Ten Mile Room

It is said that when ordinary people go out, they eat firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

Jiang Gezi went out, pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, and big red flowers.

The cold rain in early spring hit the bluestone pavement in Niujiao Lane.

What I saw with my eyes was the two ancient giant locust trees at the entrance of the alley, the rain and mist shrouded the small long street, and people came out of it, with a little fairy air.

What you hear in your ears is the sound of copper bells thumping milk at the intersection, the bells of bicycles going to work in groups, the sound of news broadcasting from loudspeakers in a nearby factory, the sound of umbrellas opening, and the sound of children frolicking in rain boots and high-heeled shoes. The sound of children stepping on the stone pavement...

Afterwards, some old gentleman opened the foreign box, and the ancient drama strings were far and near, and the curtain was slowly lifted on this lively day in Laosanxiang.

In an old city, there are always traces of time nostalgia and reluctance to erase.

And Laosanxiang in Changhui County is the hometown that people in this city can think of no matter where they end up in the world, when they talk about their hometown.

It's old enough and has enough stories.

Niujiaotou, Niujiaowei, Niujiao streets and alleys together are called Laosan Alley.

According to the records of the government, 500 years ago, a gentry in the city raised funds to dig a lotus pond, build an academy, build a Confucian temple, and build a Kuixing tower here.

Since then, it has become a sacred place for scholars within a hundred miles around.

After 500 years of vicissitudes, the book business is full of vigor.Wherever young people gather, there is no shortage of stories.

Those scholars came and went, but the last ones who stayed here were the businessmen who traveled from south to north.

Merchants started their families and businesses here, and since then, there have been three old alleys without thresholds, as well as ancient architectural complexes with great merchant characteristics.

Laosan Lane is seven meters wide, and most of the houses facing the street have no gates, thresholds, or courtyard walls. In order to serve customers, there are often two-and-a-half-meter-long eaves at the entrance of the shops to shelter from the sun and rain. Old iron rings in the wall.

Later, instead of riding a horse, people began to ride a bicycle and drive a car. The old iron ring and the old street became historical relics. There was always a foreign-style gentleman from the city with a camera around his neck, looking at his old house and old household. The old door knocker clicked.

Around eight or nine o'clock, the old stage of Datou Street looked up, and the entrance of the three alleys was busy and crowded. People didn't know where they came from. Anyway, it was quietly full.

Those who ride tricycles sell rural local products, those who push wheelbarrows sell brooms and dustpans, those who huddle together in small groups and nail shoe soles, those who beat sesame paste and sell side dishes...

Walking towards the old alley, there are restaurants, hair salons, tape houses, sweater shops, grocery stores...there are everything you need, and it is very fashionable.

At about nine o'clock in the morning, Jiang Gezi, who lives at No. 34 Niujiaowei Lane, slowly removed the two old door panels at the entrance, and began his lazy life of eating and dying all day.

Different from other old neighbors, at least six door panels have to be removed to open the main hall.

But Jiang Gezi is an idler, he can open two doors at most, and he doesn't bother in the main room when he opens the door. go up.

As soon as the dustpan was placed, gossip came from the second floor directly opposite the door.

"Yo, the pigeon is up?"

When Jiang Gezi looked up, it was the old lady Duan who was at the opposite door. He smiled and nodded in response: "Hey! Wake up, what are you busy with, Grandma Duan?"

This one, who will be born this year, but behaves in a gentle and harmonious manner, like an adult in his 50s and [-]s with considerable social experience.

He does things decently and never loses his manners, which can be regarded as a rare thoughtfulness.

"Hey! My mother! What time is it? Can't you? Let me tell you, since the year I married your uncle, I haven't slept late. How can I have that blessing? It's been a day, it's been decades, there's no way, do I owe the old Duan's family..."

The old lady started chatting about the year starting with her [-]th flower as usual. After talking for several minutes, she remembered a big news.

So, he leaned on the old wooden carved window again, raised his voice and called out: "Pigeon!"

Jiang Gezi had no choice but to put down the stool in his hand, and turned around to look at her with a good temper: "Hey! Grandma Duan, tell me!"

"Pigeon, do you know? The price of fried dough sticks has increased!" The old lady stretched out three chubby fingers, and said loudly with an angry expression on her face as if a major national event had happened: "It has increased by three yuan, tell me, a few years ago It’s only five coins, and it’s only been a few years before it’s ten coins. They said, next month, you’ll need thirteen coins. How much does your brother get at the pier a month? I don’t know what’s wrong in the past few years? Price, price increase! I'm annoyed by that... what party?"

Jiang Gezi was stunned for a moment, he never paid attention to this matter, even within a radius of ten miles, he would not step out of the circle.

Not to mention the party, he doesn't even know the name of the sheriff of this county, but he knows that the little glasses in the street office who come to distribute rat poison are called Clerk Liu.

This is the largest official known.

The window next to Grandma Duan was suddenly pushed open, and a head slowly popped out of it, and the man said in a voice with a suppressed laugh, "Grandma, she is the Progressive Party for All!"

Grandma Duan waved her hand, and suddenly realized: "Ah~ yes! That's the progress... It's really into your mother's legs. After beating them for two months, the price of the whole world has been increasing!

Who are they advancing?price?His grandma's legs are wicked and unconscionable, how much do ordinary people earn?Seeing that there is no end to price increases...I hate them!Dove, right? "

Can you say no?

Jiang Gezi could only nod his head, expressing the same opinion and the attitude that we are our own people.

"Third and fourth, you still say they are good? Well, your grandma is a cold duck. After these years, whoever dares to make progress after the past few years will not give them a discount on their legs, and vote for his grandma's ancestral grave. The top of the grave... Not to mention the votes of the whole family, there is not even half of the votes..."

The kid looked at his grandma with an aggrieved expression, opened his mouth depressed, and wanted to explain, but finally... he gave up.

This is Grandma Duan's eldest grandson, Duan Wenglian. He is 21 years old this year. He has been studying at home for two full years and vowed to go to a government-run university no matter what. That's why I'm willing to go in and study.

It sounds nice, um, it sounds nice.

Across the street, there are many students like Duan Wenglian who can't get up and down. To put it bluntly, they don't have money in their hands. How much is a private university now?

An annual income of [-] is a school of benevolence and righteousness, how much does he earn?

Fifteen kilometers away from Duan Qiwen, at the Linhai Wharf, he drove to lift a large bag, and died of hard work for a year, which was thirty times.

There are six brothers in his family, no matter how much he likes to study, it cannot afford his great ideal.

Fortunately, the Duan family is well-off, with no worries about food and clothing, and can afford his ideal of idle food for three to five years, which is not bad.

Grandma Duan was full of anger, spitting wildly, although her old Duan's family didn't necessarily buy deep-fried dough sticks once a month, but as long as the price increased... this would definitely touch the old lady's bottom line.

No, maybe the bottom line of the old lady in this alley will be stepped on.

The old lady said three or five paragraphs, and two old ladies popped out next door to Jiang Gezi's house. One was holding her granddaughter, and the other was leading her grandson with a rope. They were afraid that the child would run away, and they had to trip the naughty boy with their legs.

The kid struggled, his face flushed, but he couldn't get out of his grandma's dog leash...

The grandma who held the baby raised her neck and catered to her: "Grandma! You don't know, do you? Yu's Dairy Factory has notified that next month's milk will cost one penny per catty!!"

"Oh! That's not right. Why did this Yu go back to business? When his grandfather was alive, the price didn't go up during the country's civil strife. Why is it going up now?"

"Then who knows? It's a vile thing, how much does it earn? Every day, it's either one or the other..."

"If it goes up again, don't live!! Two packs of high-quality rat medicine for ten cents, the whole family can go to the gate of the official's house to take the medicine..."

"Success, call us when the time comes, and my sisters will go together..."

Well, from the beginning, Jiang Gezi had nothing to do with them.

Jiang Gezi, who was left behind, shook his head helplessly and smiled. In fact, the old lady was looking for him to complain.The old lady used him as a fishhook because she couldn't find anyone.

No, two little friends were caught out just after a few sentences, and this chatter could not be finished in an hour or two.

The spring rain is still falling.

There are old ladies chatting in the rain, and some young women strolling around holding oil-paper umbrellas with lace hanging curtains. They wear embroidered two-section skirts and walk gracefully in front of the door on leather shoes with their heads raised to prevent the rain... …

Occasionally, I saw a new style of socks hanging in front of a sock store, so I put away my umbrella, sat very openly in front of the store, and stretched out my white slender feet to try them on.

Jiang Gezi was in a daze again.

Where is this?

It seems familiar, yet so strange!

It is chaotic and out of order, but it has its own absolute rules and laws.

You can touch them, them, them, that's the reality, the reality now.

After a long time, he turned his eyes to look at his feet...

In front of the feet, there is a little boy who is only four or five years old, with fat arms and legs, braided hair, and wearing a red bellyband.

His name is Xiaozhuzi, and he is the son of Mrs. Li, a tailor at the alley.

Sister-in-law Li’s husband was killed by enemy bandits in the grassland and she became Li’s widow. Then, Master Huo She in the Huo’s Martial Arts Hall in the city fell in love with her secretly. joyous?

Etc., etc?Doesn't this mean modern society?

What does enemy bandit mean?

What does prairie mean?

Means nothing!

That's what Jiang Gezi means now.

To put it simply, this person is not from his hometown, from this time period, from this time and space.

The story about him, in short, is that one day he died and came back to life, and God overpowered him, and he lived in a new world that was divided into two.

So, he is not him, this is not home, the past is not his past, now, who cares whose present it is, in short, his world has completely collapsed.

He went from this world to another world, and there is a game world in his luggage. This is Jiang Gezi's life now.

Xiao Zhuzi is always stationed at the door of Jiang Gezi's house. Although his expression is smiling, it is not like a human being, and his emotions come from his heart.

Most of the NPCs in the game are like this, and these game characters have not been seen in other worlds, and they have developed greater wisdom.

Xiao Zhuzi's lines were silent, and a dialogue window slowly popped up on the top of his head, and the same game lines appeared in the window: "Big brother, big brother, I'm lost... I want to find my mother... Woooo... "

Turn pages.

"Wuuu... Take it back to my house, and I'll give you this fish of mine..."

"Ok!"

The corners of Jiang Gezi's mouth twitched slightly, and he took the big carp on top of his head and stuffed it into the game bag, dragged the fat boy with one hand and started his own routine, walking around the back alley of his house on both sides of the Yuanbao River, watching Jogging like a walk...a day's itinerary for clearing tasks.

In the communication between him and Xiaodouzi, the body and language have actions.

And he didn't hide it either.

But realistic people can at most see him in a daze, and can't see anything else.

First send the fat boy to the big locust tree at the entrance of the alley, and the widow Li standing under the locust tree will be grateful to teach him the basic sewing skills. Since Jiang Gezi's basic sewing skills have reached the full level, he will complete the task now. You can get two bolts of cloth, coarse cloth.

You can also spend ten copper coins or more in Mrs. Li's portable store, and you can trade for coarse cloth, cotton cloth, printed cloth, and even ordinary colored silk and satin.

This is the treatment in Xinshou Village, even if you have money, you can't spend it.

Put the two pieces of cloth into the bag and go north, you will see a tired general, he said that the foreign enemy is about to invade, but his battle armor is broken.

Come on, let's make up the general's armor.

After finishing it, the general will teach you a series of basic martial arts such as Yang Family Boxing and Yang Family Sword handed down from his family.

Since Jiang Gezi has already learned these martial arts, he can now get random weapon prizes such as fists made of steel every time, and they are not fixed. Sometimes they are big swords, and sometimes they are given money darts.

You can also spend ten coppers or more to buy a good weapon of blue quality from the General.

After the first mission of the general is completed, there is the second mission of the general.He said, my knife is rusty, to resist foreign enemies, please repair it for me...

so?General, what have you been doing before?

Turning around, I have to go to the gazebo at the bottom of the mountain to learn blacksmithing from Blacksmith Wang...

Blacksmith Wang said: I have no charcoal for blacksmithing.

The sheep-herding boy at the foot of the mountain said: My sheep and wolf are in their mouths.

Mr. Qi said: There is righteousness in the world, can you learn from warriors?

Master Huo said: Mr. Xiao, here is a private letter and a red flower, which can show my affection. Can you send it to Widow Li's house for me, thank you very much...

There are 25 NPCs in the border town, and after completing a set of tasks in Xinshou Village, Jiang Gezi can learn 25 skills including life skills, including about ten martial arts skills, and the rest are life skills.

After completing a set of missions, he will kill a group of wolves, twenty cows, thirty chickens, forty deer...and two female ghosts...a king cobra.

After the task is completed, he can get fifty catties of beef jerky, a random weapon made of basic steel, two pieces of narrow cloth, five taels of silver, five hundred copper coins, fresh rabbit meat, chicken, venison, beef, lamb, pork A few, five hundred catties of charcoal, a tent for the newcomer, a bottle of fresh air pills, and a bottle of detoxification pills...

In modern society, if you have something to go to the county police station, you don't have the ideal of being a soldier, so why learn this kind of martial arts?What are you doing with all these illegal weapons?

Hustle and bustle, that is, the task rewards given by Tang Baozi, the housekeeper of the General's Mansion, are affordable, and the fifty catties of beef jerky given to him once is a bit useful.

This beef jerky is delicious and spiced.

Jiang Gezi is a person who has seen a bigger world and had more money. Of course, he also had a very happy life.

But now he is alone, has no family, no relatives, and the money he earns is not consumed, and he lives quite lonely and cold.

In the previous life, I always had extravagant hopes, struggled and calculated all the way, and half my life turned into nothingness in a blink of an eye, but now I start from a new one, but I have no goals.

For four full years, he is still digesting this inexplicable world.

Now, he is in the Eastern Continent, Kyushu, a confederal state. This place is neither China nor Earth. It is called Gaia. Jiang Gezi thinks that it should be the twin sister of Earth.

Here, the social background is that there are royal families, nobles, aristocratic families, monopolies, and various parties in capitalist society are playing non-stop political shows every day.

You feel that you have arrived in a modern society, but this old street finally has some old etiquette, old rules, and embroidered jackets and skirts all over the street to tell you that this place is antique.

When you feel old-fashioned, when you walk out of the street, you will see the No. 9 bus stop. There are cars that burn gasoline, and those that burn Panneng. People buy TV sets, and those who have no money listen to Nanyang box, oh, it’s the radio.

Speaking of openness, there are traditional etiquette and laws. Talking about feudalism, nine states and nine kingdoms, the queens of all dynasties don’t know how many people have been born. The common people are free citizens and have the right to vote. There is even absolute equality between men and women here.

Just to adapt to this strange society, Jiang Gezi remained silent for four whole years.

Let's talk about now.

Repeatedly, 24 hours a day, even in my dreams, I have to spend at least two to five hours doing a series of tedious tasks during the day.

The lines are fixed, the people are also fixed, NPCs have no emotions, a game has been played for four full years and has not left Novice Village, the character level is only thirty, Jiang Gezi is mentally numb and lonely, life is dull enough that's it.

It was already 12:30 noon when I walked home from the Yuanbao River.

Jiang Gezi returned to the house, took a bath with the black paint brought in from the backyard of the general's mansion, and the large wooden barrel inlaid with fine snail flowers, and quickly tidied up the house by relying on the tidying skills he learned from the waiter in the shop. With the cooking skills learned from Chef Yang, he made a delicious home-cooked stir-fry. After eating, he walked slowly to the door of the house to place the goods.

When people walk in the world, they always have to have a business that comes with money. Jiang Gezi sells beef jerky.

The stall in his house is not always open. It is set up every three days, and it sells at most 150 catties of beef jerky at a time. If it is a holiday, he will do a few more beef jerky tasks alone. .

A dustpan of beef jerky, a dustpan of beef strips, and a dustpan of diced beef jerky, all of which taste like five spices, all for [-] cents a catty.

The stuffed soup buns are given randomly, sometimes round ones, sometimes long ones. I don’t know if the game designers were too busy back then.

After placing the goods, Jiang Gezi hung dozens of cotton cloth bags on the door panel behind the dustpan, one catty, two catties, five catties, and ten catties of cloth bags.

He was lazy to weigh people one after another, so he used basic tailoring techniques to paint a lot of antique bags, and made some small art parquets on them.

It's funny to say that his beef jerky packaging was once all the rage in Laosan Alley. When children went to kindergarten, old ladies sold vegetables and so on, they would hang a beef jerky cloth bag on their arms and shoulders.

Neighbors, what's wrong with asking you for a packing bag?It's really nothing, people come to the house to ask, and they give it.

Jiang Gezi is a good person, and the old neighbors don't go too far, usually at most once, there is no such thing as a second time.

And Jiang Gezi didn't lack coarse cloth bags, he was quick with his hands and feet, and it took only a few seconds to sew a bag, no matter how big or small it was.

Basic sewing skills are full, to what extent can it be achieved?

to what extent?It is a woman who began to learn to be a female worker at the age of seven or eight. While maintaining good health all the time, she can look as skilled as a 99-year-old with no dazzled eyes and no back pain.

As for the greater prospects in the legend, such as becoming a sewing master?That is gone, don't think about it in this life.

Novice Village hasn't been released yet, so I don't know where the second map is.

Those cloth bags are free when you buy beef jerky. A one-kilo bag is filled with one or two catties, and a ten-kilo bag is filled with eleven catties.

Nowadays, fresh beef costs 35 renminbi a catty, and beef jerky is only [-] renminbi. If you buy a catty, you can get one or two free, plus a beautiful blue and white cloth bag, which is the benevolence and righteousness of Jiang Gezi.

Jiang Gezi's business is very good, just after placing the goods, not long after, regular customers from the neighborhood came to the door one after another, one catty for you, ten catties for me to patronize.

When the guests came, they were all very self-conscious. They chose the cloth bag by themselves, grabbed it with their own hands, and filled it with the strength of breastfeeding. When it was full, they stuffed the prepared banknotes into a wooden box hanging at the door. .

Jiang Gezi didn't care whether others were taking advantage of it or not, he just half-lyed on the bamboo chair in the main room and continued to catch up on sleep.

What's more, he is still holding a copy of "The Legend of the Female General of Kyushu" that he rented at the street for two cents a day, and he is carefully reading... no, self-hypnosis.