Unparalleled Concubine

It’s too cold in winter, and the gentlemen in the city will not use the heat in their bodies to resist. They will set up beautiful stoves at home, and then throw a few pieces of carbon in the stove, and the whole room will become warm. Like spring.

Most of the carbon in this era is charcoal.

Charcoal needs to be burned by people, so there is a profession of cutting firewood and burning charcoal. In winter, they go up the mountain to cut down trees, and then burn them into carbon and sell them to the gentlemen in the city.

But in this profession, if you can only burn ordinary charcoal, you can only earn a living wage, not even food and clothing, let alone great wealth.

Poor clothes are bare, worrying about the low carbon and wishing for the cold weather, they are talking about them.

It was already afternoon at this time, when an old man and a young man passed by the gate of the ruined temple, the little girl stopped suddenly, pointed to the gene that had fallen in the ruined temple, and said crisply: "Ah, there is a person in the temple..."

The old man stopped, put the wheelbarrow aside, and walked into the ruined temple with the little girl in his arms. When he saw Li Xin, who was lying on the ground with handsome features, the old man bent down and put his black hand on Li Xin's. After poking under his nose to confirm that Li Xin was still breathing, the charcoal seller sighed faintly and said in an old voice, "It's also a poor child. It's a cold day. If he falls here, he will have no way to survive."

As he spoke, he bent over, walked to the entrance of the ruined temple, pushed the wheelbarrow in, and then loaded Li Xin onto the wheelbarrow with considerable effort.

Fortunately, Li Xin is very thin, otherwise he would really not be able to move this young man.

Chapter 2 Digging a Pit

After three days of heavy snowfall, the sun finally broke through the thick clouds.

At the foot of Beishan Mountain in the northeast of the capital, there is a simple wooden house with a thatched roof. The wooden house is surrounded by fences made of branches.

A young man in not particularly thick clothes was persistently waving a hoe in his hand at the back of the hut, digging a hole in the ground.

This boy, this is Li Xin who has traveled to this world.

He was originally an ordinary office worker in another world. After seven or eight years of hard work in the workplace, he had already climbed to the position of deputy manager in a small or big company, and was promoted to manager not long ago, so So I went to the bar to celebrate with my subordinates, and then... nothing more!

Drinking to death is really a shameful way to die...

But now he has no time to think about the past life, because he has to face the reality, that is, he must live in this world.

Now, it has been three days since he traveled here, and he was in a coma for two days. During this coma, the memory of this unlucky child who was pierced by his own soul was captured like watching a movie. He looked it over.

After reading the memory of "Li Xin", Li Xin only had one thought.

This is really an unlucky kid...

Therefore, when he woke up from his lethargy and managed to regain some strength, he went to the ruined temple, carried his uncle back, and wanted to dig a hole to bury the old man who had been frozen to death.

Although the sun is out at this time, the weather is still extremely cold. Because of the cold, the surface of the earth is covered with frozen soil, which is extremely difficult to dig. Fortunately, the weather here is not that kind of extremely cold weather, so only a little bit of the surface is frozen. Stopped, after digging the frozen soil on the surface, it soon became soft. It was not until noon that Li Xin dug a hole of about one and a half meters. He gestured and felt that it was almost deep enough, so he prepared to dig My uncle put it in.

"Deeper."

An old voice came from the side. Li Xin looked back and found that the old carbon seller who had rescued him was sitting on a stone beside him with a half-worn straw mat in his hand. Holding a yellow leather gourd, he raised his head and drank a few glasses of wine from time to time. Depending on the situation, he had already watched himself digging a hole for a long time.

The old man raised his head and took a sip of the wine, then continued.

"Your uncle has no children. According to the rules, you have to dig three feet nine, and then dig deeper."

When he woke up, Li Xin probably told the carbon seller about himself and his uncle, so the old man knew that his uncle had no son.

Li Xin had no choice but to wipe off his sweat, picked up the hoe and continued digging.

After taking a sip of wine, the old man stood up from the stone, and wrapped Li Xin's uncle up with the straw mat in his hand.

After death, one must never touch the soil directly. This is a big taboo. In ancient times, no matter how poor you are, you must try to get yourself a coffin. No matter how poor you are, you have to wrap your body with a straw mat , this is already the most "economical" way to die, and it cannot be saved anymore.

In the eyes of people of this era, if a corpse touches the soil, it is only slightly stronger than the corpse exposure wilderness.

In this way, Li Xin was digging the pit, and the charcoal seller was pointing at the side. The pit was barely dug until noon. The old man looked around the tomb and nodded in satisfaction.

"The baby is not bad. I didn't forget to collect your uncle's body when I woke up. She is a filial baby. The old man didn't save you in vain."

Li Xin sat slumped on the ground, gasping for breath.

Three feet nine, that is, more than one meter deep, and under the guidance of this old man, the length and width are all particular. The whole person collapsed to the ground.

The old man walked around the tomb a few more times, more satisfied, he turned his head and smiled at Li Xin who was sitting on the ground, and then said: "The old man saved your life, you have to repay the old man."

Li Xin sat on the ground and breathed heavily. The little girl was very sensible, trot forward a few steps, and handed the bamboo tube hanging around her waist to Li Xin. Li Xin opened his mouth and drank a few sips of water before recovering With some strength, he raised his head and forced a smile to the charcoal seller: "The old man saved the boy's life. If you have any conditions, just say it. If you can do it, the boy is duty-bound."

Although he is a modern person, he has completely taken over the memory of this unlucky child, so he naturally knows how to speak in this era, or the world, so there is no problem at all in the conversation.

The charcoal seller smiled kindly: "After the old man is gone, you also have to dig a grave for the old man. Remember, the old man has a son, and the grave should be four feet three deep. Don't make a mistake. "

Li Xin was stunned for a moment, and then saw that the charcoal seller's face was full of dimples, and the hair on his head had turned white, and he immediately understood what the old man meant.

He got up from the ground, with a serious face, bowed to the old man and said: "Don't worry, old man, this matter has been promised, old man saved Li Xin's life, and Li Xin will take care of old man's retirement."

The charcoal seller lowered his head and coughed, and then said in a muffled voice: "It's enough to die, but you don't need to take care of the old man. You have no money, and you almost died of freezing to death. Why should you take care of the old man?"

While talking, the old man put the uncle's body into the grave with Li Xin, and then sat on the big rock next to him, instructing Li Xin to start burying the soil.

Compared with digging a hole, burying the soil is obviously easier. Under the guidance of the old man, Li Xin piled up a beautiful mound in about an hour. After kowtowing a few times in front of the mound, he followed the old man, Returned to their hut.

In this wooden house, there are a total of two rooms and two beds, but the two beds are in one room, and in the other room is a clay stove with a wooden bellows next to the stove.

The charcoal seller sat skillfully in front of the bellows, threw pieces of wood into the stove, and was ready to start a fire.

Burning charcoal is actually a technical activity.

Simply lighting the wood does not produce charcoal, only carbon ash.

The trick is to close the furnace door when the fire is halfway through, so that the charcoal inside cannot continue to burn, and then slowly carbonize.

In ancient books, this is called "burning wood to keep nature".

The old man sat on the edge of the bellows, and while pulling the bellows, he coughed and said, "It's cold this year, and there are many people buying charcoal in the city. The old man can't do it all by himself. Seeing that you have nowhere to go for the time being, you stay here." Help a group of old men, this year's work is okay, if you help burn more charcoal, you will have an extra pair of chopsticks."

This charcoal seller is obviously a very kind person. In this era, no poor family would allow one more person to eat in their own family.

Li Xin really has no place to go now, his uncle is gone, his mother has also died of illness, and he can't go back to his hometown in Yongzhou for the time being, and that "scumbag father" in the capital is even more unreliable. After much deliberation, he can only stay here temporarily , Helped the elderly to burn charcoal together.

Moreover, he doesn't have any thick clothes now, and he doesn't even have half a penny on him. If he walks out from here, he will easily be frozen to death like his uncle.

So he nodded to the old man, smiled and said: "Thank you, old man, for giving the boy a bite of food."

The old man frowned.

"Starting tomorrow, you go to the city to sell charcoal in the morning, go to the mountains to chop wood in the afternoon, and come back to burn charcoal in the evening."

"..."

This old fellow exploits child labor...!

Chapter 3 Copycat Beast Charcoal