Chapter 20: Guidance

After a few more days, Shen An taught Jiang Yingjie English in the restaurant, and some guests came to the restaurant. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the VIP room, a few blonde and blue-eyed foreigners sat upright, eating cake with great interest.

"Shen, this cake is so delicious, I don't know how you created it, I want to bring it back to England." Michael's blue pupils stared at Shen An expectantly, making Shen An quite embarrassed.

"That's right, Shen, this is the best pastry I've ever had in Jiang Chao." Ruth obliviously wiped a little cream from the corner of her mouth with her fingers and put it in her mouth to suck it carefully.

I have to say that Ruth is a beauty, at least in terms of Shen An's aesthetics. Ruth's clothes are slightly exposed today, of course, this is for the current Jiang Dynasty people, in fact, her arms are exposed, and a lot of them are exposed from the neck down, if a certain Confucian is here at this time, I am afraid that I will have to despise and criticize these foreigners.

Jiang Yingjie is better, although he doesn't accept it conceptually, but he has studied with Shen An for so many days, and he can see it a little openly, he knows that this is just a matter of Western customs, in Shen An's words, that is: openness.

"Hehe, if you want to bring it back, you can."

Watching these Westerners gobble up the cake, Shen An asked them for their intentions.

"Oh, Shen, didn't I want to ask Shen to be our guide at the party last time, and today happened to be here for this matter, and I was so busy a few days ago."

Busy? Shen An smiled secretly, I was busy buying silk tea with those rich merchants, but Catholicism hadn't heard you preach it a few times.

"Yes, Shen, I also want to ask you to be my teacher and teach me to learn the Jiang Dynasty language, of course, we will pay Shen both the fee for being a guide and the teacher's fee." Ruth's eyes blinked, and her essence sparkled.

"This, the cost is not necessary, these are small things, it just so happens that I am still rich in time, and it is still okay to accompany a few people to play." Shen An smiled, he wouldn't really be a guide for these Westerners for free, and immediately said, "I really want to see what good things you have to bring my ginger." ”

"Shen, you are really righteous." The Westerner named Abraham gave Shen An a thumbs up, seemingly admiring Shen An, but of course Shen An only smiled politely.

Michael pondered for a moment, and then said very solemnly, "Shen, I recognize you as a friend." ”

Shen An smiled bitterly, these Westerners are really ...... It's not ordinary, and then I chatted with a few Westerners, and those Westerners got up to say goodbye, seeing that they were in a hurry, they were probably busy doing business again.

Waiting until a few Westerners left, Jiang Yingjie asked Shen An: "Why doesn't Zhong Ping charge silver taels if he wants to be their guide, although I know that Zhong Ping is not short of that money, in fact, I don't have to be the guide of those Westerners." ”

"Hehe, Yingjie knows too little about these Westerners, and these Westerners are still a bit troublesome."

"Westerners? Zhongping calls them Westerners? ”

"Well, this is too troublesome to explain, and you can't understand it for a while, so I'll tell you about it later. Or, Yingjie will also go to play, just to see the foreign gadgets of these Westerners, and by the way, you can also practice Western. ”

"Well, Zhong Ping said so, so that's it." Jiang Yingjie smiled.

The next day, by the West Lake.

On the painting boat, Shen An, Jiang Yingjie and Michael stopped to watch, Jiang Yingjie and that Thomas were talking briefly at this time, probably Jiang Yingjie couldn't use English, Thomas said Jiang Chao, this Thomas's Jiang Chao spoke okay, much better than the other three, although it was also a little blunt, but the expression was still very clear.

Shen An and Michael also talked and laughed, Ruth would interject two sentences from time to time next to her, while Abraham and Yang Hu did not have a common language, and the two looked at their own scenery.

After visiting West Lake for a while, Shen An also took them to a few neighborhoods he was familiar with, and while shopping, Ruth kept talking to Shen An, which she herself called learning the Jiang Dynasty language.

"Shen, is this called a rock sugar gourd? It's weird. ”

When Shen An bought a few bunches, she tasted a few: "Oh, my God, this taste, sweet and sour, if it is introduced to England, it will definitely sell for a lot of money." ”

After that, Ruth saw many new things of the Jiang Dynasty, but if there was some commercial value, she would remember it carefully, and it seemed that she wanted to introduce them to England together.

After a day as a guide and teacher, Shen An was slightly tired, as if he was accompanying customers in those days, but now, he seemed to be less energetic than before, but fortunately, in the end, Michael took a few people to their residence.

It's a big house, how big is it? Well, it's quite big anyway, although it's not as good as the real rich mansions in Lin'an City, but it's better than the mansions of some slightly rich people.

According to Ruth, this house was not bought by them, but was provided by a rich businessman in Lin'an City for them to live in, and this rich businessman and Ruth completed a large business, and the business was so big that the rich businessman treated Ruth and others as if they were guests.

Entering the house, Ruth took Shen An and others to take a little tour of the layout of the house, although Ruth's group of Westerners have not lived in for a long time, but most of the furnishings here have been replaced by Westerners, and there are still some other Westerners in the house, but it seems that they should not be the nobles of England, and some are even just slaves.

After visiting for a while, everyone Ruth beckoned everyone to gather together, Michael ordered an Englishman a few words, and then a table of food was served, quite foreign, and everyone talked and laughed, and ate.

When she had eaten and drunk, Ruth said, "Shen, I'll take you to see some of our new things in England. ”

After that, everyone came to a house that looked like a storage room, and Ruth unlocked and pushed the door to lead Shen An and the others in.

It was full of many things, most of them cloth, presumably the silk they had traded and harvested these days, and there were a lot of tea leaves hidden in hardcover next to it.

On the other side, there were very few things brought by Ruth and others from England, and they were probably exchanged with those rich merchants.

Among them, there are some things that Shen An has seen, and they are all good things.

Potato, corn, cocoa beans......

Shen An didn't know when these things were introduced into China in the history of the previous life, but he thought that this world was probably still too different from the previous life.

But it seems that these things have just begun to be introduced, and he doesn't know much about the current situation in Europe, but he should have discovered the American continent, otherwise there would be no such things as potatoes and corn.

The current grains of the Jiang Dynasty are not good seeds, the planting technology is backward, and there are often various natural disasters, the yield is too low, many people pay the grain tax of the imperial court, the grain left at home is too little, so there are often famines. There were even quite a few peasants who gathered and openly confronted the imperial court, which was called a rebellion, and these peasants were called the Jiegan Uprising.

The cultivation methods of potatoes and corn are simple, the planting environment requirements are not too high, and the yield is abundant, if the Jiang Dynasty promotes these on a large scale, then there will be much less famine in the Jiang Dynasty.

Shen An thought about it, he didn't have the appeal to call on the entire ginger to plant these things, and only when the imperial court intervened and let the farmers taste the sweetness could it really be promoted.

Find an opportunity to mention it to Jiang Yingjie, after all, this is the prince of Big Jiang.