Chapter 5 Clothing, Food, Housing and Transportation
"Fang Nan, Fang Nan, we are here."
"Fang Nan, we want to listen to your story."
After breakfast, a child came to find Fang Nan to listen to him tell a story. Although Fang Nan was already the leader of the village, the other people in the village called Fang Nan the same name as before. Fang Nan, the leader, was not important to Qingshan Village.
Children still like to listen to stories very much. In the past, they listened to the elderly tell stories, and basically all myths and legends, such as Nuwa creating people, Houyi shooting the sun, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, etc. These myths and legends were passed down by the people by word of mouth. In the future, these children who listen to stories will also tell these myths and legends for their descendants when they grow up.
There are many myths and legends, but for ordinary people, there are not many myths and legends that they know. Children will get tired of listening quietly for a few times, and they will regain their lively nature. They will fight and make fun of them all day long, climb trees and dig bird nests, and break wooden sticks and dance knife and guns.
Now Fang Nan brings stories from another world. At the beginning, Fang Nan doesn’t know how to tell stories. However, as long as the scenes of the modern technological world are depicted, the children will sit around Fang Nan and listen carefully to Fang Nan’s words. Soon, Fang Nan’s level of storytelling has also improved, and the children will listen with relish.
"Everyone can have enough food in that world. Even in a deserted year, no one will starve to death. The people are divided into poor and rich. However, the poorest and poorest people live many times better than our Qingshan Village. They can eat meat every day, and even buy a new piece of clothing every day. Children from poor families can afford snacks..."
"Fang Nan, what are snacks?" a child asked.
"Snacks are food, just like food, but food is eaten for breakfast and dinner, and snacks are available at any time. The range of snacks is a large range. Pastry is snack, fruit is snack, and sugar is also snack. As long as there is no need to eat delicious food during meal time, it can be considered snacks."
Hearing Fang Nan's words, some children's mouths flowed out of water. Living in the mountains, the amount of things that children can eat is not much smaller than other children living in cities in this era. However, the children in the city eat pastries, candied haws and other handmade foods, while the children in the mountains mainly eat various wild fruits, bird eggs, etc.
But compared with the children in the modern world, the children in Qingshan Village are far from each other. The children in Qingshan Village cannot imagine that children in another world can choose their favorite snacks from thousands of snacks. How much they hope they can also live in the beautiful world described by Fang Nan.
"The houses in that world are so tall and big. Ordinary houses are dozens of meter high and hundreds of meter high. For example, if your house is Daniu, you live on the bottom floor, then your house can live on the Daniu family, and your house can also live on the Ergouzi family."
Fang Nan said while using the small stools where the children were sitting for demonstration. A small stool represents the first floor of the building, and it is enough to build three or four to indicate it.
"Fang Nan, people in that world live in tall houses. How do they live and cook?" another child asked.
"When people in that world cook, they don't need to burn firewood. They can cook something called 'natural gas', and they can even cook without burning things without lighting. It's very magical."
“What is natural gas?”
"I can't explain this to you clearly. Just treat it as a kind of thing that can be burned by ignition like firewood. Maybe you will be able to get access to natural gas in the future."
Fang Nan depicts another world scene for the children, the main content is food, clothing, housing and transportation. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are content that everyone must come into contact with, and are closely related to people, whether in modern times or in the Ming Dynasty where Fang Nan is now in.
For example, the people in Qingshanzhai think of having a house that can shelter from wind and rain, wearing clothes that cover their bodies, and having enough food every day.
As for travel, most people in Qingshanzhai do not have the idea of leaving the mountains to the outside world, so travel is not important. However, if you can get a cow and horse, the people in Qingshanzhai will definitely be so happy that they have big mouths. The cow and horse are not used for riding, but for pulling plows or carts to transport things.
The children listened to Fang Nan's story with relish. When they returned home, they would also tell their parents what Fang Nan said today.
At the beginning, the adults didn't care, thinking that Fang Nan was talking nonsense, meaning that those stories were made up by Fang Nan. After all, Fang Nan was in Qingshan Village and had never left Qingshan Village to go to the outside world. How could he say those magical things? The only possibility is that Fang Nan was making up by randomly.
The children said that adults just listened to it, just listened to music to pass the time. Adults also liked to listen to stories, otherwise there would be "professions" such as storytelling and opera. Of course, the main reason was that there were too few entertainment methods in this era.
If the adults were not embarrassed to sit with the children, maybe some adults would sit next to Fang Nan and listen to Fang Nan tell stories.
A few days later, the adults felt something was wrong. Fang Nan described more and more things. This was not a word that a child could make up. Could it be that Fang Nan was really taken to another world by the old village owner during the three days of unconsciousness and lived in another world for 30 years?
Some people believe Fang Nan’s explanation, but more people don’t believe it.
A few more days have passed, and as Fang Nan reveals more things, more and more people believe that "Fang Nan was taken to another world by the old village owner to live in another world for thirty years."
The most important one is "Fang Nan can write", be able to write, read and read. This is a scholar. There is no one who knows a few words in Qingshan Village, and he can't even write a few words of his own name.
The elderly in Qingshan Village know the status of scholars the most, and the status of illiterate people is one or even several levels lower than that of scholars.
Who doesn’t want a scholar at home to be born? Even if he can’t pass the exam, as long as he can read and read, he can earn more money than tenants, poor farmers, and small peasants’ families.
However, it is very difficult for a family to have a scholar. Even a middle-aged peasant family has to sell some land to provide a child with reading and reading.
Most people who were born and raised in Qingshanzhai have never been to the outside world. It is useless to read and read in Qingshanzhai, so they cannot recognize the status of scholars.
Nonsense is no longer nonsense. Fang Nan was really taken to another world by the old village leader to live in another world for thirty years. Several old people even thought that it was the place where the gods lived.
For a time, Fang Nan's status in Qingshan Village continued to increase, and adults basically no longer regard Fang Nan as a child.
Chapter completed!