mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 6 Let's ask for help
While Zhao Chuanxin was studying the elf carving knife, Yiergenjueluo Defu also returned home.

"Father, a fake monk has come to our village."

Ergenjueluo Jintai, Defu's father, was lifting the lid of the cup and drinking tea with his little finger with long nails.

There are not many valuable things in the house, and all the bottles and cans are sold. Even the tea bowls for drinking tea are cheap products made by local kilns.

The ones that may still be available are the huanghuali chair sitting under the buttocks, and the huanghuali tea table next to it.

Hearing this, he raised his head in surprise: "What foreign monk?"

Then, Telford told his father what he saw and heard today.

Jin Tai frowned thoughtfully: "The style of clothes he wears looks a bit like that of a foreigner?"

Telford nodded: "Yes, it's a bit similar, but it's different. I can't tell. The fabric is thick, but it's not common. By the way, Dad, when will you take me to the dim sum shop? That person today The caramel given is really sweet."

Jin Tai sighed: "Let's wait for another day, Dad's body is a little tired these two days."

I yawned a lot, picked up the big smoking set next to me, and found that there was no cream left.Angrily, he threw it aside, and then he didn't know what to think of. He pulled himself together, stood up, and said to the listless Defu next to him: "Go, take the litter of little milk dogs that our dog just gave birth to, you Pick the one you don't like the most and bring it over. Let's meet the fake monk you mentioned!"

Originally, Defu was not very happy to hear that his father excused him because he was tired and didn't want to buy pastries for him.Hearing that he was going to find that person, he immediately became happy again.

Maybe I can mix a piece of caramel with it.

When he was a child, he remembered that his father often bought him pastries.

But later, the family fell into poverty, his father smoked opium, he lost more than he won at the gambling shop, he sold everything that could be sold, he couldn't even support a concubine and sent him back to his natal family, and his mother's jewelry was also sold.

How can there be any spare money to buy him pastries and preserves?

The two of them went to Liu Baogui's house with a thin puppy in their arms.

"Precious, are you home?"

When Liu Guigui went out, he saw Jin Tai and his father standing outside the gate with few panels, and he was immediately happy.

"Yo, the second master is here?"

Jin Tai yawned and waved his hands: "I heard that you have a visitor (qie)?"

Liu Guigui opened the door, stepped aside, and Jin Tai and his father walked in.

He said: "It's Zhongyi's distant relative, why don't you come here to recognize relatives?"

Jin Tai nodded, and Zhao Chuanxin also came out at this moment, and nodded with Jin Tai as a greeting.

Jin Tai's eyes lit up, and he said immediately, "This little brother must have come back from overseas?"

He has been to the capital, and he is well-informed and he can tell at a glance that the person in front of him must have returned from studying abroad, and he can be regarded as glamorous in terms of clothes.Those Tsarist Russians are not as well-dressed as the one in front of me, and they are a bit like the people from that German country.

Zhao Chuanxin was stunned for a moment, and nodded along the donkey: "Yes, I came back from studying abroad. Your Excellency, you are the only noble person from XHQ in this village, right?"

Jin Tai said modestly: "It's not worth mentioning, what is expensive or not."

Then, a few people entered the room and talked about it.Zhao Chuanxin talked nonsense about what he had seen and heard overseas, such as the fact that foreigners with strong body hair can smell mutton from far away, how their technology developed after the industrial revolution, how barbaric the western development process of the United States was, and so on.

When he yawned for the fifth time, Jin Tai finally couldn't help it.

"Brother Zhao, are you here for a long time?" Jin Tai asked suddenly.

Zhao Chuanxin didn't think about this problem.

In this era, he is like a rootless weed. He has no idea where and when to take root.

So he was stunned for a few seconds, and said ambiguously, "That's right."

I don't know what will happen in the future, but right now I must save my ancestors.

Jin Tai patted his thigh: "That's a good relationship. Brother Zhao is staying here, he can't live without a house."

Liu Guigui, who was next to him, frowned when he heard it, and instantly understood what Jin Tai wanted to do.

Just about to speak, Jin Tai glared at him: "I'm talking to Brother Zhao, don't interrupt."

Not to mention, even if most of the bannermen are gone now, rotten and weak, but a dead camel is bigger than a horse, and the residual power is still there.

Even in the three eastern provinces, the rule of the Qing Dynasty is far less powerful than before, but ordinary people still have a sense of fear of them.

Liu Guigui didn't dare to speak anymore.

Zhao Chuanxin saw everything in his eyes, but said calmly: "Yes, we can't live without a house."

Jin Taile said with a chuckle: "There is a spare room below. Although the sparrow is small and complete, why don't we give it to Brother Zhao?"

It turned out that was the idea.

Zhao Chuanxin was really interested: "Okay, let's go and have a look at the house?"

Jin Tai smiled, and thought to himself: Don't look at the fact that you have stayed abroad, your brain is not very good, just trick him into giving him more money later!

The house is in the village, and it is even more dilapidated than Liu Guigui's house.

The top is wooden tiles, stacked like a chaotic stone hillock.Below is the yellow mud wall, with cracks in all directions and old and mottled colors.

The window paper on the windows was badly torn and fluttered in the wind.

There is no yard, and the panels of the doors are rotten.

Jin Tai felt that he was eloquent, and said, "Brother Zhao, don't look at it as broken, it's actually better than that precious room. Look at the roof, it's covered with sorghum poles mixed with yellow mud, and it's paved again. A layer of light and waterproof pine tiles. The precious house leaks, but this house does not leak at all. The roof brackets are also made of pine, and they are all straight and high-quality wood. The horse walls inside have no cracks at all..."

Zhao Chuanxin looked at him like a fool.

Mom's mentally retarded, I'm not blind, if you say it's broken, it's just a broken house.

Not only is it broken, but it's also small. Apart from the bedroom and the kitchen, it doesn't even have a living room.

He interrupted Jin Tai's bragging: "How much money?"

On the other hand, Jin Tai acted as if you had taken advantage of it: "You and my brother hit it off right away, and I am not short of money. This house, if you give me 30 taels of silver, it will be yours. Look at this puppy, you want Once you buy this house, the dog will be given to you too. We have an old saying that dogs are big and children are fat. How can a family live without a dog? This is the spoils collected by the officers and soldiers when the British Empire army came to fight. "

Liu Guigui on the side hesitated to speak.

Zhao Chuanxin chuckled: "Yes, we brothers hit it off right away, and brother, you are not short of money. Why don't you just give me this house. Or, let's burn yellow paper and cut the chicken head to worship the master, We will become a family. If brother agrees, we will find a guarantor and sign the deed."

Jin Tai: "..."

How can you be more shameless than me?
Who the hell is begging you for advice, because the scorpion is only playing the trick of burning yellow paper and chopping chicken heads.

Liu Baogui was also astonished.

He is good at calculating, and usually likes to take advantage of small things.But compared with this one, it pales in comparison.

Jin Tai's addiction to cigarettes came up again, tears and snot began to flow out, and his temper gradually became irritable.

He resisted the urge to yawn and said, "Let's not go around in circles anymore, tell me, how much can you give?"

He could see that the person in front of him was not easy to fool.

Zhao Chuanxin was not in a hurry, he looked around the house with his hands behind his back.

The yellow mud wall outside has peeled off a lot, and many cracks can be seen.The tiles on the top are not neat, and the waterproof effect is questionable.The door is basically useless, and the windows are almost rotten.

The chimney is a hollow tree with yellow mud plastered on the outside. At this time, the yellow mud was soaked by the rain and fell down, leaving only the rotten wooden tube.

Inside the house, it was even more horrible.The horse walls are not load-bearing walls, and they are not built to the top.

It can only be said that the large frame and the laid foundation are good for one thing, and the others are useless.

Banner people in the late Qing Dynasty had a characteristic. They had a fig leaf, and as long as they didn't uncover it, the card would always be there.

Zhao Chuanxin was not used to him, so he said cheerfully, "Have you become addicted to cigarettes? How about this, I will give you four silver dollars, which should be enough for you to smoke a few times, and the house will be sold to me, and the puppy will also be given to me." How about it?"

Jin Tai: "..."

(End of this chapter)