Traveling through the daily life of raising a family in ancient times

Chapter 11 It's Difficult to Find Money to Eat

I am a little regretful that I can no longer play games, touch a computer, or drive a car.

Also, not being able to see family.

But it's good to get back your life, the most important thing is to live.

He Yanxin's personality has always been cheerful and optimistic, which may be due to the good family atmosphere.

His parents have a very good relationship. The couple went through the process of starting from scratch, and worked hard together to achieve the current industries.Every year, they are selected as the best model husband and wife entrepreneurs by netizens.

People in their 50s are still tired of being at home every day.

And as the youngest son in the family, he is indeed quite favored.

I just hope that the parents who heard the news of my death will not be too sad, and I also hope that my eldest brother will work hard to find the other half earlier, and have another child, so that they will not be too sad.

I really want to tell them: It's okay!Your son and I are still alive and well.I have never even had a girlfriend, and now I have a daughter-in-law and two sons!
and many more!

daughter in law?Son... two more?

He was wrong, he shouldn't be so optimistic.

But after all, he didn't escape from reality, and finally remembered that the original owner came to the county to earn money to buy food.

He woke up in a ruined temple outside the city in the morning. Many people would rest here at night to save money, and then went to the city to work during the day.

After eating the unoiled brown rice cakes, He Yanxin began to think about the next thing.

The original owner has read books and can recognize characters, and can also settle accounts.So in the past, I used to come here on a fixed time to help some people who didn't ask the accountant to settle the accounts.

After all, it costs more than ten taels a year to maintain a counting house, but it only costs about one tael to ask He Yanxin once a quarter.So it is true that reading in ancient times was expensive.

But yesterday, when the original owner went to the city, he found that because of the drought, the wealthy households in the county town who were able to leave have all left one after another, including some regular customers who were still there last time.The entire county is in a state of depression.

He found a few more and said that the account room was not available, so he went back to the ruined temple and planned to go to see it tomorrow.If you can't find it again, the original owner intends to do coolies.

Could it be that he also wants to be a coolie to carry things?But I can only get 100 coins a day at most, which is too little given the current family situation.

He Yanxin thought about what skills he had that could be used in ancient times.

piano?no piano.

Equestrianism?Can't afford a horse.

shooting?You have to have a gun too.

modern educational knowledge?It is not the same system as the imperial examination, and he can't even write poetry. He really can't take the imperial examination and can't be a teacher.

Taekwondo?You have to sell your body to be a nursing home, you have to travel far as a escort, and you have no money to open a martial arts gym.

Do glass, soap?He has read books on this subject, and his tutor has also led him to do some small experiments.But now that I can't even afford to eat, let's not do these time-consuming and labor-intensive things for now.

Not to mention the computer major, there is no electricity, let alone the Internet.

He Yanxin suddenly realized that he was really useless.Mrs. Song is much better than him.

The original owner sold the four pieces of embroidery made by Mrs. Song in the past few days. Because the price is higher than that in the town, except for the handkerchief and purse, one of them is big, so they got 300 Wen.

But these are not enough to buy food for a family of four. Rice has risen from 500 yuan per shi in the past to 120 yuan per shi now.And one stone here is about [-] catties.

The original owner's family now only has three taels of silver, which is reserved for emergencies.

In other words, the 300 Wen in my hand is only enough to buy about [-] catties of rice.You can buy twenty catties of miscellaneous grains and old grains.

He Yanxin sighed helplessly when he thought of the gruel with salty sauerkraut that was not considered a serious meal in his eyes.

How can you just eat those?
What's more, he himself can't stand porridge with pickled vegetables without any oil and water, so he has to find a way to buy something else.

The cake he ate just now, if he wasn't so hungry, he just wanted to throw it away, okay?

He has never experienced such hardship since he was a child.

There is a long way to go, and it is impossible to restore a modern life here, but at least you have to eat well.

No, no.At any rate, he is considered a talent in modern times. How come he can't even earn money for meals in ancient times?

He Yanxin tried hard to think about what he could do here to make quick money.

He frowned and slowly reviewed the memories in his head, and soon came up with a method, but he needed to plan carefully to ensure that there would be no mistakes before he could do it.

Although there is a lot of risk, this is the easiest and fastest way, just do it!As the saying goes, give it a go, and a bicycle will become a motorcycle.

After getting up and entering the city.I bought a set of beige, white and black stitching clothes for 70 cash at the clothing store, and bought a box of the cheapest powder at the next rouge shop for 7 cash.

I ate a bowl of glutinous rice noodles on the side of the road, which cost 20 Wen.The price of food has doubled, and so has the price of noodles.

In the evening, I spent another 40 Wen to find an ordinary family on the edge of the city to rest for the night. When I contacted the owner’s house, I lowered my head the whole time so that people could not see clearly.

Because staying in the inn now needs to register the wayfinding, he brought it with him, but...

Afterwards, He Yanxin kept walking up and down the room, muttering words.Sometimes frowning, sometimes smiling.To be honest, it's kind of nagging.

I got up early the next day, started to tidy up, and left the house after six o'clock.

The material of the clothes on his body was just ordinary linen, but He Yanxin's appearance was pretty good, but his skin was not very fair.

But it's simple, He Yanxin almost learned how to look at his mother's makeup often, so he bought a box of powder to wipe his face and the exposed parts of his body.

After tidying up like this, he still has the style of a modest gentleman, a hermit and a master.Of course, it may also be because of simple thinness.

very good!At least at first glance, it will definitely not be connected with the farmer in black who entered the city yesterday.

"Mom, what is this man doing?"

"He's stinky there. Don't imitate him, a big man..."

The woman took the child and walked around He Yanxin who was using a puddle of sewage on the ground to "look in the mirror" with some disgust.

He Yanxin: ...

Trying to finish looking in the mirror under the newly bright sky, reconfirming that there are not too many flaws in my outfit.He confidently walked towards the magistrate's house, and when he came out, his arms were already bulging.

Then calmly and quickly turned around in the city, and finally got rid of the people following behind.

Tsk tsk tsk, compared to the kidnappers he has encountered, this kind of tracking method is weak, okay?

Finally, in a hidden alley, I changed into the clothes I had hidden here before, and went to the nearby well to wash off the powder on my face.He also changed the shape of his eyebrows with burnt charcoal, making him look a bit fierce.

The newly bought clothes were torn into pieces by him and thrown into the toilet.It's not that he wastes it, but keeping it is a hidden danger after all. To be on the safe side, it's best not to ask for it.

Because the clothes are of good quality, people will definitely wear them if they find them.So tearing it up and throwing it away is also afraid of bringing disaster to others. After all, what he told the county magistrate was not a trivial matter.

Of course, it is also for the sake of doing things, so that we can meet each other in the future.As long as the people in Zhixian can't recognize him now, and they can't find this set of discarded clothes, there is room for him in Zhixian.

However, it is not easy to find people in modern times with monitors, let alone in ancient times.

Neither the original owner nor him used the road guide in the city, so how to find it?Ask one by one?When they asked, he ran away early.

I hid the 200 taels of silver notes and the ten taels of silver ingots I got from the magistrate in my clothes and put them close to my body, and only took ten taels of silver coins in my hand to buy supplies.

First, I went to have a meal and inquired about the news in the city.

In the afternoon, I leisurely went to the rice shop to buy [-] catties of rice. Because I like red beans very much, I bought [-] catties alone.

I went to the butcher shop and bought six catties of pork and a chicken.He always felt that it was not safe to tie eggs with straw, so he only bought twenty.

After searching around the city, I bought vegetables from a family with a well.There are only a few types, including greens, cabbage, garlic sprouts and eggplants, and they are also very expensive.It doesn't matter whether He Yanxin is expensive or not, he wants everything he can ask for.

　I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, family reunion and good luck in everything.

　　The author has nothing, so I will send you a double update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)