Chapter 003 Home System
Heizhu's crying did not attract much attention.
After all, it was too lively here, and the voices of tourists and vendors completely drowned out his crying.
Lu Sen withdrew his hand from the bridge railing.
There was no further striking. The twisted white spider silk patterns slowly retracted and disappeared without a trace in about ten seconds.
"Get up, it's ugly to cry." Lu Sen pulled Hei Zhu up and said, "I didn't mean to destroy the bridge or kill anyone, I just accidentally used a little too much force."
Hei Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, wiped away his tears and stood up.
He was really scared just now.
My husband is a man with great supernatural powers. If he really wants to kill, he can probably kill people all over the ground and then escape far away from the pursuit of the government.
But there are so many tourists on the street, including women, children, and the elderly. If something really happened, it would be a human tragedy.
Although Heizhu had never been to school and no one had taught him the truth, he still understood that people should not die casually.
Lu Sen bought another scallion pancake for Hei Zhu, and the two of them ate the pancakes while walking down the bridge.
The sudden appearance of the white spider silk marks just now was indeed seen by quite a few people, which caused a small commotion, but it did not cause much response.
Instead, these white marks disappeared so quickly that many people thought they were dazzled.
After getting off Hongqiao, I walked along the street to a corner of the alley where there were fewer people.
The view here is great. While chewing the tasteless pancake, Lu Sen looked at the sky in the distance. There was a towering golden glazed tile palace, which was much taller than all the buildings in the entire city.
That should be the imperial palace.
Northern Song Dynasty... Lu Sen sighed in his heart, and then asked: "Heizhu, what is the name of the current emperor?"
"The official's name is Zhen." When Heizhu spoke, he revealed his heartfelt admiration and respect.
Zhao Zhen, Emperor Renzong of Song.
Then now is the best time for the Northern Song Dynasty. Lu Sen nodded in his heart, then turned his head and asked, "Heizhu, do I need a household registration or a road permit to buy a house in the city?"
"Of course we have to." Hei Zhu said helplessly, "If you don't have a Bianjing household registration, or if you want to buy or sell a house in the city without reporting to Kaifeng Prefecture, the consequences will be serious."
Hearing the word 'Kaifeng Prefecture', Lu Sen's heart moved slightly: "Is the current Kaifeng Prefecture Governor Bao Zheng Bao Longtu?"
"Yes, he took office only half a year ago." Hei Zhu said with a smile: "Prefect Bao is a good official who loves the people like his own children."
Lu Sen couldn't help but groan. If someone else was in office in Kaifeng Prefecture, he could get close to them and do some tricks, using the power of the golden finger to play tricks, and there would be a great chance that he would become a guest of honor, and it would not be difficult to get a household registration.
But if it is the legendary Mr. Bao, it will be difficult to fool around.
Without a household registration, you cannot buy a house. You have money but no place to spend it, and you have no place to live... Besides, your origins are unknown, so it seems unsafe to settle down directly in Bianjing City.
Also, the ability of my golden finger is better at starting in places with more 'trees' and 'stones'.
He thought for a while and asked, "Heizhu, since I can't buy a house in the city, then I can build a house outside the city. Is reason for that?"
"That's not the case." Hei Zhu shook his head. "Many disaster victims from the north built mud houses next to the outer walls, and the government didn't care. But those places are very dirty and not very safe, not suitable for you to stay."
"Is there a quiet place with lots of trees outside the city?"
"Yes." Hei Zhu answered immediately, "There is a low mountain to the west of the city. It is the land of the Tianbo Yang Mansion and their ancestral temple is also built there. There is also an official road on the mountain. People coming from the southwest have to pass through there. The ancestral temple of the Tianbo Yang Mansion has also become a temporary place for those guests from the southwest who cannot catch up with the time to enter the city at night. The Yang Mansion is also happy to see this happen, as long as they don't deliberately destroy the spirit tablets enshrined on it."
"Aren't you afraid of the taboos by staying overnight at someone else's ancestral temple?"
"My dear, you are such a joker. The Yang family is a loyal and brave family. Every one of them is a hero. Their noble spirit will last forever. How could they be jealous?"
"Then let's go to the low mountain you mentioned." Lu Sen thought for a while and asked, "Is there a place selling coal in the city... Oh, it's now called stone coal."
"Of course."
"Take me there."
So, under the guidance of Hei Zhu, Lu Sen spent ten taels of silver to buy a large amount of coal... It was piled up like a mountain, and then, in the surprised eyes of the shop owner, he sucked it into his system backpack.
At this time, the second grid of the system backpack showed more than 7,000 units of coal.
Then Lu Sen spent money to buy some cooked food and put it in the system backpack, and asked Hei Zhu to take him out of the city.
A small incident also happened when leaving the city. A guard guarding the city gate saw that Lu Sen was dressed strangely and wanted to come over to ask him questions, but he was pushed back by an old soldier behind him. The old soldier then bent down and nodded and smiled at Lu Sen uneasily from a distance of several meters.
This is why Lu Sen was reluctant to take off his shirt so quickly.
If I had worn the uniform of this era and had short hair, it would have been strange if I had not been stopped by these soldiers.
After leaving the city gate, the two found a long line of people waiting outside.
There were also quite a few Semites among them.
Bianjing City was the most populous and prosperous metropolis in the world at that time, and was considered a paradise by everyone.
There are so many people doing business and those who want to settle down here that they are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
The appearance of Lu Sen also scared many people who were queuing to enter the city. In this era, the intimidation of skulls to people is the same regardless of nationality.
Fortunately, Lu Sen left soon.
It did not affect the order of the long queue entering the city.
I walked on the official road for about an incense stick of time, then turned right. There were paddy fields on both sides of the road, and the green rice seedlings exuded a slightly sweet green scent.
Very comfortable.
Lu Sen grew up in the countryside and planted rice seedlings when he was a child, so he is very familiar with this smell and likes it very much.
He walked for a while and found that the rice seedlings were planted a little sparsely and far apart, so he asked, "Heizhu, generally speaking, how much grain can this acre of paddy field produce?"
"I heard that in a good year, we can get three shi." Heizhu looked at these paddy fields with great envy. Although he was a beggar, he also wanted to have a paddy field of his own: "In a bad year, I guess one shi is the limit."
In the Northern Song Dynasty, one stone was about 100 jin, which means that the highest rice yield per mu here was about 300 jin.
Very little... Lu Sen shook his head slightly. When he was a kid, he planted crops on an acre of land without much effort, and the yield was always over a thousand kilograms. If he used the latest hybrid seeds and carefully managed and fertilized, it was not impossible to produce two thousand kilograms per acre.
The optimization of grain varieties is one reason for such a large yield, but the most important one is... the emergence of chemical fertilizers.
Without chemical fertilizers, the soil is not fertile enough, and the grain yield is naturally low. The seeds must be planted farther apart, otherwise the seedlings will compete for fertilizer.
Unlike when Lu Sen was a child, the rice seedlings were planted very densely.
The two followed the official road and came to the foot of a low mountain.
The mountain is lush and green.
Occasionally, tourists would come down from above, but when they saw Lu Sen, they would hesitate to move forward or even hide aside.
It was not until Lu Sen passed by them that these people dared to come out and continue moving forward, and there was a sense of panic as if they were running away.
The two climbed halfway up the mountain.
Heizhu's expression remained normal, but Lu Sen was already a little out of breath.
He looked at his system interface, which showed only half of the yellow energy bar remaining, and shook his head helplessly.
The attributes of LV0 characters are really too low.
But until now, he hasn't figured out how to upgrade.
However, he had only obtained the golden finger for less than a day, so he would have plenty of time to study it slowly in the future.
In front of the two people was a large house with gray tiles and blue bricks.
At the entrance of the three-meter-high and two-meter-wide moon-arched gate, there is a piece of smooth gray marble inlaid on the wall above, with three large characters "Yang Family Ancestral Hall" written on it.
The tip of the pen is curved like a hook, looking quite imposing.
Outside the moon arch, there are two large black stone lions covered with moss standing on the left and right.
Each of them is stepping on a white stone ball.
"It is indeed the ancestral temple of a wealthy family. It is so majestic." Lu Sen stood in front of the stone lions. His height of 180cm was not even half the height of the stone lions.
"The Yang Mansion is no longer considered a wealthy family." Hei Zhu said with regret, "Now there are only three women and one son left in the Yang Mansion."
As they were talking, the two of them entered the ancestral hall, passed through three doors, and came to the hall of worship.
The Xiantang was very large, with many spirit tablets hung on the inner walls. Lu Sen looked at them one by one and found that the latest spirit tablet had the words "Yang's Ancestor" written on it.
Below the spirit tablet is the altar, on which there are not only some wild fruits and vegetables, but even a few yellow incense sticks with wisps of green smoke still lingering.
"These are all offerings from the people who stayed at the Yang Family Temple." Hei Zhu explained, "After all, we are staying at someone else's place, so we should give some incense."
Lu Sen was a little curious: "Hei Zhu, you know a lot about these things."
"More than three years ago, I was beaten and driven out of the city by beggars from Wuyou Cave. I lived here for about a year and a half." Heizhu said with gratitude, "For a year and a half, I lived here, eating wild fruits and picking up garbage in the muddy alleys in the north of the city to eat. I barely survived. The people of the Yang family came to burn incense and offer sacrifices to their ancestors and relatives. When they saw me, they didn't drive me away. Instead, they gave me some food. They are all good people."
I see.
"My dear, please sit down and rest for a while. I will make you a straw bed."
As he said that, Heizhu walked over and picked up the hay placed in the corner.
These hays are used as temporary bed for pedestrians to rest on.
Lu Sen waved his hand: "No, I'll have my own bed to sleep in later."
Heizhu was stunned for a moment, then he thought of something and put the hay back to its original place.
After resting for a while, Lu Sen saw that his stamina bar was full, so he stood up and said, "Heizhu, let's go to a farther place to cut down trees."
Heizhu immediately followed, and the two of them followed the official road to the side of the mountain.
There are a lot of trees here, and they are tall and big.
There are the sounds of insects and birds in the woods, and the whistling mountain breeze, which brings a hint of coolness in the quietness and is extremely comfortable.
Lu Sen took out a unit of wood from the system backpack. Under his mind, the wood block was divided into four sticks of exactly the same length and size.
Then the two wooden sticks merged together and turned into two wooden axes.
Seeing this scene, although Hei Zhu was mentally prepared, he still couldn't help but wipe his eyes.
Lu Sen looked at the tool in his hand, and in his vision, the following affix was displayed: 'Wooden Axe LV0, Durability 10.'
He threw one to Heizhu, took the axe and walked to a big tree, and chopped it down with the axe.
Tap!
The tree was intact, but there were some white spider-web marks on its trunk.
Lu Sen continued to chop hard. After the fifth chop, white marks appeared on the surface of the tree. Then a faint golden light flashed, and the whole tree turned into more than 30 wooden cubes and fell down.
With another wave of his hand, more than thirty units of wooden blocks were collected into the system backpack.
It only takes five strikes with a wooden axe to cut down a tree.
Compared to having to chop down a tree ten times with your hands, this saves 50% of the times and time, and more importantly... your hands won’t hurt.
Lu Sen stared at the wooden axe again, and it showed that the durability had become 9.
If we cut down a tree, will it become less durable?
Then Lu Sen said to the person beside him: "Hei Zhu, you try it too."
"My dear, can I also use this magical object?" Heizhu seemed very excited. After Lu Sen chopped down a tree, he watched from the side and became eager to try.
I have an axe in my hand and always want to chop something.
"Of course, I asked you to come and help."
"Yes, my dear."
Heizhu went up with an axe in his hand, and as if he was energized, he kept chopping down trees. His chopping speed was much faster than Lu Sen's.
Lu Sen was right next to him, watching the durability of the axe in Hei Zhu's hand decrease little by little.
Then, as expected, when Heizhu had chopped down the tenth tree, the wooden axe shattered into pieces on the ground without any warning.
He showed a look of horror: "My dear, I...I."
He thought he had broken the axe.
"It's going to break anyway, go on." Lu Sen threw the wooden axe in his hand over: "Continue."
Then he made two wooden axes and joined in the logging business.
When the wooden axe wore out after a while, he would immediately make a new one and continue working.
Logging has a strange magic, and both of them have become addicted to it.
Lu Sen stopped working until the evening, when it had become dim in the forest and the road was almost invisible.
He looked at the more than 3,000 units of wood in the system backpack and nodded .
Then use thirty units of wood blocks to separate a 120-wood stick and put it in the system backpack, take out a wooden stick and combine it with one unit of coal.
A torch emitting golden flames appeared in his hand.
The bright firelight dispelled the surrounding darkness, and the black pillars were no longer strange to him.
Lu Sen held the torch and walked while muttering to himself: "Five points of endurance, is that five hours, or five hours?"
When the two returned to the Yang Family Ancestral Hall, it was already dark.
The house in the dark looked eerie and terrifying. From a distance, it looked like a monster with its mouth open ready to eat people.
But with the light of the torches, all the gloom and coldness here disappeared without a trace.
The torches were very bright, and wherever the light reached, it was almost as bright as day.
Lu Sen hung the torch on the wall, then took out a steamed bun from the system backpack and handed it to Hei Zhu... The steamed bun was still hot, as if it had just come out of the oven.
Heizhu didn't eat. He was waiting for Lu Sen to eat first, and then he could eat. This was the rule.
Lu Sen turned into twenty-four light golden wooden fences and used them to form a 6X6 square room in the corner of the Xiantang.
Then he said to Heizhu: "Why don't you try to climb in?"
Although he didn't understand what his husband was doing, Heizhu did it anyway.
The wooden fence was not high, at most reaching the waist of the black pillar, and one could climb over it with just one step.
However, just as Heizhu raised his right leg and was about to put one leg in first, a transparent wave suddenly appeared on the fence, and Heizhu seemed to be pushed by something and retreated repeatedly.
Almost fell.
"My lord, this is..." Heizhu swallowed his saliva.
"The home system is indeed useful."
Lu Sen was a little excited. He stepped into the compartment of the wooden fence, and then two simple wooden beds appeared inside.
Then Lu Sen waved to Hei Zhu: "Come in, this is where we sleep tonight... Don't be afraid, I have given you access rights."
Heizhu was a little confused... Now he had a place to live and a bed to sleep on?
There’s also food!
He held the still hot steamed bun in his hand, his heart ached and he almost cried.
On the top of the mountain, a caravan from Western Shu was walking on the official road, holding torches with dim light.
It's cloudy tonight and there's no moon, so it's not a good time to travel.
The leading man suddenly shouted, "I have seen the Yang Family Ancestral Hall halfway up the mountain. The Xiantang is very bright there. I believe many friends from Jianghu have already settled there. Let's hurry up, otherwise there may be no place to sleep ."
