There is a home in the depths of the white clouds

Chapter 259

At the end of the tenth month, Xiang Zhong defeated the rebels in Shicheng, and Fu Qiang Uncle Mao Zhong died in battle.

Emperor Xianzong got angry again.

And Wu Youwei also went home and married his sister Haitang to Feng Qi. After the fun, it was Fang Hongzhuo who came over to make a decision.

The wedding date is set for February next year, because Wu Youwei will have a test in March.

After finishing these things, he returned to Beijing and continued to study hard.

However, as soon as October entered winter, the first snow fell. Usually the first snow in previous years was very small, but this time it was different.

The eight Southern Juzi who had never seen snow were even more shocked by this: "I didn't expect what your lord said is true. There is really such a heavy snow in the north!"

"No, Mr. Luo has never seen much snow. What he said was severe winter." Wu Youwei explained: "It's rare for us to see such a heavy snow at the beginning of the year."

At least, he came to Ming Dynasty for almost ten years, and it was also the first time I saw him.

"It's snowing, we should celebrate!" One of the Nanjuzi said in an awkward Mandarin with a strong accent: "Get in touch, let's drink and enjoy the snow."

Southerners, who have never seen much snow, feel particularly shocked when they look at it like this.

"Alright." Zhang Sheng shook his head and said, "Everyone get to know each other a little bit, maybe we will all be in the same year in the future!"

What he said sounds good, and everyone is overjoyed, which proves that everyone can be on the list!

Those who passed the exam together in the same year would call each other this way.

"That's right, that's right!" The eight Juren from the south were very excited. After getting dressed, they went out to invite people they knew.

Wu Youwei asked them to invite everyone to the Tokugawa hot pot and barbecue restaurant: "It's opened by someone I know. We can pick a good seat there, and the food is suitable for the occasion."

"That's right, as the saying goes: green ant's new fermented wine, a small red clay stove; it's going to snow in the evening, can you have a drink?" Yang Yiqing followed: "I'm going to invite some classmates over!"

After speaking, he also ran out to find someone.

Wu Youwei hurriedly asked Wanfu steward to inform Xiaoxiao: "Prepare a small yard, a place where you can enjoy the snow, there are many people, wash the vegetables, and serve some good things, so as to calm down these talented people from the south!"

Since ancient times, in the Central Plains, there have been more talented scholars in the south, and more talented generals in the north, so this style of writing generally flourishes in the south.

But there is no shortage of talented students in the north!

It's easy for the north and south candidates to compete as soon as they arrive at the meeting.

Not only the imperial court examinations, but also private warm-up exercises. Today you have a poetry meeting at your house and you come up with a good poem; tomorrow at his tea party, you get another good poem.

This kind of thing abounds, and even the teachers are willing to show off their students and bring glory to themselves.

Wu Youwei has been to this kind of thing several times, including when he met Luo Lun.

It was also because of the party that he met. After meeting, he and Lauren became good friends.

The party is not without reason, it is still necessary to meet some young talents and the like...

"Understood!" Wanfu steward said, "Can I go to the Tiantai Jiulu Fang to order good wine to cheer me up?"

"No need." Wu Youwei shook his head: "Take the two carts of wine that I sent, those people can drink fruit wine, not to mention that it's easy to get drunk when drinking baijiu, and it's not good if you get drunk and cause trouble."

There are so many high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Beijing, and those mere minorities who are number one in their hometown are not enough in Beijing.

These people decided to have a dinner with someone after breakfast in the morning, and they all arrived at the place one after another just after Shen Shi in the afternoon.

It’s already winter now. Although the capital city is not as cold as the frontier, it still belongs to the north after all. There is no modern greenhouse effect. It has already snowed heavily in the beginning of winter. If it is in other northern regions, most of the people are squatting Cat winter at home.

But this is the capital, where the Son of Heaven is, the most benevolent place in the world, and the economic and political center of the entire Ming Dynasty. Even in winter, the streets are still full of people.

The street of Qingshiban Road is very wide. There are many shops on both sides of the road. Many hawkers are shouting and selling. There is a constant flow of horse-drawn carriages coming and going. Pedestrians are also bustling.Seeing this scene, even Wu Youwei, who is used to the busy traffic, couldn't help but praise: "What a prosperous and prosperous place!" But who would know that after more than a hundred years, this place was occupied by aliens? Woolen cloth?

Who would have predicted that in a few hundred years, less than a hundred foreigners would enter the capital with muskets in their hands?

Wu Youwei sighed, but decided to change slowly in his heart, at least to make the country rich and strong, especially after the Qing Dynasty was bullied by outsiders, and there were some conflicts in his own territory, which can be said to be resolved internally. what happened

After thinking too much, I felt that this journey was going fast. When I arrived at the place, everyone saluted one after another, and finally gathered about thirty people, but they were all juren, each of them was polite.

And Xiaoxiao placed them behind the Tokugawa Hot Pot Barbecue Restaurant. It was a separate courtyard with a two-story building. room.

The other side of the house faces the street, but the privacy is better. The opposite side of the street is a lake. Now the lake is frozen, and the water willow tree planted on the lake bank has only branches left, bleak in the wind.

However, there are many shops around the lake, and in the dim lights, many people come out to enjoy the snow, especially the Tokugawa Hot Pot Barbecue Restaurant, where eating hot pot in winter is simply a great enjoyment.

There is a big room here, there are three tables inside, each table can seat more than a dozen people, a big mandarin duck pot stands in the middle, a charcoal fire is burning underneath, and the table is full of many dishes.

The dipping sauce is a large bowl for each person, and there are several jars of dipping sauce next to it, allowing guests to mix it by themselves.

Especially because the hot pot is cooking in the house, the heat is high, you can open the window to see the snow outside, the house will not be too cold, the food is good, the drink is not bad, the wine is as red as blood in the pure white wine glass, and Crystal clear.

The most important thing is that the quantity is quite large, so you can drink freely!

Xiaoxiao not only had hot pot and red wine prepared, but also two large desks with the Four Treasures of the Study.

In the corner of the house, there are daffodils raised in water trays.

The room is elegantly and quietly furnished, and there are delicious food and wine. After these people came, they all smiled politely.

But after eating hot pot, I was conquered by chili!

"This is spicy enough!"

"This is chili

Several people were very curious about chili peppers, but Wu Youwei told them: "It's the first time I eat it, so don't eat too much, or it will be spicy."

For those who have never eaten chili, it is better to eat less.

"Don't be afraid, I also like to eat spicy food when I'm at home." There are some gestures in remote areas that are very generous: "It's very useful to fight the cold!"

"What you eat is cornel pungent, which is different from chili." Wu Youwei said: "Chili contains capsicum, so it tastes pungent and dry t...

He was the one who made the pepper, so how could he not know?

Besides, in modern times, some people can't wait to use a balance to weigh the ingredients, down to grams, and some people use a magnifying glass to look at the ingredients, so careful that people can't wait to eat bacteria!

Who are those people?

Wu Youwei read a lot, and naturally remembered a lot.

Chili is already a very common thing in later generations.

After listening to it, everyone exclaimed that they have learned a lot, and there are corn, tomato, sweet potato and so on.

They were happy to eat, but they didn't recite poems, but kept talking about people's livelihood issues. Candidates from the south of the Yangtze River told the northern scholars about thousands of acres of paddy fields; the northern scholars popularized overseas crops for them.

The two sides had a friendly exchange, because the wine they drank was not intoxicating, and everyone was patronizing to eat it. If it was stir-fry, it would be cooled, but the hot pot would not.

Not only will it not, but you can chat while eating,

After adding soup twice, everyone was eating hot, and they talked a lot. Topics from all over the world revolved around people's livelihood.

Wu Youwei talked about raising fish in the paddy field, but a man from the mountain said: "It seems that the Miao people in the Nanban are like this, but the fields they build near the mountains are called terraced fields. There are few fish raisers, and cattle are scarce." Can't get on the field.

Wu Youwei has really heard of it. It is said that fish farming in rice fields first appeared in the southwest region.

What exactly?He doesn't farm the land, so he doesn't understand it so carefully, he only knows the general idea, but after watching the documentary, he knows that there is a "hehuayu".

"However, rice fields and fish farming cannot be done by the sea." Another Juzi who came from the coast said, "I'm afraid that the sea water will flood the good fields and the fish will be taken away."

What everyone said made sense, but gradually it was related to the grain harvest, fattening is one aspect, and breeding good varieties is also very important...

Everyone who ate this meal benefited a lot. Although they didn't recite poems and contradict each other, they exchanged many substantive things. People's livelihood is the foundation of being an official.

Before leaving, Wu Youwei found that they were all wearing thin clothes. Of course, it didn't mean that they had no clothes, but that the clothes they brought with them were thick in the local area, but they were obviously not thick enough here in Beijing. They all wear the thickest clothes to go out, but they still look flimsy.

In addition, people in the south are all about the same physique, and scholars are thinner. Wu Youwei looked around, but said nothing. When they broke up, each of them gave a small jar of red wine as a gift.

After returning, Wu Youwei went to the housekeeper Wanfu and asked him to make a hundred or so thick cotton clothes, not for looking good but just for keeping warm.

"What do you need so much for?" The winter clothes were already made in autumn.

"For those who came from the south, you didn't see that they were all frozen into balls!" Wu Youwei said with a smile: "People from the south have never been to the north, and they have never been frozen."

If it wasn't so cold, would they love chili so much?

Southerners are famous for their light taste. Of course, there are also heavy flavors...

"Then I'll arrange it." That's what he said. How could Butler Wanfu not do a good job?

And it needs to be tailored!

I don't know how the butler Wanfu did it, anyway, he is very resourceful, there are more than thirty candidates, each of whom has three sets of cotton clothes and one warm four-piece suit.

Those who went said that the bedding where they lived was not thick, so they added another bedding.

According to the Moring Villa, there are quilt covers, sheets, pillowcases, etc., which can be removed and washed.

Scholars love to be clean, but I have never seen such a thing, and some people in the place where they live have learned from it. Wu Youwei's suit of one-layer cloth luggage has spread in Beijing...

The situation on his side is good, and Wantong's side is also progressing smoothly. He and Bai Zhen didn't see each other in the first place. In the past, they could not conflict without conflict, but now it's different.

After a few small actions, the conflict was intensified again, Bai Zhen also held his breath, and Wantong deliberately provoked him to explode.

In the end, the commander was disturbed. Although Yuan Bin is a good man, he has his own principles. He can't see discord among his subordinates, so the two of them will complete this task together.

His original intention was to let everyone have a sense of friendship as a colleague, and stop fighting non-stop like a black-eyed chicken.

The mission took about seven days, but after three days, Wantong was brought back covered in blood!

At that time, Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusili exploded!

"My lord! My lord!" Wan Xinpeng, Li Qing and their direct descendants were brought by Wantong, leaving Fang Hongzhuo at home to support them.

In fact, it was also training Fang Hongzhuo. He wanted Fang Hongzhuo to take over Qianhu's seat.

In the end, he went out well, but came back covered in blood!

Fang Hongzhuo's eyes were red with anxiety!

Lord Wan is kind to his subordinates, that is obvious to all, and not only in errands, but also in life, and now his marriage is all guarantors for adults.

He is cultivating him vigorously again, how can he not be terrified?

Now that Wantong is being carried back covered in blood, he is going crazy!

Not only Fang Hongzhuo is going crazy, almost Vantone's hardcore direct descendants are going crazy!