Chapter 496 (1/2)
Mulberry trees in the mulberry garden are more than ten feet tall. Their mulberries are ripe at the age of three. They can cure children's diseases. They live in giant black and look like falcons. They eat people's souls at night. No one dares to get close to them.
Lifelong flower looked at the Republic of China Version of Wu County Chronicle in her hand and couldn't help laughing. This is the only content related to mulberry garden recorded in this version of county annals, and it is in the news annals of volume 12. Strange news chronicles are mostly folk anecdotes with strange forces, which are no better than Liaozhai. However, the old scholars of county chronicles do not have Pu Songling's talent. They have to abide by the preciseness of county chronicles as historical materials, so they have to write in an unorthodox style of unorthodox history.
However, this article about the mulberry garden is concise and vivid. The flower seems to see the mulberry garden in those days. In the dark night, a big bird flew out of the huge canopy, circled silently in the sky, and stared at the pedestrians on the ground with red eyes.
People dare not come out at night for fear of being eaten by big birds. People who have to travel at night in case of emergency always have large pork elbows at home, pickled with sauce, and presented them to juwu when they go out to ensure their own safety. Over time, the bird developed the habit of eating sauce elbows
Of course, this is a lifelong fantasy. As she looked and thought, she was amused by her imagination and kept laughing.
She also did not know why she had a sudden fancy to see the county annals, probably what had been too busy recently. The new year is coming soon. Xiao Qi and Mo Yu take care of the bar business. It has been very smooth. There are people sent by Hou Biao, and no one dares to smash the venue. In a few days, the bar will have a holiday. This is what she has insisted all her life. No matter how good the business is, it won't delay everyone to go home for the new year.
She has been in Wuzhong library these days. She has searched all the county chronicles before she found some contents related to the mulberry garden. In addition to the one recorded in the Wu county annals above, there are two others, namely:
Pingjiang chronicle Wanli edition 40 volumes of people Chronicles: Pingjiang people sang Yun, the word Lin Xi, after Tang sang Daomao, good Taiyi dunjia, seclusion, Shizong can't call it out, live on the left side of the river, plant mulberry all over, raise silkworms for pleasure, call the mulberry garden, and the villagers are rich.
Wu Zhi Qianlong's 32 volume chronicles of scenery: among the best silk products, only the red silk reeled by Hua mulberry garden is better than that produced by the weaving house. Or it is said that wild silkworm is fed with human blood, so its silk is red and like blood, and people dare not dress.
I've heard of Sang Daomao all my life. He is a alchemist in the Tang Dynasty. He doesn't seem to be seen in official history. He belongs to a figure in unofficial history. He is probably a fortune teller with some magic power. As for sang Yun, she has never heard of it. If what Pingjiang records is true, then sang Yun should be the first generation owner of the mulberry garden.
However, in the story uploaded by Zu, the owner of the mulberry garden is surnamed Hua or sang. It has only been three generations since her great grandfather. It is by no means wrong to mistake the old owner's surname, but it seems more reasonable for the owner of the mulberry garden to be surnamed sang.
The red silk recorded by Wu Zhizhong in the Qianlong edition later can be sure, because it is mentioned in the story handed down by her great grandfather that the mulberry garden specialty is a kind of silk. The woven silk cloth does not need to be dyed. It is naturally red and is especially loved by dignitaries. Unfortunately, the output is very small. Only the cocoon made of wild silkworms on that big mulberry tree can extract this kind of silk, You can only get three or five kilograms of cocoons a year. After drawing, it is less than sixty-two kilograms. It takes several years to weave a silk cloth.
However, it must be false to feed silkworm with human blood. Although lifelong flowers are not engaged in biochemical research, as a modern person, of course, silkworm only eats mulberry leaves and does not eat blood. Even if human blood is fed, it is impossible to feed silk red, because that is not the same thing at all.
There are three county chronicles in total. Two records about crows and red silk are half true and half false, so the other one is probably half true and half false. On this thought, the lifelong flower thinks that sang Yun probably exists. As for whether he will be too evasive after sang Daomao, let's say another thing.
If you think so, either the mulberry garden changed its owner, or the Hua family was originally surnamed sang, but later changed their surname.
The whole life spent in the county chronicles. I really couldn't find anything else, so I put the county chronicles back in place and left the library.
When she returned to Liuying lane, she saw several people measuring distances in the street with surveying and mapping tools. She didn't care which map company was doing mapping. After walking in, I found several people measuring around the old willow, and others measuring the diameter of the tree.
Lifelong flower thought something was wrong, so she went over and asked, ”what are you doing?”
The man with the tape measure said, ”it's not easy to move this tree from the garden and Culture Bureau!”
”Move away?” lifelong flower thought she had heard wrong. ”Why did the tree move away?”
”You need to demolish and rectify. This tree has been hundreds of years old and is protected by the state. It needs to be removed before construction.”