Chapter two hundred and seventy-fifth: a family of three
On the second day, snowflakes fell from the sky in Kyoto again. This time it was not sleet, but downright snow.
The last round of potatoes has not yet been harvested. During this period, a large number of tenant farmers have to brave the snowstorm to take back the last batch of potatoes.
This is something that can't be helped. In fact, the batch of grain that Kyoto obtained through house raids has been used up. Coupled with the military rations and pensions from the war, the entire inventory in Kyoto has no grain, and now it is all filled with potatoes.
Even though the barrenness of the land and various factors have caused potato yields to plummet, the yield of even such stunted potatoes is five or six times that of cereals.
Potato fields not only require harvesting, but also require a lot of manpower and material resources to compost, so that planting and harvesting can be carried out again in the next spring.
Otherwise, after planting potatoes several times in this way, the whole potato will be close to desertification, and that will be complete eradication.
After all, there is not much land in Kyoto, and the people here have tried their best to feed it.
At the city wall in the northwest, it was just dawn and a large number of workers began to gather.
"Work has started, work has started, today is the last day of work, go get the potatoes back then." Someone shouted loudly.
At this time, the city wall that had been in ruins is now rising again. Although it is a little rough, the city wall is rising. It only needs to wait for the blessings of the priests. The barrier that protects Kyoto can still be protected from most demons and weirdness.
of invasion.
Of course, it's just most of them. There are always some monsters that have special abilities or find special ways to sneak into the city and cause horrific incidents.
"Is today the last day... I won't be able to get potatoes from now on..." Many of the workers who don't have enough food at home don't want to stop work.
Most of them were short in stature, their faces were red, and they kept rubbing their hands.
At this time, the temperature outside is 0 degrees, but for them, getting paid for their work is more important.
Kyoto is still in the stage of bartering. Even though the Genji shogunate vigorously distributed two types of copper coins called "big rebellion" and "small rebellion", they were only prevalent in the capital of the gods. Other capitals were basically still the most primitive rice coins.
Give it as money.
The Fujiwara retainer who was responsible for building the city wall said impatiently: "We will not be idle this winter. There is work to be done everywhere. If you are not going to starve to death, you have to consider whether it will freeze to death inside."
A group of people began to build the bricks and stones on the city wall.
Early in the morning, Li Wei also got up with support on his waist.
He was just too tired from work last night. He rushed back from the cyberpunk world, and then prepared more than a hundred liters of liquid fire for Yin Wa, plus several times of public food... It's not a big problem...
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Now the spider is still sleeping tightly on the bed. She doesn't know whether she has been sick recently or whether the scorpion-shaped steel creature is really going to hibernate. Since the beginning of winter, this guy only eats, sleeps and does bad things every day. He can't wait to sleep twice a day.
More than ten hours.
Chiki Fujiwara got up very early today, or she always got up very early. She basically got up at dawn every day to handle government affairs, and then didn't come back until night.
This still requires Yin's sub-program and a large number of maids to take care of her. Otherwise, she might really have to live in Daming Mansion, lying down on the eucalyptus board to rest every time she finishes handling her affairs.
She put on the familiar purple-black kimono with a cotton thermal layer underneath. Levi also got up early to help her put it on.
The purple-black kimono seemed to be the same color as her hair. She sat in front of the bronze mirror on the dressing table and just arranged her appearance hastily.
When she was still the princess of the Fujiwara family, she would spend more than an hour every day on makeup, until she applied makeup that was as white as a zombie, and fixed her hair into a hairpin that could be held in place.
It’s just a weird shape.
But now, she just arranged it hastily, and then just used a hair tie to slightly fix her long straight purple-black hair.
On the contrary, Li Wei felt that such pale makeup was countless times more pleasing to the eye than pale makeup. In this era, whiteness was regarded as beauty, and many women painted themselves like lime walls.
Therefore, even those geishas and courtesans in the flower street, Li Wei had no interest in them. Their aesthetics were too far behind.
Chiki Fujiwara's face is a little red today, I don't know if it's because of the weather or something else.
Levi took out the belt and tied it around the waist of the kimono. He slowly pulled the kimono close to her waist. It was the kind that could fix the body without affecting the contraction of the lower abdomen. He gently
She tied it up.
While tying her up, Li Wei felt the weight for a moment and said with confusion: "Qianji, you seem to have grown up a lot."
"Hmm...huh? Is there any? I measured it and it seems that I haven't grown much this year." Qianji replied doubtfully. She seemed to be curious, and she also stood under the load-bearing wooden pile in the room to compare.
Only then did Levi discover that there was a small notch on the wooden stake that was dangling in front of him every day. The position of the notch happened to be the height of Chiki Fujiwara.
She compared it for a long time before saying, "I haven't grown up yet."
In fact, Chiki Fujiwara has always been looking forward to growing taller. After all, now she seems to be more and more like the daughter in a family of three. She was obviously the one who came first, so she should be the older sister.
"Uh, that's not what I'm talking about. Forget it, just take it as such." Levi smiled and rubbed her cheeks until she looked like an angry puffer fish before stopping.
Originally, Chiki Fujiwara's height was only about 154cm, and her three-dimensional measurements were around 70, 54, and 71cm. Levi's hand measurement here may not be very accurate, but she is a very petite and flat type anyway.
They have been living together during this time, and Li Wei didn't pay too much attention to it. After spending a few months in the cyberpunk world some time ago, after coming back, he suddenly found that Chiki Fujiwara seemed to have grown up compared to when they first came into contact with her.
A lot.
If it was AA level before, it can now begin to faintly develop towards B level. Although it can't compare with D level like spider, which has been developed for hundreds of years, it is a great growth for her.
After all, she is a young girl who is in the age of physical growth and development. At this age, Li Wei was probably a JK girl in his previous life. While finishing his studies every day, he might start shopping and hanging out on the street with his girlfriends.
age.
However, in this era, it is estimated that you will get married when you are in your prime. People like Fujiwara Chihime who wait until their prime to get married are late marriages. Aristocratic girls are basically engaged at birth, and they are not married until they are the age of JK girls.
Duan is probably the mother of several children.
In fact, it’s not the fault of Boss Cao’s XP problem. His XP system was just that in the era when all lolicons were in the game, he liked mature people. However, in that era, those who were mature and agreed with his XP were probably just moms.
A woman.
Not only that, Chiki Fujiwara is still a famous figure in the city. Levi, the Dark of Kyoto, is very incompetent. All government affairs are handed over to Chiki Fujiwara, and all intelligence is handed over to Spider. He himself goes there every day when he has nothing to do.
The interceptor factory squatted down, waiting for Yin Wa to click on the technology tree.
However, after a little fussing for a while, Chiki Fujiwara probably realized that time was tight. Originally, because Levi came back, she went to bed very late yesterday. After the fussing again this morning, Chiki Fujiwara just felt
There may not be enough time at all.
A lot of work has not been done yet, and because of the onset of winter, she needs to raise and distribute food and clothing for the winter to supply the people of Kyoto. Not only that, there seems to be a caravan going to Kyoto, and there is also the distribution of interests among the various families.
As well as offerings and other things.
And because of Yin Wa, she can be regarded as a person who has been influenced by the knowledge of later generations. She also wants to build the joyful water conservancy facilities in Kyoto during this period of time.
Kyoto has a large river, the Hachiman River, that runs through it. In addition, there are many large and small branches connecting the Yawata River. As a result, the water conservancy in the entire Kyoto is actually very important. However, the previous water conservancy facilities were in dilapidated condition. Every few years,
There will probably be a flood.
In addition, the former water conservancy manager was a member of the Hojo family and died a long time ago. Now there is no one familiar with water conservancy in the entire Kyoto. Even Li Wei was confused when she saw the water conservancy project. She had no choice but to learn it in person.
The reason why she is so busy at work now is that she asks Yin Wa every day for advice on repairing water conservancy facilities and constantly improving them. Some places can be turned into water wheel workshops, and water conservancy can replace manpower as a productive force.
In other places, water needs to be directed to the Yawata River to form a complete water conservancy network.
These are the most difficult things for her to learn now. As for the others, they are just repetitive corrections of things passed down from below.
Breakfast was simple potato soup, and then Levi opened the door and let the cold air flow into the room.
The spider nestled in the quilt shrank into a ball again, wrapped itself more tightly, and then squirmed toward the fireplace.
Chiki Fujiwara also shrunk her kimono, then seemed to think about it, and hugged one of Levi's hands, like a human-shaped hot water bottle.
Levi is also used to it. When they go to bed at night, they all shrink to him when they fall asleep. Perhaps because of his spiritual attributes, he is a heat source that is stable at around 37 degrees. Not only that, he
The temperature within a few meters around your body is much higher than elsewhere.
He also held Fujiwara Chihime's waist with one hand, and took her to Damingfu with the oil-paper umbrella with the other hand. Judging from the body shape, he looked more like a father taking his daughter to school.
The cloth shoes made a squeaking sound on the snow. As he passed by the graves of the Fujiwara family head and the demon monk Mankai, Levi paused for a few seconds. The grass there was already withered and yellow, but it is estimated that it will grow up to two meters tall in the next spring.
Above 1 meter, they are all covered with weeds such as dog tails.
Many of the weeds were grown by Li Wei himself, and he privately did not allow others to sweep the graves.
When he sent Chiki Fujiwara to Daming Mansion, Chiki said: "Brother, please wait a moment. I may have something that I need to discuss with you again. It's a very important matter."
"no problem."
The two of them came to the study room. The desk was piled with various documents. Chiki Fujiwara searched among the documents for a while before taking a piece of paper and handing it to Li Wei.
Li Wei glanced over it and frowned. The content of this document was that a caravan of 100 people from Ezo was going to pass through Kyoto. This was a very unusual caravan. They could actually trade across the capital and even trade.
Go to Ezo.
You must know that the outside is full of weirdos and monsters. Think about the wooden Buddha handle that almost destroyed the entire Kyoto. Levi bets that there is more than one monster like Demon Monk Wanhai outside the city.
In such a world, they were actually able to carry out trade in various cities, and there were still a hundred people. Li Wei had to wonder if there was something wrong with it.
"Qianji, I have only been here for a relatively short time. Have you heard of this caravan before?" Li Wei asked.
After all, he is not a native of this world. He has never even been outside Kyoto. He knows many things through records.
"I have some impression that my father seemed to have been in contact with these caravans when I was a child and strongly supported them. However, I didn't know many things at that time, so I didn't understand them in a deeper way."
After Chiki Fujiwara finished speaking, she seemed to have thought of some of the government affairs that she had been exposed to under the leadership of the Fujiwara family head when she was still Princess Fujiwara when she was a child, and she had some impression of this caravan.
But that happened many years ago, and she had almost forgotten about it.
Li Wei frowned even more. He didn't know about this caravan at all, and how could he think that if he could still do business in the environment outside the city, he would have to be at least as good as Nagato Tsuchimikado and Master Renge?
Let the priest escort you.
But both of them are already close to great priests. Even in the capital of the gods, they are the top temple officials. Is it necessary to mix with merchants?
"You pay attention, I'll go back and ask Spider to investigate and give you a definite answer as soon as possible." Levi said.
He felt that he needed someone who now only thought about doing bad things and hibernating to get up and work, and he smelled an unusual smell.
Especially when Chiki Fujiwara mentioned that the head of the Fujiwara family might have funded this caravan, Li Wei felt that there was something very wrong with this caravan.
You must know that the true identity of the head of the Fujiwara family is the leader of the sect who summoned the outside gods.
After returning to the house, I pulled the hibernating spider up and asked her to go back to work in Ninja Village.
You are working, how can you sleep at your age?
No matter what, intelligence work cannot be lost, especially in the winter, when it is especially easy for intelligence agents from other forces to infiltrate Kyoto, either becoming refugees or sneaking in secretly.
They also need a large number of personnel to sneak into the enemy's interior to gather intelligence. Whether it is Nara Prefecture's undersea oil fields and troop distribution, they also need to confirm the movements of Shendu one by one.
Especially in Kyoto, Minamoto Yoritomo will never allow the Fujiwara family to control Kyoto. In that case, wouldn't he completely lose any dignity as a shogun?
On the other hand, the caravan that Li Wei is interested in must be investigated more deeply.