Mu Tianming went home and brought half a plate of cut sauce beef, and let her eat it first to fill her stomach.

This half plate of meat is leftover from a dinner in a restaurant in the evening.

Li Qiaoer grabbed the meat with her hands and ate it, but she cried while eating. After eating, he asked with tears in his eyes: "You have been spending a lot of money recently, where did you get so much money?" ”

Mu Tianming still said that he picked up gold in the mountains.

"An Orion went into the mountains, met a fox and got married, and gave him a bag of golden beans. As a result, when I went home, I saw that it was a golden bean, but a bag of stones. Li Qiao'er said, "Go home and see, are you gold, silver or stone?" Did you fall for the fox's trick? ”

Mu Tianming said with a smile: "I have exchanged some gold for silver taels, silver tickets, and copper coins. ”

This caused Li Qiaoer to burst into tears and laugh.

Mu Tianming went home again and sent a few catties of charcoal to let her burn it in the copper basin at night to keep warm.

The heating equipment in her house is only a copper kettle, which is unbearable at night, so it can be filled with hot water, wrapped in a quilt and placed in the quilt.

This is equivalent to a hot water bottle, except that the copper kettle is easy to be kicked over after falling asleep, and it will definitely be hot.

Last night, Mu Tianming slept in a daze, and heard a "whoosh" sound from Li Qiao'er next door, presumably kicking over the hot water kettle.

In view of what happened to Li Qiao'er, Mu Tianming comforted her until midnight.

Thanks to the abundance of charcoal, it burns vigorously and is not cold.

"Now that you have money and have reached the age of starting a family, you can say that you are married. There are a lot of ladies in the city, and you can go to the grass post to get the lottery. Li Qiaoer fiddled with the brazier and said.

Li Qiao'er didn't know that Mu Tianming already had a concubine.

But when it came to marrying, Mu Tianming suddenly remembered something.

According to the plot of the early stage of the game, in the border city, there is a scholarly family in the city, and the ancestors have officials, and the current head of the family is a showman, surnamed Zhang, and the family has a rich industry, and there is a woman, who is twenty-eight years old, and is raised in the deep boudoir.

When this Zhang Xiucai marries his daughter, he will give some dowry, including a blue sky vase. The vase is not the point, the point is that there is an ancient book in the vase, which records the magical method of self-cultivation.

This was the only ancient book that Mu Tianming knew in the early days that he could get in touch with "cultivating immortals".

Day 2.

Mu Tianming spent money to find a matchmaker, wrote a post, and went to Zhang Xiucai's house to propose marriage.

What the daughter of the Zhang family looks like, Mu Tianming doesn't know, and even the matchmaker doesn't know, that girl belongs to the real door.

But Mu Tianming didn't go to the girl, but to the ancient book in the vase in the dowry.

Since you have come to this world, if you have the slightest chance to get a glimpse of the fairy fate, you will definitely not let it go.

In order to increase the success rate of proposing, Mu Tianming wrote another poem and asked the matchmaker to take it together.

That Zhang Xiucai's family is a scholarly family, and he must like this tune.

Anyway, the matchmaker took the post and went to Zhang Xiucai's house, explained her intentions, and handed over the post.

The post is written on Mu Tianming's birthday, which states in order the names of the great-great-grandfathers, grandfathers, and fathers of the family, as well as the close relatives within the five suits, the fields and property they own, and the official positions they hold.

Mu Tianming had no official position, his ancestors had never been an official, and his father was also a poor scholar, so he died of depression. On her way home to save her family, her mother encountered a barbarian reconnaissance force and was killed and robbed of her belongings.

Mu Tianming didn't have any land, the only thing he had was a newly purchased house with three courtyards, and ten gold bars, that is, one hundred taels of gold.

Before the matchmaker finished the introduction, she only said that there was no official with her, so she was politely rejected by the Zhang family and invited out.

After the matchmaker came back, she talked to Mu Tianming, and suggested: "If the prince has extra money, he can enter the official award, or make up for the official, that is, donate an official." Although the official position donated is not a real position, it is also a background. In the future, whoever sees you will have to shout a big official. ”

Mu Tianming asked the matchmaker about the appointment of officials, and learned that the official business here was similar to that of the Song Dynasty, it was an open system, and the forms of payment were also very diverse, and it was okay to donate money and food.

If it is a grain donation, it is a thousand stone of grain, and you can get a petty official from the eighth grade.

The current price of one stone of rice is 800 yuan, and 1,000 stone is 800,000 yuan, which is 800 taels when converted into silver.

This is not a small amount, you must know that the next-door neighbor Li Qiaoer only earns 50 wen a day by doing handicraft work, and this 800,000 wen requires her to work 16,000 days without eating or drinking to earn it, that is, more than 40 years.

Mu Tianming now has ten gold bars in his hand, one hundred taels of gold, which is all his belongings.

It is 1,000 taels of silver, and it is enough to donate to an official, but considering that in two and a half months, there will be a super cold wave coming, so this money can be used to hoard rice and coal at this time, which can play the greatest role.

At that time, the temperature will reach minus forty or fifty degrees, and the price of grain, especially coal and charcoal, will definitely soar.

Mu Tianming had a plan in his heart, put aside the matter of donating officials, and began to go to the rice store to buy rice and the commercial bank to buy coal.

1,000 stone of rice, 800 taels of silver, Mu Tianming bought 1,000 stones, let people carry it into the newly purchased yard, and when no one was around, he collected all these rice into his personal space.

This space is white, I don't know how big it is, put a thousand stone meters, it looks inconspicuous.

According to the regulations of the Dali Dynasty, one stone of rice is equal to about 60 kilograms, and this thousand stones is 60,000 kilograms of rice.

A person eats rice a day, and if he eats raw rice, he will have a maximum of 300 grams, which is calculated according to the amount of 500 grams of rice. The 60,000 kilograms of rice are enough to eat for 120,000 days, that is, 328 years.

However, Mu Tianming is hoarding rice now, not only to eat it himself, but mainly after the cold wave comes, this thing will become a strategic material, and the price will definitely soar, and it will be used for a lot at that time.

The price of coal, on scales, a scale of coal sells for eighty wen.

A scale weighs 15 catties, which is equivalent to 1 catty of coal and five cents.

"Nine years ago, the new law of the dynasty stipulated that private sales of coal did not need to pay taxes, so the price of coal went down, and a new coal yard was found in Huaizhou, which was easy to mine and close to the border cities, so the price was lower."

The coal merchant said.

Mu Tianming bought all the last two hundred taels of silver in his pocket into coal, a total of 40,000 catties of coal, that is, 2,666 scales.

There isn't much of this coal.

Mu Tianming remembered that when he was a child in his hometown in the north before the crossing, he had to burn five or six thousand catties of coal in one winter, and the temperature in the north at that time was at most minus 156 degrees.

And now, two and a half months later, the temperature here has plummeted to minus forty or fifty degrees, and there will be more coal burned, and the 40,000 catties of coal may be burned for half a year before it is gone.

40,000 catties of coal were transported to the newly bought small courtyard.

When no one is around, it is put into the carry-on space.

Fortunately, in this small courtyard, there are furniture and everything, and when the original courtyard owner Liu Tixing left, he did not take all the furniture away, which saved a lot of money for purchasing furniture.

These rosewood furniture, tables, chairs, bed cabinets and so on are not cheap to buy. And it's very sturdy, take the Eight Immortals Table as an example, I've tested it with Qiu Fu in the past few days, and she won't collapse no matter how she sits on it.

In general, Mu Tianming is very satisfied with this small courtyard.

The bluestone courtyard wall is thick enough, two feet high, close to seven meters, and looks quite secure. Ordinary people can't get in at all.

The high walls keep out the wind, and the cloister in the courtyard protects against the rain.

If you have spare money, build a small garden in the backyard, then even if the cold wave comes, you can enjoy the scenery in this small courtyard.

It's a pity......

The money is not abundant, only buy rice, no meat, fruits and vegetables, the stomach is enough, but it is estimated that after a few meals, the bird will fade out of the mouth.

Sitting on the recliner in the courtyard, Mu Tianming thought about how else he could make money.

In the past, I went to the back mountain to kill the "wild wolf" and exploded some gold, and now the gold is all used up. There are also some items that are kept in the carry-on space.

Mu Tianming took out the [Yi Rong Dan] and took it, as long as his mind moved, he would be transformed into another unfamiliar face. This is a great item that can be used to hide your identity.

There is also the [Puppeteer's Secret Book], take it out and look through it, the text is obscure and I can't understand it at all. Even if he has 10 points of [Jingyuan] now, he can't understand it. Although [Jingyuan] is related to "understanding", this secret book is also too obscure.

That [Space Bead], take it out and play with it, I didn't understand how to use it.

There was a sweet smell in the air.

Mu Tianming looked for the taste, and in the back kitchen of the third courtyard, he saw Qiu Fu, who was wearing a light purple Luo skirt, bending over and boiling porridge on the edge of the stove.

When I walked behind her, I saw that there was multigrain porridge in the pot, including rice, red dates, wolfberries, walnuts, pine nuts, milk tan, persimmons, chestnuts and the like.

I saw that she had a slender waist and a slender figure.

Mu Tianming thought of her newlywed routine every night these days, so he hugged her from behind and carried her to the table next to her.

"Husband, it's daytime." Qiu Fu exclaimed softly.

Mu Tianming looked at her, whether it was a side face or a straight face, she really had a fairy-like peerless appearance, which was completely in line with the ancient fairy he had imagined before.

"Clear water out of hibiscus, natural carving." Mu Tianming said.

Qiu Fu said shyly: "Xianggong, Qiu Fu doesn't know how to write and ink, and I don't know what it means." ”

"Praise you for being beautiful." Mu Tianming said.

Qiu Fu's cheeks flushed.

The small wooden table shook overwhelmedly.

After a long time.

Qiu Fu let out a low voice, "Oops, the porridge is going to be mushy." ”