Zhu Ming walked back to his house and called his wife out, and then told his children not to run around, and after going out, he turned to Ning Qi and his wife, and then went directly to the direction pointed by the cavalry just now.

Just now they counted the bills in their hands, which were composed of yuan and numbers, a total of seventy yuan, four of ten yuan, two of five yuan, five of two yuan, and ten of one yuan.

The content above is very simple, that is, two Chinese characters for food stamps, and then the numbers and symbols of Chinese characters, as well as two seals, one large and one small.

They can understand the meaning of this food stamp, it should be the meaning of the receipt of grain, but they don't know much about this yuan, but it doesn't matter, they should know it when they get to the place.

Zhu Ming and Ning Qi were the first to act, and when they arrived at the place, they found that these were two huge warehouses, and the warehouses were enclosed with wood, and the wood looked brand new, but looking at the area inside, the amount of these grains seemed to be a lot.

When they arrived, they saw several rows of tables, similar to when they had just registered at the city gates, but now the two warehouses behind these tables still had the words rice and noodles written on them.

"Are you two here to get food?" Zhao Er, who was sitting behind the table, immediately smiled and arched his hand and asked.

Now Zhao Er is also a literate person, although Zhao Er is not literate, but the commonly used words Zhao Er has already known, and this time Zhao Er is responsible for distributing food.

And next to it there are two rod scales, which were made by the craftsmen of the industrial city, according to the kilogram of rod scales, scales have been made.

Of course, there is also a wooden bucket prepared next to it, and such a bucket is 10 kilograms of rice or noodles.

"Yes, may I ask this gentleman, what to do with this food stamp in our hand." Ning Qi immediately arched his hand at Zhao Er and asked.

"Don't be Mr., my name is Zhao Er, just call me by my name, please take out your vouchers, I'll check it." Zhao Er said with a smile.

"I've met Erlang, this is my credential." Ning Qi handed over his voucher first, and Zhu Ming next to him also handed over his voucher.

Zhao Er took it and looked at it, and immediately smiled: "Everyone, I will tell you now how to use the food stamps in your hands, and then you can decide for yourself?" ”

"Of course, Erlang, please speak, but just call us by name, we can't afford this." Ning Qi hurriedly spoke.

"When you start, when you start, the leader attaches great importance to you craftsmen, and the status of all our craftsmen is very high! Don't worry, first of all, it's like this, our Han has its own weights and measures, which are not the same as Datang's weights and measures, including this number. ”

"Look here, both of you." Zhao Er pointed to a white piece of paper next to him, which had a comparison table of Chinese characters and Arabic numerals.

"This is an Arabic numeral, a number that our leader uses to learn from the excellence of the Great Cannibal, and it is more intuitive than Chinese characters in terms of counting. This is a comparison table with Chinese characters, and the numbers after ten are also directly composed of these Arabic numerals. Zhao Er immediately introduced it with a familiar face.

He had been practicing at home for a long time for these words, and for Zhao Er, he was still very interested in finally being able to teach these craftsmen.

"You can get a free comparison sheet." Zhao Er directly handed a piece of paper next to him to Ning Qi and Zhu Ming, in fact, for these craftsmen, this is very necessary, especially weights and measures.

So these two sheets of paper are not only contrasted with Arabic numerals, but also about the length in meters, weight in grams, kilograms, volumes in liters and milliliters, and temperature.

"There is also a wooden ruler here, which was also given to the two by the chief, and this wooden ruler is one meter, and there are decimeters, centimeters, and millimeters on it. Since the two of them are craftsmen of the Han Dynasty in the future, it is natural to adopt new weights and measures, which are all to be learned. Zhao Er introduced these weights and measures to them.

Ning Qi and Zhu Ming couldn't help but glance at each other, they thought that the other party was just like other Turkic tribes, they didn't have anything, but they didn't expect that they even had their own weights and measures. However, they also knew that this was very important to them, because they were craftsmen, so these weights and measures naturally had to be popularized in each other's territory.

"Thank you, Jiro." The two of them first thanked Zhao Er, and then carefully put away the comparison table, and took the meter ruler in their hands.

"Next, let's talk about the food stamps in your hands, food stamps, as the name suggests, are bills for exchanging food, because we are short of manpower, so it would be too wasteful of time to distribute them to you one by one, so we will issue food stamps, and you will take the food stamps yourself."

"The unit of this food stamp is yuan, and the exchange of grain, whether it is rice or noodles, is two yuan a catty, and four yuan a kilogram is one kilogram. Rice can be exchanged casually, but noodles can only be exchanged for a maximum of 5 catties at a time, and other than that, you can only exchange wheat because there is not much flour that is milled. Zhao Er said.

Zhu Ming's arithmetic is better, he immediately calculated it, and what he had in his hand was seventy yuan, that is, he could exchange a total of 35 catties of grain.

"Then give us five catties of flour, and the rest will be exchanged for rice." Zhu Ming did not hesitate, but said very simply.

"No problem." Zhao Er immediately leaned over and began to find out Zhu Ming's information on the booklet in front of him, and directly ticked it, and then naturally someone behind him directly moved the grain out and weighed them on the spot.

"Erlang, how long do we need to eat this food?" Zhu Ming hesitated and asked.

"Seven days, after seven days, you will be given food stamps every seven days." Zhao Er nodded very dryly.

Seven days? Zhu Ming and Ning Qi couldn't help but glance at each other, at first they didn't know what the other party was talking about, and what a kilogram was. But when the other party weighed it, Zhu Ming, who was Lang Zhong and often weighed medicine, had some confidence in the weight.

Looking at the amount of these rice noodles, Zhu Ming roughly estimated that these 35 catties are about equivalent to about 3 buckets of rice, which is a lot, and now, the other party just let them eat it for seven days? ! Zhu Ming immediately understood the other party's calculation method, the other party gave food stamps according to the number of people in their family, and the food that a person counted for them every day was one catty!

This number...... But it's not a lot! According to them, it is estimated that some big-bellied men can eat almost enough every day, and the amount of food like Zhu Ming is not so large, so it can be said that it is enough.

And Zhu Ming's two children are not big, and this catty of rice noodles is definitely not enough!

That's definitely more than enough for their family! It's more than they can imagine.

"Of course, rice and noodles alone will definitely not work, but because our cattle and sheep have not been distributed recently, when the cattle and sheep have begun to be distributed, you should be able to buy some mutton with food stamps later." Zhao Er added with a smile.

Hearing the word meat, Ning Qi and Zhu Ming couldn't help but swallow their saliva, although their previous life was good, but in the Western Regions, eating meat for a year is estimated to be a chance for the New Year.

Of course, the other side just said that, and they don't know when it will be realized.

"Thank you Erlang, when we stabilize and have the opportunity to invite Erlang to our house, I don't know if Erlang can tell us when the main family will arrange a job for us?" Zhu Ming arched his hand again and asked.

"Well, this is not the same as your work, Zhu and everyone may be working in Yumen Guancheng for the time being, and they may not leave in a short time, but Ning is estimated to be leaving here tomorrow, because there is a great shortage of craftsmen in the industrial zone." Zhao Er also smiled and arched his hand back.

"Understood, thank you Erlang, then Erlang, you're busy, we'll go first." While they were talking, someone else had already come over, and Ning Qi and Zhu Ming arched their hands and left, because they knew that Zhao Er would definitely have to explain to others.

On the way back, Zhu Ming couldn't help but speak: "It seems that our new master's family is good for us, and this grain alone gives us too much estimate." ”

"That's the truth, I just don't know how long it can last, but I'm going out tomorrow, so I'll ask Zhu Lang at home." Ning Qi said to Zhu Ming.

"Brother Ning, please rest assured, the family will be handed over to me, and I will take care of my sister-in-law and their wife." Zhu Ming said with a serious expression.

"I'm relieved to have you, I don't know when I'm going to come back from this job." Ning Qi nodded, and after sighing, Ning Qi said again: "But this should also be a good thing, at least it's a good thing that we have work to do." ”

Ning Qi thought very clearly, having work meant that they had the value of use, as long as there was value of use, their family would not be in danger, and judging from the attitude of the new master's family towards them, it was obvious that they still relied on them as craftsmen.

"Let's go back quickly, this new number and these new weights and measures are definitely something we have to remember, and we will definitely use them in the future." Ning Qi said seriously.

"Brother Ning is right, I also need to be familiar with these, I just roughly observed, this number is indeed much more intuitive and convenient to use, sometimes it is not easy to make mistakes." Zhu Ming also nodded.

When the two of them returned home, they began to carefully study and memorize the piece of paper, while Ning Qi also needed to memorize the weights and measures of meters and centimeters, because the unit of length was the most used by their carpenters.

At this moment, Huo Gang, who was in his room, finally put down the brush in his hand, and his most basic teaching textbook on pinyin was finally written.

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PS: Happy Christmas Eve, everyone! Well, today is the author's wedding anniversary, so it's 2 more today. Ahem, I deliberately chose this date to register in order to avoid forgetting. Hahaha.