Chapter 271 Worthless Player
Although the barbecue restaurant was very popular, the speed of calling numbers was not slow. Since Jing Jiezi and his sister Ling Xuan were called at the same time, and they hit it off immediately, the four of them decided to share a table.
By the time everyone sat down and ordered their food, Jing Jiezi had already learned everything about Chang'an City from the other three people. He even learned from Ling Xuan how to "use" players cheaply - that is, disciples of the Taiyin Sect.
"You just need to pick up some worthless but unpopular elixirs and gadgets, or even better, those with exclusive formulas. In short, anything that is not available on the market, and then go to them and tell them you have a mission. Nine times out of ten, someone will take it. Or there is an even simpler way. Once you buy a house, put up a notice board at the door, specifically posting the tasks you need players to do and the rewards. Then a bunch of Taiyin Sect disciples will rush to take your mission! Anyway, I don't have to sort out the herbs myself now. I can find players to help me get fresh spiritual spring water every day! It's very convenient!"
Ling Xuan deliberately lowered her voice, looked around a few times, and felt that those who were close to her didn't look like players, so she carefully taught her skills. At the end, she added a note of caution: "Just remember to mark the time of the task, otherwise those Taiyin Sect disciples will pull you out of bed in the middle of the night!"
Jingjiezi was stunned and even felt a little guilty: "Isn't this a bit bad?"
Ling Xuan said confidently, "What's wrong with this? Everyone gets what they need! There is a kind of people called 'collectors' or 'junk collectors' among the Taiyin Sect disciples. They like to collect all kinds of weird things. Last time, they even spent a lot of money to buy a pill that I had ruined. They said it was 'very useful for playing pranks on others' and they even wanted to pay extra to customize it. Unfortunately, I can't even replicate it myself! In short, these Taiyin Sect disciples are the least valuable labor force in Chang'an City! Very cheap!"
He couldn't help but sigh: "So that's how it is. After listening to what the Taoist friends have introduced, I always feel that everyone in Chang'an City, even ordinary mortals, is very wealthy. It's really a rare sight!"
"I've heard my professor talk about this before. It's actually a question of the difference between the liberation of labor and the gross domestic product."
Ling Xuan had signed up for a social economics class and happened to know a little about it. She began to show off proudly and tried to use simple words to introduce it: "In simple terms, mortals in the past had to work hard to fill their stomachs and survive for a long time, so naturally they could not invest in other industries and fields. In other words, these laborers were trapped in the fields! It's different here in Chang'an City. First of all, as long as you are in the city, you don't have to worry about safety issues. Secondly, even if you are farming, there are many ways to improve efficiency. For example, if it's dry, ask players to pray for rain, and when it's time to harvest, ask players to pray for clear weather. Unlike before, this kind of meteorological disaster can only be left to fate, or spend a lot of money to ask local monks for help.
"Furthermore, for example, harvesting wheat, ordinary people using sickles is so slow, but if you hire a monk to harvest with flying swords and wind blades, you can harvest several acres in the time it takes to stick an incense stick! Isn't that a big difference in efficiency!
"Also, there are special low-priced spiritual fertilizers on the market now, which can not only shorten the time for crops to mature, but also increase the yield! If you calculate it this way, in the past, a family of seven or eight people had to work hard for a year to get enough food and clothing, but in Chang'an City, the food grown by one person can feed hundreds of people! In this way, wouldn't it liberate a lot of labor?
"Those who can have enough food without farming can engage in other industries, such as handicrafts and manufacturing. Farmers have spare money to buy food and drink and send their children to school, which can help support other peddlers and hawkers. Over time, everyone in the whole society will be rich!
"In the final analysis, it's because other sects don't treat mortals as human beings! For example, although it's difficult for the disabled to practice, making clothes, burning bricks, building bridges, paving roads, and so on, don't necessarily require cultivators to do them. But those sects either use demon cultivators as slaves or use menial disciples and outer disciples. There's no need for that! Those who know some magic and can read and write obviously have better places to go!
"For example, some fellow demon cultivators who cultivate wild flowers, grasses and trees are much better at planting trees, raising grass and cultivating flowers and fruits than those menial disciples in large sects! Every profession has its own specialty. As long as we don't discriminate against professions, we can always put the right people in the right positions, which will greatly increase the gross domestic product!"
Du Cihuai had no idea how many times he had heard Ling Xuan chatter about these nonsense. When his junior sister first came to Chang'an City, she could hardly accept the fact that she was living with mortals. Later, she made some player friends for unknown reasons, and her personality suddenly changed. Instead, she admired everything in Chang'an City. She even resented more than once that he could not go to the Blue Star Realm to see the "holy land" in her mind.
Therefore, whenever there was a chance, Ling Xuan would desperately try her best to instill her own ideas into the newly arrived cultivators. Du Cihuai was already used to it, and when he heard her start another long speech, he immediately laughed and said, "Hahahaha, Junior Sister, now you have been dyed red, to use the words of their players!"
Ling Xuan was a little angry when she heard this: "Humph! Let's not talk about anything else. I don't believe you don't like Chang'an City? This barbecue restaurant alone can control you for a hundred years!"
Just then the waiter brought the first batch of dishes. Du Cihuai quickly took out a handful of barbecued meat and placed it on Ling Xuan's plate, begging for mercy: "Okay, okay, I'm scared of you! You should eat it while it's hot!"
Then, he divided it into two handfuls and put them in the plates of Song Bozheng and Jingjiezi respectively, then took out a small pancake and some chopped green onions and rolled them up skillfully.
While rolling it, Du Cihuai praised it, "Fellow Daoist Jing, Fellow Daoist Song, I learned this way of eating from a disciple of the Taiyin Sect. It is said that it is very popular there, and it tastes really good!"
Ling Xuan was disdainful of this: "Tsk! What a gimmick! Barbecue is for eating meat! Eating bread will take up too much space in the stomach!"
Du Cihuai squinted his eyes and deliberately asked, "Really? But the dish you eat the most seems to be grilled squid, right?"
"Seafood is also meat! Humph!"
As Ling Xuan spoke, she added a layer of bright red chili powder to a skewer of squid, gulped down her saliva, and started to eat with relish.
It was the first time for Jingjiezi to eat this kind of barbecue. He could hardly control the secretion of saliva and even ate in a somewhat awkward manner.
As a monk who had been practicing for a long time, Jingjiezi had not had a good meal for a long time. He would eat barbecue occasionally. For example, when he saw the kitchen monk next door eating a lot and felt greedy, he would go to the wild to catch two pheasants or rabbits, add some salt and roast them, which was a rare delicacy.
But the delicious taste in my memory compared to the barbecue in front of me with rich seasoning and strong taste is simply "unbearable to look back on"!
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