"Half an hour to go!"

From the small village to the town there are twenty miles of road, Lao Li Tou and Wu Youyin set off, now it is almost halfway to Chen, Wu You looked at more and more people on the official road, there are carriages, donkey carts and people walking with burdens, after hearing Lao Li Tou's words, Wu You instantly came to the spirit, took out the money bag given by Jian Xiao, opened it and took a look, there were some copper coins and a few broken silver.

Seeing these broken silver, he touched the few sterling silver ingots without any logo in his arms and put his heart at ease, remembering that Jian Xiao had ordered to buy some seeds earlier, and asked: "Uncle Li, when I came, Uncle Jian told me that he told me that you took me to buy some seeds, but I don't know where to buy them?"

"I know this, the place to buy the seeds is next to my son's shop, and I'll take you there. ”

"By the way, is there a place to find someone in this town?"

There is a bulletin board at the gate of the city, on one side is the portrait of a wanted criminal, and on the other hand there are some information about searching for people and recruiting workers, but they have to go to the town office in the town to file and pay the money. ”

Half an hour later, the donkey cart swayed through the guards of the city gate with old steps, and walked through the busy streets, and in a short time the donkey cart turned into an alley and stopped at the gate of a courtyard. Lao Li shouted inward, "Good grandson, open the door quickly." ”

A happy response came from inside, 'Grandpa, here'. After the door opened, a chubby child in a luxurious brocade dress appeared in front of the two, and Lao Li's somewhat old body squatted down and hugged the child in his arms and said, "Good grandson, grandpa can't hold you anymore." ”

"That is, my mother said that my grandson has grown taller recently, and I am about to become a little adult, and my grandfather will definitely not be able to hold it. ”

Hearing the child's reply, Lao Li Tou laughed, and after putting down the child, he and Wu You pulled the donkey cart into the yard, and Wu You and Wu You unloaded the grain. The children ran to the back room.

After the grain was unloaded, the child came over with a woman, who saluted Lao Li Tou respectfully, said "Father", and beckoned Lao Li Tou and Wu You to the back room.

In the inner room, Lao Li Tou sat on a chair, and the chubby child sat in Lao Li Tou's arms, naughtily pulling Lao Li Tou's beard, and Lao Li Tou tickled the child, laughing continuously.

After a while, the woman took the teacup to Wu You and Lao Li Tou, put the teacup on the table and said to Lao Li Tou: "Father, Cheng Yi is still cutting cloth for the guests, you drink some tea first." ”

Lao Li nodded, and Wu You respectfully took the woman's teacup and said, "Mrs. Xie."

After hearing this, the woman nodded at Wu You and looked at Wu You, and after thinking about it in her mind for a while, she didn't think much about it after not being impressed, and then saw her son playing with his grandfather, smiled and left the back room.

After Wu You saw the woman go out, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then looked at Lao Li Tou, who was playing with his grandson, and said, "Uncle Li, I'll go out for a walk and come back later." ”

Lao Li tilted his head, scratching his hand on the child's body, and after hearing Wu You's words, he grabbed the child's hand that was touching his beard with one hand and said, "You are busy with you, remember to come back in the future, we will go back at that time." ”

Wu You answered, then came out of the back room and walked from the backyard towards the street, standing at the intersection and thinking about the location of the bookstore he saw when he went to the city first.

After entering the bookstore, the boss saw that Wu You was wearing a Confucian shirt and had a delicate face, so he asked, "Childe, what books do you need?"

After Wu You's eyes wandered around the bookstore, he looked at the boss and said, "Boss, are there any books like landscape travelogues and some history books?"

When the boss heard this, his eyes flashed, and he flattered: "The son must want to participate in the imperial examination?"

Wu You was stunned when he heard this: "Why do you ask this?"

"Gongzi doesn't know, last month King Liang restarted the imperial examination, from that time on, my bookstore every day has students like Xiang Gongzi come to buy history books, just to prepare for this imperial examination, the small shop has also prepared a complete set of imperial examination books, these books will definitely help Gongzi become famous. The boss said positively.

Wu You nodded when he heard this.

When the bookstore owner saw Wu You's head, he said, 'Childe, wait a minute' and walked towards the back room, and Wu You casually took a book on the bookcase and looked at it.

During this period, the owner of the bookstore was busy and moved around, Wu You continued to flip through the books and didn't care too much, and when he heard the boss call, 'Son, it's okay', Wu You put down the books and looked at them.

There are already two small book mountains on the counter, it is estimated that there are forty or fifty books, Wu You looked at these books a little big, he thought that there were only a dozen books in a set of books that the boss said, but he didn't expect to complete these two small book mountains.

The boss saw Wu You's displeased face, and still said with a smile on his face: "Childe doesn't know, my dynasty has a rich collection of books since its establishment, these forty-nine books are not many, they are all carefully selected by me, and the contents are all useful, not those unsightly books, Childe ............ after reading them."

"How much?" Wu You raised his hand to interrupt the boss.

"The little shop boy is not deceitful, this set of books is fifty taels of silver, and there are two free books. The boss had a straight face when he heard this, and put his right hand on his chest and opened it to make a five-character way.

Wu You nodded, a book of one or two silver is not expensive, and when he heard the gifted book, he said slowly: "I don't know what kind of book your gift is?"

The boss walked to the counter and squatted down, picked up two books after a while, and handed them to Wu You with a dark color on his face that all men understand.

Wu You took the book, there was no title on the cover page of the book, and when he saw the boss's expression, he looked a little puzzled, so he flipped through the book and looked at it, and saw that Wu You's face was red, and the book was full of the posture of a man and a woman fighting, and hurriedly closed the book and returned it to the boss.

"I don't want this book. ”

The boss saw Wu You's blushing face and said with a smile: "Childe, this book is hard to find, you can't buy it, and the small shop also bought this set of imperial examination books to have this book as a gift. ”

Wu You shook his head, calmed down and said calmly: "This gift book, you can help me replace it with that landscape travelogue." ”

The boss saw that Wu You didn't want these two books, and he didn't talk about these two books, but when Wu You hadn't experienced the joy of fish and water, and didn't understand the joy of fish and water, he walked to the counter and took two books and put them on the two small book mountains.

Wu You took out the two twenty-five taels of silver ingots from his arms and handed them to the boss, and the boss's eyes lit up when he saw the silver ingots, especially when he saw the silver ingots without inscriptions, he was even more like a treasure.

Wu You didn't say anything when he saw this scene, so he asked the boss if he could give this book away, and saw the boss nodding. Wu You wrote the name of Lao Li Tou's son's tailor shop on paper, and after inquiring about the location of the town office with the boss, he went out of the bookstore.

The town office is in the center of the town, and there are two huts on both sides of the gate of the government office, the right is to deal with military affairs, and the left is to deal with government affairs.

Wu You slowly walked into the hut on the left, there were five people chatting in the house, and after seeing Wu You come in, an old man asked Wu You what was the matter.

Wu You hugged his fists to the old man and said, "This lord, the grass people came here to find someone. ”

After the old man's eyes looked at Wu You for a moment, he said in surprise: "Oh, looking for someone? Since the son wants to find someone, he should know the rules here." ”

Wu You walked to the table, put down a silver ingot, sat on the chair in front of the old man's table and said: "The grass people want to find people, but not only in this platform town, but also around this Yecheng, and I hope that all the adults will think of a way." ”

The old man glanced at the twenty-five taels of silver ingots on the table, and said with a smile: "Childe, this notice posted by the search for someone is one tael of silver a month in Platform Town, and there are fifteen towns within the scope of Yecheng, plus the negotiation and round-trip travel expenses, it will be more." ”

Wu You nodded, took out a piece of gold, the five people looked directly at the gold in Wu You's hand, and seeing the eyes of the five people, Wu You slowly put the gold on the table and asked:

"This should last two months, right?"

The old man watched Wu Youyun take out the gold lightly, and replied: "Of course, please also ask the prince to paint the portrait of the person you are looking for, and hand over the rest to me." ”

Wu You nodded, got up and took the paper from the old man, and drew the appearance of Xiao Chongwu and Ling Jun on the table, and deliberately wrote underneath, 'Looking for the old man, I have prepared fine wine and special spices, waiting for the old man to hear back'.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I will be here in January. I hope to hear from you. Wu You and the five people hugged their fists.