Chapter 9 Make a little money first
Li Luo found the Qiaotou grocery store and saw a flag outside the shop, with four traditional Chinese characters written on it. Goryeo did not have its own script, and of course could only use Chinese characters. But a small grocery store in the village also uses the word 'big', which is very Korean.
"Song Ji Dadian" is actually a family, but this family is obviously more solid than other people's homes, not only the yard is larger, but also two entrances, the front two are shops, and the back is housing.
Li Luo stepped into the courtyard and found that there were no guests, only a middle-aged man sitting behind the counter to roast the fire. At this time, a Korean woman had just come out from behind, and when she saw Li Luo, she immediately lowered her head and turned around and trotted back, as if Li Luo was a bad person.
Li Luo looked casually, there were ironware, cloth, oil and salt, grain, needlework and other things in the store, but there were not many of them.
Seeing Li Luo enter the store, the shopkeeper stood up lazily, he looked at Li Luo, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes. This guest has a fresh face, and his clothes are quite shabby, but he doesn't look like an ordinary person, and ordinary people don't have such a good complexion or such a spirit.
The shopkeeper immediately put away his arrogance and said with a smile: "What do you want from the little brother?" ”
Li Luo barely heard what he said, and said briefly: "Grain." ”
"Little brother wants rice or wheat? How much? ”
"Wheat, two liters, how much?" Li Luo tried to use short words as much as possible, so as not to be incomprehensible to the other party.
Hearing that Li Luo only bought two liters of wheat, the shopkeeper's smiling face faded at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, it has been a sad year for many people to buy food by the liter, but there is no shame.
"Fifteen liters for one liter, two liters for thirty liters." As he spoke, the shopkeeper walked over to the rice jar and picked up a bamboo tube to measure the wheat.
Li Luo suddenly felt a little hot on his body, and said with insufficient confidence: "Twenty-nine Wen, okay?" ”
The shopkeeper shook his head: "If you don't bargain, this grain will go up." The Mongols are going to levy the Japanese again, and this year the imperial court is too ruthless in requisitioning grain, and the rations in the village are far behind. It is estimated that by the Chinese New Year, there will be two times for one stone of wheat, and one stone of white rice will rise to more than three times. ”
That is, a liter of wheat is 20 wen, and a liter of rice is 30 wen. Even Li Luo knew what this meant. At this end of the year, there will definitely be people starving to death, and there will be no less.
The shopkeeper said a passage of ancient Korean, and Li Luo, who has a talent for foreign languages, could even guess that he understood it, he was already proficient in Korean, and immediately had more knowledge of ancient Korean.
"Shopkeeper Song, it's going to be the New Year, can you prepare your couplet?" When Li Luo heard the boss mention the New Year, an idea immediately popped up.
The shopkeeper barely understood Li Luo's ancient Korean, but he didn't understand Li Luo's intentions.
"Not really." Shopkeeper Song didn't bother to ask Li Luo what his intentions were.
Li Luo said with a chic smile: "In Xia Li Luo, born in the Li family of Renzhou, Li Zangyong Xiangguo is in the lower uncle." Although he did not take the imperial examination, he was also proficient in writing and calculating accounts......"
Before Li Luo finished speaking, Shopkeeper Song's face changed, and his originally straight waist seemed to be pressed suddenly.
"You...... Lang Jun is actually a child of the Li family? Lee Sang-kook's nephew? "Although the attitude of the shopkeeper Song has changed a lot, it is obviously hard to believe.
Looking at this Li Luo's appearance, there is no doubt that he should be from a big family, at least he is used to living a good life. But his clothes and hats are no different from those of the farmers in the village, how can he have the slightest wealth at all?
The descendants of the Li family, no matter how down, they will not dress up like this. Even if Li Zangyong is dead, he is a well-known big man. The Li family of Renzhou is a top family, with seven princesses and several kings, and is a family of relatives who have been in power for nearly a hundred years. Even if it's declining now, it's still on top.
But even if he didn't believe it, the coercion of the family still made him dare not question it.
Li Luo was not surprised by the other party's reaction. Goryeo has a strict hierarchy and serious solidification, and the upper class families have accumulated power for thousands of years by monopolizing official power, and they are definitely an unattainable existence for the people at the bottom. In ancient Goryeo Korea, the descendants of the clan were not only born as a simple thing, but also as a title.
"Decades ago, because of the Mongol invasion of the east, in order to leave a way back, my ancestor took my father to the Central Plains. Later, my father started a family in the Central Plains, and he was born and raised in the Central Plains. Li Luo said.
"It turns out that Li Langjun grew up in the Central Plains." Shopkeeper Song kind of understood.
Li Luo continued to lie: "Who knew that the Great Song Dynasty was also destroyed by Meng Yuan, there were military disasters and wars everywhere, and my father and mother suffered misfortunes. It's just that after this change, he encountered robbers on the way back to China, and was ransacked, and he had no shame to return to Renzhou to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors for the time being, so he could only spend some time on Ganghwa Island. ”
Hearing this, Shopkeeper Song was already very convinced. This is not to blame him for being credulous, but in this era, he has great respect for the ancestors of the family, and very few people dare to make this joke, nor dare to pretend to be the children of the family. Besides, if you are not a child of the world, it is difficult to have such an appearance.
"The villain Song Shouye, I have seen Li Langjun, Li Langjun has descended to a noble, I don't know where the villain can work effectively?" Shopkeeper Song immediately became respectful. He knew very well that although this Li Luo was in trouble, once he was accepted by the Li family of Renzhou, he would immediately become a real nobleman, and a word could make him bankrupt and lose.
Li Luo said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Song is serious, after all, he has not returned to the family, where can he be considered a nobleman?" It's just that the bag is empty at the moment, and the poverty is like ......" said that, this stopped the conversation.
Hearing this, Song Shouye showed a look of extreme embarrassment. At this time, what he was most afraid of was Li Luo borrowing money.
Borrow it, his family wealth is not much, and he is used to being stingy, and he is afraid that he will not return, how can he be willing to send charcoal in the snow?
If you don't borrow it, you are afraid that Li Luo is really a child of the Li family, and she will take revenge on herself in the future. The power and ruthlessness of the family, how can he not know?
It's a dilemma!
Li Luo saw that Song Shouye had lost every inch, and estimated that the time for the pinch had arrived, and smiled slightly: "Shopkeeper Song is going to be embarrassed." ”
Song Shouye showed an extremely ugly smile, "Li Langjun, this, this ......"
"I want to write a couplet to the shopkeeper Song and charge some money for moisturizing the pen. Of course, the words below can be regarded as eye-catching. Li Luo said the real purpose.
Song Shouye's heart was relieved, and he suddenly felt like he was unburdened, and his smile suddenly became natural: "Oh, how can you bother Li Langjun?" Li Langjun is willing to write couplets to the villain, isn't it the villain's blessing! ”
How much is a couple of couplets worth? Besides, not only did he not suffer, but he also earned. Isn't this couplet written by Li Langjun a hundred times stronger than Lin Scholar in the village? Wouldn't it be disgraceful to say it?
However, Song Shouye was obviously too shrewd, and in order to prevent Li Luo from blackmailing under the pretext of writing couplets, he decided to preemptively seal Li Luo's mouth at a price three times higher than that of ordinary couplets, so as not to cause Li Luo to explode too high a price.
In this way, Li Luo could only admit it because of the face of the children of the family. Although he spent three times the price, it was not a loss.
Since it is a couplet written by Li Langjun, it must be the best. In order to thank Lang Jun for his promotion, the villain is willing to ask Lang Jun to write a pair at three times the price. Song Shouye hurriedly said.
Of course he didn't know that Li Luo was waiting for him to say this.
"Then I'll thank Shopkeeper Song next." Hearing the triple price, Li Luo was very satisfied, originally he thought that selling it at twice the price would be to save face.
Song Shouye smiled, "In previous years, it was necessary to pay 30 wen for writing a couplet, and 30 times it was 90 wen. However, in order to thank Li Langjun for his promotion, the villain made up another ten articles to make up enough money. (It's a hanging, not consistent)
Li Luo is not polite, let's make a little money to eat first. He waved his hand confidently, "Then there is a shopkeeper in Laosong who prepares pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." "Since the store is opened, the four treasures of the study must be used.
Song Shouye agreed one after another, and prepared the four treasures of the study room in a hurry, and did a lot of face work.
Song Shouye took out a blank piece of paper. It turns out that Goryeo is still white, known as the white-clothed people, and even the couplets are made of white paper. Of course, Li Luo knew this, so it was not surprising.
In order to meet the needs of business, Li Luo had to study not only literature and history, but also calligraphy and appraisal. Therefore, Li Luo's calligraphy is also a small success, he learned Dong Qichang, and he is already a little hot.
When Song Shouye polished the ink, Li Luo walked the dragon and snake and wrote a couplet in one go.
Shanglian: Business is prosperous all over the world.
Downlink: The wealth is abundant and reaches the three rivers.
Cross-linked: Extensive financial resources.
Since it was a business, Song Shouye certainly recognized some words, and when he saw this couplet, his eyes were a little straight.
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