Chapter 3 Life Is Alive Level 1
Walking behind those boys, Zhang Tie secretly guessed the weirdness of Qianlongtang when he saw the boys in front of him staggering and gnashing their teeth with wire sacks on their backs.
Before coming to Qianlongtang, Zhang Tie had also imagined the scene he saw when he entered Qianlongtang for the first time. In Zhang Tie's imagination, in this Qianlongtang, there were immortals with all gray hair and beard. The scene of the old man holding a bunch of cheat books to start the class, the scene of the perverted one-eyed instructor fiercely practicing a bunch of teenagers under the scorching sun, and the scene of putting all kinds of magical weapons and combat skills in front of him Zhang Tie had fantasized about all kinds of scenarios, but the only thing that Zhang Tie didn't expect was that after entering the Qianlong Hall, the first thing he saw were a few teenagers who looked like tortured slave laborers Some gloated and told myself——welcome to Qianlongtang.
Among the four teenagers in front, the thinnest one walked last, and the wire sack on his back was also the smallest. He had just walked out of the castle and was going up the steps on the mountain road. He fell forward all of a sudden. Fortunately, Zhang Tie, who was walking behind him, was quick and grabbed the wire sack on his back and supported his shoulders. The boy didn't fall forward in embarrassment.
"Let me help you get a section of the way!" Zhang Tie smiled, and without any explanation, he took the sack on the boy's back. The weight of the bag was nothing to Zhang Tie, less than 150 kilograms. After taking the sack, Zhang Tie saw that the skin on the young man's shoulders had been worn away, exposing a hot new skin with a little bloodshot.
"Ah, no need, I'll be fine soon..." Tears were almost rolling in the boy's eyes, but the boy forced himself to hold back.
"Yunfei, are you okay!" The relatively stronger boy in the front stopped and turned his head to ask.
"It's okay, I had no strength in my feet just now, and suddenly it softened and almost fell!"
"Persevere, we will be in the Artifacts Academy soon!"
"Okay!" The boy named Yunfei responded and looked at Zhang Tie, "Thank you, but I have to carry this bag myself. If you help me, they won't give me money. It's from Qianlongtang. Rules, do physical work to make money, you can't fake the power of others!"
Seeing that the boy named Yunfei was very persistent, and that this was also the rule here, Zhang Tie returned the bag to the boy again, but he became more and more curious about the rules of Qianlongtang.
The group continued to walk up, but luckily they didn't go too far on the stone steps. Within 100 meters, Zhang Tie heard a clanging sound in his ears.
Bamboo groves, streams, several smoking chimneys and blast furnaces that can be seen faintly outside the high walls, and a house with the words "Wiwuyuan" on it appeared before Zhang Tie's eyes.
Zhang Tie and a few teenagers entered the yard, and there was a storehouse on the left of the first door when entering the yard. Zhang Tie followed a few teenagers to the storehouse, shook out the contents of the bag, and put them on the scale in the storeroom. Guo said that those bags contained some ores with a light blue metallic luster.
The person guarding the warehouse was also a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, who weighed and reported the number, and then took out money from a drawer beside him while keeping accounts. All the teenagers who got the money were overjoyed.
"241 kilograms of sea blue iron ore, the total price is 24 silver coins..."
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"203 kilograms of sea blue iron ore, the whole price is 20 silver coins..."
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"195 kilograms of sea blue iron ore, the total price is 19 silver coins..."
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"148 kg of aquamarine iron ore,
The whole price is 14 silver coins..."
"Ah, what a pity, with another two kilograms, Yunfei will be worth 15 silver coins this time!" Several people next to him sighed. After hearing these words, Zhang Tie found that the boy named Yunfei secretly clenched his fists. . At the same time, Zhang Tie also roughly understood the pricing rules. Ten kilograms of aquamarine iron ore is a silver coin, only integers are taken, and those less than ten kilograms are not counted.
"You come and take a look today, and you will come here often in the future!" The stronger boy said to Zhang Tie while collecting the money.
"Does everyone who enters Qianlong Hall have to do these things?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Yes, everyone who enters Qianlongtang must complete at least 30,000 kilograms of aquamarine iron ore in the first step, and earn the first personal property of 30 gold coins on Qianlong Island through this work! This is a mandatory task, and I cannot refuse it." The boy returned, and then remembered something, "By the way, my name is Zhang Keliang, and I haven't asked your name yet?"
"My name is Zhang Tie!"
"My name is Wei Wu!" The boy who said "Welcome to Qianlongtang" to Zhang Tie also introduced himself.
"My name is Zhang Hongsheng!"
"My name is Zhang Yunfei!"
Several people finished their self-introduction here, and after the introduction, everyone felt a little more familiar with each other.
"Let's go, let's go back and have a good rest. In order to get these things back, we have been outside for almost two days. Let's recover today, and we will go again tomorrow!" Zhang Keliang waved his hand and said, and several others ordered nodded.
Afterwards, Zhang Tie left the Artifacts Institute with a few others.
The Zhixing Academy is not far from the Artifacts Academy. After leaving the gate of the Artifacts Academy, follow the stone path among the bamboo forests and walk 200 meters to the east of the hillside. Along the way, through the introductions of Zhang Keliang, Wei Wu and other teenagers, Zhang Tie gradually understood many things.
What is the most important first hurdle you have to face in life? Qianlongtang has already given the answer - money!
For money, you can despise it, you can treat it like dung, but you need it everywhere, you have to face it.
The first thing for all youngsters who enter Qianlongtang to learn is not any profound martial arts, not some secret secrets of miraculous skills, nor the principles of poetry and economics and Anbang's governance of the country, but to learn to be self-reliant, learn to make money, Learn to support yourself on Qianlong Island.
Every newcomer to Qianlongtang lives in Zhixingyuan, and there is a three-day adaptation period. During the three-day adaptation period, you can eat and live for free. After three days, you must start to find a way Earn money to support yourself on the island, Zhixingyuan will no longer let you live and eat for nothing.
The rent of Zhixingyuan is five silver coins a day, and the food is two silver coins. The minimum daily fee in Zhixingyuan is seven silver coins. You can credit at Zhixingyuan. Rolling interest, if you can't pay off the debt when your credit limit reaches one gold coin, then I'm sorry, please pack your bed and get out of Qianlongtang, and stay where it is cool.
"Then does this mean you can leave Qianlong Island?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Leave Qianlong Island?" Wei Wu grinned dryly a few times, "Don't dream, those who were expelled from Qianlong Hall can't leave Qianlong Island, they can only find ways to make money on the island and pay back their debts Clear, you have to come back after paying off. When he was expelled from Qianlongtang, that person owed Qianlongtang a gold coin. This gold coin is calculated at the interest of five cents per day. Under rolling interest, it only takes two weeks. Two gold coins, one month, the arrears become four gold coins, the longer the delay, the more debts, those who were kicked out of Qianlongtang because of arrears, if they can't pay their arrears within half a year If the debt is paid off, those people probably won’t be able to pay it off for the rest of their lives, so they can only stay on the island for the rest of their lives..."
"Stay on the island forever?" Zhang Tie felt a chill in his heart, "Is there such a person?"
"Yes, more than one!" Zhang Keliang said, "Those who can be overwhelmed by a single gold coin, those who have trouble supporting themselves on Qianlong Island, no matter what kind of ancestral blood he has awakened, such People, to the family, can only be regarded as waste, rather than letting such people go out and be killed or cause some troubles, it is better to let them die of old age on Qianlong Island, at least they can have a good death!"
"There are the rules of Qianlongtang in Zhixingyuan. You can find out after you go and see. There are still many places where money will be spent later..." Zhang Yunfei added.
As the group spoke, they arrived at Zhixingyuan.
The entire Zhixingyuan is like a huge triple courtyard, with pavilions, pavilions, fish ponds and waterside pavilions inside, and a martial arts arena as large as two or three acres of land. There are all kinds of training equipment on the martial arts arena. Zhang Tie and the others came At that time, apart from an old man in Tsing Yi sitting under the persimmon tree at the entrance of Zhixing Courtyard and looking at a stone table under the tree in a daze, there was almost no one in Zhixing Courtyard. Quite quiet.
"Hey, did you see that old man was the one who stayed on the island after he entered Qianlongtang when he was young because he couldn't make any money. It has been more than 50 years. After Longtang picked it up, he will watch the gate at Zhixingyuan!" Zhang Hong said to Zhang Tie in a low voice.
"Ah!" Zhang Tie was really taken aback.
"You youngsters, what are you doing yelling here? I just thought of a wonderful move, but I was quarreled by you. Also, all of you are disheveled and disheveled. It's really insulting to the gentleman. Where are your elders? I must let them discipline you well!" It seemed that the conversation of several people disturbed the old man, who raised his head and scolded Zhang Tie and the others. After the scolding, he took out another black chess piece from the side of the table, lowered his head, and looked at the chess game on the table intently with a frown, thinking.
Zhang Tie and the others glanced at each other, stuck out their tongues together, and walked in hastily.
"Room No. 73 is over there, and the hall rules and entrance instructions of Qianlong Hall are on the stele in the pavilion next to the pond!" Zhang Keliang pointed to two places in Zhixing courtyard, "Dinner at six o'clock, It's in the restaurant over there, we have to go back to the house to tidy up and have a rest!"
"Okay!" Zhang Tie nodded and separated from the boys.
Zhang Tie took the key and came to his room No. 73. After unlocking the door of the room, Zhang Tie stared at the empty room and was stunned for a long time without reacting.
Except for a bare wooden bed, the room was so clean that there was not even a single hair in it. Damn it!
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Ten minutes later, Zhang Tie, who had recognized the reality, came to the pavilion engraved with the rules and instructions of Qianlongtang and looked carefully. He gradually had a more detailed understanding of the situation in Qianlongtang.
Those who come to Zhixingyuan are all newcomers in Qianlongtang. To leave Zhixingyuan, all newcomers must meet two minimum conditions. The first one is to reach level six, become a warrior, and gather fighting spirit. The second one is to complete the task of turning in 30,000 kilograms of sea blue iron ore.
After leaving Zhixing Academy and entering the higher-level Lingtian Academy, it can be regarded as the beginning of his career in Qianlongtang. After entering Lingtianyuan, because they can enjoy more resources of Qianlongtang, correspondingly, all people who enter Lingtianyuan have to pay more. When they were in Zhixingyuan, it was only seven yuan a day. The minimum board and lodging fee for silver coins has become a minimum of 30 gold coins per month in Lingtian Courtyard, an average of one gold coin per day.
The 30 gold coins obtained from the 30,000-kilogram aquamarine iron ore turn-in task are only the first month's fee for entering the Lingtian Academy.
When Zhang Tie saw this, he almost wanted to curse, one gold coin a day, live in the presidential suite?
But the passage on the stele made Zhang Tie calm down all of a sudden.
——Money is a great power, and freedom from money is the foundation of a person's freedom. If there is no freedom here, other freedoms are luxury.
Zhang Tie gradually understood the meaning of the rules in Qianlongtang. One of the intentions of those rules is to force everyone who comes here to run hard in the direction of "freedom from money". The best attitude is to trample on it after conquering it, rather than being trampled on by it while spitting at it. The former is the attitude of the strong, and the latter is the groaning of the weak...
In a place like Qianlong Island where strong people are everywhere and the environment is dangerous, money can be made, and it is even easier to make money on land. What Qianlongtang wants to cultivate is not those "masters" who can't catch grains with their hands, can't even support themselves, and finally have to be controlled by others.
After understanding the purpose of these rules in Qianlongtang, Zhang Tie's resistance to all the rules in Qianlongtang that involve money disappeared at once, and he began to agree with him from the bottom of his heart.
Isn't it just to make money? Zhang Tie doesn't believe that he will lose to others in this aspect. What others can do, he can also do. No matter how stupid he is, he will always do it.
After seeing Qianlongtang's hall return and notices, Zhang Tie finally discovered a benefit of entering Qianlongtang.
All those who have awakened the blood of their ancestors and entered Qianlongtang will automatically get 100 family contribution points. The most practical use of these 100 family contribution points is for those who do not have much foundation to enter Zhixingyuan. In exchange for some simple, basic secrets or combat skills, it is convenient for you to condense your fighting spirit to break through to level six and complete the guaranteed task of turning in 30,000 kilograms of sea blue iron ore in Zhixingyuan.
Those aquamarine iron ores are not on land, but in the sea. If you want to fish out those aquamarine iron ores from a depth of more than ten meters to tens of meters, the most basic thing is to master a skill The secret that people can persist in water for a longer time and move freely.
Elementary sea diving and fish extinguishing technique——
Exchange price: 50 family contribution points.
Redemption location: Secret Scripture Pavilion of Qianlongtang.
When he saw this piece of information, Zhang Tie suddenly had a thought, wondering what kind of fruit he would get if he released the raw fish... .If you like this work, you are welcome to come to ◤First ◢ to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)