To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Recognizing Characters and Tea Stall

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After promoting his items and making his purchases, Lu Yuan’s errand within the metropolis was nearly accomplished.

He glanced on the sky, and noticed that the solar was at its highest level, and it was the most well liked time of the day.

Touring right now would absolutely make him sweat a number of kilos.

Carrying a heavy load on his again beneath the scorching solar and climbing again up the mountain was not a pleasant job.

As he had been busy all morning, his abdomen was grumbling hungrily as properly, so with out hesitation, he adopted his typical routine and arrived at a modest tea stall within the south of town.

The tea stall was referred to as Chen’s Tea Store, with a white material banner bearing its title hung as an indication exterior.

Lu Yuan stared on the banner for some time, repeating the phrases “Chen’s Tea Store” again and again in his thoughts.

After transmigrating to this world, he initially didn’t understand his downside, however after coming into town and seeing varied store indicators, he immediately found that he couldn’t acknowledge the characters of this world.

Though this world appeared to be just like his earlier life’s historical instances, with related social programs and native customs, the similarities solely went to date.

Leaving apart different variations, the writing of this world was very completely different from that of his earlier life.

Though the characters on this world bore some resemblance to the Chinese language characters from his earlier life, each their radicals and pronunciations had been utterly completely different.

Their appearances is perhaps related, however their meanings had been vastly completely different.

This was not a easy distinction between simplified and conventional Chinese language characters; it was extra just like the distinction between Chinese language and Japanese, however even better.

Take the phrases “Chen’s Tea Store” for instance; if Lu Yuan hadn’t requested the store proprietor, he would have racked his brains in useless to determine what they meant.

By extension, this meant that the characters he knew from his earlier life had turn into ineffective on this one.

He must be taught to learn once more from scratch.

“It looks as if I’ll must discover a tutor to show me learn how to learn once I get the possibility,” Lu Yuan thought to himself, instantly adopted by a headache.

Studying to learn was no easy matter.

With charges for the tutor, stationery prices, and the lack to be productive whereas learning, it definitely added as much as a major expense.

Though he had some financial savings now, it was questionable whether or not his eight silver taels could be sufficient to cowl all of it.

But when he couldn’t learn, he could be unable to delve deeply into this world, which was additionally completely unacceptable.

“There are nonetheless three or 4 months till the New Yr, when the heavy snow will block the mountain and searching will likely be unattainable. I’ll come again to town then and ask how a lot it’s going to value to enroll in a non-public faculty to be taught to learn. I hope my silver will likely be sufficient by then,” Lu Yuan calculated in his coronary heart.

After taking one other take a look at the phrases “Chen’s Tea Store” and ensuring he wouldn’t overlook, he lastly entered the tea stall.

There was a easy kitchen on the stall, the place the shopkeeper ready some tea and snacks. A big tent was arrange exterior, beneath which seven or eight picket tables had been positioned. The tables and chairs had been outdated and tacky, with stains and grooves throughout, exhibiting their age.

Such roadside stalls had all the time been common among the many decrease class.

Laborers working within the metropolis, farmers and hunters coming into town, all couldn’t afford to go to fancy eating places or teahouses, so they might solely resort to those small roadside outlets for his or her meals and drinks.

As a result of the stall catered to the decrease class, all of the food and drinks had been very low cost.

The shopkeeper’s home made rice wine, half diluted with water, value three cents a bowl.

Coarse tea brewed with blended tea residues value one cent for 3 bowls.

Plain yangchun noodles value three cents a bowl. When you needed some meat slices, it could be ten cents a bowl. There have been additionally small dishes of beans, peanuts, and melon seeds for one cent a plate.

Furthermore, there have been different objects like pastries, meat pies, and boiled pork, with various costs.

Lu Yuan all the time loved having some meat in his meals, and contemplating the lengthy journey again to the mountain, he wanted to be full to have sufficient vitality.

In order quickly as he entered the tea stall, he instantly referred to as out, “Outdated Chen, give me two meat pies, a bowl of yangchun noodles, a plate of braised meat, and a bowl of rice wine.”

Talking, he took out fifty cents and handed it over.

Meat pies value seven cents every, a plate of braised meat thirty cents, and together with the yangchun noodles and rice wine, the whole value was precisely fifty cents.

With simply this meal alone, an everyday household’s day by day bills could be gone.

Businessmen had all the time valued prospects, and the unique proprietor of the physique had frequented Chen’s Tea Store each time he entered town. Though every go to was separated by a month or two, there have been nonetheless almost ten visits a yr.

Through the years, Outdated Chen had come to acknowledge him as an everyday buyer.

So when he noticed Lu Yuan, he instantly smiled and stated, “Alright, sir, please have a seat; your meal will likely be prepared shortly.”

The meal was served shortly.

In spite of everything, the meals was pre-prepared; the meat pies and braised meat simply wanted to be heated up. The rice wine could possibly be served as is, and the yangchun noodles solely wanted a fast blanch and a sprinkle of salt and chopped inexperienced onions. They had been all easy dishes.

Having been busy all day, Lu Yuan was ravenous, in order quickly because the meals arrived, he wolfed it down. Very quickly in any respect, the meals in entrance of him was utterly gone.

Along with his abdomen full, he picked up his wine bowl, took a lightweight sip, after which leisurely pricked up his ears, listening to the idle chatter of the individuals round him.

Selecting to eat at a tea stall like this wasn’t simply in regards to the low cost fare.

All types of individuals blended collectively within the tea stall: metropolis laborers, farmers from exterior town, retailers touring from place to position, and even sometimes down-and-out martial artists clad in sturdy clothes. Individuals from each nook of the world could possibly be discovered gathered right here.

In consequence, information from throughout circulated right here as properly.

Any information occurring throughout the metropolis or any main occasions occurring in different places may typically be heard in a tea stall like this.

“I heard that Liu, the wealthy service provider within the east of town, has taken in an attractive younger concubine who appears to be like like a Heavenly Immortal,” stated a laborer-looking man.

“Outdated Liu is already over sixty, who is aware of if he can nonetheless deal with it, however at his age, having such a stunning younger spouse actually makes individuals envious.”

“What’s envious about it? That concubine of his was an Jap Metropolis tofu magnificence. She’s solely fourteen now, however I noticed her when she was promoting tofu beforehand, her pores and skin was as delicate and tender as tofu, white and delicate, it made individuals wish to contact her simply by her,” stated a ruffian with a skinny, monkey-like face and a lewd expression.

“Heh, take a look at your character; you suppose you might contact her? You’d be higher off doing extra good deeds on this life, and making an attempt for a greater subsequent life,” stated one other man.

As these phrases had been spoken, the stall erupted in laughter.

Everybody regarded on the lewd ruffian and jovially teased him, their fatigue from the day seemingly swept away within the laughter.

Lu Yuan couldn’t assist however snort as properly.

An outdated husband and a younger spouse had all the time been a sizzling matter amongst gossips, one thing that transcended time and remained ever common.

The ambiance throughout the tea stall steadily grew to become vigorous.

“Ah——”

Out of the blue, a scream rang out from the road, adopted by a flurry of chaotic noise, as individuals scattered, working and barking, smashing and crashing.

This commotion immediately attracted the eye of these within the tea stall.

Lu Yuan additionally turned his head to look and tensed up.

He noticed a person in blue garments wielding an extended sword; with a single leap, he swung his sword and a person in black garments in entrance of him spurted blood and fell to the bottom.

In broad daylight, somebody was truly killing another person on the road!