Chapter 4: A Steely Backbone
The vegetable shop guy's face was about to wrinkle into bitter gourd, but he had no choice but to slowly put the vegetables into the vegetable basket.
Fat Dahai didn't mind this guy's attitude, so he stood next to him and patiently watched the guy load the dishes.
Bai Luo sighed when he heard the vegetable farmer beside him: "Alas, this Jiang Ji vegetable shop is really unlucky." ”
Bai Luo, who was squatting, asked, "Uncle, what is unlucky?" ”
This vegetable farmer is already in his 60s, which is already a high life expectancy in ancient times.
I don't know if it's because I'm dizzy and can't see clearly, or if Bai Luo's squatting angle just blocked the old farmer's vision, the old farmer didn't notice Bai Luo's bright face, and shook his head in the direction of the vegetable shop.
Hearing Bai Luo's question, the old farmer didn't look back, and while paying attention to the situation in the vegetable shop, he answered Bai Luo's question: "The fat uncle has been buying vegetables in their shop for seven days, isn't he unlucky?" ”
The tone was sympathetic and sarcastic.
"Isn't it good to have guests?" Bai Luo was puzzled, why didn't the ancient times hope that the more guests there were, the better?
"It's a good thing to have a guest, but it's not a good thing that this guest is a fat man. If you don't believe me, read on. The old farmer smacked.
Bai Luo craned his neck to look at it.
I saw Fat Dahai watching the vegetable shop guy load the vegetables, and personally marked it with a piece of black charcoal to prevent the guy from dropping the bag, so he took out a copper plate and put it on the counter, and swaggered away with his hands behind his back.
When he walked away, the vegetable shop guy angrily picked up the copper plate left by Fat Dahai on the counter, and spatted at Fat Dahai's back, and spit on the ground.
Several bold vegetable farmers next to him also spat at the back of the fat sea with disdain.
Chai Hu lowered his eyes and turned a blind eye, since he followed the young master, he had long been used to being poked in the back.
The same goes for the fat sea.
The two of them followed the young master through wind and rain, and they had already developed an invulnerable cheeky skin and a steely backbone!
"Is there only one copper plate for a basket of vegetables? So cheap? Bai Luo looked at the copper plate that the guy was pinching and said in surprise.
Were prices so low in ancient times?
"Cheap? This copper plate can only buy a few vegetable leaves, and these many vegetables also cost two dollars! The old farmer finally stopped looking at the direction of the vegetable shop, lowered his head and said angrily.
The voice was very small, as if he was afraid of being heard by the fat sea in the distance.
The tone was very angry, resentful and helpless.
The white jade-like delicate and white face is flushed.
Fat Dahai is her person, but she openly does such a despicable act in the sky.
Bai Luo was very ashamed, but she still asked, "This fat uncle is equivalent to a robbery?" Why don't you tell the prefectural order? ”
"Tell the prefectural order? Our county magistrate went to the jade shop of Mr. Li's house last month and got ten pairs of jade bracelets, a white jade Guanyin, as well as twenty gold hairpins, two diamonds, oh, I heard that there is also a mistletoe with a thumb-sized nanzhu, not even a copper plate! ”
"I heard that Master Li of the jade shop sent off the county magistrate with a smile during the day, and he had a sudden illness that night, and now he is still hanging himself with ginseng, and he didn't get up from the couch!"
"Tell the prefectural order? told the county order for this basket of vegetables, but I was afraid that the county order master would really come, and this entire vegetable shop would not be enough for him to move away. ”
"This county commander is a bottomless pit, and I don't know how much I have to loot to fill it!"
The vegetable farmer was probably suffocated in his heart, and said something sarcastic, which made Bai Luo's face flush.
Bai Luo "snapped" and unfolded the fan in his hand to cover his face, stood up and was about to leave, but when he turned around, he disappeared Bupleu.
Bai Luo looked left and right, and after a while, he saw Chai Hu walking with a hand behind his back, swaggering out of Wenxuanzhai on the side, holding a box in his hand.
The devil's steps are familiar.
Well, it's quite similar to the fat sea that just left.
Bai Luo leaned over with a fan to cover his face and asked, "Chai Hu, what is this?" ”
"Silver ticket, 200 taels." Chai Hu replied as a matter of course.
"Silver ticket?" Bai Luo was surprised, "What silver ticket?" ”
"Young master, have you forgotten? Last month, you said that you worked hard to write regulations for the people, this ink is really expensive, and I personally went to the boss of Wenxuanzhai to ask for 10% of the dry shares to do your pen washing fee, 200 taels every three months, which is counted as his contribution to the people of Anning County. Chai Hu replied carefully, looking at Bai Luo with the eyes of an amnesiac patient.
Bai Luo held a fan in his left hand to cover his face, and raised his right hand silently, with wide sleeves blocking the outside of the fan.
Her whole face was tightly covered by her, and only a pair of self-conscious eyes and a pair of earlobes that were so ashamed that they were red were exposed.
Woo, she really doesn't have the face to see the people of Anning County.
When she returned to the county office, she went to the meeting room, sat on the Taishi chair with a serious face, and asked Fat Dahai and Chai Hu to bring over the things they "bought" and took on the street today.
The two of them moved very quickly, and after a while, they came to the living room of the back office with their things in figure-eight steps.
Fat Dahai brought five bamboo baskets, and Chai Hu brought four boxes.
The corners of Bai Luo's mouth twitched, why are there so many more?
His fingers trembled and asked Fat Dahai: "Isn't it just a basket of vegetables?" Why are there so many extra baskets? ”
"Oh, I also went to Boss Feng's butcher shop on West Street to buy pork, bought a few fish from the boss's fish stall at the South Street Water Wharf, and bought some rice noodles at the Rong Ji grain store." Fat sea respectfully said.
Suddenly remembered something, slapped his head and said: "Oh, by the way, the oil at home is gone, I went to the vegetable boss's shop to get a pot of rapeseed oil and forgot to bring it over to the young master." ”
Bai Luo's forehead was bruised, and he bit his back molars and asked fiercely: "It's all bought with a copper plate?" ”
"Young master, they were all bought with a copper plate, I respect the young master's orders, and I will never dare to take half a copper plate." Fat Dahai replied loyally.
Bai Luo turned his head stiffly and looked at Chai Hu, "What about you?" I remember not just a box for Wen Xuan Zhai? ”
"I'll see that you're watching the fat sea do things, so I'll take the time to collect the dry shares and dividends from the Linglong Rouge Workshop, Jinxiu Garment Shop and Guji Grocery Store next to me."
"You have been sick for the past few days, and I am busy taking care of you, so I don't care about collecting this dividend silver, but I will collect all the dividend silver from the rest of the store in these two days, and I will never miss the young master's business."
"I will definitely protect the young master's dry stocks, and I will never collect a copper plate." Chai Hu hurriedly explained, for fear that Bai Luo would blame him for his incompetence.
Bai Luo was so angry that he was about to rise to the roof, was the original Bai Luo poor and crazy or what?
He is going to scrape the ground in Anning County!
Scrape off a layer of skin for the people of Anning County!
This evil corrupt official, if he were still a policeman, he would have to arrest this embezzler!
Bai Luo looked at Fat Dahai and Chai Hu and looked at him suspiciously, closed his eyes and told himself: Be calm, be calm, this is all Bai Luo's sin, but now it is all the sin on his body.
You have to deal with it well, don't be in a hurry, didn't the ancients say, "If you govern a big country, if you cook a small fresh", you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.
Finally calming himself down, Yu Guang saw the baskets and boxes on the ground and on the table, and a fire rushed straight up.