Is this still true?

The four girls began to recall the situation just now, and then found that the guy really gave people a strange feeling, but they just didn't know what the blame was.

Seeing that they were still puzzled, Chen Chong reminded: "Girls, I will reward that man with ten taels of silver, that's ten taels!"

After he emphasized the "Ten Taw", A Ke and Shuang'er, the three men of Dalian immediately understood the problem.

Jianning is a princess who has never been released in the palace, so she naturally doesn't understand what it means to have ten taels of silver, but they know very well.

In this year, ten taels of silver have a strong purchasing power. It only costs 20 cents per pound of pork. Ten taels of silver can buy more than 300 kilograms of meat, which is enough for a family to eat for a whole year!

How much can I earn by making a living in the canal, recruiting people, and transporting goods?

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has a total journey of more than 3,000 miles. It takes at least ten days to take a boat from Tianjin to Hangzhou, but the boat fee is only one tael or two cents.

Xia Laoer was just a small broken boat, and his carrying capacity was barely better than that of the black-sailed boat. Once he traveled to Hangzhou, he could only attract more than a dozen people, and at most he brought some cargo.

These people, plus goods, and put aside the tax on river clearance and ships everywhere, may not necessarily make a net profit of ten taels. So why would he not look down on ten taels of silver rewards?

After the three of them finished their opinions, Chen Chong and Jianning felt that they had gained a lot.

Chen Chong is a time traveler. His understanding of history is limited to nine years of compulsory education. After the time travel, no one told him what the price of various things is.

His memories of "money" in the original plot are only focused on Wei Xiaobao's various tricks.

Wei Xiaobao asked Kangxi for mental damage and said 50,000 taels.

The extortion of King Pingxi Wu Sangui, who opened his mouth for 500,000 taels.

When he was raiding his house in Obai Mansion, he directly owed more than 10 million taels.

Chen Chong, who only remembers these large numbers, obviously did not find problems in purchasing power like A Ke and the other two.

He could find something was wrong because he completely realized Xia Laoer's unreasonable reaction.

Xia Laoer took over the silver reward. Although he looked happy, he did not give him a happy feeling.

If you really make a living in the river and make serious money by working hard, this should not be the case. At least you have to weigh the amount of money and distinguish the authenticity.

However, Xia Laoer didn't.

All kinds of unreasonable behaviors made Chen Chong feel alert.

After listening to the two analyses, Jianning was furious: "These dogs dared to put their ideas on this princess. If I don't bully people, even if they have been blessed with the blessings they have cultivated in eight lifetimes, they still dare to come to me for bad luck. It's so annoying to live a bad life!"

After saying that, she stretched out her hand to Chen Chong: "Brother Chong, give me a musket, I want to teach these unsightly things a lesson."

Chen Chong took off the girl's paws and said speechlessly: "We are just suspicious now. Why are you anxious? After confirming, we can't wrongly accuse others."

A Ke agreed: "Brother Chen's statement makes sense. Let's not make any statement for now, so as not to kill the wrong good person."

But Shuang'er didn't think so: "Young master is very good at martial arts and is upright. We may not be afraid of those people, but we are afraid that they will get sweating."

Chen Chong thought about it again and felt that there was some truth.

At this time, the waiter had served the dishes. He picked up the chopsticks and said to the four people: "It's okay, let's be careful. Just don't eat their food, eat first!"

The four girls thought that Chen Chong would be "in the world in his sleeves" and could hold up as much food and drink. Since they didn't have to eat from the boat house, they didn't have to worry about being poisoned, and they immediately relaxed.

After the meal, the few people packed some dry food, snacks, and wine, and then they came to the dock leisurely.

Tianjin Wei is an important hub in the north. Ships flowing on the wharf, cargo ships and passenger ships traveling from south to north, turn around and berth here.

Xia Laoer's ship was not on the Zhengjing Wharf. Da Shuanger brought a few people to a remote place, and a two-story passenger ship was parked in Xiaohe Harbour.

Xia Laoer was busy on the deck. When he saw Chen Chong and his group coming from afar, he immediately stopped the work in his hands and greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Young Master, when will we set out? The younger one is ready."

Chen Chong glanced and saw that there were two more sailors on the boat, besides Xia Laoer's two brothers, he said indifferently: "We have no salute, so board the boat now, and it's better to get there early."

"Okay!"

Xia Laoer rubbed his hands, looked at Da Shuang'er with a smirk, and tentatively said: "Young Master, this young master had given him five taels of deposit before, and the ship capital was 80 taels in total. Do you think..."

"Do your business well, money is bound to be without you."

Chen Chong threw out another piece of silver, stepped on the springboard and got on the boat. Several girls hurriedly followed, and did not talk to Xia Laoer, and started to laugh quietly.

A trace of sinister flashed in Xia Lao Er's eyes, and he grabbed the broken silver in his hand and shouted as if nothing had happened: "Brothers, let's take the sail!"

The four people on the boat replied: "Smooth the wind, smooth the wind!"

dusk.

In the cabin, Chen Chong and his friends were playing cards, to be precise, they were playing mahjong.

When he went to the carpenter to set up the medicine cabinet, he asked the carpenter to make more than a hundred pieces of wood in case of future emergencies. Sure enough, it was used this afternoon.

The river view had nothing to see. After looking at it for a while, the girls quickly became bored. When they were bored, Chen Chong took out the wooden block.

The prototype of mahjong has appeared at this time, but it is somewhat different from later generations and there are not such rigorous rules.

After Chen Chong briefly taught a few people how to play, everyone got started quickly, and then they started playing mahjong with their hands ready.

For some reason, I just played for a while and it was dusk in a blink of an eye.

Jianning took a look at his card, glanced at his card, then immediately pushed it down, and excitedly stretched out his hand and shouted, "I'm going to be fooled again, take the money!"

"Why is it Sister Jianning again!"

"You are so bad, are you really convinced?"

A Ke and Da Shuang'er were speechless. Chen Chong looked at the draws and could only take out a golden bean helplessly: "The newbie is lucky, but the ancients are really not bullying me."

Jianning doesn’t care about that much. As the saying goes, she is also very addicted to people and vegetables. She is still in the stage of being able to do whatever she wants.

Chen Chong didn't like to play money, and realized that the four girls had already played for a while, so he got up and waved to Xiao Shuang'er, signaling the other party to sit in his seat.

When A Ke saw Chen Chong letting the young and big doubles play at the same time, he immediately protested: "You can't let the two twins play together. They have telepathy, and we must have lost a lot!"

Shuang'er looked at each other and argued guiltily: "Sister A Ke, don't talk nonsense, how could we do such a thing?"

Having said that, the two of them were actually very unconfident. After all, they had already started cheating. Except for Jianning, the others had been persecuted by this ability.

In the end, Chen Chong decided to let the two big and big sit opposite each other. Although they were still inevitably cheating, at least they were not that good at giving each other water and feeding cards.

Outside the cabin.

Listening to the clamor inside the house, Xia Lao Er gave his eyes to his younger brother and signaled him to take action quickly.

The man nodded, cleared his throat and walked up to the door and knocked on the door and shouted, "Masters, I'm going to start the fire and cook. I wonder what do you want to eat?"

Chen Chong opened the door, stretched his waist and asked, "I'm already hungry, what can I eat tonight?"

The sailor smiled and said, "Master, I caught a few fish in the afternoon. If you don't dislike it, I will stew a pot of fresh fish soup and stuff some rice. What do you think?"

"Well, just do it!"

Chen Chong smiled and looked at the sunset in the distance: "I won't leave tonight?"

The sailor replied respectfully: "The waterway of Brother Xia's second section is a bit narrow. The water has not been enough in recent days. It is too risky to walk at night. If it gets stranded, it will be troublesome."

Chen Chong said oh, and suddenly heard footsteps coming from behind him.

"You can't even say anything when you are useless. Why don't you get out of cooking quickly and make your masters hungry. Be careful of your skin!"

Xia Laoer cursed without hesitation, then smiled and said with apologies: "Young Master, you can leave at night, but it's just a bit thrilling. The few of them are distinguished guests, so how dare you be careless?"

"You can talk."

Chen Chong smiled and then walked into the cabin: "If you can cook the food, you can bring it over, so we will eat it in the room."

Xia Lao Er nodded and bowed, saying: "Oh, young master, please rest first, the food will be ready soon."

Seeing the footsteps outside the door gone, Chen Chong immediately locked the hatch door.

He put the mahjong table into his portable space, took out a bunch of food, and signaled several people to eat quickly.

The girls nodded and closed the window alertly to prevent the smell of food in the house from running out.

After finishing the meal quickly and quietly, the five of them played mahjong again. It was not until the boatman's fish soup smelled fragrant that the window was opened to allow the cabin to breathe.

Soon, a sailor knocked on the door: "Young Master, the meal is ready. After using the meal, you can rest early. We will start to get up tomorrow."
Chapter completed!