Legend of the Knight

Chapter 106 A Meal of Friendship

Piaoxiang Building.

It is called Piaoxiang Building, but in fact its shop has only one floor.

Buildings and museums, this term is often pulled out and used together to refer to all kinds of business establishments. In fact, this itself is the prescribed name of a certain industry.

Lou: Eat.

Hall: related to medicine and medicine.

Tavern: a social place, the most common ones are taverns and teahouses.

Where: where you live.

Of course, Piaoxiang Building has more than one floor, and there is a lower half floor upstairs, which is a place for people to live.

This kind of structure of living up and down in shops has been very common in later generations.

As soon as the waiter saw Huang Xiaoshi enter the shop, he hurriedly greeted him with a bow and nod. Who didn't know that Uncle Huang never looked at the price when he ate.

Afterwards, the waiter saw the stinky beggar following Huang Xiaoshi.

Well, restaurants hate beggars the most.

Once a dirty and smelly beggar enters a restaurant, he will not have guests to eat.

Usually, the waiter in the general shop would directly hold a stick to guard against thieves, and with one stick, he would call out the beggar.

However, this waiter in the shop was obviously not the usual kind. At this moment, he could tell from the expressions on the faces of Huang Xiaoshi and the beggar that they were both customers.

Here comes the question, how can a shop assistant like Huang Xiaoshi offend such a big financial backer.

The second problem came up again. It was time for dinner, and there were still three tables of guests eating in the store. Once this stinky beggar sat down, the three tables of guests might run away.

The clever shop waiter had a flash of inspiration, and he said politely to Huang Xiaoshi: "Master Huang, please come inside, there is a private room upstairs."

Afterwards, the waiter arranged Huang Xiaoshi and Xiao Yao in the owner's bedroom.

This room is not bad, tidy and clean, apart from being a little low, it is still spacious, but there is a bed in the corner next to the table, which makes people feel a little weird.

"Master Huang, what do you want to eat?" The waiter flexibly threw all the sundries on the table onto the bed, and asked Huang Xiaoshi nodding and bowing.

"What would Brother Xiao want to eat?" Huang Xiaoshi asked Xiao Yao.

"Haha." Xiao Yao rolled the book in his hand into a roll and clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Dongpo elbow, beggar's chicken, mapo tofu, braised pork, I really want to eat each of them!"

Huang Xiaoshi turned his head to the shop waiter and said: "Besides these four items, let me order some hot and cold meat and vegetables, let's set a table first.

Give me two jars of wine.

By the way, I like to be quiet when I eat, so I knock on the door before I come in. "

"Okay, Master Huang, sit down for a while." The shop waiter hurriedly went downstairs after clearing the table.

Without outsiders, Xiao Yao's expression changed instantly, his expression was extremely gloomy, and the free and easy smile on his face just now was just a shell put on.

"Brother Huang, the disciples of our beggar gang died unjustly!!!"

With just one sentence, Xiao Yao cried heartbreakingly.

In the city of Hangzhou, dozens of corpses of beggars are pulled out to mass graves every day to be discarded, regardless of gender, age or age, and it cannot even be described as being covered in bruises.

Xiao Yao felt that his blood was poured on the grave.

"Tell me why there is such an imperial court!" Sitting on a stool, Xiao Yao stared at the empty table and said absentmindedly: "I have been familiar with the books of Confucius and Mencius since I was a child, and after going through twists and turns in my adulthood, I have thoroughly understood the meaning of the books. Less inspired.

Mencius said: "The people are the most important, the country is second, and the king is the least."Therefore, it is the Son of Heaven who wins the people of Qiu. '

The so-called son of heaven, that is, the emperor, was pushed up by the common people.

Mencius said: "The king regards his ministers like dirt, and the ministers regard him like a bandit." '

Such a tyrannical king is not worthy of being an emperor! ! "

When Xiao Yao couldn't help roaring out something, he realized that he didn't know Huang Xiaoshi very well.

These words are enough to make Xiao Yao commit the crime of "disrespect".

You know, there has been "heinous evil" since ancient times. "Great disrespect" ranks sixth, even higher than "unfilial piety".

Xiao Yao, who knew he was emotionally overwhelmed, raised his head again. He stood up and bowed to Huang Xiaoshi, and said apologetically, "Master Huang, just pretend you didn't hear that. Excuse me."

Among the ten evils, there are several crimes that are committed by default.

For example, treason, treason, treason, and disrespect. If someone knows about these major crimes, they must report them. If not, they will also be counted as supporters.

After arriving in this dynasty, because the ancestors were extremely strict with this area of ​​supervision, as long as they did not report on the spot, it was tantamount to acquiescing, and acquiescence was the same crime.

Huang Xiaoshi pressed his hands on Xiao Yao and asked him to sit down again.

Huang Xiaoshi could tell that Xiao Yao's mood was not stable yet.

This kind of thing is afraid that it will be difficult for anyone to be emotionally stable.

Huang Xiaoshi said kindly to Xiao Yao: "What's the hurry, I haven't eaten yet. I ordered so many dishes, you leave, how can I finish eating by myself."

Seeing Xiao Yao crying with tears all over his face, Huang Xiaoshi saw a water basin and towels beside him. Although the water in the water basin and the towels on the shelf were not clean, no matter how dirty they were It's not as dirty as Xiao Yao's face.

Huang Xiaoshi walked over and put the towel into the basin, then twisted out a wet towel, turned around and handed it to Xiao Yao.

"Come on, wipe your face."

Xiao Yao felt a little embarrassed, he wiped his face with a towel, and then wiped his hands. After wiping for a while, he felt that it was still not clean, so he washed it again with the dirty water in the basin.

After Xiao Yao turned around, Huang Xiaoshi was a little stunned. He didn't expect Xiao Yao to be so handsome. Even if he was wearing this beggar's outfit, people would believe that he was a noble son in trouble.

Huang Xiaoshi was depressed.

You said that everyone has been a beggar, why is there such a big gap.

After Xiao Yao sat down again, Huang Xiaoshi sighed to Xiao Yao and said: "Brother Xiao, what you said is not wrong, but what can be done about it?
That crazy emperor, can you rush into the palace and kill him?

Well, even if you can kill him, who can you replace?
Can you guarantee that this person must be better than him? "

"Yes!" Xiao Yao suddenly said decisively: "Prince Cheng!"

As soon as Xiao Yao said this, the two of them became cold again. Fortunately, the waiter in the shop brought the food at this time.

After the food and wine were served, the two of them dealt with each other without speaking.

Xiao Yao's saying that he hasn't eaten for three days and three nights is not false.

Of course, it is too easy to get something with Xiao Yao's skill, but he is not suitable for begging.

With his stinking behavior of shaking his head and reading while begging, it would be strange to be able to get food.

After drinking and eating, Huang Xiaoshi said to Xiao Yao: "Brother Xiao Yao, my Shennong Baicaomen has a few barrels of leftovers every day, you just come and pick them up every afternoon."

When Xiao Yao heard it, he naturally thanked him repeatedly.

Here, after leaving the restaurant, the two parted ways.

In the afternoon, Xiao Yao came to the door of Shennong Baicaomen and shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, please enjoy the leftovers!"

Just as he shouted, the gatekeeper glanced at him and asked, "Are you Xiao Yao?"

Xiao Yao nodded.

The doorman said: "Master Huang has already ordered that the leftovers are ready, come and get them yourself."

Xiao Yao followed into the door, and saw two large wooden barrels behind the door, inside the wooden barrels were a bucket of clean white rice and a bucket of meat and vegetable soup.

Seeing these two buckets of leftovers, Xiao Yao burst into tears.

Huang Xiaoshi has a reputation of integrity and trustworthiness in the Jianghu, but today it seems that the reputation is not enough.

Of all the martial arts masters today, I, Xiao Yao, only obey Huang Xiaoshi.

Xiao Yao returned to the beggar's den where he had lived for several days with two large buckets of heavy food. A group of little beggars with orphaned children (both parents died) crawled out of the shack.

"Come, come, let's eat, let's eat. Today we have white rice and meat!" Xiao Yao shouted loudly, and then he was surrounded by a group of happy little beggars.

Looking at the group of skinny little beggars in front of him, Xiao Yao felt powerless.

How long can I support them by begging for food every day like this?

Xiao Yao thought of what the man had said to him.

"You're smart, you're talented, you're ambitious, and more importantly, you know what's right and what's wrong.

When you figure it out, come find me.

If you are limited by fame, you don't bother to be with me, and you don't force it. "

Xiao Yao fell into deep thought.

The loyal beggar gang has been handed down for a hundred years.

However, what is "loyalty" and "righteousness"?
Could it be that a loyal person should starve to death with peace of mind?

In the world, where is there such a bullshit reason! !
……

On this day, Huang Xiaoshi was looking at the production accounts during this period.

By looking at the accounts, we can learn many things, such as the production situation that Huang Xiaoshi is very concerned about recently.

Since the implementation of the double-entry bookkeeping method, Huang Xiaoshi has not cared much about the operation of Shennong Baicaomen. He only needs to take a random day to look at the latest accounts.

Double-entry bookkeeping is a very good bookkeeping method. To put it simply, it is not impossible to cheat on the accounts, but it requires extremely high skills.

As far as Huang Xiaoshi's level is concerned, there should be no false accounts that he can't see through in this era.

It's not good if you don't look at it, Huang Xiaoshi immediately found out that there was an inappropriate account.

Relying on his memory, Huang Xiaoshi opened another ledger, and as soon as the two ledgers matched, the problem was exposed.

"Brother Zhang, this account is not correct." Huang Xiaoshi immediately stopped to look through the accounts, and he raised his head and said to Brother Zhang who was in charge.

When Brother Zhang heard it, he was also a little surprised. These accounts were all done by himself, how could it be wrong?

"What's wrong?" Brother Zhang asked Huang Xiaoshi.

I saw Huang Xiaoshi holding a ledger with a blue cover in his hand, which was a detailed ledger of production expenditure.

Huang Xiaoshi pointed to one of the columns in the ledger, and said to Brother Zhang, "Look, the payment for buying salt is wrong."

Brother Zhang took the abacus and stretched it, and he said: "That's right, every catty of salt sells for [-] cents and [-] cents of silver, and these three hundred catties of salt are worth eight taels and four cents in total."

Huang Xiaoshi picked up another red-skinned account book, which was the account book for living expenses. He pointed to one place and said, "Look here, the cook in the kitchen bought five catties of salt, a total of 160 Wen."

One tael of silver is exchanged for one thousand small coins. When buying bulk goods, for the convenience of settlement, silver is used for settlement.

Ordinary people usually buy things with small money.

In the red leather account book, five catties of salt are recorded, with a total of 160 Wen. When broken down, a catty of salt is 32 Wen.

And in the account book with the blue cover, it is recorded that a catty of salt is two cents and eight cents silver, which is 28 Wen.

The price difference here is four cents.

It's not that Huang Xiaoshi thinks that the chef's salt is too expensive, and he covets twenty Wen from him.

Instead, the chef bought the salt the day before the three hundred catties of salt.

These two transactions are actually at different prices.

You know, there is no such thing as buying more and getting more discounts on salt. Even if you buy too much, the price will increase more. This is called equal shipping.

Moreover, in the 100 years since the founding of the dynasty, the price of salt has only increased, but not decreased.

Isn't that right? Although the price of salt has not risen, the salt tax is constantly rising.

Huang Xiaoshi checked the ledger again. Before that, the price of salt was 28 renminbi per catty, that is, after the chef bought the salt, the price increased.

Needless to say, it was because of the war that taxes had increased.

So, here comes the question, the price of salt has risen, where did this person buy [-] catties of cheap salt?

Huang Xiaoshi and Lao Zhang looked at each other, they both knew that the problem was serious.

Those who buy salt buy private salt.

Because I bought private salt, I didn't notice the sudden price increase of official salt.

This account was reported very well, if Huang Xiaoshi hadn't carefully read several different accounts and corresponded to the price, it would have been ignored.

"Call that person here, and don't say anything." Huang Xiaoshi told Lao Zhang.

Buying and selling private salt, a few catties is a capital offense.

These three hundred catties are enough to kill people's heads.

……

After a while, Lao Zhang brought the purchasing staff over, and Huang Xiaoshi saw that it was Xu Youcai.

Luoyang Shennong Baicao Gate was set up by Huang Xiaoshi, and everyone was recruited by himself. He can call everyone's name and know everyone's personality and family situation.

But when Huang Xiaoshi saw Xu Youcai, he froze for a moment.

Xu Youcai followed Huang Xiaoshi from Sichuan, and because he was older than Huang Xiaoshi, he was always called Lao Xu by Huang Xiaoshi.

Lao Xu is a person who is responsible and down-to-earth in his work. He is the person Huang Xiaoshi prefers.

The last time the cargo was escorted to Wuhan, Huang Xiaoshi's first pick was Old Xu.

Old Xu rushed over, not knowing what happened until Lao Zhang closed the door, Huang Xiaoshi pointed to the floor, and said directly to him: "Kneel down."

The sudden change made Lao Xu stunned for a moment, and then he knelt on the ground with a heavy expression on his face.

"Old Xu. I haven't figured it out yet." Huang Xiaoshi asked Old Xu, "You are second only to me in Shennong Baicaomen's bonus shares. Why are you still greedy for that little money?"

"Master Shi, I was wrong." Old Xu said shamelessly: "I was deceived by lard, and when I saw that the money was easy to get, I couldn't help but take it.

There is no reason, just seeing the money and wanting to take it. "

Hearing Lao Xu's words, Huang Xiaoshi was really angry from his heart. He flew up and kicked Lao Xu in the face, and kicked Lao Xu a few meters away. After Lao Xu struggled to get up from the ground, he opened his mouth Spit out a mouthful of blood.

Huang Xiaoshi had already lost most of his strength in this kick, but at least Lao Xu lost a few teeth.

"What the hell are you taking money for? You actually bought private salt to save money!" Huang Xiaoshi growled angrily, suppressing his throat.

After Huang Xiaoshi roared at Old Xu, Old Xu was also dumbfounded.

Old Xu struggled to get up from the ground. After spitting out the blood in his mouth, he quickly said, "Master Shi, Master Shi! It's not me, it's not me!"

not you?
It's not you, it's me!

Huang Xiaoshi wanted to get angry again, but was held back by Lao Zhang.

"Master Shi, listen to him first, and it's not too late to call after you finish speaking."

"Okay." Huang Xiaoshi held back his anger and pointed at Lao Xu and said, "You can't say one, two, three today, I'll take your skin off!"

(End of this chapter)