Chapter 24 Chapter 24: Little Bread’s Adventure

How is the bun?We patronized and said we didn't know anything, and completely forgot about the buns.It seems that this is not good, because many readers may also care about his fate.We broke up with Little Bread when he went into a cave on the moon and lost a cosmic boot.Readers will probably recall that Omniscience slipped beneath the Earth's crust at this time Little Bread yelled Omniscient a few times, convinced that Omniscient was not nearby, he was terrified, but instead of looking for his friends, he decided to go back to the rocket as soon as possible.He managed to get out of the cave, and limped along the straight path towards the spaceship faintly visible in the distance.

However, the sun was scorching with terrible heat, and the little bun couldn't stand it, so he ran up and down.He ran so fast that the second cosmic boot fell from his foot, but Bun didn't bother to pick it up, and was even happy, because it was much easier to run without boots.He ran to the side of the rocket in about twenty minutes and pressed a button on the tail.The lock chamber door opened hospitablely.Little Bread walked into the rocket without hesitation.He's safe in the Rockets.There was nothing threatening him now, but there was always a sense of pleasure that unsettled him as he fled the cave without helping Omen.

Little Bread knows from personal experience that any unpleasant feeling can be dispelled by the opposite, that is, pleasant feeling.He decided to go to the food compartment, to use his customary expression, to refuel a little there.He went to the food compartment, took out cellophane and vinyl chloride hard tubes, hoses, bags, and bags from the warming cabinet, refrigerator, and self-adjusting cosmic oven, and wiped out the contents inside. Everyone knows that Xiaobang is not a layman when it comes to eating. He used intuitive examples to show how big the gap between theoretical calculations and real life may be.Quanzhi once judged that the food in reserve was enough for more than a year of small bread, because he calculated it based on the average person's appetite, and did not consider individual people, that is, the different appetites of individual people.The problem is that buns are extremely unusual for eating.To put it simply, he can eat anything, anywhere, anytime, and as much as he wants.

According to the ignorant calculation, what is enough for one year and four months is actually only enough for four and a half days of bread.After Bread wiped out the food stored in the food compartment in a record short time, he came to the tail of the rocket and tried to chew the plant seeds stored in the storage room. However, he finds the seeds unpalatable.Only then did he remember that he didn't know anything. "No idea if he didn't find food somewhere, he'd probably come back to the rocket," thought Little Bread. "Since he didn't come back, it means that he found food. If that's the case, I don't need to stay in the rocket. I have to look for the unknown."

Bun put on a space suit, picked out a new pair of space boots of the right size, jumped off the rocket, and ran quickly towards the cave he already knew.He ran to the cave, entered the cave covered with ice skates, and from there entered the tunnel covered with ice at the bottom.He slipped in the tunnel as if he didn't know it, slid down a flat slope, belly-down, and fell into a month-long well.A moment later he found himself out of the mouth of the well, flying with an outstretched parachute at a terrifying height over a coastal city.A strong wind blew him aside.Little Bread flew over the Pig City and the Wild Boar City while descending gradually. When he flew close to the City of Gods and was about to land, the wind that changed direction blew him towards the sea again.Little Bread saw that he was about to fall into the sea.He is not afraid of falling into the sea.Because he is fat, and fat, as we all know, does not sink in water.He was only afraid of one thing, and that was that the shark would bite him.

He fell into the water with a thud, and immediately swam on all fours, and it took an hour to reach the shore.On this day, the tide was so high that Little Bun couldn't reach the coast anyway.This is because he is wearing a bulky space suit, which is extremely inconvenient to move, and he cannot move quite flexibly in rough water.As soon as he touched the bottom of the sea under his feet and tried to stand up, the surging waves behind him knocked him over, turned him over, and dragged him back again.He struggled on the shore for ten or twenty minutes, and finally realized that he had to separate from the spacesuit.Flipping somersaults in the waves like a dolphin, he took off his cosmic boots, then his sealing helmet, and then his space suit.The spacesuit, which he no longer needs now, was immediately washed away by the sea.At this moment, Little Bread, who had become flexible, avoided the waves coming towards him, and jumped onto the dry and hard shore.

Rest was the first thing he needed after such a heroic struggle against the rough seas.He took off his soaked clothes and spread them out on the bank to dry, while he lay down to rest.A warm, warm breeze blew comfortably over him.The rhythmic crashing of the waves had a calming and hypnotic effect on Bun.Still, he decided not to sleep, as it would be imprudent to do so in unfamiliar surroundings, and he began to study the enclosure. The slightly sloping coast stretches along the sea like a belt, and on the opposite side is a steep hill that seems to have been washed by the sea. On the hill, green grass and small bushes grow on it.The coast is covered with dazzling white sand and a kind of transparent stone like ice or glass.Little Bread carefully looked at this kind of stone, and licked one of them with his tongue. He was sure that the thing in front of him was not ice or glass at all, but ordinary salt crystals.He picked two larger crystals and put a few smaller crystals in the middle to grind them. As a result, he got some fine salt that could be put into vegetables.

A practical little fellow, not used to throwing away what he picked up, he ground some extra salt and filled his coat pockets.He saw that the clothes were dry, so he put on his clothes and walked along the hill.According to his estimation, the city he saw when he descended by parachute should be in the direction he was going. His estimate was correct.He came to the edge of the hill, and saw that the sea formed a wide bay here, and on the hillside of the bay stood a very beautiful city.This is the city of gods, and rich people from all other cities frequent it, because of the pleasant weather and the joy of it.

Along the coastline stretches the largest and most beautiful street in the city of gods.In the buildings standing along the side of the street, there are many shops, restaurants, canteens, snack bars, hotels, cinemas, amusement parks, underground garages and gas stations.On the other side of the street is the seashore, where there are sandy beaches, baths, jumping platforms, boat and ship docks, floating restaurants, sea swings, turntables, water magic discs, throwers and other devices for people's entertainment.The place is packed with little ones walking around.Little Bread wandered around the seaside street for a while, watched the swimming dwarfs for a while, and then stopped beside a small building with a sign above its entrance: "Food Station".The appearance of this store is no different from that of a normal restaurant.Like many restaurants, there is also an open space here, with tables placed under the corridor and customers sitting beside the tables.The only difference is that you can have lunch or breakfast here without getting out of the car, which is very convenient for motor sports enthusiasts.Just park the car at the entrance, honk the horn, and a waiter will run out of the restaurant and deliver the food directly to the car.

Little Bread wants to go into the feeding station immediately and have a meal with everyone, but an advertisement at the door makes him very disturbed.The ad reads, welcome The dishes are delicious! Pay today, credit tomorrow It was the last sentence that Little Bread didn't understand, because he didn't know what money was either. "Let's not be in a hurry, let's have a look first," Little Bread said to himself. He sat down on a bench not far from the loggia and began to observe the diners.He noticed that restaurant customers handed a piece of paper or a round piece of metal to the waiter after eating.

"Maybe these pieces of paper and small discs are money?" Little Bread thought. To test his guess, he approached a receptionist and asked, "For some reason, you have written: 'Pay today, credit tomorrow'. Wouldn't it work if it was written in reverse: 'Pay tomorrow, credit today'?" The receptionist said: "Go to the hostess and let her explain it to you. I am not a philosopher who can solve this kind of problem." Xiaobao went to the hostess who was counting money behind the counter, and repeated the question again. "I think you should know what a bowl of rice is?" asked the hostess. "That goes without saying!" Little Bread confirmed. "Then come with me." She led Bun through the kitchen, where several chefs and cooks were busily busy in front of the huge stove.She opened the door to the yard and said, "See the firewood next to the shed? You'll get a bowl of rice or five Shankik when you chop the firewood." Little Bread went to the woodpile and chopped it up with an axe.The firewood pile was huge, and it took about two hours for the little bread to be chopped. "Hey, what do you want? Is it money, or do you want to eat?" Little Bread asked when she returned to the hostess' house. "I want to eat," Little Bread replied, but then remembered that he wanted to see the money, so he said, "Give me the money." The mistress counted out five Shankirks for him.Little Bread took Sanjik in his hand, turned it over and looked at it, and said, "What if I want to eat?" "Then give me the money back." The hostess was obviously delighted that the five mountain kikes were back in her hands. Xiao Bun sat down at the table, got a bowl of buckwheat rice from the waiter, picked up a spoon and ate it.The rice is good, with butter, but the bun still feels that there is something missing in the rice.He immediately realized that there was no salt in the meal, so he looked for a salt shaker on the table.Seeing that there was no salt shaker on the table, he reached into his pocket, squeezed out a small pinch of salt, and sprinkled it into the rice.His movements caught the attention of other customers.They saw the chubby little man sprinkle a white flour on the rice, and gobble it up contentedly.Everyone looked at him curiously, and a little man sitting next to him asked, "Excuse me, what kind of noodles did you sprinkle on the rice? Maybe it's a new medicine?" "It's not medicine, it's salt," Little Bread said. "What salt?" The little dwarf didn't understand. "It's just ordinary salt. Table salt," Little Bread explained. "Why, you've never seen salt in your life?" The little man shrugged inexplicably and said, "I don't understand what salt you're talking about!" "Perhaps the people here don't put salt in their food," Little Bread said. "We put salt in our meals there. It's delicious. If you want to taste it, you can try it." He pinched a pinch of salt and sent it to the moon dwarf who was drinking soup. "How to eat it?" asked the little dwarf. "Put it in the soup and stir it. You can see how delicious it is." The little man sprinkled salt into the soup, stirred it with a spoon, and tasted it cautiously, as if afraid of burning it.At first, he sat there blankly and blinked his eyes, as if he was listening to what the feeling in his body was saying. Then, everyone saw a smile slowly appear on his face.He swallowed another spoonful of soup, and exclaimed, "It couldn't be better! It tastes completely different!" He lowered his head and drank from the soup plate, clucking happily, pouting his mouth, full of praise for the dish.At this time, the waiter brought him a meal. "Excuse me, can I put salt in the rice?" the little dwarf asked. "Salt can be added to anything," Bread replied, broth, beetroot soup, cabbage soup, clear soup, rice, macaroni, noodles, cold salad, potatoes... you can put it all.Even bread can be eaten with salt.Bread tastes better this way. " He gave the dwarf another pinch of salt.The little man added salt to the meal, and ate it happily, which even made the little bun, who had already finished his meal, feel a little jealous. "Excuse me, can you give me some salt?" said a little man who was sitting across the table and watching all this with interest. Little Bread was about to reach into his pocket to pinch salt, but because of both stinginess and jealousy arose in his heart, he said, "Oh, what a ghost you are! What did you give me?" "What's for you?" said the little man, spreading his hands. "May I give you a Sankik?" "Okay, give me the money," Little Bread agreed. When he got a Shankik, he gave the little man a pinch of salt.At this moment, some other dwarfs also started to come towards him.Each handed him a Sankik for a pinch of salt.Little Bread saw with satisfaction that the pile of coins on the table in front of him was getting more and more.There is no misunderstanding here, either.One of the moon dwarfs took a mouthful of pure salt for no apparent reason, and immediately spat it out in disgust.Another dwarf bought ten pinches of salt for ten shanks at once, and put them all in the soup.Apparently, his soup was too salty to even drink. Little Bread began to explain to everyone that you only need to add a little salt, otherwise the taste will be bad, and you can't eat pure salt anyway.The little guys who never thought that salt can be added to the meal are very interested in this explanation.Everyone wants to try new ways to eat.Some dwarfs ate their lunch without salt, and ate it a second time, this time with salt.Quite a few people tasted salted bouillon or beetroot soup, and immediately tasted salted cabbage soup, macaroni, fritters, potatoes, fried zucchini, and other dishes, and found them particularly good. Because Xiaobao has money, he keeps asking the waiter to give him a plate of beetroot soup, a bowl of rice, and cabbage soup to show it in front of more and more customers. The advantages of adding salt to meals.The hostess was very satisfied to see her restaurant business booming immediately. Before dark, Little Bread sold out all the salt, and left the restaurant with all his pockets bulging with steel.The next morning, he ran to the beach, quickly ground some salt, and went to the feeding station again.He saw at the food station that the hostess had specially prepared a table for him, and there was a small sign above the table that read: "Salt for sale".Little Bread sat behind the table, asking for this and that, selling salt while eating.For him, it's both profitable and comfortable. Word spread throughout the city in a matter of days that the dishes made at the food station contained the astonishing amount of miraculous salt.There were so many people craving fashionable food that the landlady enlarged the loggia and the kitchen, built an outbuilding on the side of the house, and ordered a canvas awning to be erected along the Strand, under which twenty more table.The hostess considered that if salt was added to the dishes, the taste would be better, so she negotiated with Little Bread that she would buy all his salt for use in the restaurant. Now Xiaobao doesn't need to buy salt in the restaurant all day long, and he starts to think about how to make more money on this matter.Because the owners of other restaurants also asked him to buy salt, he decided to open a salt farm to exploit this precious food in large quantities.For this purpose, he rented a dilapidated, wind-swept wooden shed not far from the sea (this is where the boats used to be painted), and bought half a dozen large copper mortars— - The saltworks were built.There are six workers in the salt field grinding salt with copper mortars, three workers preparing raw materials, that is, transporting crystallized salt from the sea to the site, and three workers distributing ground salt in large bags to various canteens and restaurants.Now, Little Bread doesn't do anything by himself, just collect money.He paid each worker a fielding a day.Thus, his total payment to the workers was only twelve fieldings a day, while the salt he mined in a day was sold to the restaurateurs for two hundred and forty to two hundred and fifty fieldings.As a result, he pocketed almost twenty times as much money in his own pocket as he gave his workers.In this way, instead of getting richer day by day, he gets richer by the hour. In the past, Little Bread had to grind salt by himself and carry it to the restaurant, but now someone else does it for him, and the money in his pocket is many times more. Xiao Bun calculated that each worker can bring him an average of twenty Fielding's income per day.He considered that the more workers there were, the more his income would be, so he increased the number of workers to eighteen and wanted to increase, but because the dilapidated wooden shed could not fit too many dwarfs, so Little Bread decided to build a bigger room next to it. Little Bread is now living so comfortably, like all the Moon Runts, that he doesn't even simply call himself Little Bread, but Mr. Bread.He moved from the hotel to his own house, hired servants to dress him, undress him, clean the room, and guard the door; and since he had nothing to do, he sat in the dining room all day long, eating the best food. , when you are not eating, you can go to the shore of the bay to swim around, and go around on the water magic disk or the sea thrower. Many people probably know what the structure of an ordinary magic disk is like.It was a large circular plank resting on a vertical axis.The fun-loving little man sat in the middle of the plank, and the plank began to spin, faster and faster.The centrifugal force generated by the rotation throws the dwarfs one by one from the circular plate to the ground.The person who lasts the longest on the spinning board wins.The structure of the water magic disk is the same as that of the ordinary magic disk, the only difference is that it is not installed on the ground, but on the water.Here, instead of throwing the dwarf to the ground, centrifugal force throws him into the water, which is much more fun and even more comfortable, especially on a hot day. As for the sea thrower, it has the same structure as the water magic plate, the difference is that the rotating circular plate looks like a large vegetable plate with raised edges around it.The little dwarf was thrown farther and farther away from the center of the circle by the centrifugal force. After sliding to the edge of the plate, he flew upwards vigorously, drew a parabolic curve in the air, and landed in the water with a plop. There are many such throwers installed on the shore of the bay, and rich people who come to the city of gods from other places are willing to circle on them, because their appetites are greatly increased due to centrifugal force, flying in the air, and the effects of immersion in water on the body.They take this very seriously because they both love food so much.This may also be the reason why Xiaobao likes the thrower more than the ordinary water mill. Little Bread's carefree life didn't last long.Many dwarves soon found out where he got the food crystals for his saltworks.As a result, small salt pans have sprung up one after another near the coast.Anyone who had accumulated enough money spent money to start such small saltworks to increase their wealth.As a result, more and more table salt was mined, and the price became lower and lower, so it was no longer possible to make as much profit as it was at the beginning.Formerly, Bread made twenty fieldings of profit for one fielding to the laborer, but now no one can make more than one fielding from the laborer.But even that was beneficial, so the saltworks continued to grow. After the biggest landlord, Little Cruelty, went out and returned to Duo Shen City, things changed a lot.All the coast from the city of gods to the city of the hogs is his property.He learned that some unknown people took the crystals from the coast to the saltworks for processing, so he ordered to build a wall on the coast, and only those who paid could get the crystals.In this way, half of the original profits of the saltworks owners fell into the pockets of Xiao Cruelty. It would have been fine if Little Cruelty and the other coastal occupiers hadn't started building large salt farms on the land where they had salt reserves. The saltworks run by Little Cruelty and the others no longer grind table salt by hand, but use sophisticated machines.The quantity of salt produced was so great that the price of salt fell incredibly.Small saltworks owners were paid less, which of course disliked them.The bosses of the large saltworks believe that the overproduction of salt is due to too many small saltworks.The owner of the small saltworks believes that the cause of this unhappiness is entirely due to the emergence of large saltworks that process too much salt. The final outcome of the matter was that the bosses of the big saltworks, which were relatively small and therefore easy to unite, formed the Arrogant Society.At the first meeting of the newly established Arrogant Society, the bosses of the big saltworks made a decision that the small saltworks must be brought down as soon as possible.Mr. Little Cruel, who was elected as the chairman of the Salt Pride Association, said: "The best way to get out of this situation - that is to sell salt cheaper. Small salt farm owners will be forced to sell salt too low, and their small salt farms will lose money and have to close their doors. We will If we raise the price of salt, no one can prevent us from making a fortune." They did.Salt began to be sold at such a low price that Little Bread and other small saltworkers spent far more money buying salt crystals and paying their workers than they could get for selling their produce.Small saltworks closed their doors one by one.The buns lasted the longest.In order to make up the shortfall, he sold his house and the new room in the saltworks that had just been completed, but the day came when he would have nothing left on him.There is not even enough money to pay wages to workers. Later, an owner of the seaside amusement park hired Xiaobao as a worker who pushed the magic disk.If it weren't for this, Little Bread wouldn't be able to live at all.