Chapter 30: The Pawnshop

Director Wu heard Li Bokang's words and looked at her again, but she was also surprised to hear Li Bokang. She thought that she had told him before that he would put it down, but she didn't expect that he still cared about this matter all the time, but now it's best if she doesn't speak, and it's better if she can impress Master Wu with less money, isn't it. Besides, there are some things that can be said in private, not necessarily in the open.

Maybe Director Wu also had some ideas, so he said, "In that case, I can help you get a good people's household registration, but the money still has to be collected, but I can give you a little less." After all, your situation is indeed easy to say and difficult to say, in fact, if you had come earlier, it wouldn't have been so troublesome. In this way, you give me ten taels of silver, which is already the least, and you can see if you can do it. "Can't it really be less?" Yang Xue asked in a low voice again. "That's the minimum, you see you're in a really difficult situation. Even if you don't have your original household registration, it's not a serious village to live in, and you haven't had anyone to guarantee that you don't have land or a livelihood. Wu said.

After a pause, she said, "Okay, we'll do it, but we don't have that much money now, can we think of a way to do it tomorrow first?" "Yes, but not too long." "Okay, we know, and there is also Chief Wu I want to ask, my parents are gone, I died in the face of bandits, and I don't have any relatives. And at that time, I forgot a lot of previous things, can I apply for household registration in this case? "In this way, if you are a woman with a household registration, you don't need to have a special household registration, you can hang your own under his household, anyway, it is not particularly important." But if you really want to do it, you can set up a female household. "Well, if I want to run a women's household, will it cost money?" "In this way, if you two do it together, I will only charge him for one person's money, but you have to pay for the household registration fees required to handle these things." "How much does it cost?" "This, it's about twelve or thirteen taels." "Okay, then thank you Master Wu, let's go back and figure out a way first." The two thanked them and went out.

After coming out, the two went all the way out of the county office, and when they arrived outside the county office, she said to Li Bokang: "Bokang, have you always been very concerned about the cost of household registration?" I told you before, don't care too much about this, if you really don't care, you can be doubly good to me in the future, and you can help my sister come out when you have a chance. Don't worry too much about these, my sister is willing to help you, which means that my sister doesn't care about those, as long as you don't disappoint your sister. "But Sister Xue, this time it really costs a lot of money, you spent so much money to save me before. You've been spending money for me............" "Okay, don't talk about it, let's find a way to get the money first." In short, you just don't care about these all the time, you won't be able to go far after you keep worrying about these, as long as you remember your sister's words, let's go. ”

The two walked all the way back to the inn, but along the way, she still sighed to Li Bokang: "Alas, the status of women is really low, and it is really troublesome to get a household registration." It may be that she just said something that didn't let him care, so Li Bokang said: "Sister Xue, do we have enough money?" Where are we going to get the money? "Okay, it's okay, I'll figure out the money." But if I didn't have you today, maybe I wouldn't even be able to enter the county office. The two of them walked and talked as they went back to the inn.

The next day, the two got up early in the morning and went out. At first, Li Bokang didn't know where to go, but later on the road, when he heard her ask people about the pawnshops with good reputation and good reputation in the county, he had some hazy thoughts, and he understood when he knew that they came to a big pawnshop.

They arrived a little early, and the pawnshop had just opened and was still cleaning. Seeing them coming, Xiao Er hurriedly greeted them: "Come, two guest officers, please take a seat, do you want to be a thing or buy something?" "I want to see first, is your shopkeeper there?" I have something I want him to see. She replied to Xiao Er. Hey, what you said, of course, the shopkeeper is here, please wait a moment for me to call our shopkeeper immediately. After saying that, Xiao Er went to the back curtain and called them shopkeepers.

"Hello two guest officers, the next surname Huang is the shopkeeper here, may I ask the guest officer if there is anything he wants to take a look at." A chubby man stepped out of the curtain and spoke. "Shopkeeper Huang, right, I want you to see how much it's worth, if it's appropriate, I'll be here to be. Truth be told, I wouldn't have taken them for granted if I hadn't needed them now. Yang Xue said. Listening to her words, the shopkeeper knew who was in charge, so he said to Yang Xue: "What the guest officer said is that if it weren't for the urgent need, who would take the good things as such." Shall we just watch it here, or will we go inside and take a look? "Let's just look at it again." With that, she took the things she had brought out of her baggage and put them on the table.

The shopkeeper looked at what she had placed on the table and said, "Can I take a closer look?" "Of course, you see." Seeing that she agreed, the shopkeeper Huang first picked up the golden lock on the table and looked at it, then looked at the silver hairpin and silver bracelet, and finally put them on the table and asked, "What kind of method does this guest officer want?" "What's the rule?" Yang Xue asked. "Then I'll explain to the guest officer our pawn here, first of all, live dang: if you live it, you will temporarily put things here, and the guest officer will redeem it within a certain period of time, but in this case, you will have to give us some storage fees and interest for the pawnshop, and if the time limit is exceeded, we will dispose of it ourselves or increase some interest. If you die, the ownership of these things will be our pawnshop in the future, and how to deal with it is our own business. "That's right." After understanding, Yang Xue said.

"And how much do you think these shopkeepers are worth?" Then she asked again. "The price of death here is different from that of life, death should be higher than life should be lower, and it depends on how you want to be a guest officer." "And how much is it worth if you die?" "Well, this gold lock, the workmanship and gold content are not bad, I will give you twenty taels, the silver hairpin and the bracelet are also good, I will give you a total of twenty taels, what do you think, guest officer." Huang shopkeeper said. Hearing the price of the shopkeeper Huang, she felt a little less, at least in her opinion, the gold lock was at least three taels heavier, and now it was the Taiping period, and the gold and silver exchange ratio was relatively high, and the workmanship was very delicate and the gold content was enough. There are also silver hairpins and silver bracelets, which she thinks are too few.

She was silent for a while and didn't speak, and the shopkeeper didn't speak either, as if waiting for her to make a decision. After a while, she said: "Sixty taels, if the shopkeeper agrees, I will take it, and you can see that these workmanship are all good, and I don't want to treat them cheaply." At this price, the shopkeeper will definitely not lose, and we are indeed short of money, but I will not be cheap. The shopkeeper Huang still said: "Forty taels, it is true that the workmanship style of these things is very good, but you are not new." "Look at the shopkeeper, you have said that the price of good things is too low, and then what kind of new and old problems you said, when the time comes, you will take it and fry it to become new again, you see that these styles are new, even if there are not many in the county now, you will definitely make money at my price."

In this way, after the two of them talked about it, they made a deal for fifty-five taels of silver, and they were dead, and they left after taking the pawn ticket and silver. Originally, the shopkeeper Huang said that she was taking the silver ticket, but she refused, so the two left with the silver on their backs. There were five ingots and ten taels of silver, and the remaining five taels were exchanged for some bits and pieces of silver by the shopkeeper. The two of them came out of the pawnshop and went straight to the yamen, afraid of causing more trouble.