Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 294 Sometimes a soulmate doesn’t need to say too much
The two of them just met each other, and the third prince glanced at Tingyun beside Xia Lin, while Xia Lin glanced at his aunt beside the third prince.

Both of them immediately revealed an expression of "He has a terrible taste in taste", and then both sides were stunned. Xia Lin also completely understood why the third prince was so weak.

As the saying goes, thirty is like a wolf and forty is like a tiger. At her age, that aunt is more ferocious than a wolf and a tiger. Moreover, she is a retired professional player. It can be said that she is in good health because she was not crippled by the third prince.

But Xia Lin did not say anything more, because he knew that there were countless eyes staring at him here, whether it was Tian En's Internal Affairs Department or the spies of some other forces. If he greeted or joked with the Third Prince, he might end up killing the Third Prince.

There is no real family affection in the royal family, otherwise Emperor Hongbao would not have lingered until his death and begged Sun Xian'er to give him a few more years of life.

Dong Niang, who is professional at making deadpan jokes, once said that forcibly prolonging one's life is actually very painful, because the body can no longer hold on and is entirely dependent on drugs, which is like racing against time with the King of Hell.

To put it bluntly, his current abnormality is that he wants to avoid the bloodbath after the fight for the throne as much as possible, but he is still naive. After all, throughout history, the probability of a prince successfully succeeding to the throne is about 50%, while the mortality rate of a prince who fails to succeed is 95%.

This is no longer a struggle for rights, it is a struggle for life.

Mediation, how can it be so easy to mediate? Some things cannot be stopped once they start moving.

The Third Prince did not speak to Xia Lin either, because he knew that there were always eyes around him. He did not want to participate in the competition to become the emperor, but what could he do? He had no choice.

In fact, he found it quite interesting. Xia Daosheng was not as hateful and scary as others said, but he was indeed as smart as others said. However, it is better for him to have less contact with such a smart person, because once a person is smart, he will have a lot of thoughts.

Maintaining a social distance that makes everyone comfortable is the best outcome.

Of course, what the Third Prince hoped most was that Xia Daosheng would not investigate him and sell him out alive. After all, if someone noticed his condition, his two brothers would immediately take action to crush him to death.

The eldest brother is narrow-minded, the second brother is cruel, and only he is pitiful, weak and helpless.

"Do you know the Third Prince?"

After they had passed each other for a long time, Xia Lin suddenly heard Ting Yun, that bitch, say that she knew the Third Prince. Xia Lin was full of curiosity: "Have you slept with him?"

"You fart!"

"Attitude!" Xia Lin frowned. "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't use meaningless interjections."

Tingyun curled his lips and said, "Who in the capital doesn't know him? There are three devils, one is Li Jiancheng from the Chang'an Li family, the other is the third prince, and the other is Gao Shilian's nephew Changsun Wuji. They are all arrogant and unreasonable people."

"Li Jiancheng? Him?"

"Yes! It's him. Whenever he goes to the capital, he always causes trouble. The last time I ran to Jiujiang and met you, it was because he wanted to catch me."

Xia Lin laughed, rolled up his sleeves and took a few steps forward, then suddenly nodded: "Let me ask you, you are a prostitute who plays musical instruments and sings, and he is a prince of a different surname. Do you think you can escape if he really wants you?"

"what?"

"So, your brain isn't that useful." Xia Lin patted her head: "It's just acting!"

"Acting? Are you saying that these devils are all acting?"

"I don't know Zhangsun Wuji, but at least Li Jiancheng is acting. He is much calmer and wiser than you think."

As they were talking, suddenly a black dog ran through the crowd and pounced on Xia Lin. He was frightened when he first saw it, but when the black dog was in front of him, he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen this dog before.

Sure enough, a few breaths later, someone came after him: "Where are you going, Xiao Linzi?"

"Hmm?" Xia Lin turned his head: "You don't have to call me so intimately, right?"

The person who came was none other than the elder sister of the Li family who had been on vacation in Fuliang. She was dressed in ordinary clothes and holding a dog leash in her hand.

"Yes, I called it." Princess Pingyang walked up to the dog and took it off Xia Lin by its ears. "Xiao Linzi is the most mischievous of these dogs."

Xia Lin watched Princess Pingyang put the dog back on the harness and said, "You were actually thinking of me when you called its name, right?"

Princess Pingyang walked away coolly with her dog, but ignored Xia Lin. "This guy is so crazy!"

Tingyun pointed at Princess Pingyang, whose back was left, and asked, "Who is this?"

"You said she was arrogant? Of course she has the capital to be arrogant." Xia Lin continued to stroll forward with his hands behind his back. After all, his main task on this trip was to observe what kind of food the merchants passing by ate to fill their stomachs. "I'm not kidding you. She wasn't arrogant just now. She was just shy."

"Shy? How can you tell?"

"Her ears turned red." Xia Lin laughed out loud after he finished speaking. "It was the kind of shame you feel when you secretly do something bad to tease someone and then get caught by the person involved."

It's true. Princess Pingyang, who was now in a deserted area, squatted in front of Xiao Linzi and grabbed his beard and said, "How many times have I told you not to jump on people? You jumped on people instead. Now you're making a fool of yourself."

Of course the dog didn't understand what she said, it could only whimper, but Princess Pingyang pouted her lips and said, "He is good, but he didn't even tell me when he came back. What a damn thing."

However, Princess Pingyang was not one of those people who would give herself away for free. After scolding her dog named Xiao Linzi for a while, she just went about her own business and did not insist on going to find Xia Lin to get things done.

Want face!

At this moment, Xia Lin was sitting in a caravan resting area, chatting with the guys escorting the caravan. These guys from other places didn't know him, so they talked a lot, with that kind of vulgarity that was unique to the market.

"Three or five hundred coins for a meal? Even a dog wouldn't eat it."

The waiter took a bite of the steamed bun in his hand. On the ground was the pickled vegetables wrapped in lotus leaves. "Damn it, only here are eggs cheaper than elsewhere. I can just buy an egg to eat. Twenty cents is about enough for a meal. How much more is it, haha..."

"Then if I increase the money to thirty cents, you can have a hot meal and maybe even some wine. Would you be happy with that?"

"Of course I am happy. Who wouldn't be happy? For people like us who do hard work, we can have a lot of steamed buns. How can you want to drink wine for thirty cents? How can such a good thing happen?"

After chatting for a while, Xia Lin continued to move forward and went to other places to ask questions. He asked about a dozen or twenty people, all of whom were coolies, either caravan workers or apprentices working here, and basically their lives were not too rich.

As mentioned before, five taels of silver was already the salary level for a skilled worker or technical worker. It was already very good for these apprentices to receive two taels of silver a month. Therefore, their standards for food and drink were completely different. The first one said that thirty cents for a meal was acceptable, while the later ones were only willing to spend ten cents for a meal. Some even bought three steamed buns for two cents and ate six, while the others simply drank cold water.

Tingyun, who listened to Xia Lin's questions throughout, said it was very difficult to understand.

"How is it possible that a person only spends 20 coins a day? That's only 500 to 600 coins a month?"

Xia Lin smiled and bought her two steamed buns: "Eat it. If you can't eat it, I will spank you on the street."

Tingyun hurried to swallow, choking until tears came out, but she couldn't swallow it anymore. Xia Lin saw her miserable state and chuckled, "I used to pick up swill to eat. Why did I pick up swill? Was it because I didn't like the food in the big restaurants? It was because I was poor. People at the bottom have no way out even if you are gifted. The promotion channels have almost been blocked up by the higher-ups. Without opportunities, even the kings and masters will have to eat swill for the rest of their lives."

At this moment, Tingyun was buying some sweet soup from a roadside shop, and then she ate the two steamed buns. After she finished, it was obvious that her stomach was swollen: "I am so full... I don't eat much to begin with."

"You really have no idea what poverty is. In fact, the things you can't swallow are already considered by most poor people to be the best food in a peaceful and prosperous era." Xia Lin slowly walked to the riverside, sat there with his legs crossed and said, "During the Eight Kings Rebellion, a child could only be exchanged for five kilograms of bread in a disaster year. Why was the Wei court still relatively stable even though it was so rotten? It's because of the things you couldn't swallow just now."

Xia Lin took a deep breath and said, "So you said you don't understand, that's actually because you've never been poor. Go back and think of a way... Forget it, I won't count on you. I'll ask my wife to coax Tang Baoer back tomorrow, and then you can help her complete this task."

"But can you really make money with these twenty or thirty coins? I've seen them in pleasure boats before, and they often make three thousand or five thousand taels. That's how you can make money, right?"

Xia Lin laughed and patted her butt: "You are ignorant. Not only can you make money, but you can make a lot of money. The difficulty is not the food, but the supply chain, you know. It includes storage, transportation, manpower, etc. The processing cost is actually the least. As for the three or five thousand taels you mentioned, you will end up burning your house down if you make that money."

"I still think it's not possible. Thirty cents is enough to buy food, vegetables and wine. Even if I don't know the price, I know it's too difficult."

"I won't tell you until I coax Tang Baoer back. I can't even explain it to you even if my mouth is dry."

After listening to this, Tingyun said, "Then I'll give you some saliva."

Xia Lin stood up and walked away: "You are disgusting."

"Hey!" Tingyun hurriedly followed: "You just ate it yesterday, and you still said why my saliva is sweet, why are you turning your back on me? Hey! Don't run, I can't keep up!"

(End of this chapter)