Chapter 5: The Making of Money (1)

After returning home, Yuan Qi locked himself in his room and instructed his personal maid Qingfeng to guard the door and not let anyone enter the room. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Qingfeng was not surprised by the temper of his second son, and left the room in response.

When Yuan Qi was left alone in the room, he walked over to his desk and studied the ink while recalling the shape of the Takahashi saddle, the bilateral stirrups, and the horse's iron hooves in his previous life. After a while, Yuan Qi had a general idea in his mind, so he splashed ink and drew on the silk cloth. Fortunately, in his previous life, Yuan Qi had a wide range of knowledge, so he quickly integrated into the unique atmosphere of this world in this life. At this moment, with the memories of his previous life, it was effortless to draw a few things such as Takahashi's saddle.

Soon, the three pieces of silk cloth were already painted by Yuan Qi with the pattern of a Takahashi saddle, bilateral stirrups and horseshoes. Looking at his masterpiece, Yuan Qi nodded with satisfaction, and then sighed softly. Although the world is in turmoil now, there is no great chaos, and before the time of the chaos, we will not be able to organize our own army, and without the army, these advanced equipment will naturally not be able to expand large-scale production.

Retracting his thoughts, Yuan Qi folded the three pieces of silk cloth, put them in his arms, and then said to the door: "Sister Qingfeng, come in." "Qingfeng is Yuanqi's personal maid, since Yuanqi was born, she has been with Yuanqi's side to take care of him, nominally a maid, but Yuanqi has always treated Qingfeng as a sister, and even Yuanqi's monthly money is kept by Qingfeng.

The door was pushed open, and a girl in the mood for love walked in, dressed ordinarily, but with a good figure and a delicate face, she looked like she was fourteen or fifteen years old. When Qingfeng walked in front of him, a flattering smile appeared on Yuan Qi's face: "Sister Qingfeng, that, I have something to do tomorrow, you see, can you give me some money?"

Qingfeng stared at Yuan Qi for a while, and said softly: "The master has always advocated frugality, and every application in the family is carefully distributed by the lady through calculation, and the second son's example money is thirty dollars per month, but last month you created a new sword, not to mention this month's case money, even last month's case money, you have spent it all." Yuan Qi drooped his head in distress and muttered in a low voice: "I knew you would say that, but isn't there still the money from last month? I didn't build any weapons last month." Qingfeng looked at Yuan Qi's embarrassment, laughed, and said: "Second son, you are really embarrassed to say, you have built three swords and two halberds in the past six months, not to mention the money last month, even the money that Qingfeng has saved hard in the past half a year has been spent by you, you don't know how expensive oil and rice are, and now the price of a pound of iron is almost the same as a pound of silver, plus the manual cost of the blacksmith....."

"Okay, okay," Yuan Qi hurriedly waved his hand to interrupt Qingfeng's verbosity, and said with a bitter face: "I know, tomorrow's matter, I'll figure it out myself." Qingfeng shook his head lightly and said: "The way of the world is not good now, that is, in our state, the lord is well governed, and the lives of the people are quite passable. ”

"What?" Yuan Qi was shocked by Qingfeng's words, his heart was sad, he waved his hand in a depressed mood, and said to Qingfeng: "I know, I won't spend money indiscriminately in the future, Sister Qingfeng, I'm tired, I'll rest first." ”

Qingfeng didn't say anything more, quietly put some copper coins on the table, and then turned around and walked out of the room. For Yuan Qi, Qingfeng knows that he has always regarded himself as a sister, which is different from the sons of other families, not to mention the son-in-law of other families, not to mention that he is kind to the maid and Yan Yuese, it is already very good if he doesn't beat or scold. Even some sons don't treat the maid as a human being at all, for Qingfeng, she has always regarded the second son as a younger brother, but she doesn't dare to say it, after all, she wants to talk about dignity and humility. The copper coins left on the table just now were not Yuan Qi's regular money, but her own commission.

After being silent for a while, Yuan Qi shook his head vigorously, it seemed that he had to speed up his pace, and he must find a way to have his own personal guards, so that it is possible to achieve a hegemony in this world.

Forget it, let's talk about it later, let's solve the problem at hand first. Yuan Qi knew that prices were soaring now, but he didn't expect that the price of a pound of iron had risen to the point where it was almost the same as a pound of silver. In this way, the weapons I have built these days have indeed cost a lot of money, and I am afraid that my own money is not enough, and Qingfeng has also privately cushioned a lot.

"Hey, these money ....." Yuan Qi finally saw the copper coins that Qingfeng put on the table before leaving, and his heart couldn't help but be greatly moved. He understands that this money must be Qingfeng's own commission, and the commission in this world is not very rich, and Qingfeng has advanced a lot of money for himself in normal times, but he still keeps this money. Although it is not much, this feeling still makes Yuan Qi feel warm.

Picking up the copper coin on the table, putting it in his hand and checking it, Yuan Qi suddenly had a bold idea, simply use the money to make an investment, even if it is the principal of Qingfeng, he will make money in the future, except for the daily expenses such as building weapons by himself, the rest will be left to Qingfeng as a dowry. However, what kind of investment can be made to invest less, achieve quick results, and achieve large returns?

After thinking about it for a long time, Yuan Qi didn't come up with a specific solution, and he couldn't help but feel distressed in his heart. At this time, Qingfeng's voice sounded from outside the door: "Second son, it's time to wash." Yuan Qi replied casually: "Come in." Qingfeng walked into the room with a basin of water, and then carefully took out a folded handkerchief in his arms and carefully placed it on the table. Turning his head to Yuan Qi, he said, "Second son, today's breeze sees that you are very depressed in your heart, so bring some homemade incense to help refresh your mind." Yuan Qi looked down at the handkerchief that Qingfeng had opened, and the handkerchief was wrapped in a few large brown leaves, similar in shape to banana leaves. Suddenly, Yuan Qi stood up like an electric shock, and his tone was full of surprise: "Sister Qingfeng, you say, this is incense?"

Qingfeng blushed and said in a low voice: "Yes, no, this is the homemade incense made by the people in our hometown, and the real incense of large families is incomparable, and this kind of incense is relatively large when it burns, if the second son doesn't like it, I will take it." ”

"Don't be busy, don't take it away first, burn it first, let me smell it. Yuan Qi hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Qingfeng and said in a loud voice. Qingfeng put his mind at ease, stretched out a pair of jade hands to put the earth incense leaves into the incense burner, and then lit them with a flint. In a moment, the earthy incense leaves in the incense burner were fully burned, and a wisp of green smoke rose from Nana's incense burner.

Yuan Qi approached the incense burner, took a few breaths vigorously, and inhaled the green smoke into his nose. In an instant, a faint smell of choking came to my face, and a slight feeling of dizziness occurred in the depths of my brain. Yuan Qi was completely stunned, this, how is this possible? This is clearly tobacco, how can there be tobacco in this world?

Turning his head to look at Qingfeng, Yuan Qi asked, "Sister Qingfeng, how did these earthy incense pieces be discovered, and how do you usually use them?" Qingfeng saw that Yuan Qi was interested, and secretly happy in his heart, and his tone was much more relaxed: "This kind of thing is very common in my hometown, but I don't know why, it is rare in other places, and this is still the earthy fragrance found on a small hillside in the suburbs." In my hometown, the richer people mix and burn some low-grade spices with local incense, which will taste better, and the poor people are just like me now, just use it to burn, but the taste will be worse. ”

Yuan Qi asked again: "Then are these earth incense originally what they are now?" Qingfeng shook his head and said: "No, these earth incense was not originally withered yellow like now, but verdant color, but it is not easy to burn, so it is necessary to pick off the earth incense leaves and put them in the sun before they can be used for earth incense." ”

"Haha, this time it's developed. After listening to Qingfeng's narration, Yuan Qi couldn't help laughing, and then asked Qingfeng: "Sister Qingfeng, how many of these earthy incense do you still have in your hand?" Qingfeng replied without thinking about it: "There are many more, it's not easy for me to go out of the city once, so I picked a lot of them last time." ”

Yuan Qi said excitedly: "Sister Qingfeng, immediately, immediately, take me to your room now, we have something important to do." Qingfeng was blushed by Yuan Qi's words, and hurriedly lowered his head and pinched the corners of his clothes, and whispered: "Second, second son, no, no, you are still young ..... now" Yuan Qi stood on the spot, only to realize that what he just said was too ambiguous, which made Qingfeng have a beautiful misunderstanding. Although my brother is only eight years old in this life, but my brother has 30 years of life experience in his previous life, how can he make such a low-level mistake?