Pale yellow mulberry paper, wrapped in thin tobacco, a cigarette roll is not as long as his index finger, Chen Shangren looked at this inconspicuous new thing, he couldn't believe that he could earn white silver from the hands of those little people in the Japanese country with this.

He originally brought good news to Chu Fan today, and the letter he wrote to the shopkeeper of the silk village that he had dealt with all the year round in Linqing had already been replied, and the other party promised to supply raw silk at cost price, and then give him half of the raw silk he bought, so that he would earn enough 30,000 taels of silver, and he already had half of it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got here, Chu Fan gave him a "surprise" first, and actually vacated this so-called "cigarette", and actually said that this thing could buy a penny of silver at a sky-high price, and actually said that the capital of five thousand taels of silver was more than enough!

This made the old man unable to recover for a while, and he was silent with the cigarette.

Could it be that this kid was squeezed by Wang Tingxuan and lost his mind, and was ready to use this way to make a soft resistance? - Anyway, if the house is not going back, just break the jar and make some movement to disgust Wang Ting's try.

But this is incompatible with the impression of Chu Fan in his heart that he is shrewd and capable, if it is said to be angry, Wang Tingli will not let him go sooner or later, is it possible that Chu Fan still doesn't understand this truth? No way!

Thinking of this, Chen Shangren patiently said that the shopkeeper of Linqing replied to this matter, and persuaded Chu Fan bitterly, "Virtuous nephew, the old man also understands your grievances, but people are under the eaves, so they have to bow their heads, listen to the old man's advice, let's still honestly buy raw silk to make money, isn't this half of the raw silk solved?" ”

Chu Fan first thanked Chen Shangren for his intentions, and then said with a sneer, "The prefect's intention is very clear, no matter what, he will not let me finish this sea trade smoothly...... To say something that shouldn't be said, even if Uncle Shi can get the rest of the raw silk on credit, we still won't be able to go to sea! …… Anyway, this is the raw silk that my Chu family bought on credit, and he has a way to snatch it from me! ”

Chen Shangren actually knew this truth, so he dissuaded Chu Fan from asking for it, but Chu Fan exposed Wang Tingqian's sinister intentions in front of him, but it made him speechless - after all, he was Wang Tingqian's agent, and Chu Fan scolded Wang Tingqian, to some extent, he was also scolding him.

"Virtuous nephew, this is a bad word," Chen Shangren held back for a long time before he could hold back his sincere words, "As long as we are honest, Lord Fuzun will naturally see it in his eyes, if he is really unsatisfactory at that time, the old man will try his best to turn around in front of Lord Fuzun, and he will not let the virtuous nephew suffer the disaster of breaking the family......"

"Shibo, if you know that you are for my good," Chu Fan interrupted Chen Shangren, "But in this way, the prefect can make me Chu Fan like a servant, and the benefits of sea trade will be in his pocket, when will my Chu family have time to stand on its own?" ”

Chen Shangren was silent, what Chu Fan said was indeed Wang Ting's wishful thinking.

"Although the little nephew is not talented, he has made up his mind to support the door of the Chu family," Chu Fan took the cigarette and said proudly, "Shibo just rest assured, and see how the little nephew turns the clouds and rain upside down, and uses these five thousand taels to earn enough dividends of 30,000 yuan, and at that time, let's see what the prefect has to say!" ”

Chen Shangren looked at the impassioned Chu Fan, and inexplicably gave birth to a trace of confidence.

Since Xiaozhudao was rescued, he watched Chu Fan plan step by step, not only took off his hat, but also dragged a four-rank guerrilla off the horse, all kinds of subtle twists and turns, by no means a seventeen-year-old student can handle it clearly, but Chu Fan did it, and he did it very beautifully!

This made Chen Shangren have to face up to what this little showman did, maybe he can surprise himself again this time!

On the way back to Fucheng, Chen Shangren decided not to report Chu Fan's plan to Wang Tingqian first, and let Chu Fan move forward undisturbed.

And Chu Fan sent him to the side gate of the mansion before leaving, and Xiao Xiucai still had a lot of things to deal with.

First of all, I had to go to Penglai County School in the city to go through the procedures for a study tour -- the county school has to take an exam every year, and if you miss the exam without going through the formalities, you will be expelled if you don't do it well.

The teacher is a kind old man, and most of them have heard about the Chu family, so he didn't make it difficult at all, and simply completed the formalities for the study tour, but those classmates in the county school saw Chu Fan as if they had seen a ghost, and they slipped away quickly one by one, for fear that Chu Fan would open his mouth to borrow money.

As for it? Chu Fan thought indignantly in his heart, you are willing to borrow, Lao Tzu still doesn't want to appreciate his face!

However, this also made him deeply understand the meaning of the sentence "every righteous slaughter of dogs, and the negative heart is mostly a reader", and he is even more contemptuous of the readers of the Ming Dynasty.

The small episode was not enough to affect Young Master Chu's good mood, and he rode a mule humming a minor tune towards the south gate.

Dengzhou's tobacco and A-bian have been exhausted by themselves, and if you want to buy again, you can only go to Zhangjiawan, the hub of the Grand Canal, where department stores are gathered and everything can be bought.

So Chu Fan was going to find Liu Zhiyang to see if his ship was going to Tianjin Dagu, and take a tailwind boat.

"Team leader, I beg you, don't let me go!"

In the sudden cry, a thin middle-aged woman in coarse cloth clothes was pushed out of a courtyard gate, just in front of Chu Fan's mule.

Chu Fan restrained the mule, quietly watched the woman kneel on the filthy bluestone street, kowtowed to the expressionless team leader in the door, and complained, "The three boys of my family are pointing to me to earn wages to support them, and beg the team leader to give me food!" ”

Chu Fan frowned, the woman's Liaodong accent made him know without rummaging through his memory that this was a homeless person from Liaodong - the lowest level of the entire Dengzhou Mansion and even the entire Shandong!

"The Cao family, I am also acting on orders, I wanted to grab a job a while ago, so I recruited you in, and now this batch of work has been done, and I can't keep you anymore," the head of the team spoke in an authentic Dengzhou dialect, speaking without half feelings, which made people feel chilling, and said that she took out a handful of copper from her arms and counted about a dozen, and threw it in front of the Liaodong woman, "No, this is half a month's salary." ”

Chu Fan listened to the dull sound of metal on the ground, and then took a closer look, it turned out that more than a dozen coppers were private money, because there was more lead and less copper, one child could only be used as half of Jiajing Tongbao, and he felt even more pity for this Liaodong woman in his heart, and half a month's hard work was actually exchanged for these ten or so bad money.

The Liaodong woman was still begging and begging while picking up copper, but the head of the team was unmoved, and said coldly, "The owner is worthy of you, don't think we don't know, for the sake of those boys, you don't kidnap your family when you eat normally...... Let's not talk about these people, let's leave quickly, don't mess with the young grandmother, beware that I won't call you if there is work in the future! ”

After speaking, her dead fish-like eyes glanced at Chu Fan, and closed the courtyard door with a "bang".

Chu Fan looked up, and the courtyard was connected to a garment shop, and he knew that this Liaodong woman was working for the garment shop.

The woman begged for help, stood up with tears in her eyes, glanced at Chu Fan, lowered her head and walked away quickly in the direction of the east gate.

Chu Fan looked at her back, and his good mood disappeared without a trace.

Poor thing! These homeless people!