After my mother boiled the bath water, she asked Gongsun to call her.

Only then did Su Shuang reluctantly go downstairs.

Regarding bathing, there was a ritual for washing your hair every three days and bathing every five days during the Qin Dynasty. The Book of Rites: Neize says: "If you want to bathe in five days, you will have to bathe in three days. During this period, you will have to wash your face. If you want to wash your feet, you will have to wash your soup." Pan refers to rice washing water, which has a certain detergent effect. Soup refers to hot water.

The "Han Guanyi" of the Eastern Han Dynasty also states: "Washing and bathing every five days is also called resting and bathing." In other words, officials can go home to rest and bathe for one day every five days, which is called "rest and bathing". This also shows from another perspective that the history of the "five-day working system" is very long.

In addition to bathing, there is also a medicinal bath. Liu Bei and Zhang Xiaopang have both taken it.

Liu Bei's house has a separate bathroom. It is covered with curtains on all sides and a wooden bathtub is placed in the middle. There is a straw mat under the basin and a hemp blanket on the mat to absorb water. The hemp blanket is peeled off when the sun is scorching, and it can be used to reuse it.

Su Shuang often goes to the river to take a bath.

The river water is clear, and there is not much difference between bathing in the river in summer and bathing at home. The reason why her feet are dirty is that Su Shuang is spending all day in Mashi. Her body is not dirty. In this era, bathing is a very common thing. It is really no big deal.

When the two met for the first time, Su Shuang was slightly taller than Liu Bei. He was a little shorter now. Su Shuang could wear Liu Bei's clothes last year. His mother found them and put them into a package, preparing to take Su Shuang away tomorrow.

Su Shuang couldn't eat enough fresh fruits and cakes from Liu Bei's family. Liu Bei's sister always kept bringing them over, as if she could never finish them.

As usual, when a friend comes to visit, his mother will arrange for her to live in the front hall. She spread the three-inch thick cushions directly on the floor, so that it will not be too comfortable. When it is hot, drag it directly under the corridor and sleep in the stars. Liu Bei's house has no mosquitoes and flies, which makes Su Shuang very strange.

Liu Bei pointed to the Boshan stove placed in front of the pad and said that there were vanilla to repel mosquitoes and flies.

People without incense burners will woven the wormwood and mugwort into straw ropes and ignite them after being wet. The smoke emitted can also repel mosquitoes.

However, the mosquito repellent rope is not as elegant as Liu Bei’s incense burner.

Of course, it is also a good way to set up a curtain to prevent mosquitoes along the bed. Flowers and plants planted in the courtyard also have the effect of deworming.

Anyway, there is a way.

Su Shuang slept very hard. He woke up slowly after noon.

Liu Bei brought water for washing water and breakfast. Su Shuang wiped his face in a hurry and accompanied Liu Bei to finish the breakfast, so he rushed back to Ma City.

Gongsun set up his horse harness, handed over the package, and sent the two to get on their horses and leave.

Su Shuang refused to let Liu Bei send him into the market. Liu Bei helped him off the horse and handed him the package he had prepared with his mother. He watched Su Shuang walk into the horse market, then he left and returned home.

Just as the only requirement for a horse racing is that the lighter the weight, the better. Heavier it will increase the burden on the horse. Liu Bei's current weight is too easy for a green horse. The risk of rolling off the horse is too high. Liu Bei waits for the horse to stand firm before stepping on the third-level stirrup and turning over to the ground.

Fortunately, both of them are good horses at home, with a gentle temperament and human nature. They have never had any dangerous situations.

When the new wheat was in the warehouse, my mother said whether to sell some of the rice from last year. Otherwise, when the new rice was harvested, it would not be stored in the warehouse.

Selling grain?

Rather than selling it, it is better to expand the warehouse.

My mother asked with a smile, what should I do if I have nowhere to put it next year? Liu Bei said, then I would expand it.

Year after year, the warehouse can have an end.

Liu Bei sighed, then sell it.

A stone of 220 yuan is a stone.

There was a thousand stones in the family. My mother said she could buy half of it. She would get more than 100,000 yuan in exchange for ten horseshoe golden cakes and more than 10,000 yuan in copper coins.

Putting yourself in your shoes, Liu Bei knew how rich a hundred acres of good land was!

No, the warehouse must be built.

"In June, you can grow wheat fields. In six days, you can harvest sunflowers and compose music (wine music)."

The harvested wheat fields should have been plowed at this time and the remaining wheat straw in the fields were ploughed out. Because they wanted to plant paddy fields, the tribe members were repairing the dam of the canal, and the tillage was extended. The clans hired by Liu Bei's family were busy managing water, weeding and fertilizing the rice fields. The clans said that it was a good sign to see red carp in the rice fields. Liu Bei, who was originally thinking of catching them and roasting them, had to stop them embarrassedly.

Brewing wine seems too complicated. Liu Bei doesn’t know much. This is not his interest.

Taking advantage of his spare time, Liu Bei wanted to make the golden gall black bear skin mat that he agreed with Hu Shang.

He found the old craftsmen and several craftsmen with the best skills, and took out the black bear skin that was still erected with ferocious hair. Liu Bei told everyone what he thought.

According to his idea, he wanted to make a large mattress that could cover the entire piece of bear skin.

The bear's head should be placed in the middle of the tail. Lying up, it seems to be riding under the crotch of the bear. Liu Bei's idea comes from those bandits who like to spread a whole piece of tiger skin under the seat. He stepped on the tiger skin head, drank a big gulp, and divided the gold with a large scale. Don't be too vulgar.

The old craftsman suggested that the bear skin should be sewn on the Shu brocade first, and then wrapped it outside the hemp mat.

As for whether to make the hemp pad under it into the shape of bear skin, Liu Bei thought about it and let it go.

Lou Sangnu is the first to be the mother. First, the old craftsman uses thick thread to fix the bear skin. Then, the mother uses embroidery needles to sew it tightly and embroider it on the Shu brocade. After the embroidery worker completes, the mattress pressed with high-quality ramie silk and high-quality beef glue is also prepared.

The two phases merged, and a domineering and moderately soft and hard golden black bear top-quality brocade mat was made. In order to highlight its high price of 100 gold, Liu Bei also used a custom-made brocade with Cui Lie's hand-written inscription.

In the past, hemp mattresses were single, similar to the current straw mattress. However, the mattress customized for Hu Shang was even wider than the double beds in later generations. It was indeed called "extreme".

The clan members could not even put down their ox carts, so they could only tear off the ceiling and dragged them to the horse market.

The clan members who came together worked together to carry them into the Hu Shang camp. After only a hundred steps, they were exhausted and panting. It can be seen that they were full of materials.

When the clan retreated, Hu Shang looked at him, but saw a black bear breaking out!

Hu Shang staggered and retreated.

Several foreign guards at the tent gate drew their swords one after another!

Liu Bei subconsciously clenched his fist and slowly let go. Then he stretched out his hand and shouted: "Don't be shocked! It's a dead thing!"

Hu Shang was startled by this rare ferocity. Hearing Liu Bei shouted, he came to his senses. He hurriedly stopped him in Hu's words. After the guards took back the blade, Liu Bei stretched out his palm to Hu Shang and slowly lowered it. The sleeve sword with anesthetic applied was almost bleeding today!

Hu Shang sorted out his clothes and looked forward again. The black bear did not move at all.

"Open." The man ordered the wrapper to open the cloth, and a domineering golden gall black bear's top-quality brocade mat showed its original appearance.

The size, materials, and embroidery are all the best choices. It is like a giant bear crawling on it.

"It's really the best." Hu Shang looked up and down the mattress, and was extremely satisfied.

Several servants worked together to bring the money box and opened it to see it. The horseshoe golden cakes were stacked layer by layer, with no more or less, and a hundred ingots were prepared.

"The money and goods are all paid." Liu Bei bowed flatly.
Chapter completed!