Chapter 19 Mung bean cool
Jiangzhou Prefecture, the intersection of the three rivers, has developed water and land transportation, and is also the richest place in the Daliang Kingdom.
It has been days since Lu Jianguo came to Jiangzhou City.
Now he is pushing a cart to sell ice cream on the street, and he looks shabby. Because he has no money and needs money, he doesn't have much business.
Ice cream is mung bean ice cream. It is made of mung beans and then adds some sweeteners and freezes it into ice after mixing the thickener. The cost is very low, and the remaining costs except the refrigerator can be ignored.
He named this ice cream "Mung Bean Shuang", of course this is not the point.
The point is that through observations over the past few days, he has a deep understanding of this city and even this country.
Poverty, chaos.
All you can see on the street are unclothed beggars, including men and women, old and young. They are all skinny. They are lying in the dust on both sides of the street, looking at the world with their hungry eyes all day long.
They had expressionless faces, their unkempt faces, they had a human shape that was so thin that they were off the shelf, and they also had a pair of desperate eyes without vitality.
Everyone will feel panic and disgusted by being stared at by such eyes all day long.
This is the most prosperous city in Daliang Kingdom.
Because everyone knows that Jiangzhou City is the richest place, all homeless people and displaced refugees will continue to beg for the city.
There are many rich people here, but there are more poor people.
The beggars have no houses or land, so they can only appear on the streets and wait for passers-by to give them food. If they are lucky, they may get one or two copper plates and half a steamed bun. If they are unlucky, they will stay hungry until they starve to death.
They have nothing to do, so they stay on the streets.
The rich people travel in sedan chairs, the people with jobs work in the shops, and the farmers do farm work in the fields.
So almost all people can be seen on the streets are homeless people.
Lu Jianguo used the money he earned during the day to buy a basket of sesame cakes. When the boss who sold sesame cakes received the money, he ran away without even counting it because he knew what Lu Jianguo was going to do.
Beggars flocked to the sky and raised the loess.
The thin child was pushed down and then stepped on his feet, making tragic wails and crying in the dust.
Adults ripped and pulled each other and fought hard just to get the gifts closer to Lu Jianguo and get the gifts earlier.
They were already crazy to get food. Their eyes were filled with a fierce aura of dehumanization. They were like a group of hyenas wandering in the wilderness, making people feel frightened.
"If you bring your children, you can get food first."
As soon as he finished speaking, the children who fell to the ground were pulled up by life. They lifted the children very high, as if showing off, but did not come from caring between people, but treating the children as a ticket and giving priority to the ticket for food.
Lu Jianguo felt a little nervous when he watched it. This was completely different from the ancient times in the TV series he had seen.
This is the naked ancient times, and this is the era when people were in need of material things.
The so-called human beings are just a group of wild beasts that can walk upright.
The sesame cakes in the cage were instantly snatched up, and the dirty hands were fumbled on him, and his wallet was taken away.
He finally understood why the boss who sold sesame cakes ran so fast after getting the money.
Those who could not get food began to attack their kind who were weaker than them, scrambling and screaming.
The slightly stronger beggars hugged each other and gathered together to swallow their food. Their eyes were as alert as the hyena, aiming to swallow the food in their mouths as soon as possible and then attack the weak people who were still fighting for food.
Lu Jianguo took a step forward.
The beggars who were eating took a step back vigilantly.
"Why don't you go to beg near that restaurant? Food should be available there." Lu Jianguo refers to the most magnificent restaurant in Jiangzhou City, Yipinlou.
"The legs will be broken!"
That's right, those who dare to get close to begging nearby will definitely be broken. If they are broken, it means that the process of death will accelerate.
Lu Jianguo pushed up the cart, took two steps, fled here and the riot caused by him.
His heart is heavy because he is thinking.
Next, what he should do and how he can change this era. What he must do is not only for this era, but also for himself.
We must let these humans living at the bottom become human again, right?
No one wants to live in a world where wild beasts are rampant.
But that takes time. He cannot solve it now and has no ability to solve it.
So he had to escape.
At the entrances of several streets, guards were guarded, and only neatly dressed people were allowed to enter.
This is the inner city of Jiangzhou City.
There are tall and beautiful pavilions and low houses in the inner city.
To some extent, it is not as good as Pingyang Town.
Pingyang Town was once a rich town, and all the people in the town were small bosses who ran pottery business. Even though they had declined over the years, they had at least been brilliant.
There are small blue brick buildings in Shangyishui, Pingyang Town, and most of the ordinary people living in Jiangzhou City are earthen walls and thatched houses.
Half the best shops in Jiangzhou City are surnamed Su and half of them are surnamed Qin.
The Su family is very powerful, and its businesses include teahouses, wineries, cloths, gambling houses, theaters, and the most luxurious restaurants in Jiangzhou City, Tianxia Yipin Building, which is also the Su family's industry.
The Qin family only operates the cloth business, but the Qin family has good fabric weavers and dyeing techniques are far better than that of the Su family, so the scale of the cloth business is much larger than that of the Su family.
Lu Jianguo stood at the entrance of Tianxia Yipin Building with a small cart.
These days, every meal time, he will observe at the entrance of this restaurant, with the purpose of counting the flow of passengers in and out.
Because he plans to open a restaurant.
The cost of opening a restaurant is controllable, the profit cycle is short, and money is made on the day of opening, which is the most suitable option for Lu Jianguo.
He did not regard Tianxia Yipinlou as a competitor, because in terms of the ancient business model of Yipinlou, it seemed that it did not have the qualifications to compete with him at all.
He was observing the clothes and dress of customers in Yipin Building to judge their consumption level and preferences. The purpose was to calculate what kind of restaurant to open to take away the guests in Yipin Building to the greatest extent, and to ensure that his own expenditure costs were minimized.
"Hey, hawker, how much does your mung bean cake cost?"
When Lu Jianguo was in a daze, a sweet and soft voice sounded behind him. He was a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl with a childish face and a pair of hair buns that looked like two panda ears.
"I don't have mung bean cake." Lu Jianguo pointed to the wooden sign on the cart, "Mung beans are cool, they are cool, and there is no mung bean cake."
"What's so arrogant!" The little girl put her waist on her waist and curled her lips, "Give me a pound!"
"I don't care about the pounds or the chunks."
"How much does it cost?"
"One tael of silver."
"What! It's so expensive, aren't you cheating people?"
Chapter completed!