Du Qiyue's family still has less than five taels of silver left, to be exact, four taels and six hundred and thirty-two dollars. Du Qiyue disliked that it was too heavy and cumbersome to go out with more than 600 yuan, so he took two taels and thirty-two pieces of money and put them on his body, of which two taels of silver were put in his arms in a small purse the size of a baby's fist, and the other thirty-two pieces were put in his sleeve pocket.

Now that he wanted to buy something, Du Qiyue touched the purse in his arms and walked to a money store on the corner, ready to go over and exchange two taels of silver for copper plates to buy. Although the Dafeng Dynasty had a developed economy and a lot of silver, there was not much in circulation in the world. In the market, it is common to pay for the bill with copper coins or barter, and few people use silver. The reason for this situation is that on the one hand, the imperial court controls it, and on the other hand, the people feel that it is not cost-effective to use silver.

The weight of the silver ingots cast in the Dafeng Dynasty is standardized, at least one ingot and one tael, and the rest are five taels, ten taels, and fifty taels of one ingot, and the same is true for the weight of gold. But when people buy things, let alone spend gold, even silver usually doesn't need one tael, so when paying, they have to use a chisel to chisel and then weigh it, so there will be a certain amount of loss. However, when you go to the money store to deposit silver, you must have a complete silver ingot that meets the weight requirements, so you need to cast silver, that is, you can cast scattered pieces of silver into a finished silver ingot. This is also the case when you go to the money store and exchange the broken silver into a full weight of silver ingots. The loss of silver casting is very large, and the silver ingots cast by weighing exactly one tael of broken silver cannot be full of one tael at all, so the people always have to paste the silver themselves. The common people only earn a few silver a year, so they are naturally unwilling, so they simply use only copper coins, although copper coins are heavy and inconvenient to use, but at least the number will not be reduced. And even if the copper coin is missing the angle grinding edge, as long as it is still a copper plate, it is worth a penny.

Of course, if you have a lot of money at home and want to put it up, it is naturally convenient to change it to silver ingots or gold ingots, otherwise one hundred taels of silver is one hundred thousand copper coins, and you have to pack a few large boxes, which are so heavy that you can't hide them if you want to. There will definitely be losses when the silver is taken out and spent, but it is not impossible to reduce these losses, as long as you take a detour to the money store before buying things and exchange the silver for copper coins, you can save a lot. However, not every money store can replace the silver casually, because after the silver is cast, there is a silver stamp printed on it, and the silver stamp on the silver minted by the government is different from the silver minted by the people, and the silver stamp cast by the private money store is also different. Among them, the silver ingots minted by the government can be replaced by each money store, and the silver ingots minted by the private government must be replaced by which money store casts them.

When every two taels of silver are replaced, the money store will charge 20 cents, which is considered a fire consumption, because silver is not very hard, and it is easy to wear and tear and rust and corrode, which will produce a certain amount of loss. However, this kind of loss of silver is often said to be unweighable, and it will be obvious when the money store collects more silver, so that the silver needs to be melted and recast into two silver ingots, and then some will be lost. Naturally, the money store can't bear these two kinds of losses, otherwise it will become a loss-making transaction, so the money store will charge 20 yuan for fire consumption. These 20 wen is definitely not enough to cover the real loss of silver, but the person who comes to the money shop to exchange copper coins cannot be responsible for all the loss, after all, the recasting is the money store's own business, so collecting these 20 wen is considered to be half of the loss shared by one party.

Although the person who exchanged the silver had less than 20 cents and was also troubled when he changed it, it was still much more cost-effective than the silver that was crushed when buying something and then saved up for a whole ingot. Besides, people who really have money in their hands will not care about the twenty cents.

But Du Qiyue was very heartbroken, it would cost forty wen to exchange two taels of silver, and forty wen could buy more than a pound of pork here, it was like digging his meat. But no matter how reluctant the silver is, it has to be exchanged, and the six hundred dollars won't last long, so if you don't take advantage of the town to change the copper plate this time, the copper plate will be troublesome if you don't get together when you want to buy something next time.

Du Qiyue's silver was minted by Fusheng Money Store, which is the largest money store in Dahu Town, and the store is particularly large, twice the size of other people's ordinary stores. When you walk in, you will see a large counter more than four feet high that divides the storefront horizontally in two, and above the counter is a row of wooden fences that can only be passed by one hand. There were five guys standing behind the counter, and one of the round-faced guys saw Du Qiyue and Huzi walking in, and immediately greeted with a smile: "Two Langjun, do you want to save money or exchange money?" ”

"Trouble for two taels of silver." Du Qiyue walked over, took out his purse from his arms, poured two ingots of silver, and came out.

The guy picked up the two ingots of silver and carefully checked the silver stamps on them, confirmed that they were minted by his own money store, put the silver in his hand, and then took two strings of copper coins from under the counter and counted them on the counter in front of Du Qiyue, "This Lang Jun, here are 1,960 copper coins, 980 copper coins per string, are you sure you want to change them?" ”

Du Qiyue's eyes kept staring at the guy and counting the copper coins, and after confirming the correct amount, he nodded, "If you are sure to change it, sign the bill for me." ”

"Okay, Lang Jun." The guy smiled and took out one from the pile of bills next to him, and took the brush next to him and handed it to Du Qiyue together with the red clay, "Lang Jun, please sign it." ”

Du Qiyue took the brush and dipped it in the red mud and signed his name in the lower right corner of the bill, and after handing the bill back to the guy, the guy looked at it and confirmed that there was no problem with the bill, so he stuffed the two taels of silver into the counter with one hand, and handed the two strings of copper coins to Du Qiyue with the other.

The two strings of copper coins had to weigh fifteen or sixteen pounds, and with a heavy fall in his hand, Du Qiyue untied a string and took some copper plates and stuffed them into his arms, and tied the rest and put them in the back basket with another string of copper coins, and then covered them tightly with a cloth.

"Huzi, the money has been exchanged, let's go shopping." Du Qiyue picked up the basket and said to Huzi as he walked out.

Huzi grabbed Du Qiyue and said, "Xiaoyue, you are too careless, there are probably people watching outside the money store, if you go out like this, the money will be easily stolen." Carry the basket to your chest. ”

Du Qiyue was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was not the world he was familiar with, he hurriedly put the basket on his chest, smiled apologetically and said, "Okay now, let's go quickly, go buy some oil and salt first, and then go back to buy meat." ”

The shop selling oil and salt was on the next street, and that street happened to be Sanjin Street, and when Du Qiyue and Huzi turned the corner to pass, they saw Qian Yin, who was dressed very beautifully, walking out of a cloth shop, and there was a young master dressed up behind him who came out to see him off.

"Xiaoyue, that's the brother of the Qian family!" Huzi pointed to the money and silver that was still with that man, and his face was angry.

Du Qiyue always felt very familiar when he looked at that man, and it took a while to remember that the original owner knew this Li Sicheng. Du Qiyue has a classmate friend named Liang Anhou, this Liang Anhou is the cousin of the county master of Dahu Town, who has turned an unknown number of turns, because his mother died at home, and his stepmother encouraged his father to separate him from the family, so he took refuge in the county master. Liang An is as his name suggests, loyal and honest, good at reading, and very talented. When Du Qiyue had a party with Liang Anhou and several other friends more than half a year ago, Liang Anhou took Li Sicheng to go and said that he was his brother-in-law. Li Sicheng is a very good person, but businessmen and scholars are not the same kind of people after all, and businessmen are more or less lower than scholars, so Du Qiyue has only seen him two or three times at the party, and he has never seen him again.

"It turned out to be him!" Du Qiyue was happy in his heart, God really wants to help him, if the man he hooked up with was someone else, he really had to worry about it, if it was this Li Sicheng he knew, he really didn't need to worry.

When a group of teenage masters got together, they naturally didn't just talk about some poetry and songs, gossip and anecdotes, and when they were in love, they drank some wine and talked about their favorite brothers, and they talked about their views on their marriage partners. At the beginning, Liang Sicheng once said that whether he married a girl or a brother, his appearance and family background were all average, but his character must be good. If what Li Sicheng said is true, then he will definitely not marry this money.

"Xiaoyue, do you know this guy?" Huzi asked.

"I know, I've had a few drinks with him. When Qian Yin left, we went over to him and said! Du Qiyue said with a smile.

Qian Yin and Li Sicheng stood at the door, talking and laughing, and it seemed that they would not disperse for a while, Du Qiyue was a little anxious, the ox cart in Liushuwan Village stayed in the town for an hour, and if he missed the time, he had to walk back by himself. He stuffed some copper plates for Huzi, and told him to go to the next street to buy some meat first, so that it would be too late for him to go shopping after he finished his errands.

Du Qiyue stood at the corner of the street and waited for about ten minutes, Qian Yincai and Liang Sicheng walked away step by step, he was afraid that Qian Yin would be surprised by the grass and snakes, so he waited until Qian Yin turned into a rouge shop before entering Shengcai Cloth Village.

Li Sicheng stood in front of the counter and talked to the guy, Du Qiyue walked over to him and said, "Brother Li, I haven't seen you for many days, I don't know if I still remember my little brother." ”

As a good businessman, Li Sicheng's kung fu in recognizing people is very good, so although it has been half a year since the last time the two met, Du Qiyue has also undergone some changes, he still recognized it at a glance, and said with a smile: "Remember to remember, where don't you remember, Le Ya, Du Le Ya isn't it?" I met with Hirohito a few days ago, and he told me that your family has something to do recently, and he can't continue his studies for the time being, and he wants to go to the Tongsheng exam with you next year! ”

Li Sicheng said that Le Ya is Du Qiyue's word, Guangren is Liang Anhou's word, Li Sicheng is Xinyang, the three of them intended to intersect, so they are all called by their own words, at this time Du Qiyue saw that Liang Sicheng had no life on his face, so he said: "Brother Xinyang, these things are a long story, let's not talk about this first, I came to buy a few feet of cloth, can you bother Brother Xinyang to help introduce it." ”

"Why not, Leya, who are you going to buy your cloth for, and what style you want to do, tell me first, and I can help you choose." Li Sicheng said.

"It's for a young man, and it's getting hotter and hotter these days, so I want to buy some summer cloth to make him a few thin shirts, just ordinary cotton linen." Du Qiyue said.

"Young brother, our store has just bought some new cotton and linen cloth in the past two days, I'll show you." Li Sicheng said and walked to the back of the counter, pointed to a few pieces of cloth in the cabinet and said: "Little brother loves some pretty colors, and I want to wear them more comfortably in summer, you see how about the color of this primrose, this snow blue and this water green cloth, the clothes must be refreshing and beautiful, these three colors are the best sold these days." If you don't like these three colors, this cabinet is the same kind of fabric, and you can choose your own color. ”

Du Qiyue originally wanted to buy some cloth for Chen Mo's family, a few days ago he was sick, and the Chen family asked for a doctor and bought medicine, which cost a lot of money, Du Qiyue tried to return Chen Momo a few times, he saw that Brother Liu didn't have any new clothes, so he thought about taking advantage of this time to go to the town to buy some cloth for his brother's clothes, and then Chen Momo couldn't return it to Du Qiyue even if he didn't want it. At this time, Li Sicheng introduced him, and Du Qiyue began to ask carefully: "How much is a foot of these materials?" ”

"This fabric is good, it is forty wen and one foot, if you want, I will give you thirty-five wen. This cloth is a little more expensive than ordinary cotton cloth, but I don't lie to you, this cloth is tightly worked, and the color dyeing is also solid, and it is almost catching up with the best muslin cloth. Li Sicheng picked up the primrose-green cloth and put it on the counter, and then took a cotton cloth that was also primrose-green from the shelf next to him and put it on the counter for Du Qiyue to compare by himself.

Du Qiyue's two pieces of cloth took out some materials and put them together for comparison, and the color of the cloth that was taken out was very bright, but compared with the previous one, it was much worse, the color looked darker, and the fabric was soft to the touch. Du Qiyue calculated the price in his heart, thirty-five yuan and one foot are not very expensive, and it is only six or seven feet of cloth to make a robe, but it is more than two hundred yuan, and it is only two stickers of medicine.

"I want this cloth for achievement, give me seven feet of water green, and then seven feet of lotus." Du Qiyue pointed to the two pieces of cloth on the cabinet and said, this is just to make a new set of clothes for Chen Momo and Liu Ge'er, if Chen Momo is reluctant to make it for himself, it is also good for Liu Ge'er to wear these two colors.

Li Sicheng took the two pieces of cloth down and asked the guy to cut it, and he leaned on the counter with his chest crossed and looked at Du Qiyue and teased: "I remember that Le Ya, you don't have a brother in your family, why do you want to buy the fabric that your brother wears, and tell me for my brother, who is this cloth for?" ”

Du Qiyue scolded in his heart, pretended to be embarrassed and lowered his head, and whispered: "Brother Xinyang, don't hide it, I bought it for my brother, just now I happened to see him standing at the door of the store talking with you, so I thought about buying him a few feet of cloth." My Ah Mo just passed away not long ago, and I wanted to keep filial piety for a year, but that brother was also a little old, and I was afraid that I would wronged him, so I bought some cloth and begged him for forgiveness. ”

"Who was the brother who was talking to me at the storefront just now?" Li Sicheng's face changed when he heard this, and he stood at the door with Qian Yin and a brother this morning.

Du Qiyue looked at Li Sicheng with a puzzled expression and said, "It's the brother you sent away before I came in." ”

"Are you right, that brother belongs to the Qian family in Liushutun Village, and I heard that he doesn't seem to be married." Li Sicheng hurriedly said.

"It is the Qian family of Liushutun, his father's name is Qian Dashan, and the family runs a tofu factory. My family is now in the middle of the road, but his family is ...... Alas, he will be wronged when he marries me in the future, but he does not think that my family is poor now, I had a serious illness a few days ago, although he did not come to see me, but he called his uncle's sister to send me a bowl of chicken soup. I don't think I can afford to let him down. Du Qiyue said this with a deep affection on his face, in fact, he was disgusted to death, but when he saw Li Sicheng change his face, he felt that it didn't matter how disgusting it was.

Li Sicheng was angry and annoyed at the moment, he met Qian Yin at the temple fair at the end of last year, when Qian Yin accidentally dropped a purse, he picked it up and sent it back, Qian Yin was praying for his family at that time, he felt that this brother had a good heart and remembered it. Later, Qian Yin came to his shop twice to buy cloth, once for his brother, and once for his father and Ame, and he met him twice, and felt that this brother had filial piety, and the two of them had an intention when they came and went. He doesn't like Qian Yin much, he just thinks that this brother has good morals and is good to marry home, who knows if Qian Yin is actually married, or married to a brother he knows, but now he still comes to lie to him. Such a brother is not even given to him, and he has secretly given many gifts to Zhou Matchmaker these days.