Chapter 10 Life is like chocolate
"Music and chocolate will go well on a rainy day...... Wang Xingxin didn't know how he could have a dream of a chocolate advertisement, and it was indeed strange to have such a dream in this era without chocolate. Rubbing his somewhat astringent eyes, Wang Xingxin walked out of the firewood room and saw that everyone in the yard was still insisting on making salt, but his spirit was not as full as in the daytime, and his movements slowed down. It seems that after selling this batch of salt, you really have to make something delicious to treat everyone.
"Why do you get up, new baby, hurry up and go to sleep. I don't need you here, and now it's just past an hour to finish the production, and you can rest assured that the old man will do what you say, and the old man will buy the things you want. ”
"Hehe, Uncle Liu, I woke up, I can't sleep now anyway, I don't know if everyone is hungry now? It's been dry for the middle of the night, and the boy makes some food for everyone to eat. Besides, those little babies also have to eat some, or don't let the little babies burn the fire. The child is still too young to withstand the toss. ”
"Haha, new baby, your kid is a person who hasn't done any work, which of these half-grown babies is better than you, how can the peasant baby be so delicate, you can rest assured, at most, sell salt and come back to buy some delicious food for these babies, and pull good clothes."
"Then a baby pulls two bodies, count me in. Forget it, one person in the whole village is counted as one, and the baby is also counted. One person pulled two clothes, and seeing that the weather was getting colder and colder, one person bought a winter coat. ”
"The old man saved, and everyone who was a new baby in his family would remember it. Then you can make some food, and if there is still rice, you can make some white rice, and get more shredded radish. ”
Wang Xinxing, who occupied a stove to cook, watched as everyone packed the refined refined salt and put it on the ox cart while frying shredded radish, and there was not much coarse salt left. Wang Xingxin didn't care about watching everyone make salt and concentrate on cooking, so he let everyone have a supper and rest, and the remaining coarse salt could be refined in less than two hours. This time, I still won't go to Chang'an City, and it's not too late to wait for the fields to come down and build a house and then go to see the Tang Dynasty Chang'an.
After calling everyone to come for supper, Wang Xingxin also filled half a bowl of rice, squatted aside and ate it, and after eating, everyone rested for a while and continued to be busy. After the third watch, ten quintals of coarse salt were all refined, and more than four and a half quintals of refined salt were obtained. I took a whole number of leftover salt for daily use, and it could be sold for 454 yuan. In the third year of Zhenguan, four hundred and fifty yuan is not a small amount.
Although the price of Zhenguan for three years is relatively high. The New Tang Dynasty. "Food and Goods Journal" said: "Zhenguan Chu...... A horse of silk, a bucket of rice. That is to say, in the early years of Zhenguan, a horse of silk can be exchanged for a bucket of rice. And a horse of silk is worth a lot of money. Of course, if you buy millet, millet is not so expensive. I thought that in the time travel novel I had read, it was stated that next year, that is, the fourth year of Zhenguan, the price of grain would drop sharply, and the rice would only be three or four yuan. He planned that this house would not be in a hurry to build how good it was, and that it would be good to be able to live in it first and survive the winter. There is also little rice, and he is not a very delicate person. It's better to hide the money and wait for a year, and when the rice is three or four cents, the hidden silver can buy I don't know how many times more grain.
After explaining, after seeing Liu Laoer and his party of seven people drive the ox cart out of the village, Wang Xingxin walked into the firewood house and couldn't sleep. He simply took a low stool and sat on the stove that had not yet been extinguished, and began to think.
He pondered whether to keep the silver in the latrine or in the firewood room. After thinking about it, I decided that as soon as the silver arrived, I would hide it in the latrine, and divide it into several parts to hide. It's really not possible to bury the silver place and pull a big bubble of it? But are there some places where there are no three hundred taels of silver? Besides, it's a little disgusting, and it's better to give up on this idea.
Then I thought about whether to buy a maid and wait for it first, and I heard Liu Lao Er say that the maid in the market is not expensive, that is, you can buy a good little girl for two or three dollars. Thinking of this, a cheap smile leaked from the corner of Wang Xingxin's mouth, and it seemed that there was a trace of saliva. Lori, Lori has three good! For the sake of Miyoshi Lori, I have to live my life! After Liu Lao Er came back, he hid the silver, and tomorrow he will experiment to see if he can make handmade soap, as long as he makes handmade soap. After building a house, he will sell handmade soap, which must be a source of money. No, to build a house, you have to drum out the kang pot, although I don't know how to do it, but the general principle is to know the drops. Or you can make a simple version of the Datang Fire Dragon. As long as it's warm, I'll slowly explore and improve it in the future. Wang Xingxin, who imagined a better life, couldn't sleep more and more, and he didn't sit in front of the stove anymore, he seemed to be dancing in the courtyard like a famous man of the Wei and Jin dynasties who had taken the medicine and finished the chicken blood.
Here, our new brother is immersed in his own fantasies, and Liu Lao Er and the others have just arrived in Chang'an City and have been targeted by the people arranged by Wang Gui. Wang Gui arranged people at each city gate in Chang'an and described Liu Gangzi's appearance, just in case Liu Gangzi didn't come, he came to Xishi and specially arranged several waves of people, as long as he found someone selling salt, he immediately reported after thinking about delaying it.
After coming to the West Market, Liu Lao Er and they found a stall and began to sell salt, because the first two sales of this refined salt reputation in the West Market has been beaten, and now they got more than four loads of salt. After a short time, more than half of it was sold, and during this period, some people also inquired about where these refined salts came from, and Liu Lao Er told them according to Wang Xingxin's words that they bought them from merchants in the Western Regions, and this was the last batch. After Hu Shang left Datang, there was no more such refined salt for sale. I heard that this is the last batch that everyone is competing to buy. The remaining half of salt was sold out in less than two quarters of an hour.
Just as Liu Lao Er and the others were carrying copper coins to the ox cart, Wang Gui also rushed over. He saw that there were many people in the West Market, and he didn't move as soon as his eyes turned. He followed Liu Lao Er and his entourage, watched them go to the silver building to exchange for silver, and watched them purchase various items, and was shocked when he saw Liu Lao Er walking in the direction of Jingzhao Mansion, he seemed to expect a bad result, and the smart Wang Gui thought that these people were going to dedicate this secret method of salt making to the imperial court? If it is dedicated to the imperial court, how can I give it to my son? If the son is not happy, I will have to be punished, and if the son is happy, my Wang Gui will really be expensive.
So Wang Gui, who had a fierce light in his eyes, gave a look to the people around him, and these people quietly blocked the way of the ox cart. Wang Gui walked quickly in front of Liu Haohan, and he could see that these people were mainly Liu Laohan.
"This old man, please stay."
"Dare to ask Lang Jun what's the matter?"
"I am a person next to Wang Jianfei, the second son of the Taiyuan Wang family, and I want to buy some refined salt for the use of the house. Is there any more for me? ”
"If you go back to Langjun, these refined salts were purchased from Hu Shang in the Western Regions, and now they have all been sold out, and there is no more half of the stock."
"Oh, that's not a coincidence, but where is this Hu Shang of the Western Regions now? Can you recommend me, I just bought it from him. Do you know what my Taiyuan Wang clan does, what kind of status it is! Don't hide it! ”
When Liu Laohan heard this, he said in his heart, this is broken! It's still a step late, and it is estimated that he was targeted when he entered the city, so what should I do now. The Taiyuan Wang clan is a behemoth that can't be provoked, don't say that it is a descendant or a side branch, and they can't offend it. Looking at the distance that was not close to Jingzhao Mansion, Liu Laohan calmed down.
"This Lang Jun, how dare the little old man hide half of it, the old man has collected all the property in the village and purchased refined salt, and now all the refined salt has been sold, and the Hu Shang has also left the old man, and I don't know where he is!"
"Oh? Is that really the case? So where does the old man want to go now? It seems that this is the direction of the Jingzhao Mansion. ”
"If you go back to Langjun, we are all small people in the countryside, how have you seen the big official mansion in Chang'an, I haven't seen the world, I heard that Jingzhao Mansion is here, I want to go and see some luxury, if it hinders Langjun and the old man, these people will leave, and they will leave immediately."
With that, he called the others to turn the ox cart and drive it back. Wang Guiyi looked at this in Chang'an City, and there were many people, and secondly, he looked at the fact that it was not far from Jingzhao Mansion, although with the power of the Wang family, he didn't have to care about this. But if things are complicated, it will give Childe an unfavorable impression, and it will be more than worth the loss. So he ignored Liu Laohan and his entourage and walked away with a sneer. Just walking up to a person is giving that person a look.
Liu Laohan and the others couldn't care about it and didn't dare to go to Jingzhao Mansion to offer the method of making salt, so he led everyone to Yuanlou Village as quickly as possible. Along the way, Liu Laohan always felt that someone was following him, but after a few tests, he didn't find anyone, so he rushed back to Yuanlou Village all the way with fear.
Before he arrived at the gate of the hospital, Liu Laohan shouted loudly: "The new baby will come out quickly!" Woe is coming! ”
Wang Xinxing, who heard the voice, saw Liu Laohan's anxious appearance, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with Uncle Liu?" ”
"Alas! Our salt is still being targeted, so we shouldn't be greedy! I don't want to make so much salt this time! By Wang's! Taiyuan Wang's! Targeted! I guess I want this method of making salt! ”
"What? How do they know? How about that? ”
Wang Xingxin panicked.
"Don't panic, it's a big deal to give them this method of salt making, I just hope that they won't embarrass us if they get the method of salt making. That's right! New baby, the money from the salt seller today is given to you, and you should hide it now. ”
After that, he handed over all the more than 400 silver cakes he had obtained in exchange for a day to Wang Xingxin, these more than 400 taels of silver cakes were not light, but fortunately they were not very large. Wang Xingxin buried the silver cake in the latrine as quickly as possible. After asking the men in the village to go to the latrine a few more times and not seeing any traces of the new burial, they asked a few people to sprinkle a bubble in the place where the silver was buried. He took a few pieces of silver cakes that he had deliberately left behind, about a hundred taels, and put them under a pile of miscellaneous items in the firewood room.
Just as Wang Xingxin and Liu Laohan were about to command people to dismantle the pots and stoves in the yard and clean them up again, eliminating the traces of salt production. I heard the sound of horses' hoofs outside,
Wang Gui, who had a sinister smile on his face, walked into Liu Laoer's yard, looked at the villagers who were dismantling the pot stove, looked at Wang Xingxin's short hair, and said with a sneer: "Presumably this is the Hu Shang of the Western Regions, looking at his face, he is a Han person, but this hairstyle is a little strange." ”
Wang Xingxin was just about to take over the conversation, but before he could be born, he was whipped in the face by Wang Guiyi. Suddenly, there was a bloody streak on his face.
Wang Xingxin howled miserably, and just as he was about to dodge, he was pressed to the ground by one of the people behind him.