marquis of jingan

Chapter 42 Something Big Has Happened!

Before his father Shen Zhang left Jiangdu, he gave Shen Yi a small bag of gold. Although the bag of gold was not particularly large, it should be able to exchange for about 100 taels of silver.

100 taels is enough for a middle-aged family to spend several years.

Therefore, Mr. Shen is not short of money at present, not only is he not short of money, he also has spare money to "help" these children in Jiangdu City.

After all, he is going to hang out in Jiangdu in the future, and he needs some helpers. Although these children are not very old, they are actually not a few years younger than Shen Yi, the "original body".

Among them, the leader Xu Fu is only two years younger than Shen Yi.

To help them make a living, on the one hand, they are paid for spreading nursery rhymes, and on the other hand, Shen Yi also needs to start a small business to bulge his pockets.

After all, 100 taels of silver would be enough for daily use, but when something really happened, 100 taels of silver would not be so conspicuous.

As for Shen Yi, there are a lot of things that need to be done in the future, to accumulate a little bit of wealth.

It is very easy to find a house for these children. After all, in a big city like Jiangdu, the house rental industry is already very mature. However, Shen Yi did not come forward in person, but found a small yard in Jiangdu through Tian Boping, a local snake.

Tian Laoba has a lot of connections in Jiangdu, so he found a yard in the evening, and the price was not very high. The price he quoted to Shen Yi was ten taels of silver for a year.

Houses in Jiangdu are generally rented for one year, Shen Yi didn't say much about this, and gave the money without hesitation.

After giving the money, Shen Yi brought a few children to the gate of the yard, and asked Xu Fu to bring the children in first.

Tian Boping also stood at the door, first looked at the children who went in, then looked at Shen Yi, and asked, "Your Master, are these children related?"

Shen Yi shook his head, and said: "I happened to meet on the side of the road that day. A few children were homeless, and they even had problems eating. Seeing how pitiful they were, I wanted to help them."

Tian Boping heard the words, shook his head slightly, and sighed: "Young Master, Bodhisattva's heart is admirable, but there are too many poor people in the world, and there is endless help."

Speaking of this, he looked at Shen Yi again, and smiled at Shen Yi: "But at your age, son, it's not surprising that you can do these things. I, Tian, ​​admire me."

Speaking of this, he took out a piece of silver of about three taels from his pocket with his right hand, handed it in front of Shen Yi, then scratched his head with his left hand, and said with some embarrassment: "Young master is a Bodhisattva, I am also embarrassed to eat yours again." There is a price difference, and the money will be refunded to you, son..."

Shen Yi looked at the money in Tian Boping's hand, then at the local snake in Jiangdu, and smiled dumbly: "Brother Tian still earned the difference from me."

"the last time."

After Tian Laoba coughed, his face was serious: "It will never happen again in the future."

Shen Qilang smiled, did not take the money, and said lightly: "Brother Tian, ​​you have been busy for a long time, but you can't work in vain. Since Brother Tian took this money, it is considered an intermediary fee, and Brother Tian will take it Just spend it."

Tian Boping was stunned for a moment, a little stunned: "My lord, what is an intermediary fee?"

Shen Yi blinked and tried to explain the concept of intermediary to him, but shook his head and gave up the idea.

In this era, the intermediary industry has not yet developed, and there is only a prototype.

For example, Tian Boping's act of taking the price difference from Shen Yi's money is actually an intermediary collecting money, but the intermediary fee is not explicitly collected.

The productivity of this era has not yet reached the point where the intermediary industry can be spawned, and Shen Yi is too lazy to talk about it. After chatting with Tian Boping for a few words, he sent him away.

After Tian Boping left, Shen Yi walked into the small courtyard.

There are three rooms and a kitchen in the small yard. Although it is not very big, and there are no flowers and plants in the yard, but compared to the original living environment of the few children, this place is no different from heaven.

Shen Yi looked back and forth at the yard, and found that the small yard was empty, with almost only one house left, and nothing left.

This is not surprising.

In this era of scarcity of supplies, pots, pans and pans must be brought with you when you move, especially iron pots, which will be repaired even if they are broken, and will not be discarded randomly like later generations.

Even if you really have to travel far away to take away what you can't take, you will sell what you can sell.

After roughly reading it, Shen Yi called the six little guys to the yard. He looked at Xu Fu, coughed, and said, "You six, I would have given you three beds, but..."

Shen Yi looked at the skinny little girl hiding behind the five people, and continued: "But there is still a little girl here, it may be inconvenient after a long time, I will send you four beds tomorrow, but ..."

Shen Qilang said truthfully: "It may not be very good, or it may be some old beds."

The price of a new bed is too high, and it is not cost-effective to put it in such a small yard. Shen Yi is not very rich now, so he can only ask Tian Boping to buy a few "economical beds" for the little ones. I will sleep soon.

Xu Fu shook his head again and again, and said: "My lord, we are already content with a place to live, you don't need to pay attention to us, I still have some money in my hand, I will go out for a run these days, and find some old mattresses to spread Just on the ground."

These little guys have been wandering in Jiangdu these years, sometimes in ruined temples outside the city, sometimes simply sleeping on the side of the road, they are all on the floor, some clean dry grass is good enough on weekdays, and they don't want to have a bed at all.

Shen Yi frowned slightly, he glanced at the six little guys, and said: "Everyone else is sleeping on the bed, and you will sleep on the bed in the future, I will get two sets of clean clothes for each of you in two days, starting today, You are no longer wandering beggars, but clean and upright people."

"An upright person."

When the five little guys heard Shen Yi's words, they didn't have any special expressions, but you looked at me, I looked at you, and looked at each other.

They just want to have enough food and clothing, and they have no concept of the words "upright".

Only the boss, Xu Fu, clenched his small fists, knelt down in front of Shen Yi with a plop, kowtowed to Shen Yi and said, "Young Master Ende, we will always remember it in our hearts!"

Seeing the boss knelt down, the other five children also knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Yi.

Shen Qilang looked at the five little fellows kneeling in front of him, stretched out his hand to help the eldest Xu Fu up, and then said calmly: "You don't have to, I help you because you also helped me, from now on we will be considered friends ,help each other."

After talking about the scene, after Shen Yi settled the little ones, it was already evening.

At this time, the gate of the city was about to be closed, and it was too late to go out of the city and return to the academy, so Shen Yi could only go back to his home to sleep.

After returning home, the younger brother Shen Heng also just came home from school. The two brothers had a meal together, chatted for a while, and then went back to their rooms to sleep peacefully.

Early the next morning, Shen Yi got up early and ate breakfast with Shen Heng at the roadside breakfast stand in front of their house. The two brothers just got up when they saw the third brother Shen Ling and walked over quickly.

When Shen Ling saw the two brothers, Shen Yi, he first called out "little brother" and then "Huh".

"Lao Qi is here too."

After saying this, he sat down directly, looked at Shen Yi, with a faint look on his face.

"Old Seven, something serious happened in the city!"

Shen Yi looked at his elder brother thoughtfully, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Has the price of food dropped?"

Shen Ling chuckled: "The food store is closed!"

He had a bright face, obviously proud of himself for buying food in advance.

After saying this, he looked around and said in a low voice: "I heard that the owners of those grain shops are going to the capital to sue the government for embezzling the government's public funds for buying grain!"

(End of this chapter)