Chapter 236 Scientist's Little Persistence
Actually, Huo Yuntao, an adult + straight man who doesn't like to tease children, never thought of giving money to Tuanzi at all.
On the contrary, Liang Ruoxu was the one who persuaded Second Master Shen to give them the money, and because of the previous incident, he paid a lot of attention to the role of Tuanzi in this process, so he made a point of mentioning it. There are twenty taels of individual rewards for the dumplings.
Fourth Brother Tang said with a serious face: "People like Big Brother, Little Jue, and Xiaoyu earn two hundred cash a day, and Xinbao only sold for three and a half days. It didn't take long, but Xinbao came out. Good idea, not only helped sell flowers, but also helped Brother Liang, so Xinbao got two taels of silver."
"Wow!" Xinbao's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands: "That's great! Then tomorrow Xinbao will use the two taels of silver to buy things for his parents and brother!"
Brother Tang smiled and said: "We also have wages, so you don't need to buy them. Why don't we buy things for our parents together?"
Their wages were really calculated at two hundred cash a day, and the young scholars also paid wages, five hundred cash a day, if it was outside, it would be a huge wage, but it was a common practice in Tulongmen.
"Not good," Xinbao shook his head, "What's yours is yours, and what's Xinbao's is Xinbao's."
That's fine.
So after dinner, a few of them went shopping.
Xinbao had already passed the time for taking a nap, but he tried his best not to sleep, and went shopping with his brothers.
Because Xinbao was poor, he didn't want to buy jewelry, but clothes, and Shen Zhuoli also wanted to use his wages to buy clothes for Shen Erye, so they visited the tailor shop first.
This tailor shop happened to be the Shen family's shop at the beginning, and after it arrived to them, they mortgaged it out again. The shopkeeper knew Huo Yuntao, and greeted Huo Yuntao as soon as he came in.
Huo Yuntao waved his hand: "Let's go, brother will take you to the second floor to see the world!"
The shopkeeper's face is slightly green.
The shop is a small two-story building, the first floor is mainly sold to commoners, and the second floor is sold to nobles. Looking at their clothes, the shopkeeper knows that they can't afford it...but he doesn't have the guts to refuse. Fortunately, the building at noon There were no guests, so I took them up.
There are not many clothes on the second floor, but several of them are extremely beautiful, and the embroidered flowers look like they grow on them, but the price is scary when asked, and none of them cost more than a hundred taels.
At first, I thought I was quite rich, but I never thought that I might not be able to sell even a single piece of clothing. Even if I could afford it, Mrs. Lin would never be happy to go back to buy such a piece of clothing, and would only beat them to death.
Fourth brother Tang couldn't help but ask, "Why are these clothes so expensive?"
The shopkeeper saw that they only looked at them but didn't touch them, so he felt relieved and said, "Don't say that the material of my jacket is the best Yunjin, which is already every inch of gold, just look at the embroidery on my skirt. The embroiderer took more than seven months to embroider, as the saying goes, neat, smooth, straight, even, thin, smooth, dense, take a look, this is the best Suzhou embroidery..."
blah blah blah...
Several straight men and a little straight girl can listen to the fragrance of the eyes.
After finally waiting for him to finish speaking, several people hurried down.
The clothes downstairs are much cheaper, a dozen or so is considered good.
This is the reality of this era.
There are really cheap things and there are really expensive things.
In this era, an ordinary rough envoy can definitely win two taels of silver, at most four or five taels of silver, and those with some skills, such as an ordinary embroiderer, only a dozen taels of silver.
So clothes are indeed more valuable than people, and this is still in the small county town of Longmen County, and even more so in a rich and flashy place like Jiangnan.
Several people picked back and forth, only Brother Tang Si was still talking to the shopkeeper.
But as the so-called common people, natural color clothes are cheap, dyed clothes are expensive, so most of the common people wear natural color clothes.
Xinbao picks and chooses, but two taels of silver are not enough for whatever she likes, and in the end she still likes a twelve taels.
Yan Shenjue watched quietly from the side.
He felt that he was also infected with the narrowness of the Tang family brothers. If he had seen Tuanzi wanting to use it before, he would have given it to her long ago, but now, he also wanted to see how Tuanzi would deal with it.
Then Xinbao struggled for a while, then turned to him and said, "Brother Xiaoxian, in fact, Tangtang Xinbao hasn't finished eating yet, and Xinbao is hidden in the sugar bowl at home, why don't you wait until you go home, Xinbao Let me find you a piece of candy, can you give Xinbao ten taels of silver?"
Yan Shenjue: "..."
He supported his forehead: "It's fine, but I really want to know, when did you hide it?"
Brother Tang smiled and said: "I know that, Xinbao gave me a few candies that day, but I didn't eat them, so I put them in the sugar bowl for Xinbao."
Do you dare to cooperate with others? ?
So before she stole the licorice, it couldn't be given to her by Divine Doctor Yuan, right? ?
Yan Shenjue looked at Xinbao, Xinbao looked at him cutely, with innocence written all over his face.
This glutinous rice dumpling was just guilty, he didn't say anything, and took out the silver to pay the bill.
Then Big Brother Tang also picked out a suit of clothes for Tang Qingshan, and Shen Zhuoli also took out the three and a half taels of silver he earned to buy a piece of clothes for Second Master Shen. , so the brothers of the Tang family didn't help him make up for it.
After coming out, Fourth Brother Tang said to Xinbao: "The shopkeeper said that the reason why many fabrics are expensive is because of dyes, such as safflower and amurberry. Can this be grown?"
Xinbao thought for a while: "Some are fine, but most are not. The soil quality is not suitable."
This is different from fruit trees. Most fruit trees are suitable for sandy soil, but many dyes are not suitable at all. Maybe she can grow it at this time, but this kind of thing is against the nature of plants and has no necessary use. She doesn't want to plant it. It probably belongs to the little persistence of scientists!
Fourth Brother Tang nodded.
Then a few people went to the jewelry store to buy a hairpin for Lady Lin.
A group of people, even Brother Tang, is actually only a sixteen-year-old half-grown kid. After buying something, he immediately returned home and left before dinner.
Anshun called a carriage to take them back, and sent them to the door together with Shen Zhuoli, while smiling and whispering in Brother Tang's ear: "The day after tomorrow is the second master's birthday."
Brother Tang understood, smiled and cupped his hands to express his understanding.
Anshun walked back with Shen Zhuoli, saying: "Master Xiaoyu, the second master told you to go over."
Shen Zhuoli responded, and followed him back. Second Master Shen put on the clothes he bought, talked to him for a while with a smile on his face, and then said: "You are not young anymore, and studying is meaningless, why don't you help grandpa?" Go do something..."
Shen Zhuoli was very happy, this was the first time grandpa asked him to do something, "Grandpa, tell me."
Second Master Shen said: "I'll give you two hundred taels of silver, and you help me to buy a quiet small house and buy people. For example, there are kitchen concierges, which are suitable places for one to rest alone..."
He explained in detail.
Second Master Shen is a rough man, but after listening to what they said, he felt that it made sense, so he decided to try it.
Shen Zhuoli didn't think too much, and agreed excitedly.
(end of this chapter)