After eating most of the bread, although I was still very hungry, my body regained its strength. Chen Yue began to get busy.

According to the drawn size, the planks are sawn into small pieces, planed with a planer, and then installed with a wooden wedge, and then made a wooden donkey with an empty belly. The limbs of the Trojan horse are made empty, and the roots of the legs are not directly fixed to the body, but are made of a wooden shaft to make a pattern that can be rotated. Inside the limbs were wires, connected by joints and steel coils coiled around the horse's abdomen. A round wooden bar is installed on the belly of the wooden horse, and as long as the wooden bar is turned, the spring made of steel coils can be strengthened, and then the limbs of the wooden horse can be driven to make the wooden horse move.

The principle is very simple, the problem is that the tools of this era are simple and the materials are extremely limited, Chen Yuepo spent a lot of effort and a whole day to make this simple Trojan horse toy.

Twisting the wooden strip with all his strength, watching the wooden horse walking happily on the ground, Chen Yue nodded with satisfaction.

The sky was about to get dark, and Chen Yue felt a gurgling sound in his stomach, and the energy brought by the cake he ate at noon had already been exhausted. His father, Chen Jianghe, was also about to come back from work, and Chen Yue decided to start cooking.

After searching the whole house, except for a little rice in the rice bowl, he couldn't find anything else that could be eaten, and there was not much rice in the rice bowl, so Chen Yue had to pour out all the rice, scoop it with water and put it in the pot, and add a few bowls of water to prepare porridge.

The Chen family uses a coal stove for cooking, and there is a pile of coal in the yard, which is not like the honeycomb coal of later generations, it is very troublesome to light a fire for cooking, and the fire is often extinguished, and it needs to be re-lit every time the fire is extinguished. And it costs a lot of coal, according to Chen Yue's memory, the Chen family spends a lot of money on coal every month. However, this is also cheaper than burning wood, and the population of Beijing is nearly one million, so where can I get it if I have to burn firewood? It is estimated that it is not enough to cut down the nearby mountains. Therefore, most of the coal burned in Beijing at this time was coal, and in the Mentougou mountainous area, fifty or sixty miles west of Beijing, there was coal everywhere underground. Farther afield, in the Datong area of Shanxi, underground coal is even more inexhaustible. However, because in this era, coal mining relied on manpower, and then transported to Beijing through rugged mountain roads, so that the price of coal was not low, and every household had to spend a lot of money on coal every year. If only it could be made into honeycomb coal, it would probably save some, Chen Yue thought to himself.

After making the rice porridge, after a while, his father Chen Jianghe returned home exhausted. Looking at the rice porridge brought by Chen Yue, Chen Jianghe muttered, "There is too much rice", picked up the bowl and ate it.

Chen Yue brushed the pot and prepared to boil some foot-washing water to wash his father's feet after a tiring day, but before the water boiled, Chen Jianghe had already fallen asleep on the bed, so Chen Yue had no chance to show off the Trojan horse he made.

At night, Chen Yue lay on the bed, staring at the dark roof in a daze, unable to sleep for a long time.

This body is much younger than his own in the other world, only seventeen or eighteen years old, and it is when he is young and grows up, and a bowl of thin rice porridge is not enough to fill a hungry belly. So now it's only right to earn money to fill your stomach.

In addition, according to the body's memory, it should be the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and I don't know how many years it is when converted to the Gregorian calendar, Chen Yue's previous history was not good.

But no matter how bad the history is, Chen Yue also knows that Chongzhen is the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the one who hanged himself when Li Zicheng attacked Beijing. Now that it has been the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, it is estimated that Li Zicheng is coming soon, the Ming Dynasty will fall, and Beijing will soon fall into the flames of war.

So now I have to make money as soon as possible, and if I have it, I can escape to the safety of the south with my father.

It is said that when one dynasty falls and another rises, it is a good time for speculation, as long as you find the right opportunity, you can be a founding hero, and you can naturally live a happy life in the future. How many traversers do this. However, Chen Yue knew that after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng did not gain a foothold in Beijing again, and was soon driven out by the Manchus. Therefore, taking refuge in Li Chuang is self-defeating.

Defection to the Manchus? Chen Yue never thought about it! In Chen Yue's previous life, he had a classmate from the police academy and a future colleague, who was an extreme fan. Under his influence, Chen Yue had no good impression of the braided hair dynasty. Besides, according to Chen Yue's current identity, he is a Ming man, and if he defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which invaded the Ming Dynasty and slaughtered the Han Chinese, wouldn't it be like surrendering to Japan as a traitor during the Anti-Japanese War? This is what Chen Yuening will not do if he dies.

According to Chen Yue's limited historical knowledge, after the fall of Beijing, the Han people in the south insisted on resisting for more than ten years, and Zheng Chenggong's Taiwan resisted for even longer.

If you want to escape to the south, you have to have money, or how to get to the south, and even if you get to the south, how can you survive?

With a mind full of thoughts, Chen Yue fell into a deep sleep. When I woke up the next morning, my father Chen Jianghe was gone.

There was no porridge on the stove, because Chen Yue had already boiled the last rice in the rice bowl last night. However, Chen Jianghe left money for Chen Yue and put it on the lid of the pot, and Chen Yue counted it, a total of five copper coins.

What is enough for five copper coins? In Chen Yue's memory, he could buy two buns and a bowl of gruel, which was completely full for people with small meals. But for a young man like Chen Yue, even if he comes again, he can only fill up half-filled.

A fool naturally looks a stupid big man, Chen Yue's figure at this time is taller than himself who was a policeman in his previous life, a foot of 1.80 meters, such a tall figure naturally has a lot of food. So in the past few days, Chen Yue has never eaten enough. It can be seen from this how tight the Chen family's economy has become.

Sighing, Chen Yuexi walked out with his face in his arms and the wooden horse. He had to sell the Trojan horse as soon as possible so that he could get some money back for food.

Chen's house is located in an alley, out of the alley is a narrow street, to the end of the street is a wide street, Xuanwumen Street, where Chen Yue sold the Trojan horse.

It had been dawning for a while, and Chen Yue met many people along the way, including aunts and sisters-in-law carrying baskets and old men holding cigarette pouches. Seeing everyone, Chen Yue had a smile on his face, but many people turned a blind eye to Chen Yue, so Chen Yue could only close his mouth depressedly.

Finally, someone responded to Chen Yue's smiling face, but the words he said made the smile on Chen Yue's face disappear.

"Fool, why do you get up so early?" An old man surnamed Ma asked Chen Yue with a smile, but the playful smile on his face was clearly teasing himself.

"Master Ma, you're early, I'll sell horses." Chen Yue still replied respectfully, and waved the wooden horse in his hand.

"Fool, how did you learn to curse?" Old man Ma's face changed, and he probably thought that Chen Yue's sentence of selling horses was scolding him, so he ignored Chen Yue and left scolding.

"Big fool

Two nerds

Stunned and runny nose

......”

Several naughty children followed behind Chen Yue, singing songs and throwing clods of earth at Chen Yue's body.

Chen Yue ignored these uneducated fart children with disdain.

Out of the alley is Xuanwumen Street, looking at the street scene in front of Chen Yue couldn't help but sigh, there is no more traffic in high-rise buildings, some are just antique two-story wooden eaves flying, some are just the leisurely footsteps of men in ancient costumes in long shirts, and the bargaining sound of women wearing skirts and carrying bamboo baskets when buying vegetables!

The cries of selling on the street came and went, and the white smoke in the bun shop opposite was so familiar, and everything was so familiar.

Because it was not long before dawn, many shops had not yet opened, and many villagers who had entered the city for unknown days set up stalls on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of goods. After all, the stalls on this street are all for ordinary citizens, and where can ordinary people afford to eat fresh vegetables grown in the greenhouse?

I randomly chose a piece of street where no one was there, squatted down, put the wooden horse on the ground, diagonally opposite Aunt Zhang's steamed bun shop, and sold the wooden donkey just to buy a few steamed buns to eat. Thinking of the deliciousness of Aunt Zhang's vegetable and meat buns in his memory, Chen Yue only felt that his saliva was about to flow down.

He picked up a clod of dirt and smashed it on the head of an unrelenting naughty boy, clutching him to the point where he cried, and the other naughty boys scattered. With these pesky dead kids making trouble, I can't imagine that I can sell the Trojan horse.

Energizing the clockwork, the Trojan horse lifted its hooves and kicked and walked on the ground. The vegetable vendor next to him looked at Chen Yue's Trojan horse suspiciously from time to time.

"Hey, what's the fool taking?" A grocery shopping neighbor stopped in the middle of the street and watched the moving Trojan horse.

"Maybe it's a toy that his father made for him, don't get too close, the fool somehow learned to beat people today." Another neighbor reminded him that he had seen Chen Yue beating up the crying naughty boy just now.

"No, I've never heard of a fool beating someone!"

"What wouldn't be, I just saw it, he just hit the dog on the head and cried."

There were also pedestrians who didn't know Chen Yue who stopped to watch and asked with interest, but they were quickly taken aback by Chen Yue's asking price and left with a scolding attitude.

"What a thing, it's so expensive!"

Chen Yue looked at his back innocently, is a tael of silver still expensive? Carefully recalling the memories of the former Chen Yue, and listening to the quotations of the vendors around him to buy vegetables, Chen Yue knew that one or two pieces of silver were indeed quite expensive.

A pound of cabbage is only one penny, an iron pot is thirty yuan, and a kitchen knife is fifteen yuan. One tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand copper coins, and you can buy a thousand catties of cabbage, thirty-three iron pots, or sixty-seven kitchen knives. In terms of purchasing power, one tael of silver is equivalent to 1,500 yuan in the next generation, enough for an ordinary person to eat a full meal for a month.

Looking at the simple wooden horse on the ground, he was dumbfounded, and he didn't even paint the paint, Chen Yue felt that his asking price was indeed a bit high.

The sun slowly rose, hanging diagonally in the middle of the sky, many of the vendors who set up stalls to sell vegetables packed up their stalls and left, and Chen Yue squatted alone on the corner of the street. In the morning, before the grain of rice was touched, Chen Yue felt that his stomach was really hungry and uncomfortable, no, he had to buy two buns to eat, anyway, he still carried the five copper coins given by his father Chen Jianghe in his arms.

"What are you?"

Just when Chen Yue lowered his head to pack up the Trojan horse and wanted to go to the bun shop, a crisp voice like a yellow bird sounded in Chen Yue's ears, and when he raised his head, Chen Yue saw a beautiful face.