Chapter 6: The Difficult Way
Hao Shisan was still on an empty stomach, and when he returned to the brothers' barbecue, he found that there were deer bones with deep bite marks scattered in the ground, and the whole deer was eaten up.
Under the leadership of Xiucai, they were chasing Zhang Thirty-one around the bonfire, Zhang Thirty-one still held the only remaining deer leg in his hand, and shouted mournfully: "I can't eat anymore, this is left for the boss!" ”
When everyone saw Hao Shisan, they hurriedly got up, Zhang Thirty-one obediently offered venison, and said flatteringly: "If it weren't for my quick hands and quick eyes, I'm afraid the boss wouldn't have to eat!" ”
Hao Shisanyi slapped Zhang Thirty-one on the neck and reproached: "Didn't you let you share the meat for everyone and let everyone eat slowly?" Look at the mess ...... all over the ground."
Thin monkey Zhang Sanshi's face turned red: "Boss, the brothers are so hungry that I can't restrain myself."
Hao 13 pointed to everyone's noses and said, "One by one, there are no rules, and they make a mess all over the ground......
"Boss, boss, we eat deer, how can there be wolves?" Zhang Thirty-one kindly reminded.
Xiucai teased: "What do you know? Messing is an idiom used to describe ......"
As soon as Xiucai was taunted, the disaster led to him, and he was counted down by Hao 13 again: "What about the people who are still reading, do you have a bit of team spirit?" Sven, who insults and does not insult the reader, actually takes the lead in robbing, is there still a big brother like me in his eyes......"
Xiucai was inconvenient to open his mouth, and no one came out to explain what "team spirit" was, and Xiucai didn't know what this "team spirit" was, anyway, it felt more profound than the Confucian benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith.
"And a few of you" Hao Shisan pointed to the two men who were about to fall into the grass with their bellies covered and said: "Don't fall down when you're full, quickly put out the fire, and then dig a pit and bury the bones, one by one, wait for the diarrhea......"
"Hey!" Hao Shisan sighed secretly in his heart: "How can you bring this gang of broken households?" Thanks to you for recognizing me as the boss, pay attention to team spirit, don't abandon or give up, or you can't be photographed by others as a brick. ”
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On the desolate ancient road, starvation is everywhere, a group of crows compete to eat, the scene is not miserable, Hao 13 has the intention to restrain one or two, but unfortunately there are too many carrions, and the harvest is overwhelming, so he has to give up, occasionally meet two villages, it is already a broken wall, full of artemisia grass, no human smoke, how can a desolate?
The speed of everyone was very slow, one time "staggering" through the grass, and the other time Hao Shisan, who was shouting that his stomach hurt and making trouble, had no temper, and everyone's hungry stomachs couldn't stop the venison's oil star, and they all ran and had diarrhea.
There was even more that young man, jumping up and down around Hao Shisan, shouting that the master was long, the master was short, holding a broken book and asking questions, as if the phenomenon of "seven or eight years old to beg dogs" was delayed in the young man's body, and he only arrived at the age of eleven or twelve, and then he simply shouted that he couldn't walk.
Fortunately, Hao Shisansheng was born in a big family, and a large number of children of different ages gathered around his house during the New Year's holidays.
Isn't it impossible to walk? Well, Hao 13 relied on his height and arms, and simply resisted the young man on his neck, although he was tired, it was better than a child stumbling in front of him.
The young man lost his father at a young age, not because he deliberately annoyed Hao Shisan, but he had never experienced the so-called father's love, where did he receive such treatment? The circles under his eyes immediately turned red, and he became closer and closer to Hao Shisan.
It was almost noon, and I saw the shape of a city from a distance, and Xiucai sat on the ground with his buttocks, which immediately triggered a chain effect, and all the prostrated bodies fell.
"Get up, let's go into the city and invite Langzhong for you," Hao 13 said while kicking Xiucai's ass.
"Boss, spare the brothers, don't say that your stomach hurts, and your body is prostrated without any strength!" Xiucai told again and again.
Hao Shisan secretly scolded in his heart: "You deserve it, let you fight for food", but there is no way.
The woman was even more prevented from entering the city, obviously going to Yingzhou had to pass by the Bozhou City in front of her, but the woman had to ask to go around.
It's okay not to go into the city, and it's okay to walk a long way, but if the brothers don't get some herbs to cure diarrhea, even if they don't die of pain, they can't go this way.
It may be the reason why Hao 13 didn't have diarrhea, this is almost a weight A teenager has traveled more than ten miles, and he really doesn't feel a little tired, and the matter of entering the city to comprador things can only fall on Hao 13.
But after all, Hao Dabao entered the so-called city of the Yuan Dynasty for the first time, and he didn't have any ancient social common sense, the ancient city was not that big, and he was not afraid of getting lost, and he was not afraid of the black-hearted boss going to some money, he was afraid of violating someone's taboos, and it was better to find a companion to remind himself.
But no matter how he pulled the monkey or kicked Xiucai, they were like a puddle of mud and couldn't move, but the young man was close to Hao Shisan, and he had the heart to go with Hao Shisan, but he was slapped on the neck by his mother, and he gave up.
No wonder, strangers who have known each other for no more than a day, and then abducted other people's babies?
The monkey Zhang Thirty-one, a guard who specializes in holding knives for the boss, took out the rusty kitchen knife from his arms and reminded Hao Thirteen to bring a kitchen knife in case of accidents, but was stopped by Xiucai.
Hao 13 had no choice but to leave the brothers alone into the city, he threw off his big stride, and after a while, he walked under the city.
But see the city wall is tall and majestic, above the city gate, there are three big characters "Bozhou City", the font is very vigorous, but there is no inscription of celebrities, I don't know who is the hand.
Beneath the city gates, a warrior in leather armor led seven or eight Mengyuan soldiers in iron armor, savage inspectors into the bags of those who were leaving the city gates.
Treat pedestrians wearing Hufu and obvious alien characteristics, the attitude is extremely respectful, and the attitude towards those wearing Hanfu, whether it is a long shirt or caftan brown, the attitude is more and more arrogant, pushing and scolding is customary, and even regardless of whether it is indiscriminate, splitting the head is a leather whip.
What is even more infuriating is that those who are waiting to enter the city, with wooden expressions, as if they are walking dead, and if they are docile sheep, they are accustomed to ignoring the treatment of their compatriots.
The Chinese Han people, who have been oppressed by foreign races for nearly a hundred years, have long been accustomed to this kind of slavery under the iron hoof, and have long lost a little blood, and the life of a Han person is equivalent to a donkey.
Hao Shisan forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and finally went into the city, asked passers-by, and finally found a Langzhong with a good reputation in the West Market, if it was a later life, he could just take some broad-spectrum anti-inflammatory drugs, but there was no such thing at that time, so he had to talk to Langzhong about the symptoms of the brothers.
Lang Zhong is a Han man in his fifties, with a sparse goatee on his chin, listened to Hao Shisan's description, and handed over a pair of dry chewing herbs: "Fifty yuan, only copper coins are collected, not paid money." ”
Hao 13 didn't know the concept of copper coins and banknotes, so he had to take out the silver ingots and say stupidly: "I have nothing else, only silver!" ”
The goatee swept around vigilantly, hurriedly covered his sleeves again, and said in surprise: "You don't want to die?" Dare to trade the silver? ”
No? What's going on here? "Water Margin" often says that you can just throw two or three taels of silver, how can you use silver to trade here? Do you see that the source of my money is unknown? But I've been whitewashed?
Hao Shisan used the etiquette he learned from Xiucai to give a salute: "I live in the mountains, the news is relatively closed, what is wrong with it, please teach me sire!" ”
The goatee sighed: "I'll tell you when I see that you know etiquette!" ”
The goatee babbled about the currency of the Yuan Dynasty.
The so-called banknote, is the pen and paper of the Yuan Dynasty, China's earliest pen and paper originated in the Song Dynasty Jiaozi, after Kublai Khan entered the Central Plains, a banknote as the mother, with copper money as the son, of which the banknote has 2 Guanwen, 1 Guanwen, 500 Wen, 100 Wen, 50 Wen, 30 Wen, 20 Wen, 10 Wen a total of 9 kinds, in order to ensure the issuance of banknotes, so it is forbidden to circulate a gold and silver as currency.
At first, the currency was based on yarn, and 2 Guan Wen was a spindle of yarn, so the emperor's ancient books recorded that the ingot was used as the unit of payment, and in the huge territory of the Yuan Dynasty, the payment of money played a certain economic role.
However, the Yuan Dynasty was reckless in military force and endlessly used troops, resulting in an empty treasury, so the endless printing of paper money, especially in the middle of the period when the prime minister took off the failed monetary reform, and the depreciation of the banknote was equivalent to waste paper.
Although the imperial court forbade the use of gold and silver as currency, merchants were not fools and traded in this hard currency in private.
Hao Shisan listened to the introduction of the goatee, and finally understood a little, and said helplessly: "It seems that I can only go to the pawnshop to change the money and come again." ”
The goatee laughed and said: "The pawnshop doesn't dare to give it to you, if the court has an order, you have to go to the special department specially opened by the court to exchange it, and you can only exchange the money that no one wants!" ”
The goatee saw that Hao Shisan was in trouble, and he was also interested in this kind of hard currency currency, and said: "If the guest officer wants to change it, I can change it for you, and I can help you exchange the silver for a little loose." ”
"That's a good dare, it's hard work!"
The goatee trembled and took out a small scale, weighed Hao Thirteen's silver for five taels, and exchanged it for one tael of silver for Hao Thirteen's fourteen ingots, and then there were a lot of copper coins and banknotes, so he bought the medicine.
Hao Shisan felt that he couldn't come in vain when he went to the city, and the brothers' clothes were all torn, so he finally got a ready-to-wear shop and bought some clothes for the brothers. Hao 13 didn't know what the concept of money was, so he paid a tael of silver, picked up two robes for the shopkeeper and stuffed them into Hao 13's baggage.
I've met a fool, and I've made a lot of money this time!
Ten times you can't exchange money for a tael of silver! (Note 1)
Note 1: There is a general formula for ancient currency: 1 tael of gold = 10 taels of silver = 10 copper coins = 10,000 wen, at this time, the Yuan Dynasty banknotes have depreciated like waste paper, so businessmen are willing to ask for silver and copper coins.