For Zhang Tie, the two days of the weekend passed very quickly. Because his father had to go to work on Saturday, Zhang Tie made a day’s rice brewing with his mother at home on Saturday. Being able to sell about five or six cans of rice brewing is not a lot of income, but for the Zhang family, who has been living a life carefully, it is not without a small supplement.

Rice brewing is a traditional Chinese delicacy, and the method is not complicated. The raw material is mainly rice, and the processing process is simple. First, wash the rice, put it in a pot and cook until it is half-ripe, pick up the rice, and dry it. Then it is steamed in a steamer, and then dried, and then canned tightly in a clay pot, mixed with sugar and honey during the canning process, and finally sprinkled with water, which is yeast liquid, After sealing it, let it ferment naturally. After a month, you can open the can for consumption. The finished rice stuffed rice retains the sweetness and softness of the rice, is nutritious, and has a comfortable sweetness, which can satisfy your hunger, and has a very tasty but never drunk taste. It is refreshing. It relieves heat, nourishes the spleen and stomach, and is extremely delicious. Zhang Tie and his brother grew up eating rice stuffed by their mother.

Although the manufacturing process of rice noodles is simple, every step of the process is very particular about the scale and heat. Zhang's rice noodles have a bit of reputation and popularity among nearby neighborhoods and regular customers, but they have been conscientious for more than ten years. Accumulated little by little.

The result of a busy day on Saturday was to make a seven-cylinder rice brew. Make these rice brews and move the rice brews to the warehouse behind the shop to store them. Zhang Tie rode out on a small tricycle that was refitted at home. I ran twice, one was to buy rice at the rice store. The rice in the rice tank at home almost had a tendency to bottom out after making the rice brew. Therefore, Zhang Tie had to go to the rice store every weekend. One trip, after buying rice, bought two catties of sugar incidentally. When buying rice this time, Zhang Tie found that the price of the rice in the rice shop had risen a little. Last week, the asking price for a 25kg bag of ordinary rice was 4 silver coins and 45 copper coins. I went to the rice shop today and found 25kg. The price of a bag of ordinary rice has quietly risen to 4 silver coins and 58 copper coins per bag. Within a week, the price has risen by nearly 3%.

Zhang Tie was taken aback. Our young people are extremely sensitive to the price changes of these daily necessities. Zhang Tie remembers that the price of rice in the Black Flame City has basically not changed in the past three years since he entered middle school. At that time, there were also 4 silver coins and 45 copper coins per bag. How could it have risen so much in just one week?

"Oh, Zhang Tie, we can't do anything about it. The price of rice went up when we purchased the goods the day before yesterday, and we can only follow the increase. We can't do business at a loss!" The owner of the rice shop is also an acquaintance, speaking of the price of rice. , He began to vomit bitterness to Zhang Tie, "70% of our rice in Heiyan City is pulled from outside. The several farms and planting areas outside Heiyan City cannot guarantee the city’s food supply. What can we do? The prices of these things are determined by the big business group above. Not only the rice, but also the noodles. The prices have increased in the past two days. If you don’t believe me, you can look elsewhere. Price, and some sell more expensive..."

The owner of the rice shop has been a regular customer for many years, and Zhang Tie would not be so stupid to look elsewhere. The price of this grain in Heiyan City is basically the same everywhere. The same bag of rice will be sold in Heiyan City. The price gap in the store is at most one to three coppers. If the price gap is more than five coppers, it is basically impossible to sell. After many years of dealings, this rice shop is also operated by a hard-working and savvy Chinese owner. There are still.

According to the price of 4 silver coins and 58 coppers, which is 458 copper, Zhang Tie bought three bags, which is 75 kilograms of rice, and put it on his tricycle. This tricycle is a second-hand bicycle with a pocket and A refitted wheel looks ugly and has a limited load. Three bags of rice plus a person like Zhang Tie is almost the limit. While moving the rice, Zhang Tie carefully checked the needle holes and thread on the rice pockets, and saw that there were no traces of leaks and re-sewns, and he was relieved. Some betrayed rice shop owners and grain merchants wanted to do it. When you need to use shoddy methods, or when you add sand to the rice, you must remove the needle thread from the rice bag and sew it again. So as long as you are careful, check the rice bag. The eye of the needle and thread can tell if a bag of rice has been touched. The children of the poor were in charge early. This is the experience that Zhang Tie has bought over the years.

After buying rice and buying two catties of sugar in a grocery store not far from the rice shop, Zhang Tiecai rode a tricycle home. Unsurprisingly, after the price of rice increased by 3%, the price of sugar followed It has risen, but the price of sugar has gone up even more. Last week, the price of crude sugar per kilogram of 91 coppers rose directly to 1 silver coin per kilogram this time. I also looked at several nearby shops. Zhang Tie bought two. Jin sugar, packed in a cloth bag, hung on the handle of the car. Riding that ugly modified second-hand tricycle, staggered back home.

When I got home, I told my mother about the price increase of rice and sugar, and then gave the remaining purchase money a small amount of copper to my mother, watching my mother take the money, and finally thought After thinking about it, he counted ten coppers from his hand to make pocket money for Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie, who had obtained ten bronzes, said to his mother with a smile, "Thank you mom!" Today, my mother is much more generous, and usually only five bronzes at most.

My mother sighed and frowned, "The prices of rice and sugar have gone up. I am afraid that the price of our rice brew will only increase with it. This profit is inherently thin. If there is no price increase, the business will not If the law goes on, if you want to increase the price, you may lose some old customers! Alas..."

Looking at the frowning mother, Zhang Tie was upset and blurted out, "Mom, don't worry, I will let you and Dad live a good life in the future, I am now different from before!"

"Mom knows that our little Guoguo is already an adult, of course it's different from before!" Mom laughed and reached out to touch Zhang Tie's head.

Listening to the other meaning behind the word "adult" in his mother's tone, Zhang Tie became embarrassed again for a while, "Mom, it's not what you think, I mean I..."

"Okay, okay, mother knows that our family Guoguo has grown up and is a good and filial child. Let's not talk about this, you can quickly send this rice soup to Mother Teresa, it is too late today I can't keep up!"

Zhang Tie's words were interrupted by his mother, and the following words were not spoken. Zhang Tie became bored again, and reloaded the remaining cylinders of rice soup in the ugly tricycle. Zhang Tie was a little depressed. Riding the bike again and rushing to another place, thinking about the impulse just now, he almost blurted out the strange thing that he had the castle of black iron, and felt a little bit of blame for himself or being too impulsive. If the secret is now known to the family, apart from worrying parents and bringing many unpredictable risks, Zhang Tie can't think of any benefits to the family. Riding in the car, Zhang Tie secretly made up his mind to completely let this secret rot in his heart in the future. If he has the ability, just let his family enjoy the benefits of the Black Iron Fort. There is no need for them to do this. Worry for yourself. The less people know about the secrets of the Dark Iron Fort, the better it is for myself and for this family.

Heiyan City is a new industrial city without much historical heritage. One of the benefits of a new city is that at the beginning of the planning of Heiyan City, the convenience of urban traffic was fully considered. Many roads are very spacious, especially On some arterial roads, sidewalks, non-motorized vehicle lanes, and motorized vehicle lanes were clearly distinguished. Zhang Tieqi was riding on the modified second-hand tricycle, ringing the bell, and quickly on the non-motorized vehicle road in Heiyan City. Shuttle, while looking enviously at the cars that pass by the motorway from time to time, while imagining that one day I can get a car by myself, with my family, or a beautiful woman like Mr. Dinah. Take a drive in the city.

Before the cataclysm, the steam engine has been a technology that has been eliminated by humans for nearly hundreds of years. I heard that at that time, humans had invented various advanced mechanical equipment and technologies, and dumped the steam engine in the garbage dump of history. Nobody cares. Among those advanced technologies, some technologies seem to be myths to Zhang Tie-for example, various machines that can fly in the air, ships that can still operate without fuel for hundreds of years, send people to the stars. Means, one million miles away, you can still talk easily and see each other’s equipment, and the kind of devilish weapon that can easily wipe out a city or even a country by planting a mushroom, and so on, the school teacher is talking about At this time, he was full of sighs. Zhang Tie listened to the stars, and the human society before the cataclysm was too unimaginable. After the cataclysm, mankind lost all this glorious thing. In desperation, mankind took the steam engine out of the historical garbage dump, from the simplest condensing steam vacuum pump to the most complicated high-pressure steam turbine. These all kinds of old and obsolete things that have been dug out from the pile of history are beginning to rejuvenate and support human beings to stand and start running again in this era that has been different from any previous era, just like Those installed with small boutique reciprocating two-stage steam engines are like the cars that are speeding in the city.

In Heiyan City, ordinary people use their feet and urban public transportation. Some working-class people may buy a bicycle. For example, Zhang Tie’s house modified such a weird second-hand one for the convenience of delivery and shopping. Tricycle. But for the real rich, the means of transportation for those who are rich will only be cars. For those people, it is no longer a simple means of transportation, but a symbol of identity and strength. In the entire Heiyan City, after so many years, the number of private cars has never been less than 1,000, and the people who can sit in it are either rich or expensive. At least in Zhang Tie's school, Zhang Tie did not find any student or teacher's home that could afford such a car. Even for Captain Colin, as the most terrifying one-eyed dragon in Black Flame City, even if his salary is not low compared to ordinary people, he wants to buy a car. If he only relies on his salary, it may be It will be possible without eating or drinking for 50 years.

From childhood to age, all the superficial knowledge about machinery and tools that Zhang Tie learned in school was almost related to various steam engines. As a man with a natural desire to conquer the world, 15-year-old Zhang Tie There were two biggest dreams about the future, one is Teacher Dinah, and the other is a beautiful private car. The combination of these two dreams gives birth to the kind of heaven-like life that Zhang Tie dreams of-every day Driving the car, pulling Mr. Dinah, then find a place with beautiful scenery and undisturbed, talk to Mr. Dinah about the movement process of the human piston related to the steam engine, and by the way test the anti-vibration performance of the car tires and seats.

The young man who was immersed in the "wild vision" that no one knew, rushed through the city on a tricycle. Thirty minutes later, before six o'clock in the evening, he pulled the contents of the car to Mother Teresa. Mother's Orphanage...

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