Chapter 10 Life Nourishment
After the fried golden cicada, everyone's attitude towards me has changed a lot, because I was the first person to let them eat and eat meat.
Not only that, but in just a few days, I also let them witness the miracles I brought, eating golden cicadas, catching turtles, catching crabs, catching loaches, and picking mushrooms......
During the Tang Dynasty, they didn't eat a lot of things, but for me, they didn't have this concept at all.
I also used the black mud blocks with silver powder that the children picked to extract saltpeter, and then used saltpeter to make ice cubes, which not only made our living place cool and pleasant, but also stored a lot of food such as golden cicadas and vegetables, so that the food could be kept fresh for a long time without spoilage.
Although I was not very successful in some issues, fortunately, I could travel between modern times and the Tang Dynasty, using modern scientific and technological knowledge to make up for the lack of knowledge in the Tang Dynasty.
With the ability to double wear, I not only make my kids eat better, but I also really improve their lives.
I started squeezing oil, not just for the sake of the fried cicadas. Rather, it is to use oil extraction to create a way to make money.
With peanut oil, I can completely reform Datang's catering and create a stir-fry system! It turned out that the Tang Dynasty was just boiled and stewed, and there was no such thing as stir-frying.
After I got peanut oil, I first started stir-frying. In fact, I would have stir-fried some home-cooked food, and it tasted good, thanks to my mother, who could cook, when I was in junior high school, because my mother often worked night shifts, and my father often didn't go home to work, so I often cooked the food, first for myself, and then for my family. In the past few years, under the guidance of my mother, there are a few good dishes, but these are far from enough, but my ability to remember now allows me to store a large number of recipes in my head, as long as there are ingredients, I can make them according to the recipes.
In addition, I also used soybeans and broad beans to make soy sauce and soybean paste through the process of drying, fermentation, brewing, oil, exposure and other processes.
At first, the neighbors came to smell our scent, and when I let them taste it, they all praised it. Soon, people in the poor alley knew that I could cook, and it was a different kind of food, and after the first happy occasion asked me to cook for them, so that everyone could eat with oil, more and more people asked me to cook.
At first, I just walked around the slums and made some stir-fried vegetables for the weddings and funerals of the poor people. They also gave me things to get commissions.
This was still popular in the Tang Dynasty, so I gave the cloth, bowls, and sundries they sent to those younger brothers and sisters, which not only improved their living conditions, but also made them happy every day.
Since my stir-fry is centipede poop only. Not only in the alleys of the poor, but in a short period of time, the restaurants, restaurants, theaters and even those rich business officials in Puzhou City have asked people to ask me to cook.
And my commission also rose with my fame, from the initial five cents, ten cents to twenty cents, thirty cents and fifty cents, then to one hundred, two hundred, three hundred and five hundred, and then to eight hundred to one thousand wen, that is, one penny is equivalent to one tael of silver, and in the last month it climbed from one tael to three taels and five taels, until the current ten taels of silver. (The silver money of the five dynasties and ten countries is more chaotic, from the Tang Dynasty Kaiyuan Tongbao, Qianfeng Quanbao, Qianyuan Heavy Treasure, Open Xuanbao, until the five dynasties of Tiancheng Yuanbao, Tianfu Yuanbao, Han Yuan Tongbao, Zhou Yuantongbao Zero Zero total no less than a dozen, this is not counting the currency of the ten countries, for the convenience of readers to read, or gold, silver, and money are calculated.) )
What is the concept of ten taels of silver, I can't describe it accurately, but according to the consumption standard of the Tang Dynasty at that time, one tael of silver was enough for the expenses of a poor people's family of three or four people for a year.
And ten taels of silver is enough...... Anyway, it's enough for Xiao Shen Yan, Liu Ping, Chen Yingzi, these little dolls to laugh happily and count the day. In addition to earning money, I also harvest a large number of peanuts to make it easier to extract oil. As we worked hard, the whole cellar of peanut oil was stocked up, and it was enough to use.
In the short time after I was able to use the oil normally after I squeezed it, in Puzhou, my reputation rose and became famous all over the city. Everyone in the city knows that there is a Song Jialang who can cook!
The reason why I am so famous is not only because I am invited too much, but because I have set a rule that I always adhere to the commission of ten cents for the poor.
This article made me gain a high reputation in the whole city of Puzhou, so that everywhere I went, I was treated with extraordinary respect, and I had to say honorifics when I saw people.
Of course, these are poor people.
In the less than three months since I came to the end of the Tang Dynasty, I have earned a lot of money for Lan Ge'er and them, not only adding new clothes to more than 20 children, but also replacing dishes, chopsticks, beds, and daily necessities, and at the same time repairing the dilapidated parts of the house, and preparing all the cotton clothes and cotton clothes to be worn in winter according to the head of each person, and even the brazier and materials for the winter are also sufficient.
This year the children have a winter, and there is no problem.
More importantly, I invited the children who had been bedridden because they couldn't afford to see a doctor to the best doctor in the city.
Many of them are not seriously ill, and I am willing to spend money, so many of the children's illnesses are not long in sight.
Only Xiaoshi and a child named Xiaojiang both injured their bones, because the injuries were too long, the doctors in the city had no good way, they could not cure them in time, and they could only rely on slow rearing, but I also kept them in mind, and I always thought about whether I could find some good way to cure their broken bones in modern times.
Seeing that the children were able to survive the winter and the sick number recovered, Lan Ge'er, who should have been more and more worried, also showed a smile every day. It's okay and often chats with me.,It's not at all like before.,Always holding the boss's shelf.,It's cold.。
Those big children such as Ling Xiao, Xie Jianfeng, Yuan Sihai, and Guan Yang also admired me in their hearts, and now they all respect me as the second brother, and they don't call me a brother who doesn't speak.
Now we don't have to pick up vegetables early in the morning, and of course the kids don't have to.
In addition to the fact that I have to cope with the chef's work in the queue for more than a month, the children study every day.
I set this one, the children are still young, and if they don't learn something, they will be abandoned.
Therefore, I ask the children to memorize poems every day.
Although my writing skills are okay, when I came to the Tang Dynasty, the characters they used were too different from our simplified Chinese characters, so I handed over the aspect of teaching them to read and write.
I was amazed that Brother Lan could read and hyphenate words, and it was very unusual, but what surprised Brother Lan even more was my arithmetic.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is very simple, I just let them memorize the ninety-nine multiplication formula, which is something that can be memorized in the first and second grades of primary school in modern times, but it has become a treasure in ancient times. Because in the Tang Dynasty, even everyone who was proficient in arithmetic did not know the multiplication formula, and under my strict supervision, all the children not only memorized the ninety-nine multiplication formulas backwards, but even the Indian multiplication and division formulas within twenty that I learned from the modern Internet also memorized them with their mouths open.
Therefore, the children who go out from our yard, they are all math masters, and when they see what needs arithmetic, they come with their mouths open, and they don't have to work hard at all, and they are much faster than those accounts that crackle with abacus, and they are all mental arithmetic. This stunned the people near and far.
They all call our younger brothers and sisters the little prodigies from the Lan Courtyard. Orchid Courtyard is also the name they gave to our courtyard.
As for the number of magic, Lan Ge'er often asked me in surprise where my hometown was, and how could I have such magical powers.
I'm always a gag off the subject.
However, in the process of learning, I also gained a lot, learned a lot of ancient Chinese and ancient characters, and laid a deep foundation of ancient studies, but it is a pity that I consulted a lot of learned people, and none of them understood the words on the pictures of the nine villains in my mind.
For this reason, I also did one more thing, collecting books!
Collect ancient books!
As long as it is an ancient book of the same kind, if you send it over, you will have money to earn. As long as the book is good, the price is easy to say. This has also led to an increase in the flow of expenditure in our yard, and the books in the yard have become thicker and thicker.
Although Lan Ge'er told me a few times that the money spent on books was getting bigger and bigger, I was happy and said, "Don't be afraid, those will be exchanged for things that are more precious than money." ”
Lan Ge'er is not a shallow person, so he took it from me, and from time to time he picked some good books from the stacks of books to read and teach the children.
In short, life is getting better and better day by day, and life is quite nourishing.
"How much, how much?"
"Today's income, the commission of the king's big family is five taels, and there are one tael of four hundred and sixty yuan of raw materials, plus two taels of deposit for ordering oil, and ten taels of Liu Daguanren, a total of eighteen taels and four hundred and sixty yuan." Xiao Shen Yan replied in a childish and beautiful voice.
This is my noon today, go to the east of the city Wang Jinzhu Dahu's house to cook the harvest of the fee, in addition to the commission and raw material costs, Wang Dahu also paid two taels of silver as a deposit to buy oil, this is one of the means of my marketing oil. Liu Daguan paid a deposit, and it was not yet time for me to sell.
I believe that the longer it goes by, the better our oil will sell.
But when I thought that I came to the end of the Tang Dynasty to make a fortune by stir-frying vegetables and selling oil, I felt incredible.
"What are you doing with your head shaking? Isn't it too much to earn? Lan Ge'er's voice rang out.
I smiled and said, "No, this day is equal to the rations of ordinary people for three or five families a year, how can I be too little." I said insincerely. In fact, it's really too little, if it continues to develop according to my plan, it won't be a problem to make money every day.
At the same time, I thought about the embarrassing situation in modern life, I am still a student, I really don't have enough money, I don't dare to eat and drink every day, and my nutrition obviously can't keep up with my growing amount of food. Sometimes Hou Zhen doesn't want to wear it back to modern times when he wakes up from his dream, because all the food he eats here is pure and natural, pollution-free, without all kinds of additives, no biomass-promoting things, and no gutter oil.
Alas, no, we have to think of ways to improve the standard of living in modern times.
But how do you make modern money?
Alas, if these copper coins are brought to modern times, aren't they all cultural relics, and every Kaiyuan Tongbao is sold a lot.
Also, these furniture, pots and pans and dishes in the Tang Dynasty, which one of them will not be exchanged for tens of thousands of yuan.
Thinking so in my heart, Lan Ge'er asked, "Seeing that you look so weird, what do you think?" ”
I want to sell something here.
Thinking like this in his heart, he said, "No, thinking about how to add a few new dishes to the Chen family tomorrow." I said casually.
"Well, it's also Chen Shengchen's merchant family, but it's a well-known big family in our city, I heard that there are a lot of businesses to do, and money can be piled up, you have to be careful tomorrow, maybe they eat well, and they can also make a lot of peanut oil, what is that called?" Orders? Lan Ge'er asked me uncertainly.
I smiled and nodded yes.
Suddenly, Lan Ge'er frowned again and said: "No, let Ling Xiao, Jianfeng, and the four seas follow you tomorrow, no, it's still not good, I will follow you tomorrow." ”
I wondered, usually there are two cooks, just move things, I don't understand why I go with so many people.
Lan Ge'er approached me and said: "You don't know, now that the world is in chaos, I heard that someone has been eyeing us, tomorrow Chen Da Shang will give us at least ten taels of silver commission, what if we come back by which splashes are targeted, and then rob those money?" Lan Ge'er whispered, but seeing that I seemed to be squinting and smelling something, he couldn't help but hit me: "What are you doing, did you hear me speak to you?" ”
I was surprised, in fact, I was smelling the fragrance of Lan Ge'er's body, now that our conditions are good, I deliberately let vacate a room and rebuild it into a bathing room, so that the children can take a bath every day.
As soon as Lan Ge'er woke me up, I looked at her face that was still smeared with black carbon and said, "Listen, listen, don't you just mean that there is a splash eyeing us." ”
"Ah, we're being targeted!" I was suddenly alerted to Brother Lan'er's words!
Lan Ge'er elbowed me and motioned for me to be quiet, for fear of startling the children and making them afraid.
I hurriedly lowered my head to Lan Ge'er's chest and asked in a low voice, "What the hell is going on, you can make it clear." ”
I didn't want Brother Lan'er to blush under his black face, and said very shyly: "I said that is, your head is against me." ”
I smiled, I arrived close just now, and it was directly on Lan Ge'er, but I didn't feel the softness it should have.
Isn't it a girl? Or is it an airfield? I was thinking nonsense.
When Brother Lan saw that I had collected my head, he was naturally relieved, and he cleared his throat and said: "It's still those splashes in the City God Temple, I heard that we are developed, and some want to make up my mind." ”
"Or are they the sons of Gao Lai? Aren't they afraid of you? I asked curiously.
"So I'm going to follow you, in case they block you outside, who are we going to go afterward? Even if they find it, maybe they will spend all the money. Lang Geer explained.
Then he added: "And, I've heard, this time they may have to join forces with someone else. ”
"Who can they unite?"
"It's possible for anyone, the butcher Du in the south of the city, Chen Ergou in the north of the city, the forces in the west of the city and the east of the city." Lan Ge'er's eyes flashed as he thought.
"Ah, there are so many forces."
"These few are not afraid, I'm afraid that they will contact the Iron Axe Gang and the Quick Knife Gang."