Chapter 3 There is money to eat
Let's say that Meng Jiucheng, seeing that the matter was over, said goodbye to Zhang Xiaoyi, turned around and left, and went home. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
After a trip, he didn't gain anything, but he made a new discovery, and he wanted to go back and think quietly in order to determine his future behavior.
After all, the crossing is an unexpected thing, and you can't think of it, who can do anything to prepare? It is an unexpected thing, and it is inevitable that you will be at a loss at the beginning, and there must always be a process of adaptation, combined with the actual situation, in order to have a new life plan.
When I returned home, I only sat for a while, this big life plan, what kind of beautiful wife and concubine, Xingwang Tuba didn't think about it very much, and was driven away by hunger.
Alas, Meng Jiucheng sighed, let's set a small goal first, let's fill my stomach first! Looking around, there are still a few household items, but they are bulky and difficult to move, and the small and easy-to-hold items have almost long been pawned.
O loser! Thinking of the body that he occupied through the passage, Meng Jiucheng couldn't help but feel resentful. Originally, Meng Jiucheng was also born in a wealthy family, with hundreds of acres of land in the countryside and shops in the city. It's just that the couple got a child in old age, and they spoiled him very much, and nothing disobeyed him.
In this way, he raised Meng Jiucheng, and got acquainted with a group of miserable and cunning scoundrels, helping idle people, walking around, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and omitting the yellow and white things. When the old couple was alive, they often persuaded hard, but after all, they were drowning in a word of love, a few words, and they didn't listen to it.
When the old couple died of illness one after another, Meng Jiucheng had no brothers, and he was the sole head of the housekeeping, and he acted more and more by his own nature.
Although he is still rich, he has become a habit of luxury, but after more than a year, he has lost the rest of his family business, leaving only a small mansion in the city, which is regarded as Meng Jiucheng's last place of refuge, so that he will not live on the streets.
And even this small mansion, as well as the six tricks of selling himself to raise his mother, Meng Jiucheng also took care of his teeth and looked for an opportunity to make a move.
Of course, the current Meng Jiucheng doesn't want to sell it, especially the adoptive mother Liuqiao, who has been serving her for three years, is well-behaved and thoughtful, and has feelings no matter how she says.
If it was the original prodigal, based on the thinking of the ancients, selling a slave or even a wife and concubine, he would not have any guilt and anxiety. It's just that it's urgent to find a way to make a living, but it's not so easy. After walking around the courtyard and the house, Meng Jiucheng found two cages, half-new and not old, and there were enough to eat a few meals when they were pawned.
"Brother He, is Brother He at home?" Meng Jiucheng heard the sound of the door, hurriedly put down the cage in his hand, and opened the door to see that it was Jin Xiao.
After letting Kim Hyo into the house, Kim Hyo gave the money, said some words of thanks, and relayed what the public had said.
Knock on the pillow and send it, now there is a rut! Meng Jiucheng was happy in his heart, and he didn't have to be pretentious and humble to this honest man Jin Xiao, and he couldn't be polite to him if he was hungry. Accepted the money, said a few words to Jin Xiao, and sent him out. After going back to the house to hide the money, Meng Jiucheng happily brought two pieces of money and greeted Liuqiao, but he didn't go, so he had to go out to eat first.
Two dishes, two bowls of rice, Meng Jiucheng ate very happily in the small restaurant, and also had the mood of watching the scenery and humanity.
This is the real Song Dynasty architecture, the real Song Dynasty style, compared to the Water Margin City in later generations, which is the difference between heaven and earth. Without the hustle and bustle of the busy traffic and fast-paced life of later generations, the eyes are full of antique charm, and there are some weird local slang in the ears, and a smile gradually appeared on Meng Jiucheng's face.
After eating and drinking, Meng Jiucheng also had some ideas, so he got up and left.
When he returned home, Meng Jiucheng had already taken the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, two books, rice, tea and other things he bought, as if he had changed his past wrongs and been self-reliant.
"Go cook, you're going to be hungry." Meng Jiucheng beckoned Liuqiao and asked her to take all the rice and grain to the stove room and go back to the room to think about life.
It stands to reason that people who have traveled through ancient times have come to ancient times, which is nothing more than routines such as life farming, officialdom power struggle, house fighting, palace fighting, making money to develop science and technology, and rejuvenating the king and trying to dominate, revolving around money, pleasure, beauty, authority and other centers. However, when high-rise buildings rise from the ground, we must always strive step by step in combination with reality.
Meng Jiucheng did not bring anything that could fool the ancients in exchange for ten thousand gold, and suddenly became rich; I didn't have any abundant funds, so I immediately went to work in steelmaking, glassmaking, steaming wine, and other most common ways to make money. The only way to do this is to make some quick money and small money first, and then make capital accumulation while providing food and clothing, and then make a later calculation.
Could it be that the traversers were all mixed up in ancient times? Meng Jiucheng had never seen his peers who had crossed, but he guessed in his heart that there might not be none of them who had broken and sunk in the sand. In ancient times, in fact, many things were not as easy as you think, and don't underestimate the wisdom and ability of the ancients.
Let's just say that it is simple to cook on the fire, later generations are used to gas stoves, induction cookers, and rice cookers, just use firewood to light the stove, watch the fire here, and stir-fry there, it is very a bit of a hurry.
Fortunately, there are six coincidences, and there is no need for Meng Jiucheng to spoil rice and grain. Otherwise, even if you can cook the rice, it will definitely be either sandwiched, or bursting, and it will be terrible to eat.
"Dalang, please use tea." Liuqiao is a sensible person, so he first boiled water to make tea and sent it to Meng Jiucheng's room.
"Thank you." Meng Jiucheng was casually polite, but Liuqiao's eyes widened, but he immediately retreated.
Sipping the tea, Meng Jiucheng's thoughts continued to unfold.
Speaking of which, today's distant guests are deceiving money, and the reason why Meng Jiucheng dares to stand up for the honest man Jin Xiao is really watching and listening, and realizing that this story is not new to him, but a chapter in the later "Three Words and Two Beats". Although it is not all according to the development mentioned in the book, the deviation is not large, and Meng Jiucheng is basically played according to the plot in the novel.
Whether it is to travel into the world of fiction, or whether it is indeed written by Feng Menglong, Meng Jiucheng feels that there is not much point in studying it now, or he will continue to observe it in the future.
And since he has traveled to the Southern Song Dynasty and become a passer-by who was originally a lively passerby in the novel, and he dominates the crowd, then let it be natural and start again. Anyway, Meng Jiucheng, as a traverser, would never believe that he would do nothing and be unaware of everyone.