After eating most of the cake, although he was still very hungry, his body recovered. Chen Yue began to continue to be busy.

The wooden boards were sawed into small pieces according to the drawn size, and the planer was shiny and then installed with wooden wedges to make a wooden donkey with empty abdomen. The limbs of the horse were made empty, and the base of the legs was not directly fixed to the body, but were made of a rotating pattern with a wooden shaft. Iron wire was installed inside the limbs, and connected to the steel coil coils wrapped around the abdomen of the horse through joints. A round wooden strip was installed on the abdomen of the horse. As long as the wooden strips were turned, the spring made of the steel coils could be strengthened, and then the limbs of the horse could be driven to make the horse move.

The principle is very simple, the problem is that the tools in this era are simple and the materials are extremely limited. Chen Yue spent a lot of effort and took a whole day to make this simple Trojan toy.

With the wooden strips twisted and vigorously, Chen Yue nodded with satisfaction as he watched the horse walk happily on the ground.

It was getting dark, and Chen Yue felt a rumbling sound in his stomach. At noon, the energy brought by the cake had been exhausted. His father Chen Jianghe was about to finish his work, so Chen Yue decided to start cooking.

After searching all over the house, there was no other edible thing except a little rice in the rice jar, and there was not much rice in the rice jar. Chen Yue had to pour out all the rice, wash it with water and put it into the pot, add a few bowls of water to prepare porridge.

The Chen family used a coal stove to cook, and there were piles of coal in the yard. This thing is not like the honeycomb coal in later generations. It is very troublesome to ignite the fire. It often extinguishes fires and needs to be reignited every time it is put out. It is also very costly. According to Chen Yue's memory, the Chen family spends a lot of money on buying coal every month. However, this is cheaper than burning wood. Beijing has a population of nearly one million. Where can I go to burn firewood? It is estimated that cutting off all the nearby mountains is not enough. So at this time, Beijing

Most of the city burns coal. In the Mentougou Mountain area fifty or sixty miles west of Beijing, there are coal everywhere underground. In the farther area of ​​Datong, Shanxi, the underground coal is inexhaustible. However, because in this era, the mining of coal is entirely dependent on manpower and transported to Beijing through rugged mountain roads, the price of coal is not low. Every household spends a lot of money on coal every year. If it can be made into honeycomb coal, it will probably save some, Chen Yue thought to himself.

After preparing the rice porridge, after a while, his father Chen Jianghe returned home exhausted. Looking at the rice porridge that Chen Yue brought, Chen Jianghe muttered, "There are too much rice" and picked up the bowl and started eating.

Chen Yue brushed the pot and prepared to boil some foot washing water to wash his father's feet for a day. Unexpectedly, before the water boiled, Chen Jianghe had fallen asleep on the bed, so he didn't even have the chance to show off his Trojan horse.

At night, Chen Yue lay on the bed, staring at the dark roof with his eyes blankly, and could not fall asleep for a long time.

This body is much younger than the other world's self. It is only seventeen or eighteen years old. It was when I was young and grew up. A bowl of thin rice porridge was not enough to fill my hungry belly. So now I have to earn money to fill my stomach.

In addition, according to the body's memory, it should be the fifteenth year of Chongzhen. I don't know if it was 196 years in the Gregorian calendar. Chen Yue's history before was not good.

But no matter how bad history is, Chen Yue also knew that Chongzhen was the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the one who hanged Li Zicheng when he attacked Beijing. Now that it has been the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng is probably coming soon, the Ming Dynasty is about to perish, and Beijing will soon fall into war.

So now we must make money as soon as possible. With money, we can escape to the safe south with our father.

It is said that when one dynasty destroys another dynasty, it is a good time to speculate. As long as you find the right opportunity, you can be a founding hero and naturally live a happy life in the future. Many time travelers do this. But Chen Yue knew that after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng did not gain a foothold in Beijing and was soon driven out by the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, defecting to Li Chuang was seeking death.

Chen Yue never thought about joining the Qing Dynasty! In his previous life, Chen Yue had a classmate from a police academy and a colleague from a later generation, who was an extreme Ming fan. Influenced by him, Chen Yue had no good feelings for Braidae. Moreover, according to Chen Yue's current identity, he was a Ming person. Surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, which invaded the Ming Dynasty and massacred Han people, wasn't it like surrendering to Japan as a traitor during the War of Resistance? This is something that Chen Yue would rather die.

Since they did not surrender to the Qing people, they had to leave Beijing and flee to the south. According to Chen Yue's limited historical knowledge, after Beijing fell, the Han people in the south insisted on resisting for more than ten years, and Zheng Chenggong's Taiwan resisted for a longer time.

To escape to the south, you have to have money. Otherwise, if you don’t talk about how to go to the south, how can you survive even if you go to the south?

With a lot of thoughts, Chen Yue fell asleep. When he woke up the next morning, his father Chen Jianghe had already left.

There was no porridge prepared on the stove. At that time, Chen Yue had already made the last rice in the rice jar last night. However, Chen Jianghe left money for Chen Yue and put it on the lid of the pot. Chen Yue counted, and there were five copper coins in total.

What is enough to buy five copper coins? In Chen Yue's memory, he could buy two buns and a bowl of porridge. This would be enough for people with a small appetite. But for a young man, even if he came back, he could only fill up half of his fill.

The fool naturally grew up a big fool. Chen Yue's figure was taller than the policeman in his previous life, and he was 1.80 meters tall. Such a tall figure naturally had a lot of appetite. So after traveling through the past few days, Chen Yue had never eaten enough. This shows how tight the Chen family's economy has reached.

After sighing, Chen Yue washed his face and walked out with the Trojan horse. He had to sell the Trojan horse as soon as possible so that he could get some money to buy food.

The Chen family is located in a small alley. After leaving the alley, it is a narrow street. At the end of the street, there is a wide street, Xuanwumen Street, where Chen Yue sold the Trojan horses.

It was already dawn for a while, and Chen Yue met many people along the way, including an aunt and sister-in-law carrying a basket, and an old man with a cigarette pouch in his mouth. Seeing everyone, Chen Yue smiled all over his face, but many people turned a blind eye to Chen Yue, so Chen Yue could only close his mouth depressedly.

Finally, someone responded to Chen Yue's smile, but what he said made the smile disappear on Chen Yue's face.

"Idiot, why are you getting up so early?" An old man named Ma asked Chen Yue with a smile, but the joking smile on his face was clearly teasing himself.

"You are old, Mr. Ma, I'll sell your horses." Chen Yue replied respectfully, and waved the Trojan in his hand.

"Idiot, why did you learn to curse?" Old Man Ma's face changed. He might have thought that Chen Yue's words were scolding him, so he ignored Chen Yue and left cursed.

"Big fool

Second dad

I'm sneezing

....”

Several naughty boys followed Chen Yue while singing a song while throwing dirt on Chen Yue.

Chen Yue disdained these uneducated fart children.

After leaving the alley, Xuanwumen Street was Xuanwumen Street. Looking at the street scene in front of you, Chen Yue couldn't help but sigh. There was no more high-rise buildings. There were only the quaint two-story wooden buildings flying eaves, and the leisurely footsteps of a man in a long gown, and the bargaining sound of a woman wearing a robe and a bamboo basket when buying groceries!

The hawking sounds on the street are one after another, and the white smoke in the bun shop opposite is vast. Everything is so familiar and so strange.

Since it was just dawn and many shops had not opened, many villagers who entered the city were setting up stalls on both sides of the street and selling all kinds of items. It was October, and the vendors placed mostly carrots, cabbage, vermicelli, and vegetables. After all, stalls on this street are targeted at ordinary citizens. Where can ordinary families afford fresh vegetables grown in the greenhouse?

I randomly chose a piece of no one on the street and squatted down, put the horse on the ground, and diagonally opposite Aunt Zhang's bun shop. After selling the wooden donkey, I happened to buy a few buns to eat. Thinking of the deliciousness of Aunt Zhang's vegetables and meat buns in my memory, Chen Yue felt that his saliva was about to flow down.

He picked up a piece of soil and was smashing it on the forehead of a urchin who was resolute and smashed him to cover his head and cried. The other urchinators scattered. There were these annoying dead children who made trouble, so he could not sell the Trojan horse.

After raising the clockwork, the Trojan horse raised its hooves and walked on the ground. The vegetable vendor next to him looked at Chen Yue's Trojan horse from time to time in surprise.

"Hey, what is the fool holding?" A neighbor who was buying vegetables stopped in the middle of the street, staring at the walking Trojan horse.

"Maybe it was his father who made him a toy. Don't get too close. The fool somehow learned to hit people today." Another neighbor reminded that he saw Chen Yue's crying naughty boy just now.

"No, I've never heard of a fool hitting someone!"

"What can't be done, I just saw it. He just beat the dog and cried with his head."

There were also pedestrians who didn't know Chen Yue and stopped to watch and asked with interest, but they were soon startled by Chen Yue's asking price and left cursingly.

"What a broken thing, it's so expensive!"

Chen Yue looked at his back innocently. Is one tael of silver still expensive? He carefully recalled Chen Yue’s memories before and listened to the quotation of the vendors buying groceries around him. Chen Yue realized that one tael of silver was indeed quite expensive.

A pound of cabbage costs only one penny, an iron pot costs thirty cents, and a kitchen knife costs fifteen cents. One tael of silver can be exchanged for one thousand copper coins, and one thousand pounds of cabbage, thirty-three iron pots, or sixty-seven kitchen knives. According to purchasing power, one tael of silver is equivalent to 1,500 yuan in later generations, which is enough for an ordinary person to eat a full meal for a month.

Looking at the simple Trojan horse on the ground, stupid and unwrapped paint, Chen Yue felt that the price he asked for was indeed a bit high.

The sun slowly rose, hanging in the sky halfway. Many vendors selling vegetables packed up their stalls and left. Chen Yue squatted alone on the corner of the street. Before the grain of rice was stained in the morning, Chen Yue felt so hungry that he couldn't do it anymore. He had to buy two buns to eat. Anyway, he still had five copper coins given by his father Chen Jianghe in his arms.

"What are you?"
Chapter completed!