Chapter 3 Pull out the feathers for wine money
After breakfast, Lin Zhengtai and Sun left the Lin family with some sacrifices.
Before leaving, he told Lin Ran not to go to the back mountain to collect herbs again.
After they finished worshiping the mountain god, they took Lin Ran to the school to meet his husband and begged him to accept Lin Ran as a student. Of course, training is indispensable.
Lin Ran nodded silently.
Lin Zhengtai thought Lin Ran had not recovered from his horror yesterday, so he came over and touched Lin Ran's head lovingly.
Lin Ran waved goodbye to his parents at the door, then returned home by himself, and quickly started making tools.
Lin Ran made a beast trap, similar to the principle of later mouse clips.
Soon Lin Ran made it successfully.
Then Lin Ran made another simple slingshot.
A small handful of rice grains from the rice jar was grabbed, and Lin Ran quietly headed towards the back mountain.
On the way, I occasionally met a few villagers. Lin Ran smiled and leaned on the memories of his predecessor and greeted the villagers.
Lin Ran put the trapped animal clips on his waist and sprinkled some rice grains inside.
He ran behind a big tree dozens of meters away and hid.
Lin Ran pulled away the slingshot vigorously and picked up a stone on the ground as a bullet.
After a while, a few beautiful pheasants hummed unknown songs.
Looking around and walking towards the trap.
A sharp-eyed pheasant was the first to discover the rice grains in the animal trap.
It poses, flapping its wings and sprints toward the trap.
Just as it fell into the trap, stretched its neck to prepare for a big feast.
The mechanism of the trap was touched by it.
A whine sounded in Lin Ran's ears, which made Lin Ran happy, but also conveyed a dangerous message to the other beautiful pheasants.
"Swoosh~Swoosh~"
The stone fired by the slingshot in Lin Ran's hand was pulled out and headed towards the pheasant at a very fast speed.
"Puff~"
The stone is impartial and just hits the fragile point below the head of the pheasant.
The pheasant fainted on the ground before she could even struggle.
Several other pheasants took off and fled quickly.
Lin Ran walked out from behind the big tree, looked at the two spoils in front of him with satisfaction, and the joy of success appeared on his face.
Lin Ran seemed particularly eye-catching on the way home with two pheasants.
"Brother Ran, how did you catch two such pheasants?"
The villagers of Linjia Village opened their eyes wide and asked in shock.
This is the most difficult game to capture. It not only runs fast but also cleverly, but the most important thing is that it can fly.
Lin Ran smiled without saying a word.
He can't say that he invented the tool to capture the pheasant, it would be strange if the villagers were not treated as a monster.
"Brother, I'm afraid I'll have to exchange for a few copper plates for this beautiful feather to go to the market, it's more expensive than a pheasant."
The voice of the neighbor's aunt made Lin Ran's heart move.
"Auntie, I'll go to the market to sell the feathers. Please tell me about it."
Lin Ran quickly pulled out the feathers of the pheasant, tied the two bare pheasants, and tied them to the door of the house.
The market is less than ten miles from Linjia Village. If you are rushing to it now, you should be able to arrive at the market before noon.
"Go to the market to exchange for a few copper coins to subsidize the household income." So Lin Ran made great strides towards the market based on the memory of his predecessor.
When Lin Ran arrived at the market, it was a time of crowds.
Lin Ran knew that there must be no stall in the market.
He simply didn't squeeze in. Although the economy of the Tang Dynasty in the early Zhenguan period was not very good, the market was extremely lively.
Maybe there is only one market in this township.
Lin Ran had no time to think about it and found an empty place.
Carefully spread the feathers.
Lin Ran is now in the mood to appreciate the feathers in front of him. Under the sunlight, the feathers exude dazzling colors, which are indeed beautiful.
A carriage stood beside Lin Ran.
"How do you sell your feathers?"
A girl who was about the same age as Lin Ran got out of the car and walked to Lin Ran and asked.
"I don't know what the price is. This is the first time I've sold it."
Lin Ran touched his head embarrassedly and replied.
"So, are these feathers from the birds you caught yourself?"
"It was me who captured it myself. The feathers I just pulled off this morning are still warm when you touch it."
Lin Ran replied with a silly smile.
In fact, Lin Ran felt like a mirror in his heart. The woman who asked this question was definitely not an ordinary woman.
Not only was there a silk and satin dress, but there was a faint rouge on his face.
"Cuizhu, come here."
A sweet girl's voice came from the carriage.
Lin Ran suddenly realized that the woman who had just asked about her feelings was just a maid.
"My owner said, how many such feathers are needed. These are obviously not enough for my owner. Can the young master still catch such feathers tomorrow?"
The little girl blinked her eyes and waited for Lin Ran's answer.
"Yes, but tomorrow I'm afraid I'm going to a private school, so I don't have time to set up a stall in this market."
Lin Ran replied accordingly.
"Young Master turned out to be a scholar." The girl's tone was obviously much more polite.
"I wonder who the young master is? We can go up to the mansion tomorrow, and my master urgently needs such feathers."
"The Linjia Village ten miles east of this is Lin Ran. You will know it when you ask the village."
"Okay, then tomorrow at noon. See you in Linjia Village. This string of copper plates is the feather money given by my master. Please see if it's enough?"
After saying that, the little girl handed a string of copper coins into Lin Ran's hands.
"Enough, enough."
Lin Ran said with a silly smile.
"Please keep these feathers, and I promise to have more feathers tomorrow than today."
Lin Ran said with his chest straight and slapped his chest.
The girl made her laugh.
After the carriage gradually walked away, Lin Ran counted the copper coins in his hand and couldn't help but smile, with twenty copper plates.
"First make a pot of good wine for the cheap dad, then pull a piece of coarse cloth for the cheap dad, then carry a few buckets of rice home, and hand the remaining copper coins home to your mother."
At that time, the purchasing power of copper coins was amazing.
Lin Ran happily followed his own ideas and purchased them one by one.
I found that there were seven copper plates in my hand.
Carrying all the purchased goods behind him, Lin Ran walked hard towards his home.
"His aunt, have you seen my Jia Ran'er?"
After returning home, Sun and Lin Zhengtai found that Lin Ran had disappeared. Instead, there were two pheasants with slutty butts tied in front of the door. So they hurried to the neighbor's house to inquire.
Chapter completed!