After a while, he said, "It's hard to raise a woman or a villain!"

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The twelfth day of the first lunar month in the 29th year of Hongwu.

In the morning, Liu Wenyang went out to practice Tai Chi to exercise his arms and legs, but unexpectedly, the wind blew, and soon he realized that he seemed to have a cold, his head was hot, and his whole body was chilly.

Especially in this early spring, clothes are the most particular, if you are not careful, you will catch a cold, making you sneeze and runny nose. There is no special medicine in this era, which makes you feel extremely uncomfortable.

At least Liu Wenyang felt this way, his nose was blocked, his head was dizzy, and his body was sore, making people restless.

Seeing that the young master seemed to feel uncomfortable, Xiao Tong Mingyue found some fine shredded ginger, stirred the onion and brown sugar, boiled it into a bowl with three bowls of water and served it for Liu Wenyang to drink.

Jiangsi Decoction to drive away cold and sweating is the best folk remedy for treating colds and fevers. After drinking this bowl of soup, Liu Wenyang lay in bed to rest. He closed his eyes but couldn't sleep. So he took a newly bought novel from under the pillow to relieve boredom.

In the early Ming Dynasty, many ordinary people liked to buy some books and lyrics on the streets. Most of these books and magazines were woodcuts, with rough engravings, blurred handwriting, and many typos, and most of them were vulgar and low-level, such as "The Little Widow's Thought on the Lover in the Third Weekend", "The Good Spring in the Nunnery", and "The Eighteen Touch of the Minor Tunes".

Of course, there are also some popular lyrics, such as "The Emperor Taizu of Song Fights the Tiger", "The White Snake Travels to the Lake to Meet Xu Xian", and "The Kunlun Slave Flying Sword Killing the White Ape". These lyrics are placed on street stalls on the street. A thin volume is usually three cents per book. Many ordinary people who come to the city to purchase goods will buy two books if they have a fraction of the money, and carry them in a basket, and carry them as a carry-on to take them home.

Of course, most of them are illiterate, but they don’t read these books, but listen to them. After buying them, they find people in the village who are literate, ask him to make a pot of tea, and gather around a circle to listen to him. Although most of these "scholars" only know a few words, they can’t read many of them, so they just compile them randomly. Anyway, they don’t know whether they are reading the books right or wrong. In short, there is tea drinking, and everyone’s admiration and expectations for him, which definitely makes him very satisfied.

The publishing industry in the early Ming Dynasty gradually became coaxed by these book deals of slutty and minor tunes. Now the book in Liu Wenyang’s hand is the “street culture” of the Ming Dynasty, a small thin book engraved with “The Big Girl Pulls Cabbage”.

I looked through it and saw that the things written inside were really interesting. Like many folk novels, this book did not sign its real name, but only wrote "The Eighth Talented Book of Poyang".
Chapter completed!