When the boy came out of the grocery store, he was still thinking about the words that Tang De said, the soft tongue can break hard bones, and the wise head is better than any magic weapon.
Anyway, Tang De's words somewhat made the miserable green boy's heart a little more inexplicably comforted, and the original depressed mood was more or less better.
When Zhang Railway passed the flea market, the coal lamps on the side of the street had been lit one by one, and the lamplighters of Heiyan City rode four-wheeled vehicles, shaking bells, stopping in front of each lamp, climbing onto the lamp pole, removing the lampshade, adding fuel to the street lamp, and then coming down after igniting it.
After the lamplighter left, in the shadow of the row of coal lamps near the train station, some women began to appear, and those women were wearing heavy makeup one by one, pretending to be exposed, with their breasts half exposed, throwing winks at the pedestrians on the side of the road, and the women stood together in twos and threes, and from time to time said a few words to their companions next to them, and then some people laughed unbridled and wildly.
As Zhang Tie walked, he glanced at the women standing under the lamp, those women made him a little upset, but there was a faint indescribable longing.
"Baby, come, come to Auntie, Auntie will let you taste what it's like to be a man" The woman who spoke stood at the entrance of the alley next to the lamp, with red curly hair, a plump and bewitching figure, she looked like she was in her forties, her face was slightly blurred, seeing Zhang Tie's glance, the woman leaned down slightly, so that Zhang Tie could see her majestic and white breasts through the street lamp, and then the woman squeezed her hands on the two exposed hemispheres of the neckline of the skirt on her chest, and let out a slight moan from her mouth, "Ah", and then opened her mouth, Licked one of her own fingers, and then slowly took the finger into her mouth, with just one movement, Zhang Tie felt that the muscles in his throat were shaking like a rubber band that was bouncing, like a fire, and the tent on the crotch of his pants suddenly stood tall, and then in the woman's unbridled laughter, Zhang Tie fled in the wilderness.
The flea market next to the train station was really lively at night, and all kinds of characters seemed to jump out one by one when the night came, and they had been leaving the terrible and seductive woman for almost 100 meters, Zhang Tie's beating heart slowly recovered, and a disobedient guy was still holding his head high, in order to avoid embarrassment, Zhang Tie had to pretend to put two hands into his trouser pockets, through a layer of cloth, and use his right hand to firmly hold down the dishonest guy.
When Zhang Tie was about to walk out of the flea market, the sound from a stall on the side of the road made Zhang Tie slow down.
"Boss, you got all these things from the ruins before the cataclysm."
"Of course, if you look at this book, the words on it seem to be in Chinese, the Andaman City-State Alliance does not have such a publication, you look at this cover, the one on it seems to be an abacus used by the Chinese, a calculation tool with a very long history, enough to go back thousands of years before the cataclysm, and then look at the printing quality of this cover, if it wasn't made from the ruins, how could it be so well preserved" "When we are idiots, I also know that this is Chinese, but no one knows it, it's not just that you say, there is a fart, what kind of bullshit abacus, is there still anyone using such an old-fashioned thing?"
"I'm a credibility person."
The word Chinese made Zhang Tie pause, and then Zhang Tie walked over, squatting in front of the stall with the two people in front of the stall, picking and picking at will, the stall is not big, less than two square meters, a bunch of messy things are placed on a tarpaulin, the only thing that can be seen in the stall is a few daggers and copper bracers pressed on the four corners of the tarpaulin, in the flea market, every guy who sets up a stall will claim to have made something strange when he encounters something strange, it is a treasure before the cataclysm, But even a fool can't deceive him After the two people next to him squatted in front of the stall for a while, one of them picked a decent sheathed dagger for the price of 8 silver coins and 60 coppers, and then left, and then Zhang Tie was left in front of the stall.
The stall owner is a lewd old man in his 60s, a red rosacea, as soon as you get closer, you can smell a smell of inferior wine on his body, and looking at the image of this old man, you can't help but think of an animal mouse.
After Zhang Tie casually looked at the stall for a while, he finally picked up the book with an abacus printed on the cover and flipped through it casually, asking, "How much is this?"
"This is a treasure from the ruins, at least 20 silver coins," said the old man treacherously.
"What is this book for?"
"Well, it seems to be a skill book about how to use this calculation tool called abacus" The old man is not sure, he has read this book, and the Chinese in it is not incomprehensible at all, and he also found a half-bucket of water that understands a little bit of Chinese and looked at it, but the person can only distinguish some simple numbers in the book, which are all inexplicable things such as three, three, two, two, five, six, and six "What's the use of this, let me count and stretch to sleep?"
"Well, well, if you want it, it's cheaper, 16 silver coins, you can't miss it any more," the old man said with a look of regret.
"Are you an idiot for me, this book is less than 16 pages in total, and the paper is not enough for me to wipe my ass once when I shit, you want 16 silver coins I read this book a little strange to ask" Zhang Tie angrily dropped the book, he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs walking, in this market, he was not rude when he bargained, and he was generally slaughtered blindly by others as a fat sheep.
"Then you give a price" "80 coppers" "80 copper" The old man jumped up like a mouse with his tail stepped on, "Boy, this is from the ruins, no, at least 10 silver coins" "What kind of bullshit relics, deceive children, within a radius of 1,000 miles from Heiyan City, there are ruins there, and even if there is, they have already been moved away, and it will be your turn, it is 80 coppers" "9 Credits, No Less" "Okay, look at your age, count me as respecting the old and loving the young, I'll add ten coppers, 90 coppers" "90 coppers" the old man shouted like a pig, "not enough for the cost price I collected" "That One Silver Coin" The "7" old man gritted his teeth Two minutes after the dry mouth bargaining, Zhang Tie stood up directly, without any nostalgia, turned around and left, after walking five steps, the old man's angry voice came from behind him, "Don't go, just do what you say, four silver coins, sold to you" The corners of Zhang Tie's mouth showed a smile, of course these people who don't know Chinese can't understand the title of this book, and Zhang Tie was stunned when he saw this book, this book has a very awesome name, Zhang Tie just flipped through it casually, and found that the book was about a mental arithmetic method related to abacus, which was also quite special, so he bought this book On the way home, Zhang Tie's stomach was already rumbling, but touching the book in his pocket, Zhang Tie was satisfied, in this era, knowledge is more expensive than many people imagine, any skills and knowledge that are not learned in school can be said to have its uniqueness and preciousness.
Zhang Tie remembered that when he first came to the grocery store as an apprentice, Tang De was a guy who inspected him for more than three months before he took out that strange thing called abacus, taught him how to use it, and had an expression of what you kid earned, and in Heiyan City, according to Zhang Tie's observation, there are indeed not many people who can use abacus, at least he hasn't seen anyone else use it, and the general calculation is on paper, and more advanced, I heard that in those exchanges and commercial houses, there are metal-style hand-cranked calculators, so the skills of this abacus are a bit chicken.
But no matter how chicken the skills, it is not something that anyone can learn if they want to learn, just now Zhang Tie casually flipped through this book of beads, as soon as he saw the abacus pattern and formula on the title page inside, he determined the value of this book, in general, this book may not be very precious, but the price of four silver coins, in exchange for such a skill, even if it can't play the value of this skill for the time being, Zhang Tie also feels that it is worth it, not to mention that the four silver coins are not his own.
Yiduo is not pressing, this is what Dad often says.
When I was a child, I was forced to learn Chinese by my parents at home with a bamboo board and a palm, and it took ten years to know all the words on a Chinese dictionary that made anyone look big, this was Zhang Tie's darkest experience when he was a child, more than ten years, Zhang Tie found that he finally used the Chinese he learned in reality, and picked up a small leak, so he was a little proud.
As for the old man's statement that this book came from something in the ruins, Zhang Tie didn't believe it even if he was killed.
The things in the ruins are at least more than a thousand years old, and this book doesn't look like something 1000 years ago, but a few words that are about to be blurred can be faintly seen under the abacus pattern on the page make Zhang Tie a little strange "Elementary school students recommend extracurricular readings" Lao Tzu is about to enter the society People who are about to enter the society can't get in touch with this kind of knowledge, where are primary school students so good, and class reading materials, I rely on, people are more than people, and people are angry was beaten for some reason, and finally exchanged the looted money for a book, joined the Plane Brotherhood, and lost face in front of Teacher Dinah On the way home, taking stock of today's efforts and gains, even Zhang Tie didn't know whether he had earned or lost Zhang Tie's home is in the civilian gathering area in the north of Heiyan City, if the Upper East District of Heiyan City is the back garden of the rich, then the North District is the comfort nest of all the workers and small citizens who follow the rules in Heiyan City, compared with the Upper East Side, the streets of the North District are not beautiful, but they are still clean, and the security is OK, the rows of plane trees on both sides of the street bring some warm market atmosphere here, and the hard work of parents for decades is only a building on the side of the community street covering an area of less than 100 square meters.
I also brought a two-story cabin in the backyard, and the family used the house downstairs to open a rice brewing shop facing the street, my father worked in the factory, and my mother ran the small shop, and the business in the store was lukewarm, and the rice brewing business was mainly taken care of by the residents and neighbors around the community, and the profits were also very thin, barely helping a little family.
When Zhang Tie returned home, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, his parents were not at home, it was estimated that he went to the church again, the rice brewing shop was also closed, the rice left at home was still warm in the pot, the dinner was not rich, a pot of mixed vegetables was hot, a bowl of bacon stewed cloud beans and a large bowl of spiky white rice were all for dinner, and there were a few pieces of broad bean-sized meat floating in the bacon stewed cloud beans, Zhang Tie knew that it was left by his parents for himself, in fact, every time they were reluctant to eat, I only say that I don't like to eat meat and always keep it for myself.
Eating a not sumptuous dinner, Zhang Tie's nose was inexplicably a little sour, and he secretly swore that in the future, when he made money, he must let his father and mother be able to eat big fish and meat every day.
After eating hastily, cleaning up the kitchen again, dragging the tired body, Zhang Tie went upstairs, and when he reached the second floor, his brother's room was closed, but Zhang Tie heard a rhythmic crash sound from his brother's room, and an obviously suppressed wheezing sound, this is not the first time, Zhang Tie naturally knew what was going on in the room, and after lightening his steps, he took a few steps to the aisle, and when he was about to reach the end of the aisle, Zhang Tie touched the rope on the wall and pulled it slightly, A plank on the floor slab at the end of the walkway slides down, and on the other side of the plank is a staircase that leads to the small attic above.
Probably because I forgot to oil the pulley for several days, the sound of the stairs falling was not small, creaking, and when the stairs fell, the impact in my brother's room was quiet for a few seconds, and then before Zhang Tie walked up, the impact sounded more intensely Zhang Tie climbed up the stairs, and when he climbed to the attic, he pulled the stairs up again, and the floor was reset, and this small attic with a triangular roof was Zhang Tie's nest.
The area of the home is not large, and there is a rice wine shop downstairs, there are fewer places for people to live, Zhang Tie can only live in the attic on the roof, in addition to living in the original small attic, nearly half of the place is separated by iron sheets and wooden boards, stacking the sundries at home, Zhang Tie's nest, can only barely put a bed, a table, and a small wardrobe, the space in the middle of these pieces of furniture, is only enough for two people to stagger and not crowd, the furniture in the nest is half old and not new, A lot of the paint water can no longer see the color and even begin to fall off, these things are all second-hand goods that the family bought for Zhang Tie from outside, and a total of two silver coins have not been used A cottage of less than 8 square meters, a few pieces of second-hand old furniture, this is all the 15-year-old miserable green boy Zhang Tie has in this world: