Chapter 406 A Dilapidated Taoist Temple in the Tang Dynasty: A Female Taoist Priest (14)
This year, with the addition of a farm, Jiang Yue also built a greenhouse, ensuring she has fresh vegetables to eat. She can get whatever she wants to eat every morning without needing anyone to deliver it. She also climbs a mountain every now and then as a form of exercise.
The first snow of the year came much later than usual, and the snowfall was much lighter than before. By the time Jiang Yue finished cleaning the Taoist temple, someone had already brought fresh vegetables up. The person who brought the vegetables to Jiang Yue was a child from a family in the village. She asked the steward to select people from families in difficulty as much as possible, so that she could also help them.
"Master, it's snowing today, and Steward Shuan asked me to bring the vegetables up to you."
After speaking, he lowered his head, feeling a little uneasy. Jiang Yue had said that he could take it himself, and he was afraid that Jiang Yue would blame him. Jiang Yue sighed softly; she wasn't a bad person. After taking the dishes, she took out a few copper coins and handed them to him: "Thank you for your trouble."
The child scratched his head and chuckled a few times: "It's no trouble at all."
After everyone left, Jiang Yue returned to the Taoist temple. It wasn't that Jiang Yue didn't give more money before, but rather that if she gave too much, they wouldn't dare to accept it and would eventually return it to her. It would be better to give a little less each time and do it more often.
For lunch, I steamed spinach and eggs. It took about 20 minutes to prepare, and with dipping sauce, it was a quick and easy meal. It was cold on a snowy day, so I didn't want to make anything too complicated. After lunch, I decided to rest today. I didn't go to the Wizard's Tower to study all day. After a year or two, I've learned quite a bit. Since Bai Ze organized everything, there's not much Jiang Yue doesn't know. Of course, learning is learning, and mastering is mastering. Now, many things are learned first, and then you can slowly learn to master them.
After going to the study, I lit the stove. Noble families should all have stoves, but they are rationed and expensive, so ordinary people can't afford them. However, there are ways to make a living if you can't afford them. You can buy bricks or build one yourself with stones. Coal prices are much lower this year, so you can afford to burn coal during the coldest days. I hope no one freezes to death.
After the room warmed up, Jiang Yue took out paper and pen to practice her calligraphy. She wrote Li Bai's "Bring in the Wine - You Don't See Me," which was, of course, the protagonist's poem. This didn't mean the protagonist had copied a lot of poems; it was just something he blurted out when he was drunk. The protagonist had never said he could write poetry, and he probably knew that copying this stuff would easily expose him.
Jiang Yue could already guess how drenched in sweat the protagonist would look when he woke up the next day. But no one would believe him if he said he couldn't write poetry. After finishing the poem, Jiang Yue nodded in satisfaction. She was very pleased with the calligraphy. She would put it away, frame it, and give it to the protagonist later. On this special day, Jiang Yue was in a good mood and thought of another poem.
After grinding the ink and laying out the paper, Jiang Yue picked up her brush, calmed her mind, and then wrote:
"The east wind blows at night, releasing a thousand trees of flowers. It also blows down stars like rain. The road is filled with the fragrance of precious horses and carved carriages. The sound of phoenix flutes moves, the jade pot shines, and fish and dragons dance all night."
Moths, willow branches, and golden threads. Laughter and sweet fragrance linger. I searched for him a thousand times in the crowd. Suddenly, turning around, I found him there, in the dim light.
Jiang Yue quickly finished writing Xin Qiji's "Qing Yu An: Lantern Festival". After putting down her pen, she carefully examined the poem and nodded in satisfaction. It was another work that could be stored in her space. Once the ink dried, Jiang Yue put it away. This one was not from this era, so she decided not to show it to anyone.
After finishing these two poems, Jiang Yue didn't plan to write any more calligraphy. He was done with his addiction. After the wine had almost dried, Jiang Yue put the calligraphy away. He planned to have it framed when he went to the capital and give it to the protagonist. After packing his things, he found a medical book to read. He hadn't finished reading the medical book that the emperor had sent him before.
Winter passed by as Jiang Yue read, and before she knew it, spring arrived. As the first spring rain fell, the protagonist finally returned. Jiang Yue had gone to visit an old patient that day and happened to run into him while eating at the market at noon. Amid cheers of "Welcome back, Lord Marquis! Lord Marquis is mighty!" and "May the Tang Dynasty be victorious! May the Tang Dynasty be mighty!" the protagonist made his way home.
When Jiang Yue finished eating, the stall owner refused to take the money when she paid, saying that he was happy today and the whole meal was free. Jiang Yue didn't want to spoil the mood and insisted on paying. After she smiled and put the money back in her sleeve, the stall owner wanted to give Jiang Yue two sesame cakes to take with her. This time, Jiang Yue quickly refused, saying that it was inappropriate to eat and take things at the same time, as she was already full.
Perhaps influenced by everyone's emotions, Jiang Yue had a smile on her face on her way home. She did her routine cleaning of the Taoist temple. With the temple now large, Jiang Yue's workload had increased considerably. Taking advantage of the good weather, she basked in the sun in the pavilion and also found a small stove to boil some water for tea.
After the water was boiled, Master Sun came over. Since the protagonist was returning in triumph and there was going to be some banquets, Master Sun preferred quiet and didn't like those kinds of occasions, so he came to Jiang Yue's place to find some peace and quiet. When he saw that Jiang Yue was going to have tea, he joined in. Jiang Yue's way of drinking tea was a bit different, which he found quite interesting.
It's actually just a regular version of brewing tea around a stove, with some red dates, hawthorn, persimmons, and the like. In the beginning of this era, the tea-drinking method was the kind that used salt and mutton fat, but later it became the mainstream tea-drinking method brought by the protagonist. Of course, Jiang Yue liked brewing tea around a stove because she could eat something at the same time, and the tea she drank wasn't good tea; it was wild tea that she got from the mountains.
Master Sun was quite accepting of this way of drinking tea. He even thought about adding some herbs. After drinking tea for a while, the evening class became a two-person affair. After the class, the two exchanged some Taoist classics. When it was time to sleep, Master Sun wished he could have a chat with Jiang Yue's master. He wondered what kind of person could have taught Jiang Yue.
Sun Zhenren stayed here for three days before leaving. After seeing everyone off, Jiang Yue left a puppet outside and went to the Wizard Tower to study. At the same time, she assisted Bai Ze in organizing the stored data. This task had actually been done a long time ago because the knowledge of a world is often packaged and taken away, and there is a lot of repetition in it.
However, the repetition of knowledge is not obvious. It is only discovered to be repetitive after summarizing and refining. Just like a math problem has many ways to solve it, you only know which method you used after solving the problem. There are also many wrong directions that are useless. So Bai Ze has actually been organizing it all along.
However, there is too much knowledge in one world. Bai Ze also has to dedicate some computing power to help Jiang Yue. Therefore, this task has always been incomplete. This is because Bai Ze underwent an evolution in the last world, and its data processing speed was enhanced by an epic level. Even so, it still took several years.
Actually, Jiang Yue's assistance wasn't necessary, but her presence gave him a sense of involvement. Half a month later, Bai Ze had finished organizing the knowledge he had acquired from these dozen or so worlds, and he had also categorized some of the incorrect ideas. Who knows if these things will be useful later? Anyway, Bai Ze didn't lack the space.
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