Attack after the end of the Sui Dynasty

Lin Tong studied all night, and Lin Nan was already sleepy. He still lit the oil lamp and took a piece of paper to recite the pronunciation of those words one by one by comparing them with Mandarin.Although Lin Tong had a hand-generated small flashlight in his hand, he didn't dare to use it, for fear of arousing suspicion from others.

Early the next morning, with red eyes open, Lin Tong pulled the boy who had just woken up to practice his local dialect.Lin Tong was not stupid in the first place, and the local dialect here was not difficult to learn. After a few days, he was able to stumble and speak a few words to others.

Fortunately, the family who took in Lin Tong was quite well-off in this village, and the autumn harvest has just finished, and the family has enough food. chariot people.However, Lin Tong was too embarrassed to eat and drink at other people's homes all the time because he was warmly entertained in the face of saving his father.

After staying for four or five days, Lin Tong began to inquire about things in the city after he was able to communicate with people briefly. He wanted to sell his glazed pixiu for some money, and the three of him couldn't live in other people's homes all the time. Bar.And because of their clothes, they have already attracted a lot of people to visit in the past few days. If this continues, it will be a matter of time before someone comes to make trouble.

Lin Tong changed into the clothes of the old man's son, but unfortunately he was too much taller than the other party, and the clothes didn't fit him very well.Lin Tong, who thought he was all ready, was put on a mat hat by the other party to cover his too short hair.Before leaving, Lin Nan grabbed Lin Tong's thigh and insisted on going with him, but no matter how coaxed Lin Tong was, he would not let go.To be honest, he was worried about letting Lin Tong put his son in the home of someone he had only known for a few days, but he was even more worried about taking Lin Nan to a city dozens of miles away. If something happens, it's easy to get away by yourself, and it's not so easy to take Lin Nan with you.

I don't know how many good things were promised, Lin Nan only freed one hand to wipe away the tears vigorously, and did not let go of the other hand.In the end, Lin Tong had no choice but to borrow a basket from the old man and put Lin Nan in it. It was dozens of miles to the city, and Lin Nan's little legs couldn't walk for long.

When Lin Tong went out with the man from that family, the sky was still half dark, and it was still a long time before dawn.Lin Nan just stayed in the frame and fell asleep all the way.

After walking tens of miles in one breath, when Lin Tong and his party arrived at the city gate, the sky was already bright.The semi-circular masonry city wall with a height of six or seven meters, people waiting to enter the city lined up at the city gate on the side.Lin Tong nervously followed behind Wang Da, for fear that the other party would find out that something was wrong.The soldiers didn't check them very carefully, they just flipped through their baskets and waved them away.After walking a few steps, Lin Tong discovered that there was actually a city gate inside.

It turned out that the gate outside was not the real city gate, but an entrance to the urn city, which was surrounded by another wall outside the city gate.There are arrow towers all around here, if someone breaks in, after they enter the urn city, the real city gate and the urn city will form a closed space, and these people will really be the turtles in the urn.

The people coming and going in the market were not as poor as Lin Tong imagined. Although many people wore patched clothes, there were also many gorgeous ones.There are cake sellers, cake sellers, fruit sellers, firewood pickers, and there are many people like Lin Tong who come to sell mountain products.Lin Nan had already woken up, and was sitting in the basket staring blankly at this extremely unreal but real world.

There were no pawnshops in this period. If ordinary people borrowed money, they would borrow money from pledged warehouses. This was the predecessor of pawnshops, but it was actually a usury for mortgage loans.It was originally a way for the temple to help the poor, and later these rich people learned it, but their interest was much higher than that of the temple.After asking where they were, Lin Tong took Lin Nan there. Wang Da was a little worried, fearing that they would be bullied by the steward there, so he wanted to go with him.

A name like "Sanyifang" really doesn't look like the name of a shop that does usury business.What Lin Tong was going to sell today was the glazed Pixiu car accessories. He didn't bring other odds and ends, and those that could be sold were almost worthless. Don't even think about those modern products. Lin Tong still wants to live for a few more years.

Lin Tong put the glazed pixiu pendant on the cabinet, the manager raised his eyelids, then opened his eyes, picked up the pendant and looked at it carefully for a while, said, "Is this yours?"

"Of course it's mine." Lin Tong replied.

The steward looked at Lin Tong, and he didn't look like a countryman. After pondering for a long time, he said, "It's a good thing, so how about it... I'll lend you [-] yuan, redeem it for up to two years, and pay two months' interest. Points, and one month's interest will be reduced in winter. If you can't pay back the money by the time, this thing will not belong to you."

Fifty thousand dollars?Lin Tong didn't know much about the prices at this time, so he turned his head and asked Wang Da how much grain he could buy for [-] yuan.Wang Da shook his head and said, "If the [-] yuan was in the year before last, it would be considered a small fortune, but it will not work this year. Shandong was in chaos a while ago, and the price of grain has risen sharply. I heard that it costs hundreds of dollars to fight rice there. Let's Although it’s cheaper here than there, it’s not much cheaper, a bucket of chestnut rice costs forty or fifty dollars.”

Now a bucket of rice costs forty or fifty yuan, and it will only be more expensive in the future.Lin Tong has also seen ancient buckets in the past few days, and a bucket weighs more than a dozen catties. Calculated in this way, [-] yuan can be exchanged for several thousand catties of grain according to the current price. With this food, it should be enough for him to barely gain a foothold here.Lin Tong nodded, and put the glazed pendant on hold. This kind of decorative gadget is useless, so it's better to exchange for more money.Because it was inconvenient to carry [-] yuan, the manager gave Lin Tong some equivalent silk.Wang Dasheng was afraid that the man would deceive Lin Tong, so he checked again and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the copper coins and silk, so he asked Lin Tong to put them away.

Carrying such a large bag of copper money and silk, Lin Tong felt a lot more at ease.I bought some oil and salt, pulled some cloth, and asked the wife of the Wang family to help me and Lin Nan make some clothes when I went back. Lin Tong wanted to buy some food, but was stopped by Wang Da. If there are a lot of land to sell grain, the price is not much different from here, or even lower, so there is no need to travel so far.

After walking around, I only bought a pot for cooking, some daily necessities, three or four catties of meat, and some cakes and candies for Lin Nan, which didn't cost much.

Lin Tong was thinking about how to turn the money in his hand into more money and more food.According to Wang Da's words, the signs of troubled times have already appeared.Lin Tong vaguely remembered that after the Sui Dynasty's defeat from Goguryeo for the first time, a large-scale natural disaster broke out that year, and then someone rose up in Shandong. This has been confirmed by the boy Lin Tong took care of.Then followed the second conquest of Goguryeo, and the third time, more and more people rebelled until the dynasty was completely buried.

The old man Lin Tong rescued had only three rooms in his house. Wang Da and his wife lived in one room, old man Wang and his wife lived in one room, and the remaining room was occupied by the children of the family.The room Lin Tong lives in now is the room of Wang Da and his wife, and Wang Da and his wife are temporarily living with a few younger ones.

It's not good to occupy someone else's house all the time. On the way back, Lin Tong asked if there were any vacant houses in Wangda Village that could be rented.Wang Da thought for a while and said, "If it's a spare room, it's better in Wang Liang's house, but that room has been killed. If you don't mind it, I'll go talk to Wang Liang. One month's rent I reckon it won’t be much, three or five hundred dollars will be enough.”

Lin Tong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and thanked him repeatedly.All the way without talking, when he arrived at Wangcun, Lin Tong saw Chen Xian waiting at the entrance of the village from a distance.Seeing Lin Tong and the others come back, they hurried over to pick up things and say hello, they were extremely courteous and affectionate.Chen Xian is the boy that Lin Tong took in. When the child saw Lin Tong and Lin Nan going out together in the morning, the child felt a little bit drummed. What if the other party never came back? Would he go back to the mountain to be a bandit again?He was a bandit, but he was actually a cannon fodder, and a cannon fodder who couldn't get enough to eat. Chen Xian was very satisfied with his current living condition where he could eat enough every day, and he didn't want to go back to that kind of hungry day at all.

Of course, Chen Xian's little thought could not be hidden from Lin Tong.As the first teacher who helped him integrate into ancient life, Lin Tong didn't dislike Chen Xian very much.Seeing him coming to help carry things, Lin Tong found a piece of sweet cake from the basket and gave it to Mr. Chen, then rubbed Mr. Chen's head. "I bought meat today, and I will let your Aunt Wang cook it when I go back home."

Chen Xian held the sweet cake like holding a baby, and sniffed it for a long time before taking a bite.Waiting for those little fellows of Mr. Wang to come out to meet people, he swallowed the sweet cake in a few mouthfuls in a hurry, for fear that those little ones would come and ask him for this sweet cake.Lin Tong put Lin Nan on the ground and told him to distribute the sweet cakes to several children.

Wang Da hurriedly scolded the little fellows who surrounded him, and Lin Tong had no choice but to distribute the sweet cakes himself.After returning home, he took another piece of cloth and gave it to Wang's daughter-in-law as a gift for making clothes, and forced it in spite of the other party's excuses.

That night, everyone had a good meal.Lin Nan took a mouthful of steamed cakes and meat, and his mouth was full of oil. The little guy hadn't touched meat for more than half a month, and he ate pancakes and pickles every day. His pink face turned yellow a lot.The other little ones in the Wang family were even more pitiful. They ate only wild vegetable dumplings and wheat cakes, and sometimes acorn noodles.That's not a good thing. If you eat too much, it will be difficult to poop.

After dinner, Lin Tong discussed with Wang Laoer what kind of work he could do. He didn't know anything about this ancient situation, so it was really troublesome how to get along.

Old Wang asked Lin Tong what he would do. Lin Tong thought about it for a while, but he really couldn't figure out what he could do.He doesn't know how to farm. His family used to run a coal mine, but he knows how to mine coal and how to make explosives.But can the coal mines here be mined casually, and how to transport them out? There is still a sales problem when they are transported out.The other is explosives. Even if this thing is made, how many people will use it? This kind of destructive thing can only bring danger to oneself.

As for the business administration he studied, that thing was of little use in ancient times.In troubled times, if you don't have a strong military backing, you don't even think about doing business. Besides, you don't have enough capital. If you do small business, you can barely make ends meet.As for farming, you have to buy land, farm tools, and livestock, but if the land can be planted for a few years, the world will soon be in chaos.In ancient times, the harvest was not high, and there were various exorbitant taxes from the government, and there was one of the biggest restrictions, and his identity was a bit unclear.After much calculation, Lin Tong found that he had no means of earning a living. Lin Tong felt worried.

"Can my brother kill pigs?" Old Wang asked abruptly. It turned out that Lin Tong was wearing pure black casual clothes when he first appeared.In the Sui Dynasty, black clothes were generally only worn by merchants and butchers.Coupled with Lin Tong's astonishing strength, it's no wonder that Wang Laoer thought he was a pig butcher, but why the pig butcher wore such delicate clothes, Wang Laoer couldn't figure it out.

Butcher the pig!Lin Tong's eyes lit up immediately, maybe he could go up the mountain to get some game and come back.After half a month of adaptation, Lin Tong became very confident in his own strength.Stones weighing hundreds of catties can be lifted at once, and they can be carried around for several laps without panting.In the recent days, Lin Tong found that his eyesight, hearing, and nerve reflex speed have all improved greatly, and some places have simply exceeded the limits of human beings.With such a physical condition, Lin Tong is very confident in his hunting plan.

Lin Tong talked about his thoughts, but Wang Laoer frowned. Going up the mountain to hunt is not so easy. There are those two little ones, but they are all counting on him.

After persuasion for a long time, Lin Tong actually made up his mind to go up the mountain to try it out. Old Wang finally sighed, slapped his thigh and said: "Forget it, I'll go to Wang Cheng tomorrow to see if he accepts it." You." From the bottom of his heart, Old Wang does not approve of Lin Tong becoming an Orion, but it is not easy for anyone to make a living these days. Looking at Lin Tong's situation, it is estimated that if he does not become an Orion, he can only sit and eat.

Wang Cheng is an old hunter in this village. He is very experienced and has practiced martial arts well.I also begged for my wife, but when I gave birth to a child, I had a dystocia, and I lost two lives.Later, he got another wife, and died of illness a few years later. It was said that he killed too many lives as retribution, and no one in the village would marry his daughter to him.After the death of two wives, he himself gave up the idea of ​​marrying a wife.However, Wang Cheng's ability is very good. Every time he comes back from the mountains, the wild goods are carried back in piles, such as gazelle, roe deer, fox, and once he even killed a leopard and sold it. Tens of thousands of dollars made the villagers extremely greedy.There are also a few young people who want to learn hunting from him, but he doesn't teach it.