Chapter 13: Mid-Autumn Festival!
"There are still 453 Wen left, these 400 big brother collects, the daily expenses don't need to be too saving, and I will give my mother and eldest sister ten or twenty Wen when I come back every day, and then slowly add it later. Let them know that there is an income at home every day, so they can feel more at ease. ”
Cao Xin stuffed most of his wealth to his eldest brother.
"I'm the big brother—"
Cao Ren accepted the money, and his face was a little swollen.
"Brother! Don't think about it! ”
"If I worked hard to earn this money outside, you would be embarrassed to take it and say. But where did I get this money, my eldest brother knows best-"
Cao Xinchong rummaged over his little hand.
The eldest brother uses his younger brother's money to support the family and expenses, and he also spends the money of his eight-year-old brother, which is of course embarrassing under normal circumstances.
But Cao Xin: What's going on?
He can 'make something out of nothing', and he has 'everything in his sleeve'.
This is a fairy trick!
Cao Ren, who is the eldest brother, what's wrong with a little light?!
"Smack!"
"It's the eldest brother who wants to be bad!"
"The ancients also said that if one person attains the Tao, the chicken and dog ascend to heaven."
"I'm also touching the light of our little fairy."
Cao Ren slapped his head and turned the corner, thinking of what he had just thought of, and couldn't help laughing.
One thought is wide and the world is wide.
He generously accepted the money.
The brothers talked and laughed and hurried home.
Cao Xin's main task of buying chickens today was completed as he wished, and he also went to see the martial arts hall, and bought 350 catties of reserve grain by the way to store it in the primitive fairy world.
Iron Ball also placed an order, just waiting to pick it up.
For most of the day, I did a lot of things.
However, due to the lack of money, Cao Xin still has a lot of things he wants to buy but has not bought.
For example, iron-cast agricultural tools such as sickles, hoes, shovels, and guillotines, as well as bamboo-woven agricultural tools such as flat poles, baskets, dustpans, brooms, and back baskets.
These are not bought for household use, but placed in the primitive fairy world, and can be used for cultivation and hoeing, so as to be prepared.
If you have money, you can buy three or five sets and put them in the primordial fairy world, which is not too much.
And that's not all.
There are also axes, saws, planers, files, chisels, rulers, ink fountains, sandpaper and other woodworking tools, which do not look many, but there are many styles of each.
For example, planers -
Joint, flat, two, net, all kinds of planers, large line planers, small line planers, small planers, convex planers, all kinds of cutting planers, double line planers, single line planers, notch planers, single groove planers, groove planers, double groove planers, all kinds of line planers.
With just one planer, there are dozens of small subdivisions.
Others include saws, chisels, etc., long, short, large, small, round, flat, square, and so many kinds, that the number of laymen cannot be counted.
It's not easy to put together a complete set, and a lot of money is spent.
Once it's all together, it's a family heirloom, a carpenter's life.
There are many trees in the primordial fairy world, and a lot of them have to be cut down sooner or later. For carpenters like this, Cao Xin had better prepare three or five sets of tools, which is also a huge expense.
In addition-
Pots and pans, kitchen knives and shovels, large spoons and small spoons, cutting boards, steamers, bottles and cans, large jars and small jars......
Too much, too much!
Odds and ends!
And that's not even counting furniture and household items such as tables, chairs, benches, beds, bedding, bedding, pillows, etc.
But if you want to be able to hide in the 'primordial fairy world' and be self-sufficient under extreme circumstances, it is best to have these large and small daily necessities ready, or even several sets.
Cao Xin has made a list of these things, but it is obviously difficult to complete them in a short period of time.
Money is one thing.
Too much variety is also one thing.
Gotta take your time.
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"There are bitter gnats in the world, and there are no gnats in Dumaxing Street in Western Province. Horse Street, Xijing Night Market restaurant is also very prosperous. Garts are bad oil, and the horses are noisy, the lights shine on the sky, and every three more drums, so gnats will never be eradicated. ”
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The origin of the name 'Mahang Market' is no longer known, but there is no doubt that it is the most prosperous place in the entire Xijing City and even the entire Daliang.
In modern times, it may be called a 'high street'.
This street winds and turns, hooking the small half of the northern city, and from the four city gates on the north side can enter the street directly, leading to the imperial city.
When night falls, the lights are bright.
Lanterns are hung in front of the merchants along the street, and the lighting facilities built by the government illuminate the Mahang market that stretches for more than 20 miles as if it were day.
The atmosphere heats up all at once.
"It's so delicious!"
Cao Xian is wearing new clothes today, looking left and right with a pair of eyes, and he can't see it!
The roadside stalls are chaotic, and the fried sheep white intestines, preserved lambs, frozen fish heads, ginger bean sauce, smeared dirt, red silk, batch cut sheep's heads, spicy foot ginger, spicy radish, all kinds of snacks make people drool.
There are also cool food in summer, there are hemp curd, chicken skin sesame drink, fine powder vegetarian stick, sand sugar ice and snow cold balls, crystal soap, raw pickled water papaya, medicinal papaya, chicken head squirt, sand sugar mung bean licorice ice and snow cold water, lychee paste, cantonese mustard melon, pickles, apricot slices, plum ginger, lettuce, bamboo shoots, mustard, spicy melon, fine steamed buns, fragrant candy seeds, inter-dao sugar lychee, Yue Mei, knife perilla paste, golden silk party plum, orange pills, some are sold in bulk, some are packed in plum red boxes, and they are sold on display.
"Sister, eat this."
Cao Xin bought a sand sugar ice and snow cold ball, and handed a box of fragrant candy to Cao Xian, with a flattering face.
My sister is too temperamental, and she still remembers laughing at her with lantern riddles in the morning, and she hasn't paid attention to Cao Xin from the time she came home to the time she came out. Cao Xin was generous as a younger brother, and paid out of his own pocket to buy snacks for Cao Xian.
"Spending money again!"
Cao Xian glared at Cao Xin, but he was honest in his hands, took the sand sugar ice and snow cold balls and fragrant candy seeds, first gave Cao Zhang's and Cao Liang a bite, and then handed two pieces to the eldest brother, and then hesitated for a while, and then stuffed another piece to Cao Xin, before smiling and eating by himself.
Cao Xin looked funny.
This side.
Xiao Cao Liang was eating delicious food in his mouth, and he was also looking left and right, dazzled, and when he arrived in front of a restaurant, his eyes widened: "Look! Look! Lots of lanterns! ”
Cao Xin looked up—
Ooh!
Quite a few!
There is a huge restaurant, five stories high, with wooden frames outside, and lanterns are also hung on five floors, which is more than 100. Each lantern has a text written on it, and each is a riddle -
"If you answer the riddles on the lower three floors correctly, you can take away the corresponding lanterns."
"If you answer the riddle on the fourth floor correctly, you can get a jar of craft brewing in my Tianjia restaurant."
"Answer the fifth layer of riddles correctly, please enter the private room, and the drinks and dishes are free."
Guess the lantern riddle!
It's an old tradition!
Cao Xin took a look and found that the fourth and fifth layers were indeed much more difficult than the lower three layers, and there were many in them that he couldn't answer.
The lower three floors are much simpler.
"Small feet, high legs. Wear a red hat, wear a white robe, and guess an animal. ”
"This is the 'red-crowned crane'."
"If you can't get into the water, guess the word."
"Yan."
Cao Xin pushed Cao Xian and Cao Liang, Cao Xian answered a question correctly with a red face, and Cao Liang shouted to answer a question correctly.
The family prostituted two lanterns for nothing, and they couldn't close their mouths happily.
This kind of small limelight is not enviable, and it can make the family happy, Cao Xin is happy to do it.
The lantern riddles on the fourth and fifth floors, although the rewards are more generous, many people know that they are for readers, and if their family answers a question correctly, the scene will not be good-looking.
Cao Xin was not greedy for this cheapness, took two lanterns and left, content and happy.
"It's huge!"
"It's so bright!"
Cao Xian and Cao Liang were carrying lanterns, and they were excited.
Cao Zhang was also laughing.
The eldest brother Cao Ren pulled Cao Xin and whispered: "Xiao Wu, you are so smart, it is better to go to study and become an official in the future." ”
Ten years of cold windows no one asked, in one fell swoop became famous all over the world!
In this era, studying and being an official have always been the most decent and promising.
Cao Ren felt that with his younger brother's ingenuity, he might not be able to pass the Jinshi examination and glorify his ancestors.
But—
"Forget it!"
"I can't pass the test."
Cao Xin shook his head.
Studying and taking the imperial examination are far from being as simple as imagined, and the ten-year cold window is not a lie, it is not what he wants. Moreover, as soon as he entered the officialdom, he was as deep as the sea, and since then he has been put on a layer of shackles, and it is too embarrassing to toss and turn within the rules of these people.
Lick somebody's boots.
The official level crushed people to death.
This is not what Cao Xin wants.
Instead of going through the imperial examination, becoming an official, and being a dog in the fly camp, it is better to practice martial arts to strengthen your body, be at ease, and live a long life.
With the help of the 'Bronze Immortal Gate', maybe he can enter the Tao from martial arts, ascend from Fan to immortal, and live forever from now on.
"Don't read?"
"So what do you want to do in the future?"
Cao Ren felt pity.
"Martial arts."
"Study medicine."
Cao Xin has a plan for a long time.
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