Chapter Fifty-Eight: Huang Xiaoluan'er
It turns out that what was always thought to be complicated is solved in the simplest way in the end.
The Liu family, who had always been helpless with the Li family brothers, beat them crookedly, and because of a lie, they magically sent the four Li family father and son out of the Liu family's courtyard, leaving only Liu Cuihong and Li Wenwu.
The reason why Liu Cuihong and Li Wenwu did not move out together was because the Li family only temporarily borrowed a house, which was still temporarily borrowed from Li Zheng with half begging and half threatening.
Li Lizheng now lives in a bluestone house, and the original mud house is still there, which has been idle for many years.
Because no one lived in it for a few years, the original two rooms, because one of the beams was half collapsed, could not be inhabited, although the other room could be inhabited, but the gap in the wall was larger than the house where the catkins lived, and the cold wind outside the house blew into the house, not to mention how shabby.
Li Guangde, Li Wensheng, Li Wenyin, Li Wencai, father and son were crammed into one room, and Liu Cuihong and Li Changwu could only continue to stay in the Liu family.
Liu Cuihong naturally didn't want to live in the house anymore, and moved back to the house where she lived, and Liu Wu finally ended her life listening to the wall.
The Liu family and the Li family were busy moving, and Liu Wu took advantage of the rare leisure to follow Zhao Hong and went to the county seat in Niu Bo's ox cart.
You don't need to ask to know that Zhao Hong must be going to meet her little lover, so Liu Wu doesn't want to get in the way of other people's eyes and makes an excuse to leave.
Liu Wu stopped a small merchant walking through the streets, and while looking at the various small goods on it, he asked: "Little brother, do you know where the shopkeeper Huang is?" ”
The little merchant was already hospitable, and when he saw that it was a young girl who was asking, he kept asking: "Sister, which yellow shopkeeper are you asking?" There is a 'Huang Siliang' Huang shopkeeper who sells wine, a 'Huang Banjin' Huang shopkeeper who strikes iron, and even a tea seller in the corner tea shed is surnamed Huang. ”
Liu Wu smiled, the little merchant said this, but it was really his own no, and replied with a smile: "I heard that the yellow shopkeeper I said is quite rich, and there are carriages and coachmen when he goes out, and the main business is the cloth village." ”
The little merchant was stunned for a moment, and muttered: "You are talking about 'Huang Xiaolu' Huang Shopkeeper......"
The little merchant pointed to a dilapidated three-story building not far away: "Do you see the pretense on it that is not much bigger than the bowl?" That is the cloth village of the Huang shopkeeper, he is in the cloth village almost every day in the morning, at noon in the restaurant, in the money village in the afternoon, and goes home in the evening. ”
"Oh." Liu Fu responded, thinking that this yellow shopkeeper does have a lot of business.
Liu Wu threw down a few copper plates, bought a few pieces of caramel candy, and walked in the direction pointed by the little merchant.
This is a three-story small building, due to disrepair, the red paint on the wooden surface has fallen off, mottled, even if it has not fallen off, the red paint has taken on the old red, like the color of a coffin.
On the second floor facing the street, there is a small disguise, only the size of a bowl for a strong man to eat wine, if it is not for the good eyesight of the catkins, I am afraid that I can't see clearly that there is a word written on it, although I don't recognize it, but I can vaguely guess that it is a "yellow" word.
Liu Wu pushed open the door of the cloth village, and the shopkeeper who was lying in the pile of cloth on the measuring table raised his head lazily, looked at Liu Wu up and down, and pointed to a pile of sermons on the foot of the store: "These are processed at a reduced price, and a piece of cloth is sold." A piece of cloth is ten zhang long, and four pieces of money are charged, and two pieces of cloth are charged ninety percent silver, and nothing is said, not an inch is allowed. ”
Liu Fu pursed his lips and smiled, this is a very individual little two, and he didn't say a word of nonsense.
The catkins walked in front of a pile of cloth, perhaps the rain soaked the storeroom, causing the color on the cloth, or red, or blue, or green, or yellow mottled together, the flowers were whistling, and the quality was not bad.
Liu Wu's eyes rolled, and he looked at the little second brother with great sincerity and said, "Little brother, help me calculate how much silver I should give you to buy two pieces of eleven-foot-three-inch cloth?" ”
"Huh?" The little second brother's confused head suddenly sobered up a little, he had never sold cloth so bits and pieces, and it was all sold in pieces.
Xiao Er had just been woken up, and he was in a bad mood, so he replied impatiently: "I can't measure it." ”
Liu Wuhu pointed to the ruler on the cloth suspiciously and said, "Little brother, isn't your ruler just for measuring?" Why can't it be measured? Or are you not counting? ”
Xiao Er was so excited that his heart was on fire, he picked up the abacus, crackled and pulled, and said in his mouth: "A piece of cloth is nine percent silver is three hangs and sixty wen, two pieces of cloth are seven hangs and twenty wen, and eleven feet of cloth is ......"
The little second brother's voice became lower and lower, his expression became more and more solemn, and finally he was so tired that his fingers almost turned into twists.
The little second brother wiped the sweat on his head, and said with relief: "I will charge you a total of seven yuan and sixty-eight yuan......"
The little second brother raised his eyebrows arrogantly, he was the second shopkeeper in the Huang family's industry who was the best at calculating accounts, and the little village girl dared to doubt her ability, she was simply, she didn't know whether she was alive or dead.
Xiao Er stretched out his palm in front of the catkins, wanting to see if this poor and sour girl could take out more than seven silver coins to buy cloth.
Liu Wu tightened his brows, looked at the abacus on the platform, and said unhappily: "Little brother, you have to be sincere, why did you overcharge me four cents, didn't you hide it from the shopkeeper?" ”
The little brother was so angry that his face turned red, he was patient, and he added half an hour little by little, and in the end he was accused of taking advantage of the owner, and the anger came up, and he said angrily: "Nonsense! When did I covet my owner's money? This abacus is here, why did it fool you? ”
Liu Wu shook his head and said, "Little brother, if you didn't leave the owner's money privately, why did you charge me more than four yuan in silver?" Are you still annoyed and angry when I ask you? ”
The fire in the little second brother's heart arched upwards one by one, picked up the ruler and pointed at the catkins and said, "Don't play tricks here, Huangjia Buzhuang is not something you can rely on if you want to." ”
Liu Fu looked at the black shadow cast from the top of the stairs, and said with a slight smile: "Little brother, if I leave now, your host's suspicion of you has planted seeds, and it will slowly grow into a towering tree, and the clear will become unclear." If you want to repay your innocence, you have to recalculate it little by little, and see if I said that you left the owner's four cents, whether it was wrong. ”
The little second brother rolled up his sleeves, zeroed out the abacus with a "snap", and muttered in his mouth: "Two pieces of cloth are ninety percent discount, which is three hundred and sixty Wen, and two pieces of cloth are seven hundred and twenty Wen, is this right?" ”
Liu Fu nodded firmly.
The second brother continued to calculate: "One piece of cloth is four hundred wen, one horse is equal to ten zhang, that is, one hundred feet, and one foot is four wen ......."
Liu Wu shook his head and said: "Little brother, I bought two pieces of cloth eleven-foot-three-inch cloth, and these eleven feet should also be ninety percent silver, and one foot is three dollars and six ......."
The little second brother's eyes widened suddenly, three Wen Liu? How much money is this and how to divide it?
The little second brother couldn't, so he added eleven three wen six in a row, and got thirty-nine wen six, three inches according to the same algorithm, and finally as Liu Wu said, he overcharged four wen.
The little second brother looked at Liu Wu with admiration and said: "Girl, your math skills are too powerful, I will calculate it once, it will take half an hour, and you, just like this, calculate accurately and quickly, it is really admirable." ”
Liu Fu smiled but did not answer, in fact, it is very simple, the ancients used addition, multiplication and division have not been popularized, and there is no simple calculation method of multiplication oral decision, so it takes longer.
The little second brother looked at the catkins with blazing eyes, and even forgot about the cashier.
Footsteps sounded on the stairs, and the round body of the shopkeeper Huang walked down step by step, and said with a smile: "Miss Liu, if you guessed well, you didn't come to buy cloth, right?" ”
Liu Fu nodded and said: "The purpose of my coming here is the same as the purpose of Shopkeeper Huang's second visit to Liuhe Village to attend the wedding, and whether we can reach an agreement in the end depends on Shopkeeper Huang's sincerity." ”
The shopkeeper Huang looked up and down the catkins, shook his head and said: "I am very harsh in my selection, and I will never pick it if I choose." ”
Liu Fu smiled: "I am also very harsh in my selection, and I will definitely not be stingy when I choose." ”
Shopkeeper Huang pursed his lips and said, "The arithmetic is quite amazing, but how do I know if you calculated these in advance." Your sharp teeth and courage are right for Huang's appetite, so Huang will give you another chance, come up. ”
The shopkeeper Huang turned around and went upstairs again.
Liu Wu had to follow upstairs until he reached the third floor, which was different from the first and second floors, the third floor was empty, there were no tables and chairs, only a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy, half-squatting on the ground, smearing on a pile of rice paper, some like eagles, some like cats, making one hand jet black, one paper jet black.
"Cheng'er, come here, let Sister Liu compensate you for playing in the future?" Shopkeeper Huang's voice suddenly softened a lot.
Liu Wu was suspicious in his heart, did not say anything, and waited for the changes.
Cheng'er raised her eyes, her long eyelashes almost covered half of her eyelids, looking like an ink painting in Jiangnan, very warm and warm.
Liu Wu bloomed a smile that he thought was warm, Huang Cheng shrank his neck in fright, and nervously hid behind the Huang shopkeeper, as if squeezing out a word "afraid, afraid, afraid" from his throat.
Liu Wu was embarrassed there, feeling that in the eyes of the young man, he was a flood beast.
Shopkeeper Huang sighed and said, "Miss Liu, everything has a fate, you better go back." ”
How discouraged and discouraged the catkins are, I really can't figure it out, I'm just doing business, why was I turned away before I talked about it?
This teenager's emotions are so important? Can you even decide whether you can negotiate business with Shopkeeper Huang?
Liu Wu looked at a piece of rice paper on the ground that was painted by the young man like an eagle-shaped ink, stepped forward, and folded the rice paper directly.
The shopkeeper Huang hugged his son Huang Cheng and said hurriedly: "Why don't you stop quickly?" This is Cheng'er's fate!! ”
The catkins didn't stop, but folded faster and faster, a paper airplane was placed in the palm of the hand, the black eagle was just exposed on the back of the plane, the catkins pushed open the window, breathed a breath of fresh air, and beckoned to Huang Cheng: "Do you want to let the eagle fly away?" ”
Huang Cheng stopped thrashing and looked at the shopkeeper Huang dependently, the shopkeeper Huang took his hand, walked to the catkins together, took the plane from the catkins, and flew directly into the air, and the planes circled in the air, as if they really had wings.
Huang Cheng finally smiled and shouted, "Eagle, eagle......"
The young man picked up the rice paper on the ground, stuffed it into Liu Wu's arms, and motioned for Liu Wu to continue origami.
Shopkeeper Huang looked at Huang Cheng, who finally had a smile, and there was a slight throbbing in his heart. I couldn't help but take a few more looks at the catkins.
After releasing all the rice paper, the shopkeeper Huang asked Huang Cheng to take Huang Cheng to dinner first, and said to Liu Wu as if appreciatively: "You are a little smarter than ordinary girls." Tell me, did your eldest brother ask you to come? What price or conditions did he ask you to offer? ”
"Huh?" Liu Wu was confused.