Chapter 14: The Fat Sheep
readx; After coming out of the ready-to-wear store, Yun Hanyan's mother and daughter had changed their appearance, and they seemed to be more energetic in new clothes, if it weren't for Zhao Keer's stomach making a 'cooing' sound.
Zhao Wuregret, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, smiled freely, looked at the shy mother and daughter, and said: "I'm just hungry, why don't you go to the front to find something to eat first." ”
Yun Hanyan glanced at him gratefully, it was far from noon, how could Zhao Wuregret be hungry so early?
The three of them came to a restaurant, Zhao Wuregret ordered a bunch of dishes, and then looked at the people outside the window in a daze.
When he came back to his senses, he saw that the mother and daughter were standing aside, and Zhao Ke'er was looking at the dishes on the table and swallowing saliva.
"What's going on? Why don't you eat it? ”
"The young master didn't eat it, how could the slave and maid eat it,"
Yun Hanyan said seriously.
"Okay, I don't have this rule, let's all sit down,"
Zhao Wuregret said helplessly.
Zhao Ke'er looked at Yun Hanyan expectantly, and didn't sit down until she nodded, but Zhao Wuregret didn't move her chopsticks and she sat there.
"You can sit down and eat together,"
Under Zhao Wuregret's call again, Yun Hanyan sat down carefully.
So Zhao Wuregret picked up the chopsticks, gave a piece of meat to Zhao Keer, and said, "I see that you are also hungry, hurry up and eat, you don't have to be polite to eat whatever you want." ”
"Well, thank you, brother, you can eat too,"
Zhao Keer said sensibly.
Yixi ate for a long time, although Yun Hanyan's mother and daughter were hungry, they looked very elegant when eating, and their every move was very educated.
Zhao Wuregret secretly observed, thinking that they should be from a large family, in the Central Plains, now the law is not feasible, where the powerful officials and local gentlemen collude with each other to devour the peasants and small and medium-sized landlords who have no backing, so the exiles to Jiangnan are not necessarily civilians.
After eating, he came to the first floor, and Zhao Wuregret went to the counter to settle the account, and the account room had already been calculated when the order was placed, so he directly reported the number.
"Guest officer, you have a total of two and thirty texts, and I will collect you two times,"
The tent said with a smile.
Zhao Wuregret gave him two taels of silver, and didn't say anything about not looking for it, and took the mother and daughter out of the restaurant directly, but he didn't know that in a remote corner on the first floor, two thieves and rat-eyed men followed out.
"By the way, we're going to buy some rice and firewood or something,"
Zhao Wuregret thought about it and said, the original owner moved the entire house empty, and even had to buy furniture and everything, not to mention oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.
Fortunately, there is everything here in the West Market, he walked to a rice grain store that has been large for many years, and walked in with the mother and daughter.
"Guest officer, you are here, may I ask what you need, we have all the oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and rice noodles,"
A guy walked up and said with a smile on his face.
"Will you deliver it to your door?"
Zhao Wuregret took a look, this store is really relatively complete, of course, it can't be compared with later generations, but it's good to belong in this era.
"I don't know how much the guest officer wants, if it's more, we can send it,"
A man who looked like a steward walked up and introduced.
Zhao Wuregret didn't know how much he wanted, so after thinking about it, he said, "Okay, let's buy a hundred stones first." ”
The good steward looked at Zhao Wuregret with some surprise, buying so much grain is usually a big family, but don't you call someone to buy something for this kind of person?
Looking at Zhao Wuregret's temperament and dress, he doesn't look like a subordinate, but this matter has nothing to do with him.
"I wonder what kind of rice the guest officer wants to buy? We have a lot of varieties here, some from Annam, some from Fujian, and some ......from the Central Plains."
“…… This Jiangxi is the cheapest, the Central Plains is the most expensive,"
The man in charge said a lot.
"The rice in Hara Hao doesn't seem to be very good, right? Why is it still the most expensive? And there are starving people everywhere in the Central Plains, how can there still be rice sold to Jiangnan, besides, Jiangnan is not short of food, right? ”
Zhao Wuregret couldn't help but ask suspiciously.
"The guest officer doesn't know, Jiangnan is not short of grain, but it is the request of the imperial court to buy grain in the Central Plains, buy the grain at several times the price, and the court will subsidize it, but it is not much, so the rice in the Central Plains is not good, but the price is the most expensive reason,"
The steward said with a wry smile.
"But where did you get the grain and sell it? I remember that there was no food for the victims there, and I had to pay tribute to Xixia and Daliao every year,"
Zhao Wuregret also came from Daliang, and he knows a lot more about it than ordinary people.
"We bought food for the victims, and of course, military rations,"
The steward sneered.
Zhao Wuregret couldn't help but be stunned, everyone said that the Great Liang Emperor was incompetent, but there was such a group of officials, he was the Qin Emperor Han Wu rebirth is useless, in later generations, Chongzhen is not an emperor who is greedy for enjoyment, he is not even willing to change his clothes, but the officials below do not think so, one by one they are full of fat stomachs, and finally put the charge of losing the country on his head, and later these loyal ministers entered the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were really loyal to the whip army that spoke with knives.
"You're all bad guys, kill my daddy,"
Zhao Ke'er's crisp voice rebuked angrily.
Zhao Wuregret turned around in surprise, but saw Zhao Ke'er who was huffing, Yun Hanyan who was crying on the side, and of course, the inexplicable steward.
"Childe, this, what's going on?"
The steward looked at Zhao Wuregret helplessly and said.
"This, in fact, it's nothing, here's it, you can send me Fujian rice......
Zhao Wuregret explained what he wanted to buy, and said the place and time to send it, and after paying the silver, he pulled Zhao Keer and the two walked out, not noticing the two men who were turning around the store.
These two people were the pair of men who came out of the restaurant just now, and when they saw Zhao Wuregret walking out, the two glanced at each other and followed behind.
"What just happened?"
After walking out of the rice shop, Zhao Wuregret frowned and asked.
"They killed Daddy,"
Zhao Ke'er was still in tears and said angrily.
"Did they kill your father?"
Zhao Wuregret's heart sank, if this was the case, then this grain store was still a black store.
"Young master, shall we go home and talk to you about this?"
Yun Hanyan on the side wiped away his tears and said softly.
Zhao Wuregret nodded, and he couldn't understand it all of a sudden on the street.
"Hey, the porcelain vase there is so beautiful,"
Zhao Wuregret accidentally saw a ceramic shop, which was full of all kinds of ceramics, as a collector, he had a desire to collect beautiful things, so he walked in without saying anything.
The two men watched from afar, and when one of them saw him enter the ceramics shop, he couldn't help but sigh, "After buying so many things, this fat sheep is making our silver." ”