With the increase in food and sugar prices in the past two weeks, the business of the Zhang Family rice wine shop has indeed become much slower. Maybe for rich people, a few copper coins and a few silver coins will not make any difference at all, but for many people at the bottom of society with low incomes, slight price changes are passed on to It becomes a huge pressure to survive on them, and they are more sensitive to prices. Even if a bowl of rice wine from the Zhang Family only increases by one copper plate, for some people, this copper plate represents a 20% price increase, which is difficult to accept.
Looking at the Hua Clan woman in front of her who dragged the drooling child away from the rice wine shop, Zhang Tie could only smile helplessly. This little guy used to come here often to eat, but now, with the increase in the price of rice wine, his mother had no choice but to drag him away. For ordinary families in these small households, the rise in food prices certainly affects not only the price of a bowl of rice wine, but the entire The cost of living has increased. The price of food has increased, and firewood, rice, oil and salt have not risen with it. I heard that the price of coal in Black Flame City has also begun to rise in the past two days. The most obvious thing is that the price of briquettes has been increased by five copper coins per truck. Food prices are rising, coal prices are rising, and the steel produced by steel plants will naturally rise with it. Although the current price increase is still small, for many people, this is not a good sign.
Zhang Family's ugly modified tricycle was borrowed by a neighbor early this morning. He said he was going to buy some food. Several families have come to borrow it in the past two days, all for dragging things. My mother and sister-in-law borrowed it this morning. After going to the hospital, my sister-in-law said she felt a little unwell, and my mother became nervous. After getting up this morning, the two of them left. Then Zhang Tie was alone at home, looking at the rice wine shop, and used a fan to chase away the flies in the shop out of boredom.
Zhang Tie was in the rice wine shop, but he was a little absent-minded, because his whole mind was focused on his mind at the moment. At this moment, some interesting things were happening in Zhang Tie's mind...
The changes brought about by the sevenfold increase in mental power are causing earth-shaking changes in <Abacus Mental Calculation>, which he has been practicing for two weeks. Before yesterday, Zhang Tie had to imagine a three-level calculation in his mind. It will take a long time to use the abacus. Not only the visualized abacus is unstable, but also the abacus is not very fast for mental arithmetic. It is not as convenient as manual calculation. In short, it has not reached the point where it can be practical. But this situation has completely changed this morning.
At this moment, in Zhang Tie's mind, a seven-position golden abacus is hovering steadily among Zhang Tie's Sea of Consciousness. The beads on the abacus are turning automatically without hands, flipping up and down, and outputting calculated values one by one.
What is 36 times 98... 3528!
What is 1269 plus 9621 equal to... 10890!
What is 362 times 125? 45250!
What is 639 divided by 12? 53.25!
What is 98564 divided by 125? 788.512!
At the beginning, Zhang Tie still had to type the formulas to get the result. But later, as soon as Zhang Tie saw the question, his heart moved, and the formulas flashed in his heart. The abacus had already calculated the results. After practicing for a while, Zhang Tie found that he didn't even need to recite the formula silently. Often when he saw the question, he would The results have come out, so fast. After using the abacus for two years, Zhang Tie finally discovered the power of the ancient calculation tool Hua Clan. Zhang Tie doesn't know where the book "Abacus Mental Calculation" with recommended extracurricular readings for primary school students is, but purely in terms of the strength and quality of mental power, Zhang Tie does not believe that there is any primary school student in the world who is stronger than himself now. Maybe his mental power was about the same as that of a primary school student before, but now after integrating the Fruit of Radiance, his mental power has reached seven times its original strength, which is really too strong. And after using seven times the mental power to push Heart-Punishing Divine Calculation, the powerful side of Heart-Punishing Divine Calculation Zhang Tie began to show it thoroughly. Any addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within seven digits, Zhang Tie only took a look at it. As soon as the question came to his mind, the result came out without even a click in the middle. Not only that, Zhang Tie found that it was easy to stabilize the abacus after visualizing it. In the process, he also sold a few bowls of rice wine and did a few small businesses, and it didn't affect it at all...
My current calculation speed should be faster than the hand-cranked metal calculators in those exchanges and merchants! Zhang Tie thought happily. Unexpectedly, the first benefit brought to him after his mental power increased sevenfold was to allow Abacus Mental Calculation to reach this level overnight. If he went to the grocery store now, he would definitely be able to scare that guy Tang De.
Because this Abacus Mental Calculation was so easy to use and felt so magical and fitting, an extremely bold and even absurd idea came to Zhang Tie's mind - or maybe, in that long time before the abacus was invented In that era, the abacus was originally used like this. You just need to visualize it in your mind. People of that era had very strong mental power, so they could easily use this calculation tool in their minds. However, people's mental power declined later for unknown reasons. In the future, it was no longer difficult to realize this kind of calculation in the mind, so someone made a physical abacus and started to operate it with hands. Then at a certain time, I don't know whether it was hundreds or thousands of years later, when everyone was accustomed to operating abacus with hands, suddenly another guy had a flash of inspiration and felt that this thing could be visualized in the mind and operated with pure spirit and consciousness, so he invented the Abacus Mental Calculation, and inadvertently restored the true use of this calculation tool...
If this is the case, then wouldn't I now be the only person who truly masters this magical computing tool? I wonder if this magical computing tool can evolve to a higher level of ability. It seems that the guy Tang De said that in the magical East, There are some powerful professions, such as the mysterious Diviner, which possesses a more magical calculation tool called "Yi". That calculation tool does not calculate numbers, but the good and bad luck of people and the evolution of everything in the world. Is there any relationship between the two?
Just when Zhang Tie was thinking wildly, his mother and sister-in-law came back. Zhang Tie quickly scattered the abacus in Sea of Consciousness, then rushed up and asked with concern, "Mom, what's the matter with sister-in-law!"
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Zhang Tie realized that the question was a bit silly and seemed a bit awkward. The sister-in-law's face turned slightly red, while the mother's eyes widened and she hit Zhang Tie hard on the head, "It's a matter of your size, hurry up and cook..."
In the afternoon, as usual, Zhang Tie helped her mother make rice wine at home, and with the addition of her sister-in-law, the job became relatively easier. After lunch, the neighbor returned the borrowed tricycle, Zhang Tie went down and rode a tricycle to buy rice and sugar. As expected, the prices of these two items increased a little. Because the rice brewing business at home was not very good last week, I only bought two bags of rice this time. When I got home, my mother was teaching my sister-in-law how to make yeast liquid.
"This yeast liquid is very crucial. The final taste of the rice wine you make depends entirely on it. We at the Zhang Family all make our own yeast. These spare jars containing yeast must be scalded with boiling water before use, and then shaken with boiling water to cool down and then set aside. Generally, there are two jars at home, one jar is in use and the other is fermenting. Just make one jar and wait until it is almost used When ordering, add water to it and put some chopped fruits, peels, cores, etc. in it. Open the lid of the jar every day and shake it to let the inside ventilate. Generally, a new jar of yeast liquid will be ready in about a week. Almost two spoons of fermented yeast liquid should be put into each can of rice brew before sealing. Come and taste some, these yeast liquids are delicious. Zhang Tie used to come here to eat them often..."
Zhang Tie has been familiar with these contents for a long time, and he didn't care at first, especially when his mother was teaching while still exposing his shortcomings, which made Zhang Tie lose face. But I don't know why, listening to my mother talking about these things today, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in Zhang Tie's heart, and a thought suddenly appeared in Zhang Tie's mind...
Yeast--rice brew--
The mutated and evolved yeast--The mutated and evolved rice wine--?
Zhang Tie remembers that there is a special option in Castle of Black Iron that can promote the mutation and evolution of all creatures. When I entered Castle of Black Iron for the first time, I tried it. I played it with a Potato that sprouted in the pit. I haven't received any results in the past few days. Zhang Tie I forgot about this, and today when I was watching my mother teaching my sister-in-law how to brew yeast liquid, Zhang Tie suddenly had an idea - if I could let the yeast used for making rice wine at home evolve or mutate to generate a new yeast liquid, would the taste of the rice wine produced be better? If so, it would open up a market for the rice wine business at home.
Zhang Tie thought about it, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this method should be feasible. At least I could try it. Zhang Family has been making rice wine using the old method for ten or twenty years. It doesn't matter if I try a new one. Even if it fails, I won't lose a few hairs!
Thinking like this, Zhang Tie became excited, and then in the evening, while his mother was not paying attention, he found a clean glass bottle in the kitchen, secretly filled half a bottle of yeast liquid, took it to his attic, quickly came to Castle of Black Iron, and opened the button under "Biology and Species Management" In the "Microbe" management panel of "Carbon-based Biology and Species Management", after selecting the bottle of yeast liquid, I put in 300 Spirit Qi Value, 5 Merit Value and 0.1 Basic Energy Reserve at a time, and started trying to carry out the first mutation and evolution process of yeast.