Lord, he is not a man [infrastructure]

The first firm is about to appear in Bailuling, oh, the lord said it was a store.

No matter what it is, in short, it is right to buy food there.

On the first day, not many people came to ask, but as long as those who brought money, they all bought food.

The next day, people from each village formed a team, carrying baskets and burdens, and ran to the Lord's Mansion in an endless stream.

Some of them live far away, and they still push the wheelbarrows sent by the Lord's Mansion. Now there are several of these small carts in almost every village in Bailuling.

Originally, everyone thought it would be good to buy some couscous, even if it contained more wheat bran, as long as they could survive the winter, they would buy it.

Probably everyone's expectations were very low. When they actually arrived at the store, saw so many goods, and the most important thing was to ask about the prices of those goods, the white deer leader looked like he was dreaming, and his expression was quite erratic.

So many things!The stalls and stalls are full.

In addition to sacks of wheat flour, there are also wheat seeds that everyone cares about.

In addition to wheat, there are actually some beans, green vegetables, sweet potatoes that Bailuling rarely sees, and some unrecognizable vegetables.

Beans are very cheap, twenty percent cheaper than the lowest grade of couscous.

But the beans were unpalatable, and if it wasn't for the lack of food, the White Deer Leaders didn't want to buy beans.

Next to the beans is a large box of bean sprouts, and a large bag only costs one copper coin.

And the wheat flour that everyone is most concerned about and the cheapest can be bought for a catty with only one copper coin.

That is to say, as long as there is a strong laborer in the family, he can buy three catties of wheat flour to take home.And three catties of wheat flour and water to make rough bread can make more than four and a half catties of bread. If you make noodles, you can make more, not counting meat and vegetables. Calculated on the average daily ration of half a catty per person, it is enough for six people full.

If there are more strong laborers in the family, for example, there are two workers in Aji's family, then they will have an extra three copper coins to buy other things besides staple food.

Aji grabbed his sister's hand and looked around behind his mother's ass.

His mother and his grandma exclaimed from time to time, covering their mouths and whispering that this one is cheap and that one is so cheap.

Aji couldn't turn his eyes away.There were so many people, it was the first time he saw so many people and so many things.

Originally, their family was supposed to come here yesterday, but his father and grandfather didn't bring the money back until evening. Their village was a bit far from the Lord's Mansion, so it would be too late to start again.Early this morning, his mother dragged her family and the villagers to the lord's mansion. In order to let father and grandfather have enough to eat and go to work, grandma and elder sister only drank noodle soup.

Aji heard his family say with envy and jealousy that before those bricklayers went to work in the lord's mansion, they took care of two meals a day and allowed you to eat as much as you wanted, but now they only serve one meal at noon, and there is a limit.

But the Lord's Mansion can take care of a meal without requiring everyone to bring dry food to work, which is already very grateful to everyone.Some children under the age of 13 also wanted to work for the lord, but the stewards refused to accept them.

The villagers said that if the tax officer hadn't raided the lord's mansion, maybe the lord would provide everyone with two meals a day today, and those children would also accept it.For this reason, there is no one in Bailu Ling who does not hate the tax official.

"When the canals and reservoirs are built, we will have more food next year." Ajiniang said to Grandma Aji hopefully.

Grandma Aji said worriedly: "I heard that the tax official wants to increase taxes for us in Bailuling."

"Damn tax collector!" Ajiniang gritted her teeth angrily.

Grandma Aji looked anxiously at the team in front, and kept saying that they should start earlier, for fear that they would run out of cheap wheat flour when it was their turn.

Someone wanted to get ahead, and immediately someone from the Lord's Mansion came out with a wooden stick to stop them. After a few fights, no one dared to jump in line.

Aji saw a little brother coming with a hemp rope and a wooden stick. The wooden stick was stuck on the ground, and the hemp rope was tied to the wooden stick, and a team was tied with the rope.

It's much better now, the people who come from behind can only obediently line up to the back.People who don't line up according to the hemp rope, the Lord's Mansion will not sell their things.

Some people were really impatient to wait, so they asked their family members to help them line up, while others went to see the cloth, pots and pans and other sundries that not many people cared about.

Grandma Aji asked Ajiniang to line up in the wheat flour line, and she took her grandson and granddaughter to see other goods.

Grandma Aji wanted to buy a needle and thread. After the new lord inherited the territory, he gave a set of new clothes, shoes and socks to the people in the territory as a celebration. Everyone cherished it. They always wore old clothes or didn’t wear them when they worked.

But old clothes wear out quickly, and new clothes will be torn accidentally. With needle and thread, Grandma Aji can do some mending, and can also make old clothes smaller for her grandchildren to wear.

"Is this a needle?" Grandma Aji picked up a thin iron needle and asked curiously.

Behind the stall was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, not from Aji Village, and neither of their families knew each other.

But the girl smiled very cutely, she nodded and replied: "Yes, grandma, this is an iron needle, which is better than stone needles and bone needles, and it will last a lifetime. And you see how thin the needle is, and it is not afraid to poke it." Leave a big hole in the fabric. The needle body is also slippery, which is easier to pull than stone needles and bone needles. The needle does not need to be sharpened frequently.”

"It won't break for a lifetime? Is it still usable?" Grandma Aji was tempted, "Then how can I sell it?"

The girl smiled brightly: "You can buy one for only one copper coin, and you can also get a bundle of fine linen as a gift. You see, such a thin and strong thread is not easy to buy. This is spun by the lord with a new spinning wheel." The new line, there is no other place."

Grandma Aji hesitated. One copper coin can buy a catty of couscous, which is always a pity to buy needlework.

But thinking that this iron needle can last a lifetime... this is an iron needle!She has no experience to know how valuable iron is.

To be honest, selling iron needles for one copper coin not only made no money for Tang Bo, but also made a lot of losses.

This is not the case that the earth has modern technology, and machines can make as many stitches as they want.Making an iron needle here starts with ore mining, then refines the ore, burns it into molten iron, makes a mold, and then polishes it.

The cost of an iron needle, regardless of the amount of iron used, is at least about one silver coin.

Similarly, the cost of an iron sword, regardless of the amount of iron used, is about one silver coin.

But people will spend ten gold coins for an iron sword, and they will not spend ten copper coins for a thin iron needle.

For this reason, Tang Bo also taught Gu Ding and Yan Ren a lesson, telling them that some industries must be made even if they lose money, and how to make up for the loss-making industries from profitable industries.

Among them, the necessary products for people's livelihood are industries that have to make losses.

Items like weapons and jewelry can be sold at high prices to the wealthy and outsiders.

Grandma Aji did not buy any needles and threads after much consideration. She was afraid that the grain stocks in the Lord's Mansion would not be able to supply people in the whole territory for a long time, so she wanted to buy as much food as possible when she had money and the Lord's Mansion had surplus food until home. There is enough food for the whole family to survive the first harvest next summer.

The girl in charge of groceries didn’t give Grandma Aji a face because she didn’t buy anything. Instead, she smiled and introduced other groceries to her, and told Grandma Aji enthusiastically that this store will last for a long time and she wants to buy it Stuff can come anytime.

Grandma Aji listened carefully to the product introduction, just like Sister Aji, they wanted to buy everything they saw, but they were reluctant to buy it.

Aji stared at the stall on the other side with his fingers in his mouth. That stall was selling snacks.

There are crunchy salted beans, deep-fried tofu cubes that are charred on the outside and tender on the inside, white and tender tofu nao, salty soy milk with bean flavor, yellow dried salty tofu, shredded tofu, and tofu skin...

There are also boiled red taro, dried radish, crispy salty broad beans, sweet cantaloupe, and even yellow rice porridge for sale.

Aji couldn't recognize what these foods were, but this didn't stop him from wanting to eat them. Smelling the tempting aroma of these foods, his stomach growled with greed. He drank a bowl of noodle soup in the morning and left again After such a long journey, I was already hungry.

And this stall has the most children around the front, but everyone just looks at it and doesn't buy it.

At this time, Gu Ding, biting a string of mutton skewers he snatched from Tang Bo, wandered over to watch the excitement.

The string of mutton skewers that were still warm and exuding a strange fragrance attracted the attention of many adults and children.

Gu Ding was particularly proud that he would walk in a figure-of-eight gait.

When he found a stall selling snacks, his pace doubled.

"Give me a bowl of tofu nao! I need a little more salty stew." Gu Ding untied the money bag tied on his belt, and threw out a copper coin in a very grand manner.

The snack seller Ah Shu didn't mind putting away the copper coins at all, and quickly filled him with a bowl of tofu nao, and added a little more salty boiled beans for him.

Gu Ding sat at the simple wooden table with a thick bowl as big as his face and began to eat.

The children around the stall don't look at the food now, they look at the ancient tripod instead.

A bowl of tofu nao was not enough for Gu Ding, so he ordered another five pieces of fried tofu and a bowl of boiled red taro porridge with yellow rice.

Aji had already broken free from his sister's hand and stood beside Gu Ding.

Sister Aji saw that Aji didn't run far, so she ignored him.

Gu Ding didn't seem to notice the eyes of the children around him, he ate happily, his stomach bulged, and he was still stuffing food into his mouth.

Aggie sucked his finger and took a step forward.

Gu Ding turned his head and asked ferociously: "Why? If you want to eat, buy it yourself."

Aji probably saw that Gu Ding was about the same age as him, so not only was he not afraid, but he also boldly proposed an exchange: "I'll pull out the weeds for you, a whole big basket, so~ such a big basket. Let me eat one bite, just one bite. "

Just as Gu Ding wanted to tell the child to leave, he changed his mind when he saw the child's raised little finger: "I'll ask you a question, and if you answered it correctly, I'll give you a piece of fried tofu."

Aggie nodded immediately.

Gu Ding pointed to the fried tofu in the bowl: "I bought five pieces of fried tofu, and I have already eaten two pieces. I want to give you another piece. How many pieces are there?"

Ajifan carefully counted with his fingers: "Three yuan."

"Why three yuan instead of two?"

"Because you haven't given it to me yet."

very good!Gu Ding glanced at the child, thinking that this was probably what Tang Bo said could be made. He also asked some adults in the mansion the same question, and many of them answered incorrectly, let alone the ignorant children.

Keeping his promise, Gu Ding picked up a piece of fried tofu and stuffed it into the child's mouth.

Aggie is about to die of happiness.This fried tofu is delicious, much better than anything he has ever eaten.

"Do you want to eat other things?" Gu Ding tempted the child.

Aji covered his mouth and nodded frantically, he was afraid that the fried tofu would fall out.

Gu Ding rolled his eyes, "Let me ask you another question, if someone wants to grab my food at this time, what will you do?"

Aji swallowed the last bit of fried tofu with all his strength, and thought for a while while tilting his big head that didn't match his figure: "Sir?"

"What if adults come to grab our food?"

Aji replied without hesitation: "Tell the lord!"

Gu Ding patted the child on the shoulder: "It's you. From now on, you will hang out with me. I will be the boss, and you will be the younger brother. I will send you money. Do you know what money is?"

Aji: "I know. You can buy wheat flour, you can buy a lot of delicious food, you can eat enough, and you don't go hungry."

Gu Ding became more and more satisfied, and bought a bowl of tofu nao for the child, and asked him to sit down and eat it too.

Seeing that Aji got so many delicious food so easily, the kids watching around were all excited, and shouted at Gu Ding, "You ask me too, and I can answer you too!"

"I recognize you as the boss, I just want to take a bite!"

"From today onwards, I will be your younger brother, brother, please accept me!" The one who shouted this sentence was a big kid who was at least eleven or twelve years old.

Gu Ding looked at the shameless boy, and felt that this boy had Tang Bo's shameless characteristics, so he pointed at him: "Come here. Do you want to recognize me as a big brother? Do things for me? If I tell you to go east, you will Not going west, I told you to kill the wolf and you will never run away?"

The older kid pushed the other kids away, grabbed a seat at the crowded wooden table, and said to Gu Ding, "Brother, young master, I swear on my stomach, I can do whatever you want me to do. Just let me eat. If I lie, I will be punished by Bailu Ling to starve me for the rest of my life. I am most afraid of starvation!"

Gu Ding patted the eldest child, "Okay, I'll add you one more. Shu, give him a bowl of porridge."

The older child wanted fried tofu more, but Gu Ding ignored his request.

Gu Ding could see that the elder child had been hungry for a long time, at this time, it was not suitable to give him anything but a little porridge.

The children around were more eager to see another child successfully getting food.

But Gu Ding didn't want to accept any more after accepting two younger brothers. He only had a headache watching Tang Bo teach him and Yan Ren, and he didn't want to create a lot of trouble for himself.

If it wasn't for the damn bastard Tang Bo who asked him to be some kind of police detective and didn't give him any, but insisted on letting him find it himself, why would he bother so much.

Aji doesn't care how many younger brothers Gu Ding wants to accept, he just concentrates on eating his tofu brain.He has a small appetite, so he will be full after eating half a bowl of tofu nao.

The child picked up the remaining half bowl of tofu nao and ran to find his sister.

Gu Ding rolled his eyes, thinking that he should train his two little brothers more in the future, at least let them remember to ask him first when doing anything.

Aji and the boy who will be named Alang in the future, please remember these two names. At this moment, even Gu Ding who picked them did not expect that these two people will develop to such a height in the future.

Aji's family never thought that Aji would become a big shot. They only thought that Aji would inherit the family's farmland when he grew up, marry a hardworking wife, have a few children, and live a life without being hungry. For them, it is their biggest expectation for Aggie.

As for A Lang, he is an orphan, currently living with his lame uncle who is single. His uncle has a weird temper and doesn't care much about him. As a result, A Lang doesn't even have an official name, and everyone in the village calls him a wild child.