The first ray of sunshine in the morning has not yet passed through the slightly decayed wooden door, and a childish sound has already arrived.
The area inside the old wooden house is about several feet, and a bulging quilt with holes in it was lifted next to the door frame.
"You go first, I'll be right back."
Li Hao scratched his messy long hair and rubbed his sleepy eyes. Looking at the dilapidated house around him, which was less than half the size of the public toilet in his previous life, he couldn't help but feel a little melancholy in his heart.
This house is my only property.
Putting away his thoughts, he picked up the long strip of cloth lying next to the floor and tied his disheveled hair around his head, revealing his handsome face even though it was stained with mud.
They come, the security.
Living well in this ancient remote area is the most important thing now.
After all...he had never heard of the Dayang Dynasty and was full of unknowns.
The house was bare and there was nothing to clean up. Li Hao picked up the bamboo hat and basket hanging on the wall, opened the door and walked towards the distance.
Preparing to start today's work, he is currently burdened with the loan sharks owed by the original owner for burying his mother. If he does not want to be captured as a slave, he must work.
Mulberry picking is a process of sericulture. Only the central young leaves are picked, twice in the morning and evening.
Shuinan Town, where he is located, is divided into mountains and mountains, and thousands of people live in the mountains.
They, the mulberry farmers, live in the interface between the mountains and the mountains.
Shuinan Town is rich in a kind of silkworm, which has a gray-black body and the same color when it spins silk.
The silk spun out by this silkworm only needs to be simply steamed and dried to become as hard and tough as iron wire, hence the name iron wire silkworm.
Iron silkworm thread has many uses. It can be used to make iron whips, which can be used to peel off skin and flesh with a whip. It can also be woven into iron thread armor. It is most loved by dignitaries and other life-conscious people as well as escort agencies.
Of course, these are just what I heard from Aunt Zhang. As a master of biology, he is very interested in silkworms that can spit iron wires.
What kind of biological structural principle can turn digested mulberry leaves into iron silk?
We quickly arrived at a place with large mulberry trees.
Looking around, you can see patches of green and vibrant greenery. The mulberry trees here are more than one meter tall and are very easy to pick.
Wearing a bamboo hat made of spears and withered grass, walking through the mulberry forest, you don't have to worry about your clothes getting soaked by the morning dew.
There is no way, this is ancient times, and the place is remote. A small cold might be able to send him away directly.
Looking at the mulberry farmers around him who were already immersed in picking, Li Hao didn't waste any time and walked directly into the mulberry forest and walked towards the depths of the mulberry forest.
As time passed on the first day, it slowly climbed higher into the sky.
Li Hao, who was already sweating profusely, leaned against a basket full of mulberry leaves and enjoyed the brief tranquility blown by the breeze.
There is no hustle and bustle of the city, just the sweet chirping of birds.
This was also the main reason why he chose biology as a major since he was born in an orphanage.
"Huh? This is..."
After enjoying the comfort, when he was carrying a basket to exchange for copper coins, Li Hao noticed a touch of gray in the soil at his feet.
This is not the earth, there is no plastic garbage, and there are other colors in the brown soil that are very conspicuous.
Break off the mulberry branch and gently touch the gray object with it.
As a professional, when it comes to unknown objects, not doing anything is the best choice.
When fiddled with branches, the thing seemed to be stimulated, squirming crazily and spitting out gray threads.
"Iron Silkworm!"
Noticing the conspicuous gray color, Li Hao picked out the thing, and a gray silkworm that looked like a fat caterpillar came into view.
He has long heard about this Shuinan Town specialty, which is equivalent to a treasure in the town.
These people with foreign surnames who are rooted in the outskirts of Shuinan Town rarely have the opportunity to see them, but it is not impossible.
For example, wireworms actually grow in this area now, but the people of Shuinan Town collect them and cultivate them together.
There are few wireworms in the wild, but they are not absent.
However, as soon as it appears, it will be purchased by the people in the town at a high price.
The last time I found a wild wire silkworm was five years ago, and I sold it for fifty silver taels.
You know, one tael of silver here can support an ordinary family of three for two or three months.
One can imagine the purchasing power involved.
Even if he works all day long, he can only be paid ten copper coins, and a thousand copper coins is always one or two.
Of course, you can choose not to pay, but it is hard to say whether you can leave Shuinan Town. After all, I have never heard of wire silkworms living elsewhere.
Monopoly is the most profitable.
His eyes flickered slightly, and he looked around to make sure there was no one around. Li Hao gently picked up the wire silkworm and put it in the palm of his hand. He pulled off the arrow bamboo leaves on the bamboo hat and wrapped it layer by layer.
After checking to make sure it was correct, he put it into the pocket sewn on the chest of the gown.
The pocket also has some arrow bamboo leaves, and each arrow bamboo leaf is wrapped with one or two copper coins. This is to prevent the copper coins from colliding and making noise when walking.
These are the only copper coins he has left, about fifteen coins.
After placing the wire silkworm on his chest to make sure it would not be crushed, Li Hao carried the basket behind him and headed in the direction he came from.
At this time, at the entrance of the mulberry forest, the town people responsible for cleaning up the mulberry leaves had already arrived.
The surrounding area is also surrounded by mulberry farmers.
"Brother Hao!"
On the periphery of the crowd, a little carrot head wearing old clothes saw Li Hao and immediately waved. It was the boy who woke him up this morning named Er Hu.
"Aunt Zhang." Li Hao stepped forward and touched the little carrot head, and then said hello to the middle-aged woman behind him.
"Oh, little Haozi, you picked so many baskets today." Aunt Zhang saw the baskets full of baskets behind Li Hao and joked with a thick accent: "I won't have to worry about my wife from now on."
Li Hao smiled and said nothing.
Soon, one by one passed the basket, one by one divided the money, and soon it was Li Hao's turn.
"A total of five cents."
The mulberry collector was an old man. He glanced at Li Hao, put his hand into the basket, took out one or two mulberry leaves for inspection, and said calmly.
The sparse sounds around him were also silent. Li Hao had no expression on his face and did not speak. He walked past the old man and took the five copper coins from the hand of the tall man next to him.
"You..." In the crowd, Erhu, who was half a short head, had just spoken out when his mother beside him covered his mouth and pulled him behind him.
Aunt Zhang doesn't want to cause trouble. The old man in the family is still ill in bed and can't do farming. The family of three depends on her to pick mulberry every day.
Those who collect mulberries are all members of Renshui's family. If she offends them and breaks her mulberry leaves in half, her family will really not be able to survive.
This is also the reason why other mulberry farmers didn't ask for advice when they saw Li Hao's mulberry leaves being slashed in half.
They also need to live. It has nothing to do with them. Hanging up is the best choice to protect themselves.
Just don't cut your own price.
As the distance between the people behind him and him became farther and farther, Li Hao's hand holding five copper coins made a rattling sound.
Ten cents of mulberry leaves were reduced to five cents. He would never believe that there was no one at fault.
"Hey, isn't this Li Hao? Isn't it time to pay back the money?"
At the end of the road, five or six strong men stood in front of the road, obviously they had been blocked here.
The leader was a strong man with a whip mark on his left cheek that looked like a brand. When he saw Li Hao's figure, he stretched out his hand to block the road and asked for money.
A group of brothers nearby blocked the road to death.
Li Hao didn't say anything and handed over the copper coins in his hand.
"That's it." Weighing the sparse copper coins in his hand, the strong man in charge sneered and looked at Li Hao's handsome face with a playful smile.
"It's a total of ten taels of silver, what do you want to pay back? Master Shui likes you very much, so just obey. Isn't it just selling your butts?"
"I said, I will pay it back within two months, and there is still one month left." Li Hao's face was as calm as water. He knew that no matter how angry he was, it would not help.
"I came here just to give you a warning, don't think about running away!"
After saying that, the strong man at the head stretched one arm behind him, veins popped out on his face, his arms trembled violently, then he drew his bow like a full moon and struck forward with all his strength.
boom!
He thrust forward with one arm and punched the trees on the roadside with one punch, immediately punching an inch into the wood.
You can see how terrifying its power is.
Patting his uninjured hands, the strong man left with his brothers.
Watching their departing figures and the striking fist marks that penetrated the wood.
Li Hao fell into silence. This is the biggest difference between this world and his previous life.
There is martial arts in this world, with the ability to crush rocks and fight fierce tigers.
It's just that as outsiders, they don't have any access qualifications.
Look up at the green mountains in the distance.
Shuinan Town is mainly run by two families who take turns every five years, the Shui Family and the Nan Family.
The young master Shui that the strong man mentioned just now is the only son of the Shui family, and he has the habit of Longyang.
The original person was seen by him for some reason, and he never forgot her.
Later, his parents died and he was loaned out at a high interest rate. Anyone with a discerning eye could see who was forcing the girl into prostitution.
In Shuinan Town, he had only two choices, to be a slave or to die.
He chose the latter and committed suicide by hanging, which also caused Li Hao to replace him after a car accident.
but.
Feeling the squirming feeling of wire silkworms in the arrow bamboo leaves on his chest, he came back to his senses, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Seeing things you've never seen before, hearing things you've never heard of, even if you die, doesn't it mean something different?