Chapter 775: Bran
Some people often say that people can have no money, but they cannot have no ambition.
But Li Chengqi is not like this.
He enjoys life very much. As long as his current life satisfies him, he will definitely not think of ways to climb up. This is why Li Chengqi has never considered expanding his business or using his savings to start a business since he returned from college and opened a convenience store. Something like that.
It's not necessary or needed.
Nowadays, Li Chengqi no longer needs the income from the convenience store. It can even be said very decadently that as long as he sells a bottle of disease removal potion from time to time, he will never need to work in his life.
Oh yes, God is immortal.
But no matter what, Li Chengqi no longer expects the convenience store to survive. Instead, it has become a troublesome burden to him.
But when it comes to closing down and renting out the shop...
Li Chengqi was still a little reluctant to give up.
Everyone is nostalgic for the past, and Li Chengqi is certainly no exception. Besides, it has been open for so many years, and it is really hard to bear to close it suddenly.
So after weighing the situation, Li Chengqi chose to hire someone to look after the store. He didn't care whether he earned more or less, as long as he kept it going.
If the mood strikes you in the future, you can always go back and continue being a convenience store owner.
This is like many retired people who have a monthly pension of several thousand, but still work as a janitor. They are not short of money, but they just don’t want to be idle.
Li Chengqi now feels like entering retirement life, so be it.
The second floor of the convenience store is where he lives. Li Chengqi deliberately took the time to go back and clear out the second floor. He sold all the furniture and other items at a cheap price, packed all the useful things, and asked the moving company to deliver them to the villa, and then moved them. Just lock the second floor.
Don't tell me, this cleanup allowed Li Chengqi to find a lot of forgotten things, such as game cards from his childhood, love letters he wrote but didn't send out when he was in junior high school.
Find someone to open a store and provide simple training to employees. It sounds like a troublesome thing, but it is actually easy to handle. After all, convenience stores do not require any technical skills, and it can be explained in a few sentences.
From now on, Li Chengqi only needs to reconcile the accounts every few days to confirm that the employees are not cheating or committing theft.
It feels really good to be a boss, but before that, Li Chengqi needs to unpack the package and sort it out, which will probably take a lot of time.
I looked at Viola's side in the morning, but nothing happened. Alyssa's side was still in a state of preparation. The only one who was a little worried was Yang Yiyi.
Because Yang Yiyi had already left Qijuemen and continued to help Ning Xianer deliver messages with Wu Shaoyi, she was a little worried that she would run into trouble along the way.
But then I thought about it, if I don't pay attention to it for a day at most, it shouldn't be a big deal... right?
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Dayongli
1155, early August.
Yang Yiyi and Wu Shaoyi walked along the official road.
The two of them only stayed at Qijuemen for one day, and said goodbye to Zhou Wenyi the next day.
Zhou Wenyi knew that it was no small matter for Yang Yiyi to deliver the letter. In fact, he wanted to go along with him, so that he would have some support.
But you, an elder of the Qijue Sect, are traveling with two young girls. Isn't this a bit strange?
It can be said that we came to Qijuemen on the way, and we walked together, which is a bit like this place without three hundred taels of silver.
The same goes for sending disciples to help. No one knew that Yang Yiyi was helping Ning Xianer deliver the letter, but by doing this, he simply showed that there was a problem on his face.
So after leaving Qijuemen, it became a two-person team of Yang Yiyi and Wu Shaoyi.
But before the two left, Zhou Wenyi gave Yang Yiyi a secret book. It's not about kung fu, but Zhou Wenyi's experience in using dual guns over the years. Because he saw Yang Yiyi using dual maces, they were both dual-wielding weapons, and they had many things in common, so he gave him his experience. Her, for reference only.
Zhou Wenyi was very optimistic about Yang Yiyi, and actually wanted to give him a real martial arts secret book, but the Qijue Sect's rules were extremely strict, and even the elders could not teach Kung Fu to outsiders casually.
Before leaving, in addition to his experience, he also gave Yang Yiyi some precious medicinal materials and elixirs for emergency use on the way.
After all, Yang Yiyi and the others had saved Zhou Wenyi's life, so it would be unreasonable not to express their gratitude.
After leaving Qijuemen, Yang Yiyi and Wu Shaoyi headed northeast along the official road. The next stop was Qinghe Lake on the northern edge of Yuezhou State. To be more precise, it was a place on the lake called Taohuawu. sect.
This sect is very low-key and rarely participates in major martial arts events. Many people don't even know it is a sect.
But since there is a letter to them, it means that the energy of this sect is definitely not small.
Yang Yiyi is also looking forward to it, because Wu Shaoyi said that this sect is located within ten miles of peach blossoms, and now is a good season to see peach blossoms.
Along the way, the two of them mainly walked. From time to time, they could catch a ride from a passing merchant convoy. After walking like this for almost ten days, the two of them finally arrived at a fairly large town.
This place is called Dingshui, and it is a small town, but there are dry beds and heated kangs. Find an inn to have a good meal, then take a bath and have a good sleep. This is what the two people want most after spending ten days in the open.
Walking all the way down the hillside, Qingyuan Town is already within easy reach, and you can clearly see the words engraved on the city gate.
But at the same time, a group of refugees also appeared in front of them.
It was estimated that there were probably thousands of people gathered in the simple shack outside the city gate. Yang Yiyi really didn't pay much attention to this at first. After all, there were many refugees at the gates of the towns she met along the way.
But the porridge shed with fixed water was placed next to the city gate, and the sergeant was responsible for maintaining order. When entering the city, Yang Yiyi would inevitably see the situation in the porridge shed.
"What they cooked doesn't look like rice, why does it look like bran?"
There are strict requirements for cooking porridge for disaster relief.
It is required that when the porridge is ready, it cannot be poured over with chopsticks inserted. If the chopsticks fall over, the person who cooked the porridge will be beheaded.
After all, it is disaster relief food. If something goes wrong, the victims will instantly turn into a mob. The emperors are very concerned about this.
However, the porridge shed in Dingshui actually cooked bran for the victims, which is usually fed to chickens and pigs.
It doesn’t matter whether you feed the victims old rice or new rice. It’s not impossible to eat bran. The bran is actually the outer layer of rice, but bran is not. It is the soft shell that surrounds the grain.
How is it okay to feed people bran?
Yang Yiyi's character was so easy to deal with, she exploded on the spot, and immediately wanted to go up and argue with the sergeant.
"Sister Yang, don't be impulsive. You might have something hidden."
Wu Shaoyi quickly grabbed Yang Yiyi who was about to light the fire:
"Perhaps there is not enough food for disaster relief, so we have to take this step. Sister Yang, you may get into trouble if you are so impulsive."
After Yang Yiyi heard the explanation, she thought about it, it was really possible.
Along the way, they have seen many victims of the disaster. It is said that there are as many as 100,000 victims. With so many mouths open, no matter how hard the court works to allocate relief food, there will always be a shortage of food.
It's good if you have a stutter, but it doesn't matter whether you have gluten or not. You can't just stop feeding people if you don't have enough food.
In fact, considering that Tang Lianyu specially purchased some grain and transported it to the disaster area, we know that the court's disaster relief grain is indeed not enough, and feeding people bran is only a temporary measure.
Impulsiveness can lead to wrongly blaming good people, Yang Yiyi also realized it, but she kept it in mind and took this matter seriously, and would inquire after she entered the city later.
(End of chapter)