"Alas, it's hard to put it into words, I and a few others are also fortunate to be helped by Brother Qian, Brother Zhao and others, and Uncle also wants to help you, but I am shy in my pocket."

Uncle Zhu Shouren's face changed several times, and he finally sighed.

Zhu Ping'an showed a disappointed look on his face, but he was not shocked in his heart, he had long expected that the uncle would refuse, it would be strange if he didn't refuse, all of their money was in their own hands. Seeing that the uncle was dressed in a new dress, it can be seen that there are indeed friends who help him, and he asked such a sentence just to hear the uncle's refusal, so that the uncle was embarrassed to ask himself for money.

The money on your own body, you should keep it for the future, it can also reduce the burden on the family, and the imperial examination costs a lot.

"Does Uncle have a place to live?" Zhu Ping'an asked again.

"There is a place to live, but it is also thanks to Brother Qian, Brother Zhao and others who do not dislike it, and share a bedroom with me." The uncle still looked powerless, "The places where we live are also overcrowded." ”

After Uncle Zhu Shouren finished saying this, he looked at Zhu Ping'an who was carrying his bags again, and continued in a tone of consideration for Zhu Ping'an, "Yu'er, if this is the case, you go to my place to rest for a day, you repair a book and let the family prepare another twenty taels of silver, I ask a friend and servant to bring your letter home, and let the servant bring back the silver taels, how about it?" ”

Looking at the uncle's heart-to-heart appearance, Zhu Ping'an felt inexplicably funny, the uncle is really calculating, the boy test is roughly ten taels per person, and let the family prepare twenty taels, so that the father and mother will also give the uncle's share. Besides, let your friend's servant bring the money back, who knows if the money will still fall into my hands, if the servant leaves with the money or loses it, if you can't help it, this kind of thing is possible in the uncle.

I'm not short of money.

"Thank you for your uncle's kindness, when my mother left home, she sewed five taels of small silver tickets on the mezzanine of her nephew's inner placket. Zhu Ping'an looked at the uncle and said lightly, saying that a person is more frugal, so as not to have an idea.

The uncle's abacus was disappointed, and he lost a lot, and he no longer mentioned the matter of letting Zhu Ping'an go to his place to live for a day, and waved his hand and said, "If that's the case, then go and find a place to live, it's not good when it's late." ”

At this time, among the other students who were walking with the uncle, one of them said in a joking tone, "The virtuous nephew is only five taels, and I am afraid that he can only live in a firewood house." ”

Another person also joined in the fun and said, "That's a coincidence, the inn where we live really has a firewood room, and when we leave, the shopkeeper is packing up the firewood room and preparing to rent it, saying that the monthly rent is only 1 tael of silver, which is more than twice as cheap as an ordinary room." ”

The joking words of these people really made Zhu Ping'an's eyes shine.

Generally speaking, the firewood room is a sunny and spacious room, if it is cleaned up and put a bed, it is not necessarily worse than the last room, and it is so much cheaper than the ordinary room.

As for living in a firewood room and losing face, Zhu Ping'an didn't care. Face, but not the quality of your life is decided, you don't hear the gou, as long as you have the ability, you have face wherever you live.

I have a tiger in my heart, and I can smell roses in the firewood room.

"Really, where is the inn?"

These people originally made fun of Zhu Ping'an, but they didn't expect that Zhu Ping'an, a stupid boy, not only was not ashamed, but asked everyone with a smile.

Well, this stupid boy is not saved. Isn't the firewood room a place where cannon fodder is produced, so unlucky, he also gave up on himself.

Uncle Zhu Shouren and they were originally idle and bored to walk around at will, and this time they saw Zhu Ping'an, a stupid boy, who had to go to live in the firewood room, and hugged Zhu Ping'an as if they were watching jokes, lest he regret it, and went to their inn.

Zhu Ping'an was not embarrassed at all, but the uncle Zhu Shouren blushed, as if he had lost how big he was.

Uncle Zhu Shouren's inn where they lived was quite far away, and it was also seen that the uncle and they were really at leisure, and they had to walk for about half an hour before they came to the inn where they lived.

This inn is much more luxurious than the one I saw when I first came, and it could not have been rated as a star in ancient times.

The shopkeeper is a fat shopkeeper who is quite a philistine, and is worried about the firewood room, just now I saw that there are a lot of students and scholars who came to stay here, and he ordered someone to clean up the firewood room, thinking that it would be cheaper to rent it out, and he could also earn two silver.

Unexpectedly, when he recommended the firewood room to the students, these weak students seemed to have a hatred of killing their father and taking their wives, and they couldn't wait to eat their own flesh raw, open their mouths to insult Sven, and close their mouths to sweep the floor.

Isn't it just a firewood room, as for it, the fat shopkeeper can't understand the arrogance of scholars and students.

The fat shopkeeper suffered a lot of anger from the scholars and students, and now he is angry when he sees the firewood room, if someone comes to rent, it will be half cheaper, and the province will be bored to look at.

At this moment, a polite voice came.

"Shopkeeper, but there is a firewood room for rent?"

The fat shopkeeper looked up and saw a boy about thirteen or fourteen years old, who looked a little naïve. Behind the teenager are a few scholars who have just rented a house here for a short time, and these scholars and students look at the honest young man as if they are laughing, and the smile in their eyes is the same as that of the shopkeeper of the inn next door.

"Yes, as long as you want, I will rent you half a tael of silver for a month."

is the same as the end of the world, and renting a house is half a tael cheaper for you. The fat shopkeeper with no ink on his chest suddenly had this sentence in his mind at this moment.

The people who followed Zhu Ping'an to watch the joke, although they were surprised how the shopkeeper was half cheaper for no reason, but they did not envy Zhu Ping'an's good luck, but the ridicule was even stronger, the firewood house was cheap enough, but now the price is cheap, and people are even more unlucky to live in.

The young man who came to rent the house was Zhu Ping'an, and when he heard the shopkeeper say that he would only accept half a tael of silver in January, the smile on Hanhan's face became even stronger, and he said with a smile: "Okay, the shopkeeper will take me to see the firewood room." ”

The fat shopkeeper led Zhu Ping'an to the firewood room, and the uncle Zhu Shouren and others followed from afar, but did not follow in, for fear that bad luck would harm the test luck.

The firewood room looks simple on the outside, but it is very clean inside, the brick floor is spotless, there is a table and chairs against the window, and the bed has just moved in. On the sunny side, the afterglow of the setting sun can shine through the windows, and the day is sure to be bright. The overall feeling is much better than the last room in the first inn.

"How?" The fat shopkeeper was a little nervous.

"I think it's okay, it's great value for money." Zhu Ping'an turned his head and replied with a smile, looked around, and nodded with satisfaction.

Mountains and rivers meet bosom friends.

The more the fat shopkeeper looked at Zhu Ping'an, the more pleasing he became, and he didn't stop doing it, and gave Zhu Ping'an a penny of silver.

Zhu Ping'an also looks at the fat shopkeeper more pleasing to the eye, and it is very good to live in this kind of room with four dollars of silver.

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