Laba Han Chapter 19 The Golden Abacus
There were three of them, all dressed in red. The style is exactly the same as that worn by the red kite on the day of Xiankao, with black moire embellishments on the cuffs, neckline and robe edges.
Ji Wutong could clearly feel that these three were all immortal cultivators. The two who followed were both at the level of immortals.
The man at the head was obese. Not only is it long with a fat head and big ears, but it also has meat on both cheeks. The big belly is even more high.
On the waist on either side of the belly, on the left hangs a beautifully carved copper coin-shaped jade pendant, and on the right hangs an aqua-blue fish-patterned cloth bag with four quail egg-sized pearls attached to it.
The man has a green jade wrench on his left thumb. The most luxurious thing is the abacus on his right hand, the whole abacus is made of pure gold, and even the abacus beads on the abacus are inlaid with dense red and green gemstones.
"Hey, don't blame Zhangzhang! It's clumsy in the next eye, it turns out to be the brother of Wuwenlou! ”
The steward of the Sima family bowed his hands, this time it was not like perfunctory Wu Anrao just now, but with a smile on his face and a respectful bow.
"Sima family steward, we don't ask how much this little brother owes you? I'll give it to you. As Zhang Shanyou spoke, the abacus in his hand shook and jingled.
Just this one action, the mood in Ji Wutong's heart fluctuated. I'm afraid that this good friend has already sat firmly in the Immortal Realm.
"Zhang Zhang's joke, fifty taels of silver, since he is a brother of Wuwenlou, buy a friendship, don't do it!"
The housekeeper of the Sima family changed his anger just now and smiled slightly.
"How dare you. Buying friendship is also the friendship that I don't ask Lou to spend money to buy Sima's house, where do I dare to let the dignified Sima family climb my friendship with a small Wuwen Lou. ”
Zhang Shanyou finished talking, casually flicked the beads on the abacus, the cloth bag on his waist opened a hole, and a palm-sized silver cake slowly flew in front of the Sima family steward.
"If there is more, it should be considered to invite a few people to drink."
Zhang Shanyou smiled, and the people around him were whispering. If you want to talk about the atmosphere, this Wanlang City's Wuwen Building dares to say second, and no one dares to say first.
"Thank you, Zhang!"
The housekeeper of the Sima family unceremoniously pocketed the silver cake in front of him and left with a few people.
"Thank you Miss Wu, please don't be stingy, your next month's qu'er, I don't have to ask about the real estate!"
Zhang Shanyou walked up to Wu Anrao with a smile, his fingers moved lightly again, and three gold beads the size of fingernails floated out of the cloth bag around his waist.
"Where is Zhang's matter, I have to bother you to take care of it."
Wu Anrao bowed in return, glanced at Ji Wutong on the side, smiled lightly, accepted the gold bead, and disappeared at the corner of the street.
This farce comes and goes as fast as it comes. Seeing the lively people scattering in all directions, only Ji Wutong led Dabai and followed behind Zhang Shanyou silently.
"Loss! What a loss! I didn't earn a copper plate, but I put a lot of it in! ”
Watching the crowd disperse, Zhang Shanyou pulled his abacus as he walked, his face trembling. If you don't pick up a copper plate when you go out every day, it's equivalent to losing two.
"Zhang's affairs!"
Ji Wutong, who was following Zhang Shanyou, finally spoke. My mother said that you can't cause trouble to others, and don't owe others favors.
Unexpectedly, on the first day of his arrival in Wanlang City, he made such a joke and owed a lot of favors.
Ji Wutong chased a few steps and came to Zhang Shanyou, who was still planning to make a plate, and took out all the two demon pills of calamity.
"Boy! Just these two will be able to withstand Wu Anrao's favor, you still owe me a piece of silver cake! Remember me! ”
Zhang Shanyou saw the two demon pills grabbed them, and the fat hand that was pulling the abacus finally rested.
"Go back, hurry up and change this shivering clothes for me! I don't know what the red kite thinks! ”
Zhang Shanyou shook the flesh on his face and looked Ji Wutong up and down, his face full of disgust.
"This is the day my mother bought me a new one on the twenty-ninth day."
Looking at Zhang Shanyou who was walking forward, Ji Wutong looked down at the clothes on his body, except for being a little dirty, they were very warm.
"The abacus is loud, and it can be good to eat and wear!"
Zhang Shanyou, who walked to the front, muttered in his mouth, and the sound of abacus was still endless.
After passing through the fragrant West Street and entering Wanlang City South Street, it is still fragrant.
Rouge gouache, beautiful as the human eye. The flowers are red and willow green, and the whispers are invasive.
Where has Ji Wutong seen this meeting. Carry the big bow on your back, hold the big white tightly, and dodge left and right.
Next to him is a pair of crazy men and women, with extravagant wine and meat. Looking up is the tulle light silk on the pavilion, and the jade fingers hook the soul.
Zhang Shanyou was in front, and his hands were spreading around, and he was like a flower in laughter.
Ji Wutong was behind, his expression couldn't dodge, attracting bursts of laughter and teasing.
After walking 100 meters, it was finally quiet in front of me. In front of it is a five-storey pavilion, and there is a hot gold medal plaque hanging on the pavilion, on which the words Wuwenlou are written.
Ji Wutong looked up. The roots are red columns, and the green beams are green. The hustle and bustle here is different from the fairy gate he imagined.
Red lights hung high on all sides, and pavilions with colorful ribbons fell. On the window are paintings of landscapes, birds and fish, and the tiles are glazed to reflect the light.
Stunned for a moment, Ji Wutong raised his feet and entered the building, and the wine shop on the first floor was singing, and the hustle and bustle was flourishing. The second floor is quiet and elegant, fragrant and fragrant.
There are forty-eight rooms on the third and fourth floors, and with Zhang Shanyou, Ji Wutong came to the fifth floor.
Unlike the third and fourth floors, which were used as inns, the fifth floor was more like a labyrinth, with the names of the immortals of Wuwenlou hanging on the doors of each room.
Turn left and turn right, turn right and turn left. Zhang Shanyou brought Ji Wutong to a room.
"Quickly change your clothes and come to the second floor to find me."
Zhang Shanyou said and opened the door with his big belly, not wanting to look at Ji Wutong's poor and sour appearance again. Holding his stomach, he shook his body and walked to the corner of the hallway.
There is a bed, a desk, a basin of water, and a wardrobe in the corner of the room.
Ji Wutong came to the bedside, a red robe and two undershirts on the bed, which had already been prepared.
is not in a hurry to change clothes, such a house makes Ji Wutong finally sit at the desk with a sigh of relief.
Sitting here, Ji Wutong understood what the words in his mother's mouth meant.
There is still a long way to go in life. When you go out of the house, climb a few mountains and cross a few rivers, you will find that the original path is difficult in the book, in the mouth, in the disease-free moaning and the early morning school. Nowadays, the difficulty of walking is only under the feet, and I can't say anything when I open my mouth, and I can't find the answer when I turn the book.
"It's still a little bit like that, but it's a little less extravagant!"
Ji Wutong, who had changed his clothes, came to Zhang Shanyou. The youth's refreshment, the clarity between the eyebrows finally revealed.
"Settle accounts!"
The corners of Zhang Shanyou's mouth curled, a mercenary person, as long as he has money to earn, he is happy.
"This dress is made of Jiangnan Yunsi, and I don't have to ask the people in the building to wear it! Warm in winter and cool in summer, three hundred taels! A pot of spring water, five taels! Borrow the fairy room, count ten taels! A piece of silver bread, a hundred taels! A total of four hundred and fifteen taels, for the sake of you being a red kite apprentice, count you four hundred taels! ”
The abacus in Zhang Shanyou's hand thunderclapped, and the smell of the market overshadowed the fragrance of tea on the table.
"That's all."
Here are Ji Wutong and Zhang Shanyou, Ji Wutong opened his small satchel and poured all the scattered silver on the table.
"Loss! What a loss! ”
Zhang Shanyou held the silver on the table in front of him, and continued to play the abacus under his hand with a sad face.
"Deduct these, barely count you owe me three hundred and eighty taels!"
Putting down the abacus, the horizontal flesh on Zhang Shanyou's face trembled slightly, he had never made such a loss-making transaction. Write an IOU in a few strokes and throw it in front of Ji Wutong.
Ji Wutong didn't say much, picked up the pen and signed the IOU. When I went out, the first thing I did was to owe money, and if my father and mother knew about it, I would be scolded.
"And! The red kite said, you can only leave Wanlang City after Qingming! It's just right, you'll leave after you've paid off the money you owe me! ”
Zhang Shanyou looked at the signed IOU, and felt a little more comfortable. Thinking of the red kite's instructions is one thing, but it is true that this kid can't be allowed to run away with an IOU.
When the time comes, let this kid see the red kite and then sue himself, it's not cost-effective! Not cost-effective!!
"And where do I live these days?"
Ji Wutong was a little panicked when he heard this. Even if he is allowed to live in a small village, in this Wanlang City, he is afraid that a penniless poor boy will not be able to stay.
"The third and fourth floors, the upper class room is five taels a day! The private room is three taels a day. But you are my person who does not ask about the building, you can live in the room on the fifth floor, twenty taels a day! ”
"People who don't ask about the door of the building, they also have to charge money if they live on it?"
Ji Wutong was a little puzzled, afraid that it wasn't this good friend who was deliberately bullying his youth.
"You don't have to raise idlers without asking about the building!"
Zhang Shanyou glared at Ji Wutong, does this poor boy still want to let himself go in.
"Then I'll go live somewhere else in the city! The money will be paid back to you. Ji Wutong walked downstairs, and now there are at least two months left before Qingming.
It is an indisputable fact that money is owed, and the red kite's entrustment cannot be disobeyed. In this huge Wanlang City, a young man wearing a red robe with a bow on his back walked out of Wuwen Tower and went in the direction of the outside of the city.
"Shopkeeper, aren't you afraid that this kid will run away?" Behind Zhang Shanyou walked an old man with a nose like a hook
"If you want to run, you just ran on the street, and people like me who do business like me like to deal with trustworthy people."
Zhang Shanyou took a sip of the teacup on the table, and suddenly the tip of his tongue was like a lotus blooming, and the spring water was indeed clear.
How could such a good spring water allow that season Wutong to wash his face, the name of Zhang Shanyou of the golden abacus is not for nothing.