Seeing that Shen Mingtang could not be persuaded to do so, Shen Mingwen pulled his fingers and calculated, and said: "In this way, we live in an upper room and a ground number room, only one hundred and forty wen a day, and live until the eighth day of the eighth month of August, less than seventy days before and after, we don't need ten taels of silver, and the remaining five taels of silver are used for eating, this should be okay, right?" ”

Shen Xi smiled bitterly and asked, "Listen to what the uncle means, you live in the Tianzi room, and the third uncle and I are squeezed in the Tianzi room, right?" ”

Shen Mingwen said: "Of course...... It's not like that, we can change the room, I sleep in the room on a single day, and you sleep on the double day Shichiro, how about it? ”

Shen Xi thought to himself, why do you sleep on a single day, I sleep on a double day, when it is a wife and concubine competing for favor, you have to divide a single and double days? Don't be a single day you have enjoyed, and when you have to rely on the sunset and dusk on the excuse that Wen Shu is late, you will pick it up again in the morning of a single day, and I can only sleep in the upper room for three or four hours on the second day, and the upper room will be used by you at other times.

Shen Xi said: "Uncle miscalculated. ”

Shen Mingwen pinched his fingers again and counted them, and sneered: "What's wrong?" Children's families, don't make a fuss if you don't know how to settle accounts. ”

Shen Xi said: "Uncle Qian didn't make a mistake, but Uncle you ignored some things...... Grandmother did give us fifteen taels of silver, but it cost us some ...... along the way Third uncle, we shouldn't have fifteen taels of silver now, right? ”

Shen Mingtang's face was bitter: "There are still thirteen taels left." ”

Because Shen Mingwen was "poor and exquisite" on the way here, it was only more than half a month before and after, and he had already spent two taels of silver.

Shen Xi said: "We always have to spend two taels of silver when we return, right?" In this way, we actually only have eleven taels of silver left, and if we have to prepare some emergency needs, we can only spend ten taels of silver in the provincial capital. ”

Shen Mingwen said with a dark face: "What is the emergency need, eleven taels is eleven taels." ”

Shen Xi shook his head: "The three of us, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be any headaches and brain fevers." If the uncle goes out to meet some old friends, won't it cost money? ”

Shen Mingwen now completely recognized the reality, in his imagination, this time since the old lady gave a lot of silver. Not only to live in a house, but also to eat and drink on weekdays must be the best, if you can have the same opportunity to look for flowers and the moon as last time, that is the real scenery and enjoyment!

Now I pinch my fingers and calculate, I don't even have the budget to live in a house. Other enjoyment is even more unremarkable.

If you force the money to spend, the end result will be the same as three years ago, almost all the way back.

Shen Mingwen gritted his teeth and said: "If you live in the local number room, you will live in the local number room, I will have one, and you two will squeeze one!" ”

Only then did the two sides reach a compromise, returned to the inn, and said to the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper immediately shook his face: "There are two rooms with a lot of money, sixty dollars a day, and a daily prepayment." No credit! ”

Shen Xi asked suspiciously, "Shopkeeper, I saw it just now...... Isn't the land number room forty wen a room? ”

The shopkeeper said disdainfully: "You also said that it was just now...... Yes, just now, two guests lived in our store, and they happened to occupy two local rooms, which caused this type of room to be nervous, so we had to increase the price. Who told you not to live just now? Master Shen, you can't even afford to live in a local house, you want to live in a chase shop, right? ”

Shen Mingwen's face was swollen and red, originally he was here to pretend to be an uncle. As a result, he is now slaughtered as a fat sheep, but he still prefers face, and if people instigate him to say a few words, he will continue to be strong.

Shen Xi interjected: "That's sorry. It's time for us to change stores and live in another store, right? ”

The innkeeper originally came to see Shen Mingwen's psychology, he had no money and wanted to pretend to be an uncle, but now he knows how much money you have, and you don't want to lose face, and you will definitely come down if you increase your price. Let me earn an extra twenty wen a day per room for nothing.

But he didn't expect a little kid to mess with his good deeds!

The shopkeeper said in a northern official dialect that was not very fluent: "Little official, don't be foolish, don't follow the foolishness, this is a provincial city, and if you talk too much, you will have your tongue cut." He bullied Shen Xi, a young man from western Fujian, thinking that a few words of scare would make Shen Xi shut up obediently.

Unexpectedly, Shen Xi, who had been speaking the local dialect before, also replied in official words, and spoke more squarely than the innkeeper: "I don't know if someone cut my tongue, I just know that we don't live in this store...... Uncle, what are you doing here, let's go! ”

As soon as the innkeeper heard that his heart was on fire, the business he got was ruined by your kid, and he didn't look at whose land it was! He walked out from behind the counter, stopped Shen Mingwen and the others, and sneered: "It's okay to leave, let's settle today's store money first." ”

Shen Mingtang said with a bitter face: "Shopkeeper, we haven't lived here yet." ”

"Who just said that you want two houses? I asked the guy to clean up, and even the accounts were written down, the rules in this store, the reservation is not refunded, the money is paid, and I will wait for tomorrow if I want to leave! ”

This innkeeper is proud, but it's just a few dirt buns from the countryside, and he can't deal with you?

At this time, Ma Jiu, who had just gone to contact the Chamber of Commerce, came back with a carriage, and brought a few brothers behind him, preparing to help the three uncles and nephews of the Shen family carry their luggage.

Ma Jiu saw that the innkeeper was not good, so he went up and grabbed the shopkeeper's collar, and shouted angrily: "You dare to provoke our little shopkeeper, you are impatient, right?" ”

Ma Jiu was originally the gangster leader in the Dry Road Gang, because he was a fellow villager in Ninghua, and his home was not far from the Song family, so he had the opportunity to be appreciated by Song Xiaocheng. But speaking of which, Ma Jiu was born as a ruffian after all, and he did a lot of fighting.

When the innkeeper heard that it was a western Fujian accent, he was immediately angry: "In the land of the provincial capital, how can you be presumptuous...... Ouch! was punched in the face by Ma Jiuyi, and a black blue appeared in his eyes.

"Hit someone!"

The innkeeper was stunned for a while, sat on the ground, and let out a heart-rending scream like a pig, and the two guys in the backyard followed out, but when they saw Ma Jiu and a few mighty and majestic men around the door, the two guys were stunned.

Ma Jiu grabbed the collar of the innkeeper, picked him up from the ground, and opened his eyes angrily: "Open your dog's eyes and see, this is the young master of our Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, the dignified Xiucai Gong, the future master, no matter how fucking presumptuous, Lao Tzu burned down your inn with a fire." ”

The innkeeper was originally a bully and afraid of the hard, and he didn't dare to breathe at this time, let alone make any more threats.

Shen Xi saw that there were already people looking inside at the door of the store. If Ma Jiu's words were spread by others, others might not know how to comment on the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, so he quickly pulled Ma Jiu along: "Brother Jiu, you have to be forgiving and forgiving." Let's change to an inn to live in. ”

Ma Jiu let go angrily and went out to help Shen Xi get into the carriage.

Shen Mingwen looked at Ma Jiu with some surprise, this young man who was well-behaved along the way, he was not angry at all when he called him around, but it turned out to be such a ruthless character who didn't even frown when he beat people. I couldn't help but be stunned: "I'd better stay away from this kind of barbarian." ”

Ma Jiu drove the car in front to lead the way, walked a few streets to an inn that didn't look very big, went in and greeted him, and the shopkeeper inside greeted him warmly: "Ma Jiuye, are you here?" ”

The accent of the speech is the familiar Hokkien dialect.

Ma Jiu said with a smile: "This is the little shopkeeper that the Long master said, as well as the Shen family uncle and the third master." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly bowed his hand: "I have saluted a few of you...... Come and help with the luggage. ”

Shen Mingwen shouted, "What's the matter? Don't ask the price before staying in the hotel, do you want to buy and sell? ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "Look at what you always said, you are a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and you are a fellow villager in Tingzhou." How many people can live in this small shop, where do you dare to charge your store money? The guest rooms are all good, you just have to live, you want to live until you want, if the two masters can come back, as long as you give a word to the small shop is very good. ”

Shen Mingwen's eyes lit up when he heard that it didn't cost anything, which meant that the ten taels of silver used to prepare for a meal in the hotel could be squandered.

Shen Xi shook his head: "The shopkeeper must not be like this, you also have to open the door to do business, how much money should be in the store." I joined the Chamber of Commerce to make more money by having a care, not to make you lose money. ”

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "The little shopkeeper has seen the outside, let's open a store in the provincial capital." There is a chamber of commerce to take care of, the business is much better, and every year we get a lot of dividends after buying silver shares, if you really want to give, you see this...... How about 30 cents for a room? ”

When Shen Mingwen heard that a room was only thirty yuan, he thought that it must not be a good place.

Shen Xi responded first. asked Shen Mingtang to pay the money, and paid the store money for two rooms for seventy days at a time, so as to prevent Shen Mingwen from making excuses to squander the money, and then come back and say "settle the bill with the Chamber of Commerce" and leave.

Shen Mingwen shouted, but with Ma Jiu, a fierce guy, he didn't dare to step forward and take the money back.

When I got upstairs, I saw the two rooms that were opened, they were both spacious and bright, the window was facing a river, the willows were shady by the river, the boat shadow on the river was shuttling, and the scenery was extremely beautiful.

On this hot day, a fresh breeze hit, and the heat in the room was suddenly expelled.

Shen Xi nodded, there was a lot of wind, so that even dog days would not be very hot. Shen Mingwen muttered in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Such a good place, only thirty wen a day?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "It's good if Master Shen likes it...... I really didn't charge you less, the shops around the White Horse River, the room is only forty or fifty a day, you also paid the store money first, and you took the silver and stored it in the silver number, and there was a lot of interest in two months. In the future, if you want to take a bath in the summer, ask someone to bring you a bathtub. ”

Shen Mingwen suddenly felt a burst of annoyance, he thought that he had identified the "Jidi Inn" in the city, not to mention the small place where he lived, and the environment was still very noisy, so he couldn't study at ease. He didn't expect that at the same price, he could only be thrown off his face in the "Jidi Inn", and when he arrived at another inn, he could not only live in a room, but also be an uncle.

Hasn't he been wronged all the time before?

Shen Mingwen relied on the fact that he was the pillar of the Shen family, so he slept in one room by himself, and Shen Xi lived in another room with Shen Mingtang. Shen Mingtang said: "My mother said, let me go to the city to find a living, it is best to earn some money to support myself, and I may not come back to live often in the future." ”

Ma Jiu smiled: "Why did the third master go out to find something to do?" Doesn't the Chamber of Commerce have ready-made jobs? Our Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce is still recruiting people recently. ”

Shen Mingtang stammered, "But...... I...... I don't know how to do anything. ”

Ma Jiu said: "It's okay, it's okay, it's more miscellaneous...... Well, those jobs are not suitable, you should be a steward in the past, you just need to look at the people below, and the monthly money is indispensable. Or, the little one will take you over to meet the dragon master of the Fuzhou branch? ”

Ma Jiu's enthusiasm surprised Shen Mingtang.

Originally, he took over Shen Mingjun to do things in the Ninghua Wang family, but what he did was just the scattered work of some subordinates, not to mention that he was tired every day, and he made less money.

With the filial piety that the Zhou family gave to the Li family every month, Shen Mingtang actually didn't need to go out to do hard labor at all, but the old lady was dead-eyed and didn't want to lose a few pennies, not to mention that the Wang family was generous, starting work on time on the fifteenth day of every month, and there would be rewards during the New Year's holidays, and he would not fire people when he was idle, and working in the Wang family was an "iron rice bowl".

When Shen Mingtang arrived in the provincial capital, he thought that he was unfamiliar with the place and it would be difficult to find a job to do coolies, but who expected that he had just come now, and the Chamber of Commerce had specially prepared an errand for him, and he would be in charge in the past.

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