"Four dogs, come here?" Zhang Rui shouted at Chen Sigou, who was laughing with others

Hearing Zhang Rui's words, the villagers all looked at Chen Sigou, who was talking and laughing

"Four dogs, the sixth brother called you." Chen Liu reminded his son.

Chen Sigou trotted in front of Zhang Rui.

"Sixth brother, what are you looking for me?"

"It's not a big deal, isn't it going to send rice to the villagers for a while! I thought that I should take a pen and record which family received the rice and which did not, so as to save a while that there would be too many people and there would be a lot of commotion. Don't make some of the rice you have received and some of you don't think you'll get it. Zhang Rui said

"But I asked last night and found out that there is no place in our village where I can buy pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and I can't leave the county to buy it now. I just want to ask you, would you like to go to the town to buy some for me? ”

"Of course there is no problem, Sixth Brother, don't worry. I'm going to buy it for you, but I haven't bought those things either, I don't know the price, I'm afraid I'll be cheated. Chen Sigou agreed without any objections, and was still a little excited in his heart.

"It's okay, it's not worth a lot of money. As soon as you enter the store, you can directly ask for pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to pay. Zhang Rui naturally said to Chen Sigou,

"That's okay, listen to the sixth brother."

Zhang Rui took out a bag full of copper coins from his arms. Some of the copper coins were taken from the bandits, some were exchanged for the cooks, and some were exchanged for the Li Ming. Most of them are fine copper coins, each of which is ten mosquitoes.

Under the influence of TV dramas, Zhang Rui has always thought that the silver of the Qing Dynasty is worthless, after all, some TV series broadcast the plot that you can spend five taels of silver to eat a bowl of noodles. It wasn't until he exchanged money with the cooks that Zhang Rui had some understanding of silver.

I heard Li Mix tell Lei Bao that one stone of rice costs two taels of silver, and one stone of rice is 146 catties when exchanged for a modern city catty. Judging from this price alone, Zhang Rui thinks that it is easy to earn a tael of silver, but Zhang Rui, who has not experienced a famine year, naturally cannot understand the preciousness of grain at that time. In the Qing Dynasty, there was no price bureau, and the store could sell as much as it wanted. Usually, the price of rice is only about one or two or five dollars of silver. However, as long as there are droughts and floods, and transportation is restricted, it is not uncommon for grain prices to rise by two or three times.

At this time, the average daily wage of a worker in an urban area was about 100 Wen, and the high was only 200 Wen. The daily wage of rural workers is only between 30~50 Wen, and some will even be pushed even lower. During the Qianlong period, a tael of silver was probably exchanged for copper coins between 900 and 1,100 wen, so many villagers may not have seen a tael of silver in their lives.

This can be understood, when Zhang Rui took out 10 taels of silver to Li Niu's, he immediately knelt down for Zhang Rui. If he is allowed to pay it back according to his usual work, I am afraid that he may not be able to pay it off in his lifetime, and his father will go like this because he has no money for medical treatment.

Zhang Rui got 300 taels of silver tickets and 60 taels of silver ingots and a few broken silver and copper coins from Lei Bao, and 200 taels of silver tickets, 120 taels of silver ingots, a small bag of broken silver and a bag of copper coins from the bandits. also greedy for Li Ming's 160 taels. In addition to what has been spent, Zhang Rui now has 500 taels of silver tickets, 15 silver ingots and 20 taels of ingots, more than 70 taels of broken silver, and more than 500 copper coins for ten mosquitoes.

Sure enough, only the high-risk profession of bandits has high returns, and ordinary people may not be able to have a hundred taels after working hard for half a lifetime, but it also shows how many bad things these bandits have done over the years, and they are innocent.

After learning the value of the silver, Zhang Rui thought about taking the silver and hiding somewhere else to live the life of a rich family. But the bandits may come to take revenge at any time, and they will live in instability for the rest of their lives.

Besides, if you can walk yourself, the people in the village may not be able to walk, and you can't say that all of them will be killed. I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me. So Zhang Rui thought about it again and decided to recruit troops and kill this gang of bandits first.

Zhang Rui gave Li Sigou two copper coins for the cost of shopping, and gave him an additional 100 wen for errands. It means that you don't need to buy too good, you can use it.

"Sixth brother, where can I ask for your money? I couldn't thank you for the dinner you invited us to last night, this is also a matter of running errands, people in the countryside will walk around if they have nothing to do, if I still charge you money, I'm not too ignorant? Li Sigou refused the hundred mosquitoes given by Zhang Rui and said

"Take it! Doing things for the sixth brother can also make his own brother suffer. Sixth brother doesn't lack you this money, you deserve it. Zhang Rui said

After listening to Zhang Rui's words, Li Sigou silently put away the money. After all, his family really needs money, especially money that can give him peace of mind. Zhang Rui then asked him to pay attention to safety, and asked him to take some money from the two yuan to buy breakfast when he arrived in town.

The villagers present all felt that Li Sigou was very lucky, and it would not take half an hour for the village to run back and forth to the town. This easily earned a hundred wen, and also earned a breakfast, and sure enough, it would be beneficial to follow the sixth brother to do things.

When Zhang Rui entered the Li Mansion, he met the kitchen workers who had stayed in the Li Mansion last night and were packing the tables, chairs, pots and pans and dishes from last night into the car and preparing to go back.

So Zhang Rui bought three of them with their boss and a lot of bowls and chopsticks, and then asked the cooks to boil three pots of porridge. took out the three jars of sauerkraut that Li Mix asked for last night to send porridge to the waiting group for breakfast. Everything was so nice for the villagers who didn't have breakfast.

The rice that boiled porridge was a good rice that Li bought at a price of three taels last night. This rice is reserved for Li Decai's family when they come back here, and it is not urgent. Li Chao thought about selling it at a high price and then going back at a low price, so he dared to buy it for Zhang Rui.

Originally, Zhang Rui wanted to buy ten stone rice, but there were only seven stone more here in Li Mansion, so he could only buy seven stone rice. Fortunately, it only takes about three stone rice to distribute to the villagers, and there is still some surplus grain after the overall distribution.

When Zhang Rui said that he still needed to buy more grain, Li Chao said that the Li Mansion still has a granary here, but how much can be sold to Zhang Rui, and how much to sell depends on his own master. Zhang Rui asked him to go back and ask, so Li Ban went back to the town before dawn in the morning, after all, there was more than one thing he wanted to ask for.

Time was passing, because there was breakfast to eat, and even those who wanted to sleep for a while were ruthlessly woken up to drink porridge, so after a while, the villagers came to drink porridge. The cooks had to boil three more pots of porridge before they could eat it.

It wasn't until the chefs left the village with envy that Li Sigou finally returned. handed Zhang Rui the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, as well as 560 yuan. Among them, the pen and ink cost 1,100 wen, the pen only spent 40 wen, and two were bought, and the rest bought about 20 pieces of paper. After Zhang Rui's thanks, he went to take the bowl and drank the porridge.

There was no one in the whole village who could write, so Zhang Rui had to do it himself. Fortunately, when he used to study, he also won the third prize of calligraphy with a brush, although it is not very good-looking, but there is no problem with normal writing.

After he finished writing the names of the representatives of each household on a piece of paper, he asked Li Si and the old man of the Zhou family to help look at the scales, and Zhou Tong and Zhou Tie were responsible for taking the rice scales. Originally, Li Si didn't know how to look at the scales, but after a simple explanation by Zhang Rui, he would.

Zhang Rui asked the workers of the Li family to help put the rice of four stones in front of the gate of the Li Mansion. Looking at the good rice of the four stones, the villagers were very excited and reassured.

According to Zhang Rui, each household representative was asked to come forward to receive the rice, and then Zhou Tong and Zhou Tie weighed it and handed it to them, and then the representative signed and painted it before leaving. After the 32 families in the village received the rice, it was almost noon.

A total of three stones of rice were distributed, and the four stones of rice picked out were still nearly one stone of rice. The villagers who received the rice were grateful to Zhang Rui again, and the feeling for the children in the past two days was that the New Year was not lively.

Looking at the rice that was nearly a stone, Zhang Rui once again took out the money to let people go to the town to buy meat and vegetables and come back. It is also good for the villagers to have a lunch with vegetables and food together, and announce that there is something to tell the villagers after lunch.