A boat called Evianxuan on Guanhe River has been delisted.
But no one cared about it, because there were actually more painted boats on the Guan River than there were bastards at the bottom of the river.
Because there is no girl who is particularly good at it, except for a few old gourmets, some are reluctant to part with the extremely delicious fish meat cut by the chubby boat girl. Even the most zealous patrons who are nostalgic for the boat will turn around and throw away these somewhat delicious fish meat.
The mediocre painting boat was left behind.
It's just that a few of the benefactors who had seen those girls were rushing to the RT-Mart Grain Store to spread their wealth. Like boys, they were scattering copious amounts of copper coins and collecting the worthless rice in the lobby of the grain store.
Met the girls from Evianxuan.
I don’t know why the owner of this grain store is willing to let these warblers do things like serving tea and water and interpreting.
At the entrance of RT-Mart Food Store, cars and boats were coming and going, countless rice grains were pouring in like water, countless copper coins were scattered out like water, and it was a lively scene with gongs and drums.
The back hall of the grain store was a bit quiet. In a small quiet room far away from the worldly world, the boy who was being slandered was chatting with his father-in-law who helped the old farmer translate Mandarin that day.
"His Royal Highness the King of Linzi is actually willing to let these beautiful little beauties do this thing of knowing guests. I really admire him."
Wei Anshi, who was savoring a cup of milk tea, happily joked with Li Chongrun. Since he tasted the green milk tea made by Bing'er that day, the frequency of the governor's visits to Li Chongrun has increased significantly.
A lot.
"We can't recruit Mr. Accountant. In Yangzhou City, except for those who take the exam, all the literate people are in the hands of the seven major merchants." Li Chongrun spread his hands helplessly, "Wu Qi and the others have finally learned how to read."
It’s a bit of a waste to do math and math, and then do those big teapot jobs.”
Wei Anshi flipped through the account books placed on the table and found that they were all filled with tiny characters. He didn't know what they were written with. They were crooked and twisted like ghostly symbols, and the order of writing seemed to be different from the usual way.
"Your Majesty is really meticulous in his work. He actually keeps a secret book to keep an account." Wei Anshi thought about it for a long time and found that he really couldn't understand it, so he put it back casually.
"The kid had nothing to do, so he thought about this method. In fact, the original intention was not to encrypt, but mainly to facilitate calculations." Li Chongrun touched his nose and shamelessly took the invention of Arabic numerals and accounting methods into his own hands.
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"In just a few days, we collected tens of thousands of kilos of rice. If these grain shops really keep keeping the price down, I don't know how many farmers will be ruined this year."
After hearing the number Li Chongrun read to him, Wei Anshi was a little stunned. He put down the milk tea in his hand, stood up and saluted Li Chongrun respectfully. "On behalf of these ten thousand households, I would like to thank King Linzi for saving the people from the fire and water."
He quickly helped the parent officer up, and Li Chongrun discussed with him: "It's almost done. I still have a few young masters in my hands. Those seven shops definitely don't dare to act recklessly, but there are already many who are selling food to several businesses."
The rice bags from Xing Huiji have been collected. If we continue to collect them like this, if there is a food shortage in Yangzhou City, the students will still be a little unable to bear it. I wonder if the previous request to the governor will have any results? "
Wei Anshi took out a thick pile of things that he had prepared long ago from his sleeve and stacked them neatly on the table.
"In the past few days, according to the list given by the prince, the household registration addresses and property locations of these hundreds of farmers are all here. I just don't know what the use of the fish scale book is if the prince wants it?"
"Research." Li Chongrun took a sip of Bing'er's freshly prepared milk tea and said something with a smile. Then he stopped talking to Wei Anshi and took the fish scale book and checked it carefully with the account book in front of him.
After excluding some people who seemed to be selling rice grains that were inconsistent with the family's land, Li Chongrun's list of names became much smaller, but there were still more than a hundred.
Li Chongrun took the fish scale book to a crudely painted map of Yangzhou on the wall of the quiet room, and carefully pinned the names of people on it one by one according to the place names.
"Please look, Mr. Wei, the news hasn't spread too far yet, and the farmers who come to sell food are not far away, which is convenient for the students." Li Chongrun pointed to a person's name on the bank of the Yangtze River in the south of the city, with a smile on his face.
He looked at Wei Anshi with an air of asking for opinions. "If Wei Gong doesn't mind it, would you like to follow the students to this farmer's house to investigate?"
Wei Anshi was also curious about what the young prince meant by the research, so he readily agreed.
Because the girl was transferred to make a big teapot, the upright Fengyi Guard Inspector Ruiniang, the boat girl who was good at filleting fish, was idle at home and was used as a cook.
Ruiniang is quite a suitable candidate for traveling in disguise today.
The emblem on the carriage in the princess villa was too eye-catching, so naturally it was not allowed to be used. Ruiniang had a donkey carriage, which was very suitable.
A few people dressed up as ordinary people going out, but the little yellow-haired lolita looked a bit eye-catching, so they stayed in the food store. Li Chongrun and Gongsun Lan dressed up as brother and sister, and Wei Wei dressed up as husband and wife.
Anshi and Ruiniang quietly got on the unmarked donkey cart from the back door of RT-Mart Grain Store and headed for the river.
Mr. Wei and Ruiniang were dressed as small landowners, sitting on the side of the donkey cart and walking slowly along the pipe leading to the ferry.
The winter sun is very warm, shining warmly on the dark, thickly painted roof of the donkey cart.
The donkey cart is not as bumpy as the horse carriage, but it is rocking and comfortable.
It was close to the end of the year. Except for a few ox carts going to sell grain by the Guan River, there were no pedestrians on the official road. The howling north wind also stopped. Occasionally, there was a slight friction sound of the axle, just
It made the atmosphere even quieter.
In the past few days, I took Wu Qi and the others to settle accounts. Although it was very simple, the data was very messy and extremely complicated. As the donkey cart shook, Li Chongrun actually fell asleep in the cart.
Seeing Li Chongrun dozing off and slowly falling towards him, Gongsun Lan adjusted his posture, moved the long knife on his waist to his back, caught the fallen fat man, and gently let him go.
He rested his head on his lap.
The sun penetrated the open curtains and cast a ray of skylight on Li Chongrun's face, giving Li Chongrun's originally not very fair face a somewhat holy glow.
Gongsun Lan's attention was attracted by a pimple that was growing hard at the corner of his mouth. The pimple seemed to have just sprouted, and a small bump appeared on the top, which was a little red.
Gongsun Lan gently squeezed the pimple with his fingers, but it only made Li Chongrun murmur. He stretched out his arms and hugged Gongsun Lan's slender waist like a pillow, but his head was pushed into his arms vigorously.
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Amused by Li Chongrun's reaction, Gongsun Lan began to look for other marks on his face, such as a mole on the tip of his nose and the thin layer of hair on the edge of his ears.
Li Chongrun was disturbed from his dream, and hid more and more in Gongsun Lan's arms, but held her tighter in his arms.
Gongsun Lan wanted to laugh, but he was afraid that his laughter would wake up Li Chongrun, so he could only hold it in, raised his head, and looked out the window of the donkey cart.
Unlike the desolate winter in the capital of the gods, winter in the south of the Yangtze River still shows a slightly weak vitality.
Behind a lush bush, several suspicious shadows flashed past.
Gongsun Lan tried hard to stretch his head to see clearly, but Li Chongrun hugged him a little tight, and he struggled slightly, but did not shake away.
Gongsun Lan wanted to warn him, but he saw Ruiniang opened the door curtain and gestured to him to reassure him.
Looking out from the grated window of the donkey cart, several figures far away behind the donkey cart were quietly approaching the figures hiding in the bushes.