"You've been to the South Seas?" This Guangzhou is worthy of being a big coastal port, and even the innkeepers have gone to the South Seas.

The man replied: "Yes, I have been there many times, not only to the South Seas, but also to the west, the weather on the ground there is different from ours, hot and dry, and it is not good when I go, sometimes my throat is dry and smoking, and it is like it is going to crack." ”

"Have you been to Tianzhu?" This guy is still running quite far, and Yang Congyi has some interest in him.

"It should be, the guest officer also knows Tianzhu?"

"I've read it in the book. How's that over there? How many countries have you been to? Yang Congyi continued to ask.

The guy recalled: "The people over there are all about the same, there are many temples, they all like to burn incense and worship Buddha, we have been to many places, and I don't know how many countries they are." Their cattle there are very interesting, they don't plow the land, they don't plow the fields, they eat and destroy the crops, no one dares to care, and they wear all kinds of flowers on the cows, which is very strange. ”

"Well, yes, what's going on out there is really interesting. Come, little brother, sit down and talk, and talk to me more. Yang Congyi turned around and sat down on the chair.

The guy hesitated, then came over and sat down.

"What do you do when you go to Tianzhu at sea? Is it easy to get back? Yang Congyi asked with a smile.

"Well, for business, our silk and porcelain here are very valuable over there, and their spices and medicinal herbs can be sold at a good price when they are shipped back."

"So what are you doing on the ship, is there a lot of people on board?"

"I started rowing, and then I went out and did everything, rowing, steering, selling and buying, everything. There are generally only ten or twenty people on board, not too many. ”

"The people at the helm are all old boatmen, right, seeing that you are not very old, you can take the helm?"

"I was thirteen or fourteen years old when I went to sea for the first time, and by the time I was in my twenties, I had already gone to sea several times, I had seen all kinds of winds and waves, I was familiar with the sea routes, and it was not difficult to take the helm."

"Go out to sea and walk along the seaside, you won't encounter any strong winds and waves."

"Walking along the coast is too time-consuming, and we can make more money by going out more, and we use sea boats when we go out, and it is not convenient to walk along the coast."

Talking about this, Yang Congyi became more and more interested in this guy, and immediately asked again: "Since you can make money doing business at sea, why did you come to the inn when you are not in a big grade?" Why not continue to do business at sea? ”

The man's expression suddenly darkened, and he replied: "The sea is to make money, but there are also many dangers. The year before last, I took the boat out to sea, and when I came back, the ship was robbed by pirates at sea, and the boatload was gone. I'm doing business for others, and if a boatload of things is gone, I have to pay for it, but where can I afford it, I can only sell myself to work for compensation. ”

Hearing this, Yang Congyi's heart was shocked, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

After a while, he asked, "How much are you going to lose?" ”

The guy replied: "Thirty or forty thousand, I can't afford to pay it in my life." Rest the guest officer, don't use cold water. With that, he got up and left.

"Do you still want to go to sea?" When the guy was about to arrive at the door of the room, Yang Congyi suddenly asked.

The guy didn't look back and said, "No chance." ”

Yang Congyi's heart became hot, this guy can take a sea ship to Tianzhu, obviously he is more familiar with the sea route to the west, maybe he is the navigator who has been looking for a few days. It's a pity that he sold himself to this inn, otherwise he could have been recruited.

Sitting in the room and thinking about it for a long time, I felt that I should get this guy over, otherwise I missed this, and it was really hard to say if there was another one.

But with a debt of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, and selling himself here, it is not easy to get out, it will cost a lot of money, at least you have to pay off the debt, this is not a small amount, please spend so much money on a person, the accounts cannot be reported at all.

In the end, I decided to talk to the store first.

I immediately put on my shirt and left the room.

"Guest officer, are you going out so late?" When the shopkeeper saw Yang Congyi coming, he smiled and said hello.

"No, talk to the store about something, I don't know if it's convenient?" Yang Congyi chuckled and approached.

"The guest officer wants to ask me about something, and I know a little bit about the things in Guangzhou City, so if the guest officer wants to ask, just say it." The shop came out from behind the counter.

"It's not convenient here, can you find a place to talk?"

The shopkeeper didn't seem to be simply inquiring about something when he saw Yang Congyi, thought about it for a while, raised his hand to beckon a guy over, and instructed the guy: "You look here first." ”

After that, he said to Yang Congyi: "Guest officer, go to your room to talk?" ”

Yang Congyi smiled: "It's exactly what I want." ”

The two came to Yang Congyi's room together, and after closing the door, they sat down without pushing.

Yang Congyi smiled and asked, "Shopkeeper, I heard that you have a person here who sells himself to pay off his debts, and he works as a partner in the store, I don't know if it's true?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't answer directly, but asked, "What is the guest asking about this?" ”

Yang Congyi immediately explained: "To be honest, I took a fancy to a guy and wanted to take him away, but I heard that he had been sold here, so I asked the store to see if I could be accommodating." ”

The shopkeeper was suspicious, and then asked: "I don't know which guy the guest officer is fancy, but we have more than one guy who sells himself here." ”

Yang Congyi smiled: "It's the one you called over just now, how can I take him away?" ”

The shopkeeper was a little surprised: "The guest officer, he has a debt on his back, and he has been sold for a lifetime, so he can't take it away." The guest officer wanted to take him away unless he could pay off the debt for him. ”

"How much debt does he owe to the store?" Yang Congyi restrained his smile.

The shopkeeper replied, "It's not too much, forty-five thousand." ”

"The store is not kidding, isn't it, 45,000 is not much? Does he have a consistent monthly paycheck? I'm afraid it won't be finished in the store for thousands of years. Yang Congyi couldn't help laughing.

The shopkeeper said: "That's no way, you have to pay it back if you don't finish it." He didn't know anything, he didn't have any skills, he couldn't earn money, he couldn't pay off his debts, and he could only sell himself as a coolie. It's not over in this life, and it's going to be in the next life. ”

"How many lifetimes can a person have, he will be over in another thirty years in this life, and thirty years will only be worth three hundred, I think so, he can't make money here, and the store can't collect his debts, I will pay a sum of money, if the store thinks it's okay, I'll take him away, what do you think?"

The shopkeeper didn't reply immediately, and thought for a while before saying, "How much money does the guest come up with?" ”

Yang Congyi dipped in water and wrote down a number on the table, and then asked, "What does the store think?" ”

The shopkeeper looked at the numbers, shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's not good, the bid is too low." ”

Yang Congyi thought about it, dipped it in water and wrote down a number, and said with a smile: "If the store thinks that he can pay so much money in this store for a lifetime, then I haven't mentioned it." ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the numbers on the table a few times, thought for a while, and said, "Guest officer, your bid is too different from the debt he wants to repay, and I can't be the master." ”

Yang Congyi glanced at the shopkeeper with slanted eyes, he was afraid that he would ask the lion to open his mouth, so he smiled: "Since that's the case, then forget it, thank the store." ”

The shopkeeper was slightly stunned, so he could only get up and say, "It's late, the guest officer should rest early." ”

The shopkeeper had just walked a few steps, and Yang Congyi said behind him: "Shopkeeper, please explain to the guy, help me feed the horse, and I will leave early tomorrow morning." ”

The shopkeeper answered, and after going out, he closed the door by the way.

That guy is a good candidate to go to sea, but unfortunately, he has a lot of debts and sells himself, otherwise it will be of great use. But for such a person, spending tens of thousands of yuan is crazy, don't even think about it, it's impossible.

He served as the deputy envoy of Huiyi Governor, and his monthly salary was only five yuan, and his monthly income was only enough to drink tea a few times in Lin'an. Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, Lord Huang gave him 5,000 yuan of minister's money, so that he could go around and have money to live in a hotel and eat.

How can it be so easy to make money, thinking that when he was in Taihu County, he almost lost his life, and took the risk to rescue the troubled Lord Mo, he gave some money, so that he had some family background, and he could only survive in Lin'an for nearly two years, and he didn't have much money in his hand, he didn't even dare to eat outside, so he could only eat in the canteen in martial arts, and eat coarse tea and light meals all day long.

Since this guy sold his body and the main family didn't let go, he could only break his thoughts and go back to Quanzhou.

The weather in Guangzhou is hot and humid, and there are many mosquitoes, so he can't sleep well at night, but Yang Congyi can only endure it, and through practice, let the boring mood calm down, gradually calm down, and sleep peacefully.

After packing up the package, Yang Congyi walked out of the door, and the sky was already slightly bright.

"Guest, leaving so early?" As soon as the shopkeeper saw Yang Congyi going downstairs, he hurriedly said hello.

"At noon, the sun was scorching, and it was inconvenient to hurry, so I had to go out early. Shopkeeper, look at how much I'm going to pay these days. Yang Congyi came over with his baggage.

The shopkeeper opened the account book, rummaged through it, and replied: "The guest officer stayed for three days, ate four meals, and added three days of material money for a horse, a total of three hundred and sixty-eight dollars." I paid a deposit of two times, and I had to pay the same amount of three hundred and sixty-eight dollars. Forget the fraction of the eight cents. ”

Yang Congyi said: "Thank you store." Then he took out his money bag and counted the money and paid it to the shopkeeper.

When the money was paid and was about to go out, the shopkeeper suddenly shouted in the back: "The guest officer stays." ”

Yang Congyi turned around: "What's the matter with the store?" ”

The shopkeeper came over and whispered, "What the guest officer said last night, I thought about it again, and it's really useless to keep him." According to the amount agreed last night, the guest officer can take him away. ”

Yang Congyi didn't agree immediately, and thought for a moment before saying, "Okay." Where is he. ”

"Wait a minute, I'll call him right away." After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he immediately went to call someone.

After a while, I saw the shopkeeper come back with the guy, and the guy was still flustered and confused, and he didn't know what was going on.

I only heard the shopkeeper say: "Ge Sanzai, this guest officer looks up to you and wants to take you away from the inn, what do you say?" ”

The guy named Ge Sanzai was stunned when he heard this, he couldn't come back to his senses, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak.

"Guest, let's sign a contract first." The shopkeeper didn't care about the stunned guy, and approached Yang Congyi with a smile.

Yang Congyi looked at the guy and just nodded, but there were no words.