In the early years, the Youjia family of Wuwei was one of the many wealthy families with big surnames in Longliang. Later, Ma Teng and Han Sui ruled Yongliang separately for thirty years, and there were frequent wars. Many wealthy families moved away from Liangzhou, but the Youjia family stayed and shared the same relationship with the Qu family.
Together, they became the only common surnames left in the Liangdong region of Longxi.
At present, the most representative figure of the You family is You Chu, the governor of Longxi.
You Chu was both civilized and military, generous and good at giving. He was not only the governor of Longxi, but also the leader of the local You family in Longxi. He often educated the local people by "praising virtues and admonishing good deeds", and fully learned from the "charity house" opened by Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.
With its advantages and disadvantages, "Youjia Memorial Temple" has been built beside the roads in Longxi County.
There is a large wooden box in the yi ancestral hall. The wooden box is divided into two parts, each part has five compartments; one part stores dry food such as meat cakes, and the other part stores rice wine. Passers-by can take it according to their own needs, and no one can
guard.
But if you want to get food, you need to put enough corresponding coins, that is, five baht coins, into the big wooden box to get the corresponding food.
To prevent passers-by from not knowing how to use the wooden box, there is a mural of a man holding a five-baht coin and inserting it into the box.
It is said that You Chu obtained the structural principle of this wooden box from a merchant from the Western Regions.
Seeing this novel and convenient public welfare facility for the first time, Guo Huai was greatly surprised.
He searched all over his body and was surprised to find that there were still two five-baht coins in his arms, so he immediately started operating as shown in the picture.
Guo Huai put in a coin on each side of the box. After a while, the grid on the left side of the big wooden box opened automatically, revealing the plate inside and the pemmican cakes on the plate; the grid on the right side also opened, revealing a small jug of wine.
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After Guo Huai took out the food, the empty wooden grid slowly closed.
"Thank you to the gods, thank you to the Taoist immortals, thank you to the late emperor, thank you to your majesty... for helping me escape from death!" Guo Huai put down the plate and wine bottle, and bowed repeatedly to the portrait of Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao in the middle of the ancestral hall.
At this time, a voice suddenly came from outside the door: "You should thank Mr. You Chu!"
Guo Huai turned around when he heard the sound and saw a man who looked like an Orion walking in, carrying an arrow basket on his back, an iron fork on his shoulder, and a package in his hand.
He threw ten coins in, opened all ten boxes, took out a plate of unsold meat pies and threw it to Guo Huai; then he opened the package and placed the food and wine inside each box one by one.
In a wooden grid.
Finally, he took out the key, opened the money compartment at the back of the wooden box, took back all the five-baht coins, counted the number, nodded, put the money in his arms, and closed the cash box.
Guo Huai couldn't help but open his mouth, his whole body was in a state of shutdown, and he stared at the strong man's operation with his eyes widened.
It wasn't until the strong man turned around to leave that he came back to his senses and asked quickly: "Brother, how far is this place from Longxi Fucheng?"
The strong man looked at him carefully from a distance and frowned slightly: "Are you infected with the epidemic?"
Guo Huai nodded: "It has been more than forty days now and I am almost healed."
The strong man's face softened a little, and he pointed to the southeast and said, "There are still three hundred miles."
After that, he picked up the iron fork and left the ancestral hall.
Guo Huai chased him out of the door, but before he could say anything, the strong man who overreacted hit his neck with a fork with an iron fork. The latter raised eyebrows and shouted: "If you have something to say, just say it, don't come near me!"
"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" Guo Huai raised his hands, threw the brand-new sword over, and said with a smile on his face: "Brother, I am hungry and short of money, can I exchange this sword with you for some money...
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The strong man took the sword, weighed it, nodded, put away the fork, took out a small bag of five baht coins from his arms, threw it on the ground, and walked away.
After walking for a while, the strong man seemed to have remembered something again, and turned back to warn: "Wuna, be honest and don't destroy the wooden box. Mr. You Chu has clearly decreed that anyone who destroys a wooden box is guilty of treason, but it was discovered that
Anyone can kill him on the spot!"
"I know, I know, I am a good citizen and cannot do such evil things..." Guo Huai picked up the money bag and responded repeatedly.
The strong man snorted coldly, turned around and walked away.
Guo Huai returned to the ancestral hall, grabbed the meat pie in his left hand and the wine pot in his right hand, and inhaled the storm for a while. Then he patted his belly with satisfaction, went out and rode on his donkey, went down the hillside, followed the official road, and wandered slowly toward the southeast.
Shortly after Guo Huai left, Ma Di and Zhang Xiu entered the ancestral hall.
Zhang Xiu stared at the big wooden box and said in surprise: "General, what is this? It looks so advanced."
Ma Di was even more surprised than Zhang Xiu, and murmured to himself: "No way, the big man already has this thing?"
Many people may think that the vending machines that can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of later generations are the technological products of later generations. But in fact, vending machines have already been around as early as the early Eastern Han Dynasty.
The earliest automatic vending machine appeared in the 1st century AD. It was a device that automatically sold holy water made by the Greek Hero. Its principle is very simple:
After the customer inserts the coin, the coin will fall onto a plate connected to the lever. The plate will tilt, driving the lever to open the valve, and the holy water will flow out. The plate will continue to tilt until the coin slips off the plate. At this time, the balance will move the lever.
Pull it back to the original position, the valve closes, and the holy water stops flowing out.
Although the working mechanism of the vending machine is very simple, it is based on the principle of lever balance.
But this thing belongs to Western technology. Although it is already available, it should not be spread to the East at this time.
Judging from this, the Governor of Longxi traveled to Chu and had something.
He is a capable minister in governing the world!
Ma Su secretly admired him.
However, admiration is admiration. Since he encountered this kind of vending machine, he had to take advantage of it before leaving.
Otherwise, how can I be worthy of the skills I learned in the eight years of the Bronze Five Years?
Thinking of this, Ma Su cleared his throat: "Xiu, do you want to have sex for free?"
Zhang Xiuzheng was holding a Shuhan Zhihundian coin and gesturing back and forth at the coin slot.
Because the Shuzhi hundred coin was much larger than the Wei five-baht coin, and the coin hole was designed according to the size of the Wei five-baht coin. So he studied for a long time, but he still couldn't get the coin in.
He was scratching his head and scratching his head anxiously. Hearing this, he was suddenly startled: "General, is this okay?"
After getting along with Ma Su for a long time, Zhang Xiu learned a lot of new vocabulary and understood that "free prostitution" means eating for free without paying.
Originally, the two people disguised themselves and followed Guo Huai all the way here in order to accurately control the "poison plan." But since they encountered such an interesting vending machine, they had no choice but to study it before leaving.
Anyway, Guo Huai was ill and was riding a very slow little donkey. Even if he was allowed to run thirty miles ahead, the two of them could easily catch up.
So as soon as Zhang Xiu heard the word "prostitution for free", he immediately put away the big money and looked at Ma Su eagerly.
Ma Di smiled slightly, took out a five-baht coin, put a thin string through the middle hole, tied it, lifted one end of the thin string, and put the five-baht coin in through the coin hole.
Snap--
The first grid on the left was opened, and the aroma of chicken patties on the plate came out.
"The general is mighty! The general is cowhide!" Zhang Xiu praised twice and took out the plate with a swish.
Ma Su laughed, gently picked up the thin string, and the five baht coins that had entered the coin box flew out from the coin slot.
Zhang Xiu: "..."
After a while, the big wooden box was emptied.
The bell hanging under the eaves of the ancestral hall suddenly rang.
Zhang Xiu glanced at the bell in confusion, and then focused his attention on the five plates of meat cakes and five pots of wine in front of him.
"Cheers!" The two generals touched each other, and the whole meal was over.
After a while, I was full of wine and food.
Zhang Xiu rubbed his belly, burped, smacked his lips and sighed: "General, this meal is the most delicious meal I have ever had!"
That is, prostitution is the eternal happiness of human beings.
Ma Su laughed, turned around and left the ancestral hall.
Zhang Xiu quickly followed, looking longingly at the five-baht coin Ma Di was playing with: "General, I have a merciless request..."
Ma Su shook his head, laughed, and threw the five baht money to him.
Zhang Xiu was overjoyed, took it and studied it, and suddenly said: "General, I have a bold idea. With this copper coin, can I eat and drink for free in Longxi County from now on... uh, whoring for free?"
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"It should be okay..." Ma Su nodded: "Okay, let's go!"
Zhang Xiu glanced at the bell that kept making sounds above his head, got on his horse, and chased southeast along the official road.
Shortly after the two left, the strong man Orion came to the ancestral hall again carrying an iron fork.
After a moment, he let out an earth-shattering roar: "Good thief, please don't leave!"
