Based on his years of experience in training and calling parents, he knows that this kind of situation where a good student sues and does not report the result is basically equivalent to nothing happening.

Lu Xu comforted him, "I think the county magistrate is quite satisfied with you, if you weren't able to answer the questions fluently when you were examined, we would have been blasted out if we didn't get beaten." ”

He put his arm on Yan Junqi's shoulder, and put on a posture of doing his best to obey the fate of God, I did what I was happy and the result had nothing to do with me, "Go!" Go grocery shopping! ”

Unexpectedly, before they could go down the steps of the county government, they were stopped by the scribe who led them into the door.

"You two, wait!"

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Lu Xu's mental activities when he was in school: I didn't want to go into the office, I didn't want to go into the office, I didn't want to go into the office......

Chapter 34: The Gift

The scribe beckoned, "You two, wait!" ”

Lu Xu subconsciously shrank his head and said in his heart: Isn't it necessary to settle accounts at this time?

He stubbornly turned around and smirked, "What other instructions do you have?" ”

The clerk was puzzled, why did this kid react like this, and he was polite? He slapped Lu Xu on the shoulder with a palm, "You kid, dare to lead someone to ask the county magistrate for a book." ”

Lu Xu: ???

What?

He let out a cold and deep "um" and smiled politely and humbly, "Look at what you said." ”

The scribe turned his gaze to Yan Junqi again, and he didn't know how this little scholar got into the eyes of adults, so he asked him to call them back and bring them some books to read.

The scribe asked, "Will you wait here for a while, or will you go back with me to get the books?" ”

Lu Xu and Yan Junqi glanced at each other, and followed him into the county office again, this time they failed to see the county order, the clerk asked them to stand at the door of the back office, go inside to report, and after a while, a stack of more than a dozen books came out, "Be careful, these are all the county orders' collection." ”

Yan Junqi was stunned, and saw the "Treatise on Governance" at the top, the pages of the book cover had been yellowed, but the book was as smooth as new, which showed that it was cherished and often read.

Yan Junqi solemnly took the book and bowed in the direction of the internal office, "Students must cherish it." ”

Lu Xu and Yan Junqi thanked the scribe again and again, and then carefully put the book into the cart and padd a lot of paper on the top and bottom.

The county magistrate didn't see them again, and the clerk thought they were here to ask for a book, so the matter was revealed in such a vague way?

Lu Xuren was in a trance, and couldn't understand what the county order meant, "Does the county magistrate think that you are too young, not in his position, and not in politics, and advise you to study first and get famous, and then take care of this?" ”

Yan Junqi sighed: "Maybe." ”

They are soft-spoken, and even if they see the problem and point out the problem, they can't change anything now.

Seeing that he was far away from the county office, Yan Junqi said in a low voice: "The county magistrate asked me if I knew what I was complaining about. ”

Lu Xu nodded: "I heard it." ”

I just don't understand why Yan Junqi said, "I know, but I don't know".

Yan Junqi: "It's clear to think about it. ”

Lu Xu blinked, and after a little bit of him, he immediately figured it out, "He knows who it is, so he asked us if we know!" ”

He said, Yan Junqi's article only wrote out the people by name, why did the county order ask such a sentence.

Lu Xu: "When the adult asks you about your family background, are you telling you that we can't afford to mess with those people?" ”

Yan Junqi nodded.

Lu Xu shut up.

So Yan Junqi said, I know, but I don't know so clearly, he is telling the county order that they know the identities of those people on the surface based on what they have seen and heard, and I don't know if there is another mystery underground!

Lu Xu's eyes darkened.

The prefectural order is not not not known, but when it is not known.

Maybe it's not just that they can't afford to mess with it, but even the county order can't mess with them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known it.

Lu Xu: "You say, why, adults are parents, and the boat gang is just a local gangster." ”

Yan Junqi asserted: "There is a shortage of grain elsewhere, and the grain tax collected by Guanyang is far from enough to fill the vacancy, so we can only turn a blind eye and let the merchants resell." ”

Lu Xuren was dumbfounded, "Huh? ”

Yan Junqi: "According to the law of our dynasty, if one party is affected by a disaster and borrows grain from other places, not only must the local government ask for instructions, and the county guard will ask the court to play, but also through the household department to verify and give instructions, smooth and long, and so on to get the instructions, at least ten to half a month, Guanyang is far away from the Beijing Division, and it will take at least more than a month on the way back and forth." Moreover, it was approved by the imperial court, and the other party had to pay it back in the coming year. ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Yan Junqi sighed: "Although salt and grain iron are not allowed to be sold privately, but Daqi has been nearly a hundred years now, and many laws are not fully applicable, I heard that a few years ago, there was a shortage of grain in the army, and Uncle Guo bought a large amount of rice and grain from the south out of his own pocket and transported it to the north. ”

At that time, food prices in the south also soared, and I heard that there were also ginseng uncles.

But specifically, he was just listening to people chatting outside the examination room, and he didn't know the details.

"Grain is now available for sale by default, but not in large quantities. But it is difficult to define what a large number is. Nowadays, the people are willing to sell and the other is willing to buy, and the merchants transport grain from the land of abundance to the place of scarcity to solve the local urgency, which is the fastest way, and no one can say anything. ”

Lu Xu frowned, "No one is not allowed to buy and sell, originally the merchants are to transport more from the east to the west, and more from the west to the east, but the problem of Guanyang is not that the people buy grain, but when the people of Guanyang don't know the situation, the merchants go to the villages and towns to collect grain at a low price one step in advance, and now, they not only sell the wheat from Guanyang, but also sell it to Guanyang County at a high price!" In my opinion, they are just hoarding and deliberately driving up the price of food. ”

Yan Junqi was stunned, Lu Xu always inadvertently revealed a sensitivity that was difficult for him to perceive, but the interesting thing was that those shrewdness were always fleeting, just natural and natural, not something he knew about it carefully.

Shrewdness, innocence, seemingly contradictory things, naturally converge in him.

Lu Xu scolded a few words in a low voice, the profiteer must not die well, took a few deep breaths, digested for three seconds, turned his head and solemnly stated his position, and pasted gold on himself: "Jun Qi, we must also pay attention to righteousness when we do business to make money, and the business without conscience will not last long, only if you are good, I am good, everyone is good, and no one can continue to operate!" ”

Yan Junqi looked at him with a look of "I'm so good" and "praise me" and smiled dumbly, and said sincerely: "Brother Xu is naturally the best." ”

Lu Xu was reserved: "General, not the most, I still have to work hard." ”

He turned his head and comforted Yan Junqi again: "We have done everything we should do, since the county order is difficult for adults to do, it can only be like this for the time being, let's do our own things first, you study hard, I make good money, we take care of our family from freezing and starving, at least don't make trouble to the current situation." ”

Yan Junqi: "Hmm. ”

Lu Xu was happy, his biggest advantage was that he could think of it, and the mountain blocked the road ahead, so he would take a detour and always be able to pass.

Lu Xu pushed the cart: "Let's go!" Go grocery shopping! I'll take you to the grocery store! ”

The grocery store still collects money, the boss himself is the shopkeeper, and the two guys are still relatives, their hometowns are in the countryside, there are hundreds of acres of fields, and the family sends grain to the city every month, and they are not worried about the food shortage at all.

Every day, as soon as he opened the door, he asked his men to go to the money bank to ask how the silver and copper coins were exchanged, and when he came back, he updated the prices of all the goods.

The copper coins in other places have not depreciated so fast, and his wife's uncle has traveled south and north to buy goods, and he can spend them far away, but it is more troublesome to transport.

There is no fear of trouble in doing business.

The shopkeeper happily pulled the abacus and counted the money, his family has opened a store in Guanyang County for two generations, and he has never made as much money as he does now.

Lu Xu loaded a lot of money today, and it was heavy.

In addition to kelp, fungus, mushrooms, dried vegetables, sauce and vinegar seasonings, he also bought a small bamboo ball for Layue, there was a copper bell in it, and there was a crisp sound when thrown up, and he bought Lu Rui the smallest leather ball.

The small leather ball is sewn with donkey skin, and it is stuffed with cotton, which is not too round, and it is enough to fool Lu Rui.

As for Lu Zhou......

Lu Xu didn't know what Lu Zhou's hobbies were.

His younger brother doesn't seem to have any hobbies that need to be spent on money.

Lu Xu searched and searched in the grocery store, and picked a small bag containing a hand stove. It was only the size of a palm, and the coarse cloth was lined with fine vines, in the shape of an incense burner, round and fat, and there was a small lid on it.

Lu Xu: "That's right, go back and use it as a piggy bank for Lu Zhou." ”

Shopkeeper: "......"

Someone else buys a hand stove, he buys a shell!

When he arrived at Yuan Manniang, Lu Xu bought a pink oil-paper umbrella.

They only had one umbrella in their house, and it was all broken.

After that, it's the rainy season, so you can use it anyway.

Lu Xu made up another needle and thread, bargained with the shopkeeper, and asked the shopkeeper to give him a stack of coarse porcelain bowls.

Those with a somewhat crooked shape are not easy to sell, and they do not hinder their use, and Lu Xu sells cold dishes that can be used by people when they try them.

He packed his things and looked at the sky, afraid that it would rain, "Anyway, it's coming, why don't you buy some cloth?" ”

Their clothes have always been left over from Lu Ji, Lu Zhou wore what he left, Layue wore what Lu Zhou and Yuan Manniang leftover, and when it was Lu Rui's turn, the clothes of the linen cloth were also washed and softened, and Lu Rui continued to wear them.

Before Lu Ji's accident, their family was quite well-off, and the poorer families in the village wore clothes in winter and summer, dismantling them in summer and adding them in winter. The wadding is either old cotton or catkins.

This year, his family has not bought cloth, he runs at home every day in the county, and costs shoes and clothes, Yuan Manniang made shoes for him a lot of worn-out clothes, and when the weather gets hot, Lu Zhou's clothes are not enough.

Yan Junqi's family is better than his, but he hasn't bought new clothes for two years.

Now it is a problem for the people in the county to eat, but the business of the cloth village has become two ends. Although the business of the silk and satin village on West Street for the rich family was also affected, the impact was not great, and the business continued as usual, they went to the embroidery village to sell embroidery pieces, and the shopkeeper gave them the money to settle the money. East Street's cloth shops, which cater to the common and poor, have taken a sharp turn for business.

The shopkeeper had sent the apprentices home for a few days of rest.

He doesn't pay his salary, he has to take care of food, how can he have food now?

Finally, the guests came, and the shopkeeper cheered up, and he didn't think Lu Xu was picky, so he took out all kinds of cloths one by one for Lu Xu to choose.

Shopkeeper: "If you have grain in exchange, I will make it cheaper for you." ”

Lu Xu: "I don't have any food, but I can give you silver." ”

The shopkeeper sighed, "The silver is the silver." ”

Silver retains its value better than copper coins.

Lu Xu picked two kinds of cheesecloth, light blue and dark blue, and asked for a soft cotton cloth in the color of Qian to make clothes for Layue and Lu Rui.

A child, the skin is more tender, not than him, the skin is rough and the flesh is thick and weary.

Yan Junqi also bought some cloth, and Lu Xu and the shopkeeper bargained for some old cloth left in the store.

Take it home and make cloth shoes!

Lu Xu also asked the shopkeeper to wrap the cloth in oiled paper.

The shopkeeper wanted to vomit blood: "If it weren't for the bad business, I wouldn't have given you so much spare!" ”

Lu Xu thought so, and he was also very bitter, so in business, he should still talk about the price.