Seeing that the end of the year was approaching, and there were several snowfalls outside, Zhou Zekai had already changed into thick clothes, and the inside of the house was not too cold, but after Wang Li went out to work, he was always so cold that his face and hands were covered with cracks. The winter snow seems to have buried people's knees, and the crops in next spring should be okay.
Zhou Zekai felt that the temperature outside must be at least eleven or two degrees below zero. Anyway, people would not be able to stretch out their hands when going out, so he specially drew five separate gloves and asked his sister-in-law to make one for Wang Li to wear. It's better than being frozen like a carrot now.
"Akai, how is your baby doing today? Did I bother you~"
After Wang Li came back from the dealer's house, he sat with Zhou Zekai. Although the child looked small, Wang Li knew that the other party was capable, so every time he came back, he liked to sit and talk with Zhou Zekai.
"No, Brother Wang, the baby is very obedient, besides, sister-in-law is here, today the baby has learned a dozen more words, very smart."
Knowing that Wang Li and Wang's sister-in-law did not expect Wang Baobao to learn too profound knowledge, Zhou Zekai is now teaching Wang Baobao to read and write. Children are very smart, so they will be able to learn these words soon.
"That's it, that's it." Wang Li opened his mouth happily when he heard that his son had learned a dozen more words, and then thought of his master's affairs, and said.
"Akai, don't I work as a long-term worker at the dealer? I heard that the eldest lady of the dealer has returned from studying abroad. From a distance, she is wearing a foreign dress, which is different from us, but she looks very cold. , now that the world is in such a mess, what is there to do abroad..."
Wang Li couldn't figure out such a thing as going abroad, so when he talked about it now, he only felt that the young lady was magnificent, but ordinary men couldn't stand it.
"Brother Wang, of course foreign countries also have their benefits. Didn't we see foreigners shopping on the street a few days ago? If those foreigners didn't come to buy things, the shops on the street could make so much money. It’s called studying abroad, learning foreign knowledge!”
Zhou Zekai said with a smile, for people going abroad at this time, many of these people go abroad with the intention of learning more knowledge, and some want to learn something abroad to save the domestic situation, but this kind of thing will be a Can people fix it
"Hey, that's right. Now the imperial court doesn't care about things. Those big officials push each other to do things one by one. There is also a place in the east. Our place is very far away, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. It seems that many people died in the war... I thought, this is a war, please don't come to our place. , the life of ordinary people is even more difficult... "
Wang Li has been working as a long-term laborer for farmers all year round. Naturally, he knows some things that farmers don't know. For example, there are wars in some cities outside. They are still safe here in Wuyang County. There are people covering them, even if they really want to fight , that is also a few years later.
Hearing what Wang Li said, Zhou Zekai understood the hardships of this world even more. There is no emperor in the court now, but those big officials still occupy one side, and the new warlords have not yet risen. After Zhou Zekai listened to it, he felt quite boring.
"By the way, Ah Kai, wasn't there a group of refugees outside the city before? Many of them hadn't survived the heavy snow before, and now I heard that they were taken over by the old cripples in the city. I heard that they all voluntarily sold their bodies. I don’t want to sell them, I’m afraid no one will buy these people, and they will be sold to the coal mine by the old cripple, and their death will be even worse.”
When Wang Li talked about this matter, he also sighed silently. This is how the old and the new change. Many of the big families have absconded servants. It is not uncommon for slaves to bully their masters. If it is used, the imperial court doesn't care about it. Naturally, it is very chaotic.
Unexpectedly, the chaos outside has become like this. Zhou Zekai carefully asked about the sale contract again, only to realize that now that the emperor is gone, those high-ranking officials are still in charge, but those who are like this kind of sale contract are all taken care of by those so-called Students in the new era thought it was a waste of human rights. After a long time of trouble, the contract of sale was no longer effective. In Wuyang County alone, many slaves who signed the contract of sale escaped secretly, let alone other places.
Speaking of which, there is also Zhou Zekai's personal identity certificate. After Wang Li secretly paid someone for it, he got a certificate. As long as he has this identity certificate, he can go to a big city if he wants to. Cities are in disarray with almost no identity checks anymore.
After hearing this, Zhou Zekai really understood why it is said that this is an era when human life is the least valuable.
I'm afraid that those refugees who can't survive this winter will die now if they want to sell themselves to survive... If they are sent to places like coal mines or salt factories, they will probably die within a few months.
After chatting with Wang Li for a while, Sister-in-Law Wang hurriedly brought food over. Now the Wang family's food is pretty good. With Zhou Zekai's fifty taels, and Zhou Zekai teaching their son, the Wang family and his wife change their ways for Zhou Zekai every day. Supplementing the body, plus the fact that this kind of meat is sold cheaply nowadays, a catty of meat costs only seven or eight cents. This year, Zhou Zekai has been able to eat clean and white, and his height has grown a lot. Of course, it is also thanks to him that the sheep Milk is nutritious, and he happened to meet a ewe seller, so he bought it. After milking the goat every day, he and the baby drank it together, and let the Wang family drink it. Neither of them was used to the taste. I feel a little distressed to have to feed the sheep specially.
After eating, Zhou Zekai went back to his room and found that he could no longer sit and eat, otherwise if something happened in the future, there would be nothing he could do.
Lying on the bed, while practicing the formula of longevity, he suddenly thought of his own jade pendant...
Speaking of Zhou Zekai's jade pendant, it can be seen that it is not something that ordinary people can have. It is a pair of jade pendants, but now only half of them are left.
This is the dragon and phoenix jade pendant, two pieces can be combined into one, now only the phoenix part remains.
This reminded Zhou Zekai of the days before the wisher. An old beggar picked up the wisher and kept him there. Although there was a jade pendant on his body, the old beggar thought it was a proof that the wisher would recognize his relatives in the future. Instead, wait for the wish-maker to become a little more sensible, and tell the wish-maker that it is something left by his biological parents and will be used to find relatives in the future.
Of course, the wish-maker cherishes this piece of jade pendant very much, but as he grows up, the old beggar who picked up the wish-maker died when he was eight years old. Another little beggar was rescued, he still remembered the other person's name, it was called Hou Qi, he was the same age as him, but he was very powerful.
For the next three years or so, the wish-maker was with Hou Qi. Both of them were orphans. In addition, they had a lifelong friendship. Half of it was given to the other party, and he told him that he would rely on this jade pendant to find his family.
It's just that the good times didn't last long. When the two were twelve years old, Hou Qi somehow disappeared in the world of the wish-maker, and he couldn't find it when he asked again. Only the ten taels of silver left by Hou Qi supported the wish-making He lived to be almost fourteen years old, and this year was mainly due to the disaster year, so he ran all the way to Wuyang County and spent all his money. going to starve to death...
From Zhou Zekai's memory, the wish-maker just didn't survive this winter, and it was precisely because of this that he was even more persistent, wanting to find his biological parents and return to his own home.
The formula of longevity circulated in the body for another week, and Zhou Zekai suddenly felt that this was really a coincidence. Both Hou Qi and Xu Yuan were orphans, and they depended on each other for their lives. They split the jade pendant into two, and then Hou Qi quietly disappeared. Giving the wisher ten taels of silver was also very strange, enough to make Zhou Zekai suspicious of many things.
For example... Did Hou Qi sell the jade pendant of the wisher, so he gave him ten taels of silver
Or could it be said that Hou Qi's disappearance was because the family of the person who made the wish found him? After seeing the jade pendant, took Hou Qi away as a wish-maker
All of this was Zhou Zekai's guess, not because Zhou Zekai insisted on guessing others with malice, but because it was really a coincidence.
Coincidentally... people have to doubt it.
Going through the memories that belonged to the wish-maker before, Zhou Zekai planned to find this so-called Hou Qi in the future and take back his jade pendant. Anyway, this approach is always right.
After making a plan, the next step is to make money. Zhou Zekai easily set his sights on the Miss Zhuangjia who just returned from studying abroad. I believe that a girl who has seen the outside world after going abroad should be interested in jewelry. , I like it very much, right
Thinking of this, Zhou Zekai opened his Taobao, first bought an exquisite classical mirror, and then picked out some exquisite and cheap diamond hairpins on Taobao, such as a complete set of crowns.
This kind of thing may be very tacky to modern people, and people will only wear it when they get married, but it is different now, and now foreign cultures are invading. Such a set of crown cards must have a high price.
After Zhou Zekai got the crown, he felt that the diamonds on it were indeed very realistic, worthy of more than 600 yuan. I hope it can play its role well...