Xiao Zhuzi was very smart, and immediately figured out this matter about the lotus root clip from Yun Fang's seemingly casual question and Steward Zhang's somewhat abnormal actions. Yun Fang appreciates his natural cleverness, and is even more reluctant to let his talent be buried because of his selfishness.

Coughing lightly, Yun Fang said solemnly, "Xiaozhu, you are now following the apprentice of Steward Zhang, and you must listen to the master's instructions wholeheartedly and think about the business in the shop, so that a good apprentice can do it." Everything else is irrelevant, you don't have to pay attention to it, and you don't have to pay attention to it. ”

Xiao Zhuzi was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to argue a few words about his behavior, but in Yun Fang's cool and frank gaze, he couldn't say a word.

After about half a cup of tea, Xiao Zhuzi seemed to have made up his mind, and nodded solemnly, "Well, I listen to Sister Fang'er, I, I won't think about it anymore." It's getting late, it's time for me to go home, I haven't seen the soldier for a few days, and I miss him. ”

I don't know if Xiao Zhuzi really figured it out, anyway, he didn't continue the topic of Fang Cai, but quietly turned the topic to Bing Wazi, ready to leave.

Yun Fang knew that with Xiaozhu's cleverness, she didn't need to say anything more, so she smiled and changed the topic with him, "You wait a while, and then bring some things back for the soldier." ”

Yun Fang got up and went to the ear room to prepare the water for the soldiers, and sent the little pillar out with Yun Hua, the little pillar gratefully took the water of the radish strips that Yun Fang prepared for the soldiers, and agreed that he would wait at the east of the village after breakfast tomorrow morning, and then turned around and walked out of the small courtyard of the Lan family, striding towards his house.

In the twilight, the back of the little pillar looked so resolute, as if he had grown up a lot all of a sudden, no longer a child in his early tens, but with some manly responsibility.

sent away the small pillar, and the Lan family was busy with work.

Because of the agreement on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, the Lan family was busy for most of the night that day, and rushed to pickle three carts of big white radishes, plus a large cart of pickled before, which was almost two thousand bowls.

After dinner in the evening, the Lan family calmly measured all the radish strips in small porcelain bowls and put them into the big-bellied porcelain jars left by Steward Zhang.

In order to ensure the taste of the radish strips, Yun Fang picked out those radishes, so they wanted the same number of carrots, not only did each car not produce a few more bowls as before, but it was a little less, and the four caravans were missing two bowls in total, and they only got a total of 1,998 bowls.

Early the next morning, the Lan family got up early to have breakfast, moved the big-bellied porcelain jars into the carriage, and then covered them with shabby thin quilts, and finally loaded them with braised pork and other food.

It's still the same as yesterday when I went to Guojiazhuang, Dashan was driving in front of the car, and my mother took Yunfang and Yunhua to sit in the carriage. Dad stood in the doorway, watching them leave, until there was no longer a shadow to be seen, and then he turned back to the courtyard.

Xiao Zhuzi was already waiting at the east end of the village, his eye sockets were a little blue, it seemed that he hadn't slept well all night, but he was in good spirits.

Dashan saw the small pillar waiting for them, raised his hand to take the reins of the livestock, let him get into the carriage, and asked jokingly, "Look at you two black circles, what's the matter, reluctant to leave the house?"

"No," Xiao Zhuzi smiled awkwardly, glanced at Yun Fang next to him with a normal expression, and explained, "It's because I'm thinking about when I'm going to see Bing Wazi again, and I'm a little reluctant to him, and I haven't slept well at night." ”

"You're so good as an uncle," the mother took over with a smile and asked with some emotion, "When you go back this time, your sister-in-law didn't ask you, right?" ”

"Bing Wazi is getting more and more energetic day by day, sister-in-law, she is now thinking about Bing Wazi, and she doesn't know how grateful she is to the Lan family. I can help the Lan family, where will she ask more. Xiao Zhu's expression had returned to normal, and he replied with a smile.

The group talked and laughed, because the horses were strong and the feet were good, the ten-mile mountain road was nothing, and they soon rushed to the col agreed by Steward Zhang.

In the secluded mountain pass, Steward Zhang was already waiting with someone, he saw that there were only four people from the Lan family, and Lan Qingsheng, who was in charge, was gone, his eyes swept over Yun Fang, and he greeted with a smile, "You are here." ”

Dashan had just stopped the carriage, and the little pillar couldn't stop the car, so he jumped down quickly, trotted behind Steward Zhang, and lowered his head, looking like he didn't dare to participate.

Steward Zhang saw it with the peripheral vision of his eyes, pulled his lips, and nodded slightly.

At this time, the Lan family had already gotten out of the carriage, Yun Fang naturally walked a few steps quickly, met Steward Zhang, and explained obediently, "I didn't expect Steward Zhang to come in person, it is inconvenient for Dad to come over, and I ask Steward Zhang to forgive me." In order to hide people's eyes, we didn't dare to get up early, so that Manager Zhang waited for a long time. ”

"These are all for our shop, Fang girl is welcome. Steward Zhang smiled generously, turned around and beckoned his guys, "Go, help unload all the things in the car." ”

"Yes. ”

The guys agreed, and they came over with their hands and feet, and the little pillar didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed the guys to move the fine porcelain jars on the Lan family's car one by one in front of Zhang Danian.

Zhang Danian Yang counted the fine porcelain jars lined up in front of him, nodded with a sigh of relief, raised his chin and asked, "These are enough for two thousand bowls, right?"

"There are still two bowls left," Yun Fang replied seriously, "Now some of the big white radishes have begun to hollow out, and we don't want to spoil the overall taste of the radish strips because of these few radishes, so we picked out a part, and these carts of big white radishes have only pickled 1,998 bowls." In charge, you can order it. ”

"Well," Zhang Danian nodded approvingly, and said seriously, "I am relieved that you can think so and do this." Now that you've counted them, I trust you and don't have to count them again. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Danian took out some silver from the money bag, and took out another string of eldest sons, and handed them to Yun Fang, "Here are seven taels of silver and a hundred eldest sons, and you have also seen it." ”

Zhang Danian's letter to the Lan family, they counted the number of radish strips and did not recount them, and Yun Fang did not pretentiously ask him to go through it again. Facing the silver handed over by Zhang Danian, she also took it generously and did not raise any objections.

Zhang Danian smiled, and then explained, "It's inconvenient for the eldest son to be hanged, and it's not convenient to use large transactions, I'm in charge of exchanging it for you to silver, the little girl has no opinion, right?"

"Thank you for making it easy for us. ”

Yun Fang smiled and thanked him, as early as when Zhang Danian took the five hangers to their family, I cleverly inquired with my father about the exchange relationship between the eldest son and the silver, if they want to make the business bigger in the future, they must not always use the copper son to trade, or the silver is easy to take and put away.

At that time, my father told her that the government stipulated that 500 eldest sons could be exchanged for one or two silvers, but when it was really time for the big guys to really exchange, the people in the exchange shops opened by the yamen would charge an exchange fee, and basically they would charge five more for exchanging one or two silvers, so those who did small business would rather be troublesome than go to those official shops to exchange.

However, those shops that do big business, they are inextricably linked with the official family, and their bulk of silver is not exchanged by the big son, they have their own channel sources, and they will not exchange it directly. Because, they are all facing ordinary people, and those official shops are getting more and more excessive, and sometimes it costs ten more to exchange one or two pieces of silver.

The seven taels of silver that Zhang Danian gave to Yun Fang, because of the relationship between the old shop in Fuxiang, he didn't need to pay anything extra, and the seven taels of silver in his hands were three thousand five hundred eldest sons. However, if the Lan family wants to exchange these 3,500 eldest sons for silver, according to the official regulations, they will have to pay an extra thirty-five eldest sons, and if they go to exchange them themselves, they will even have to use seventy more eldest sons, and they can almost buy a big fat pig.