Chapter 19: A slap in the face

That bowl of wonton stew, naturally you can't charge money.

The scholar didn't say much, and after eating, he thanked him and left.

Li Su couldn't give up all day and pricked up his ears. From the whispers of the neighborhood, she remembered the name - Chu Fan, who was her Yunmeng fellow.

When the sun rose the next day, Chu Fan came again, this time carrying a food box.

He had good eyes, and he saw a middle-aged customer in the shop from a distance who had finished eating, with two mouse whiskers, a fat body, and a robe.

Appearing near the vegetable market early in the morning, busy and busy, the short-brown people in linen clothes are all ordinary people begging for a living. Wearing robes is extremely rare, and there is no one dressed as a scholar like him. The middle-aged man must be a housekeeper in a small mansion, and there is an important banquet in the mansion today, so he came out to procure it in person.

Chu Fan didn't care, but the words over there drifted into his ears from afar, and he immediately frowned after hearing it.

Mung Bean's small eyes shot an obscene light, and while Li Suzheng was facing away from chopping vegetables, he turned around her slender waist and round buttocks several times. He swallowed another mouthful of saliva, as if to swallow the whole person and water. But his face was serious, he knocked on the table with his knuckles, and sighed:

"Hey, you are young, only twenty years old, it is not easy to drag your daughter from Yunmeng to escape here alone, and you don't have relatives to help you...... I mentioned it last time, so why don't you ...... with me."

Li Su stopped, didn't look back, quickly interrupted him, and said:

"Steward Liu wants to mention it again, Li Sugao can't afford it. My husband is just separated, maybe tomorrow he will find him......"

"Hahaha, girl, don't hide it. I heard that when I first arrived here, I pawned the jewelry and begged Mr. and Mrs. Li Lao'er on the other side to rent this shop to you. said that they had bumped into a bandit, and everyone scattered and fled for their lives. Your husband dislikes your mother and daughter for being a burden, and runs away alone......"

The answer to him was the sound of "tuk tuk" chopping vegetables.

"Sister, you escaped the bandits, count your fate. But I escaped the first day of junior high school, but I can't avoid fifteen. Look at the neighborhood of this market, which one doesn't want to chew you up and swallow your stomach, and you can still keep your innocence for a few days? It's better to find someone to marry as soon as possible. I Liu Quan has nothing else, but I have money. Over the years, he had accumulated eighty or ninety taels of silver, and had six or seven servants. How many yellow flower girls begged to come to the door ......"

"Then you can find the yellow flower girl!"

"Oh, look how you talk...... Hahaha, don't really say it, I'm just good for you, it's charming. I don't know if I can give some sweetness in the bed......"

Tuk Tuk ......

The sound of chopping vegetables was like raindrops, and it stopped abruptly.

Li Su's chest rose and fell with anger, and he looked back to prevent tears from flowing.

On the cutting board, the leaves have already chopped into a pile of minced pieces.

In the desolate silence of unspeakable anger, a kind voice from last night's dream sounded in her ears.

"Trouble, let's have a bowl of wonton stew. ”

Li Su's body trembled, and he froze, thinking it was an illusion. After reacting, he quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe his eyes, and according to his habit yesterday, he quickly scalded the chopsticks and bowls first, and deliberately added half more wontons to stew.

Liu Quan saw that a scholar appeared in the market, and pursed his lips with disdain, it must be a broken family who is desperate to save face, and he doesn't even have a servant, so he has to buy vegetables by himself. Seeing that Li Su was extraordinarily attentive, he couldn't help but snort coldly and squinted coldly.

After Chu Fan snorted and finished eating, he pushed the food box over and asked Li Su to take it away with four more bowls.

Liu Quangan sat for a while, it was inconvenient for outsiders to speak, and the woman ignored him, feeling bored. After getting up twice, he took out a few copper coins and shouted, "Check out." ”

Li Su stretched out his slender jade palm, and when he saw that the other party was borrowing money, he hurriedly retracted it and said, "Sanwen money, put it on the table." ”

After speaking, he turned around and used bamboo strips to fish out the four bowls that had just been served.

A trace of gloom flashed in Liu Quan's eyes, he put the copper coin in his hand and folded it, and then slapped it heavily on the table, for fear that Li Su would not know, and said loudly: "Four coins." ”

"You don't need four articles, you only have three articles. ”

"How many copper plates can you earn a day? If you give Siwen, you can take it, don't be embarrassed, uncle, I'm not bad for money." ”

"That's not going to work. ”

As Li Su spoke, he scooped the wonton stew into a bowl and put it into a food box, and brought it to Chu Fan. Seeing that Liu Quan was leaving, he grabbed a copper coin and returned it.

Liu Quan didn't want to push it, but Li Su threw the money to his cuffs, shook his hand and left.

The copper coin leaked out of his sleeve and swirled on the ground a few times. Liu Quan's face swelled into the color of pig liver, and he snorted angrily, he couldn't bear the money, so he leaned over and picked it up again.

Poof, someone couldn't hold back and laughed out loud.

Liu Quan turned around and glared, his color changed instantly, and his eyes almost popped out.

A snowflake of silver appeared on the table, a full ten taels!

Chu Fan said softly and settled the bill.

I can't find it...... Li Su bit his lip and wrung his fingers weakly.

Don't look for it, it's worth so much money...... Chu Fan smiled gently.

Three, a bowl of three cents is only 12 cents...... Li Su's face turned red, getting redder and redder, and even his earlobes began to get hot, ashamed and annoyed, and his mind was chaotic.

"You've miscalculated. Chu Fan smiled and corrected: "Three cents for one bowl, five bowls for fifteen ......"

"I, I can't take your money, I saved Yingying yesterday. ”

"One yard is one yard, and the brothers have to settle accounts. If you don't take money, won't it hurt me to be poked in the back and eat overlord meals. If the government knew that the errand man ate and drank for nothing, then I would not be able to do this white servant. ”

"That, that, that, three bowls of five cents......"

Poof, Chu Fan laughed again.

Li Su paused for a moment, and became even more nervous, feeling that he had never been so stupid.

"Haha, don't worry, listen to me calculate a detailed account. ”

Chu Fan explained:

"My bowl and chopsticks were too hot and required a lot of work, and there was half more wonton stew in the bowl. So others have a bowl of three cents, and I have at least five dollars per bowl. Are you right?"

"This, this ......"

"There's nothing like this, that...... Look at it, if only three wen is accepted for a bowl of wonton stew, the government will be dismissed if they know about me, and maybe they will be caught by Shi Mengshi. Hey, money is a small thing, and a bad reputation is a big thing. ”

"Hmm...... Then it will not cost ten taels of silver. ”

"Listen to me again. Five bowls of wonton stew a day, five-five-twenty-five. Three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, plus another month, is four hundred days. Four hundred days totaled 10,000 yuan, exactly ten taels of silver, not much for a penny, but not a lot for a penny. Therefore, this ingot of silver is paid for a whole year and a month. ”

"That, that, you can divide it into each payment. ”

"Hehe, look where you have gone? Although my Chu Fan is so poor that I don't even have a copper plate, I have never been short of silver. You must know that I am also a scholar, when do you see a scholar taking out a lot of copper coins? If the gentleman is proudly teaching and lecturing, you will jingle like a chime when you shake it, and don't be driven out by the big stick......

Poof, Li Su covered her mouth and laughed, charming and natural, like spring flowers blooming.

Chu Fan was stunned for a moment and continued:

"My sister and I were so hungry every morning that we had to eat a bowl of hot food to get comfortable. I didn't know how to get it, so I had to go outside to mix, and I had no choice but to book it for 400 days. If you don't pick it up, then our brother and sister will only be hungry and stiff. As the saying goes, saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter......"

"That, that...... You can go to another house......"

Li Su lowered his head, his voice was as thin as a gnat, and he subconsciously rubbed his toes.

"Hey, it's all my little sister's mouth. After eating the wonton stew you cooked yesterday, I refused to eat anything else. ”

"Well, okay then...... Still, take the money back and come back to settle the bill at a later time. With such a big ingot, I'm afraid that someone will rob me. ”

Chu Fan looked around and felt right.

The wooden house, leaking wind and rain, is actually a dilapidated shack that can be kicked open with one foot. If such a large ingot of silver is kept, it will provoke thieves and make life uneasy.

A few Zhuang men wanted to come over to eat a bowl of wonton stew, but when they saw the two men in robes, they were timid and wanted to change their homes. But he was dazzled by the big silver ingot, and sat down next to each other at the table outside.

A huge ingot of silver, one to give, one not to be, which drama is playing?

Passing by were amazed, and they all stood on the side of the street and stretched their necks to look.

Hmph, a pair of dog men and women, flirting and scolding in broad daylight!

Liu Quan saw that more and more people were gathering, and snorted coldly to separate the crowd and get out. But the snowflake silver was heavy in his heart, so that he didn't dare to say a cruel word after all.

Seeing that Liu Quan was leaving, Chu Dashenzhu was not happy.

The slap in the face just now was not painful, and it didn't touch the soul, and no one next to him understood it. That guy was indecent and teased Li Su, if he didn't come out with this pickled breath, he would be really aggrieved and panicked, and he was afraid that he would come back to entangle.