"Are there any swords for sale here?"

"No, Childe can look at the kitchen knife I played, and cut people and meat."

"No thanks!"

Chen Xin took the sea dog and Zhang Erhui out of an iron shop at the south gate. Liu Minyou took the other two and was active at the North Gate, also looking for a knife shop. After saying goodbye to Dai Tiezi and the others yesterday, they went to Tianjin through Anxi Gate, stayed in the city for a day, and looked for a day.

Zhang Erhui asked Chen Xin as he walked: "Brother Chen, this knife is so good?" We've been looking for a day, otherwise it's better to buy kitchen knives. ”

Chen Xindao: "You should buy it to cut people?" That's what I'm looking for. ”

The sea dog said: "Could it be that the store has silver, and the eldest brother took us to cheat him?" ”

Chen Xin said with a smile: "There is silver, but it is not in the store, just do what I say." Whether you can eat meat every day in the future depends on it. ”

Zhang Erhui swallowed his saliva and agreed, and the three of them continued to inquire along the street, and finally someone told them that there were several shops selling fans in the east.

Chen Xin looked at the sun, noon had passed, and then took the two back to the crossroads, and met Liu Minyou under the bell and drum tower as agreed. I don't know what you're looking for. ”

Chen Xin shook off the folding fan he bought, and diligently fanned Liu Min, while saying: "Hard work, I don't think you have a point, I plan to rent a house in Tianjin to settle down, and then do some business, what do you think?" ”

"Huh? Is this true? What does that have to do with the Japanese knife shop? ”

Chen Xin smiled: "Of course it's the truth, yesterday I saw the Japanese knife reminded me, this era of Japanese sea trade is very profitable, I will first investigate what Japanese goods have, we have a small capital, optimistic and then do." I've thought about it, Tianjin has a canal and a sea route, even if the Tartar Liukou comes, let's take a boat and run away. Let's settle down and start a small business. ”

Liu Minyou was originally an otaku, and since he came to the Ming Dynasty, he has been skewering every day, and he is very uncomfortable, and he doesn't really want to go to Jiangnan, so he wants to stay in Tianjin, and immediately agreed: "Okay, I just said that running around like this is not a way, or to settle down, do some business, and they can also help." Let's go, we'll go to the East Side now. ”

Chen Xin hurriedly grabbed him and persuaded: "Eat first, don't worry, there is a lot of time." ”

At that moment, several people looked for a restaurant to fill their stomachs, and Liu Minyou couldn't wait, and kept urging everyone to eat quickly.

Before Hai Gouzi and the others could eat a bowl of rice, they were urged by Liu Minyou to be unable to do anything, so they had to grab the remaining rice grains from the second bowl in their hands and stuff them into their mouths as they walked. Liu Minyou took the lead in inquiring all the way down Dongmen Street, and finally found two shops selling goods near the Confucian Temple.

Tianjin Confucian Temple covers a wide area, there are archways built on both sides of the wall, Liu Min has no intention of visiting, dragged Chen Xin straight to the shop, there is a unique fishy smell of seafood inside, and also hangs some Japanese-style folding fans, looks quite like a Japanese monopoly, a list is posted at the door, which reads "a fund-raising room, two taels of silver per month, food and accommodation are provided." ”

Chen Xin sighed and said with a smile: "Isn't this for me?" I'm a master at interviewing, and Minyou will go in with me, sea dogs, and you guys will wait far outside. ”

Liu Min grabbed him and asked, "Aren't you going to do business, why do you want to apply for the account office." ”

Chen Xindao: "Haven't we done business before, professional and not right, I plan to go to the Japanese product store for an internship first, to prepare for the future business, we are small, so it is safer, what do you think?" ”

Liu Min thought about it, anyway, as long as he settled down in Tianjin first, what he did could be changed later. nodded in agreement and followed Chen Xin in.

There was a shopkeeper sitting inside, also wearing a guara hat, his small eyes turned around, and he left a handful of mouse whiskers on his chin. There are sea cucumbers, squid, sand shark fins, folding fans and knives, which are also available in Tianjin Weili, and the price is the lowest. ”

Chen Xin also hugged his fists and said: "Good shopkeeper, I am from the recruitment bookkeeper, I don't know if there is any shortage?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't seem to expect it, his eyes purred for a while, and then he said: "I haven't raised it yet, but the owner is not here today, if you want to do it, you can come back the day after tomorrow." ”

How can Chen Xin leave like this, he always has to spy on some information.

"Late born from Liaodong, once in Xiucai, his hometown was occupied by the Tartars, since entering the customs, he has relied on relatives and friends to help, sent people under the fence, and has been looking forward to being able to support himself. The shopkeeper is kind and kind-eyed, and he knows that he is kind at a glance, and he hopes that the shopkeeper will not hesitate to dial the younger generations, whether it is successful or not, there will be a reward in the future. As soon as Chen Xin came up, he changed the image of the shopkeeper with thief eyebrows and rat eyes.

Sure enough, the sycophant didn't wear it, and the shopkeeper showed a little smile on his face: "You are in this later life, but you can speak, for the sake of this self-reliance, I will allocate it to you a little, in fact, this account room, but it is a three-legged accounting, writing, abacus, and four-pillar inventory must also be able to know, everything is not difficult, you have been in the show, it should be no problem." ”

Liu Min heard it, and said badly, among these things, writing is not a big problem, although I have not learned traditional characters, but I know those numbers, and there are not many types of goods in this store, and I can learn it in one day. The abacus and what the four-column inventory is troublesome.

Chen Xin still smiled kindly, and calmly said to the shopkeeper: "The younger generation's surname is Chen Mingxin, and his father is also in business, and he has learned some of these, even mental arithmetic has also been studied, but it is inevitable that he will be unfamiliar after a long time, and the younger generation is not very talented, and the only advantage is that he is as kind and kind as his predecessors." Please also ask the seniors to help in front of the owner, and the juniors will definitely treat the seniors with a teacher's courtesy."

The shopkeeper has been in this shop for a long time, and his status is quite high, the original account room went to Beijing to vote for relatives, and he has recently also been in charge of the account room, seeing that Chen Xin's words are decent, he is very respectful of himself, and it should not affect his status, and he has agreed with Chen Xin as an account room.

At the moment, he twisted a few mouse whiskers, nodded to Chen Xin and said: "It turns out that it is also a business family, so it is better, this list has been posted for a few days, and a few people have come, the owner is not very satisfied, the owner is tight, urging these days to be settled, I look at you the most eyes, the day after tomorrow you will come, these two days according to what I said before, prepare well." ”

Chen Xin immediately bowed to the ground, his feelings came as soon as he said it, and he choked up and said, "Thank you seniors, I was born from Liaodong to Tianjin in my later life, and some people said that I will meet noble people to help, and the only person I meet is Mr. The most generous treatment of me, it can be seen that Mr. is my nobleman, if you succeed in the future life, you will be given by Mr." I was presumptuous in my later life, and I didn't know my husband's surname. ”

The shopkeeper looked at Chen Xin more and more, and his small eyes narrowed with a smile, "Mr. don't dare to be, don't be surnamed Cai." ”

At this time, two more customers came in the door. The helper in the store greeted the reception, and the shopkeeper also glanced at it.

Seeing this, Chen Xin said attentively: "Teaching and solving doubts, just called Mr., the younger generation and Mr. fell in love at first sight, but it is inconvenient to delay Mr. to do things, if you are free at night, can you appreciate the face by the younger generation, and then ask for advice in person." He lowered his voice again and said to the shopkeeper Cai: "Since the younger generation recognizes Mr. as a teacher, he will definitely take out one month's salary every year to express his gratitude to Mr. ”

Seeing Chen Xin's respectful attitude, of course he enjoyed this kind of treatment, and he was also greedy for that month's salary, so he immediately nodded and said: "Since you call me sir, then I won't be polite to you, come to the store later, and I'll talk to you in detail then." ”

Liu Minyou couldn't say a word from the moment he entered the door, looking at the two of them being hypocritical, they were already very enthusiastic in less than ten minutes, and Chen Xin's ability to talk nonsense could only be beyond his reach. At that moment, both of them retreated.

As soon as Liu Min came out, he said to Chen Xin anxiously: "This abacus and four pillars or something, where will you know, you will have an interview with the owner the day after tomorrow, you are not afraid of making a fool of yourself?" ”

"Don't be afraid, isn't there still two days, just learn it, how difficult it can be."

Liu Minyou is still not very relieved: "Then how useful can it be to invite this shopkeeper to dinner?" It was the proprietor who made the decision, and I'm afraid it's not worth spending the money. ”

"According to marketing public relations, this shopkeeper is an informant role, and catching this person can influence the owner's decision. Besides, he is the shopkeeper, if he really goes, he will have more time to deal with, and this money will not be spent in vain. ”

Liu Minyou heard Chen Xin say this, the hanging heart let go a little, the two went to the Confucian Temple to find a few sea dogs, around the neighborhood, found a good restaurant called "Zhenyan Building", the price is moderate, so they booked a private room on the second floor, and found an inn nearby to book a place to stay, so that the sea dog and others can eat at the inn at night.

Because the time is still early, the two of them got together in the room and counted the silver, and there are one hundred and seven taels, which is all the results of the two people's abduction, in the present, the general salary of the Jingshi is five to twenty wen, and the government hired sometimes has five cents of silver a day, but that is a short-term worker, and there are those who do their own small business, and the income is slightly higher, but generally no more than thirty taels, so this more than 100 taels is already a lot of wealth.

Chen Xin took a fraction of seven taels of broken silver and put it on his body for pocket use, and the rest was wrapped in two packs, and each of them brought a pack. Chen Xin called Brother Zhang Dahui and Wang Daixi again, gave five coins of silver, and asked the three of them to buy ten catties of pork and ten catties of white noodles.

After being busy, Chen Xin planned to go to Dai Zhenggang's place to have a look, but Liu Minyou disagreed, and asked Chen Xin to study professional knowledge seriously, Chen Xin thought about it and agreed, Dai Zhenggang's gang would not be able to recover from the injury for a while, and it would be too late to wait for the job application to be over.

At that moment, the two of them ran downstairs, gave two coins of silver, and the innkeeper learned the three-legged account, the origin of the three-legged account is not clear, but after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it began to be widely used, compared with the long-term use of single-entry accounting, it has both single-entry accounting and double-entry accounting ideas. As far as bookkeeping is concerned, the account books of the Ming Dynasty are two kinds of general, one has a grid and the other has no grid, which is printed and sold by booksellers, and the writing format is basically the same, with each page written at the high place and the account written at the low place.

Some businesses only use daily accounting, and some are divided into three types: goods clearance, bank clearance, and current book. There is a slight difference between the transfer and cash transaction record methods, in general, it is still a flow account, so bookkeeping is not a special skill, which is not difficult for two white-collar workers who have seen countless complex forms, and the four-column inventory is also very simple, it is a settlement method, that is, "old management" plus "new income" minus "expulsion" is equal to "real". Generally, it is settled once every ten or half a month according to the recorded account books.

Two coins of silver can buy seven or eight catties of pork, and the shopkeeper is idle, just to earn the extra money of these two coins of silver. The two learned the principles very quickly, but as soon as the operation came troublesome, one was a brush and the other was an abacus.

Chen Xin practiced the brush when he was a child, and now he can write a little, it is not ugly, but the speed is very slow, and the abacus is more headache, the shopkeeper is unwilling to lend them practice anyway, saying that it is disrespectful to the God of Wealth, only saying some abacus formulas, Chen Xin recorded them one by one, but it is impossible to learn without practice, and in the end it is easy to say. The shopkeeper promised to bring another old abacus from home to the two of them in the evening.

The two practiced writing, and before they knew it, it was already a time to apply, and the two of them came these days, and they also had a little experience to distinguish the time, so they brought up the meat and noodles they bought, and when they took it away, Wang Daixi was extremely reluctant, and Chen Xin pulled it a few times before letting go. Then Chen Xin went to pick up the shopkeeper Cai, and Liu Minyou directly took the things and went to the Zhenyan Building first.

Liu Min has entered the restaurant, there are guys to greet and receive, the first floor is already full of guests, call for cups and lamps, the maids in the store are busy shuttling, the shopkeeper shouts again and again to serve the food, the kitchen is a jingling, the fragrance of oil permeates the hall, Liu Min does not like to be lively, and does not stay, directly into the private room on the second floor, let the guy report the name of the dish, and start ordering.

After the two crossed, they all ate in the hotel inn, Liu Minyou was already familiar with the price, and ordering a table of more sumptuous dishes was only three or four dollars of silver, like the six of them when they saved on weekdays, and it was only a few cents of silver to order less meat and vegetables.

After listening to the price, Liu Min ordered a few meat dishes such as ice duck, fried veal, smoked pork chops, etc., added two fresh vegetables, a green plum soup, and drank a pound of Jinan's autumn white dew wine and a pot of green leaf tea.

After these were done, Liu Minyou stood by the window, looking at Chen Xin and the two of them, it was dinner time, the smoke was rising in the city, the man returned home, and the woman was calling for her daughter's voice, Liu Minyou looked downstairs in a small courtyard, a man dressed as a scholar entered the house, a pair of children threw themselves into their arms, hugged the man and chattered non-stop, a woman came up with a smile, and brushed the dust off the man's body with a handkerchief.

Liu Minyou kept smiling and watching the family play and eat in the courtyard, until Chen Xin and Shopkeeper Cai appeared on the street, Chen Xin was half a step behind, lowered his head slightly, and talked to Shopkeeper Cai enthusiastically while walking, the two let out a burst of laughter from time to time, and it seemed that they had been friends for many years.

When the two entered the private room, Chen Xin introduced Liu Minyou and Cai shopkeeper to meet, saying that Liu Minyou was his cousin, the three of them talked and laughed, and waited for the dishes to be served, and after three rounds of wine, Chen Xin persuaded the wine again and said some yellow jokes, Cai shopkeeper laughed several times, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Cai's ears were slightly red, and he touched the wine glass and said: "This is about autumn white dew, and it is tea, but I don't know that Jinan's autumn white dew wine is so sweet and refreshing." ”

Chen Xin listened and agreed: "This wine is good, and the drinker must understand the taste, if it is given to the fierce man in the field, it is not used as rice soup to drink." ”

Shopkeeper Cai smiled and said: "It's natural, but like the wine of the Japanese country, it is very light, and it doesn't hurt to really use it as rice soup." ”

Chen Xin's eyes lit up, and he complimented: "It turns out that Shopkeeper Cai has also been to the Wa Kingdom, thinking about that exotic customs, it must be very strange?" ”

Cai's shopkeeper looked yearning, his eyes lit up: "I have also been to the owner twice, that ordinary Japanese people are not as good as my Ming, not to mention, if it is a solid family, it is different, their women use a kind of Nanyang spices, smoked on the clothes and hair, with a body fragrance for a month, when persuading tea, but also in the hair of a ......" Cai shopkeeper with the strength of wine, in the ear of a comparison, a look of endless aftertaste.

Chen Xin smiled and continued: "Then the Japanese woman doesn't take a bath for a month." If you take off your clothes, it will definitely stink. ”

Shopkeeper Cai was stunned for a moment and laughed.

Liu Min was busy pouring a full cup for Shopkeeper Cai, and persuaded him to drink a few glasses, so that Shopkeeper Cai's face was red.

At that moment, Chen Xin reported to Shopkeeper Cai about his learning experience in the afternoon, Shopkeeper Cai nodded again and again, patted his chest and promised: "The owner will come back tomorrow, you come over the morning after tomorrow, with my help, this matter will definitely be done." ”

Chen Xin thanked him again and again, and toasted diligently.

Shopkeeper Cai squinted, and then looked at Chen Xindao: "As soon as I saw you, I was very suitable for this life, you came to make this account, I can rest assured, you know that the general account room is only one or two taels of silver per month, you are lucky, the owner is in a hurry to employ people, and set two taels of silver per month, although it is not as rich as that, it is not difficult to get a little rich." Now that's the case first, and after a long time in the future, I'll help you say something in front of the owner, and it's not impossible to do it in January. ”

Chen Xin hurriedly said: "It's all a great favor from Mr., it's already a lot of two taels in January, and the younger generation doesn't ask for that much now, as long as they can support themselves, they are already satisfied." ”

Shopkeeper Cai listened, nodded and said: "The man's husband should be self-reliant, you said earlier that you are under the fence at your relatives and friends, but your relatives and friends are from Tianjin?" ”

"The younger relatives and friends are from Jizhou, they have been in Jizhou since entering the customs, the ancestors of the younger generation are from Zhejiang, my relatives have been away from home for a long time, and they often miss their hometown, but because they are too fat and inconvenient to walk, they will take some coils and let me go to my hometown to see, and also find out if there is any suitable errand to do. That's when I came to Tianjin. ”

Shopkeeper Cai suddenly said: "Oh, then your relative is also a nostalgic person, even so, if you are an account room." You can buy a place to live in Tianjin, and then I will help you find a family to attach, and then you can be regarded as a household. ”

Liu Minyou turned out to be unable to afford a house in Tianjin, and he and his girlfriend had constant conflicts, at this time, he had a headache when he heard the construction of Cai's shopkeeper, shook his head and said: "We don't have much money on us, how can we afford to buy a house, I plan to rent a house first, and then talk about it later." ”

Shopkeeper Cai thought about it and nodded: "Yes, this matter is not in a hurry, it must take three or two years to save twenty or thirty taels of silver." ”

"Yes, sir...... Wait, how much silver did you just say!? Two...... Twenty or thirty taels of silver!? Not a down payment? ”

Shopkeeper Cai said of course: "It is enough to buy a small courtyard with three or four rooms, if it is a store, it will cost a few taels, and the two of you don't have to worry, if you have other errands, you can also let your cousin do it, and the twenty or thirty taels will only take one or two years to get." If you live with two families, you need to save for another year or two and buy seven or eight rooms. ”

After the shopkeeper Cai finished speaking, he took a sip of wine to himself, put down the cup and looked at it again, Chen and Liu's mouths opened wide, looked at themselves dumbfounded, and hurriedly touched their faces, and said in surprise: "The two of you are singing this one?" ”