Chapter 5: It's still possible

Ten years of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty. May 9th.

Wei Manliang is particularly happy today. There were a few wrinkles and smiles on his face, which had been tanned by his long work. Because all the eggs were sold at the market by the gate today. He has several old hens at home. Somehow. Although this spring came relatively late and knew that the ice on the Yellow River in the north was completely melted in April, her old hen has been able to lay a few eggs every day since the beginning of spring.

These hens have been raised for some years, and it should be past the time to lay eggs. I remember that day, Wei Manliang felt something wrong when he cleaned the chicken shed early in the morning. It turned out that as soon as he came, he picked up the broom and fluttered up and down, and the old hens didn't know where they had gone. But this time, several of them can't be driven away no matter how they rush. Wei Manliang finally got angry and pulled the broom on the chicken's buttocks, and the old hen fluttered a few wings and jumped aside.

This time, Wei Manliang found that there was an egg under the chicken coop. After careful search, he found that he didn't know that the hen had laid eggs, and now he couldn't close his mouth.

After saving eggs for a few days, he went to the "extra)" west of the city gate to sell these eggs.

"There is another amount of money." He thinks so. For more than a month, he sold the eggs he had saved these days every time he went to the market. There has been an objective money for more than a month.

Why can an old hen lay eggs? Wei Manliang walked to the small well village where he lived while thinking about it. Although he lives in the countryside, because this village is close to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, at the foot of the emperor, it is also a complicated population, comparable to some local towns.

Wei Manliang thought of the rooster of Aunt He next door. I remember that once when Wei Manliang went to visit the door, he saw him in the yard. The big red crown, with a high chest, walked around the yard in circles, not with the claws to pull the ground, and every time the chicken's throat clucked. Wei Manliang understood at a glance.

"This is spring flowers blooming!" This word came to Wei Manliang's mind. Ha ha ha" came out with laughter. Now it turns out to be his daughter-in-law in her mind. Although she went back to her mother's house to visit her relatives, it will take some time to return.

"Life is much better now than in previous years." Wei Manliang thought of the time when Liu Liu, Liu Qi, Yang Hu and others made trouble with "Liu Thief, Yang Thief" a few years ago. It took several years to finish the matter, and several times I almost killed Beijing! Now it's a little scary for him to think about it.

"If I hadn't had relatives in the capital, I wouldn't have taken all the soft things I could clean up to take refuge with my relatives when the city was closed down, I really didn't know if I could catch up with a good day." Wei Manliang thought so.

He clearly remembered that there were rumors in the city every day at that time. He said, "Liu Liu and Liu Qi know how to do it, and the magic soldiers fall from the sky, and they can also borrow red-haired ghosts from the king of hell to help" and what else such as "fire, burning birds, defeating officers and soldiers" and so on. The imperial court did little to refute rumors several times. In the end, it still took the lives of several people who spread messages, and arrested some people in prison, which calmed down the rumors.

"Alas, I also lost my life." Wei Manliang thought so and opened the door of the courtyard. I have a few mu of land left by my ancestors, but this year is still a smooth wind and rain. After the harvest, you don't have to worry about this year.

"Oh, mother~~er." Wei Manliang hasn't said the word "zi" yet, and then he remembered that his daughter-in-law is not here now.

"It's okay, but there is another person who can talk to me if he has nothing to do." He thinks so." There are a lot of strange things this year. Now the old hen lays eggs, and then there is such a person who 'picks up' from the field!"

The afternoon sun is still warm in this early summer.

The bright light shines directly in this small farmyard. And the old hen is spreading corn everywhere in the yard. There is an old crooked neck tree outside the courtyard. The branches have reached into the yard, and the leaves look particularly green against the sun.

In the side room on the west side of the courtyard, there is a person lying **.

Cao Muwen can no longer be described as strange. Cao Muming knew that he should be dead. But Cao Muwen can now clearly feel that Cao Muwen is lying on the ground. The cold feeling on his back gave Cao Muwen a clear judgment. And - naked. When Cao Muwen saw this scene together, he was terrled.

"What's going on?" Cao Muwen clearly remembered the scene of being knocked down by the bastard with that stone, but he seemed to have been beaten up later. If so, you won't die~~~" Cao Muwen didn't know how to describe it. But I feel myself carefully, as if there is nothing strange all over my body. He raised his hand and touched his head, as intact as before. It really made Cao Muwen doubt the rebirth.

"Well, is that guy still have any fucking hobbies~~" Cao Muwen thought that he was naked now. Is it possible~~" Cao Muwen hurriedly looked at it from top to bottom, especially some key parts.

"It's okay~~~" Cao Muwen breathed a sigh of relief.

When he got up and looked around. Suddenly, a sense of dizziness hit, and the sky swirled for a moment, as if his whole body had been electrocuted. After coming for a long time, he recovered, sang a breath, and calmed down to find that he was in a warehouse, but not the place where he had come in before, because he saw a trace of light coming in from a window. And looking at the layout and style of the room, it is also very different from before.

This is Cao Muwen who thought of calling the police. Er~~ Although I didn't do a good thing in the first place, I still have this image. But after all, he is a victim, and now he can only help the police, he thought.

I suddenly thought of it when I looked around. I should have been moved." He thinks so. I was pulled out by others, and my mobile phone, bag, and the murder weapon - that strange stone - were naturally disposed of. Cao Muwen himself was originally engaged in this industry and knew what to do with these things. Of course, Zhang is clearer. It was unexpected that I was striped.

Cao Muwen saw the right goods in this warehouse, which seemed to be some cloth and clothes. I got up and walked over and looked at it.

A few hours later, Cao Muwen should feel that he was indeed extremely unlucky, but it was not bad at the beginning.

May 12th. As usual, Wei Manliang went out early in the morning to his few mu of thin fields. Although he had ploughed in spring, the summer planting was not too late, and the farm work was not busy, he would still go to the field as soon as he had free time. The rest of the time is to buy some firewood on the mountain in the north to sell.

Because after all, Beijing is our capital of the Ming Dynasty. Although there is no war now, there is still an investigation of foreigners entering the city, so there will be a market where merchants from all over the world come to Beijing gathered at the edge of the city gate. Many people will buy and sell goods during the day and if they don't enter the city at night. By the way, you can go back to the villages and towns around the capital to rent an inn. If you want to do business for a long time, you will also rent a courtyard to gather for accommodation and goods.

Of course, Wei Manliang will not be checked when he enters and exits the city gate by himself, because he has lived here since he was a child and has relatives in the city. Most importantly, because I have been in and out of the capital all year round, I have known the gate guards of the city, at least I am familiar with them.

At that time, the access of the people was not as simple and convenient as it is now, not just where you want to go. Even if you want to leave home to visit relatives and friends, you need to apply for a road guide. When you pass the check-in, you need to be strictly checked. Sometimes if the gatekeeper intends to make things difficult for you, they won't let you go there without breaking a little money. Only those who are as famous as Juren Xiucai Jinshi can move around without restrictions. Therefore, most of the people who see in the TV series are this kind of people who travel around the world and leave poems everywhere, which is also reasonable. And most importantly, when a famous person is an official in the government office, he does not have to kneel on his knees and fall to the ground like ordinary flat-headed people, but to treat each other with courtesy, watch tea and sit. Therefore, in ancient times, the status of the four people of "shi, agriculture, industry and commerce" was indeed reflected in all aspects, which is why so many people are willing to go to the cold window for ten years to win the reputation of this dynasty. After all, your social status can jump from the civilian to the highest level at once.

Wei Manliang came to the trading place on the south side of Guang'anmen in the west of the city. Many merchants have set up stalls and shelves here. Many of them came in carriages, and even more had set up tents. It seems that they plan to sleep here at night. Because it is early summer and the weather is mild.

Wei Manliang carried the two bundles of firewood that had been smashed and tied to the place where he usually sells them, put down the firewood and sat on the floor.

On the left is a large stall, and there are several shelves behind it, which are stalls selling clothes.

"Oh, Brother Wei, come to sell firewood again." The speaker is Zhang Dacheng, the stewman of the stall.

"Well, the work in the field is not busy now. The mother-in-law went back to her mother's house and was bored at home alone. It's better to go up the mountain to earn some firewood to earn a few more money."

"Hey, you are inseparable from your mother-in-law!" Zhang Dacheng said with some joking.

In ancient times, the idea of male superiority and female inferiority was relatively common. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhuzi of the Southern Song Dynasty said, "The king is the minister, the father is the son, and the husband is the wife." The "three principles and five constants" have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have become a basic moral code of society. If they violate them, they will be rebellious. The good ones will be stared to death by everyone, drowned by saliva, and the bad ones will be directly sentenced according to the law and sent to prison. Because it is a matter of the people who live in the temple, it naturally has little to do with ordinary flat-headed people. However, "the father is the son and the husband is the wife." That's different. This is a human event involving every family, so the more flat the people are, the more they pay attention to it. Therefore, if you are too good to your wife, you may be looked down upon and get a laughing stock of fear; women will be criticized and regarded as jealous and special. In ancient times, especially after the Song and Ming dynasties, the oppression of women was particularly serious. First, because of the development of Cheng Zhu's science; second, after the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty was a regime of ethnic minorities as the ruling class, the status of the Han people was low, and the Han scholars were basically hopeless. Therefore, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Confucianism, especially Zhu Ziliology in the Southern Song Dynasty, was greatly supported. In ancient times, there were "seven out" for wives, which were seven conditions stipulated by ancient Chinese laws, rituals and customs to meet when couples divorce. When the wife meets one of the conditions, the husband and his family can ask for divorce, which is to consider his interests from the perspective of the husband and his family. Therefore, it can be said that A kind of oppression for his wife. Although it did promote the development of Confucian culture and traditional Chinese folk culture, it also led to ideological rigidity and isolation.

So Wei Manliang blushed. Because he used to talk about his daughter-in-law and got a fearful reputation in the blind date neighborhood. It often embarrass him. But it's not easy to get this daughter-in-law by yourself