Chapter 12: The Iron Hook
Jiayi and they found a number of sheep *** trees, and everyone ate a full stomach, and they also carried a lot of pockets surrounded by the hem of their clothes. At this time, it was not early, and everyone also brought a lot of wild fruits (just one kind of sheep), so everyone decided to go back. At this time, Jia Yi took the time to carefully observe these wild fruits, that is, sheep ***.
These fruits are not at all like goat's milk, although he himself has not carefully observed goat's milk, but he is also a person who has read a thousand pieces. This wild fruit is a bit similar to a date, and the head of the fruit still retains the stamens of the withered flowers. The fruit has brown spots on it, like blackheads in an advertisement. Well, this analogy is not good, as soon as Jia thinks of the blackhead, he feels that his appetite is reduced a little, and something is tumbling in his stomach. Jiayi bit open a kernel, there are many white flocculent things in it, and tasted the kernel, ahh
Most of these fruits are ripe red, the more ripe they are, the redder they become, a few have turned purple, but the overripe ones have become soft, and there is a fermented wine flavor. Jia Yi tasted it and thought it had a different flavor, but he was afraid that it was rotten and something wrong with it. In this era of lack of medical treatment, once you get sick, even if you have a teacher who is a pharmacist, you will not be insured. Unless your teacher is a priest who knows how to do magic. Unfortunately, it's not! There are a few unripe ones mixed in with the wild fruits, which are yellow, very yellow, and taste astringent, yellow and astringent.
Yes, yellow and colorful, Kaichi's mind began to run the train again.
Soon, they passed by the place where they had met the hornet, and Kaichi looked at the hive not far away, and felt the urge to knock it out. But alas, no guts. He thought for a moment and said to Donna, "Sister, let's go back and tell Dad that there's a hornet's nest here, let him kill it!"
"Why?" Donna felt strange when she heard this, "It's not a honeycomb, what if you get stung? ”
Jia Yi thought about it and didn't object, indeed, the toxicity of the wasp is still quite large, in case it is accidentally broken too much, I am afraid that I will have to lie in bed for several days.
After passing through the hornet's nest, they quickly returned to the village. When Kai and Donna get home, they see the sky and are almost ready to cook. Jia Yi thought about it for a while, and used a small willow frame to fill some sheep that he picked back*** to see if Yao Lao was back.
When I came to the door of Yao Lao, I saw the door of Yao Lao's house open, it should be that Yao Lao came back from the town. Jia Yi walked into the courtyard and shouted, "Teacher, teacher, are you back?"
Yao Lao in the house heard the voice of his apprentice and replied, "Jiayi, I'm in the house, come here!"
After Jia Yi heard this, he walked into the house with the wild fruit, and saw Yao Lao sitting at the table drinking water, and a cloth bag on the table, which looked like he had just returned. Seeing that Jia Yi was holding a box that seemed to contain something, Yao Lao asked, "Jia Yi, what are you carrying?"
"Teacher, this is a sheep ***, my sister and I went to explore in the forest, and we picked it, it was very delicious, teacher, you can taste it." After speaking, Kaichi put the basket containing the wild fruit on the table, and then stared intently at the cloth bag on the table.
Yao Lao knew what Jia Yi was thinking when he saw it, and he was concerned about his own fishhook. So he said to him, "Don't look, you haven't bought a hook." ”
"Ahh Although Jia Yi was disappointed, he just sighed and didn't say much. Yao Lao is Jia Yi's teacher, and he doesn't owe Jia Yi anything, speaking of which, it should be Jia Yi who owes Yao Lao, after all, he didn't pay tuition or anything. Yao Lao doesn't look like a person who has broken his word and gained weight, maybe something is delaying. Kaichi can only think like this.
Yao Lao saw that although Jia Yi was disappointed, he didn't complain, he silently praised it in his heart, and continued: "There are no fish hooks to sell in the town, because there are few people in us who fish. I'll go to the blacksmith and make it for you, and I'll pick it up the next time I go to the market. It cost me more than 20 coppers. ”
"Thank you, teacher!" Jia Yi couldn't help but frown when he heard this, and his mouth was grinning, "Teacher, can the blacksmith make a good one?" Just after thanking the teacher, Jia Yi couldn't help but worry about his own fish hook, how could the private custom fish hook made by the blacksmith be so unreliable.
"You don't have to worry about this, the blacksmiths in the town are very skilled. I bought you a fishing line first, and that's it. Yao Lao said as he took out a roll of flax thread and handed it to Jia Yi, this roll of thread looked thicker than Jia Yi's own, and it felt smoother, smoother, and much stronger.
Jia Yi looked at the reel of line, thinking that he could perfect his wooden hook first, and then catch a fish first, and Mr. Xia would catch a fish without a hook. This is, he suddenly remembered that Yao Lao said that the fish hook cost more than 20 coppers, and asked Yao Lao: "Teacher, it is so expensive to pay more than 20 copper for a fish hook." ”
Jia Yi usually knows a little bit about the currency here, this country generally uses the Golden Eagle coin, because the country's totem is the Golden Eagle, the gold and silver coins are engraved with the Golden Eagle pattern, so the coins of the whole country are handed over the Golden Eagle coin, although there is no pattern on the copper.
In the empire, about 130 copper can buy 100 catties of wheat, and if you convert copper into the yuan of Jiayi's previous life, about 1 copper is less than one dollar, and more than 8 cents. But if you want to count the purchasing power, it is almost the purchasing power of 2000, you know, at that time, the fresh meat bun was 4 yuan a dollar. Here more than 20 copper plates are converted into buns to seventy or eighty. The ratio of copper to silver coins is about 1,000 copper coins for one silver coin, but this ratio is not certain, and sometimes there will be black market exchange ratios that are different. The ratio of silver to gold is a fixed 10:1. There is also a small silver coin in the silver coin, which is used as copper 100.
The balance of the Jia family's annual income is only about half a silver coin, and if the year is bad, there may be no balance. Therefore, the fish hook of more than 20 coppers is very luxurious, that is, Yao Lao usually earns a good income from selling medicine, and the cost of one person is also small, so he is willing to buy a fish hook for Jiayi.
If Jiayi gets the money to buy a fish hook by himself, even if Erica hurts him, a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots is inevitable. Ah, there's no bamboo around here, that's stir-fried meat with willow branches.
Yao Lao listened to Jia Yi's question, and said with a smile: "Hehe, what do you think." We are blocked from the south by the Hengduan Mountains, and although we are located in the southern part of the empire, the climate is dry and there is little water. Not to mention fishing, there are not many people who even eat fish. Thanks to the Nando River in front of the village, our village has an abundant water source. ”
Yao Lao paused, picked up the water cup, took a sip of water, and continued: "Jiayi, after talking for a long time, do you know how to make fish? Don't waste half a day of hard work to catch fish easily, but it's funny if you can't eat it." ”
When Jia Yi heard this, he was very dissatisfied with the medicine elder and his own eyes: "Master, don't underestimate people." I'm also a river... I'm also a little genius, although I've never made a fish, but I have research, and I can definitely do it well. You see, my current food is even better than my mother's, and I have researched it. Jia Yi almost said that he grew up in the Jiangnan water town, and he really had never fished in his life, so he had to say that he had research. also cheekily praised himself.
After Jia Yi woke up in this life, he found that his memory had increased significantly, although it was not to the point of forgetting, it was not far off. Especially if you remember it, it is not easy to forget, what Ebbinghaus curve memory cycle no longer works for him. After learning from Yao Lao, he learned this kind of rote pharmacological knowledge very quickly, so Yao Lao taught him to read again. Jia Yi said that he was a genius, and he meant to ridicule himself, but he didn't know that in Yao Lao's mind, even if he was not a genius, he could be regarded as very smart.
After a few more words with Yao Lao, Jia saw that it was not early to make dinner, so he asked Yao Lao for the roll of fishing line, and said goodbye and went home to cook.