Chapter 002: Born in Poverty

The evening breeze blew into the dilapidated courtyard, blowing the door grille that had been in disrepair for a long time, and it kept "whirring". Outside the courtyard, the cheap old groom invited and the sound of whipping have faded away.

Standing in the wind, holding a handful of broken silver and copper plates, he was silent, and Chen Jing finally put it in his sleeve.

He didn't know what was waiting for him in this life he had traversed.

Following the memory of the original owner, the Daran Dynasty in the twenty-eight states has been in turmoil. Natural disasters in the south, foreign enemies in the north. Fortunately, after the death of the first emperor, the new monarch worked hard to save the building from collapse through reform.

But these things, to put it bluntly, are still far away from Chen Jing. He was not interested, and his only thought now was to make money.

The original owner's weak body, if he doesn't adjust it in time, he will have a stroke one day, and the gods will not be able to save him.

Unless he says that he is only a stone man in his life.

After thinking for a while in a daze, Chen Jing took a step forward and walked back to the west room. After growing up, Song Yu, the child daughter-in-law, in view of the original owner's madness, has always been estranged, and the two did not share a room, each sharing a room.

After entering the house, Chen Jing found that at some point, there was already an extra quilt in the house. The original winter quilt has been taken away by the original owner, and I invited my classmates to eat flower wine.

With the bedding covering his body, Chen Jing only felt that a warmth slowly enveloped his body, making him usher in the first sound sleep after the crossing.

……

"Chen Jing, Chen Jing!"

The noon sun penetrated straight into the dilapidated house. In the distance, Chen Jing heard someone shouting.

Song Yu went to the countryside to visit relatives, he was the only one in the small broken courtyard, and he was tired, and before he knew it, he was already on the rise.

In a trance, Chen Jing habitually touched under the pillow, and when he found that he couldn't touch the phone, he laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Chen Jing!"

Two scholar-like people burst in at this time.

"Chen Jing, why are you still sleeping! The matter of your family's title deed must be completed today. ”

Chen Jing frowned quietly.

The scholar who spoke, his name was Wu Wen, a proper Sven scum, and the original owner's eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling were brought out by him.

Yesterday, the original owner was instigated, and he was eaten flower wine in winter. Of course, after the expenses were exceeded, the two left Chen Jing and ran away.

Chen Jing still vaguely remembers that in the Spring Building, the original owner seems to have drawn a red charge on the notarization of the sale of the ancestral house.

"Chen Jing, where is your little daughter-in-law?" Wu Wen suddenly changed his words, his eyes kept glancing out, and he even licked his mouth.

Chen Jing was disgusted.

Seeing Chen Jing's appearance, Wu Wen smiled wistfully.

"Chen Jing, you have to come with me quickly, the foreigner who bought the land deed is still waiting outside the official workshop."

"How much do you sell?"

"Originally, it was said to be three or two...... But I bargained and got five taels. Chen Jing, you have made a lot of money. ”

Chen Jing sneered. Although the memory of the original owner is still a little vague, the concept of silver is still there. For example, this Chen family's land deed, no matter how you talk about it, can be sold for forty or fifty taels.

"How about the title deed in two days?" Chen Jing thought for a moment and looked up, "I have a distant cousin uncle today, who came from the capital to run a cloth business, and brought me a few horses of good silk. ”

"That silk may be able to sell for seven or eight taels."

The two scholars who entered the room narrowed their eyes with a smile, and they did not doubt him, after all, Chen Jing in front of him had always been a fool who wanted to save face.

"If I invite him to dinner, I may be able to divide two more horses." Chen Jing raised his head, "You two have to have silver, lend me some." When I sell my silk and my house, I will be rich. ”

Wu Wen and the others hesitated.

"If I don't have money, I won't go, and I won't even be able to invite a table, I'm ashamed. Originally, when I was eating and drinking, I also said that our brothers are brothers in life and death, and we are blessed and enjoy hardships together. ”

"Chen Jing, how much do you borrow, I have a migraine recently, and I have to grab medicine with silver every day."

"Me too, I also suffer from headaches, and my family is poor, so I can only decoct the dregs every day."

Chen Jing's face remained unchanged.

"Are our brothers in life and death? If not, I Chen Jing will not ask again. If so, one tael per person, selling silk and selling a house, naturally your benefits are indispensable. ”

Wu Wen and the two paused, and began to pick and turn through the money bag.

……

In the afternoon, Chen Jing, who walked on the street, stood in the traffic with more than two taels of silver, and fell into a long contemplation.

To survive, earning money is an essential first step.

Of course, there is a lot of knowledge in the head, but it takes some preparation to put it into action. On hand, he only had two taels of silver. This money was still defrauded.

After hesitating for a while, Chen Jing walked into the blacksmith shop, spent half a tael of silver, asked the blacksmith to draw a gourd according to the scoop, made a small iron tong, and spent another half tael to buy dry food for two or three days before walking out of the town alone.

What he had to do was simple. Try to use the knowledge of later generations to make something that the Great Ran Dynasty does not have yet, and sell it as a novelty. In this way, you can also save the first pot of gold.

He didn't hire a groom, and when he left the town, Chen Jing carried his burden and walked to the remote mountain.

Ping'an Town, only more than 500 miles away from the capital, on the long official road, from time to time there are urgent red feather scouts, whipping and running horses, bringing the news of the northern border pass to the capital in a hurry.

"Pedestrians avoid—"

In the smoke and dust rolled up by the horse's hooves, Chen Jing calmly retreated to the side of the road. There are some things that are far away from him, and what he has to do now is to try to live.

Waiting for the iron hooves to go away, Chen Jing simply stopped. After only one hour, the original owner's weak body couldn't stand it at all.

He sat down under a dead tree that had sprouted, opened his baggage, and took out a dry food and water bag.

On the ridges not far from the official road, it is about the beginning of spring, and all eyes can see, all of them are tenant farmers who grow rice. Many people did not plough their oxen, so they tied wooden plows with ropes, and in pairs, they ploughed hard and shallow, spilling sweat into the fields.

After only a few glances, Chen Jing was stunned for a while.

Under the spring breeze, he saw Song Yu, with a wooden plough tied to his body, who happened to be tired, and was looking up to wipe his sweat and look at the sun overhead.

The side face with a lily bun, even if it is stained with mud, is still as delicate as a fairy.

Where is this to go to the countryside to visit relatives, it is clearly to help and subsidize the family.

If you leave the Chen family, you may be able to have a better life, and even, with your good looks, it is possible to marry into a wealthy family.

Chen Jing stood up, took out a water bag and two cakes, and called a drooping child.

"I'll invite you to eat a piece of cake, and you can take the rest of the food for me to Miss Song over there, okay?"

The drooping boy was overjoyed, and after receiving something, he rushed into the ridges.

Chen Jing turned around, his body regained strength, and he stepped out steadily.