Alas, it’s hard to say ah, I and several others are also fortunate to be indebted to Brother Qian Brother Zhao and others to succour you, Uncle also want to help you, nay the bag is shy ah.”
Eldest uncle Zhu Shouren’s face changed several times, finally sighed and said.
Zhu Pingan face showed a disappointed look, but the heart is not shocked, have long predicted that the eldest uncle will refuse, do not refuse is strange, all of them money in their own this. Look at the eldest wear a new, visible really also have friends to help him, ask so, is to hear the eldest’s refusal, so that the eldest is also embarrassed to ask for money.
This money on oneself, it is better to keep it for future use, but also can reduce the burden for the family, the imperial examinations cost a lot.
“Does eldest uncle have a place to stay?” Zhu Pingan asked again.
“There is a place to live, but it is also thanks to Brother Qian, Brother Zhao and others who do not mind, sharing a bedroom with me.” Eldest uncle also still looked like he had a heart of gold, “The places where we live are all overcrowded.”
After finishing this sentence, eldest uncle Zhu Shouren looked at Zhu Pingan who was carrying a travelling bag, and with a tone of consideration for Zhu Pingan, he continued, “Swine child, if it is like this, you temporarily go to my place to rest for a day, you repair a letter to let the family to prepare another 20 taels of grain silver, and I will ask my friend’s servant to bring your letter home, and let the servant to bring back the silver again, how?”
Looking at the elder brother’s heart to heart look, Zhu Pingan inexplicably feel funny, elder brother is really good calculating, child test largely ten taels per person is enough, let the family to prepare twenty taels, is to let parents will elder brother’s share is also out together. Besides, let your friend’s servant bring the money back, who knows whether the money can still fall into my hands, if the servant with the money away or lost, such things in the eldest uncle this is all possible.
He is not short of money.
“Thank you uncle kindly, my mother left home had in nephew inner lapel sandwich sewing five two small silver tickets, swine child himself a person thrifty some, but can still hold out.” Zhu Pingan looked at his eldest uncle and said indifferently, putting a heavier emphasis on being more frugal by oneself, lest his eldest uncle have thoughts.
Eldest uncle’s calculations fell through, lost a lot, also no longer mentioning letting Zhu Pingan go to his place to make ends meet for a day, waved his hand and said, “If so, then swine child quickly go to look for a place to stay, it’s not good when it’s late.”
At this time with the eldest uncle walking in some of the other students, there is a person with a teasing tone said, “Xian nephew only five two er, I am afraid can only live in the firewood room.”
Another person also join in the fun and said, “that can be coincidental, we live in the inn really have a wood room, when I left the shopkeeper is packing wood room ready to rent it, said that the monthly rent is only 1 two silver, cheaper than ordinary guest rooms more than double.”
These people’s bantering words do make Zhu Pingan’s eyes light up.
Generally speaking, the firewood room is a sunny and spacious room, if it is cleaned up, put a bed, it does not have to be worse than the end of the guest room, and it is cheaper than the ordinary guest room so much.
As for what living in a woodshed is like, Zhu Pingan doesn’t care about face. Face, not you live in a good or bad decision, you do not hear the hook trample lying down on the gall, as long as they have the ability to live where there is face.
I have a tiger in my heart, and I can smell the roses in the woodshed.
“Really, where is the inn?”
These people were originally teasing Zhu Pingan, but they didn’t expect Zhu Pingan, the silly boy, not only didn’t feel ashamed but instead laughed nervously and asked the crowd.
Well, this silly boy is hopeless. f*ggot f*ggot, isn’t it just a place to produce cannon fodder, so unlucky, open to him is also self-loathing.
The eldest uncle Zhu Shouren, they would have been idle and bored to walk around casually, this see Zhu Pingan this stupid boy must go to live in the woodshed, one by one to see the joke like a cluster of Zhu Pingan lest he regret like, to their inn and go.
Zhu Pingan is not embarrassed at all, but is the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren bashful red face, as if he lost him more adults like.
Big uncle Zhu Shouren they live in the inn is quite far away, also can see big uncle they really have leisure, walk for about half an hour or so, only to come to the front of the inn where they live.
This inn is much more luxurious than the one I saw when I first came here, and in ancient times, it must be rated on the star level.
The shopkeeper is a rather mercenary fat shopkeeper, is worrying about the firewood room, just now see come to this lodging scholars quite a lot of scholars, business-minded he ordered people to pack out the firewood room, thinking of cheaper to rent out, can also earn two silver.
Never thought, when he recommended to the students of the firewood room, these weak students as if they have a father’s revenge with their own wife, as if the hatred, one can not wait to eat their own meat, open mouth degrading, closed mouth, the loss of the Sifu, if it is not their own situation is not good to hurry to smile, these students can really lift the arm with their own dry a fight.
Not just a woodshop, as for it, the fat shopkeeper how can not understand the arrogance of the students.
The fat shopkeeper in the scholar students have suffered a lot of anger, and now see the firewood room on the angry, if someone to rent, and then cheaper half of all, to save looking bored.
Just at this time, a courteous voice came.
“Shopkeeper, but there is a firewood room for rent?”
The fat shopkeeper looked up and saw a teenager around thirteen or fourteen years old, looking a bit naive. Behind the teenager is just a few scholar students who just rented a room in their own place soon, these scholar students one by one look at the naive teenager like a joke, that eye that smile is the same as next door a few innkeeper’s look at themselves is the same.
“Yes, as long as you are willing, half a taels of silver to rent you for a month.”
The same people at the end of the world, rent you half a taels cheaper. The chestless fat innkeeper at the moment, but these words suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Followed Zhu Pingan behind the jokes of the crowd, although surprised how the shopkeeper cheap half again for no reason, but also did not envy Zhu Pingan good luck, but instead, ridicule is more thick, firewood room was already lowly enough, and now the price is cheap, people live in even more bad luck.
The teenager who came to rent the room was Zhu Pingan, hearing the shopkeeper open his mouth and say that he would only charge half a taels of silver in January, the smile on his naive face became even more intense and he smiled nervously and opened his mouth to say, “Good, please trouble the shopkeeper to take me to look at the firewood room.”
The fat shopkeeper led Zhu Pingan to the firewood room, the eldest uncle Zhu Shouren and others followed from afar, and did not follow them in, for fear of staining the bad luck and harming the examination luck.
The outside of the firewood room looks simple, inside but clean, brick pavement is spotless, against the window and a table and chairs, bed is also just moved in. The sunny side, the sunset afterglow can shine through the window, and it is definitely bright during the day. The overall feeling is much better than the last room in the first inn.
“How is it?” The fat shopkeeper was a little nervous.
“I think it’s okay, it’s good value for money.” Zhu Pingan twisted his head with a naive smile and replied, looking around and nodding in satisfaction.
High mountains and flowing water have met a soulmate ah.
The more the fat shopkeeper looked at Zhu Pingan, the better he looked at him, and without giving up, he gave Zhu Pingan another silver penny cheaper.
Zhu Pingan is also looking at the fat shopkeeper more and more eyes, four coins of silver to live in this kind of room, great.
