Although Liu Bao was a local ruffian in Qingxi Village, he never bullied people in Qingxi Village. Even if people in the village were arranging him behind his back, he did not share common sense with others.
Chen Wei stops Liu Bao. Liu Bao looks at Chen Wei curiously and says, "What?"
"Brother Liu, can you help me with something?"
Liu Bao said, "I can do everything I can, but I don't have any money to borrow."
There is no hiding in the village. The separation of the Chen Wei family and the old Chen family was fermented overnight yesterday, and today the whole village knows it.
Chen Wei shook his head and said, "It's not very difficult. I want to get some pig hair."
"Huh?"
Liu Bao looked at Chen Wei in surprise and said, "Why do you want this?"
Chen Wei said, "Don't worry about it. The more the better. I'll go to the city tomorrow and bring you some sugar balls to eat."
Liu Bao laughed and said, "What an adult! Why do I want that? It's better than pig's head."
He waved his hand and said, "I will send it to you later."
Liu Bao is an orphan in the village. He occasionally goes to the county seat to help the county government officials fight. He has no serious work, and his family's fields have also been annexed. He is hungry and full. Although he looks smart in the village, he is actually miserable.
In the afternoon, he handed Chen Wei a basket of bristles and said, "Muh, what you want."
"It's not easy for your family to talk nonsense about pig's head and meat. Don't be so polite to your brother."
Liu Bao looked at the Chen family as if they were destitute. He was too embarrassed to ask for anything. They were all poor people and took care of each other.
Watching Liu Bao leaving behind, Chen Wei nods to himself. Although he is a gangster, he is more alive than a scholar. He is a good young man.
Chen Wei took his father's carpentry tools and cut a lot of small wooden handles, which are similar to the tooth handles of toothbrushes in later generations. Then he put a poke bristle on the head of the teeth and fixed it.
This is not hard work. Chen Wei is very relaxed when sitting up.
One afternoon, Chen Wei cooked a large basket of porridge at home after his father and mother came back from their busy farming.
Sister Chen Xiu is cooking medicine soup for Chen Wei. Mother Li Shi grabs rice to feed chickens. Father continues to expand his small home.
Chen Wei doesn't know what ails him. If he is rich, he will go to the county to find a good doctor.
Farmers work at sunrise and rest at sunset. They eat their dinner before dark, so that they can save money on oil lamps and go to bed after dinner.
……
The next morning, his parents and sister still went out to work on the farm, while Chen Wei carried a small basket to Beiping City.
Qingxi Village is about five miles away from Beiping Nancheng. Chen Wei walked slowly and arrived at Beiping Nancheng half an hour later.
He found a space in a crowded place, put the small basket on the ground, and shouted: "toothbrush."
It's not shabby to earn money.
Before long, several merchants gathered around. People in Beiping had never seen this toothbrush with a handle. After Chen Wei introduced it, they immediately became interested.
The toothbrushes are selling well. In less than one hour, more than 100 toothbrushes brought by Chen Wei have been sold out.
A toothbrush costs one cent. Today, he got one hundred and thirty cents.
When there was only one toothbrush left, Chen Wei didn't intend to sell it, but a 16-year-old boy in royal clothing came with a folding fan.
He squinted at Chen Wei, bossed him around and asked, "Where did you get your toothbrush?"
The other party should be a powerful son, followed by an old slave, and his eyes turned to the sky when he spoke.
Chen Wei didn't want to cause trouble, so he explained, "I made it myself."
"Nonsense!"
"How can you make such a toothbrush?"
Chen Wei thought for a moment and said, "Young man, which one hurts when you start with a raw egg or a boiled salted duck egg?"
Without thinking about it, the Royal Guards blurted out, "Of course, the salty eggs hurt."
Chen Wei said, "If you are free, go find something to do."
He got up with a small basket and left.
The Royal Guards looked suspiciously at Chen Wei's departure, and then looked at the old slave behind him in bewilderment, and said, "What does he mean, Liu Daban?"
The old slave, who was called Liu Daban, said, "Well... Your highness, he said that you... your idle egg hurts, so he asked you to find something to do."
Young Master in Royal Guards is no one else. It is the crown prince Zhu Houzhao who sneaked out to play.
Without imaginary anger, Zhu Houzhao burst into a laugh and said, "Ha ha!"
"It's a bit interesting!"
"Follow him and see who he is," Zhu Houzhao said.
Of course, he didn't feel the pain in his spare time. He just felt strange. It was only a short time since his father ordered it. Why did it start selling outside?
Could it be that people in the palace colluded with civil servants outside?
Zhu Houzhao had to think about it, so he came to ask Chen Wei.
Chen Wei heard from the Liuhe pig head meat shop in the south of the city that there were many cold mixed pig head meat in the south of the capital. Later, it gradually spread to Peiping, which also sold well.
Chen Wei weighed five liang of pig's head meat, two liang for Liu Bao, and three liang for his parents and sister to taste. They haven't eaten meat for a long time this year.
Five liang of pig's head meat cost 30 wen.
Then Chen Wei spent three wen to buy three strings of sugar balls. Once the food was carefully packed in a small basket, there was 97 wen left.
He did not continue to stay in Peiping. He should be able to catch lunch when he went back at this point.
Half an hour later, Chen Wei arrived at Qingxi Village.
Behind him, Zhu Houzhao murmured, "Is this guy a sick boy? After walking for half an hour for five miles, no one is left."
"It seems that he is not the son of a civilian family."
"But how can an outsider make a toothbrush?"
Zhu Houzhao left Qingxi Village with suspicion.
……
As soon as Chen Wei arrived at Qingxi Village, he saw Liu Bao wandering around the village in boredom. Chen Wei smiled and went over, taking out two liang of pork head meat wrapped in oil paper from a small basket.
"Brother Liu, your pork head."
Liu Bao said in surprise, "So many?"
"Well... it's too much. I'll just take two bites and try something new."
"Yesterday I said it casually. Don't take it seriously."
Chen Wei smiled and said, "Brother Liu, you are welcome. Here is another candy ball. Take it and eat it."
Liu Bao was so excited that he said, "Well, I didn't help you. I'm sorry to ask for it!"
Chen Wei said, "If it's convenient for Liu Ge, please get me some bristles this afternoon."
Liu Bao nodded heavily and said, "No problem!"
cooing.
His stomach began to cry, and he was embarrassed to look at Chen Wei. Chen Wei said, "OK, Brother Liu, take it back to eat."
"OK!"
Liu Baoxi left with pig head meat and sugar balls.
When Chen Wei arrived at home, Chen Zhongyi, Li Shi and his sister just returned from the foreign affairs farm. Chen Wei showed a warm smile and went to greet his parents and sister.
"Dad, Mom, Sister, I just came back from shopping in the city. You can have a try."