mesbooks Chapter 319: The Courtyard of the High Family
Chapter 319: The Courtyard of the High Family
Shen Youyou: "I can use starch to make plastic soles, but there is no material right now. I have to make glycerin first, which is more troublesome."
Shen Zhiqiu's eyes lit up: "Is this the shoe sole you said can be made without using Eucommia ulmoides glue?"
Shen Youyou nodded: "Yes, we can produce it in large quantities. When the sweet potatoes and corns in the village are harvested, we can buy them all. We can also buy some from other villages.
Starch can be made into vermicelli and plastic shoe soles by mass production. Of course, I still don’t recommend that we make other plastic products, because they are likely to attract other people’s attention.”
Shen Zhiqiu thought about what Shen Youyou said. If they were planning to make plastic products, they should really send the remaining ten or so pairs of plastic soles to the Duke's Mansion. When he met the old Duke, he could mention it as a greeting.
Shen Youyou thought about the future arrangements and felt overwhelmed. There were so many things waiting for her to do, why was she so busy?
After deciding what to send, everyone prepared to go to bed, as they were all very tired. However, in order to send some kudzu root powder to the people, Li Jingshu went to the village again.
They asked the village head's wife, Dou, and bought some white cloth. They also needed to make two new cloth bags. After all, they were sending Pueraria lobata powder to the Duke's Mansion, and they couldn't use their old cloth bags to deliver it.
Besides, they have to meet the old Duke tomorrow, and Shen Zhiqiu and Li Quan can't just go there wearing these tattered clothes. They have to use the fine cotton cloth even if they are reluctant to do so, because they don't have time to buy cloth today.
A group of women divided the work and made new clothes for four people, Shen Zhiqiu, Li Quan, Da Hu, and Er Hu. They planned to bring all four of them with them.
In fact, some other people have to go with them, and tomorrow they have to deliver jelly and steamed cake to Guangyuanlou, as well as the raw material of grass jelly.
However, the grass jelly given away this time is a combination of fresh grass jelly and dried grass jelly. By then, two different types of grass jelly powder, green and black, can be launched.
The women were busy until late at night. The next day, at the same time as the day before, Shen Zhiqiu took Li Quan, Da Hu and Er Hu, as well as several boys and men in the village, and drove the ox cart to Shuntian Prefecture again.
After leaving most of them at Guangyuanlou, he asked Dabao and Erzhuang to teach the boys how to make jelly in the restaurant, and he took Li Quan with him.
Da Hu, Er Hu and several men from the Nine Clans carried Pueraria powder and rubber soles in their bags, and asked for directions along the way until they arrived at the Duke's Mansion.
Hunter Gao saw from a distance that there were a large number of pavilions and towers with flying eaves and tiles. He said, "Little Third Son, that person just pointed this way. There are so many houses and courtyards in front of us, and the one with a small building, which one is the Duke's Mansion?"
Shen Zhiqiu saw the plaque hanging in front of the Duke's Mansion, with four large golden characters "Fu Duke's Mansion" shining brightly.
“That’s all over the front.”
Hunter Gao opened his eyes wide, unable to believe it: "What? This whole old piece?"
He felt it was too exaggerated. He couldn't even see the corner of the front wall of the old piece in front of him.
Shen Mazi also swallowed nervously: "If we go to this street, I guess people won't let us walk around randomly, don't they want us to be arrested?"
Not to mention their performance, even Shen Zhiqiu could feel at that moment how big the difference was between people.
In the previous life, things were fine. Society emphasized equality for everyone. Whether rich or poor, everyone could make a living and didn’t need to please others before doing things.
But this ancient class is really a bit...
He had visited various large parks, shopping malls, and even Tiananmen Square, the Bird's Nest, the Forbidden City, and various Jiangnan gardens, but he was still shocked by the grandeur of the Duke's Mansion.
Although you can't see the whole picture from the outside, you can only see the flying eaves, pavilions, trees, rockery and so on, but you can feel its solemnity and majesty.
Many years later, Shen Zhiqiu still could not forget the feeling he had when he first came to the Duke's Mansion.
Many years later, Shen Mazi became a grandfather and could hold his grandson in his arms and describe to him what he saw and said when he first saw the Duke's Mansion, how your third grandfather talked to people, and how he was invited in.
In fact, it didn't take many years for them to feel that today was unreal, as if they were walking on cotton, feeling dizzy.
Shen Fugui looked at a very delicately carved white stone pillar in front of him and asked, "What is that?"
Shen Zhiqiu said: "Those are the stones for getting on and off horses when the owner goes out or comes home."
As he spoke, he came closer and carefully examined the mounting stone in front of him, his voice sounding particularly curious: "Wow, it's made of white marble. You can tell at a glance that the carving was done by a master."
He looked at the things they were carrying. The kudzu root powder was okay, at least it was indeed something that only the nobles could eat, but the soles of the straw sandals, although the grass leaves were also cast with rubber,
But now he imagined General Fu wearing shoes with that kind of soles, dismounting from his horse, stepping on this white jade dismounting stone, and finally revealing the soles of his shoes with the texture of straw sandals.
At this time, the guards had already seen these people sneaking around on the street for a long time and standing at their door for a long time. If it were the home of another high-ranking official, the guards would have driven them away long ago.
But their Duke never allowed the guards to do this, so they just watched and did nothing.
But who could have thought that those people became more and more bold. They all walked to the front door and surrounded the stone horse-mounting statue in their house as if it was a curiosity. Some of them even touched it and muttered something to themselves.
As guards, they naturally know how precious the white marble is, but do they know that this is the Duke's Mansion? And they are guarding the door. Aren't you being too blatant?
What are you doing? Why are you touching it? What? It looks good and you want to take it home?
"What do you do?"
Shen Zhiqiu raised his head and looked at the person who was speaking. He was wearing armor and looked very majestic.
This should be considered a small leader among the goalkeepers, equivalent to the security captain of a modern community.
Except for Li Quan, the others were startled by the shout, but they instinctively stood in front of Shen Zhiqiu: "We...we...are..."
I can't speak clearly when I'm scared.
Shen Zhiqiu straightened his clothes and said, "I am Shen Zhiqiu. General Fu asked us to come to your house today."
He also handed over the token that Fu Huaian had given him yesterday.
That security captain, bah! After checking the token, the head of the guard told him to go through the back door to enter the mansion, as Ah Chi had explained.
Shen Zhiqiu nodded, indicating that he also knew A Chi.
In ancient times, the back door was usually used by maids, guards and distant relatives. For example, unless Ah Chi was following Fu Huaian, he had to go through the back door when he went in and out on his own, even though he was the most respected person in front of his young master.
The place they were occupying now was not the main entrance, but the car door, which was the door that only masters, relatives, and officials of similar rank who came to visit could enter.
If the official position is particularly low, he has to go through the corner gate.
After walking for a while and making sure that the guards behind them could no longer see them, Shen Fugui whispered, "Old Third, this is the main entrance, why can't we stand a little longer?"
Shen Mazi also interrupted: "It must be the main entrance. Don't you see how magnificent it is?"
Shen Zhiqiu thought to himself: "What a grand sight! This is our first time here and we didn't even see the main entrance."
He said aloud: "This is the car door. The main door is the most impressive one."
It is not difficult to see from this sentence that he felt quite regretful that he didn’t even see the main gate when he came to the Duke’s Mansion for the first time, because it was not really a true sight of the ancient high gate.