Chapter 43: The Aftertaste of Marriage
Baoyu took off his finch and used his weak body to experience a cold wind.
Outside the house, it was white, not snowing, but cloudy and cold, and a thin layer of frost hung outside. Occasionally, there were puddles of water, and they all froze into ice pools. The chill in his bones made him not endure it for long, and the burning rushed back.
"Master, is it cold?" asked Wang Shanbao Mumu.
Baoyu glanced at him, isn't it cold? Fooling around, how can it not be cold? Putting on a finch gold fur, he immediately wrapped himself in a warm breath, and then put away his talent, and the white light on his body gradually faded.
[Xiao Baoyu's body and bones are too bad, if it is a little cold, it will freeze to death, those victims should be stronger, but it is also limited, many days of hunger and cold, I am afraid that I can't stand the alternation of cold and heat. 】
Baoyu thought for a while, pushed open the window, and saw that the merchant surnamed Wang was still kneeling outside the door, so he asked Wang Shanbao to beat the person back and go to Dongcheng.
This fat, oily guy, he was annoyed when he saw it. Not only annoying, but also annoying. Baoyu experienced a cold wind and mixed chaff into the rice, and the mind of just seeking the living was faint - now it is not a question of saving more and saving less, but whether he can save people's lives, he needs to make the victims full of food, have the strength, and give them a way to live.
God helps the self-helper, he just wants to save people, he doesn't want to be someone else's father......
The bridge connecting the east and west cities is simple and unadorned, and it is a stocky and atmospheric style. A few students and Xiucai who came together scolded Fang Xuan, looking at the beautiful scenery that seemed to be frozen for thousands of miles, they must hold back a few lyrics, but unfortunately the level is limited, and none of them have seen it.
Baoyu walked over, and suddenly someone stepped forward to salute: "Second Master Bao, I didn't expect you to come too." We met here to compose poems, but unfortunately I was depressed and didn't even make a decent one. Ashamed, ashamed. ”
Baoyu took a closer look and felt familiar, and when he looked left and right, he was a little familiar.
The man smiled and said, "Second Master Bao, have you forgotten? We were all in the Xiangxiang Building that day, and when it comes to the Xiangxiang Building, we are even more ashamed." I was scolded by you that day, and I waited for an initiation, and once I woke up, the world was very different. But just like everyone said, there are so many victims of the disaster, it is very difficult to save them.
There was a white-clothed Xiucai next to him: "Yes, we tried our best, and we only saved three or five hundred victims in total." It's hard to talk about it, but on credit to the faces of their respective houses, those grain merchants only gave these people more rations, and they couldn't afford to make up for their clothing, so they could only keep them warm and raised in the house, for fear that they would lose their lives if they ate hot food and get cold outside. ”
Baoyu took a closer look, and the seven or eight people who came up next to him were all literati who had seen in the marriage hall, and he took turns to give birth to students and students, as well as the etiquette of students to Xiucai, and everyone hurriedly returned the salute, especially Xiucai in white, who said bluntly that he was not a person, how could he make Bao Erye more polite?
After greeting each other, Xiucai Liu Shengquan sneered: "Second Master Bao, I have news for you." Na Lin He was sent to labor for 3,000 miles, but he was not sent that far, and he really went to Jinling City. I asked the detainee to take him to a school in Jinling City to be a guilty master. Where is this punishment, it is clearly for him to hide from things, and not to lose his name!"
Baoyu smiled casually and said, "I don't have time to pay attention to him." ”
This is what he expected, after all, he is a disciple of Jia Sanjia and a younger brother with the name of a prodigy. If he doesn't look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, he doesn't come forward, so he naturally has to look at the face of the master and apprentice in Jia Yucun.
And the place where it was distributed was a bit unexpected for him. I wanted to come to Zhongdu Mansion to grasp the attitude of Jiafu, so I simply sent it to Jinling, whether it was life or death, and it was up to Jiafu and Jia Sanjia to make trouble.
[The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, it seems that Jiafu has been decayed for two generations, and it is still majestic. That's good news, I have more room to maneuver. 】
Thinking of this, Baoyu had a greater grasp of the relief of the victims, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Liu Shengquan hurriedly said: "Are you still laughing? That Lin and Zheng are bad, and there is a third-class teacher who escaped punishment, and he is really a damn one." In my opinion, I simply informed the Jinling side and eliminated this evil for the world, and I couldn't say anything about it. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.
"Liu Shengquan!" A talent of the same rank shouted: "Breaking into broad daylight will harm people's lives, how can you be called a Confucian disciple? Besides, Lin He is Lin Hezheng, Jia Sanjia is Jia Sanjia, although the two are masters and apprentices, in fact, it is only because of Lin Xiuzhu that they accepted disciples. The name of the top three people, can you talk more?"
Liu Shengquan pricked up his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "Why can't I talk more?" You think you can't afford to be sorry for that Jia Sanjia, but I think it's that I don't have the face to see Bao Erye." We said that we wanted to spread the name of Bao Erye, but no one believed the facts!"
He laughed loudly, tears in the corners of his eyes: "Haha, no one believes it! I'll wait for me to come and chant poems against me, which one is not so aggrieved that I can't understand my mind and bullshit?!"
There was silence, and Baoyu looked from side to side, everyone was guilty and didn't dare to look at him.
This made him wonder - obviously his literary reputation has been reversed, and his talent has grown several times faster, how can he still be notorious according to them?
After carefully inquiring, the news he got made him laugh dumbly.
It turns out that these students and talents not only want to reverse his literary name, but also spread it all over the world for him, and really implement the good reputation of 'Junzi Huaide' and 'Junzi Harmony and Difference', and want him to be famous in Zhongdu City.
In this regard, Baoyu just wants to say: You guys are so cute.
Xiao Baoyu's notoriety has been spread for a few years, and I am afraid that it has been spread out of the central capital, and one thing wants to climb the majestic mountain from the stinky gutter?
He was already very satisfied, after all, he got rid of his notoriety, and in the minds of more than 100 literati in Xiangxianglou, he became a humble gentleman.
He comforted everyone, he was an elite in the workplace in his last life, and he was naturally a talker, and it didn't take long for him to be happy, and he mingled with everyone.
"Don't mind, I see that you have a bamboo in your chest, but there is a way?" Liu Shengquan's eyes were good.
Baoyu couldn't help it, told the matter again, and said with a smile: "The meal has to be eaten in one bite, and such a big thing as saving people naturally has to come in stages." I've arranged everything else, it's the white silver...... I'm not afraid of your jokes, don't look at me as the sister-in-law of Jiafu, this money, but I have never been at ease in my pocket. ”
"It's just silver, I have it!"
"I also have it, but I can't get more, but I still have one or twenty taels. ”
"I ...... Do you know the expenses of our Xiucai, which one is rich? Big deal......" Xiucai, who is also dressed in white, gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, took out a silver wire embedded center pen, and said hatefully: "It's a big deal that I sold this silver wire fox pen, everyone, who can bear to conspire with me?"
"Ha, what do you like, where can you take the lives of the victims?" Liu Shengquan was a little stunned, and took out a pen that looked similar.
Seeing that other showmen were also going to take pens, Baoyu hurriedly wanted to appease him. He recognized this pen, it was the kind he pouted, a silver silk fox pen of one hundred taels of silver, and it was just something else, but this ink, paper, inkstone, and four treasures of the scholar's room, but the literati ate the guy.
Without a pen, how can they write? How can they practice?
Baoyu thanked them one by one and said, "You are all humble gentlemen, why are you so impatient? I opened a shop in Dongcheng to make ondols, and I dare not say anything else, I can still earn a few thousand taels of silver. ”
"But the victims can't wait, we admire the style of Bao Erye, and do that despicable business for the disaster victims, Bao Erye is wronged. But the victims can't wait to make money, it's better to sell pens first, and when they have money, they can help us redeem it. ”
Baoyu sneered, and said no more.
"Why don't you hurry? That's a life-threatening matter!"
Baoyu touched his face and said abruptly, "This ...... The fat boss of Wang Ji Grain Store was so kind that he agreed to let me make an IOU. ”
Ious?
The literati read a thousand books and studied a hundred volumes, which one could be fooled? They looked at each other and looked at Baoyu blankly. For a long time, he looked at the bald man behind Baoyu.
Wang Shanbao grimaced and raised his big fist.
Burst!
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The laughter all the way, especially the 'IOU', made them laugh a lot.
Baoyu went to Dongcheng, which was much smaller than Xicheng, with only two double openings, but two floors higher. The Great Zhou Kingdom is strictly hierarchical, how dare the buildings in the west city be higher than those in the east city?
He sent Qingwen, Musk Yue, and Jia Yun who came to the door, and the attacker Mingyan and Li Gui stayed in the house, and they didn't follow, only him and Wang Shanbao were left, and they were a little inseparable, but fortunately, they met Liu Shengquan and them, and they got the labor force of Baide.
Liu Shengquan ran to find the craftsmen of each family, and said that he didn't want to be paid, they were all raised by each family, and the Xiucai who was guilty of Liu Shengquan rushed to be the first, so he simply pulled his family, spread the post, and invited all the literati of the marriage hall that day, so it was not lively.
On the same day, 300 orders were placed.
According to Baoyu's idea, deducting the craftsman's wages and materials, it is good to earn 500 wen for a fire kang, after all, there is not much ingenuity, if you make too much, those wealthy mansions are not stupid, they will use their own craftsmen, but if it is only 500 big money, a mansion will get at most twenty or thirty, a dozen taels of silver, it is not worth their grasp.
Now that I have no salary, I can earn more, and a fire kang can almost earn one or two pieces of silver.
And these 300 orders are all cash.
Baoyu accepted them one by one, and thanked them one by one, which shocked all the literati and said that they were not human. He asked Wang Shanbao to put away the money, a proper sack, and let Liu Shengquan, who was recommended by Mao Sui, be the shopkeeper and have to go first.
This is a coincidence, I met Liu Shengquan and others, and the money of other wealthy mansions in Dongcheng was really anxious to slowly get up to the top and make money slowly, but as soon as he walked to the door, he suddenly heard someone laughing:
"Everyone in the world knows that the gods are good, only gold and silver can't forget. Why? I only earned three hundred taels of silver, so I was satisfied?"
The voice is shrill and sneering.