Chapter 19: Who Asks for Food?

Wanghailou is the largest and most famous restaurant in Lushun, and it is also the largest and most famous restaurant in Dongjiang Town, the largest is because Wanghailou is located at the entrance of the main street in the south of Lushun City, not far from Jinghaimen, covering an area of more than ten acres, consisting of two three-storey main buildings and dozens of inn wings behind. The most famous www.biquge.info is not because you can really look at the sea or have any characteristics, but those who know know that the real proprietor behind this restaurant is several senior generals in Dongjiang Town, so this is the safest and most secure place in Lushun City, and the businessmen and high-level generals of Dongjiang Town who gather in Lushun from all over the world are willing to come here to stay and feast.

Although today's Wanghailou is not as prosperous as the business in the past, it is still very lively compared to the deserted streets, and even the recent turmoil in Dongjiang Town has not affected the lights here.

As soon as he entered the gate, Han Yue could find that the spacious and well-decorated hall was basically full, and on the stage in front of him, several middle-aged women were babbling and singing songs, and there were either rich businessmen or gentry sitting under the stage, and of course there would be no fewer officers and generals.

When the shopkeeper saw Han Yue and his party enter the door, he was busy welcoming him out with a smile on his face, but after taking a closer look, his smiling face immediately turned into a zombie face.

"Where did you come from to ask for food, hurry up and go away, don't disturb our business, and don't look where this is?" The shopkeeper hurried with disgust on his face.

It's no wonder that Dian Xiaoer is so philistine, Han Yue and his party are indeed similar to refugees, Han Yue is a little stronger, wearing a half-new ordinary clothes, Wang Erkui is wearing a patched light jacket, Xue Hu Xue Yan's uncle and nephew are wearing a shabby mandarin duck robe, but they are standing behind Han Yue and Wang Erkui, Dian Xiaoer did not find out their border army identity for a while, as for Zheng Xiaoniang's family of three, they are really real refugees.

"Who is asking for food, keep your mouth clean, be careful that Lao Tzu beats you all over the ground to find teeth" Insulted by the shopkeeper, Wang Erkui was about to attack, but Xue Yan took the first step forward and lifted the collar of the shopkeeper with one hand, clenched his fist with the other, and glared angrily. Xue Yan's family used to be behind Liaodong Jiangmen, but after the fall of Liaodong, his family fell into the middle of the road, and was taken to Dongjiang Town by Xue Hu, he was arrogant and arrogant, he was already under the command of Wu Heng, the president of Wangjiadao, because he was an outsider, he was suppressed, and he suffered a lot of white eyes and grievances, and this time he was assigned by Xu Shoubei to act as a bodyguard for Han Yue, a gentleman, and these were endured, and now even a shopkeeper has to scold him for asking for food, why don't you get angry?

"You... What do you want to do" Dian Xiaoer didn't expect this person to be so bold and arrogant, he was already a little shorter than Xue Yan who was a military general, and now he was basically half-lifted in the air, and in a panic, he realized that the person in front of him was not a refugee but a border soldier with a sword.

"Let go of me, even if you are a soldier, don't you know what kind of place Wanghailou is, you can live in the wilderness, even the guerrilla on weekdays, Mr. Qian drinks and eats is very polite" After all, the shopkeeper ushered in the welcome to meet all the three-sect and ninth-rate characters, and calmed down after a little panic, seeing that the other party was just a broken soldier, there was nothing to be afraid of.

"If the guerrillas and Mr. Qian insult me like this in person, I will also beat them all over the ground looking for teeth" Speaking of ruthlessness, Xue Yan is not a master to mess with, and when he said that, he threw it away with one hand, and the shopkeeper was suddenly thrown to the ground.

"Yan'er!" Xue Yan was about to add another kick, but was stopped by Xue Hu.

Although Xue Yan was not angry, he listened to Xue Hu's words very much, and sprayed a mouthful of thick phlegm towards the shopkeeper on the ground.

When did the shopkeeper get so angry, his face was flushed and he was about to have a seizure, but suddenly his eyes were shaken by a touch of white light, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be a broken silver of about two taels, and he was swallowed back when he was about to shout, and a greedy color instantly appeared in his eyes.

"You don't have long eyes, we don't want to eat, we're here to eat, what's the matter, are you worried that we can't afford to pay the silver" Han Yue took two taels of broken silver and threw it on the shopkeeper, he was a little dissatisfied with the shopkeeper's dog-eyed eyes, but just now Xue Yan taught him a lesson, and he didn't want to make trouble here again, just now at the gate of the city to rescue Zheng Xiaoniang's family was already a last resort, if there was another big fight in Wanghailou, it is estimated that this Lushun City would not have to stay.

If two taels of silver were placed in the past, you could buy a stone of white rice in Lushun City, although now that Lushun City is in short supply and prices are soaring, two taels of silver can probably only buy three buckets of rice (1), but when converted to now, it is also fifty or sixty catties of rice, which is enough for ordinary people to have a month's ration.

Seeing that Han Yue, who was the leader, was so generous, and he shot two taels of silver, he suddenly became angry, and hurriedly grabbed the silver and bit it with his teeth, and after confirming that it was true, he hurriedly got up, wiped it with his sleeve and replaced it with a smiling face, and nodded at Han Yue.

"Ouch, look at what the big officials said, it's all strange that the little ones have eyes and don't know Mount Tai offended the prestige of the big officials, do the big officials want to eat or live in the hotel" With the silver to open the way, the shopkeeper didn't care about what he wanted to be ashamed of, and he gently twitched his face a few times, and at the end, he stared at Han Yue with a resentful look, as if he had been wronged.

Han Yue saw that the shopkeeper behaved like this, he was both funny and had goosebumps all over his body, how did he feel that this shopkeeper was the same as the **** in the TV in later generations, Lao Tzu was here to eat, not to piaoji.

"Okay, let's eat first, open a private room, and face the street" Han Yue waved his hand, he was reborn and came to this world for more than ten days, he hadn't eaten a serious meal yet, there was nothing to eat on the twin islands, and the food in the barracks was already poor, thank God for being full, this way to Lushun, and he exerted all his strength at the city gate, and he was already hungry and impatient.

As for the silver money, Han Yue is now a small family asset, Yuan Dadu Governor is still very generous, rewarded himself with 600 taels of silver and 50 taels of gold, in addition to more than 60 taels of broken silver just from the hands of King Zhao Yan, according to the contrast of silver and gold 1:8 in this period, it is a full 1000 taels of silver, and you can buy nearly 800 stones (2) grain or buy a three-entry courtyard in Jiangnan during the harvest season, even if there is a shortage of materials in Dongjiang Town now, and the price has risen three or four times, you can buy more than 200 stones of grain, It's enough to eat alone for 40 years! This can completely make yourself eat and wait for death!

(1): One stone in the Ming Dynasty is equal to ten buckets, and one stone is equal to the current 94 kilograms, which is 188 catties;

(2): "History of the Ming Dynasty" records: in the early Ming Dynasty, a tael of silver can be worth two stones of rice, but to the Chongzhen years, a tael of silver can only be exchanged for a stone of rice during the harvest in the south of the Yangtze River, due to the drought and locust plague in the northern region of the Central Plains, the "people are more from the thief" caused by the lack of harvest, the price of grain rose sharply, the most serious period of Chongzhen in the later period of a stone of rice to twelve taels of silver, conservatively estimated that the normal price of rice in the north in the early years of Chongzhen in a stone of rice to one or two five dollars of silver, when encountering a grain shortage rose three or four times is normal.