peas and barley, and peas are soybeans. Wheat is not peeled directly boiled to eat, because this time and space of the stone mill has not yet appeared.
The host family hospitality, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui only had to hard to mouth stuff things, the table of steamed fish most two people pro, fish seasoning is less, but the fish was born fresh ah, in the fresh cover, the two shielded the fishy taste.
Wood was the happiest of the three traveling creatures to eat, for it ate the same food that had been brought out of the valley, a cake that Jung Yuming had specially spread for Wood with meat floss.
When Wu Da saw Zheng Yuming feeding a wolf cub with a meat cake, he was more and more sure in his heart that these two people were born in an extraordinary way, and in their overseas homeland, they must have been born into a family of public officials and dignitaries.
After eating, the two travelers did not rush to ask Wu Da to accompany them to the port to trade daily necessities, instead, they inquired with Wu Da about what jewelry was popular in this time and space.
The people of this time and place, like their contemporaries in that time and place in the twenty-first century, esteemed jade and loved gold, silver, onyx and pearls.
"Does no one like that kind of shiny stone?" After listening to Wu Da's explanation, Chu Chao Hui suddenly asked.
"A glowing stone? I've never heard of it, if there is such a stone, the princes and nobles must like it." Wu Da thought about it, he hadn't heard of a glowing stone anywhere, maybe there were such stones overseas.
As soon as Zheng Yuming heard the glowing stone, he guessed that Chu Chao Hui was talking about diamonds, so he spoke to Chu Chao Hui in Mandarin: "The diamonds in this time and space have and are also the raw stones, without advanced cutting technology, the bigger and better quality diamonds are all for nothing."
Chu Chao Hui pulled the corner of his companion's mouth, with some mockery on his face. Zheng Yuming glanced at him suspiciously, not understanding what part of his earlier words had angered this outlaw from a previous time.
Wu Da looked at the travelers who were communicating in Mandarin and suddenly thought of something. "Are the two virtuous brothers inconvenienced by their surroundings?"
Lunch between the push cups, Zheng Yuming, Chu Chao Hui and Wu Da recognized the foreign brother, Wu Da to the two men's name from the benefactor, the strong man into the virtuous brother.
What he means by that is, are you two travelers broke and trying to sell your stuff to trade items.
What Wu Da remembered just now was that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui were drifting from overseas and did not have any Wu Di currency on them, so of course they had to sell their belongings around them in order to buy things at the market.
"Not bad, Brother Wu, my brothers and I drifted here, penniless, only some things brought from home, these things are treasures in our place, I don't know if they can be exchanged for wealth here." Zheng Yuming pulled out a small glass ball from the pocket of his work pants, which he had picked up from Woody's cardboard box, and he didn't know from which corner Woody had searched for it.
The wood leaning against Zheng Yuming's feet couldn't help wagging its tail at the sight of the glass ball, which it had searched for from underneath the office sofa, probably left behind by Zheng Yuming's old cousin's grandson when he was playing in the office.
"This is a glazed bead?" Wu Da put the glass ball under the sunlight to take a closer look, this glass ball was transparent, not a single impurity could be seen under the sunlight.
"Yes."
Zheng Yuming did not hesitate to answer, there is no glass in this era, only in the high temperature of more than 1,000 ? on the furnace by the crystal glaze mother stone melted and naturally cohesive glaze. The glass ball does not have the color of the glaze flow clouds Li color, but it is pure ah, if the villa can not find a second, Zheng Yuming can guarantee that this glass ball is the only one in this world.
"This is a real treasure, one is worth ten, no, should it be worth twenty cloths?"
Wu Da has only seen glaze, glaze in this space and time is equivalent to the original space and time of the Hetian jade, a glaze product is worth hundreds of pi Dacheng cloth, the hands of this small ball although there is no beautiful color, but sometimes, things are not to color eye-catching to take the lead, as far as Wu Da knows, with crystal glaze mother stone is melted not out of such a pure and transparent, generally things are rare as expensive, this has not heard and seen the pure glaze, he The heart has no bottom, can not estimate the real value of the glass ball.
"Brother Wu, our brothers are unfamiliar with life here and would like to ask for Brother Wu's help in realizing it."
Once Zheng Yuming heard that this small glass ball was actually worth more than a dozen pieces of cloth, equivalent to the value of one or two mule carts, his heart could not help but rejoice. These two travelers will already be through the cloth conversion prices, an ordinary people's family, exhaustion of life, are unable to save down ten cloth to buy a mule cart, so Wu Da mule cart was not robbed, will be on the two travelers to give birth to a strong sense of gratitude.
"This glass treasure can't be sold in Nambu, so I have to go to Dacheng to find a buyer, but it's too expensive, I'm afraid of a slip-up on the way." Wu Da bite promised to help two people to sell, but he was afraid that the glass ball was robbed, to be robbed, he can't afford to lose money, all year round, he went to Dacheng to do business, at most, he can earn ten pieces of cloth.
"We'll accompany Brother Wu to Dacheng." Chu Chao Hui understood that Wu Da wanted bodyguards.
"Alright then, we'll leave in three days." A trip to Dacheng and back would take a day, and they wouldn't necessarily be able to sell the beads right away when they arrived in Dacheng, so they'd have to make more preparations for this trip to Dacheng, and would have to be prepared to live in Dacheng until the beads were sold.
"Well, we'll come to Nambu early in the morning three days later." Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming both nodded and set this departure date.
Since he was ready to go to Dacheng, he didn't need to go to the small place of Nambu Pier to buy items, Wu Da had his wife and Pengwu come out to help the two travelers to take their measurements before they left, and because the travelers were dressed too peculiarly, Wu Da asked his wife and servants to help them to hurry up with their two outfits so that the two travelers wouldn't cause people to be surprised.
After measuring the clothes, the two travelers took their leave to go back to the valley, Wu Da hastened to take out the mule cart to send the two wise brothers for a ride, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui couldn't excuse themselves, they could only gratefully accept Wu Da's good intentions.
Wood and was carried back to Zheng Yuming backpack on the mule cart, mule cart through the Yu Kui wine shop next to the haystack there did not see the two black children, Zheng Yuming thought, the two black children may be begging to go to the village.
Zheng Yuming's search was wrong, the two black children did not go begging, they listened to Yu Kui's instructions and ran to the entrance of the village to wait for the two travelers.
Yu Kui saw Zheng Yuming handing food to the two children, he judged that these two overseas people are kind-hearted, with his insightful vision, he also judged that these two strangers are in good condition, although the two people are wandering here, there must be some property around them to rely on, if not, the two people would not be dressed in fresh clothes, full of red face. Recently come here more and more refugees, Yu Kui can only have sympathy for the heart, but there is no power to help, but for the two children sleeping in the wine shop every day, Yu Kui would like to help a little help, and then went up to point out one or two.
Seeing the two children kneeling in the middle of the dirt road with their heads stuck in the withered grass, Wu Da hurriedly stopped the mule cart.
"Two little waifs, hurry up and get out of the way."
The two skinny children did not look at Wu Da, but only looked at Zheng Yuming with both eyes, with prayers in their eyes; in their minds, this handsome stranger was most kind to them, and was their hope of life.
"My lord! Take in my sister and me! My sister and I don't eat much, we're very well fed, I can do a lot of work, and my sister can work when she's older." The boy knelt and marched over to the mule cart and shouted eagerly at Zheng Yuming, this was what Yu Kui had taught him to say, and he had recited it over and over again for more than twenty times. In order to give the two strangers a good impression, the boy also dragged his sister to the river and washed his hands and face in the cold river water.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui looked at each other, out of the valley saw the situation, worse than they expected, the more they understand, the more they feel that it is not easy to survive, the adoption of the two children's things really did not think about it.
"Two virtuous brothers, this older boy can help run errands if he stays around." Wu Da had seen the glass ball, then felt that these two just recognized the virtuous brother's family is not expensive, adopt a child who can help do some work is not a big problem, as for that four-year-old girl, Wu Da wisely shut his mouth, so small girl led back in addition to wasting food, is not useful at all.
When the boy heard that Wu Da only suggested adopting him alone, he couldn't help but wrap his arms around his sister beside him, his big eyes filling with tears.
"Bring them all!" Chu Chao Hui suddenly voiced out, the boy's behavior made him appreciate it, a child with affection.
After Chu Chao Hui made his decision, Zheng Yuming couldn't help but let out a light breath, the two poor children put him in a depressing mood.
Not far from the entrance of the village, on a small mound of earth, crouched a skinny child, this child is the two siblings robbed the food of the 'rat', 'rat' watched the two siblings got on the mule cart, took away the withered grass roots in his mouth, quenched a mouthful of it towards the direction of the mule cart, his heart was despising the the short-sightedness of these two siblings.
Hmph, now seems to climb the high branch, later when washed clean under the steamer will know regret! His little rat from the State of Wei fled all the way, saw countless wandering children were adults tricked to cook and eat, if not he is smart, not close to the person, which now live and breathe the existence of the little rat, a pity, less of these two siblings, he is going to be less than half of the source of food, the little rat touched the flat stomach, began to worry about their own survival in the future.
Wu Da sent them to the gap near the mouth before returning. Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui waited for no one to be around before taking the two children to climb up the mountain. 7 or 8 year old boy is a little better, the little girl of about four years old will not be able to, so small children can not walk fast, not to mention climbing the mountain. The little boy saw his sister could not keep up the pace, anxious to drag his sister, he was afraid that the two strangers will be impatient to leave his sister behind. Looking at these two children supporting each other, Zheng Yuming only feel eyes swelling, his niece and the same size as the little boy, favored at home like a princess, the two time and space of the child a comparison, is simply the difference between heaven and earth.
Zheng Yuming took the wood out of the backpack and put the little girl into the backpack to carry, the wood was held in his hands to walk. Chu Chao Hui had wanted to carry the little boy, but he didn't want the little boy to shake his head and insist on walking by himself.
Chu Chao Hui gave the boy a deep look, "Since you don't want help, follow closely, it's a long way to where you live, you can't keep up, we won't wait for you."
The little boy didn't speak, only nodded his head vigorously. He wanted to prove that he wasn't a waste, that he was useful to the foreigner, and to make the foreigner feel that he wouldn't lose out by adopting their siblings.
The four of them rushed back to their place of residence at more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and when they entered the yard, the two crossers did not go into the villa, but put the two children in the yard to go and boil water to take a bath, and Zheng Yuming carried the little girl on his back for less than two hours, and then he felt that his body was itchy, and it was obvious that the parasites from the little girl jumped to him.
The two travelers were not willing to allow flea and ticks to exist where they lived in any way, so once back at the villa the first order of business was a full cleaning.
In the greenhouse, the two children's clothing was stripped and thrown into the stove, hair was also shaved and burned, in the barrel of the change of wash three times, before the two children washed clean, in order to prevent parasites on the wood, the wood was also Zheng Yuming with shampoo under the wash, wash, the two children and a puppy with a quilt wrapped, was put on the sofa in the villa office. Take care of the three little things, the two travelers only care about their own, the two of them also have to clean, the two clothes also have to be placed in boiling water to soak, with boiling water to scald the parasites, so that the two sets of clothes can continue to use.
"Brother, are the two adults going to eat us?" Her sister was wrapped in a soft quilt, and although her body was warm as it had never been before, she was shivering.
"No, adults won't eat us." Brother was staring wide-eyed at Woody who was trying to crawl out of the quilt, this was the task that Zheng Yuming had ordered before he left, it was imperative that Woody could not be allowed to burrow out of the quilt, the temperature was very low right now, and the puppy would be in trouble if he caught a cold and got sick at this time of the year, and there were no veterinarians or veterinary medicines available here.
"It really won't? Rat said that adults wash and cook their kids." Her sister snuggled closer to her brother, who was her only support.
"My lord would not!" The older brother cocked his head, his instincts telling him that the two strangers wouldn't eat them, since they treated his siblings and Wood the same, and since the strangers were so precious about a puppy, he didn't think they would mean them any harm.
Being a brother so comforted his sister, forgetting the fear he had felt when he had just been shaved and stripped of his clothes, when he thought he was going to meet the same fate of being eaten as the children in the rats' mouths who had gone into the steamer.
The author has something to say: Cornus officinalis has two main kinds: one is Cornus officinalis of the Cornaceae family, and the other is Cornus officinalis of the Rutaceae family, because it is produced in the Wu land (today's Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas) with the best quality, hence the name, also known as the Yue Pepper or the Ai Zi, which is a kind of small evergreen tree, and the tree can almost grow to more than a zhang in height, and the leaves are pinnately compound, and the green and white flowers are blooming in the early summer, and the fruits resemble the peppercorns; and they ripen after the fall. The fruit is yellow when young, and becomes purplish red when ripe, and has the effect of warming the middle, relieving pain, and regulating qi. Fruit into small grains cracked, taste very pungent, edible, stems and leaves can be used as medicine, function of warming the stomach and drying dampness, for the "ten complete tonic pill", "six flavors of dihuang pill" one of the important ingredients. Cornus leaf can also cure cholera, root can kill insects. The Compendium of Materia Medica says it smells spicy and aromatic, and is warm and hot, so it can cure cold and drive away poison. Ancient people believe that wearing cornelian cherry can ward off evil spirits and disasters. The record of "the land and customs": "September 9, fold the dogwood to insert the head, to ward off the evil spirit and the first cold.