Qu Rang didn't know why he sat opposite Jiang Xiaoyu, and he didn't know how Jiang Xiaoyu poured several glasses of beer into his stomach.

"Come on, come on, Brother Qu drink two more glasses. This Xinxiang dry beer still tastes very good, drink more. ”

The large porcelain sea bowl contains pale yellow beer, and the white foam appears until it bursts, and each small bubble bursts with a faint hop aroma.

Qu Rang drank half a bowl of Xinxiang beer and shook his head: "This beer is not fresh enough." It's still good to have beer in Xinxiang. The taste is fresher and fuller. This kind of beer sold abroad is really a lot worse, and it is necessary to sterilize and disinfect to eliminate the aroma of most of the beer. It's far worse than the fresh beer brewed every day at Xinxiang No. 2 Brewery. When I was in Xinxiang, the imperial capital, I would ride my bicycle every day with a bottle of wine to the door of the Second Brewery to get a large bottle of fresh beer and drink it home. That taste, tsk, is much better than this kind of beer that is packaged and sold out of town. The aroma is also stronger and the taste is good. ”

Qu Rang talked about the various benefits of Xinxiang fresh beer. But in reality, it's just a matter of having nothing to say. After beer was invented by the first emperor, it quickly became popular. Because the first invention of the first emperor was that beer was craft beer, which has a soft taste and a sweet taste. Compared to the spicy taste of traditional baijiu, craft beer is easier to drink for those who don't know how to drink. The women, in particular, prefer craft beers with a light malt aroma and a sweet taste.

Coupled with the continuous development of new flavors by various breweries over the years, ordinary craft beer can no longer satisfy the tastes of ordinary women. So all kinds of fresh flavors are made, such as strawberry beer, milk beer, honey cream beer, apple beer, etc.

Although these beers with various fruit flavors are regarded by many charlatans as something to drink, the old man has to drink spirits with an accuracy of more than 55 degrees.

But in fact, the level of consumption of spirits is decreasing year by year. Even if it is a gathering of people in the rivers and lakes, now they drink less in white and drink more beer. Because liquor is easy to get drunk, you can't drink too much. And the beer is more friendly, the kind of light beer with an alcohol content of less than three degrees, and it is not too much of a problem to drink a dozen bottles in one go. This is how to drink wine and look arrogant.

After all, it is not enough to drink half a bottle of 65-degree high wine, and it will be particularly faceless. Especially the new generation of the current rivers and lakes, those students who graduated from Taixue. They are big fans of beer.

Qu Rang told various allusions to drinking fresh beer in Xinxiang, and how delicious the fresh beer that Xinxiang No. 2 Brewery supplies in limited quantities every day. Unfortunately, because the fresh beer is not inactivated and no other preservative materials are added, the shelf life is very short, and it will not work for two days at most. In fact, to be precise, the taste of this fresh beer starts to change after five hours of leaving the beer keg.

Therefore, this kind of wine is usually drunk on the spot when it is bought.

"So, I'm riding my bike to No. 2 Brewery with a bottle of wine. But along the way, I drank the wine while riding my bike. Qu Rang drank a glass of wine and lost two mouthfuls of peanuts into his stomach.

"The emperor doesn't catch drunk driving?" Jiang Xiaoyu was a little curious. Because the laws of the empire clearly state that it is strictly forbidden to drive any means of transportation under the influence of alcohol. Including horseback riding, cycling, iron riding, and more. At the same time, it is forbidden for ordinary people to use light work to rush in the city, especially to prohibit light work after drinking. Those who are caught are punished heavily.

"Hehe, of course I caught it. But what a pleasure it is to drink while riding. Qu Rang laughed: "Especially hiding from the capture of those Imperial Capital Rangers, it's too exciting." ”

This guy really looks like a thrill seeker. I'm not afraid that after being caught, he will be locked up for half a year.

"I didn't expect Brother Qu to have such a Yaxing. Jiang Xiaoyu toasted another bowl of wine.

"Hi bullshit, Yaxing. It's just the stress of life. Qu Rang shook his head and said that it was not an impulse to pursue excitement at all, it was just a way to relieve stress.

"Little fish, you don't know. How expensive is the cost of living in Xinxiang! I rent a house at the foot of the city wall, and I need 20 gold yuan a month. Twenty-five gold dollars! That small house doesn't have a separate toilet, and you have to go to the public toilet in the alley to solve it. Close to the root of the city wall, it is cold and damp, and there is no sunlight in summer. In winter, it's a biting cold. The briquette stove is used for heating, and dozens of gold dollars are burned just by burning the briquettes in a winter. Brother, my life...... It's bitter!"

"Then why don't you change places to live?" Jiang Xiaoyu was a little curious.

Qu Rangda poured bitter water: "Do you think it's a brother, I don't want to change it?" You don't know how expensive the housing prices in the imperial capital are. How much does it cost you to buy an apartment of more than 100 square meters in Jiangcheng?"

"About 3,000 to 5,000 gold dollars. ”

"What about the small courtyard of two hundred square meters?"

"It's about 30,000 gold dollars. ”

"Yes, your Jiangcheng housing prices are low and the per capita income is high. With the support of Jiangcheng Iron and Steel Plant, the per capita income of Jiangcheng is good from the perspective of the whole country. You have a monthly per capita income of 30 gold yuan, right?"

Jiang Xiaoyu nodded: "Almost, twenty-five to thirty gold yuan is the monthly income of most people." ”

"Hey, the per capita income of the imperial capital is a little higher than yours, around thirty-five to fifty gold yuan. But the housing prices in the imperial capital are terrible, and the price is not a little high. In the lively area of the old city center of the imperial capital, the price of a 100-square-meter apartment is more than 30,000 gold yuan. A small courtyard of 200 square meters for a single family is basically 10 kilometers out of the city, and a 200-square-meter courtyard for a single family in the city costs at least 500,000 gold yuan!"

"You count, if you do ordinary work in the imperial capital. If you want to buy a house in the imperial capital city, you have to work for 50 years without food or drink to save enough money. There are also school district houses in the imperial capital. ”

"School district room?" Jiang Xiaoyu heard a relatively new term.

"It's a house near Taixuefu. You know, there are twenty-four Taixue schools in the imperial capital. Although there are not many students enrolled every year, the people who go to take the exam every year are from Wuyang and Wuyang. Many people will choose to rent a place near Taixue to prepare for the exam. If you can, you can also ask the students to give them advice on how to take the exam. The housing prices near Taixue Mansion are even more expensive, and those landlords make a 100-square-meter house into a compartment, and a compartment is only 15 square meters in size, and it costs more than 20 gold yuan a month. ”

Jiang Xiaoyu couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the housing prices in the imperial capital. Obediently, no wonder others say don't go to the imperial capital if you don't have money, you can't even find a place to stay if you don't have money in that place.

Qu Rang said that there was some interest here: "So, what are many people who have struggled for their whole lives in the imperial capital? If you don't have money, it's not easy to do it in the imperial capital. I knew that there was a big brother in Lingnan Road who washed his hands in a golden basin, and after many years of hard work, he finally quit the rivers and lakes and wanted to go to the imperial capital to retire. At the beginning, he just wanted to buy a house in the imperial capital, so he embarked on the road of the eldest brother to make money, and when he retired and felt that he had earned enough money to buy a big yard in the imperial capital for the elderly, he found that the housing prices in the imperial capital had risen again. I originally wanted to buy a big yard of 500 square meters, but in the end I could only buy a small yard of 200 square meters. In order to supplement the family, he also set up a stall in front of his house to sell supper. Hey, it's all tears. It can be regarded as a party figure in Lingnan Road, and it is like this in the imperial capital. ”

"And that Zhang Nanxuan, the one you watched today. I tell you, though he is one of the twelve trial walkers of the Taiyi Gate. But the offerings taken every month are actually not very large. He has to maintain the character design, which is very expensive. On the grapevine, Zhang Nanxuan has an offering of 2,000 gold yuan a month. But in order to maintain his status, he rented a large courtyard for seven hundred gold yuan in the imperial capital. I often make friends with people from all walks of life, and I spend money on drinking and feasting in Qinglou. Please also invite those new generation of martial arts goddesses (Jiang Xiaoyu: Goddess?) to be good-looking and kung fu heroines, invite them to play and eat. He's sassy and spends a lot of money. It is said that the money given to him by Taiyi is no longer enough for his expenses. ”

In order to maintain the character, the bounty tasks he did were all donated money. It is said that he is now insolvent and has begun to take out loans from some underground banks. "Qu Rang's gossip has a nose and an eye.

"After all, Zhang Nanxuan doesn't have a fixed career to make money now. Jiang Xiaoyu sighed: "Although he has a lot of fans now, he has a lot of attention." But there's no way to convert attention into money. ”

"Yes, yes. That's it. In fact, some merchants are looking for Zhang Nanxuan to endorse, for example, Longyuan Sword Pavilion wants to ask him to endorse the entry-level sword series under Longyuan Sword Pavilion. But Zhang Nanxuan refused, because an endorsement had to sign a five-year contract. It is estimated that Zhang Nanxuan wants to wait for himself to become more popular, and then sign a bigger endorsement. He wants to hold back his big move, so he is ready to make a name for himself after defeating Bai Wufang this time. As a result, this time the chickens flew and the eggs were beaten. Qu let the stall stall hand.

Because this time Zhang Nanxuan's failure also led to the shattering of his ideal of making a big news.

"Hey. Jiang Xiaoyu shook his head, and then said, "Brother Qu, then what is your salary in the Imperial Daily? It stands to reason that the salary of the reporter of the Imperial Daily will not be low." ”

Speaking of this, Qu made the hand of the vegetable tremble slightly, and he was silent for a while and said, "I won't tell you anything, in fact, I am now in the position of an intern reporter in the Imperial Daily. The salaries of the journalists of the Imperial Daily are not low. The salary level of the daily newspaper is divided into several grades. The lowest grade is the handyman, who only has 30 gold yuan a month. In the next grade, he is a daily newspaper assistant, with a nice name but also miscellaneous, about 35 gold yuan a month. And then there's an intern reporter like me, fifty gold dollars a month. But the good thing is that I have the opportunity to fight for a formal establishment in this kind of thing. ”

"Once you're a full-fledged journalist, it's different. Even the lowest-ranking third-class reporter has a salary of 100 gold yuan a month, as well as various subsidies. Second-class journalists receive 200 gold dollars a month and a richer allowance. After that, first-class reporters, editorial assistants, editors, deputy editors-in-chief, editors-in-chief, etc. The treatment is higher and higher. However, when you are a journalist in the Imperial Daily, no one wants money. ”

Jiang Xiaoyu was curious: "What's the picture?"

"The reporters of the Imperial Daily convey true and accurate information, expose injustices in various places, and praise heroic deeds in various places. Grievances for injustice. Just like the previous Lingnan Road flood control dam case, the Yanzilou abduction and trafficking woman case, the Huanxizong cult case and so on. These are all exposed by the journalists of the Imperial Daily. Each time it was a sensational event for the Empire. Why do others look up to the reporters of the Imperial Daily? Because we are more upright than the Lantai officials. It is said that the journalists of the Imperial Daily are the uncrowned kings of the world. I'm just an intern journalist, but I'm still honored. My dream is to be a good journalist who exposes and reduces the evils of society. Otherwise, why would I live next to each other in a broken house at the base of the city wall? Isn't it good to change jobs?! I just want to find a big news story right now, so that I can be seen by the editor-in-chief, and only when I am seen can I have a chance to be promoted to a full-fledged reporter!"

Qu Rang's righteousness is awe-inspiring. Jiang Xiaoyu nodded frequently: "That's right, that's right, what Brother Qu said is." But Brother Qu is probably not looking for enough news this time. ”

"How?"

"The battle between Bai Wuflaw and Zhang Nanxuan can only be regarded as Jianghu news. And it's not important news. If you want to say that it is news, it counts, but is it big news? It doesn't count. After all, it's just a battle of the four human ranks. It's nothing more than that. It's not someone who wants to be promoted to the ground level. Or some two Heavenly Rank masters make an appointment with each other. So the news wasn't sensational enough. ”

Hearing Jiang Xiaoyu say this, Qu Rang scratched his head: "I know, but it's not sensational enough." But it's hard to get a scoop like that. Not to mention ......"

"What are the biggest news views in the Imperial Daily?" Jiang Xiaoyu suddenly interrupted Qu Rang.

Qu Rang subconsciously said: "The first is current affairs, and the second is the rivers and lakes." ”

"Yes, so start with the current political news!"

"But where to find the scoop on current affairs. I couldn't find out which officials were corrupt or bribed. Qu Rang was very helpless.

But Jiang Xiaoyu smiled: "There is big news in front of you now." ”

"Huh?" Qu Rang became interested: "What do you say?"

"Are you interested in knowing the inside story of Jiangcheng Iron and Steel Plant?"

"Jiangcheng Iron and Steel Plant?!"

"Yes, a big piece of news that can make a national sensation. Can you let a high-ranking official in the imperial capital fall off the horse, and even kill a lot of people, are you interested?"

Qu Rang swallowed his saliva with difficulty: "What you said is true?"

"It's true!"

"Is it reliable?"

"Very reliable. It was Lord Wang Shixiang who asked me to do this. Jiang Xiaoyu's smile became brighter and brighter.