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"You daydreaming all," said the elder sister angrily, taking out another contract letter from her arms. Song Jiu wanted to get rich, but before she got rich, she had to make something Li blacksmith had to make. Without this thing, gold bricks would not fall from the sky. She used some houses in her home for 100 guan, which was a three-month period. Moreover, although Song Jiu's father died, she was very prestigious in the river and the interest she gave was not heavy. The monthly interest rate was 3%, which means that nine guan must be repaid for three months. In the Song Dynasty, this interest was regarded as the price of cabbage.
Where did Song Jiu get the money back? It took three months to pay it back. Even if he was acquaintance, he would really take away the house he had to do.
When the eldest sister heard the news, she anxiously raised the money and redeemed the house again.
"Sister..." Song Jiu didn't know what to say. It was said that the Song Dynasty was rich, and there were rich families with hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan in property. That was later. There were still very few such wealthy businessmen now, including the wine store of my eldest sister, which was almost equivalent to the net income of my eldest sister's wine store in a year.
This is okay. Some people say that couples who have cultivated their past lives have the same close relationship between husband and wife, and siblings. Besides, the parents are gone, siblings should get closer. Not to mention 100 guan, even 500 guan, they have to take it when they have to, but my elder brother-in-law.
"Sister, why don't you believe me?"
"You will earn more than you grow up."
"Sister, this year, the imperial examinations of the Song Dynasty only passed eight Jinshi. You asked me to study in the imperial examinations. Why don't you believe me to earn some money?"
"How can this be compared!" The eldest sister stretched out her finger and knocked on Song Jiu's forehead.
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The four rivers of Bian River, Jinming River, Cai River, and Wuzhang River cut the Tokyo City into pieces, and there are dozens of lakes of all sizes. When the cold and warm March meets, the morning light will be high, and the morning light will turn into morning mist. The tall city walls around block the fog. The morning wind cannot be blown away, and the fog floats around the city, like a fairyland.
Song Jiu walked through layers of vague and came to Li's blacksmith shop. The elder sister redeemed the deed from the pawnshop, which meant that Song Jiu borrowed money from the elder sister.
He is not afraid of owing money from the pawnshop, but he is a little uneasy when owing money from the elder sister.
But you can’t be anxious, quality is the key, and Song Jiu can’t afford to lose his life.
Li Blacksmith asked strangely: "Xiao Jiulang, what are you doing?"
"It is a crane, a simple crane," Song Jiu checked before it was done. The principle is not complicated, but there are a few that should have not appeared in this era, such as screws or extra-large screws. If there are screws, wrenches must be made. The appearance of these two things may play a landmark role and may not work. The casting process is too backward, and the manufacturing cost is at least several hundred times or thousands of times higher than in the previous life.
Song Jiu had never considered it. If you are poor, you should be safe and you should be rich. If you are rich, you should take care of the world. You can't even take care of others.
There is another thing that has existed in this era, but it must be precise. It turned out to be a bearing, and there are also bearings, but the bearings were also backward at this time. Song Jiu dared not use them and used gears instead of bearings.
"Kyuro, do you want to use it to hang goods?"
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But Li Blacksmith became more and more puzzled.
"Li Wengweng, you will know in a few days. Follow me to the river bank at noon, and we will assemble the high platform first."
"middle."
Anyway, Song Jiu paid the money, so he could do whatever he wanted.
Song Jiu walked back slowly with his hands behind his back.
The river was too far away. The Bian River was originally very vast. The Later Zhou Dynasty was roughly settled. The Song Dynasty did not establish a country for a long time. Although the capital was renovated, the road was widened, and an outer city wall was built, it was even more unfavorable to the river. Originally, the Bian River was divided into two at the Xiatu Bridge, forming a huge sandbank in the middle. Now, together with the outer city walls, the sandbanks were only one-third of the area in the city, and only two bridges were connected to the north and south. The Bian River tributary bridge in the south still led to the warehouse area. The only thing that was really used by civilians was the north bridge. This terrain caused the Hezhong area not only to be a slum in the capital, but also one of the famous dirty and messy areas in the capital.
The seasons of the year are spring, and the seasons of the day are in the morning. The streets begin to be crowded with bustling crowds. Song Jiu squeezed through the crowd and returned home. There were six tenants living in his family, two of whom sold small department stores, making their own products. There were two people from the Fen River in Hedong. They were low-lying and often flooded. In addition, the Later Han and Later Zhou dynasties fought, and simply came to the capital to make a living. Like his seventh brother-in-law, he worked hard on the river bank to make a living. Two other families were looking for a life in the Sang Family’s tile. One was the son who failed the imperial examination last year with Song Jiu, so he lived in the Song Jiu family.
Go to the Sang Family Wazi to make some money to live. This storytelling is not about the later Romance and novels, but is a novel. They are both short and medium-sized novels, including vernacular language, poetry and essays, and essays in vernacular language. Poetry and essays must be sung in poetry, and essays. The short ones can finish it in half an hour, and the elders can finish it in one or two hours. The middle key is sold for one or two minutes to ask the audience for rewards. Finally, a pair of brothers who sell dog skins, who performed a part before selling them. The man slept on the iron thorns, and the person next to him smashed it down with an iron hammer, which made the audience frightened, and boasted while performing, selling essays.
The last two families had to start going out in the afternoon. The morning was when they were resting. The other four families were about to set off. When they saw Song Jiu, they greeted him.
Song Jiu responded and sat in the house to draw drawings.
There was a sound of musical instruments outside, and Song Jiu came out to see strangely.
When he was angry, a team of betrothal gifts came to his house in a mighty manner. Nearly three thousand households in the river were normal for marriage and funerals. Before getting married, the man had to give a betrothal gift and the woman had to give a dowry.
This team is wrong. Although Hezhong is poor, there are a few families who are better, such as the Liu family and the Zhu family. It is just such a large place, barely a square footage, and half of them can recognize it. This betrothal gift is the Zhu family.
Both families are businessmen, and their families are very wealthy, and they are interested in getting married. The speed is very fast. The matchmaker comes over, takes a look at the family income status, and asks about the property and family income. The man sends someone to check the bride, then place an engagement wedding letter, and then goes to the dowry shop to send a dowry. The speed is a bit fast.
The young lady of the Liu family is seventeen years old, so it is not surprising that she is fast. But there was a road from the Zhu family to the Liu family. They didn't walk on this road, but they walked from Kujing Lane in front of the Song family. The Liu family is rich and the Zhu family is rich. The betrothal gift team is very long. The people in front of them are coming to the Song family, and they deliberately slow down, crawling like a snail, and playing various musical instruments constantly.
Song Jiu didn't hear any song he played. From time to time, he heard fragrant grass, weed grass, and weed grass is dog tail grass. Therefore, there is an idiom called good and bad. During this trouble, countless neighbors came to watch. Song Jiu was so angry that he was about to explode at home. He ran to the yard and jumped to jump.
Zhu San, who was telling the story, stretched out his head from the wall of the courtyard and said, "Brother, you have the hatred of killing your father, the hatred of taking your wife, and you have come to the door to shame yourself. You can't bear it, fight."
"Brother Zhu, let's work together."
"My brother, I'm taking your wife, not my wife."
"Brother Zhu, you want me to sue."
This is the capital city, not like the fight between the coolies on both sides of the river. The law does not punish the crowd. He takes a big stick and rushes into the Zhu family's team, and the yamen runners will arrest him in Kaifeng prison later.
"Then you just listen slowly." Zhu Sanxing said gloatingly.
Both of them were from the imperial examinations, and they both failed the imperial examinations many times, and they both had the same illness and had a good relationship. They didn't matter if they were joking, but Song Jiu was extremely angry.
It turns out that Song Jiu has a virtue, he doesn't know, but when he listens to others' evaluations, he can analyze it. Song Jiu is very self-disciplined, not like himself, betting hard and eating, drinking and having fun. Song Jiu rarely drinks, but he didn't get the results last year, but he drank a lot of wine. In terms of morality, he is not sure how better than himself.
He was not ugly at that time. At that time, he was only eighteen years old. Some of them were in the thirties, in the forties, fifties, and in the sixties. The reason why he got drunk that day was because he was worried that time would be delayed for a long time and the Liu family couldn't afford to wait.
I'm stupid, stupid!
He was so stupid that he did not let his elder sister come to the house to get too much trouble.
I did it myself and didn’t take it seriously. After passing the exam, I would choose the little lady of the Liu family and Zhang family. If I don’t get the exam, I can’t do any lady. It’s that simple.
I didn’t expect that ancient prose is so difficult, especially the four-six-style parallel prose, which I couldn’t learn well in a year. If it was difficult to take the exam, I didn’t take the exam. I was also looking for a way out, including this machine, which is only the first pot of gold, and there should be many methods. It is difficult to become an official, and it is relatively easy to make a fortune.
When the Liu family came to quit the marriage, Song Jiu didn't care. Just quit. The old manager said a joke, but Song Jiu was not angry either. The situation is better than his own, and he was afraid that his family would come to him to talk too much.
In fact, the two families are discussing marriage, and their families have not come to their house to get involved. Why bother? That is to make things boring!
It was wrong for Zhujiapu to walk around the door of Kujing Lane.
He deliberately let his pace slowly at his doorstep, which was even more wrong.
What other things are you blowing on? Not only is it wrong, but it is clearly slapping yourself in the face!
There were more and more neighbors watching in the alley. Song Jiu heard various discussions. Some people said that the Zhu family had a lot of dowry, some said that the Zhu family did too much, some said that Song Jiu was not good, so why should a toad eat swan meat? If Song Jiu's father did not die, it would be almost the same. These three statements are fair. It turns out that if Song Jiu did not let his elder sister send someone to propose marriage, he would not have been insulted this time.
There is another saying, and it has been recognized by most people. My elder sister opens a wine shop and has all kinds of customers. She doesn’t have a tough personality. This is a life need, and a tough personality does not mean that people are shameless. However, the neighbors don’t know the inside story. Seeing that the Zhu family was deliberately insulting Song Jiu, they thought that after the Liu family and the Zhu family got married, the elder sister came to make trouble, which made the Zhu family unhappy, so they did this.
Listening to the verbal discussion, Song Jiu became more and more angry.
After thinking about it, I took a slingshot and a few stones and climbed onto the ancient locust tree on the west side of the yard.
This locust tree has been around for many years. Before my father came to the capital to settle down, it was here, growing lushly and leaves. Last summer, Song Jiu often enjoyed the cool under it.
Climb to the height of the tree, lurking among the leaves, take out the slingshot stone and look below.
A long team of rich families, with lots of color recruitment, everything, wine, sheep, tea, fruit, meat, gold and silver, cloth, silk, satin, and jewelry. The leader is the third uncle of the Zhu family's groom and the third of the four brothers of the Zhu family.
Song Jiu took out three stones and hit the third uncle of the Zhu family. At this time, the slingshot did not have rubber bands, but the real beef tendon was used, which was even more powerful. Song Jiuyuan used it to hit birds in addition to studying. He was lucky and could fry a plate at night. Now he doesn’t hit birds, but he hits people.
The three stones flew out and came silently to Uncle San in a blink of an eye. One was empty and one was hit on the head of Uncle San of the Zhu family. Another one was hit even more but it was more coincidental. It just hit the horse's legs, and it was the largest stone.
Uncle San covered his head and was wondering what was hit on his head. It hurt so much, but the horse was shocked.
There is something even more coincidental. After Kaifeng was renovated by Chai Rong, the main streets became very wide, fifty steps, thirty steps, and twenty-five steps. If we follow the algorithms of later generations, one step is equivalent to 1.4 meters. The most important imperial street is 140 to 50 steps, more than 200 meters wide, which is fifty steps wider than the Zhuquemen Street of the Tang Dynasty.
It is not waste, but the result of transportation.
The transportation vehicles in the Song Dynasty were ox, sheep, rickshaws, small number of horse and carriages. People walked and rode horses, so the speed of both pedestrians and transportation was very slow. If it was not so wide, traffic would be immediately blocked.
That was the main road. Kujing Lane in front of the Song family was as narrow as the Night Alley. There was Cross Lane to the west and there was another slope. An ancient man selling tofu pushed the tofu cart from a high slope in the south. Seeing so many people, he couldn't stop the cart, so he had to shout: "Give it, let it go."
It was nothing at first, but the third uncle of the Zhu family was frightened and disobeyed. The carriage was about to collide. The ancient man was still a little older and his legs were not flexible, so he forced the tofu cart to the side. The tofu cart suddenly collided with the person who was carrying the betrothal gifts behind him. The cart overturned and the gift load fell down, tender tofu, old tofu, dried tofu, tofu flower, and tofu dregs, all over the silk and satin that the man picked.
Chapter completed!