Zhang Bao'er smiled bitterly: "It seems that Chang'an City is incomparable, and Chenzhou is much more complicated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Chen Song nodded and said, "As long as you don't provoke right and wrong, do your duty, what do these people have to do with you?" ”

Zhang Bao'er thought about it and reasoned the same: "What Uncle said is that these people can't hide if we can't hide, how can we provoke them?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Baoer thought of Li Zhiying for no reason, and he couldn't help but shake his head, these imperial relatives are indeed difficult to entangle.

"Come on, let's not talk about this, let's drink!" Chen Song saw that the atmosphere was a little depressing, so he raised his glass and proposed.

The crowd drank it all.

Zhang Baoer poured another glass of wine for Cen Shaobai alone: "Brother Cen, you have worked hard recently, I salute you!" ”

"Thank you Bao'er!" Cen Shaobai drank it all again, put down the wine glass and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid of hard work, as long as there is money to earn every day, no matter how hard I am, I am happy!" ”

Zhang Bao'er looked at Chen Song: "Uncle, what do you think of Brother Cen's business?" ”

Chen Song said with a smile: "Gongzi Cen just said, Chang'an City is a woman's world, Uncle heard that Princess Anle spent 100,000 taels of silver just to make a Qibao skirt, how can the business of a woman be bad?" ”

Zhang Bao'er nodded, took out two ingots of silver from his arms, and handed them to Cen Shaobai: "Brother Cen, I said last time, the money for renting the shop is half of mine, and I just happened to pay the salary, and these fifty taels are counted as my shares!" ”

Cen Shaobai was not polite, took the silver and said: "I like Bao'er to be a shareholder, you are my lucky star, as long as you are here, I am sure to make a lot of money, I don't care how much money you give." ”

Hearing Cen Shaobai's words, Zhang Baoer almost choked, his fifty taels of silver didn't seem to be in his eyes, Zhang Baoer asked tentatively: "Since Brother Cen opened, how much money have you entered?" ”

"You didn't come just now, I already asked Gongzi Cen!" Chen Song replied for Cen Shaobai: "In the past month since Cen Gongzi opened his business, in addition to the capital and various expenses, he has made a net profit of four hundred taels of silver. Tsk, a small flower decoration shop, is about to catch up with the entry of my restaurant, it is really not simple! ”

"What? Four hundred taels? ”

Zhang Bao'er almost didn't stare out of her eyes, Cen Shaobai made such a small fuss, and there would be an income of four hundred taels of silver in more than a month.

Cen Shaobai said with a regretful face: "If it weren't for the extra expenses being too much, even if you earned more than a thousand taels of silver, it wouldn't be a problem!" ”

"Additional overhead? What extra expense costs so much silver? Zhang Bao'er asked puzzled.

"Bao'er, you don't know if you don't do business, doing business in this Chang'an City, everyone has to pay this extra expense!" Chen Song explained: "Take my restaurant as an example, I have to allocate some money every month to pay some money to the errand of the county government and Jingzhao Yin Mansion, and I also have to pay protection money to the head of the workshop, plus the father-in-law in the palace eats for nothing, oh, and the military masters of Yulin and Wanqi, and if you calculate it messily, it would be good if you could leave two or three out of ten of the monthly profits." Cen Gongzi runs a woman's flower ornament, which is better than my restaurant, but he also has to spend more than half of the expenses. ”

"Doing some errand service and paying protection money, this is indispensable, I have seen it in Chenzhou, and it makes sense for the military master to eat an overlord meal, but ......" Zhang Baoer was a little puzzled: "Why did the father-in-law in this palace also come to mix?" ”

Chen Song sighed and said hatefully: "These eunuchs who have cut off their children and grandchildren are hateful, they buy outside, and forcibly seize in the name of purchasing goods for Your Majesty, and do not pay the bill or only pay a little less, so as to fill their own pockets, this has become a common practice, if you do not comply, you will suffer a big loss!" Two years ago, the eunuchs of the Inner Government Bureau came to the restaurant to eat, they wanted wine and food, they ate and drank, they were drunk, and they were going to go away, serving them was a new little two, they didn't understand the rules, they came forward to ask for money for food, which angered them, and one of them handed over a bag of snakes he brought with him to Xiao Er and said, "Uncle didn't bring money, put it here as a mortgage for you, and I will take the money to get it in a few days." However, these snakes are used to catch birds and finches in the palace, so you have to be careful with them, and if you starve to death one, be careful of your head. Fortunately, I was there at the time, begging the men to take the snake away and not to pay for the wine. Who knew that these people felt that they had no face, and smashed Yonghe Building with the strength of wine. Later, I begged someone to pay them five hundred taels of silver, and that was the end of the matter! ”

Zhang Bao'er said angrily: "Is there no one to take care of them? ”

Chen Song smiled bitterly: "Although the people who bought outside are all low-level eunuchs, most of the property they looted has to be honored to the people above them, and after receiving their money, who will care about them anymore?" ”

Zhang Bao'er listened, a moment of gloom, thought that Chang'an was at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but he didn't expect it to be even darker, thinking about his ambition when he came to Chang'an, he couldn't help but be a little discouraged.

Everyone stopped talking, Cen Shaobai saw that the atmosphere at the banquet was a little embarrassing, coughed and said to Chen Song: "Uncle Chen, let me take a look at the piece of jade that Bao'er gave you just now!" ”

"Oh? Does Cen Gongzi still understand jade? Chen Song handed over the jade pendant.

"Uncle Chen may not believe it, the ancestors of the Cen family have a unique knowledge of jade, and there were still a lot of hidden jade in the family when they were young, but it was only later that the family fell into the middle of the road, and it was ...... Alas, don't talk about that! Cen Shaobai pinched his head and looked at the jade intently.

After reading it, Cen Shaobai asked, "Bao'er, did you buy this jade from the West Market?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhang Baoer nodded.

"How much money did it cost?"

"Fifty taels!"

"It's expensive!" Cen Shaobai shook his head and said, "This jade pendant is only worth ten taels of silver at most!" ”

"What?" Zhang Bao'er opened her mouth wide: "How is it possible?" The shopkeeper offered two hundred taels of silver, but I said that it was reduced to fifty taels! ”

"According to the origin of jade, there are Changbai jade, Xiuyan jade, Lantian jade, Kunlun jade, Hetian jade, Qilian jade, Tubo jade, Qinghai jade, etc., among which Hetian jade is the most precious, Xiuyan jade price is the cheapest. Bao'er, the piece of jade you chose happens to be Xiuyan jade, also known as Xiuyu! ”

"Isn't there a superb product in Xiuyu?" Zhang Baoer felt that she was very wronged, and she was very unhappy.

"Of course, there are also excellent products in this Xiuyu, but it has to look at its 'color, transparency, quality, and purity' to determine." Cen Shaobai said: "Xiuyu is divided into green, white, yellow, blue, red and other colors, generally speaking, red is the best, and green is the second!" Your piece of Xiuyu is green! Xiuwang is mostly opaque, but there are also translucent and transparent, and the transparency is more precious. And this piece of jade is not transparent at all. The texture of Xiuyu is as uniform as possible, and the texture of this jade pendant is not uniform at all. It also depends on the number of impurities and flaws in the jade, whether it is clean, if it is clean, it is superior, but it is ....... ”

"Okay, okay, Brother Cen, you don't need to say it, straight mother thief, I know I've been fooled!" Zhang Baoer interrupted Cen Shaobai's words.

Originally, Zhang Baoer didn't believe that he had been deceived, but when he heard Cen Shaobai talk about it, he believed it for eight points out of ten, thinking about being bluffed away with forty taels of silver, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his flesh.