Chapter 1201 Suffering in the World (4)

? Have a good year with or without money. Tianlai Novel』⒉ Brother Xuan, who couldn't copy the book, made his idea on the Spring Festival couplets.

Pang Jinglun thought this idea was very good: "We still have a tael of silver, go and buy some pens and ink." The Spring Festival couplets don't cost much, and he can write them too.

It took the teacher and the student a day to write 800 Spring Festival couplets. After the stupid couplets were written, Pang Jinglun said to Brother Xuan: "Tomorrow you will take these Spring Festival couplets and sell them!"

Brother Xuan was a little at a loss: "I, I don't know..." He has never sold anything since he was a child.

"What's wrong with this, go to the street market and put things on the market. You don't have to shout, and people will come to buy them." Whose family should not use Spring Festival couplets for the New Year. Although he didn't put much effort into writing these Spring Festival couplets, they are better than selling them in stores, as long as they are taken out, there will be no worries about no buyers.

Brother Xuan still hesitated. Since he was a child, he has never sold anything.

Seeing this, Ah San hurriedly said, "Master, why don't I sell it tomorrow!"

Pang Jinglun knew that Ah San was making progress by retreating: "Success, if you don't go, I will go with Ah San tomorrow. All the money has been bought for pens and inks, or sell the Spring Festival couplets to earn some money, and there will be no rice for the pot tomorrow." .”

Pang Jinglun was weak and couldn't bear the fatigue, and Ah San's legs were still not healed and he couldn't walk. No matter what, Brother Xuan couldn't let the two of them sell Spring Festival couplets.

Gritting his teeth, Brother Xuan said, "I'll go."

Because there are a lot of Spring Festival couplets, Brother Xuan only sells them. In case someone fishes in troubled waters and takes something and doesn't pay, Ah San proposes to divide the Spring Festival couplets into ten shares.

If it was before, Brother Xuan would definitely feel that Ah San thinks too much and treats the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. But after two calculations, Brother Xuan also had some shadows, so he didn't object.

Knowing that Brother Xuan would not bargain with others, Pang Jinglun set prices for these Spring Festival couplets. There are ten couplets on the gate, four on the door, and two small ones.

This price is very expensive for ordinary people. So the things were put on display for a long time, but not a single Spring Festival couplet was sold.

However, there are still people who know the goods. The steward of a rich family in the county felt that the words on the Spring Festival couplets were very well written, thinking that his master liked elegance, so he bought two Spring Festival couplets with the attitude of giving it a try.

The master in charge has a good eye, and when he saw this word, his eyes lit up, and when he heard that the person selling Spring Festival couplets was a young man, he immediately said, "Go, invite this young man here."

If you don't have anything to show your courtesy, you can either rape or steal. Brother Xuan has suffered twice, and this time he is unwilling to follow the steward. Who knows what will happen if they follow.

In the end, he had no choice but to buy all the Spring Festival couplets, and then sent a post to Brother Xuan: "My master said, I hope you can come to Li's residence with your elders as guests."

Brother Xuan accepted the post and nodded in agreement. But he didn't plan to go to any Li family as a guest. If it is a corporal who is a virtuous man, he should come to the door by himself, instead of asking him and the teacher to come to the door.

These Spring Festival couplets were sold for more than five taels of silver, while buying pens, ink, paper and inkstones cost only one tael, and earned a total of more than four taels of silver. With this silver, it is enough to last until the next year.

Seeing Pang Jinglun, Brother Xuan said happily: "Teacher, all the Spring Festival couplets are sold for five, two or three hundred Wen."

Pang Jinglun was not surprised, there are still many people who know goods in this world: "Where's the money?" He didn't feel at ease to put money on Brother Xuan.

Brother Xuan fumbled in his sleeve, but found nothing: "Silver, where is my silver?"

"Is it in a bag?"

"No, I put it in my sleeve, why can't I find it?" After searching for a long time, I still couldn't find the silver, Brother Xuan was about to cry.

Ah San asked after a while, "Is it lost?"

But Pang Jinglun shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it was either lost or stolen. Think about it, did someone approach you on the way back?"

"No." After finishing speaking, Brother Xuan said again: "It's just that I was hit by someone a hundred meters away from home."

Pang Jinglun crossed his face and said, "That must be a thief. He bumped into you deliberately, and then took the opportunity to steal your silver."

Ah San said worriedly: "Master,

We only have enough rice for one meal at noon. "

Looking at Brother Xuan whose eyes were red, Pang Jinglun said, "Don't be sad, you go and cook first. We'll figure out a way after we finish eating."

After Pang Jinglun waited for Brother Xuan to go out, he lowered his voice and asked, "Did you arrange this thief?"

"No. We are only responsible for protecting the young master's safety, and we are not in charge of the rest." If these sufferings are specially arranged by the Third Highness in the future, there will definitely be pimples in my heart. It is impossible for them to do such a troublesome thing. Of course, the most important thing is that Yu Xi didn't order them to do these things.

Pang Jinglun was speechless: "This is too unlucky." Brother Xuan can encounter any bad things.

Ah San's thoughts were completely different: "It's not bad luck, it's because he has no heart to guard against others. He got so much money at once, he must be targeted by thieves." Although the law and order is very good now, thieves cannot be eradicated. Five taels of silver is nothing in Brother Xuan's eyes, but to ordinary people, it is a lot of money.

Pang Jinglun didn't understand, and said: "His Royal Highness and Fourth Highness are so smart, how can Ada be so naive?" Brother Yu was cheated of thousands of taels of silver, so he can report to the police immediately, and then recover the silver. On the other hand, Brother Xuan, when the money was stolen, he only felt sad and sad, and he didn't even think about going to the government to report the case to recover the money.

Ada knew what Pang Jinglun was thinking, and said very pertinently: "He still hasn't realized how important these five taels of silver are to us."

After hearing this, Pang Jinglun asked, "What should I do next? Are you really going hungry?"

"Let the young master find a way. If we can't think of a way, we will starve together." If we are hungry, we will think of a way.

After lunch, Brother Xuan went out, looking for some work to earn some money. Unfortunately, nothing came of it.

Ah San whispered: "Master, there is not much firewood left, and the charcoal can only be used until tonight." Without firewood, not only can't cook, but the pit can't be burned either. If there is no hot pit in this cold weather, I am afraid that something will happen due to freezing.

Brother Xuan was silent for a long time before he said sullenly: "I'll go out tomorrow to see if I can find something to do."

Pang Jinglun made a suggestion: "Why don't you get a post from Li's family, why not go to Li's house tomorrow and ask them for help."

"No." He would rather go hungry than ask for help. Otherwise, what face would he have to go home to meet his parents.

In the evening, Brother Xuan went to bed after drinking enough water. But it didn't take long to wake up hungry. I remembered to drink water, but the water was also cold. Thinking of the fact that when he was at home, he would always have hot water to drink, Brother Xuan's eyes turned red. Then, keep your eyes open until dawn.

Early in the morning, Brother Xuan said to Pang Jinglun, "Teacher, I won't be able to wear that autumn clothes anymore, I want to pawn them." He was still growing up, and he wouldn't be able to wear the old clothes next year. Instead of carrying this clothes all the time, it's better to use it as an emergency.

"Then you go!" It's an improvement if you can think of making clothes.

After rolling up the clothes, Brother Xuan went to the pawnshop. In the past, he might have hesitated for a while. But now my stomach is rumbling with hunger, and my dignity is all vain.

After entering the pawnshop, Brother Xuan handed the clothes to Chao Feng.

Chao Feng took the clothes, glanced at them and said, "Two hundred Wen."

Brother Xuan's face turned livid, but now was not the time to act impulsively, so he held back his anger and said, "My clothes are made of high-quality brocade."

Chao Feng said impatiently: "At most three hundred wen, it is inappropriate to take it away."

Although Brother Xuan only reads sage books wholeheartedly, Brother You is worried that he will become a nerd when he studies, and keeps talking about the prices outside in front of him. So he also knew that a piece of gold brocade would cost hundreds of taels of silver. His robe was made of gold brocade and was made by an embroiderer from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so it cost dozens of taels of silver in the market. Although he has worn this robe several times, it looks like it is still about 70% or 80% new. No matter what, it is impossible to only be worth three hundred Wen.

Brother Xuan couldn't help thinking of what Brother You said before that this pawn shop is the worst, even if it's good things, they still charge the price of rags. Don't pawn something unless it won't sell elsewhere.

Thinking of this, Brother Xuan raised his voice, "I'm wrong."

Chao Feng paused and said, "Five hundred wen."

Even if one tael of silver is added to the court service, Brother Xuan is no longer a man. Holding the clothes, he walked out of the pawn shop and went to the largest tailor shop.

Weaving gold brocades are all tribute satins, and very few of them live among the people. The shopkeeper held the clothes and looked at Brother Xuan suspiciously.

Brother Xuan said calmly: "My family is in the capital, and this time I went to visit friends in Sichuan with my teacher. I didn't expect to meet a villain who stole all the money, carriages and horses when we were not prepared. We have already reported to the government. You If you don’t believe me, you can ask the government.”

Although he didn't state his identity, but to be able to wear such good clothes is either rich or expensive. Furthermore, looking at Brother Xuan's words and deeds, he is not the young master of an ordinary family. The shopkeeper thought it was a good relationship, so he didn't lower the price, and bought the clothes with ten taels of silver.

With the experience of being stolen, Brother Xuan will be very cautious. Take out one tael of silver to buy necessities such as grain, oil and salt, and keep the other silver close to your body.

Passing by the meat stall, Brother Xuan couldn't help swallowing, he hadn't eaten meat for half a month. One couldn't hold back, Brother Xuan bought two catties of pork belly.

"The pawnshop gave me ten taels of silver?" Which pawnshop would be so kind.

Brother Xuan shook his head and said, "The pawn shop only wanted to give you one tael of silver, but I didn't pawn it. I went to the tailor shop and sold the clothes."

It seems that the losses of these few times were not in vain, no, they finally made progress.

Seeing Brother Xuan handing the money to him, Pang Jinglun shook his head and said, "Take the money! You don't have any charcoal or firewood. You can buy some after dinner."

He took a tael of silver, and handed the rest to Pang Jinglun: "I'll ask my husband for it when I run out of money." I was afraid that if I put it on my body, it would be stolen by a thief again.

Pang Jinglun was not pretentious, took the money and said: "Hurry up and cook!" Although he ate two buns and an egg in the morning, he was still very hungry!

How can Brother Xuan know how to cook? He always throws the vegetables into the pot and then puts water in it.

The boiled meat is oily, let alone eating it before, brother Xuan would not even look at it. But now, smelling the smell of meat, he swallowed several times.

I took a piece of meat and put it in my mouth, chewing, tears rolled down.

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