Eighteen Fields at the Start

Zhenxi Blacksmith Shop

"Is anyone here?"

"Someone, someone."

A person poked his head out of the iron furnace at the back and responded to Lu Helin's words.

When the man walked up to him, he realized that the person calling him was a fair-skinned and beautiful young lady.

"This little lady, what are you going to do?"

The blacksmith's voice was slightly rough, as strong as the tendons on his body.

"Hello, I want to make some large iron plates, just like the dinner plates used in restaurants, but they should be larger." Lu Helin made a rough outline towards the blacksmith.

"This is easy to say, it can be done in two days." The blacksmith was very happy and said that he could complete it quickly.

Lu Helin also happily paid the deposit and waited two days to pick up the large iron plate.

"Complete customizing the iron dinner plate for baking bread at the blacksmith shop in the west of the town, and obtained ten pepper trees, which have been put into the backpack."

As soon as Lu Helin stepped out of the door of the blacksmith shop, the panel prompted that the task was completed. He clicked on the backpack and found that there was already a pepper tree, and a ten was marked in the lower right corner.

There are not only pepper trees in the backpack, but also honey locust tree saplings.

It is better to choose a day than to hit it.

Lu Helin immediately planned to go home and plant pepper trees and honey locust tree saplings in the yard.

The saponaria tree likes light, tolerates a little shade, and likes a warm and humid climate. It has no strict requirements on soil and can grow normally in any soil environment. When raising saponica tree seedlings, you should choose deep, fertile, and moist soil.

The pepper tree needs plenty of sunlight.

So Lu Helin chose to place the pepper tree in the southwest corner of the courtyard, where the sunlight is the most abundant in the entire courtyard.

The honey locust tree saplings are planted slightly away from the pepper trees and receive slightly less light than the pepper trees, but it is enough for the honey locust trees.

After planting the two kinds of trees, Lu Helin looked at the fruits of his labor with satisfaction.

Hmm!! Very good!!

The pepper tree rewarded by the mission has lush branches and is now covered with red peppers.

The saponaria tree saplings are also full of vitality.

Fortunately, these two kinds of trees are relatively easy to maintain, so Lu Helin doesn't need to spend any special energy to take care of them.

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In the next two days, Lu Helin spent the morning selling bread and the afternoon memorizing acupuncture points.

Because of the purchase restriction policy that allows one person to buy only one type of bread, there are very few people who have not been able to buy bread for several days in a row.

There may be one or two that have not been purchased in the past few days, but the slightest sound will not get a response from the public, so it is not a big deal.

Today's bread has been sold out again. Lu Helin and Lu Canngling skillfully wiped the counter and closed the door for a rest.

After doing this, Lu Canngling handed the money bag to Lu Helin, and had already counted the amount, "Sister, a total of one thousand, two hundred and sixty-eight coins were sold today."

As soon as Lu Helin took over the money bag, a prompt came on the panel that the task was completed.

"I have completed opening a business shop, earned five taels of silver, and received a set of the Four Treasures of the Study Room, which I have put in my backpack."

This made Lu Helin couldn't help but feel happy, and he quickly dragged Lu Canngling to his room and told him that he had something good for him.

"Aling, look, what is this?"

Lu Helin took out the four treasures of the study that were rewarded by the mission just now, and placed them one by one on the desk in Lu Cangling's room.

Looking at the pens, ink, paper, and inkstones on the table, Lu Canngling suddenly felt a bit sour in his nose. His sister was really kind to him.

Pens, inks, paper and inkstones are items that ordinary families cannot afford at all. It may take a whole family's efforts to afford a scholar.

What he originally wanted to do was wait until Qingqiu grew older, hunt more prey, exchange it for money, and then buy some of the cheapest pens, inks, paper and inkstones to start the imperial examination.

But before he could take any action, Sister A had already prepared everything, and he just had to accept it.

"Sister, did you buy these stationery supplies?"

Lu Canngling's voice sounded a little choked, but Lu Helin found it a bit funny.

Isn't it just a set of four treasures of the study? There is nothing to cry about. But when the young man cries, he still has to be coaxed, "These are all obtained from the business we opened to make a living."

Lu Helin explained the task and rewards on the panel.

After listening to Lu Helin's words, Lu Canngling breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I didn't spend a lot of money to buy it, it was hard to get.

He also understood why Ajie worked so hard and was so eager to open this business.

Everything is still for him, everything is for him.

Looking at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, Lu Canling felt that if he did not achieve success in his studies, then he would be a disciple in vain.

He knew that he not only wanted to pave a prosperous road for himself, but also win a beautiful life for his sister.

After calming down for a while, Lu Canngling said to Lu Helin in a relatively calm tone: "Sister, I will study hard and I will definitely live up to your expectations of me."

Lu Helin knew that Lu Canngling would definitely achieve success in the imperial examination, so he did not want to put too much pressure on him. He only said: "Try your best and I will always support you."

Lu Cangling: "Okay."

"Send Lu Cangling to a private school, and upon completion, you will receive the "Four Books and Five Classics""

The task on the panel made Lu Helin realize that since it requires learning, it must require studying.

But when she was still alive, she understood that shouldn't the ancients read some enlightenment books when they first started studying?

For example: "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Classic".

Will the Four Books and Five Classics be too much to bear?

But you still need to read it, so just have it. If you need other books, you can buy them.

Since Arling was to be sent to a private school, it was natural for him to tell me in person.

"Aling, let's go to the private school in the town tomorrow." As a modern person, Lu Helin didn't know how to get into the private school. She could only tell Lu Canngling that she would go to the private school tomorrow.

The specific situation will have to be seen at that time.

"Okay, I'll listen to Sister." Lu Canngling had no doubts about this arrangement and just nodded obediently.

After receiving the reply, Lu Helin patted his brother's little head and stepped out of Lu Canngling's room to prepare for today's lunch.

Lu Cangling was left alone to look at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table.

After a while, Lu Canngling skillfully polished and started to write. If there is a scholar here, he will see that Lu Canngling's handwriting is quite good. Every word has an iron hook and a silver hook, which penetrates the back of the paper, and there is a fierceness between the lines.

Feeling is like a word that can only be written by a young man from an aristocratic family who was educated in Confucianism.

But Lu Helin didn't know all this, she just thought that her brother was just an illiterate young man now.

Her current focus was on the freshly picked peppers. Smelling the spiciness in the air, Lu Helin couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Fresh chili peppers are most suitable for making vegetarian chili noodles.

Naturally, some chili peppers are sun-dried in the hospital. After they are dried, they can be ground and made into chili oil. You can add a spoonful or two of it to cooking and eating noodles. It is delicious.

For Lu Helin, plain pepper noodles are readily available.

In less than half an hour, Lu Helin had prepared two large bowls of fragrant vegetarian pepper noodles with the aroma of fresh chili peppers.

Considering that Lu Cangling might not have eaten chili peppers, Lu Helin only put a little bit of crushed chili peppers in Lu Cangling's noodle bowl.

When I say a little bit, I really mean a little bit. Compared with the chopped chili peppers in my bowl, the few scattered ones are really not enough.

I have to say that Lu Helin’s consideration was right.

After Lu Cangling followed Lu Helin's way of eating, he mixed it up and took the first bite. He choked on the spicy food and drank a whole bowl of water before he recovered.

And Lu Helin looked at his bowl full of a spoonful of chopped chili, mixed it and ate it. Although he felt it was a bit spicy, he could still bear it, and the more he ate, the more he tasted it.

But Lu Cangling's reaction made Lu Helin wonder: Is it really that spicy?

"Aling, is it so spicy?"

For Lu Canngling, this sentence was completely obvious. Didn't you think that he was so spicy just after taking a bite that he had to drink a large bowl of water to solve the problem?

This pungent taste, called spicy, is a texture that Lu Canngling has never tasted before. Different from the sweetness and softness of the bread, this pungent feeling makes the whole person feel hot in the stomach, and the tip of the nose is sweaty.

But the person who asked this question was her own sister. Naturally, Lu Canngling couldn't say anything, and just said: "Xu is the first time to try this kind of taste, and I'm not used to it yet. Just eat a few more bites and it will be fine."

To prove his words, Lu Canngling took several mouthfuls before stopping and slowly drank the water in the bowl.

But only God knows, he is really going to be burned to death!!!

But this is the noodles made by my sister and cannot be wasted, so no matter how spicy it is, you must finish it.

"Okay, then I won't put chili pepper for you next time."

"No, Sister. Sister and I eat the same thing, and we can put it in whatever way we want. I'm more used to it."
To be continued...