People Are Buying Astronomically Priced Cucumbers
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Little Miss, what item are we making right now? The skys so dark, why cant we light a lamp?
Shiliu placed so powder into the paper before placing it inside the little strip that Little Mister and the both of them had already made over there, rolling up the paper according to how Wang Juan had taught her. For this entire morning, nearly 1,000 had already been made and they were still continuing to make them so this caused Shiliu to be confused.
Itll be used for New Years ti; its to replace the exploding bamboo.[1] They dont need to be thrown into the fire. Just light them up for a bit and theyll make a pi-pa sound. Shiliu, these things that you went to go buy, you must not tell anyone else, ~oh. Once this stuff ets with a bit of fire, itll instantly burn up. Lighting a lamp will get us all burned to death.
Wang Juan made another string of wick and placed it gently to the side as she explained it to Shiliu. She knew a bit more about gunpowder than Zhang Xiaobao did. If she was willing to, she could even make an improvised bomb[2] of great power.
Shiliu only knew a bit here and hadnt been able to completely comprehend it as shed never had any contact with it before so she nodded and pledged: Little Miss, you [honorific] rest assured. I definitely wont tell anyone else. Not even to my family mbers will I say anything. This stuff has an even bigger sound than exploding bamboo?
Bigeven bigger than an exploding bamboo thats had salt added and been thrown into the fire. If this stuff is made bigger, it can blow up and kill people. Zhang Xiaobao also finished making a strip and placed it together with Wang Juans. His face and head as well as clothes were all stained with gunpowder but he didnt dare reach out a hand to brush it off and even more, didnt dare use his hand to scratch his head.
Xiaobao, do all of the peasant families need to be given cucumbers? Will they talk? Wang Juan also felt like this work was too dull. If it werent for her and Zhang Xiaobao and it had been any other child, they wouldnt be repetitively doing a single thing for an entire morning.
Giveof course, they have to be given. They already knew early on what was being grown there. Its the Great New Years[3] so they all want to eat sothing fresh. If they really were to blab, would they be able to wait till now? Im looking at them as all not that badpopular support can be used. Wait until next year. Well work hard together to make their lives even better.
Right now, Zhang Xiaobao was extrely envious of the people in this day and age. Those who planted the land really were too honest. If you gave them a little reward, then they would rember it; if there was just a little hope in living, then they would stake their lives on doing so. Each and every family and household of the two manors all actually didnt lock their doorshe really didnt know how the people of the two manors had been selected before theyd arrived.
Wang Juan, seeing that the wick had been more or less done, also stopped to rest. Thinking of the two families having so many people and yet didnt have any disagreents, she also felt like happiness wasnt anything more than this. Thinking on it for a bit, she then asked:
Xiaobao, that curved plow has already been confird to not exist yet. Youre expecting to use this thing to increase productivity? Think of so more ideas. Are there any better ways?
Yes. Zhang Xiaobao sank into thought for a while before he finally spat out a word. Then, he said: We can have them save the seeds for so of those individual plants with good yields. After a few generations like this, high-yield variants will be able to appear and not be that unstable.
Theres also another way. Wait until after New Years and have Erniu bring two people to go on a trip to Shandong, which is over there in the Henan Circuit.[4] Buy so stones back here and place them in the fields. We can also use them to drink water and bathe with. They can even be fed to animals like oxen or horses. Just dont know if Erniu will be able to find them.
What stone? They can be placed in the lands and can be eaten, too? Wang Juan really didnt know what stone had this many capabilities.
Wheatrice stone.[5] I rember there are three placesthe other areas I cant rember anymoreShandong, Liaoning,[6] and Mongolia.[7] This stuff is just like saline solution. Dont just look at how small of a proportion it has but the effect it produces is quite large.
This I do know about. So it was this kind of stone. In the past when I showered, they had this specific sort and the places that make mineral water also had it. Dont go to Mongolia as its too dangerousthe Gokturks[8] are occupying it, ~ne. Lets go to Shandong. Whats it called? Henan Circuit? There a more specific location, ~ne?
Wang Juan was familiar with it once she heard this na. The places it could be used were indeed very much so she rather agreed to it.
Dont know. Who knows the specific location? Originally didnt think of this stuff and occasionally learned about it so that I had a bit of an impression here. Whenever I was outside, I drank only natural soda water, the taste of which when its drunk isnt even that goodits not even as tasty as the water from that river in back of the orphanage before it was polluted, ~ne.
Zhang Xiaobao exasperatedly curled his lips as he thought of that river back then and felt a little uneasy in his heart. The water had been polluted; later, the factory had also closed down.[9]
Fine, if you dont know, then you dont know. Shiliu, lets stop for a bit. Lets eat. Today, make so more cucumbers and dip it in sauce to eat. Also, dont forget the at broth.
Wang Juan wasnt ready to continue thinking on these matters either as she gave an order before going outside with Zhang Xiaobao. Shiliu put down the work in her hands and exited the room last to lock the door. After arranging for Little Mister the both of them to wash up, she then went to the kitchens to make the arrangents.
Cucumbers, cucumbers in the winter! Our dynastys auspicious favor! Everyone quickly co over to invite it ho to eat! Its the New Year! Eat so fresh cucumbers!
In Sanshui County, located by the yan [govt. office] entrance, the constables were still taking turns shouting. In the beginning, there was nobody buying it as the people who ca over to watch the commotion werent affluent so when they heard that it was 30 wen [) which is a Chinese idiom for speaking with absolute certainty and leaving no wriggle room or space to bargain with like it was set in stone and inescapable as death.
Yu Laoye () is surnad Yu/ and Master is the title that servants or mbers of a household would use to refer to their patriarch or a master of the houselike how the Zhang Manor servants address Xiaobaos father. However, she is likely na-dropping that she works for soone who has enough status for Magistrate Cheng to take note of here.
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