A piece of paper

A new employee of Yigang, known as "Jiang Yuzi" and nicknamed "Qi Qiqi", stretched out his sleepy head from the half-open door of the rear compartment, "What? There are no guests yet?"

This guy has recently been working the night shift, going on a business trip to the ghost market in the middle of the night, and coming back to sleep after dawn. In the past few days, "Xuantian" has opened, and Xianjin was surprised to find that her subordinates were facing a crisis of insufficient manpower: Generally speaking, a Stores should have one person and one person. Nowadays, almost all stores are in a state of reduced allocation. Jingxian County is in charge of manager Dong and there are no deputy positions; the "floating" leader is Zhao Dezheng and the second leader is Aunt Zhong; the name of Jixi training base is The top leader is Qu Damao, but in fact the person speaking is Li Sanshun, and the administrator is Tuesday Dog (Tuesday Dog is in charge of administrative logistics, which means there is a shortage of manpower); therefore, the second-in-command of the newly opened "Xuantian" Brother Zheng has no one in charge, so he can do it himself.

The worst offender was actually Lu Badan. After Xianjin refrigerated the Rat Nian accounting room, the financial burden of the three shops fell entirely on his bony shoulders.

Lu Badan: Although I have a heart that wants to make progress, I don’t have a healthy body to support my progress.

After Lu Badan had fever twice a month and coughed twice, once for half a month, Xianjin finally came to his rescue and handed over the accounting book of Jixi training base to Suoer Lianshou - such a shortage of personnel Under such circumstances, we can only demote talents in an eclectic way.

"Sauce elbow" Qi Qiqi was targeted by Xianjin, and became the acting steward of "Xuantian" at the speed of a rocket. This means that you are still one person, but you have to do three things. Although I only I'll give you money for a line
Yildang's acting steward "Jiang Yuzi" rubbed his eyes and squinted to see that the hall was empty. There was no one there. He let out a "tsk" and murmured, "How can there be a shop that doesn't open its doors without a waiter? People are looking at you here. There’s not even a receptionist, so who’s going to come in and buy something?”

Xianjin signaled, and Zheng Da pushed the "sauce elbow" head back.

The people in long gowns at the door hid behind the pillars and talked to each other. After a while, Zhou Xiucai, who was popular among the people, was finally pushed out of the crowd and staggered into the "Xuantian" store.

It's like breaking through some barrier.

Zhou Xiucai didn't have time to turn around and curse, so he shrugged his shoulders, folded his hands across his chest, and looked around vigilantly, assuming a very standard alert posture.

Zhou Xiucai waited for a long time, but when he didn't wait for the man who smiled and greeted him on the surface, but actually tried to empty his wallet, he couldn't help but relax slightly, his shoulders gradually relaxed, and he slowly looked around the huge and spacious hall with his peripheral vision - -They also miscounted the shelves at the door. There were not only seven or eight shelves, but two rows hidden behind the pillars, just blocked by the door. There were fourteen or five shelves in total, each shelf had three rows, and one row contained three kinds of paper.

There is a small label on the iron shelf under each category, and the price is clearly marked on the label. The most expensive one is only one tael of silver per dollar, and most of the prices range from [-] to [-] dollars per dollar.

The price is not expensive, and correspondingly, it is naturally the common rice paper on the market, such as four-foot rice paper, plain white, threaded paper, etc. These papers are not labor-intensive or time-consuming, and are easy to make. Common people in Xuancheng Prefecture It was widely circulated among the upper class and lower-level scholar-bureaucrats.

Taking a closer look, there are three stacks of each category, and each unopened piece of paper is tightly wrapped in a brown leather bag from beginning to end. On top, there are about ten pieces of loose paper of the category, each row is A small inkstone, a writing brush and a piece of felt for absorbing ink are placed for buyers to experience writing.

Zhou Xiucai was astonished by what he saw. Amid the lingering power of "whiteness" that did not deceive the poor, he tried two sheets with trepidation. He watched the ink slowly smearing around on the silk-like paper, and he felt completely relaxed. I stood on tiptoe and tried almost all the scattered categories.Finally, I want to buy plain white paper priced at [-] cents each and threaded paper priced at [-] cents each.

Zhou Xiucai raised his chin and opened his mouth to call the waiter, but he saw six or seven wooden trolleys placed in the corner. When he looked up again, he saw three half-person-high counters in the southeast corner.

Zhou Xiucai thought for a moment, gave full play to Xiu Caigong's ingenuity, pushed out the trolley from the corner, moved the plain white and threaded ones he wanted to buy, put two new ones on the trolley, and then walked around the remaining shelves. When I got to the counter, I took a closer look. I saw that a large counter was actually made up of two tables. A wooden table looked hollow at first glance, with a secret lock on the bottom. Two holes the size of copper plates were dug out on the top. There was a line of writing on the side of the hole. "Please put your payment here";
On another table there is a well-cut small book and a soft pen that is convenient for writing. Open it and see an example written on the first line of the first page - "On February 16, [-]th year of Zhaode, purchase A sword is pronounced every four feet, and the king's family is in the east of the city."

Another line of text followed.

"If you are in trouble, please ignore the last column and just take the paper away without paying."

Zhou Xiucai was stunned for a moment, and then he looked up. Not far away, Shopkeeper He, whom the scholars had hated for the past two months, was calmly standing behind the counter in the flower room, playing with a plate of wooden beads. Zhou Xiucai She moved her lips and decided to remind this young shopkeeper who was only interested in profit but had recently suddenly discovered her conscience——

"Mr. He, things are dangerous in the world. If you do this business, if someone is unreasonable, refuses to pay, and leaves with the paper, aren't you asking for death?"

Xianjin finished dialing the ten-digit abacus beads, raised his head, smiled and licked his hair, "Thank you for reminding us, we only suffer from such people once, and there are no assistants in the hall, which does not mean that we have a flower room and a back room." There is no buddy. Our buddy hides in the dark and does not appear, just so that you can better experience the pros and cons of each type of paper - Xuancheng Prefecture is such a big place, and this kind of waiter will not be able to hide for long. , will definitely be exposed to the blue sky and the bright sun, and then all the spittle stars in the neighborhood will be drowned by him!"

People at that time were smart, but they were also simple. Although there were some who were cunning and bad, the majority were simple and well-intentioned.

If you really eat the waiter, once you find out, it will be stained for the rest of your life.

Today's population is solidified. People don't move easily. They grow up wherever they are born and are buried wherever they are. It will leave scars that will never be removed in this lifetime.

Zhou Xiucai nodded after thinking, and then said, "Also, what if the person who comes to buy paper doesn't know how to read? No matter how clearly you write, it's useless!"

Xian Jin calmly placed the abacus beside him and said warmly, "If he is illiterate and still comes to buy paper, then even if I give him this knife and paper, it's not a bad idea."