Chapter 3 No Child's Play
When spring plowing is about to be plowed, you have to prepare food and sacrifice before eating. When the farmers come, you have to gather all the savages from the fief, and everyone bows and kills two chickens.
If you are a wealthy family, you will definitely kill sheep, cattle and horses, and you may even make a fortune to see the order of farming, and you will pay attention to all kinds of considerations. But Yun Yao does not need these, and he has no money to do these, so killing two chickens means just one thing.
Shu Zaixian returned to the fiefdom and arranged for him, and Yunyao still stayed on the shore to do his job. Although he had an annual income of five yuan of public land, it was not much. After all, as a baron, he was also responsible for the operation of the fiefdom, purchasing sacrifices and preparing sacrificial vessels, and all of which required money.
There are two types of money these days, one is millet, the other is cloth coins, that is, cloth. Food and clothing resources are currency, and transactions in the national market are also exchanged for these two general equivalents.
The country's major events were in sacrifice and Rong. After twelve years, Yunyao was already a qualified Zhou Dynasty person. He knew that besides sacrifices and wars, there were other things, funerals, hunting, and hunting were all major events, and they all cost. For example, the funeral of Yunyao's father emptied his family's fortune two years ago. Fortunately, Yunyao's father also had some savings during his lifetime, so the funeral was not too shabby. There was also a horse and two bronze ware in the funeral objects.
Then there is the guest expenses. When you come to attend the funeral, you have to eat millet porridge, and another expense. In the end, you almost have to borrow money. The Duke of the State has Quanfu, and has a business that lends money to the Chinese people for emergency treatment. It will pay it off within ten days and up to three months.
Yunyao did not borrow money, but he worked hard for a year after his father passed away. It was better after the harvest of the new year. Now two years have passed before the regularity has returned to normal.
After preparing a raft to cross the river, you can do some private work. There are a few banana trees in the fief, and Yunyao happened to use banana bark to make some straw raincoats to sell.
These days, you need to tell fortunes before traveling far away to see what the weather is. Unfortunately, the weather does not give you face to the divination, so people who travel far away will inevitably get wet from the rain. There is no popular straw raincoat now, so Yunyao makes some straw raincoats to sell to tourists crossing the river. In the six months after his father passed away, Yunyao relied on selling straw raincoats and handicraft products to overcome difficulties, and now it has become a habit.
The sales of the Curtain is quite good, but there are no patents these days, so Yunyao knew that someone would definitely copy her works, but she couldn't pursue them.
In fact, Yunyao thought of producing large quantities in fiefs and then turning into a merchant herself. After all, there is no concept of city agriculture, industry and commerce, and merchants will definitely not suffer losses in the Western Zhou Dynasty. But out of fear of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the fact that she is able to live a good life now, she did not dare to make drastic changes.
So now, Yun Yao is the only one who does some handicrafts and earns some pocket money. He fishes in his spare time, and even if he lives.
"Hey..." There was a sound across the river.
Yun Yao, who was smart and clear-headed, immediately knew that it was the opposite side that needed a ferry. He looked up and saw that there were several people standing sparsely on the other side of the river, and a two-horsepower carriage. He seemed to be a noble man with status.
"Does the noble man want to cross the river?" Yunyao asked, clear and bright. She spoke elegant language, which is the common language of the Zhou Dynasty. There were dialects everywhere in the Zhou Dynasty, and in order to communicate with the nobles, they had to learn elegant language.
"That's right, come here."
When Yunyao heard that he had a job, he immediately dragged the canoe out and sent it into the water. Then he tied the raft behind the boat, placed the gourd on the raft, and rowed over it.
Yunyao has excellent rowing skills and first-class business skills. He leads a raft and flows up the water. Some people who are not familiar with the current often make mistakes, thinking that it is enough to just aim at the other side of the shore, but ignores that the flow rate of the current will also affect the boat's track. If you really move straight forward, the boat will be washed downstream in a diagonal manner.
Near the center of the river, the people opposite also began to prepare, get off the carriage, and move things. The carriage must not be able to get through, but it doesn’t matter. After crossing the river, you can find other carriages to continue on the way.
"Please get on the boat," Yunyao docked the canoe: "Put the goods on the raft, and the rest can use gourds to cross the river."
"How could there be so few rafts?" Someone obviously was unhappy in swimming, so he complained.
"This is just a small ferry crossing. If you want to find Dafer crossing, you can go fifty miles west into Xueguo Capital. The nobleman has enough horsepower and can arrive before dark. It is also OK to cross the river tomorrow." Yunyao has seen these people who like to show off. He thinks this and that, but he still has to swim in the end.
The noble man with status looked at Yunyao and asked, "After crossing the river, will there be a carriage man?"
"Yes, there is a carriageman living in my fief." This is the bus that the Duke of the State gave to Yunyao's father, but not many people will go out idle these days, so this carriageman is equivalent to a bus that is equipped at the ferry entrance. Passengers in need can go and invite them.
"Then let's go here."
Yunyao said: "You can take off your coat, tie the gourd to your armpits, and then slid it on the boat or on the raft so that you can cross the river without having to use force."
But there are still people who are not very happy.
"Let me do this, I will do it. If it is a good hexagram, we will go there. If it is a bad hexagram, we will go west to Xuecheng Guodu." This middle-aged noble man also knew that he could not force his followers to overcome his fear, so he should just leave it to fate, calculate the hexagram and see what the hexagram is saying.
Yunyao didn't laugh because this was not the first time I met. People these days are very timid. Besides, swimming is a rare skill these days, so it is a common phenomenon that they dare not get off when they encounter water. Although it is indeed funny, Yunyao is a professional time traveler and generally doesn't laugh unless they can't help it.
However, the other party's divination method was a bit funny, and he was actually preparing to burn fire and use the turtle shell to divine. This was too formal and wasted time.
"Neither, you should use your plan. How much time does it take to use the tortoise shell? It's February, and spring plowing is about to come, and everyone is so busy." Yun Yao said that he was just trying to let it go, is it necessary to be so grand?
"How can divination be a joke?" Obviously the other party was not obedient, so he took out a palm-sized turtle shell from the cloth bag. The buzzing sounded, and it was probably all turtle shells. He was really a very visionary person. He brought so many turtle shells when he went out, and he would definitely burn one if he was indecisive when he encountered something. He was very particular about people.
"Okay, but let me wait here, but I have to add Xiaomi, even if it doesn't matter, he has to pay." Yunyao said.
"If the hexagram is not allowed, I will give you half a pot of millet." The pot is a pot, and half a pot can be eaten by one person for three days.
Since I paid, then wait. Yunyao saw them collecting firewood, then formed a circle and jumped up like a great god. The noble man knelt in front of the fire and muttered something. Yunyao had reason to suspect that they might be from Song.
Chapter completed!