Text Chapter 5 Money Fat Man
In fact, when he was wandering in the street just now, Zhu Hongsan found that the neighbors intentionally or unintentionally avoided him, and at that time he knew that eighty percent of the people in County D recognized him, and with the "loud" reputation of his parents, Zhu Hongsan even recognized this. I didn't expect that my uncle was the head of the Wuchang County team, which was equivalent to the captain of the criminal police, which made the family cut off the beard. But it's okay, there are still five copper coins to sell for some food.
After walking around the street, I found that the price of goods in the Ming Dynasty was low, and a copper coin could sell for about four taels of rice, which was enough for one person to eat. One copper coin can buy a large meat bun, and you can buy two steamed buns. Two copper coins can eat a bowl of ravioli. In this way, five copper coins were not spent, and I didn't ask for money for a bun or a bowl of wontons.
It seems that the name of his clan is very useful, haha. (At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the reputation of the Huguang clan was rotten on the street, and the fish and meat township was forced to buy and sell.) Like Zhu Hongsan, who eats bowls of wontons without giving money, is already considered a good person, and the others are all smashing wonton stalls after eating wontons. This is the kind of scolding the cook when you are full, and hitting the flower when you put down the stick).
Zhu Hongsan walked around the street for a day, which was really boring. Too young to go to a lot of fun places. Passing by Nancheng Flower Street, I saw the Yingge Yan Dance inside, and I wanted to go in and see the entertainment industry of Daming. But let the turtle slave at the door come out, saying that he didn't grow enough hair and wanted to visit a brothel.
The angry Zhu Hongsan scolded in his heart, you are a turtle slave and a dog looks at people with small eyes, be careful to give birth to a son and not be a little jj watched the sun tilt westward, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhu Hongsan was also tired, so there was no point in going home. I happened to see the old lady at the mouth of the alley, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "Mother, you closed the stall." ”
"I just saw Bao'er come back, so I rested early, and your uncle came in the afternoon, saying that you got twenty taels of silver in the morning?"
"Yes, but let my uncle take it."
"Don't speak ill of your uncle, your uncle is afraid that you will have a lot of money in your hand and people will worry about it, this is not twenty taels in my mother's place."
As soon as the old lady turned over her hand, a silver ingot was in the old lady's hand.
Zhu Hongsan said happily: "Mother, can you give it to me, I want to use some money." ”
"What is the use of money for children, didn't your uncle give you five cents in the afternoon."
Zhu Hongsan thought in his heart: "I can't say that I want to play with gunpowder, my age is a hard injury." ”
"Mother, I have made a few friends, and a few friends go out to play for other people's money, and I don't play with me if I don't have money."
The old lady thought about it, and so did the children, who had no brothers and sisters, and were busy with the store by themselves, and used to play by themselves. Now that I'm older, it's not good to have some pocket money on hand. "Okay, give you two pieces of silver, don't spend it indiscriminately"
Zhu Hongsan thought to himself, "Two dollars, equivalent to two hundred yuan, it's okay, let's take it step by step." ”
On the third day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the weather is good today, and Zhu Hongsan has been wandering around the city for more than half a month. There is nothing to do every day, although Wuchang County is located on the main traffic route by relying on the Yangtze River and Wuchang Mansion. The population is relatively dense, and the permanent population of the county can be more than 50,000 people.
This is a very big city in the Ming Dynasty, you must know that in Shanxi, Hebei and other border areas of 30,000 people, that is the size of a prefecture. But after all, Zhu Hongsan is from the future and is used to seeing hundreds of thousands of cities. Even the small township where he worked has more than 30,000 people, and the population density is far from comparable in the Ming Dynasty.
The shops in the county are those kinds, food, clothing, housing and transportation. It's all a small shop. There is no such large shopping mall as in the future. There are a few good restaurants. It's not bad to look at the decoration on the outside, but I didn't go in inside, not daring, not letting in.
In the past half a month, Zhu Hongsan has traveled all over the streets and alleys of the entire small county. The county seat is a cross pattern, with two main streets running through the county and intersecting in the middle. In the middle is the bell and drum tower, also called the enemy tower. It is used for alarm alarm. These two cross streets are paved with bluestone slabs, and the other alleys are dirt pavement, and the weather is fine, but when it rains, it is really full of mud.
Rich people will use stone grinders to flatten the road in their own alleys, or build side ditches, but no one dares to use stone slabs to repair their own roads, which is the right of scholars. The most infuriating Ming Dynasty did not have public toilets at all, passers-by defecated everywhere, women also found a place where no one was convenient, and men and children directly took out unwritten things on the street.
In the past half a month, Zhu Hongsan has profoundly realized the inferior nature of the Chinese nation, that is, he only sweeps the snow in front of his own house, regardless of the frost on the tiles of others. The yard of his house is neat, and he doesn't care when he goes out of the gate.
Zhu Hongsan has never gone out to eat since he saw someone washing the toilet in the small river in the county a few days ago, and someone was washing the pot and vegetables less than 50 meters away. The old lady said that they would rinse with clean water when they went home, but Zhu Hongsan didn't dare to eat out easily, because he knew that schistosomiasis was rampant in Jiangnan at this time, which was a big belly disease, and it would kill people without modern medical conditions. luck
Well, he has a well at home, and Zhu Hongsan asks his wife to disinfect the dishes and chopsticks with boiling water for every meal, so that he can eat with confidence.
Today is still the same, Zhu Hongsan went out with the little yellow dog after eating breakfast, first went to his own shop to talk to his mother, and began to wander around for a day.
Zhu Hongsan still made a few friends in the past half a month, including the iron ox of the Wang blacksmith's family, and Xiao Lao Liu from the tailor shop at the door of the alley (why is a child who is only five or six years old called Lao Liu?). ), and his uncle's cousin Zhao Goudan. When the three children saw Zhu Hongsan coming out, they shouted and ran over and said, "Big brother, where are we going to play today?" ”
In the past half a month, Zhu Hongsan met a few foreign merchants and got a few taels of silver, and now he has about five or six taels of silver in his pocket. With money and Zhu Hongsan's intelligence far surpassing them, he was naturally regarded as the boss by several of them.
Zhu Hongsan glanced at it: "Just a few of you?" What about the fat man? "Qian Fatzi is the son of the eldest brother of the foreign merchant, Boss Qian opened a very large silk village in Wuchang Mansion, but his home is in the county seat, and it is not as comfortable as living in a big city in this era.
Tie Niu said: "The fat man, that idiot, his father asked him to go to the academy, saying that he would be admitted to the Jinshi in the future." Can he still be admitted to the Jinshi with his stupidity? ”
"Don't look down on people?" Zhu Hongsan said one sentence, but the next sentence revealed a flaw: "What kind of book to study, isn't it good to be a rich second generation who does his duty?" Go, find him. ”