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For Zhang Tie, the two days of the weekend have passed very fast, because Dad still has to go to work on Saturday, so on Saturday, Zhang Tie made a day of cooking with his mother at home, and the small shop at home probably I can sell about five or six cans of rice. This is not a lot of income, but it is not a small supplement for Zhang, who has been carefully calculating his life.
Rice Brewing is a traditional Chinese cuisine, the practice is not complicated, its raw materials are mainly rice, the process is simple, wash the rice first, put in the pot to cook to seven points ripe, the rice to fish up, dry, and then put into the steamer steamed, then dry, and then put its tightly packed cans into the pot, in the process of canning mix sugar and honey, Finally sprinkle the material water, that is, yeast liquid, sealed up and let its natural fermentation, one months later, can open cans to eat. The taste of the rice is preserved, and the sweet and soft glutinous rice is preserved. It is rich in nutrients and has a sweet taste. It can not only satisfy the hunger, but also has a very mouthful but never drunken wine. It is very delicious, and Zhang Tie and his brother grew up eating my mother's rice.
Although the manufacturing process of rice brewing is simple, the scale and heat of each step are very particular. Zhang’s rice is brewed in the neighborhood and old customers, but it has been hardworking for more than ten years. It’s accumulated a little bit.
Saturday busy day's results, the last is to do a seven-cylinder rice brew, do these rice brew, the rice stuffed into the store behind the warehouse to save up, Zhang Tie and rode home modified pull small tricycle went out to run two, a trip is to the rice shop to buy rice, home meters in the rice cylinder every time after finishing rice, almost want to have to see the bottom of the trend, So every weekend Zhang Tie to the rice shop to run a trip, after the purchase of rice, and incidentally bought two pounds of sugar. When I bought the rice, Zhang Tie found that the rice in the rice shop had risen a little. The price of 25 kilograms of ordinary rice last week was 4 silver coins and 45 copper. Today I went to the rice shop and found 25 kilograms. A bag of ordinary rice has quietly increased prices to 4 silver coins and 58 copper seeds per bag. Within a week, the price has increased by nearly 3%.
Zhang Tie was shocked, and the small people were extremely sensitive to the price changes of these living materials. Zhang Tie remembers that the price of this black city has never changed since he was in high school. At the time, it was also 4 silver coins and 45 copper pieces per bag. How can it rise in a week?
"Oh, Zhang Tie, we have no choice. The price of rice will rise when the day before yesterday, and we can only go up, we can't make a loss!"Rice shop owner is also an acquaintance, when it comes to the prices, began to vomit to Zhang Tie, "We are the 70%of the city of the black is pulled from the outside, the black phlogistic city outside a few farms and planting areas can not guarantee the city's food supply, we have any way, these things are the price of the big merchants ' Corps, not only this rice , also have noodles, these two days also price rises, do not believe you go to look elsewhere. It’s all this price, and some are selling more expensive…”
Rice shop owner is many years of regulars, Zhang Tie will not be silly to really go elsewhere to see, the black city of this grain prices are basically flat, the same bag of rice, in the black city of the various rice shop price disparity of up to three copper, the price disparity more than five copper son above, basic will not sell out, played for many years of dealings, This rice shop is also a diligent and shrewd Chinese boss in the business, this trust is still there.
According to 4 silver coins and 58 copper, which is the price of 458 copper, Zhang Tie bought three bags, that is, 75 kilograms of rice into their own small tricycle, the tricycle is used to add a pocket and a wheel of the bicycle, look ugly do not say, the load is limited, three bags of rice and add Zhang Tie such a person, It's almost the limit. When I was moving rice, Zhang Tie carefully inspected the needle and thread on the rice pocket, saw no puncture and sew the traces, this just put down the heart, some Senche of the rice shop owner and Shang, to make Shoho means or shoddy, or worse to add sand in the rice, The needle in the rice pocket will be removed and sewn up again, so as long as the careful words, check the needle and thread on the rice pocket can find a bag of rice is not a person has been moved hands and feet. The children of the poor have long been home, this is the experience that Zhang Tie bought over the years.
Bought Rice, and in the rice shop near a dirt shop bought two pounds of sugar, Zhang Tie riding a tricycle home, unsurprisingly, after the price of Rice rose 3%, the sugar also followed up, but the sugar price rose more, last week, 91 copper per kilogram of crude sugar price, this time to directly up to 11 pieces of silver a kilogram, Looked at a few shops around the same, Zhang Tie bought two kg of sugar, installed in the bag, hanging in the car handle place. Riding the ugly modified second-hand tricycle, he staggered back home.
Going home, I will talk to my mom about the price increase of rice and sugar, and then take the rest of the money for a lot of copper to my mom. I watched my mom take the money and finally thought. I thought about it, and I counted ten copper pieces from my own hands to make a piece of iron for Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tiexiao, who got ten copper, said to her mother, "Thank you mom!" Today, the mother is more generous, and at most there are only five bronzes.
The sigh sighed and the brow wrinkled. "The price of this rice and sugar has risen. The price of our rice is only afraid to go up. This profit is already thin. If you don't raise the price, this business will not be. The law is going on, and if you want to raise the price, you may have to lose some old customers! Ugh……"
Looking at the frowning mother, Zhang Tie was in a state of excitement, and he blurted out a word. "Mom, rest assured, I will let you and my father live a good life in the future. I am different now!"
"Mom knows that our small fruit is already an adult, of course, it is different from before!"The mother smiled and reached out and touched Zhang’s head.
Listening to the other layer of meaning behind the word "adult" in the tone of the mother, Zhang Tie was ashamed of time. "Mom, not what you think, I mean me…"
"Okay, well, my mother knows that our family has grown up. It is a good boy who is filial. If you don't say this, you should send this rice soup to Teresa, and send it too late today. I can't catch up!"
Zhang Tie words were interrupted by MOM, the following words did not say out, Zhang Tie again stuffy head, the rest of today's home the few cylinder rice soup again moved on the ugly pedal tricycle, Zhang Tie some depressed to ride the car to another place to rush, think about just under the impulse, He almost talked about the strange thing about him with the black Iron Fort, in the heart is a little bit of blame himself or too impulsive, the secret now let family know, in addition to let mom and dad worry, and bring a lot of unpredictable risks, Zhang Tiezhi can not think of what will bring the family benefits. Riding in the car, Zhang Tie secretly made up his mind, and then let this secret completely ruin in his heart. If he has the ability, he will let the family enjoy the benefits of the Black Iron Fort. It is not necessary for them to do this. Worry about yourself. Whether it is for yourself or for this family, the less secrets of the Black Iron Fort, the better.
The city of black inflammation is an emerging industrial city, with few historical details, one of the benefits of emerging cities is that in the early days of planning, the city was fully taken into account the convenience of urban transport, many roads are very spacious, especially on some main roads, sidewalks, non-motor vehicles, as well as motor vehicles are clearly divided, Zhang Tie rode on the converted second-hand tricycle, playing with the bell, fast in the dark of the city of the Non-motorized Road shuttle, while the envy of those who from the side of the road from the motor vehicle, while the illusion that one day they can get on a car, with family, Or a beautiful woman like Mrs. Dinah in the city for a ride.
Before the Cataclysm, the steam engine was already a technology that humans had eliminated for nearly a few hundred years. It was said that humans at that time had invented various advanced machinery and equipment, and the steam engine was thrown into the historical garbage dump. Nobody cares. In those advanced technologies, some technologies are like myths to Zhang Tie-for example, machines that can fly in the air, ships that are still able to operate for hundreds of of years without the need to add fuel, a means of sending people to the stars, and still being able to communicate easily and see each other's devices in millions, And the kind of devil-like weapon that can easily wipe a city and even a country out of a mushroom, and so on, the school teacher is full of sigh when they talk about these, Zhang Tie listen to the stars, the human society before cataclysm is too unimaginable. And in the aftermath of Cataclysm, mankind has lost all of this splendor, in desperation, the steam engine from the history of the garbage heap to dig out from the simplest condensing steam vacuum pump to the most complex high-pressure steam turbines, which are all kinds of from the history of the heap of the old outdated things have begun to glow youth, And sustains the human race to stand and start to run in a time that has been different from any previous era, like a small car with a two-grade steam engine and a speeding vehicle in the city.
In Heiyan City, ordinary people's means of transportation are both feet and urban public transportation. Some working-class people may buy a bicycle. For example, Zhang Tie's home has modified such a strangely used one for the convenience of delivery. Tricycle. But the real rich, the rich, the transportation, will only be a car, thousands of coins a car, for those people, is not a simple means of transport, but the identity and strength of the symbol, in the whole of the black city, so many years passed, the number of private cars is always less than 1000, can sit inside the people, are not rich or expensive. At least in Zhang Tie's school, Zhang Tie did not find any student home or teacher's home can afford such a car. Even for Captain Colin, as the most terrible one-eyed dragon in Black City, even if his salary is not lower than that of ordinary people, he wants to buy a car. It is possible to rely on his salary alone. It is only possible to eat or not drink for 50 years.
From small to large, Zhang Tie in school all the superficial knowledge about machinery and tools is almost all related to a variety of steam engines, as a man born with a desire to conquer the world, 15-Year-old Zhang Tie had two of the biggest want in the future, one was Dana, and the other was a beautiful private car, The combination of these two want gave birth to the kind of heavenly life that Zhang Tie dreamed of–driving a car every day, take Dinah teacher, and then find a beautiful scenery of no one to disturb the place, and Dinah Teacher exchange with the steam engine related to the human body piston movement process, incidentally test the car tires and seat seismic performance.
The teenager who was immersed in the unknown "wild hope" rushed through the city on a tricycle. After thirty minutes, he finally rushed to the night before 6 pm and pulled the things on the car to Teresa.嬷的容孤院…
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