Chapter 5: Dingnan Pass

"Big pigeon, what is Hengdian?"

The little girl was wearing a wide-sleeved blue cotton shirt, blue cotton pants, a pair of red embroidered cotton shoes, a red head rope tied with two small braids, biting a rock sugar gourd in her mouth, tilting her head and asking inarticulately. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Tell my brother, what's the name of this city? Brother will give you bread to eat! It's delicious!" Meng Li squatted down and took out a piece of bread from his backpack and coaxed the little girl.

"This is Dingnan Pass!" muttered the little girl, staring straight at the mouth of the plastic wrapper.

"And what is this country called?"

"What is a country?" asked the little girl, puzzled.

"Uh..."

Zhang Shichen and Wei Yehua looked at each other in surprise, this little girl should be eight or nine years old, she should be in elementary school, and she doesn't even know which country she lives in. And what is the name of Dingnanguan? There is also a huge ancient city, everything is too bizarre. The two took out their mobile phones by accident, but there was still no signal all the way over.

"Then tell my brother, how to get to the bookstore?" Meng Li immediately changed the content of his question.

"Follow this street, turn left in front of you. The little girl replied sweetly.

"Well, good! this piece of bread is yours. Meng Li touched the little girl's head, handed her bread, peeled off the plastic packaging, and put it in the backpack.

As if they had seen a ghost, the group quickly followed the location pointed out by the little girl and went straight to the bookstore. Because of the level of civilization of a country, it will be more direct to look at the books in his bookstore.

The bookstore is called "Baijia Bookstore", it is very quiet inside, a small two at the door is dozing off on the table, there are not many people in the bookstore, and all kinds of books bound with cotton thread are neatly placed on the shelves.

Meng Li casually picked up a copy of "Dingnan Guanfu Chronicles" and read it, the text is simplified Chinese characters, the paper is very rough, the ink printing technology is also average, and the words on it can only be barely seen clearly.

Turning the first page, it reads: Southeast County Suzhou Hangzhou Dingnan Guanfu Chronicles, the time is 1028 years in the immortal calendar. The content is a record of the major events that have occurred in the past 50 years. Meng Li didn't have time to take a closer look, so he took out his mobile phone and took a picture.

After taking a few pages, I immediately found a geographical atlas and looked at it. This geographical atlas is incomplete, and it roughly marks Dingnanguan Mansion and the surrounding towns, and it was still photographed by Meng Li with his mobile phone.

"We'll all take a little bit more information, and then we'll gather here in half an hour and go back together. After Meng Li said hello to Zhang Shichen and Wei Yehua, he immediately went to the market, learning about the currency and prices here.

The first thing Meng Li learned was that there are roughly three kinds of currencies here: copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins, 1 yuan (mixed copper coins), 2 yuan (mixed copper coins), 5 yuan (mixed copper coins), 10 yuan (copper coins), 20 yuan (copper coins), 50 yuan (copper coins), 100 yuan (silver coins), 1000 yuan (silver coins), 5000 yuan (silver coins), 10,000 yuan (gold coins), 50,000 yuan (gold coins), and 500,000 yuan (gold coins). The larger the denomination, the larger the diameter of the coin and the heavier its weight. There are no banknotes.

The weight is also divided into catties and kilograms, 1 catty is 500 grams, 1 kilogram is 1000 grams, Meng Li put it in his hand and twisted it, it is indeed roughly the same.

1 yuan is also called 1 piece here, rice per kilogram: 2 pieces 8, rice per kilogram: 10 pieces, wheat per kilogram: 2 pieces 2, white flour per kilogram: 8 pieces......

The price of grain seems to be the same as in the previous life, but some prices are extremely high, such as edible salt, which has reached 530 yuan a kilogram, and it is almost more than 200 catties of rice to exchange for a catty of salt. Meng Li immediately took out his mobile phone and took pictures of various products and marked prices.

The time of the meeting is half past two in the afternoon, and according to the calculation of more than 6 hours of the return journey, it should be about 9 o'clock in the evening to the valley station. At this moment, there was no delay, and the three of them quickly rushed back.

The three of them didn't say anything all the way, but the established reality of this strange world was a foregone conclusion, whether they accepted it or not.

At 9:30 p.m., he arrived at the station next to the train where the accident occurred, and the information he brought back immediately exploded.

Three mobile phones were circulated in everyone's hands, the ancient city gate, the busy dock warehouse, the lively street market, and a dazzling array of goods. Some people despair, some people rejoice. Until the phone saw that the battery was low, everyone guessed quiet.

"Grass his grandmother's, it's really crossed!"

"It's over, there will be no rescue!"

"I said, this is the crossing of the sect, and there is not even a hint?"

“......”

A group of people on the grass were completely immersed in unacceptable after catharsis, and they were at a loss as to what the road ahead was.

"It's not too bad, in fact, I felt from the beginning that we were crossing over, and judging from the price of the goods just now, at least we can still do business!" said a middle-aged man by the campfire.

Everyone turned their heads to look at the emaciated middle-aged man in silence.

"I'd better introduce myself first, my name is Liu Zibo, I am a chemist, I just saw that the price of edible salt is 530 yuan a catty, right, if we refine 2 catties of edible salt from seawater, we can exchange for more than 400 catties of grain for us to eat for a day. It's just..."

"Mr. Liu, I know your concern, I have seen the map, and we are less than 50 kilometers east of the sea. I'll bring you back tomorrow. Meng Li replied immediately.

"That's it. ”

"I said don't be depressed, since I was unfortunately said and crossed! Let's face it. Life is like being raped, when you are powerless to resist, just close your eyes and enjoy it?" Shu Junliang, the host, lost no time in saying, as if he was afraid that no one would pay attention to his existence.

"Nima, what kind of rape is this? It's not cool at all to travel to this hellish place!"

"I said Shu Junliang, it's all your crow's mouth!"

"Then I thank you! The remaining 800,000 yuan of mortgage does not have to be repaid. ”

“......”

Everyone was in a hurry.

"Since we are facing such a transcendent reality, then we have to do something. Meng Li loudly suppressed everyone's coaxing voice and continued:

"First of all, we have three things to do, the first thing is that we have to live well in this strange world. This is to consider the practical problems, food, clothing, housing and transportation are indispensable.

The second thing is to understand this southeastern county thoroughly, after all, we know very little about this world now.

I'll talk about the third thing tomorrow morning.

I also think that the salt and iron trade is very suitable for our current situation, we don't have much food left, and it can probably last for about a week, if we can't connect with the world, the next road will be very difficult. ”

"Hmph, Meng Li, you said it lightly, look at it, do we have the equipment? What about transportation? What about sales channels? At least we must have start-up capital, right? Can you solve it? Hello everyone! My name is Wang Shaoyi, critic. A man in his thirties stood up and disagreed with Meng Li's proposal.

Xiang Zhiling hid behind Meng Li, rolled her eyes at Wang Shaoyi, and whispered: "Critics, bad guys, no friends!"

Wei Yehua came directly: "If you don't pretend to be b, you'll die?"

"Then Mr. Wang, what do you mean to solve the current predicament?" Meng Li asked.

"I think it's good to live an idyllic life, without having to provoke the aborigines. ”

Wang Shaoyi's proposal seems to have been agreed by many people, after all, I don't know about those aborigines now, and it is uncertain whether it will be a blessing or a curse in the future.

"Mr. Wang, don't forget, it's winter. Start-up capital, equipment, and sales are right, I'll solve it. Meng Li agreed without refusal.

"yes, I can't grow crops in the winter, I'm a botanist. Xiang Zhiling directly disagreed.

"Are you going to exchange the renminbi for the aborigines? Haha, laugh off my big teeth. Wang Shaoyi retorted without losing any time. The atmosphere around the campfire suddenly became tense.

"So, give me 3 days, and I'll get this problem out. Meng Li directly threw out a promise.

"Okay! If you can't solve this problem in three days, you don't want to be the boss here. Wang Shaoyi followed closely to catch up with the last sentence.

"If you don't talk about this, I almost forgot, so let's do it, I'll be the president for a week, and after a week, everyone will be familiar with it, and then elect a new president and lead us through the world together. You don't have an opinion. Meng Li swept around confidently, several girls clapped their hands, and the boys whistled and didn't know whether to approve or cheer. And many more people are not aware of the problem.

And why Meng Li suddenly said this, it was not an impulse, but more consideration in his heart was that the group of wounded, if there was a power vacuum, it was not clear whether there would be a human tragedy, and now the arrow has to be sent. It's just that he pushed himself into a very unfavorable situation, Meng Wei said: Fuck it, let's talk about it later.

Although he thinks so, the burden of feeding nearly 200 people has been pressed on Meng Li's shoulders, and there are still medicines for the wounded to solve.

Meng Li was full of worries, and walked to the door of the hospital that had been built today, not so much a hospital, but a big tent, and now there are 28 seriously injured people lying in it, and the lightly injured can live and take care of themselves, and live in the tent that has been added today.

Meng Li was at the door of the hospital tent, collided with Liu Xueqing, and the two came to the river to chat.

"The day after tomorrow, our anti-inflammatory drugs are gone, and there are drugs that invigorate blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis......"

The moonlight was sprinkled on the surface of the river, and the breeze blew Liu Xueqing's long hair, snow-white skin, and a pair of charming big eyes looked at Meng Li.

Meng Li and Liu Xueqing looked at each other for three seconds and then moved away in a panic, in their previous lives, they naturally rarely talked to beauties of this level, and now that they are so beautiful and beautiful, chatting with beauties cannot but be said to be a kind of enjoyment.

"I've also watched today's pictures and videos, can't we go back?" asked Liu Xueqing with a little sentimentality.

"Yes, we have to face this whole new world. ”