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Chapter 59 Drunk

Adili called a housekeeper and asked Ye Feng to dictate the housekeeper's records.

Ye Feng not only talked about the secret techniques of making carriages, but also briefly talked about some methods for making utensils such as leather. Ye Feng originally wanted to talk about some methods for making boats, but he thought that in this arid inland, boats might not be used, so he gave up.

Ye Feng has always had a dream to teach the Mongolians the skills of boats. Maybe the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian Navy could fall in love with him, and he could become the son-in-law of the commander-in-chief of the Mongolian Navy.

After the record was completed, Adili asked the butler to copy another one, and then give the other one to Abaso. Of course, he wanted to keep one of this secret skills himself, which is a priceless treasure.

Of course, what Ye Feng told them were some superficial techniques and did not teach them all the core technologies of the Great Zhou. After all, these are all alien races. Teach them that if one day they rebel against the Great Zhou, it would pose a huge threat to the Great Zhou.

But what Ye Feng did not expect was that from then on, two major craftsmen's factions appeared in the Western Regions, becoming the Taishan Beidou, the craftsmen of the Western Regions. It had a profound impact on the development of craftsmen's technology in the Western Regions.

Carpenter Abaso later became the god of carpenters in the minds of Western Region craftsmen. Many people even spared a lot of money to learn carpenter skills from carpenter Abaso.

Adili's carpenter's shop has also become a place that carpenters yearn for. They are even willing to pay for wages just to enter Adili's carpenter's shop and learn the experience and skills of making wood.

Adili saw the secret skills given by Ye Feng and felt like he had a treasure. As a businessman, he knew what these meant, which meant that his carpenter shop would become the top carpenter shop in the entire Western Regions.

Adili looked at the sky outside and said respectfully to Ye Feng: "Brother Ye, stay here for dinner today. Don't refuse."

Ye Feng had a bad meal these two days. Thinking that Adili was a local merchant, the food he had to treat was definitely not bad, so he agreed. Adili asked the servants to invite Shen Xi and his wife, and asked the housekeeper to prepare supper, and then whispered to the housekeeper for a few words.

Soon, Shen Xi and his wife were invited over. Shen Xi learned from the servants who invited him that Ye Feng taught Adili and the others the secret skills of making woodworking. Although this would cause Shen Xi to lose some of the woodwork business, Ye Feng's kindness of repaying kindness made him respect him and felt that this person deserves close friends.

In addition, the wooden utensil business is not easy to do because of inconvenient transportation and easy to get damp, so for Shen Xi, it is better not to do this business.

Shen Xi is a person who pursues high profits and high returns. This is why he uses the method of first leading the caravan to a place, and then looking at what is the most profitable based on the local price situation, so that his younger brother can lead the brigade of caravans over.

After Shen Xi and Adili met, they became polite to each other. Adili arranged seats according to the etiquette of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and carpenter Abaso was accompanying him.

According to Dazhou's eating habits and using the separate meal system, a small table was placed in front of each person. All small tables were arranged neatly. The tables for eating during the Zhou Dynasty must be parallel to the surrounding walls. Incorrect placement is an act of rudeness.

Everyone sat down, and Mrs. Shen and Mrs. Adiri sat down together. Mrs. Adiri was Adiri's wife recently married and had never seen Mrs. Shen before. Adiri arranged for Mrs. Adiri to accompany her when she invited Mrs. Shen Xi to this banquet.

During this period, the host did not announce the start of the meal, and other guests could not start eating casually.

When Adili saw that the food and food were almost arranged, she raised her glass and said, "You are all good friends of Adili. Don't be restrained, just treat it as if you are at your own home. You don't have to be polite. I'll give you a cup first." After that, I drank it all. I picked up the mutton on the table and took a bite, which means the seat was already started.

The others accompanied me with a glass and started eating.

Mrs. Adili said in bad Chinese: "Sister Shen, I have heard my husband mention you long ago, saying that you are dignified and virtuous and virtuous, and Mr. Shen's virtuous support."

Mrs. Chen twisted the flower branch and said, "Oh, sister, don't call me that. Just call me sister. Even if I call me older."

Ye Feng was very disgusted when he saw Mrs. Chen's pretentious look, and said with a faint brow: "It's okay, you look old." At the same time, he pretended to be fine and lowered his head to eat.

Ye Feng didn't look up all the time, but when he heard someone making a puff sound, he knew that someone was drinking and couldn't help but squirt it out.

In order to entertain Ye Feng and Shen Xi, Adili slaughtered a sheep and a few chickens, and took out sea buckthorn, grapes and other fruits, horse milk wine, etc.

This standard is already very rich. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, most people only eat vegetarian food. Civilians in the northern region can only eat bean soup. Civilians in the southern Chu State have some fish to eat, and occasionally they can eat fish soup made of fish and rice.

During this period, only the ruling class could afford to eat meat, so there was a saying that the meat eaters were despised. The ruling class was even directly called by the meat eaters.

So don’t be deceived by those who come on TV, two pounds of beef as soon as they come on. With the productivity at that time, there were only a few who could fill their stomachs every day.

However, the food and way to serve food here are still very primitive. The sheep and chicken are roasted. After the roast is cooked, the sheep and chicken are cut with a bronze knife, and placed on wooden tableware or ceramic tableware, and distributed to everyone.

The wine vessel for holding wine is made of pottery like a bowl, or a mini pottery basin. Because Ye Feng had seen the pottery basin used by Chen Xi's family to wash, this is the shape.

Personal tableware is the most fashionable. Ye Feng also saw people from other countries using it in his life, just grabbing it with their hands. In fact, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were already chopsticks in various countries. However, at this time, it was called "stew" and chopsticks, which were mainly used to pick up dishes.

"The Book of Rites. Qu Li" records: "Those who have vegetables use stews, and those who have no vegetables do not use stews." In addition, "Guanzi. Disciple Job" records: "Hold a stew on the right." That is, the ancients are used to holding a stew on the right hand to pick up dishes.

There are other etiquettes about diet in the Book of Rites, including eating millet rice, do not use bars or hands, but use rice daggers. Rice daggers are a type of dagger, similar to the spoon-shaped one.

There are many types of daggers, and the large ones are used to hold things in the cauldron. In terms of function, they are divided into scattered daggers, picking daggers, vegetable daggers, etc. The front ends are cast into a spoon shape, which is convenient for the meat of daggers. Small things are used for eating rice daggers.

In addition, wet and soft roasted or boiled meat can be bitten directly with teeth, but the dried meat must be cut with a knife, etc.

As for the tableware used by primitive people, such as knife and fork, they were gradually replaced by shu during the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. shu may have appeared at the earliest period of Dayu's flood control.

The dishes at Adili's house are quite rich, but the taste is not very good. During this period, the cooking techniques and seasonings are not complete. So the things made are similar to those in the cafeteria where Ye Feng often made dark dishes when he was in college.

During the banquet, the butler walked out of it with a wooden box. Adili brought the butler to Ye Feng. Adili picked up and opened the wooden box. Everyone was amazed when they saw the golden gold inside.

Adili said to Ye Feng: "Brother Ye Feng, I can't repay you if you can teach me such exquisite craftsman secret skills today. These gold is a little bit of thought."

During this period, there were different currencies in various countries and regions, but the only thing that could be considered common was gold. So Adili prepared a box of gold for Ye Feng.

Ye Feng wanted to take the gold when he saw it, but he was a little embarrassed. So he politely said: "The secret technique is just a simple task. Brother Adili had guaranteed me before, but I haven't thanked Brother Adili yet. How can I get your stuff now?"

Adili said: "The profit you can't imagine for me by your secret technique. My wooden tools may be sold well in the entire Western Regions in the future. Giving you this little gold is nothing. You can come to me if you have anything in the future. The elder brother will do it for you. We will be brothers in the future."

Chen Xi is a businessman, so he naturally knows how important the woodworking skills Ye Feng taught Adili are. He helped, "Brother Ye Feng, Brother Adili is so sincere, don't refuse. Brother Adili is a righteous man, and I will be treated warmly by him every time I pass by here. And you can become brothers with Adili, which is something that many people can't even climb on."

Seeing Chen Xi say this, Ye Feng said, "Brother Adiri is hard to refuse, so I will be disrespectful. From now on, you will be my brother Adiri."

Adili said happily: "Good brother, come and have a goblet." Adili said that and drank the wine in the goblet.

Gu and Jue are a type of drinking uu, mostly made of bronze, and Gu also has wooden uuu.

The wine at this time was actually like rice soup mixed with wine lees. Ye Feng was not good at drinking. But fortunately the wine was not high at this time, which was similar to the sweet wine in later generations. Ye Feng drank the wine in the goblet.

The banquet lasted very late. Ye Feng was toasted by Adili and carpenter Abaso in turn, but Ye Feng fell drunk before the banquet ended.

As for how to go back, Ye Feng had no idea. But what is certain is that he was carried back by Chen Xi or the servant of Adili's family.

The next morning, Ye Feng woke up only after three o'clock in the sun.

Ye Feng walked out of the tent and happened to see Chen Xi and his wife coming over with wooden boxes. Chen Xi's wife kept pulling Chen Xi and whispering something, but Chen Xi ignored her. So the two of them pulled and stalemate there.

When Chen Xi saw Ye Feng, he said hello on the pretext that he would hand the wooden box to Ye Feng. He said, "My dear brother got drunk yesterday. I was afraid of losing this precious thing. I kept it for you temporarily. Now you are sober and you will hand it back to you."

Mrs. Chen's face looked ugly. Ye Feng could see that Mrs. Chen wanted the gold inside. Ye Feng could not give it to her, and it was also to Brother Shen if he wanted it. Ye Feng thought about opening the wooden box.

Mrs. Chen said sarcastically: "Oh, why don't you trust us? Do you want to open it and see if you don't have any jealousy? It's such a jealous wolf. Fortunately, our master saved you, and it's not a sign at all."

Chen Xi pulled Mrs. Chen and said, "You can say less. It's too rude."

Ye Feng didn't care much about money, so he planned to get some of it himself, and gave most of the remaining ones to Chen Xi.

After Ye Feng opened the wooden box, he saw that there were ten gold cakes inside. In fact, the countries in the Western Regions used gold, silver and shellfish as currency. Adili knew that the Great Zhou used gold and copper as currency, so he gave Ye Feng some gold.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, gold and copper were mostly used as the main currencies. The book "Guanzi" clearly stated: "Pearls and jade are used as the upper coins, gold is used as the middle coins, and knife cloth is used as the lower coins."

Because the silver production of Guwa Kingdom is low, Guwa Kingdom rarely uses silver as currency. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, silver was first used as currency because it was traded with the Western Regions, and the Western Regions did not recognize copper coins and traded cumbersomely. However, due to the small amount of silver production that could not satisfy the use, it was cancelled a year later.

This problem lasted until Da Guangchao, because there were more silver mines in the country where I lived a good life, which alleviated the problem of the lack of silver mines in the Guwa Kingdom. Therefore, the use of silver in some time-travel dramas or costume dramas of this period can only be said to be purely fictional.
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