Chapter 4: Armor
Although we look forward to the full moon, we still have to do it step by step.
Yang Yunqiu has become accustomed to this kind of comfortable life, performing exercises for two hours in the morning against the first rays of the morning glow, and then sitting all morning, frantically making all kinds of first-class and second-grade living utensils.
If it were an ordinary monk, such a refining weapon would probably have dried up long ago, but he was different, in the three years in the wild forest, he had been drawing formation diagrams every day and night, and how to draw more formation diagrams in the most energy-saving way was an indispensable lesson for him.
An ordinary third-grade monk can make ten second-grade utensils a day, and he can make thirty or even more.
Most of the winter days in Changsu Town are hazy days, Yang Yunqiu made a pair of folding umbrellas to dispel the fog, all of which are pink silk and umbrella bones made of green bamboo, so that Zhou Lanzhi and Yang Yan can use them when they go out.
Zhou Lanzhi has to go to Shantang every day to cook, although it is hard work, and the salary is only a little bit, but she is very happy, Yang Yunqiu also feels that her mother is always left alone at home and depressed, and is willing to let her go out to make more friends.
Besides, she also wants to go to Shanming School for her daughter and make up some tuition fees, even if she can do very little, but this is her intention.
Yang Yan is different from Yang Yunqiu, she can almost be said to have no talent, although she is still young, she can't be sure that she will not awaken before the age of fifteen, but whether a person has the talent to become a monk or not, experienced people can see at a glance.
This little girl was born with poor roots, difficult to get through, or a baby had a serious illness, so that she was thrown in the barren mountains and mountains, if it was not for Zhou Lanzhi's adoption, I don't know if she can survive, she has a naΓ―ve and loose temperament, a bunch of problems, if there is no opportunity, I am afraid it is impossible to become a monk, those who have talent want to cross the threshold, they have to go through a thousand difficulties and dangers, not to mention the natural dullness.
Of course, if you receive the most formal basic training from an early age, it is not without opportunities.
Shanming School is a cultivation school opened by the Yanguo government, different from the major sects that select disciples are carefully selected, and it has always been a wide range of small incomes, no matter who it is, you can go in to study if you can afford to pay the tuition, but at the beginning, ordinary people can only enter ordinary classes and carry out very basic exercises, only by successfully awakening and becoming a monk can they go further, which is also to do their best to increase the number of monks in Yanguo.
Yang Yunqiu is not opposed to his sister entering the school, after hundreds of years of development, Shanming School has its own system in cultivating students, very experienced, even if the students taught can not awaken, they can also strengthen their bodies, and they will learn a few crafts to support their families, the most poor, and they can make a few friends worth making.
If you really have a little talent, even if you are just a first-class monk, you can participate in the imperial examination, enter the court as a female official, and enjoy the worship of the imperial court.
Great power doesn't like restraint, and few people will be willing to enter the court, but in fact, it is easy to practice in the public gate, for a girl like Yang Yan who is not very qualified, this is definitely a very stable and suitable path.
It doesn't hurt anyway.
"By the way, what about Ah Yan?" Yang Yunqiu remembered that she didn't seem to see her sister chasing dogs and cats in the yard for half a morning, "Go out to play again?" β
Zhou Lanzhi smiled and nodded: "She went to find your Aunt Lin's Duoduo." β
Changsu Town is not big, although the people are strong, but the residents inside are interested in taking care of the children together, and the adults generally have something to do, they put the little dolls on the street to raise them, Yang Yan ran out to play, Zhou Lanzhi was not worried.
Yang Yunqiu thought for a while and said, "Mother, I'll send you out, and I'll go to find Ah Yan by the way." β
These days are different from the past, Changsu Town seems to have suddenly come a group of people, the residents of the town are very vigilant, yesterday he went to deliver the goods, there are several elders specially reminded him to be careful.
This place is adjacent to the wild forest, and there are some explorer monks who come and go in previous years, but it is mostly in the spring and autumn season, and the cold winter days are not a good time, even if it is a high-level monk, the cold and heat are not invaded, and they can't stand the hail of the wax moon.
Because of this, strangers who appear in winter are inevitably alarming.
Zhou Lanzhi is most willing to see their brother and sister make love, of course she will not stop her son's kindness, it is cold and windy outside, and the mother and son both wear cloaks with hoods and faces, and one person has two hand-warming balls on their sleeves.
When I opened the door and stood in the wind, I saw an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going on the street, even small vendors selling along the street.
Zhou Lanzhi couldn't help laughing: "Our Changsu Town has a much better winter this year than in previous years, I didn't dare to go out in previous years, Xiaoqiu, this is all your credit." β
This is true, the stove, the warm ball and other things, if they are large, rough, and bulky, it is not difficult to make, even if it is an ordinary second-grade instrument repair, Changsu Town is not rich, and the residents will inevitably prepare a heating at home, but it is just too wasteful of spars and more firewood functions.
But that kind of thing can be used for heating at home, but it is impossible to take it out of the house.
It's not that there is no delicate and small, it's just that the warm ball from the workmanship, to the material, and even to the setting of the spare, everything is very fine, even if the three-grade instrument can be repaired, the materials consumed are also worth a lot, and it is not at all that the residents of Changsu Town who are eager to break a copper coin in half can consume.
Yang Yunqiu's hand-warming ball is different, the magic circle he uses is very special, the requirements for materials are not high, and the energy consumption is low, although the temperature may not be as high as a large stove, but as long as a person takes two out of the house, it is enough, anyway, as long as it is cheap, the utility is not so good, and the residents of Changsu Town must not care.
It's a pity that after all, this place is remote, and no matter how good things are, it will be difficult to spread them for a while.
Yang Yunqiu held his mother's hand and walked on the street, the wind and sand were slightly bigger, but pedestrians had long been used to it, he helped Zhou Lanzhi hold an umbrella, the umbrella was pink, delicate and delicate, played by a big boy of him, it was inevitable to attract people's attention, but Yang Yunqiu was unaware, still expressionless, leisurely, and only followed Zhou Lanzhi step by step.
From an outsider's point of view, he is not shocked, and his steps are elegant and leisurely, like a fairy, which makes people admire, but if someone looks carefully, they will find that his mind is empty, and his thoughts have already flown out of the clouds.
Sending Zhou Lanzhi to Shantang and seeing her enter the door with her own eyes, Yang Yunqiu stretched her waist before she went to find the lively and lovely girl in his house, and when she walked through South Street, there was only a quarter of an hour away from Uncle Qu and Aunt Lin's storefront, and a familiar laughter came from her ears.
Yang Yunqiu paused, looked up, and saw a young girl standing on the stone steps in front of a newly opened shop on the street, the girl was wearing a double maid, a burlap skirt, a thin figure, a slightly pale complexion, but her facial features were vivid and lively, it was Yang Yan.
The little girl smiled and pulled a girl two or three years older than her, and her eyes were almost glued to a half-length armor standing in the east corner of the room.
"It seems that there has been a new type of armor in the Tiangong Workshop recently, this model is much more beautiful than the Eagle 11, hey, why haven't it been published in the last few issues of Tiangong Pictorial."
"Do you like it?"
"If I can wear it for a day, I will be willing not to eat glutinous rice dumplings for three years."
Duoduo suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that I really like it, I remember that I tasted one of your glutinous rice dumplings last year, and you dared to cry for three days." β
In a word, Yang Yan's little face puffed up, but unfortunately she tried to squeeze her eyebrows and make her eyes for a long time, but after all, she still couldn't write the word 'shame', so much so that she was amused: "That's it, I don't make fun of you, but I can't see where that armor is good, the color is gray, and the style is not novel, besides, Uncle Wang's store collects second-hand old goods, where will the new products of the Tiangongfang appear here?" β
Yang Yan turned a deaf ear to Duoduo's words, only stared at the armor in the room and squinted her eyes intoxicatedly: "Oh, I can't tell you laymen, you look at its beautiful lines, and then look at the charming array on it, the structure is wonderful and tight, how can it not be a heavenly product?" β
"The little girl has good eyesight." An old man with gray hair walked out of the store, bent down and said to Yang Yan, "How about it, give you a discount, two thousand gold coins for you to take home, do you want to buy it?" β
Yang Yan gasped, her head shook like a rattle, but before she could speak, she saw her eldest brother walk into the store, stretched out his hand, and pressed the magic circle on the left chest of the armor, and the silver light flashed, and the one-person-high armor actually crackled and disintegrated, scattered in front of his eyes.
There was a sudden silence around them.