Chapter 2 Seaweed Reef

And the matter that has been bothering Yu'er unexpectedly has a clue, which makes Yu'er's mood very happy at present. Therefore, Yu'er is not only not afraid of Liu's ridicule of her, but also sold a barrier to Liu's family with a smile: "When that person comes, I will ask everything I want to know. Mom, you know why I am so happy! "

Liu Shi was half-truthed and half-false and said, "Yo, this girl is still selling to me!" Why, I suddenly figured it out and hurriedly wanted to get married?!"

"I won't talk nonsense with your mother! I went to the room where my eldest brother and fourth brother used to study to find a few books. When the Gao family comes, you can call me here..."

As Yuer said, she walked straight out of the door. When she saw Lin, who was guarding the door, she didn't forget to leave a joke: "If my mother is afraid that I won't see the person who came to propose marriage for a while, just let the third sister-in-law follow me to my eldest brother's room and let the third sister-in-law look at me."

After saying this, Yuer bypassed Lin and went out of the house with a smile. Liu and Lin looked at each other helplessly. Liu saw that Yuer was willing to meet the person who came to propose marriage, so he did not let Lin follow her. The fish went out of the hall and passed through the dam, and soon got into the bookstore shared by Yang Dalang and Yang Silang.

Yang Dalang has always loved reading books, so after becoming an official, he set up a large bookshelf in this room, on which there were a lot of books collected by Yang Dalang. In addition to the books collected by Yang Silang later, the large bookshelf was also filled with more than half.

The fish searched on the big bookshelf for a long time, and finally found some written records related to seaweed in several books. The fish read those words carefully, combined them with the knowledge he knew in his mind, and soon made a general summary of the seaweed...

It turned out that seaweed first appeared in a book called "Food Therapy Herbs" in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, some good seaweed was listed as Haizhen tribute by the imperial court. Even the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, a famous doctor of the Ming Dynasty, also mentioned seaweed--Li Shizhen said in the Compendium of Materia Medica: "Min Yue knows that seaweed has The leaves are large and thin, and he kneaded them into cakes and dried them. Their color is purple, which is also the genus of stone clothes.

The above records related to seaweed, except for some of them were found in Yang Dalang and Yang Silang's collections, the rest are the materials that fish recited wildly when they studied the history of seaweed plants, and now they are finally come in handy.

Fish remembers that when they studied the history of seaweed plants, they also checked the chronicles of Chaoshan, and found that some words related to seaweed were also recorded in the Nan'ao Records of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is said that seaweed was born on the rocks of the clouds (Australia) and Qing (Australia) sea, and the name of purple can be used as a soup.

Fish remembers that the book also mentions more than ten kinds of seaweed plants such as red cabbage, stone flowers, dog hair, iron nail vegetables, foot skin vegetables, chicken sausage vegetables, tiger vegetables, etc. From this alone, it can be seen that the ancients in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty have been able to distinguish and use different seaweed plants.

After sorting out the various materials he knew, the fish quickly figured out the reason why seaweed became a tribute - in terms of food raw materials, seaweed has many outstanding advantages. First of all, the content of nutrients such as protein and vitamins is extremely high, even more than soybeans, milk, eggs and other plants. Food;

is followed by glutamic acid, alanine, glycine and other amino acids, so the taste is extremely delicious;

What's more rare is that there is no common fishy smell of algae such as kelp, and it can be eaten without complicated cooking. In addition, seaweed was still a natural growth in the Northern Song Dynasty and could not be cultivated in large quantities, so it was listed as a tribute to the sea.

The fish was afraid of forgetting these materials that he had finally remembered, so he immediately took a pen and paper and quickly wrote down the modern knowledge in his mind one by one, intending to write them down for future needs. Later, I plan to mark the pages of the previously found books that mention seaweed a little, so that it can be more convenient to look them up in the future.

But after Yuer wrote for a while, Lin hurried to find her: "Sister, the Gao family has arrived and is now sitting in the hall for tea. My mother asked me to call you over."

The fish couldn't wait to see the high family immediately, but when it really came to see it, the fish couldn't help hesitating in the bookstore for a while before asking Lin, "Sister-in-law, isn't this the master? I don't want to see the master confusedly, so that people think that I want to marry their high family..."

Unexpectedly, the fish's concern made Lin smile. After laughing, she didn't forget to make fun of the fish: "Sister, are you afraid that the master will come directly to our house to see his daughter-in-law? Don't worry, the eight characters haven't been written yet. How can their family be qualified to be our daughter-in-law? Besides, we are from the countryside, not the poor city people. How can there be a daughter-in-law?

Lin's words made the fish a little embarrassed. This "daughter-in-law" is a custom of the Northern Song Dynasty. Specifically, it refers to the fact that the man and woman have first talked about marriage and made a fixed post. If the man wants to see the female model in advance, he will ask the matchmaker to inform the woman, and then choose an elegant restaurant or garden. Or invite relatives, or ask a matchmaker, or a man himself to go in person to see his daughter-in-law.

If a man feels like it after looking at the woman, that is, inserting gold pins into the woman's temples, which is called "inserting pins"; if he feels unsatisfactory after looking at each other, he will give the woman two colorful satins, which is called "shocking shock".

However, although this daughter-in-law is a custom of the Northern Song Dynasty, these customs are often followed by large families with face, and many poor families in rural areas are generally not very particular about it.

After all, women from poor households cannot be compared with those girls who do not easily show up. Many of the women from this poor family are married to villagers who have often met since childhood or often went to work together in the fields. Both men and women often meet and are very familiar with each other, so naturally they have no relationship. It's necessary to see my daughter-in-law.

Therefore, if someone comes to the Yang family to propose marriage, there is no need for the fish to avoid them according to the rules of the city. As long as the man does not come to propose marriage in person, and the rest of the family members such as the man's relatives, matchmakers, clients, etc. It doesn't matter if the fish meet them. After all, rural people are not so rules.

Since Lin said this, the fish would no longer have any worries. Soon, she went to the house with Lin. As soon as she entered the house, she saw a middle-aged woman in her forties sitting in her room drinking tea.

As soon as the woman saw the fish, she subconsciously stood up and stared at the fish. The unconcealed eyes made the fish feel a little uncomfortable, so the fish smiled politely at the woman and stood behind Liu and used Liu's figure to stop the woman. People look at it undisguisedly.

But until the fish stood behind Liu, the woman's eyes still followed the fish reluctantly until Liu coughed gently. The woman withdrew her eyes with some embarrassment and said with a smile, "People in these ten townships and eight miles said that the eight wives of the Yang family looked extremely handsome. Today As soon as I saw it, I knew that those people didn't talk nonsense. Your bitch is indeed a first-class beauty!"

The woman's words made the fish bow her head with some embarrassment. Although Liu was very happy when she heard this, she said politely: "Sister Gao is flattered. My sister is a little woman with a whiter skin color than an ordinary family. How can she be as handsome as you said?"

"Yo, big sister, you are modest when you say that! Go around and see which fish girl can be born white like your mother. She doesn't look like a farm fish girl, but like the little lady of a big family in the city!"

"My sister doesn't have..."

Then Liu and Gao said polite words to you and me. At the same time, they did not forget to inquire about each other's family's situation secretly. Soon the topic came to the Gao family's livelihood, so that the fish, who had been listening, who had been listening, couldn't help but interrupting...

"Aunuch Gao, I heard that your family collects seaweed for a living. I have never seen anyone who makes a living from this, so I'm a little curious about how this seaweed is collected. If Aunt Gao is not annoyed, it's not like me?"

Gao was worried about not having a topic to talk to the fish, so when he saw that the fish was curious about collecting seaweed, he was immediately happy and quickly replied to the fish's words, "This seaweed collection is not a job that everyone can do! I don't know if the Eight Lady has ever heard of 'striking seaweed', a Minnan saying that describes the collection of seaweed is very dangerous?

"Is it dangerous to shoot seaweed?"

Yuer first repeated Gao's words, then shook his head and replied, "I haven't heard this saying. What does this saying mean?"

Gao smiled and said, "'Risk to shoot seaweed' is a common saying in Chaozhou, which originally meant that the work of collecting seaweed was very dangerous and difficult, and later it was slowly used as a metaphor for dangerous things..."

After listening to Gao's explanation, the fish learned that collecting seaweed in the Northern Song Dynasty was a bit similar to collecting bird's nest, which was a very difficult job. The reason why it is difficult to collect seaweed is that there are only wild seaweed in the Northern Song Dynasty, while wild seaweed generally only grows on rocky reefs with strong wind and waves, and only appears in cold days in winter.

The fish also learned from Gao's mouth that the reef with seaweed was called "seaweed reef" by fishermen in the Northern Song Dynasty. Interestingly, the seaweed reef is occupied by people like the land, and the person who occupies the seaweed reef can either rent the seaweed reef or keep the seaweed reef to pick up seaweed grown on it.

The fish couldn't help sighing when he heard this: "It turns out that the reef with seaweed on the sea is not ownerless. This is the first time I've heard that these seaweed reefs can be bought and sold at will like fields?"

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Seaweed reef is quite interesting, isn't it? It turns out that ancient seaweed is so valuable~ tribute, tribute~