Chapter 7 Entering the Eyes of Prosperity and Charm
Jintian Town is the largest town store in the circle of dozens of miles below the Nine Lotus Mountain, the shouting of the streets and alleys, the dazzling goods make the first time to come to the town of the tiger dizzying, a string of fiery red sugar gourds and exuding the aroma of the meat buns out of the cage, the saliva of the greedy beads in the corners of the mouth, as if the next moment will drip down.
Huzi and Zhu'er kept asking Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang what this was, what was that, and Zhu'er even pouted, saying that she also wanted it, and she wanted it. But when Huzi stepped forward and was told by the stall owner that he needed money, he suddenly looked stunned, and looked at Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang questioningly.
Wang Yuanliang stroked the heads of the two children, just smiled, and silently motioned for them to continue walking.
"Hongyun comes to the restaurant", Wang Yuanliang introduced to Huzi and Zhu'er: "You see, this is the largest restaurant in Jintian Town, and the so-called restaurant is the place where people can exchange money for food. β
Huzi smacked his lips and asked, "Grandpa, what is money, those sugar gourds and buns just now look delicious, but they also said that they all need money to exchange, what is money?"
Zhang Sanlang smiled bitterly, I really haven't told the children what money is over the years, speaking of money, Zhang Sanlang rescued Liu Qing from the thieves back then, and after killing the bandits, he really got a lot of gold and silver from the thieves, although it is not too much, but if you only buy four tile houses and a compound in this Jintian Town, it is still rich and surplus, and even don't have to do anything, and the use of a few years is not a problem, but they are used to this kind of idle cloud and wild crane life, usually self-sufficient, money, almost basically not used in life, although the hunting skins and some mountain goods will also be sold for money, but never to the children, no wonder Huzi and Zhu'er have no concept of money at all.
At this moment, Wang Yuanliang is different, he has already seen the difference between Huzi and ordinary children, and believes that Huzi will shine in the future, so he strongly recommends that Zhang Sanlang bring Huzi when selling leather goods this time, so that Huzi has a preliminary understanding of the world, and even decided in his heart that next time he sells and buys leather goods, simply let Huzi come by himself, but Zhu'er is a drag oil bottle, and the desperate coquettish has to follow, Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang are anxious, and Huzi is a guarantee that he will definitely be optimistic about his sister, so he had to bring Zhu'er again, and Liu Qing gave a good instruction before going out, and he actually shed a few tears before partingγ
Huzi lived up to expectations, from the beginning of leaving home to lead Zhu'er, the demeanor of the big brother at a glance, Zhu'er walked slowly he walked slowly, Zhu'er walked fast he walked fast, Zhu'er tired he carried Zhu'er on his back, Zhu'er was thirsty he took off his skin bag to feed Zhu'er water, it was simply meticulous, even when Zhang Sanlang wanted to carry Zhu'er for him, he also waved his hand, and said firmly: "No, I am my brother, this is what I should do." He continued to move forward, and Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang, who were looking directly, sighed.
After turning the "Hongyun Restaurant", Wang Yuanliang patiently explained the concept of money to Huzi along the way, although Huzi and Zhu'er listened to it half-understood, but they also generally understood that money can not only be exchanged for sugar gourds and buns, but also for those strange and unknown things.
After turning two more streets and coming to a shop, Wang Yuanliang examined Huzi and said, "Huzi, what kind of words do you see on this?"
Huzi looked up and said without thinking: "Longsheng leather store." β
Wang Yuanliang smiled and said approvingly: "Okay, yes, I will reward you with a string of sugar gourds on the way back." β
Zhu'er pursed her lips and said unhappily: "I also want sugar gourds!"
Huzi pinched Zhu'er's face like a little adult, and said lovingly: "Zhu'er is good, my brother won't eat it for you." β
Zhu'er listened to Huzi's words and suddenly had a smile on her face, and climbed Huzi's arm and shouted, "Brother is so good." β
Wang Yuanliang looked at Zhang Sanlang, smiled at each other, and looked at Huzi's eyes full of kindness.
The owner of Longsheng leather shop is a short and fat man, about forty years old, with a short beard on his face, and a pair of radiant little eyes embedded in the slightly convex eye sockets to look particularly shrewd, as soon as he saw Wang Yuanliang and his party step in, he immediately walked out of the counter, and said with a smile on his face: "Yo, isn't this Uncle Wang and Third Brother Zhang, I haven't seen you two come down the mountain for a long time, this time I also took the little boy and the young lady, you look at this little boy and a talent, this young lady is also amazing, and he will definitely be a beauty embryo in the future." β
As the saying goes, don't hit the smiling face of the person, although the boss of the Longsheng leather store is also a profiteer, but doing business in Jintian Town is also relatively fair.
Wang Yuanliang hugged his fist at Boss Wang, and said politely: "Boss Li, I'm here to trouble you again, you have worked hard." β
Boss Li smiled heartily, stretched out his hand and waved at the case on the right side of the store door, "Look at what you said, then let's take a look at the goods?"
When Boss Li inspected the leather goods brought by Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang, he praised him sincerely: "I, Li Shifu, have been in the leather business for so many years, only the leather goods of your two grandfathers have never hurt the fur, high-quality, high-grade." After a period of bargaining, Boss Li handed over five taels of broken silver to Wang Yuanliang, Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang hugged Boss Li again, and then led Huzi and Zhu'er out of the leather store, halfway Huzi looked at the scattered silver in Wang Yuanliang's hand, and asked in surprise: "Grandpa, this is money, isn't it just a little iron lump?"
Zhang Sanlang almost didn't squirt out the sip of water he just drank, choking on a lot of snot and tears, but Wang Yuanliang patiently explained to Huzi, and Huzi and Zhu'er gradually understood the difference between silver and iron pimples.
There was talk and laughter all the way, and the sound of "clanging" metal crashing came into his ears, Wang Yuanliang raised his hand and pointed, "It's here." In front of him is another plaque "Shengtong Blacksmith Shop".
Walking into the blacksmith shop, Huzi was in the mood to see a row of knives, guns, sticks and some unknown weapons placed on the left side of the wall, and all kinds of farm tools placed on the right.
The shopkeeper has a swarthy face, strong muscles, a pair of big eyes, and a simple face. After that, he continued to "jingle and clang" and brandished a sledgehammer to hit the iron.
Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang nodded to the store, and then looked left and right in the store, and after a while, Zhang Sanlang picked a brand-new steel fork, put it in his hand and weighed it, feeling very satisfied, while Wang Yuanliang was holding a halberd "tsk" for a while.
The shopkeeper of the iron opened his mouth wide, looking at the tiger with a pair of sledgehammers in his hands, the iron hammer stopped in mid-air, and he couldn't fall down, this sledgehammer was his signature, and it was three hundred pounds heavy! A child, holding it in his hand is as easy as a toy, this is a monster or a human!
There was suddenly some extraordinary silence in the shop, Wang Yuanliang and Zhang Sanlang turned their heads, only to see Huzi who was playing with a sledgehammer and Zhu'er who was cheering on the side, Zhang Sanlang reprimanded: "Huzi, don't be naughty, put it down." β
Huzi threw the double hammer to the ground with an "oh" sound, and with a "bang", several green bricks on the ground fell to the ground with the double hammer, and immediately shattered into several petals.
Wang Yuanliang hugged his fist at the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, I'm sorry, this kid smashed the ground, and we will compensate him." β