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Chapter 20: Ambitions of the Youth

Translator: WQL Editor: Geoffrey

For Zhang Tie, the two-day holiday passed by quickly As his dad had to work on Saturday, Zhang Tie would always spend the dayrice breith his s of rice brew each week Although it was a small inco to a degree

Rice breas a traditional food for Chinese clan and was easy tomethod was also simple — First, wash the rice and then put the rice into a pot and boil until it is almost fully cooked Rehtly in clay pots with sugar, honey, and yeast solution to naturally ferment them In a month, you could open the clay pots and eat it Well-rant, sweet, and soft and had the glutinous texture of rice Being rich in nutrition, it tasted sweet and could fill people’s sto wine, which made people cool down, decrease the chance of heat stroke, andYang grew up eating their h the process was simple, each step needed to befa blocks and frequent custo over the past dozen years

Zhang Tie and his mom made seven jars of rice brew after a day’s work on Saturday They made the rice brew andTie rode a ar Whenever they finishedwould be al Tie would purchase rice at the rice store and 2kg of sugar on his way back Curiously, Zhang Tie found that the price of rice rose a bit that day fro of rice fro of rice this weekend It was al Tie was startled He was extre necessities Zhang Tie remembered that the price of rice in Blackhot City has reo How could it rise so sharply within a week?

“Alas, Zhang Tie, we have no choice either It rose e purchased it two days ago We have to live!” The boss of the rice store started to complain to hiht fro areas surrounding Blackhot City can never ensure that there’s enough food to supply the city We have no solution since the price of rice is deterroups Besides rice, the price of wheat flour has also risen in the past couple of days You can check it out in other stores, so Tie had been acquainted with the owner of the rice store for ent and shrewd Chinese boss didn’t tell a lie Additionally, rice prices in Blackhot City were almost the same in each store with only one to three coppers difference atof rice in different stores If any store sold a bag of rice five copper coins higher than the other stores, it would have no guest

Zhang Tie bought three bags of rice for the price of 4 silver and 58 copper coins each He loaded the 75 kg of rice onto his small three-wheeler that was aand a wheel Besides its ugly look, it could only carry li Tie was already its li Tie carefully inspected the seas to ensure that there were no traces of leakage or being sewn a second ti Tie knew there were sorains businessrains through the usage of tricks like replacing good-quality grains with bad-quality grains or filling the bag with sand He cah his years of experience in purchasing rice As the old saying went, “Kids in poor fa of sugar at a grocery store that was close to the rice store He then rode the three-wheeler back home As expected, after the price of rice rose by 3, the price of sugar also rose even ar was 91 copper coins per kilograra of sugar and put the on one handle of the vehicle He then rode the ugly-looking, modified, second-hand three-wheeler and returned ho ho prices of rice and sugar to hisfor a while, theTie as spare rinned, “Thank you, ive 5 copper coins at h and frowned, “Now that the price of both rice and sugar have increased, we have to increase the price of our rice brew since our profit was already thin If we don’t increase the price, ill not be able to continue our business any longer; however, if we do that, wehisTie was moved, “Mom, trust me I will let you and dad live well in the future I have already changed!”

“Morown up, totally different now!” s Tie’s head

Getting anotherTie beca uo has already grown up You’re an obedient and good kid Oh! Hurry up and send this rice soup to Grandma Teresa You won’t be able to arrive there today if you leave too late”

Zhang Tie was interrupted by histhree jars of rice soup onto the ugly pedal tricycle and hurried towards a direction Being impulsive, he almost poured out the secret of the Castle of Black Iron; therefore, he blamed himself in his mind If his parents knew of this secret, they would be worried about him Besides, their fa the tricycle, Zhang Tie made the decision to keep this a secret deep in his heart He considered that if he was capable enough to keep this secret, he could directly bring benefits to the family, and they would never need to worry about him He stuck to the idea that the fewer people that knew about this secret, theindustrial city, Blackhot City had no deep historical background At the beginning of its development, convenient urban traffic was one of its focal points Hence, it had many broad roads, arterial roads, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and road for vehicles The road was even clearly divided for the bicycle lane and the nor Tie rode thethe bell He admired the buses that drove on the road It was always his dream to own a bus, so as to enjoy a ride around the city with his faines have already been eliminated for almost a hundred years prior to the Catastrophe It was said that hus had already invented various advanced ies before the Catastrophe, so Tie For exa in the sky, ships that could still be started without fuel after hundreds of years, vehicles that could carry hus to the stars, equipment that could easily realize communication between two people more than one million kilometers apart, horrible weapons that could destroy a city, perhaps even a country, when it blew up, and so on His teachers would always sigh when theyTie was always dazzled by it Huinable However, after the Catastrophe, hu frustrated, they fetched steaines from historical washlands and revitalized the-type steah-pressure steae that was utterly different froe before As a result, human society developed quickly, much like the ines that ht line as it sped through the city

In Blackhot City, comet to their destination, while soht own a personal bicycle For instance, Zhang Tie’s family modified such a weird two-hand tricycle for the sake for delivery However, rich old coins For those people, a bus was not just a tool used for travel, it was also a symbol of social status and power So many years have passed, and yet the number of privately owned buses in Blackhot City was no more than a thousand People who could sit inside these privately owned buses were either rich or nobles At least in the le student whose parents or teachers owned such a vehicle Even Captain Kerlin, the o to work for fifty consecutive years without eating or drinking in order to be able to afford a bus

Alards to ines As a man born with the desire to be free, the 15-year-old boy possessed two drea a beautiful private car He had always drea Miss Daina to a peaceful and beautiful place and ine Incidentally, he would also like to check the quake-resistance of the tires and the seats

I in his “wild ambition”, the youth rode the tricycle quickly in the city Half an hour later, he arrived at Grande before 6:00pm