Chapter 8 Closing a Deal
The monkey's big smart eyes blinked, looked at Bai Meiqi and said, "Brother, this is already the lowest price in the industry, usually, usually fifteen copper coins, this is not for ......."
"Wait a minute. Bai Meiqi stopped the monkey from continuing to blow nonsense, and said, "Isn't it that you want to find the scholar in the courtyard?
"Yes, I'm looking for it, no, brother, you misunderstood. The monkey was a little incoherent, and then said: "I'm not the gold master, how can I have all that spare money! I'm the middleman, hehe, brother, you come to me to sign up, and tomorrow I will arrange for you to go to the gold master to participate in the selection." Hehe, brother, you can't let me work for nothing, can you? ”
Bai Mei glanced at him, said nothing, turned around and walked to his bed. Seeing this, the monkey hurriedly grabbed him, and felt that if this guy was allowed to go back to bed and meditate, then he would not expect this master to open the golden mouth tonight, and hurriedly said: "Brother, don't go!
"Two. Bai Meiqi said lightly.
"What? two!" The monkey choked on the medicine, and the sound in his throat changed, and he said, "No, brother, this is too little! It's not so low, I'll tell you! There are more people who are willing to do it, but there are few gold owners, you have to think like this, one copper coin a day, you will earn it back in ten days." Alas, I said you kid have to think about it, after my monkey shop is not as low as the second one, if you go to the fourth child, he is more expensive than me......"
What the monkey said was that the spitting stars were flying, but the annoying thing was that Bai Meiqi had closed his eyes and sat down and forgot to cultivate his gods, completely when he didn't exist, the monkey was so angry in his heart...... The monkey shuddered at the thought of this man.
Then the corner of the monkey's mouth showed a wicked smile, sat down next to Bai Meiqi, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother has a personality, brother likes it! Plus for the sake of our senior brother, my brother monkey will suffer a big loss today, I will take over your business, and you don't have to participate in the selection tomorrow, how about I directly arrange a big money owner for you? Is it enough brother? Alas, what is your name, brother?"
Bai Meiqi opened his phoenix eyes, looked at the large set of monkeys around him in disbelief, and said suspiciously: "Two copper coins?" and then replied politely: "My surname is Bai, and my name is Meiqi." ”
The monkey grinned, hugged Bai Meiqi's little shoulders and tightened again, and said, "Brothers, why am I lying to you? Brother Bai, right? Brother Monkey, I promise you, Brother Bai, that the arrangements will be made for you tomorrow! Hehe, Brother Bai, give the money!"
Bai Meiqi couldn't help but wonder, this guy looks like a monkey spirit, can he be so good to me? Two copper coins are enough, you don't need to choose from others, just arrange a gold owner for me, and say what kind of big gold owner? Bai Meiqi looked at the monkey aggressively with a pair of phoenix eyes and said, "Brother Monkey, you won't cheat me out of money, right?"
As if he had been greatly insulted, the monkey jumped up at once, pointed at Bai Meiqi and shouted: "Phew, who would deceive you two copper plates? Who am I waiting for Yaobai? You kid don't even inquire about ......."
Although Bai Meiqi was still puzzled about this matter, but looking at the monkey's reaction as if he had been struck by lightning, even his own surname spewed out, knowing that this matter could not be faked, he quickly got up and waved his hand at the monkey and said, "Okay, Brother Hou, I am wrong, I will go and get the money for you now." ”
"Monkey" Hou Yaobai was about to say something, but when he saw Bai Meiqi say this, his anger immediately disappeared, and he muttered "That's right." Bai Meiqi originally had sixteen copper coins and twenty-eight small coins, and today during the lunch break, he went to the hundreds of shops on the street to buy some necessities for life and study, such as an old wooden basin, although the hot water of the college is free, but there is no basin to provide, and the sweat towel for washing and wiping his body was brought from home.
Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are not only very expensive, but the price is too expensive for Bai Meiqi, but fortunately, there are "ink paste pens" and "poor people's flour cakes" in hundreds of stores.
The ink paste pen is not actually a pen, mainly ink paste, and the pen is secondary, sharpened branches, bamboo pieces or find a thin bamboo branch, and the ink paste is generally packed in the old deformed rouge box used by women, and some are packed in an iron box, tin box or even a broken bowl. The ink paste was originally packed in a barrel, and these were also matched by the owners of hundreds of stores according to the actual situation in the store.
Ink paste writing is very durable, and the matching "pen" is not used to buy it, just do it yourself, this is perfect for Bai Meiqi, the only drawback is that it has nothing to do with brush calligraphy, beautiful calligraphy is very important for gaining fame, fortunately, the little ideal in Bai Meiqi's heart is the demon master of Xuanyuan Mansion.
Poor man's bread is a kind of apt name "book", rice paper is an unbearable consumable for the poor children, and the poor man's bread is taken from all kinds of old calligraphy and painting, as long as there is a blank space on the paper or ink faded, and then cut into pieces, and finally sewn with needles and threads.
Because it is pieced together on various materials, it is normal for the paper in this "book" to be of different sizes. Even if this poor man's bread is taken from the blank space on the paper, it is inevitable that there will still be a lot of original ink when it is cut, and most of the paper is still yellow, just like the coarse bread eaten by the poor.
Although there are not many students who use ink and plaster pens, there are not a few who buy poor people's bread. The ink paste pen, in fact, is a small box of ink paste is three copper coins, and a poor man's bread is two copper coins. Bai Meiqi bought these necessities for study and life in 100 stores, and spent a total of ten copper coins, plus four small coins for a day, and all his net worth was six copper coins and twenty-four small coins.
Bai Meiqi only spends four small yuan a day for dinner, which is to spend two small yuan in the college cafeteria in the morning to buy two coarse noodles and big nests, and then leave one for lunch, and in the evening a bowl of porridge and a coarse grain pancake, bring a little pickle for free, and then spend two small yuan. Fortunately, the food in the academy is cheaper than on the street, although it is only some, but for Bai Meiqi, the poorest "royal family" in history, it is still very relieved.
After handing over the two copper coins to Hou Yaobai, poor Bai Meiqi became even poorer, but this was the money he had to spend. Originally, he was also worried about money, thinking about where he could earn a little money to reduce the burden on his grandfather, but he was too young to be a second child.
Although the family still has some money, this year he will not have a problem in school life, but next year's tuition is a big problem, even with the efforts of grandpa, the problem of going to school next year has been solved, but what about the year after tomorrow?
When waiting for Yaobai to leave, he patted Bai Meiqi's thin shoulder, and said: "Don't worry, you kid, since I have accepted your deal, I can arrange it in these two days, but there is one, no matter whether your kid is fired or you can't stand the pain in the future, even if you only work for one day, it has nothing to do with me." ”
Bai Meiqi thought to himself, although the monkey's words were not good, but they were reasonable. When Hou Yaobai walked to the door, Bai Meiqi shouted: "Then if I meet with the gold lord, people don't look down on me, will you find me another one?"
Hou Yaobai turned around and stood at the door of the bamboo house, and said, "Of course not! Well, you kid listen well, so that you don't think I'm a monkey bullying." I said that there are only a few gold owners, and of course the number of scholars in the academy is limited! And the quota must be set at the beginning of the school every year, unless there is a gold master in the middle of the book boy or the scholar takes the initiative to withdraw, otherwise how can there be a new place? So the eliminated one has no chance for the time being! I originally received ten copper coins, and those who were eliminated before were all refunded another eight copper coins, and your kid gave me two copper coins, and the two of us just didn't look down on you, but don't worry......! You're sure to be fine, kid. ”
Bai Meiqi waved his hand at the monkey as a farewell, turned around and returned to the bed to cultivate. At first, he wondered why the monkey took such good care of him, but now he understood that the gold owner introduced to him by the monkey must be very rude, but the introduction fee was given, so what else? Anyway, no matter how difficult it is for the gold master to serve in the future, he will not give up this opportunity to make money.
Teacher Zhou Ci walked into the classroom and said with his usual smile, "Good morning, children. Let's open the second part of the first chapter of the "Genesis Sutra", today I will tell you about "The Creation of Man", which says that after a thousand years, the ancient gods Yao and Hui left the world and returned to the divine realm......"
The nine saints are in charge of the world and Kyushu, the wind and rain are smooth, all things are nourished, the beasts are contending, the mountains and rivers are magnificent, and the only deficiency is that all life in the world is a stupid and barbaric creature that does not know anything.
The head of the Nine Sages, Wa thought that sooner or later the Nine Sages would go to the divine realm, and this splendid river and mountain needed a highly intelligent race that could create civilization to be in charge, so she began to choose the animal that looked closest to the god among the beasts, and finally Shenwa selected the only "standing ape" that could walk upright, and summoned the standing ape in Chizhou under her control to the canyon with Kagura.
Wa laid down 12 array gates in the canyon, including Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai, and the six array gates of Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu were the gates of heaven; and the six array gates of Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai were the gates of the earth. Wa uses his own blood as a medium and uses divine power as a medium, and draws the array eyes on the twelve array gates of this heaven and earth, and the bottom map of this array eye is to draw the pattern of the six-pointed star in the circle, and then write "Wa" on the base map, after the Wa character is written, the array eye lights up with seven colors of light, which is the original "Wa character divine seal", and it is also the tenth-order Wa character divine seal of the legend of the god descendant world.
The positions of the gate of heaven and the gate of the earth are respectively on the inner and outer circles that symbolize the universe, and the six paths of the gate of heaven are in the six realms of the outer gate. The two pairs of eyes of the gate of heaven correspond to the eyes of the inner circle of the earth gate into a triangle, and the two eyes of the earth gate also correspond to the triangle of the outer circle of the gate of heaven, and the two pairs correspond to the endless.
After Wa finished painting the array eyes on the last Hai Array Gate of the Earth Gate, the twelve Wa character Divine Seal Array Eyes glowing with seven colors of light blended and connected the twelve array gates of Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai to form a huge seven-color enchantment light array of the Twelve Array Gates of Heaven and Earth, which was called the Nine Shengwa Seal Divine Array.
Extra-book
Bai Meiqi (dissatisfied face): Can I be poorer again?
30,000 Miles in the Desert (with a bad smile): As you wish!