Chapter 5 Fatty Money
In fact, when he was wandering around the street, Zhu Hongsan discovered that the neighbors were willing or unintentionally avoiding him. At that time, he knew that 80% of the people in D County knew him. With his parents' reputation as "reputable", Zhu Hongsan recognized this. Then he seemed to have some money to spend money after hitting him. Unexpectedly, his uncle was the head of the Wuchang County team, equivalent to the captain of the criminal police, so he asked someone to intercept him. But it was okay, there were five copper coins to sell for food.
After walking around the street, I realized that the prices in the Ming Dynasty were cheap. A copper coin could sell about four taels of rice, which was enough for one person to eat at a meal. A copper coin could buy a big meat bun, two steamed buns. Two copper coin could eat a bowl of wontons. In this way, five copper coins were not spent, and even one bun was not worth a lot of money after eating a bun.
It seems that the reputation of his royal family is very useful, haha. (The reputation of the royal family in Huguang in the late Ming Dynasty was already a big deal, and the fish meat village forced to buy and sell. If you don’t pay for a bowl of wontons like Zhu Hongsan, you are considered a good person. The others have to smash the wonton stall after eating wontons. This is to scold the chef when you eat enough, and beat Huazi when you put down the stick).
Zhu Hongsan walked around the street for a day, which was really boring. He was too young to go to fun places. He passed by Nancheng Hua Street and saw Yingge Yanwu inside and wanted to go in and see the entertainment industry of Daming. However, the turtle slave at the door drove him out and said that he was so fur that he still wanted to go to the brothel.
Zhu Hongsan was so angry that he cursed in his heart, "You turtle slave are too young, you are careful not to have a son, and you are watching the sun set in the west. It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhu Hongsan was tired from walking, so there was no point going home. I happened to see my mother at the entrance of the alley, and Zhu Hongsan asked, "Mom, you have closed the stall."
"I happened to see Baoer come back, so I took a break early. Your uncle came in the afternoon and said you had got twenty taels of silver in the morning?"
"Yes, but I asked my uncle to take it."
"Don't say bad things about your uncle. Your uncle is afraid that you will be thinking about it with a lot of money and you will be worried about it. This is only twenty taels for my mother."
My mother turned her hands and ingots of silver into her hands.
Zhu Hongsan said happily: "Mom, can you give me some money?"
"What kind of money does a child have? Didn't your uncle give you five cents in the afternoon?"
Zhu Hongsan thought to himself: "I can't say I want to play with gunpowder, I'm so flawed at age."
"Mom, I made a few friends, and I spent money on a few friends when I went out to play. I didn't even play with me if I didn't have money."
When I thought, the child was the same, and he had no brothers and sisters. He was busy with the store. He used to play with him. Now he is old and doesn’t have some pocket money. “Okay, I’ll give you two cents of money, don’t spend it randomly.”
Zhu Hongsan thought to himself, "Two coins are equivalent to two hundred yuan, so that's fine, let's do it step by step."
On the third day of the sixth month of the sixth year of Tianqi, the weather is good today. Zhu Hongsan has been wandering around the city for more than half a month. He has nothing to do every day. Although Wuchang County is located on a major transportation road with the Yangtze River and Wuchang Prefecture. The population is quite dense, and the permanent population in the county can have more than 50,000 people.
Even if this was a big city in the Ming Dynasty, you should know that 30,000 people in Shanxi and Hebei were the size of a palace. But after all, Zhu Hongsan came from the future and was used to cities with hundreds of thousands or millions. Even the small town where he worked had more than 30,000 people, and the population density was far from comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty.
There are only a few shops in the county, including food, clothing, housing and transportation. They are all small shops at a time. There are no large shopping malls like the future market. There are a few good restaurants. They look good outside and they don’t get in. It’s not that they dare not enter, but they don’t let them in.
In the past half a month, Zhu Hongsan has traveled alleys throughout the small county town. The county town is a cross pattern, with two streets running through the county town and crossing in the middle. In the middle is the bell and drum tower, also known as the enemy tower. It is used when calling an alarm. These two cross streets are paved with bluestone slabs, and other alleys are covered with dirt roads. It is better to be clear, but it will be full of sludge when it rains.
Rich families would use stone mills to flatten the roads in their alleys or build ditches, but no one dared to use stone slabs to build their own roads. That was the right of the scholars. The most annoying Ming Dynasty did not have public toilets at all, passers-by urinate and defecate anywhere, and women even found a place where no one was convenient, and men and children took out unwritten things on the street.
In the past half month, Zhu Hongsan has deeply realized the bad nature of the Chinese nation, that is, he only swept the snow in front of his own door, regardless of the frost on others' tiles. His yard is tidy and he doesn't care when he leaves the door.
Since Zhu Hongsan saw someone washing toilets in the small river in the county town a few days ago, someone was washing pots and vegetables less than fifty meters away, he never went out to eat again. My mother said that they would rinse them with clean water when they went home, but Zhu Hongsan did not dare to eat outside easily because he knew that schistosomiasis in Jiangnan was a big belly disease at this time, and people would die without modern medical conditions. Fortunately.
Fortunately, I have a well at home, and Zhu Hongsan asked me to disinfect the bowls and chopsticks with boiling water for every meal so that I can have a safe meal.
Today, Zhu Hongsan was still the same. After breakfast, he carried the little yellow dog out, went out to his shop and talked to me, and then started a day of wandering around.
Zhu Hongsan made several friends in the past half month, including Tienniu from Wang's Blacksmith's house, Xiao Laoliu from the tailor shop at the entrance of the alley (why do children who are only five or six years old call Laoliu?), and Zhao Goudan, his uncle's cousin. The three children saw Zhu Hongsan coming out and shouted and ran over and said, "Brother, where are we going to play today?"
In the past half a month, Zhu Hongsan met several other foreign merchants and got a few taels of silver. Now he has about five or six taels of silver in his pocket. With money and Zhu Hongsan's intelligence far exceeds them, he is naturally regarded as the boss by them.
Zhu Hongsan glanced at it and said, "You are the only one? Where is Fatty Qian?" Fatty Qian is the son of the elder brother of the foreign merchant. Boss Qian opened a very large silk shop in Wuchang Mansion, but his home is in the county town. In this era, living in a big city is not as comfortable as living in a small town.
Tie Niu said: "That stupid guy Qian, his father asked him to go to school and said he would take the Jinshi exam in the future. Can he still get the Jinshi exam if he is so stupid?"
Chapter completed!