Chapter 50: Windfall
Today, Zhou Ang came home a little late.
But fortunately, my mother and sister had just eaten, and the rice in the pot was still hot.
Zhou Ang had just eaten about an hour ago, but at his age, it was no problem to eat more, but he still broke half of the multigrain cake and handed it to Zhou Zihe.
When it was time to eat, Zhou Ang handed over the salary he got from Chen's house today to his mother, and explained the origin of the extra money.
Hearing that even the Buddhist scriptures that had been handed in for a long time had been re-paid, Zhou Caishi was happy, but he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and said: "Back then, your father's words were said by everyone, and he once said that words were the second face of a scholar, no matter how good they were, the better, the better!
The family chattered, rejoiced, and sighed, but after Zhou Ang had eaten and his mother put away the money, they still had to be busy as usual.
Collect clothes, fold clothes, and sew and mend them, and hurry up to send the clothes back before it gets dark.
And the day has not been very stable recently, and they decided that unless they are acquainted, they will not be blamed even if they are late, otherwise they will not take on new jobs - many years of washing and drying clothes, the local weather in Lingzhou, are all in the mother's heart. She doesn't know how to read astronomy or memorize the calendar, and when it comes to the time of the year, she can roughly guess which days it will rain and what it will look like.
It is said that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, but for those who are attentive, there are no real and completely unforeseen storms.
Seeing them collecting clothes in the yard, Zhou Ang stood at the door of the hall and chatted with the two for a while, most of them were little sisters chattering, talking about things between the laundry women.
Occasionally, she had some little fantasies, such as how many times she had said that it would be nice if there was a boat at home, and then she would go east to carry rice. In the harvest season, go directly to the county below to pull grain, and you can earn more than one or two silver back and forth - it is only a hundred miles of waterway back and forth.
Of course, when this girl thought about it, she probably didn't think about it at all, if she didn't have the strength to carry food by herself and easily support the boat for hundreds of miles against the current, this money would really not be earnable.
Because this is a lot of money, once you hire someone to carry, row, or something, as soon as the salary is opened, there will be nothing left—in fact, even if you have a lot of strength, you have to hire someone.
Of course, at her age, twittering these childish visions to you makes people only feel beautiful, and they don't have the heart to tell her directly about the cruelty of reality.
Even her mother, Zhou Cai, generally doesn't break her.
It's only occasionally that when she says something really unreliable, she will smile and point a few sentences, telling her the actual suffering, so the little girl thinks about it, and suddenly she will show an interested look.
In fact, Zhou Ang occasionally participated in such conversations and chats in the past, but the participation was very low, because his mother and sister were busy with their livelihoods every day, and they dealt with a group of grain merchants, tea merchants, medicinal herb merchants, shipbuilders, laborers, etc. every day, and they were naturally sensitive to the things on this ship, including transportation, prices, etc., and Zhou Ang was responsible for reading since he was a child, and he really didn't intervene in these things.
Of course, the current Zhou Ang is better, to be precise, much better.
Although he lacks the most direct first-hand experience of the commercial operation of this society, he is no stranger to the "business" itself. Even, after learning a little about the local situation, he saw the problem much more deeply than Zhou Cai's.
This kind of high-level insight and insight is an advantage that is difficult for local "indigenous" people to compare with more than ten years of modern education and several years of work experience in modern society.
Of course, now Zhou Ang has no intention of showing this.
In this era, it is possible to do business, and it is not a problem to have enough food and clothing, but he does not have this idea. Because he knows he's on a better path.
Therefore, he would be more willing to participate in such family chats than the previous Zhou Ang, but he still rarely interjected - he just liked the atmosphere of such a family talking easily.
............
After chatting for a while, seeing that the dried clothes were almost finished, and then the two of them were going to sew and mend them, Zhou Ang simply turned around and went back to his room.
Now that he has resigned from his temporary job of copying the Diamond Sutra, he has freed up a large part of his afternoon and evening time, so he can naturally arrange it independently.
I have experienced too many things this morning, and Uncle Shi has given a lot of "brain holes", and Zhou Ang is going to carefully sort it out first. And the way of combing, it's still like that, write them all down.
During the period of copying the "Diamond Sutra", not only did I get a lot of money, but also a lot of good ink and paper left, and even the brand new and untouched pens were left with two or three rods, which were all sorted out last night and placed on the table for easy access at any time. But at this time, Zhou Ang purely subconsciously ripped over a piece of cut ordinary paper.
I was accustomed to using it from the very first.
I sharpened the ink, picked up the pen—
First, learn and master how to make a flame;
Second, I recently found time to go out and buy a good weapon. Short knives are best.
After thinking about it, I added another sentence -
You can ask Brother Anping to recommend which blacksmith shop is better.
And then—
Third, try to melt the demon element into it.
Writing this, he couldn't help but sigh - it's a pity that Uncle Shi can't help. Although he couldn't figure out why, he didn't say anything when he asked Uncle Shi, but he just couldn't help, so he could only tell him how to get it.
If he makes a move, it will definitely be safe, but if you try to get it yourself, you have to be careful and careful - there is only one demon yuan, and once it fails, the next one doesn't know when it will be met.
What's more, even if you do, you may not be able to beat others!
Alas, everything in the mountain gate can't be brought out, and if you bring it out, it will be wasted, and even Uncle Shi and Ao Chun can't go out, which is really a problem. Uncle Shi refused to say what the reason was, presumably there was something that made him embarrassed, and when Master came back, he must ask him what was going on.
It doesn't make sense!
Uncle Shi can easily "buy" wine, "buy" rice, "buy" vegetables, or bring the fried vegetables directly to him, which is even more divine than Meituan Hungry, that is to say, he can easily get the things outside, and the things outside enter the small temple, which is also easy to use, and it doesn't make sense to do the other way around!
And the snow pile, and the jujube tree obviously doesn't look dead, why is it the end of April, and it still doesn't sprout?
These are the questions that will have to be asked when Master comes.
After walking for a while, Zhou Ang continued to write-
Fourth, I have to learn weapons.
Regarding this point, what Zhou Ang thought in his heart was: It is not enough to refine the body, and Uncle Shi also said that the set of boxing techniques he taught himself is used to refine the body, and it is useless to really fight. If you refine your body, that set of punches is indeed effective, and your current speed and strength have been greatly improved, but this alone is not enough, you must have something that can fight with people and even fight to the death.
Therefore, fist and foot kung fu and weapons must be learned.
Fifth...... Ah, this, think about it, I have to wait until I fuse the demon yuan into the weapon, and retain the "demon law" in the demon yuan, it is possible to practice. Otherwise, even if you remember the method taught by your uncle how to crack the other party's demon law, there is no place to practice and practice.
So, the fifth is not this, the fifth is ...... According to the method taught by his uncle, try to write a talisman that can crack the demon law.
Sixth, find a small stone first, try to mark it with my aura, and try to summon the aura directly. Strive to be able to be on call like others.
Seventh, when the demon yuan is successfully cast, test the method of using spiritual energy to break the confinement and break the demon method taught by the uncle.
............
Before you know it, it's all over a piece of paper.
After writing the seventh article, Zhou Ang thought about it again and felt that it was almost that, no matter how many plans he had, it would be useless to write now, so he stopped writing.
After reviewing the seven plans from the beginning to heart, he then picked up the page and threw it behind him—the paper left his hand, and when it burned, it was reduced to ashes when it was halfway down in the circle.
This feeling is a bit pretentious, but it's cool.
I feel like I'm really cultivating immortals.
............
When Zhou Ang cleared his mind, he heard that there was no movement outside, got up and went out for a turn, and found that his mother and sister had already gone out. Apparently it was to return the clothes.
Regardless of the reason, this morning's class has already fallen, and Zhou Ang decided to take advantage of the fact that it is not dark at this time to try to make up for it.
Standing in the courtyard, looking for a complete place that had not been cut by a clothesline, he stood, took a deep breath, entered the state of visualization, and watched the big rooster pacing away leisurely, and then followed the familiar routine, and began to refine the body.
But as soon as he got started, he felt that something was wrong.
It was not just a matter of the slightly cool but comfortable aura wind swishing into the body faster, and as he punched, he clearly felt that his body's absorption of aura seemed to have become much faster all of a sudden.
Even he could clearly perceive that the speed at which the aura was transforming his body had suddenly accelerated a lot - in the past, he would feel the sourness on his body after a three-way punch, Uncle Shi said, that was the reaction of the aura to transform the body, but now, it didn't take long for the fist to fight, and he already felt that his body was starting to sour. After a punch, the soreness of the body's musculoskeletal swelling has exceeded the effect of the past three-way punch!
Zhou Ang was subconsciously a little surprised in his heart, but he didn't stop, still the same as before, and the second punch was connected again - it was also what Uncle Shi said, the human body has a limit to endure, and cultivation is a long-term thing, so there is no need to make yourself too embarrassed in a short period of time in order to seek speed.
And no matter how many times you practice, the effect is actually just like that, and the effect will weaken very quickly later. Because once saturation is reached, your body automatically rejects the transformation of Reiki.
Therefore, according to Uncle Shi's words, it will be three times, and it will be what it is.
So he endured the soreness, and it wasn't until he finished punching three times that Zhou Ang slowly regained his momentum and stopped.
As a result, when he stopped to examine, he was immediately overjoyed: today's progress is at least five or six times faster than in the past!
According to the analogy given by Uncle Shi, if it used to be one drop of water every day, today there are at least five or six drops?
After the surprise, Zhou Ang hurriedly thought about what the reason was - he just used this logic, don't care about the good and bad things, he has to quickly analyze why he is practical.
And at this time, it seems that the reason is not difficult to think -
Just this morning, he had just killed a weasel spirit with a demon element.
As for why, Zhou Ang speculated that he had always been resentful of the revenge and evil deeds of the two weasels before and after killing him?
Does this invisibly meet the requirements of the bootstrap technique?
Or rather...... The so-called guidance technique, originally meant this?
This is a nice bonus!