In the morning, I saw Han Xiufeng selling a bunch of account books at a high price, and in the afternoon, I heard Yu Youfu say that the hope of catching and turning over in the yamen was all pinned on Han Xiufeng, Pan Er's heart before was warm again, and he felt that Han Xiufeng still had some ability, and he should be able to make up for the lack when he went to the capital. But when I asked what the "Bronze King" was, and knew that I was going to take a thief ship to the capital, my heart became up and down again.

Han Xiufeng acted like no one, guarding the door while reading a book and helping the pillar to look at the store, and actually did two businesses in one afternoon.

Pan Er had nothing to do, so he simply found a way out to go around.

The roads in the city were not familiar, and I didn't dare to go far, so I watched the excitement at the street for a while, and saw that the pillar came back with something, so I followed back to the paper figure shop.

Pan Er followed up in the store and asked curiously, "I haven't seen you for a day, what are you doing?" ”

The pillar took out the cooked food wrapped in oiled paper from the cloth bag, looked up and said: "Young shopkeeper, I'm different from you, you don't have to do anything, you can eat and drink, what if I don't do anything, how can I live this day?" ”

"Don't be weird, what the hell are you doing."

"There was a dead person on the side of Huixian Bridge, and I was called early in the morning to help with the convergence, and I was busy all morning, and in the afternoon, there were a few porters on the side of Chaotianmen who fished out one from the river. said that he accidentally fell into the water and drowned, but he believed that he was drowned when he looked at the dead ghost, but the old man said that it was that, and he was buried to save trouble. ”

"People in the city are so cheap?" Pan Er asked in surprise.

"It's so cheap," Zhu Zi looked back at him, and said, "Young shopkeeper, listen to my advice, you still don't go to the capital with my fourth brother." A young master like you, why should you suffer that hardship, why should you suffer that sin, how good it is to live a peaceful life in a walking horse. It's not to scare you, if you have to follow along, you will really die in a foreign country! ”

The city is not as good as expected, and Pan Er really regrets coming a little. can think of just going back and forth, and you will never be able to raise your head in front of the eldest and third.

"I won't tell you, what else will you do besides scaring people," Pan Er was too lazy to take care of the pillar again, ran to Han Xiufeng, who was making a fire and making supper, and said without words: "Fourth brother, in the afternoon, you said that the lawsuit of the money shopkeeper could not be won, what if he won the battle, isn't this a self-sufficiency signboard." ”

"I don't write a letter to anyone, what signboard do I have," Han Xiufeng glanced back at him and said in a firm tone: "Besides, he can't win, I don't believe we can make a bet." ”

"In my opinion, that widow is quite unreasonable, so she is allowed to open a dyeing workshop, but others can't, is there still a king in the world?"

"Others can open it, but it has to be thirty houses away from her family's dyeing workshop, and it can't be so close."

"What's the rule?"

"It's the rule." Han Xiufeng saw that the heat was almost over, put aside the remaining sawdust, straightened up and explained: "The reason why I dare to conclude that Shopkeeper Qian and Shopkeeper Liang can't win is not only that there is indeed this rule, but that the eldest master just sentenced a lawsuit a few days ago. By law rather than by law, and that lawsuit looks less likely to lose than this one. ”

"What lawsuit?" Pan Er was really curious this time.

Han Xiufeng didn't directly say the lawsuit, but asked rhetorically: "Brother Pan, how many taels is a catty?" ”

Pan Er said without thinking: "Sixteen taels." ”

Han Xiufeng asked again: "If the tofu shop in Zouma collects money for one pound of tofu, but only gives people fifteen taels of tofu, what do you say?" ”

"I don't know what's wrong, I don't know if I don't smash his shop, the villagers, who dares to be short of two catties!"

"But if there is a mill in the city, it is not a pound and sixteen taels, but a pound and a pound and a hundred and fifty taels, and he is the only one in the whole city. A few days ago, I met a few more serious people, and I was sued by those more serious people to the yamen, do you know what the county magistrate judged. ”

"What's the decision?"

"The one who judges the truth loses, and the mill wins."

"Is the county master illiterate, how can this lawsuit be judged like this!"

Han Xiufeng patted him on the arm and said with a smile: "The county master knows how to count, even if the county master doesn't know how to count, it is impossible for his friends not to know how to count." The reason for this judgment is because in the twelfth year of Qianlong, the then prefect of Chongqing recognized his family's practice. In the forty-fourth year of Qianlong, the then Ba County Zhengtang also recognized it, and it is said that he also issued an official document to his family, which was 'only fifteen taels and two yuan per catty of scales and iron', which was on the record. Therefore, the current county magistrate can only follow the rules, and also recognizes that his family only gives people fifteen taels or two dollars per catty. ”

"That's ridiculous......"

"Less shopkeepers, don't be strange and strange, this is the city, not a horse. If you want to say ridiculous, there are more absurd things, and it is estimated that there will be more when you arrive in the capital. The pillar came over and poured cold water on him.

"I'm talking to the fourth brother, what's the matter with you?" Pan Er, as always, did not wait to see the pillar.

"This is my house, can't I say a word? The surname is Pan, let me hear clearly, this is to let you live here because of the fourth brother's face, if it weren't for the fourth brother, I would have beaten him out a long time ago! ”

"You little, give me a look, I see you're itchy!"

These two people couldn't pee in a pot, Han Xiufeng didn't want to be disturbed by them, so he turned around and said, "Okay, let's not say a word, go wash your hands, wash your hands and eat supper." ”

"Say you, go wash well, wash up. Those hands touch dead people all day long, not only dirty but also unlucky, if it weren't for the fourth brother's face, I wouldn't stay in the same room with you. Pan Er is afraid of scholars and servants, but he is not afraid of petty servants, and he is more and more energetic, and he even mocked as he spoke: "You still want to marry your sister like this, isn't this harmful?" ”

"You are an ancestor, see how I can restrain you!"

The pillar was angry, and he picked up the tongs and was about to smash it on his head, Han Xiufeng's hand was quick, and he hurriedly grabbed it, and was about to say a few words to them, when there was a knock on the door outside.

Han Xiufeng glared at the two of them fiercely, turned around and asked, "Who?" ”

"Four babies, it's me."

"It turned out to be Uncle Six, here, I'll open the door!"

Han Xiufeng was busy opening the door, put down the tongs on the pillar, and gritted his teeth and said, "Pan Changsheng, I'm giving the fourth brother face!" ”

Thinking that no matter what he said, this was also Xiao Zhu's home, Pan Er touched his chin and said, "Ding Zhu, in fact, you should also give me some face." I will only give you face if you give me face. ”

"What face do I want you to give me?"

"Because of my sister, don't you want to marry my sister, although the fourth brother is in charge of giving you my sister, don't forget that my sister's family owes me a few thousand taels of silver. Her father has just died, and she has to keep filial piety at home, and you won't be able to marry for a while. If the fourth brother is unlucky, can't make up for the shortcomings, can't be an official, and can't make money, whether she can marry or not at that time, whether you can marry or not, it's me Pan Changsheng who has the final say. ”

"You...... You deceive people too much! ”

"Don't worry, listen to me first," Pan Er patted him on the shoulder and said slowly, "Think about it, we can be regarded as grasshoppers on a rope now, and we will be in the same boat in the future." If the fourth brother treats me as a brother, I will treat the fourth brother as a brother, just like you. That's why you give me face, I will give you face, if there is a day I just said, even if I turn against my father, my brother and my brother, I will fulfill you and my sister. ”

"Really?" The pillar will be skeptical.

"It's really fake, you can go and ask about my Pan Changsheng." Pan Er patted his chest and put on a posture that could stick a knife in his brother's ribs.

"Don't you think I'm unlucky? Can you afford me? Can you be a brother with me? ”

"Naturally, it won't be before, but this time and that time. You see, although we are not brothers now, we live under the same roof, eat the same pot of rice, and then share the hardships with your fourth brother, what is the difference between this and brothers. Pan Er felt like he was talking about himself, and he actually hugged the shoulder of the pillar.