Chapter 8 The Road Is Difficult
When we arrived at Zhang, we took the little guy from Zhang's wife. Today, the little guy used the good things Li Bin brought from later generations to eat, drink, defecation, and the little guy also took good care of her. The little guy was very energetic. When Li Bin came back, he was looking around with big eyes open. When he saw Li Bin take her, he actually giggled. Li Bin's anger and depression were also dissolved a lot, and he scratched the little guy's nose with his hands: "Although it's difficult, since I promised you, I must protect you. I don't know what your name is. Look at your round eyes and your face is also round. Let's call you Tuantuan in the future! The name is Li Yuanyuan, Tuantuanyuan!" Needless to say, he thought of his parents again at this time!
Seeing that his face was not good when he entered the door, Zhang Da didn't dare to talk to him. At this time, he saw that his face turned clear and then came over: "Young Master, what's wrong with Teng County?"
"The city was broken, all the elderly, weak, women and children were massacred, all the young, strong men and women were abducted, and the whole city was burned!"
With a "bang", Zhang Da's wife, who was cooking, was so shocked that the spatula fell into the pot.
"The Tartars have returned to the north, and you are safe for the time being!"
Zhang Da was furious: "The Tartars killed by heaven, killing people and setting fire to slaughter the city, it is worse than beasts!"
Li Bin was also full of evil spirits: "Chongzhen was stupid and the court was incompetent, so he made the Tartars feel like they were in a state of no one, burning, killing, looting, and these dogs deserve to die!"
Zhang Da was shocked: "Young Master, don't insult the current emperor, otherwise we will not be able to afford to be guilty!"
Li Bin also knew that it was useless to speak. Just now, he was just a source of evil fire. He used to squirt, and didn't say much at the moment. He took out two silver bars from his backpack and handed them to Zhang Da: "I have bothered Brother Zhang these days, and I'm asking my sister-in-law to take care of me. Brother Zhang accepted these two silver bars and bought a piece of clothing for the child during the Chinese New Year! I'll be disturbing Brother Zhang for a night tonight, and I'll leave tomorrow. Thank you, brother and sister-in-law."
Zhang Da's hand seemed to be burned by fire: "How can this make our whole family eat food given by the young master these days. The young master also gave him a treasure knife and good wine. How can he still ask for the young master's money!"
The Ming Dynasty had a silver price of about 38 grams. The silver bars Li Bin bought were 100 grams each, and two were only more than five taels. However, it was a lot of money for the poor at this time. Zhang Da’s wife was also incoherent: “It’s not possible to use it, it’s just to take care of the children. How can I bear so many gifts from the young master!”
Li Bin stuffed the silver into Zhang Da's hand: "How can I not do it? Just think that my uncle bought a piece of clothing for the child during the New Year, don't push it anymore, otherwise I will be embarrassed to disturb my elder brother and aunt tonight. Does the elder brother want to drive me out overnight?"
Speaking of this, Zhang Da couldn't help but accept the silver bar, turn around and hand it to his wife. Li Bin laughed secretly, it seemed that he was also a wife manager!
Zhang Da turned around and looked at the squinting smile on Li Bin's face. Although he didn't understand, he knew that Li Bin was making fun of him. His old face turned red: "Why are you so anxious? Now the Tartars have retreated. It is not convenient for the young master to take his child to travel in the middle of winter. What if the child is cold is not a bad thing? It's about to be the New Year. Why should you stay at my house for the New Year? Our two families are more lively together!"
To be honest, Li Bin was a little moved when he heard it. He could withstand it in the cold winter months, but Tuantuan was only a few months old. No matter how well he protected it, he dared not say that there was no possibility. Moreover, he had no experience. Zhang Da’s wife was at least better than him and could help take care of Tuantuan. Besides, this is the New Year Festival, but it is not as good as when you can buy things with money in later generations. At this time, most of the shops were closed and closed. There was no one who took her with her to change hands. At that time, it would be sad that she would run out of the wild and call her every day. At that time, Tuantuan would still suffer! The most important thing is that he has not yet figured out where he is going, and what to do the first step! After all, everything is difficult at the beginning!
At this time, Zhang's wife also came to persuade her. Li Bin nodded: "Okay, the child is too young and can't stand the bumps on the road. I just want to bother my elder brother and I. I will go to the city with my elder brother to buy some rice dishes tomorrow. I will be the one I have with my elder brother for the time being!"
Zhang Da and he refused again, but the Ming Dynasty hunters' mouths were the opponents of Li Bin from Modern Times, so they had to agree.
There was nothing to say all night. The next morning, Li Bin woke up and started to arrange for Tuantuan. He wanted to go with Zhang Da to buy rice, noodles, meat and vegetables today. The nearest Teng County to the west is gone, so he can only go to the south and the east.
Hearing the noise, Zhang Da got up, finished washing up, Li Bin asked, "There is no more Teng County. Where are we going to buy things? How to go? You can't go to the north now!"
"Go to Yangzhuang Town, it is the nearest market to the south of Teng County! It takes hundreds of miles to walk from Teng County, and sixty miles to penetrate the path here. I wonder how long it will take for the young master to run this iron car!"
"Let's ride over slowly, and we can get to Yangzhuang in less than an hour."
"One hour?"
"Oh, it's only half an hour!"
"It's so fast?"
"The road is not good, so I can only ride slowly!"
Li Bin was still under pressure, after all, he had not really understood the society of the Ming Dynasty, so it was quite stressful to let him enter the city rashly. The city wall is now a cage for him, and he certainly wanted to go to a market without a wall!
Zhang Da helped Li Bin remove all the things in the car and put them in the house. He looked at the back seat and asked hesitantly: "Young Master, how do you take this car?"
Li Bin smiled and said, "Just just sit behind me! But remember to catch it firmly!"
After some trouble, Li Bin finally let Zhang Da sit firmly behind the car, and his hand was also grabbed on the back armrest. Li Bin was afraid that he would not adapt, so he started the car and moved forward slowly! It was obvious that Zhang Da was extremely nervous, and Li Bin could feel his nervousness even when he sat in front. When he looked at the speedometer, he was only 30 kilometers away. There was no way, so he could only comfort him: "Relax, don't be nervous when sitting on it, the more relaxed you are, the more stable you are."
I don’t know if it was Li Bin’s comforting or Zhang Da slowly adapting, but he really relaxed slowly! Li Bin was impatient and slowly started to accelerate!
Zhang Da guided the way, and they went straight through a small road and arrived at Yangzhuang in less than an hour. In this era, transportation was not developed, so people basically took a walk to the county town to buy something and then took a day to walk back. Therefore, in some densely populated places, markets will be formed, selling some of the various commodities needed by farmers, and farmers can also exchange their outputs! Because Zhang Da occasionally works part-time as a hunter, and of course the nearby markets are clear.
Because there is only such a market for dozens of miles nearby, it is still a bit large when you look at the streets. There are thirty or forty shops, and some farmers on the streets are selling dried vegetables, rabbits, fish, etc. However, there is obviously no popularity on the street. Everyone passing by is dressed in rags. There is also a large group of people who don’t know whether they are beggars or refugees. They stare at everyone passing by, and the hunger in their eyes is about to emerge!
"Young Master, don't pay attention to them. There are beggars and refugees here. If you take care of one, you will all come up. Few servants can't get rid of them!"
"How did these people come from?"
"It's not that the droughts have been severe in recent years. We are relying on the canals, and there are rivers in the north and south. We can still collect some water by people. After paying the rent, we can drink some porridge. There are basically no grains in the north. In addition, there are chaos everywhere, and the wars are broken and bandits are transformed. No one can hold on, so they can only run out to survive!"
Li Bin could only remain silent. He didn't carry much money now, and he was still parasitized by Zhang Jiao. Even if he wanted to help, he was powerless unless he started a team to rob the rich and help the poor. But when he saw these people were skinny, old and young, he might not have enough to put himself in.
It’s useless to think too much, so I can only go to the town to see the situation first!
"Boss, how do you sell this rice?"
The shopkeeper of the rice shop looked at Li Bin in confusion, obviously not accepting the title of his boss, and he couldn't understand Li Bin's dress. After a while, he realized: "Master, this is a pure rice, ten taels of silver per stone."
OK, Li Bin's short hair was looked at by the shopkeeper.
Zhang was furious: "How come you, the shopkeeper, are so unintentional? This rice was only three taels last year! Two taels of brown rice is enough!"
The shopkeeper was calm: "You also said that it was last year. There were severe droughts every year, and there were no harvests everywhere. There were soldiers and bandits causing trouble. The price of rice must be raised."
Neither of the two men are good at bargaining, and seeing the firm attitude of the shopkeeper, Li Bin also gave up treatment and bought a stone of rice and half stone of flour, so he asked Zhang Da to put the grain in the car and tied it up. Looking at the car, he went to buy another fifty kilograms of pork, ten big fish, and ten kilograms of salt. He bought a little of the seasonings he saw. He didn't care whether the motorcycle could bear it or not. He had the biggest meal in the world. He couldn't spend his life on eating something! He didn't do this even if he was dying!
Anyway, after a walk around, I gave Li Bin the feeling that it was expensive! Salt is 60 cents per pound or yellow, and there are black spots inside. I don’t know if it is mud or sand or something. I used it to be a little salty and bitter. I went to the blacksmith shop and asked about it. I also sold the pig iron according to the pound. At this price, I was afraid that it would not be able to buy it for more than 200 yuan! This price is something that farmers in later generations would feel distressed.
In fact, this is a normal phenomenon. After all, the productivity is weak at this time and the transportation is inconvenient. Although manpower is not valuable, the efficiency is even lower. There are also various corrupt officials who work hard to increase production costs. It would be strange if it is not expensive!
After roughly walking around, he bought two pieces of cloth and ten kilograms of cotton for Zhang Dazi. The two of them worked hard to tie the thing that was almost 300 kilograms to the car, making the front and rear of the car full of the car except where the two were sitting.
Li Bin didn't have much interest in watching such a dilapidated and dirty town. He turned around and went home immediately. However, when he left the town, he was secretly shocked by the eyes of refugees on both sides. He immediately increased the accelerator and rushed out!
After leaving the town, Zhang Dacai said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, the young master ran fast, otherwise those people would have come up and robbed us directly when we saw that we were carrying so much food!"
Li Bin was speechless when he heard his words. When did he, a post-90s generation, have seen hungry people? At most, he only heard the old man talk about it. Later, when he grew up, he read it in a book. Today, when he saw such a living scene, he felt that he was facing a group of beasts with green light in his eyes. He either reacted quickly or he might have been dragged out of the car and snatched away all of them!
I'm still careless! The government has not provided any security guarantees these days. The landlord and gentry were not crowded with servants when they went out. Why? Safety! If you don't have the ability to protect yourself and wander around outside, maybe you'll be regarded as a fat sheep in that Gada!
Chapter completed!