Jiang Jiang and Sun Xiaobei can earn dozens of copper plates a day by telling stories, and in addition to buying food and daily necessities such as umbrellas and hand towels along the way, they also saved more than two taels of silver.

Look at the road has been walking for almost a month, and the road into Beijing is halfway through. Jiang Jiang was ruthless and took out a tael of silver to hire a carriage.

Sun Xiaobei was reluctant to pay for it, and muttered: "It's easy to save two taels of silver, and half of it will be spent at once, how many books do you have to say to earn it back?" We can make money while we are in a hurry, so what are we doing in a hurry to go to the capital? ”

"If we still walk into Beijing, by the time we get to the capital, the weather has turned cooler, and some business opportunities will be delayed." Jiang Jiang said: "Little cheap, you remember one sentence: time is money. ”

However, at this time, Sun Xiaobei was still patronizing the distressed one or two pieces of silver, and he couldn't understand the meaning of Jiang Jiang's words at all.

Sitting in the carriage and taking the official road, it was only six or seven days before I arrived in the capital.

Ling Tiancheng is indeed one of the best metropolises, with a large population and bustling streets.

After all, Jiang Jiang has traveled from the modern era to the past, and he is not too surprised. Sun Xiaobei was also surprised when he saw this, it was also fresh there, his mouth was wide open, and he never closed it from beginning to end.

After a short break, Jiang Jiang and Sun Xiaobei found a place to knock on the pot and start performing again.

In the past few days in the carriage, Jiang Jiang taught "Wax Cutting" to Sun Xiaobei.

However, because it was the first time I arrived in the capital, I thought it would be better to choose the skilled one first, so the two of them first said a set of "Three Levels in a Row", and after a round of rewards, they said a set of "Fighting Methods".

After two sets of books, it was already dark.

Jiang Jiang and Sun Xiaobei were also hungry, so they confessed to the audience and used the money they earned to find a place to eat.

The two found a second meat shop, asked for three flatbreads, two catties of cooked beef, and two bowls of soup.

While eating, you can see the pedestrians coming and going in the street market outside, and there are really all kinds of people.

The two of them had eaten enough, calculated the food money, and went out to find a small inn and asked for two rooms.

The inns in Ling Tian City are for bathing no matter how big or small.

Jiang Jiang entered the room and locked the door, what annoyed her the most along the way was not food, clothing, housing and transportation, but that taking a bath became a big problem.

No matter how young Sun Xiaobei is, he is also a man, not to mention that he stays in the wild many times, and it is very difficult to find a place to bathe. When I couldn't stand it, I took advantage of the darkness to go to the river to take a simple wash, and the hot bath never washed.

"Huh, what's going on?" Jiang Jiang looked at the red spots the size of pepper seeds that grew on her chest at some point, and at first thought that she had been bitten by some insect, because she often felt a slight itch in her chest along the way, but she didn't care.

But after observing it carefully for a while, the more I looked at it, the more it didn't look like it had been bitten, and when I reached out and touched it, it didn't feel like it.

"What the hell is this?" Jiang Jiang was a little confused: "Bleeding point? But that's too big, isn't it? Oh, it doesn't matter, it can't affect my mood in the bath. ”

Jiang Jiang took a comfortable bath and prepared to sleep until dawn.

Just as she was about to fall asleep, a thought exploded in her mind like lightning, and Jiang Jiang sat up suddenly. "Holy! This can't be a cinnabar mole, right?! ”

From the second day after arriving in the capital, Jiang Jiang and Sun Xiaobei went to different places to talk about cross talk during the day, and at the same time, they also wanted to understand the situation everywhere so that they could plan for the next step.

After seven or eight days in a row, the two of them visited the south, north, east, and west cities, and finished all three sets of books.

Sun Xiaobei also urged Jiang Jiang to teach him a new story, but Jiang Jiang waved his hand and said, "Our storytelling career is over here, and we have to do something else next." ”

Sun Xiaobei was not happy when he heard it: "Isn't this book well-said?" Now I can earn one or two taels of silver every day, and I don't need capital, just rely on you and me. I'm still planning to say it in the future, let's go to the teahouse and say, the wind doesn't blow and the rain doesn't get wet, isn't it a good way to make a living! ”

"If you just want to have food and clothing all your life, don't buy a house or buy land, don't marry a wife like a flower, don't have more children, don't want everyone to call you a master, don't want to call a slave and call a maid, then you just continue to tell books, I can teach you a few more paragraphs." Jiang Jiang deliberately pulled down his face and said.

When Sun Xiaobei heard her say this, he was no longer obsessed with storytelling. Along the way, he and Jiang Jiang have seen her endless good ideas and above-ordinary means of making a living many times.

It's just that from his insight, storytelling is really a very good business. If you are really famous, you can go to the courtyard of a high-rise mansion to tell stories to people with money and status, and you can earn more money.

But in Jiang Jiang's view, storytelling is really just an expedient measure, and it can't be done for a long time.

First, the book industry must constantly innovate, and when she finishes talking about the few cross talks she knows, she has to recreate, which is very painful.

What's more, if you want to make more money, you have to work hard, and your mouth is dry every day, and your body can't bear it after a long time.

There is another layer, although cross talk does not cost anything, the profits obtained are limited, not to mention that after all, it is an industry that is not in the stream, no matter how good and famous it is, it is only a ninth-rate person after all, and cannot become an upper-class person.

Jiang Jiang knows that a person's position is very important, especially in feudal society. If you want to be a master, you can't covet the small interests in front of you, you must take a long-term view.

"If we don't talk about books, what else can we do?" Sun Xiaobei said with some hesitation: "In addition to the fact that you don't need capital to sell your art, you have to have capital to do everything else!" Our little money is only a little more than that of a flower in Ling Tian City, what can we do? ”

"Well, I've been expecting that. But now what we have to do is to find a good place to live first, the guest house is too expensive. Jiang Jiang was not worried at all, and said with a relaxed face.

They came to Dongcheng, rented a small courtyard, paid half a year's rent, and bought some utensils.

While tidying up the house, Sun Xiaobei said to Jiang Jiang: "The housing price in this Ling Tiancheng is really ridiculously high, just such a courtyard, the rent will cost five taels of silver for half a year. If you buy it, you have to pay 800 taels. It's still the worst thatched house, and it's in the eastern suburbs of the city. If it is those neat courtyards in the city, I am afraid that it will cost tens of thousands of taels. ”

"So you can't rely on storytelling, the profit is really limited. Only by doing business can you achieve increasing profits, and you can stand on your feet in Ling Tiancheng. Jiang Jiang said as he swept the floor.

"So what are we going to do next? When I walked on the streets, I saw that only the big buyers were able to make money every day, and the small businesses were only to make a living, and even the money left was limited. We don't have more than ten taels of silver left now, can we still turn out the sky? Sun Xiaobei said.

"You just put your heart in your stomach and do as I say, and make sure it's okay." Jiang Jiang said that the old god was there.