With a hint of depression, Lu Yuan turned and left Sitong Trading Company behind him.
Walking down the street with an empty bamboo basket on his back, all the leathers inside had just been sold out. The heavy pressure immediately dissipated, making him walk a little faster.
Lu Yuan turned around and went to a shop on the street. With the five hundred coins he just got, Lu Yuan bought ten kilograms of coarse salt.
Because Dayu County is deep inland and in a mountainous area, salt from other places is transported over a long distance, so the price of salt here is much higher than outside.
My predecessor once heard from merchants at a tea stall that in counties with salt fields near the sea, a pound of salt can be purchased for as little as ten yuan.
Compared to the fifty cents a pound here, the salt is as if it was given away for free.
"Moreover, the coarse salt sold here is full of impurities, and you can even see pebbles. The quality is so poor and adulterated with so many fakes. How dare you sell it at such a high price?"
Lu Yuan looked at the coarse salt in the jar. The salt was black and yellow and looked like large pieces of sand.
It’s really hard to imagine that if a person eats this kind of salt all year round, will his body really not have any problems?
But considering this is ancient times, the average age may only be thirty or forty years.
"With this lifespan, even if there is a problem with eating, it may not last long. On the day of the outbreak, people will be dead first."
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan felt relieved.
However, he made up his mind that after returning, he must filter the coarse salt again.
He didn't care how other people ate the salt. He was immortal and could live as long as heaven, not those short-lived ghosts.
It would be funny if a long lifespan didn't kill you, but if you got sick from eating salt, it would be funny.
Just do it if you think of it.
For the sake of his own life, Lu Yuan bought some crock gauze that could be used for filtration in the street market, and also bought some axes, chisels and hammers used by craftsmen.
Although I have been in this world for two months and have lived in a cave for a long time, one thing I have to say is that it is a broken cave with air leakage everywhere, and it is really uncomfortable to live there.
His predecessor was a wild child who grew up in the mountains. Like a wild man, he wore hair and drank blood, so he probably lived the hard life in the cave without feeling anything wrong.
But Lu Yuan is a person who has traveled from modern times.
Although his identity before time travel was that of an ordinary ordinary person.
But what are the material conditions in modern times and what were the material conditions in ancient times?
Even if an ordinary person now enjoys various material things, I can't say that they were comparable to princes in ancient times. At least they were treated like a landlord.
Let a modern person who has been pampered enough come to live a life of survival in the wilderness. It is okay for a day or two occasionally, but who can bear it after a long time.
"I've had enough of laying down a leather mattress and lying on the floor every day. I want to sleep on a bed, a big soft bed. There's also a tea table, chairs, cabinets, and everything else. , we must do whatever we can." Lu Yuan couldn't help but shed tears when he thought about the life he had lived these days.
He really couldn't figure out what his predecessor was thinking.
Is it really so difficult to get a bed to sleep on?
Is it so good to just light a fire every day, spread a leather mattress next to it, and sleep on the floor?
Are you really not afraid of catching a cold, not afraid of rheumatism, not afraid of the coldness penetrating your bones?
Although judging from the situation these days, my body is indeed not affected at all, and this habit of sleeping on the ground does not seem to have any bad consequences.
But Lu Yuan still couldn't accept this bad life due to his psychological and physical instincts.
So now that I'm in the city and I still have money on hand, of course I haven't said anything about it. I can't treat myself badly no matter what.
However, the money on hand was still a little short, so he decided to teach people how to fish rather than teach them how to fish. He would make beds, chairs, etc. if he could make them himself. It was impossible to buy them.
Even if you want to buy it yourself, you still have to be willing to give it away.
Lantau Island is a vast forest with wild animals running rampant, and most people really don’t dare to run into it.
So instead of spending money to think about unrealistic things, it is better to buy your own tools and make enough food and clothing by yourself.
Anyway, other things may be scarce in the mountain, but things like wood are really plentiful, inexhaustible and inexhaustible.
After buying a bunch of sundries and filling most of his backpack, Lu Yuan had spent almost half of the two thousand coins he had just received.
He still had five hundred coins left, but he didn't plan to spend any more. Instead, he planned to save it and use it as his own savings just like his predecessor.
Yes, his predecessor had a small treasury, accumulated from his two years as a hunter, which amounted to eight taels of silver.
It took two years to save eight taels of silver.
Lu Yuan felt sad when he thought of the hard life his predecessor had lived trying to save money.
Orion's life is too difficult.
In order to save money, the predecessor even did not hesitate to live frugally and live a savage life. This is certainly not because he likes to be close to nature and has lofty spiritual cultivation.
The behavioral logic of all this is very simple, that is, save enough money, and then spend money to buy a wife.
The hunter's profession is too dangerous. If you are not careful, you will be killed by wild beasts in the mountains, and your life span is really not long.
And in addition, because he has no identity and is a black man, there are too few channels for obtaining financial resources.
Those with status, even if they work as coolies in the city, can still earn one tael of silver a month. Over the course of a year, if you save a little, you can save five or six taels no matter what.
But if you were an Orion, you could earn half a tael of silver a month, which was considered stable. In a year, no matter how frugal I am, I can only save three or four taels of silver at most.
With such a condition, the daughters of good families would naturally look down upon her.
So if you want to find someone to talk to your wife, for Orion, that is out of the question.
The idea of passing on the family line is deeply rooted in the genes of every living thing and is instinctive.
Not to mention the cultural impact.
Therefore, the former Dalang began to prepare for marrying a wife as early as two years ago.
Since he couldn't find a daughter from a good family, and he wanted a wife, the only way was to buy one.
In today's market conditions, if you want to buy a wife, you will need at least sixty taels of silver. A little more, a hundred taels is not impossible.
Based on the original savings rate, which is four taels a year, it would take at least fifteen years to save enough money to ask for a wife.
By that time, Dalang was already twenty-nine years old and had passed away.
In an era like ancient times when life expectancy was low, one might have already become a grandfather at the age of thirty.
"You have to work hard all your life to find a wife at the age of being a grandfather."
Lu Yuan recalled the life plan of his original body, Dalang, and a complex emotion arose in his heart. He didn't know how to describe it, and finally turned into a sigh: "It's bitter."
